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HISTORY 



OF 



GREENE COUNTY. OHIO 



embracing the 

Organization of the County, its Division into Townships, Sketches 

OF Local Interest Gleaned fuom the Pioneers from 

1803 TO 1840, Together with a 

Rostek ok the Soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 181-2, who were 

Residing in the County, 

ALSO, 

A Roster of Ten Thousand of the Early Settlers 
FROM 1803 to 1840. 



Bv GBORGE K. ROBINSON 



ILLUSTRATED 



CHICAGO: 

The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 
1902, 



PRKFACE. 




'^ T is a source of regret that more care has not been taken to preserve the 
history of the early settlers of the County of Greene. As an illustration of 
this neglect, we give the following and only surviving and fragmentary history 
of John Paul: "John Paul sold to Joseph C. Vance, director for the per- 
VJIF manent seat of justice for said county, the 257'[ acres of ground, which con- 

}Jn stituted the original corporation of the now city of Xenia for two hundred 

and fifty dollars. He was also appointed to act as the first Clerk of Courts 
for said County, which office he held from the year 1803 until December 7th, 1803." 

We find in the minutes of a special court that had been called, the following com- 
munication from Mr. Paul: 
"To the Commissioners of Greene County: 

" Mr. Josiah Grover will attend as Clerk at your next meeting, and at the end of the 
same you may proceed to choose another Clerk in my place. 

"John Paul, Clerk of Courts." 
The above is about all that we know of the original proprietor of the city of Xenia. 
and what applies to Mr. Paul is also true in regard to the most of our grand old pioneers; 
At the end almost of the ist Century of our State and County's birthday we find ourselves 
asking: Who was John Paul? From what state did he come? What became of him? 
Who were his ancestors, and who his decendants? 

We seek in vain for an an answer to these questions in the old County histories. 
Those who could have answered are dead. One source only remains; the old official 
papers of the county that were supposed to have had "their day", and like a well worn 
garment were cast away, bo.xed up and put into many of the out of way places of different 
public county buildings. 

In the early spring of 1897 the compiler of this work, having discovered the where- 
abouts of said papers, and being interested in the early history of our county, called the 
attention of the Commissioners then officiating, Messers. John B. Stevenson, John Fudge, 
James W. Pollock, and soon after, Lewis Smith, to the fact that in an upstair room of 
the Court House there were nine bo.xes stored away containing valuable county papers. 
No one knew what they were beyond the fact that many of them were the first papers of 
the county, and for lack of room, on account of the rapid increase of the legal business 
they had been carted away, thus making room for the papers of a later date. 



PREFACE. 

We were told by the commissioners that they were aware of facts stated, that 
others before them also recognized that something should be done, but who could do the 
work ? The result was that the compiler of this work secured a contract for a small 
compensation per week to sort out and classify the records. 

Out of twenty-five hundred cases at law, eleven hundred or more were found that 
were valuable on account of being decisions in regard to the first ownership and division 
of land. They were carefully assorted and put in shape, so that, when called for, could 
be found as readily as other papers of the county. In addition to the above mentioned 
papers there were found also the four books of the enumerators that had been appointed 
to take the names of the voters of the four townships into which Greene County had been 
divided at the first organization of the county, May lo, 1803. In these books were found 
the names of four hundred and thirty-nine persons, who, from the years 1803 to 1805, 
were living on land now comprised in every county north of Greene to the north bound- 
ary line of the state, and during which time Champaign County was established, which 
deprived Greene of her large northern domain. Also there were found the poll books of 
elections of the different county townships from its organization in 1803 to 1840. 

Many reasons could be given why our pioneers failed to leave on record the many 
facts that we would like to know, but of which we today are ignorant. No nation under 
the sun has such a history as ours. Beginning with the small handful who first discov- 
ered the country, it has increased rapidly in growth, until now, in the morning of the 
year 1900, we have a population of seventy- five million inhabitants. Ohio, our own loved 
state, what a contrast we see between the Ohio of the year 1803 and the Ohio of 1900! 

About the year 1830 we find a disposition among the first settlers to meet and 
talk over matters in reference to the organization of pioneer associations, and in almost 
every decade after in the history of the county, efforts would be made for that purpose; 
and in all their constitutions and by-laws we find a law as follows: "The object of this 
association shall be to preserve a true record of the early settlement of our county and its 
pioneers." 

As far as we know, they failed in their laudable efforts. For a few years they 
would assemble and entertain each other, and then they would forget for years to meet. 
Many valuable articles would be read and afterward published in the papers of the day. 
The papers would be lost, and in those papers history that would be beyond price to us 
who are now living at the close of the first century of our state's history. However, 
many valuable papers have been found and have helped much to add interest to this effort 
to compile a History of the Pioneers of Greene County, from 1803 to 1840. 

In my travels over the county from North to South, and from East to West, I 
have visited every graveyard in the county, and collected from the tombstones historical 
data which could not be obtained elsewhere. Many times would the beautiful parable 
found in the book of Ezekiel, thirty-seventh chapter, come to mind, whilst in some of 
the lonely graveyards of Greene County, and mentally, the question would arise, "Can 
these dry bones be made to live.'" By the aid of these same old papers and by patient 
research much has been found which I trust will be of interest to the people of Greene 
County. 



PREFACE. 



And now, in conclusion, I desire to thank one and all who in any way gave aid to 
me in this work by their uniform courtesy, patience in answering questions, and granting 
the privilege of access to historical data which was in their care and keeping. Without 
mentioning names this will apply to the ofificers of our old Court House, to the Sons and 
Daughters of the American Revolution, to the Adjutant General of Ohio, the General 
Assembly of the State, War and Pension Department, Washington, D. C, to the men 
on their farms, in the towns, and to all who in this and other states have so promptly 
and readily responded to, and answered letters of inquiry in regard to their ancestors. 

GEORGE F. ROBINSON. 



CONTBNTS 



PAGE 

In the Beginning JS 

Territorial Organization of 

Greene County 20 

Sugar Creek Township 20 

Caesar's Creek Township ... 21 

Mad River Township 22 

Eeaver Creek Township .... 2,? 
CVganization of Xenia Town- 
ship 28 

Bath Township 30 

Atiami Township 31 

SUver Creek Township .... .^2 

R iss Township 33 

V.ince Township 34 

Ctdarville Township 35 

Ni-w Jasper Township 36 

Spring Valley Township ... 36 

Jefferson Township 36 

John Paul 36 

General Joseph C. Vance... 40 

Francis Uunlavey 42 

Benjamin Whiteman 45 

\V'iIIi;un Ma.xwell 17 

James Barrett 49 

Jacob Smith 50 

James Snowden 52 

James Cialloway. Sr 53 

William A. Realty 54 

Owen Davis 55 

Josiah Grover 57 

Remembrance Williams .... 58 

James Popenoe, Sr 59 

Lewis Davis 60 

Xenia i:i i8og 61 

Gowdy Family 63 

James Gowdy 64 

Ryan G' nvdy 63 

John Htaton, Sr 6(1 

James Collier 66 

Moses Collier 73 

Sugar Creek Township 74 

First House in Greene County. 75 

First Mill in Greene County. 7;, 
First Settlers in Greene 

County- 7; 

Jo.seph Vance 7 J 

Nathan Lamme yC 



PAGE 

David Lamme 7O 

First Sclioolhouse in Bell- 
brook 77 

James Bain 77 

The Pickney Road 78 

Old Associate Graveyard ... 78 

Mrs. James Collier 78 

Joseph Robinson 79 

William Rogers 79 

Alexander Bcrryhill 79 

James Bain 80 

Willian» McCanlas 80 

William Bain 80 

William Law, Sr 80 

George Watt. Sr 80 

The (iowdy Family 81 

Tile Hutchison Family 8i 

Samuel Logan 82 

Jolin Torrence 82 

Jesse Sanders 83 

Josi di Klani 84 

Henry Lpdyke Hi 

James Clancey 84 

Step'ien Bell 86 

Three Founders of Bellbrook. 84 

Villa-e of Bellbrook 86 

John McLane 87 

John C. Hale. Sr 89 

Mose^ VWdton 90 

Richard Cunningham 91 

Sackttt Farm 92 

George Hincy 92 

First Ci'urt of Common Pleas. 93 

Francis Dunlavy 93 

William Maxwell ' 94 

Benjani'n Whiteman 94 

James Barrett 94 

Daniel Symms 95 

First Grand Jury 95 

Moses Shoup 96 

Samiel Allison. Sr 96 

The Harbine Family 97 

Thomas Davis 98 

William Read 98 

Nimrod Haddox 98 

Peter Borders 99 

The Slephensons 99 



PAGE 

John Hosier 99 

James McPherson 102 

Thomas Carneal 103 

Joshua Bell 104 

Samuel Peterson 104 

George Mallow'. Sr 105 

Stephen Scotlt 106 

John Fudge 107 

Daniel Ha\erstick, Sr 107 

Robert T. Marshall loS 

A Bear Story 108 

C. L. Merrick 109 

Merrick's Hotel no 

Xenia in 1811 no 

Remembrance Wilbams .... in 

John Marshall in 

V\'illiani .\. Beatly 111-113 

James Towlcr in 

Josiah Grover 112 

Benjamin Grover 112 

James Collier 112 

John Alexander 112 

James Bunting 112 

Eli .^dams 113 

William Gordon 113 

First Brewery of Xenia 113 

Hugh Hamill 113 

Dr. A. W. Davidson 113 

First Courthouse' 114 

Samuel Gamble 114 

John Gregg n4 

John Hibling 114 

Joseph Hamill 114 

.Abraham I^rue 114 

David Laughead 114 

Peter Pelham 114 

Hezekiah Samuels 115 

John Sterritt 115 

James Watson 115 

Henry Barnes, Sr 115 

-Jonathan H. Wallace 115 

Robert (iowdy 115 

Richard Con well n5 

First Public Library n6 

Xenia Incorporated 117 

Sale of Public S.juare iiS 

Thomas Coke Wright 120 



CONTENTS. 



Early Pliysicians 

Joshua Martin 

Joseph Johnson 

Henry Good 

William Bell 

Cedarville 

Joseph Templeton 

Samuel Martin 

Robert Casbolt 

Horace Lawrence 

Mathias Winans 

Ewlass Ball 

Professional Men 

Attorneys 

Physicians and Surgeons 

Steam Doctors 

"Ye Olden Times" 

James Scott 

Galloway Corner 

Thomasi Steele 

Robert Nesbit 

Samuel Crumbaugh .... 

Abraham Larcw 

An Old Landmark 

Edw ard Watts 

George Gordon 

Moses Trader 

William T. Stark 

John Hibling 

William Ellsberry 

Ebenezer Steele 

The Hamills 

William Owen. Sr 

George Wright, Sr 

Henry Hypes 

George W. Wright 

Daniel R. Brewington . . 
Fredrick Bonner, Sr 



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26 
27 
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31 
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41 
42 
42 
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49 
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52 



Early Times i ^i 

Wile'y Curtis 15S 

First .Associate Reformed 

Church 158 

John Steele 150 

David B. Cline 159 

Edward Wamble 160 

Michael Nunnemaker 161 

Aaron Harlan 162 

James J. Winans 163 

Daniel Lewis 164 

Abraham Blann 165 

William Bull. Sr 165 

First M. E. Church 16& 

Depositions of Pioneers 168 

Abner Read 174 

Yellow Springs in 1804 175 

Jacob Mills 176 

Old Town 176 

Roger Clark 1 78 

David Laughead 178 

Benjamin Logan 180 

The Death of Muluntha 180 

General Harmar 180 

Looking Backward 181 

Pioneer Amusements 181 

Earlv Soldiers iSl 

Old Time Muster 181 

Chillicothe . 183 

Shawnee Indian 184 

Blackfish 184 

Tecumseh 186 

Renegade Whitemen 186 

Daniel Boone 187 

David, Laughead 188 

Simon Kenton 190 

-Andrew Galloway .' 193 

.■\rm-trong's Second Coming. 194 



PAGE 

Robert Armstrong 196 

William Cooley's Recollec- 
tions 200 

The Old Cabin and Pioneer 

Church 206 

The Old Schoolhouse 207 

Pioneer Habits 208 

Pioneer Homes 210 

Stealing of the Bride 212 

Stealing of the Groom 212 

Building of the Cabin 213 

Key to Civilization 215 

Sylvester Strong's Recollec- 
tions 216 

Interview With John Mills.. 217 

Payton Moorman 221 

William Sanders 221 

Edward Warren 222 

John Gordon 22^ 

Lancelot Junkin 224 

Junkin Schoolhouse 225 

First Schoolhouse of Cedar- 
ville Township 227 

Pioneers Remembered by Dr. 

Watt '. 227 

Thomas Townsley, Sr 229 

Daniel Dean, Sr 230 

Samuel Kyle 230 

David M. Laughead, Sr 231, 

Origin of the Name "Indian". 2^2 
Caesar's Creek .Associate 

Church 2^2 

.Andrew Heron 234 

Reformed Presbyterian 

Church 235 

County Officials from 1803-40. 236 

Soldiers in War of 1812 240 

Pioneers from 1803 to 1840. . 262 



INDBX 



PAGE 

Alexander. H. A S.\2 

Alexander, M. C 44° 

Alexander. P. A 631 

Allaiiioii. J. M 521 

Allen. J. B 84S 

Allison, S. M 579 

Ambiilil. John 581 

Anderson. J. R 898 

Andrew, S. G 422 

Ankeney. .Alljcrt 751 

Ankcncy, David 755 

Artwgtist. C. E .. 918 

Arnett, B. W 810 

Baldwin, 1. W 718 

Bankerd. H. C 780 

Barnett, J. 677 

Barnett. Joshua 655 

Barber, \V. M 456 

Barrows. M. F 515 

Bates. Jjicol) 613 

Baughtnan, A. H 53^ 

Beal, A. H 454 

Beal, D. E 908 

Beam, D. H 731 

Bell, T. H 676 

Bickett, A. R 722 

Bicketl. M. A 479 

Bickett, W. H 700 

Bigger, John 676 

Bisine, .Andrew 615 

Black, Simon 6w 

Brandt. G. VV 869 

Brewer. 11. R 860 

Broadstone. M. A 594 

Brown. Cornelius 892 

Brown, Hallie Q 480 

Bryan, F. P 520 

Buckles. H. S 773 

Bull. William H ^82 

Bull. VV. H 730 

Carey. F. C 911 

Carlisle. Towne 519 

Carruthers, J. B 548 

Caison, J. G 407 



Chew, J. P 907 

Chitty, Cargel 926 

Clemens, J. G 604 

Cline. VV. C 7yi 

Collins. J. D 749 

Collins. J. Q 720 

Colvin, E. H 510 

Compton, Jesse 696 

Compton, Wilson 752 

Confer, George 486 

Confer, VV. G 499 

Conklin, Henry 840 

Cooper, J. H 694 

Cox. S. W 426 

Crandall, A. R 903 

Criles, Aaron 621 

Cunnuings, J. B 460 

Cunningham, William 795 

Darst, M. C 643 

Daugherty, J. H 443 

Dean, J, N 450 

DeVoe, Joseph 716 

I )odds, George 804 

Dodds, J. C 852 

Dodds. William 78') 

Douglas. R. W 728 

Drees. Tobias 661 

Edwards. J. U 79S 

Ellis. Joshua 608 

Engel. George 678 

Evans, C. R. 593 

Evans. F. S 915 

Evans. Isaac 914 

Evans, M. E 543 

Evans, Moses 532 

Faulkner, .'\llen 692 

Ferguson, J. L 552 

Fisher. A. L 663 

Fleming. E. C 754 

Fowler, R. J 8,38 

Frazer. A. S . . . . . goq 

Fudge. J. W 819 

Fulton. N. A 640 



PAGE 

Galloway, J. C 464 

Galloway. J. E 470 

Galloway. Richard 66S 

Gerlaugh. Adam 784 

Gerlaugh. Arthur 590 

Gerlaugh. E. 854 

(jillaugh, Conrad 791 

Ginn. J. L 534 

Glotfeltcr. Warren H 726 

Glotfelter. VV. H 636 

Gfjrdon, G. R 665 

Gowdy. I. A. W2 

Gowdy, R. L 85S 

Gregg. A. M 648 

Gregg. J. B 616 

(jrieve. Robert . . . 659 

Grinnoll. Francis . 578 

Hagar. Walter 671 

Hagenbuch, W. A 019 

Hagler. C. F. . . . 748 

Hagler, G. M . 6i.( 

Hagler, M. A 904 

Hagler. W. I. . 714 

Hale. S. O.. . 485 

Harbine, J. H 710 

Hardie, W. B 890 

Harner, J. A 455 

Harper, G. W 410 

Harshman. J. F 541 

Hartley, M. J 507 

Haverstick, F. .M 762 

Haverstick, J. F 686 

Haverstick, Thomas 603 

Hawker, J. M 619 

Hawkins. B. F 891 

Hawkins. J. H 457 

Hebble. J. W '. . 600 

Hering. A. F 853 

Hess. T. H 639 

Hill. J. M... 595 

Holloway. Isaiah 572 

Hopping. VV. H 597 

Hoverstick. J. C 922 

Howard, C. F 531 

Howard, R. F 529 



INDEX. 



PAGE 

Hower. Samuel 680 

Hiimston. Hal 779 

Hussey, J. H 416 

Jackson. .Andrew 490 

Jacoby, R. S 4i5 

Jones, Adoni 7.3^ 

Kellv, J. A 628 

Kelly, N. J 554 

Kelly. R. A 874 

Kemp, L. A 444 

Kendall. Clark 549 

Kent, F. M 439 

King. J. VV 610 

Knisley. F. E 638 

Koogler. J. H 836 

Krepps, Jeremiah 771 

Kyle, A. C 681 

Kyle, C. H 44<5 

Kyle. Henry 871 

Kvle, Joseph 691 

Kvle, J. H 618 

Kyne, John 777 

Kyne, Thomas 779' 

La Fong. O. B 708 

Lafong, S. G 859 

Leaman, John 750 

Lee. B. F 568 

Le Sourd, S. B 796 

Linkhart. C. W 424 

Little. .A.sa 4'^ 

Little, John 879 

Logan. C. F 737 

Long. H. C 523 

Love. W. J 921 

Lucas. J. B 538 

Lumpkin. \V, H 719 

Lutz, John 654 

Lytle. Robert 703 

MacCracken. J. S 558 

MacDiU. David 698 

Mallow, S. M 459 

Mallow. S. P 500 

Manor. J. W 768 

Marshall. D. H 516 

Mason. Isaiah 760 

McBee. C. \\ 702 

McCartnev, L. H 684 

McClellan. H. R 807 

McClelland. William 495 

McClure. F. A 539 

McClure, J. S 653 

McClure. W. S 835 

McElroy. A. J 701 

McGervey, F. E 504 

McMillan, H. H 826 



PAGE 

McKay. G. A 409 

McKay. N. S 588 

McPherson. J. H 418 

McPherson. William 9>(' 

Mendenhall. John 870 

Miars. A. H 561 

Millen, Eli 6,^2 

Miller, W. L 9i-' 

Mitchell, S. T 564 

Moore, G. M 9^4 

Moore. John 9-3 

Morris, M. V 769 

Morris, W. S 84O 

Munger, E. H 496 

Mussetter, William 897 

Nash, R. H 864 

Xeeld, W. M 902 

Orr, John 51.^ 

Osterly. Leonard 9^0 

Overholser, Jeremiah 5-2- 

Owens, H. W 756 

Owens, W. H 747 

Painter. J. S '562 

Patterson, T. C 5-26 

Perrill. G. N 704 

Peterson, J. L 802 

Peterson, Martin 857 

Pettigrew W. D 7-20 

Poague, R. D 900 

Poague, W. T 901 

Pollock, J. W 656 

Puterbaugh. J. F 873 

Quinn, Elias 803 

Raney. J. L 740 

Rhoades. W. \' 449 

Ridenour, J. R 447 

Robinson. G. F 820 

RoutKong. .-Kdam 601 

Scarborough, W. S 863 

Scroggy, T. E 742 

Shaffer. F. N 44.3 

Shappee, W, A 682 

Shearer, C. C 789 

Shoup, Marcus 41S 

Simison. Milo 882 

Sims. J. C 57' 

Sinz. G.\ J, 832 

Sipc. Noah 488 

Smith, E. M 741 

Smith, G. C 88g 

Smith. H. L 761 

Smith. J. R 469 

Smith. Joseph R 673 



PAGE 

Smith. Lewis 503 

Spahr. Leander 645 

Spahr. R. S 622 

Spahr, S. M 55i 

Sparks. Simon 666 

Spencer, C. L 884 

Stafford, H. H 660 

Stark, A. M 475 

Steele, J. D 573 

Stewart, D. M 646 

Stewart, J. M 634 

Stine, B. L 9^5 

Stormont, J. H 862 

Story, E. A 7J2 

St. John, D. M 647 

St. John Family. The 830 

Stidl. J. A 709 

Sullivan, C. H 5I3 

Talbert, George 808 

Tarbo.x. J. M 729 

Taylor, Jesse 633 

Taylor. W. G 629 

Thomas, J. H 592 

Thompson. Augustus 413 

Tobias. A. J 825 

Tobias, William 689 

Townsley. T, P 883 

Trader, W. F 839 

Trebein, F. C _ 495 

Turner, J . S 477 

Van Eaton. J. B 559 

X'arner. .\nthony 477 

Wade, T. B 79^ 

Walton. E. R 674 

Walton. Moses 576 

Warner. P. P 9'.^ 

Watt. D. B 4.37 

Weaver. C. S 684 

Weaver. V. E 525 

Whitenian. L. H 544 

Whitmer, C. W 511 

Whilson. Oliver 713 

Williamson. C. E 685 

Williamson. W. C 845 

Wilson. J. N 506 

Wilson. O, .-\ 467 

Wilson, Samuel 710 

Wilson, S. S 7J2 

Wolf. Frank 598 

Wolf. G. H 817 

Wolford, J. H 509 

Woodward. S. F 428 

Woolsev. Ida C 774 

Wright. W. D 649 

Xenia Republican. The 841 




GEO. F. ROBINSON. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY 



OF 



GREENE COUNTY, OHIO 



IX THE BEGlXXfXG. 

OHIO. 

Oliiu was the first honi state uf the 
Xurlliwcst 'I'errilury ni.rth ui the Ohiu ri\- 
er. Its territurial era was from 1788 to 
J 803, under the ordinance of 1787. The 
first territorial legislature met at Chillicuthe 
Xovember 24, 1799, and adjourned Janu- 
ary 29, 1801. The second territorial legis- 
lature met November 23, 1801, and ad- 
journed January 23, 1802. According to 
William A. Taylor's grand compilation of 
facts, found in his able work, "Ohio States- 
men and Annals of Progress,"' a political 
revolution ensued at tlie close of the year 
1802. The territorial government was over- 
thrown, and tiie state government estab- 
lished. Thirty-six able men were chosen 
to formulate a state constitution, and take 
the necessary steps for admission to the 
Union of States. They met at Chillicothe 
Xovemljer i, 1802. Among the number were 
two who were at that date credited to Tlam- 
ilton county, but were at the time residing 
in the bounds of what is now Greene coun- 
ty, Greene as yet not organized. They were 



John Wilson, living three miles south of the 
present site of Bellbrouk, near "Clio," and 
Ciil. John Paul, residing at what is now 
known as 'J'rebeins Station, and afterwards 
known as the founder of Xenia, Ohio, and 
also of Madison, Indiana. Under this con- 
stitution the state emerged from its terri- 
torial stage finally, by the passage of the 
act February 19, 1803. by congress, empow- 
ering the state to execute laws, by which she 
was admitted and fully recognized as one 
(if the states of the Union and thus becom- 
ing the seventeenth star as represented on 
the flag. 

In tracing the original organization of 
our county of Greene, and the locating of 
the temporarv "Seat of Justice." for the 
same, we find that we are brought into near 
relatimiship with i'we counties of the state. 
Mannltun county was organized January 2, 
1790, by proclamation of Governor St. 
Clair, and Ross was established eight years 
later, August 20. 1798. Without goin^;- into 
details as to the boundaries of the two 
counties from which, by an act of the legis- 
lature, the counties of \\'arren, Butler, 
Alontgomerv and Greene were taken, we 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



would refer the reader to the authority, as 
to wlio it was wiio ga\-e to our county its 
name, Greene, and to whom we are respon- 
sible for our first courts being held in the 
township of Beavercreek, at the house of 
Owen Davis, or was sometimes called the 
house of Peter Borders. The township was 
named after Bea\-er creek, a branch that 
emptied into the Little Miami river. 

\\'e find in vdlume one, page 303, of 
the Laws of Ohio, under date of March 24. 
1803, an act for the division of Hamilton 
and Ross counties. Section i of said act 
applies to the formation of Warren coun- 
ty; section 2 of said act ai>[3lies to the 
formation of Butler county; section 3 of 
said act applies to the formation of Mont- 
gomery countv; section 4 of said act ap- 
plies to the formation of Greene county ; 
section 5 of said act applies to, and reserves 
the right of Hamilton and Ross counties to 
make distress for all dues, and officers' fees 
unpaid by the inliabitants within the bounds 
of said new counties at the time of such di- 
vision, etc. Section 6 provides that until 
a permanent seat of justice shall be affixed 
in the several new counties by commission- 
ers appointed for that purpose, the follow- 
ing places shall be temporary seats of jus- 
tice, and courts shall be lield thereat. In the 
countv of \\'arren, at the house of Ephraim 
Hathaway on Turtle creek. In the county 
(if Butler, at the house of John Torrence, in 
the town of Hamilton. In the county of 
Montgomery, at the house of George New- 
come, in the town of Dayton. And for the 
county of Greene, at tlie house of Owen Da- 
\is, on Beaver creek. 

The fathers of that day, who were mem- 
l)crs of the general assembly of Ohio, were 
]iatriotic men as evinced by the names which 



they gave the new made counties just 
formed. The first county, Warren, named 
for General Joseph Warren, who fell at the 
battle of Bunker Llill. The second count}" 
formed, Butler, was named for a distin- 
guished officer of the Revolution, General 
Richard Butler, who fell in St. Clair's de- 
feat. The third county organized, Mont- 
gomery, was named after General Richard 
Montgomery, a soldier of the Revolution, 
killed in the assault upon Quebec. The 
fourth and last organized, Greene county, 
named for General Nathaniel Greene, an- 
other distinguished officer of said war. 

Section 7 of this act also shows that our 
legislative fathers did not want anything like 
injustice to result from any action of theirs, 
and therefore enacted further that all the in- 
habitants of the counties of Montgomery 
and Greene, who lived north of the eighth 
range shall be exempt from any tax for the 
purpose of erecting court houses and gaols 
(jails) in the aforesaid counties of Mont- 
gO'Uiery and Greene. 

Section 8 of this act provides that this 
act shall commence and l)e in full force 
from and after the first day of May next, 
making as it were I\Iay i, 1803, the birth- 
da\- of Greene, Warren, Butler and ^lont- 
gomery counties. 

Thus it is shown by this act that in the 
formation of Greene and Montgomery coun- 
ties to them was given a large exent of ter- 
ritory, extending from their present south- 
ern boundary to the north line of the state, 
and from the west line of the state to the 
cast line of (Iretne county. 

.\s it is a matter of historical interest 
in \"iew of the fact that volume one of the 
Laws of Ohio enacted in the town of Chilli- 
cothe, at a meeting of the first general as- 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



jemhlv of Oliio, is \'ery rare, and hence more 
^•aluable, from it will give entire the orig- 
inal boundary of Montgomery and Greene 
counties as found in that number. 

Section 3 of an act dividing Hamilton 
and Ross counties is as follows : That all 
that ])arl of Hamilton countv included with- 
in the following boundary, viz: Beginning 
I in the state line at the northwest corner of 
the county of Butler, thence east with the 
lines of Butler and Warren U> the east line 
of section number sixteen, in the third town- 
ship, and fifth range; thence north eighteen 
miles, thence east two miles, thence north 
to the state line, thence with the same li> the 
west boundary of the state; thence south 
with said boundary to the lieginning, shall 
compose a thirtl new county called and 
known by the name of jMontgomery. 

Section 4 of said act enacts that all that 
part ijf the county of Hamilton and Ross in- 
cluded m the following bounds, viz: Be- 
ginning at the southeast corner of Mont- 
gomery county, running thence east to the 
Ross county line, and the same course con- 
tinued eight miles over the said county of 
Ross; thence north to the state lin^ thence 
westwardly with the same to the east line of 
Montgomery county, thence bounded by 
said line i.if Montgomerv to the beginning, 
shall comix)se a fourth new county called 
and known by the name of Greene. 

From this it can be seen that part of the 
land then called Montgomery and Greene 
counties, was held but temporary, and the 
time would come when other counties would 
be formed from them. Such was the case 
with Greene, when February jo, 1805, 
Champaign county was organized, thus cur- 
tailing Greene -of her large northern botm- 
dary. The founders of our county Greene. 
as will appear, were men who were well 



versed in the laws and acts of the general 
assembly of the state. 

At the same session of the general as- 
sembly, March 28, 1803. was enacted a law 
for establishing seats of justice for new 
made counties, as f(jllows: 

Section i. Be it enacted by the general 
assembly of the state of Ohio, that for each 
new county estal)lishe(l during the present 
or any future session of the legislature 
three commissioners shall be appointed 
whose duty it shall he to examine and de- 
termine wJiat part of said county so estal>- 
lished is the most eligible for holding the 
several courts within the said county, and it 
sliall be the duty of the secretary of state 
immediately to notify the persuns of their 
several appointments. 

Section 2. And be it further enacted 
that no person residing within the county so 
established, or holding any real property 
within tiie same, and who has not arrived 
at the age of twenty-five years, and been a 
resident of the state one year, shall be eligi- 
l>le as a commissioner. 

Many reasons ha\e been given w hy the 
first site chosen as the tempcrar)- seat of jus- 
tice, five and one half miles west of the pres- 
ent city of Xenia. on what is now known as 
Ihe llarbinc farm, was not continued as the 
permanent county seat of Greene county. 
The best reason that we find, and we think 
the correct one. is to be found in secton 3 
of this act. defining the duty of said section 
stating that they shall proceed to examine 
and select the most proper place as the seat 
of justice as near the cctifcr of the county as 
possible, paying regard to the situation, ex- 
tent of population, and quality of the land, 
together with the general convenience and 
interests of the inhabitants. 

Section 4 enacts that the Cf.mmissioners 



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after having agreed upon the place for the 
seat of justice, shaU make report thereof to 
the next court cf common pleas to he held in 
said county, if it appears no town has heen 
previously laid off at the place agreed on hv 
the commissioners, the court shall appoint a 
direct(n-, who. after giving sufficient hond 
for his faithful performance, shall he fullv 
authorized to purchase the land of the pro- 
l^rietor ur proprietors for the use and behoof 
of the county, and proceed to lay off said 
land into lots, streets and alleys under such 
regulations as the court may prescribe (see 
\'ol. I, page 109. Laws of Ohio, Alarch _'8, 
1803). 

^\'e are filled with admiration at the 
jjromptness to act, of our pioneer fathers. — 
"in the beginning" — as we have seen the 
formation of the four new counties was ac- 
complislied by an act of the legislature, 
March 28, 1803, by the passage of an act for 
that purpose. Said act to commence and be 
in force May ist, 1803. 

Ten tlays afterward. ]\Iay 10, 1803, in 
obedience to an act of the general assembly, 
passed April 16, 1803, wherein was made 
the duty of the associate judges of the court 
of common pleas, in each and every county 
\vithin the state then orgamzed, to meet on 
the lOth day of May, 1803, following at the 
places that had been designated where courts 
were to be held, and proceed to lay out these 
counties respecti\-el}- into a convenient num- 
ber of townships, and also to determine for 
each township a proper number of justices 
of the peace, who were to be elected on the 
2 1 St of June following. 

This first meeting of the associate judges 
was called a court, but it was not for the 
trial of cases, but for the transacting of 
Inisiness pertaining to the organization of 
the countv under the laws which have been 



cited. William Maxwell, Benjamin White- 
man and James Barrett were the first asso- 
ciate judges, and as Mr. ]\Iaxwell had Ijeen 
a member of the first general assembly, and 
had helped to formulate and pass the laws 
which have been mentioned, and there can 
be no doubt but it was he who had selected 
his two associates. Whiteman and Barrett, 
and had himself taken the oath of office of 
associate judge, before lea\ing Chillicothe to 
attend this court, and the record says "he 
administered the oath to Benjannn White- 
man and James Barrett." 

TERRITORI.\L ORGANIZATION OF GREEXE 
COUNTY. 

May 10. 1803. Court being duly organ- 
ized. Col. John Paul was appointed clerk 
pro tail, to said court, and took the oath of 
office. The court then proceeded to lay off 
the county into townships, as follows : there 
lieing no counties north of Greene, the large 
strip of land extending from the present 
southern boundary of the county, to the 
north boundary line of the state, by the 
width t)f the county, was divided into four 
townships, namelv : Sugarcreek, Ceasars- 
creek. ^lad-River, and Beavercreek. 

SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP. 

Tlie west line of Sugarcreek was the 
same as now, seven miles long, the north- 
western corner of the township being at the 
northwestern corner of the tenth section in 
the western line of the county ; from this 
jioint tlie line extended south, along the 
western line of the county: seven miles, to 
the southwest corner of the same ; thence, 
east, crossing the Little Miami River, and 
the same course continued four miles east 



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of the river \-ery nearly to the southeast cor- 
ner of wliat is now Spring-Valley town- 
ship; thence north ten miles, to a point due 
east from the point of beginning. This 
point, tile nnrtheastern corner of Sugarcreek 
township, was about two miles south, by a 
little west from the present city of Xenia. 
The township included what is now Sugar- 
creek, nearly all of Spring-\\illey, and the 
southwest part c.f what is now Xenia town- 
ship. 

In compiling and separating the old pa- 
pers of the county, the four books, in which 
were tlie names of the first to settle in the 
four original townships were found, signed 
bv the enumerator of each of the f<iur town- 
shi])s. James Collier took the names of 
those living at the time in Sugarcreek town- 
ship, who were free white male inhabitants, 
v.ver the age of twenty-one. He com- 
irer.ced the work August 3, 1803, and com- 
P'leted it .\ugust 10. 1803, reporting a total 
of 71. W'c will copy from his little book 
the names (if tlnise nf the aforesaid dale who 
were living in Sugarcreek township: Seth 
Anderson, Samuel Anderson, Alexander 
Armstrong, Robert Buckles, \\'illiam Buck- 
les. James Buckles, Ejihram Bnwen, James 
Barrett, Sr.. James I>arrett, Jr., Samuel 
Brewster, Alexander Barnes, James Barnes, 
James Bruce, James Cunningham, James 
Clancey, James Collier, David Curry, Rev. 
Joshua^Carman, Joseph Campbell, John En- 
nis. Thompson Ennis, Samuel Ennis, Jere- 
miah Ennis, Isaac Gerard, John Gowdy, 
Thomas Hale, John Hale, Joseph Hale, 
Jacob Horner, Benjamin Horner. John 
Heaton, Jacob Hosier, John Irwin, Joseph 
James. John Knight, Capt. X'athan Lamme. 
Samuel Martindale. Ezekiel ^lartin, Samuel 
Alarlin. Isaac Martin, ^^■illiam Miller. Roli- 



ert Marshall, John ^Marshall, John Mc- 
Knight, John McLean, Willis Xorthcutt, 
Joseph Robinson, Joseph Robinson, Jr., Ed- 
ward Robinson, William Snodgrass, Sr., 
William Snodgrass, Jr.. James Snodgrass, 
Sr., James Snodgrass, Jr.. Robert Snod- 
grass, James Snowden, Jacob Snowden, 
Cyrus Sackett, Daniel Thomas, Abraham 
Thomas, \Mlliam Tanner, James Tanner, 
Abraham V'anEaton, John \'ance. Sr., John 
X'ance, Jr., Joseph C. Vance, Joseph \'ance, 
John Wilson, Sr,, John Wilson, Jr., Daniel 
Wilson, George Wilson and .\ndrew 
Cicnvdy. 

CEAS.VRSCREEK TOWNSHIP. 

Ceasarscreek township began at the 
ni:;rtheast corner of Sugarcreek. running 
thence Udrth to the Little Miami. It ran 
about half a mile west of the present city 
of Xenia, and intersected the Little Miami 
river west of Oldtown, at the mouth of 
Massies creek ; thence it extended east to the 
east line of the county. On the east and 
south it was bounded by the county lines. 
This township was about four times as large 
as Sugarcreek, extending north from the 
southern boundary about fifteen miles, and 
inchuled all of the .southeastern part of the 
county. The population of Ceasarscreek 
township at the time of its organization, 
]\Iay 10, 1803, of the free white males, over 
the age of twenty-one, as taken by Joseph 
Price, first assessor of said townshii), was 
iifty-eight, old enoug'h to vote, and follow- 
ing are the names : James Bonner. Isaac 
Bonner. Jacob Bone, Samuel Bone, John 
Bellington. Josiah Elam, John A. Hoop, 
Stephenes Hoggert. Josiah Hunt, James 
Lijwrv. Joseph Lambert. Samuel Lee, John 



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Lucas, Caleli Lucas. Jolin Montgomery. 
Samuel Martin, John Martin. Steplien ^len- 
denliall. Martin Mendenhall, John Menden- 
hall, WilHani Mullen. Samuel Miller, Ed- 
ward Mercer, Isaiah ]\lcDonald, Dempsey 
McDonald, Levet McDonald, \\'illiam Mc- 
Farland. Josejjh Price, David Price, Sr., 
David Price, Jr., Frederick Price, Peter 
Price, David Painter, Nathan Porter. James 
Porter. Henry Prill, Jr., Henry Prill, Sr., 
James Corry, Joliix Campbell, \Villiam 
Conkleton, J( el Conkleton, George Isham, 
Lenard Stump, Joseph Sterrett, John Ster- 
ritt. Isiah Sutton, Joniah Sutton, Amaziah 
Sutton, Samuel Sutton. Lewis Sutton. Will- 
iam Garner Sutton. William L Stewart, 
Xtjah Strong, Reuben Strong, William 
Stantield, Joseph Wilson, Sr., Joseph \\"\\- 
son, Jr.. Remembrance Williams. 

.MAD KI\'t;K TOW.XSIIIP. 

Mad Ri\er township was Xo. 3, and its 
population at the time of organization was 
156 of free white males over the age of 
twenty-one, taken by John Daugherety, of 
Springfield, first enumerator. Springfield 
liad been designated by the associate judges 
as the place in the afore.said township for 
holding electi(,ns, and at the house of Grif- 
fith Foose. This was the third tnwnsliip or- 
ganized ; its southern boundary line was the 
south boundary of the loth range of the 
town.ship in what is now Clark county. This 
line extended east and west, and is two miles 
north, passing through the city of Spring- 
field. Clark county, along which the national 
road passes. It was the largest township in 
the county; its width from east to west was 
the same as that of the county, and it ex- 
tended to the northern limits of the state. 



At that time. May 10, 1803, the following 
named were residents : 

Adam Allen, Ezekel Arrowsmith, Will- 
iam Aims, Edward Armstnmg, Isaac An- 
derson, Seth .\rnett, Frederick Amljr(jw. 
George Bennett, Henry Bailey, Robert 
Boyce, Paul Butler. George Brown, Joseph 
Barlow, Thomas Burt, James Bishop, John 
Clark. John Crosley, Thomas Cowhick, 
Elijali Chapman, ^\'illiam Chapman, Cor- 
nelius Carter, Elnathan Correy, John Daw- 
son, Thomas Davis, Domnic Donley, John 
Daugherety, Isaac Dickson, Jonathan Don- 
nel, Isaac Dillon, John Denney, Archabald 
Dowden, James Demint, John Doyle, Chris- 
tc)])her Endrick, Xathan Fitch, Gritifitn 
Foose, John Forgey, Daniel Gobel, Aaron 
Gooden, Job Gard, Elisha Habour, Enos 
Holland, John Humphrey, Thimias Hardin, 
William Holmes, Jacobs Huffman, Henry 
Huffman, Joseph Hill. Abraham Inlow. 
John Jackson. Silas Johnston. Jonathan 
Johnston, Simon Kenton, Thomas Kenton, 
William Kenton. Solomon Kelley, Abner 
Kelley. John Kelley, Joseph Kiser, Thomas 
Loury, Robert Loury, Archabald Loury, 
William Layton, Joseph Layton, Robert 
Layton, Joseph LeFaw, George Manford, 
Burrell Mills, Thomas Moore, William 
]\Ioore. Samuel Mitchel. Alexander Miller. 
John Miller. F.dward Mercer. J<.ilin Miihol- 
land, James McPherson, .\dam McPherson. 
John McPherson. James McDonald. Will- 
iam McDonald. Archabald McKinley, James 
McGill, Christopher . McGill, Robert .^I,c- 
Mains, Joseph McKenney, Robert ^iIcKeiir 
ney, Daniel McKennon. William McCul- 
lough, Samuel McCullough, \\"illiam 
Owens, Thomas M. Pendleton, William Pal- 
mer, Eleazier Piper, Daniel Phillips, Will- 
iam Paul. lames Paul. T"hn Paul. Thomas 



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Pierce, \\'illiam Powell, David Prunty, Will- 
iam Rhoades, Thomas Redman, Charles 
Rector, Thomas Robertson, Jacob Robert- 
son, Daniel Robertson, Hugh Reid, Joseph 
Reid, John Reid, Jacobs Reid, Thomas Reid, 
John Risdon, Benjamin Ross, William Ross, 
Sr., William Ross, Jr., Felix Rock, Patrick 
Rock, l\obert Renick. Daniel Rector, James 
Rhoetell, Thomas Rosers, Jacobs Sewer, 
Joseph Simons, William Smith, James 
Smith, Thomas Scott, James Scott, Charles 
Stoss. Henry Sturm. Lewis Summers, Jo- 
seph Sutt(in, John Tayl(jr, Sampson Tolbert, 
John Tillis, Sr., John Tillis, Jr., Benjamin 
Turman. Isaac Turman, John Tucker, Rev. 
William Wood, James Wood. Christopher 
WiootI, Joseph Whitlesey, Adam Wise, 
James Ward, William Ward, Hugh Wal- 
lace. William \A'allace, Bazel West, Christo- 
pher Weaver. William Weaver. John Welch, 
John Wirt. 

BEAVERCREEK TOWXSUIl'. 

Bea\ercreek was tiie next largest town- 
ship, and the population of same as ascer- 
tained by Peter Popenoe. assessor of said 
township. May 10. 1 803. of all the free white 
male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one 
years,- was one hundred and fifty-four. It 
c(impriseil the remaining part of the 
county III it included in the three townships 
named; that is, all north of Sugarcreek and 
Ceasarscreek. and all south of ]Mad River 
township. The village •'of Springiield was 
in Beavercreek township, and the old fore?? 
trees that \vere then growing on the site of 
Xenia were in Ceasarscreek township. 

The voting precincts in tliijse townships 
were as follows : In Sugarcreek, the house 
of James Clancey ; in Ceasarscreek, the house 



of William I. Stewart; in ;\Iad River, the 
house of Griifith Foose, and in Beavercreek, 
the house of Peter Borders. The following 
named were then residents of Beavercreek 
townshij) : George Alexander, George Al- 
len, William Allen, John Aken, William 
Aken, GalM-el Bilderhack. Peter Borders, 
William Bull, Sr.. James Bull. Richard Bull, 
John Bull. John Bosher, Gardner Bobo, 
James Benifield, Jesse Bracken, John Bu- 
chanan, James Buchanan. Robert Bogges, 
Elias Bromogen, Jacob Coy, Adam Coy, 
Levi Conley, Abel Crawford. James Carroll, 
John Cottrell, Isaac Crusan, Benjamin De- 
vere, John Driscal, William Downey, Owen 
Davis, Lewis Davis, Robert Frakes, Jona- 
than I""1ikk1, Edward Flood, John Forgy, 
John Freeman, William Freeman, Samuel 
Freeman. Elijah Ferguson, William Fergu- 
son. Zachariah Ferguson, Benjamin Ginn, 
James Galloway, Sr., George Galloway, 
James M. Galloway. Thomas Godfrey, John 
Harner, Jacob Harner. George Harner, 
Michael Hendricks, Andrew Hawker, Abra- 
ham Hanley, Alexander Haughey. David L^ 
Huston, William King, Adam Koogler, 
Jacobs Koogler, Richard Kiser, Peter Kiser, 
John Kiser, Mathew Kavender, George 
Kirkendale. Jacob Kent. Samuel D. Kirk- 
patrick, George Kirkpatrick, William Law, 
Justice Lu'ce. Arthur Layton, Arnest Long- 
streth, Cornelius ]\Iorgan, John Morgan, 
Sr., John ^lorgan, Jr., Isaac ^lorgan, Evan 
Morgan. Christy Miller. John Miller, James 
?i[iller, Frederick Morelander, \\'illiam Max- 
well. William Minnier, Abraham Minnier, 
Edward Mercer. Jonathan ]\Iercer, Harry 
Martin, William McCloud. Charles Mc- 
Guire, William ]\IcClure. John ^IcKaig, 
Daniel IMcMillan. Alexander ]\IcCullough, 
William McFarland, Alexander McCoy, 



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ROBIXSO.VS HISTORY OF GREENE COUXTY. 



Alexander McCoy, Jr., James ]\IcCoy, Dan- 
iel McCoy, John NelsL.n. William Oneal, 
William Orr, John Paul. James Popenoe, 
Peter Popenoe. Sr., Phillip Petro, Nicholas 
Petro. Paul Petro, William Price, William 
Pasel. Nicholas Ouinn, Sr., Nicholas 
Ouinn, Jr.. Mathew Ouinn, James Riddle, 
John Kitenhouse, Garret Rittenhouse, 
\\'illiam Robins, Isaac Rubert, Alex- 
ander Rough, John Rue, Abraham Rue, 
Andrew Reid, \\"illiam Stockwell. Ardrew 
Stewart, Jacob Shingledecker, \\'illiam 
i\Iad River Stephenson, John ^lad River 
Stephenson, James Stevenson, ^^''illiam Ste- 
venson, John Stevenson, Peter Sewel, John 
Shigley, Frederick Shigley, Thomas Simp- 
son. IMichael Spencer, William Smith, Jo- 
seph Smith, Jacob Smith, John Smith, 
James Scott, Christopher Truby, Jacob 
Truby, John Tingley, Silas Taylor, \\'iiliani 
Tavl<:T, Ge<!rge Taylor. Thomas Townsley, 
John Townsley, James Tatman, Joseph Tat- 
man, Charles Williams, Christian Willand, 
Benjamin Whiteman, Andrew Westfall, 
James W'estfall, George ^\'olf, John Webb, 
Henry Whitinger, Henry Ward, Henry 
Young. 

The above mentioned townships, which, 
as we have seen, occupied much more terri- 
tory than is now comprised by Greene comi- 
ty, were organized l)y tlie associate judges 
of the court of common pleas, and was the 
last act of the aforesaid judges in organiz- 
ing townships for the county. 

The total numlier of \-oters in Greene 
county when first organized : Sugarcreek 
township, 71; Ceasarscreek township, 58: 
Mad River, 156; Beavercreek, 154; total 
vote of the ccnnity. 4,39. 

In the old records of the county, many 
of which hnrl been bidden awav for nearb; 



a century, much of historic interest is 
brought to light, and from them we find 
that John Paul, the founder of Xenia, Ohio, 
was a resident of what is now ( igoo) known 
as Trebines Station, in fact, had settled there 
in the year 1800. and had been the first to 
harness the waters of the Little Miami at 
that point, liaving Iniilt a sawmill, run by 
water power, and that station was then 
known as "Pauls ]\Iill." Tradition says 
while living at that jilace be had learned 
that the permanent seat of justice was to be 
located at the forks of Shawnee creek. PIj 
therefore hied away to Cincinnati and pur- 
chased the land on which the now city of 
Xenia is built. Subsequent events would 
indicate that such was the case. 

August 2, 1803, was the day set for the 
first meeting of the ccurt of common pleas 
for Greene county. On the second day of 
this term (jcneral Joseph C. Vance was ap- 
jxiinted director, with power (according to 
tlie law that had been enacted for such pur- 
poses) to purchase the land for the use of 
said county, and proceed to lay oflf said land 
into lots, streets and alleys under such reg- 
ulations as the C'lurt may prescribe. See 
laws of Ohio, page 309, \'ol. i. Sec. 4, of 
said act. 

From tliis we would infer that previous 
to the meeting of this first court of common 
pleas the commissioners had 1)een appointed, 
and had located the permanent seat of jus- 
tice, had settled all claims of competing 
towns, such as Ceasarsville. Pinkney and 
other places which tradition says wanted to 
be the county town of Greene county, and 
had decided in favor of the forks of Shaw- 
nee creek, tiirec miles fmm the mouth of 
where said creek emptied into the Little 
Miami ri\er. 



ROBIXSO.VS HISTORY OF GREEXE COUXTY 



\Micn the question is askecl, wlien was 
the present city of Xenia laid out? we know- 
that at this first meeting of the court much 
liad l)cen clnne in that direction, and early 
in tlic fall of 1803 the work was finished. 

James Galloway, Sr., was appointed 
treasurer of said county tlie next day after 
^Ir. \'ance, winch was August 4. 1S03. At 
the Decemijer term of the court, 1803, he 
received $49.25 for his services. He, it is 
said, furnished his own chain men in mak- 
ing the survey, made a plat of the 
ti:\\n, and sold some lots. He had 
also ])urchased tlie land of Colonel 
John I'aul. And to the new made treasurer 
of Cirecne county Mr. \'ance is firmly Ijound 
as director of the new county seat of Greene 
county. 

Inasmuch as tliis first Ixnid (the original 
of which is in the hands of the writer), 
the first bond given by any c)fticer in Cireene 
county, is of historic interest we will give 
entire the following true copy: 
Auditors office, Greene county, Aug. 4, 1803. 

Know all by these presents that we, 
Joseph C. Vance. David Huston and Jo- 
seph Wilson, of Greene county, are respect- 
fully held and firmly bnund unto the treas- 
urer of said county and state of Ohio, or his 
successors in office, in the penal sum of fif- 
teen hundred dullars as witness our hands 
and seals, etc. 

The condition of the above mentioned 
obligation is such that if the above mentioned 
Joseph C. \'ance shall well, truly and faith- 
fully discharge all and singular the duties, 
etc., of director for the purchasing of land, 
laying off and selling lots, at the seat of jus- 
tice, for the aforesaid county of Greene, as 
established by the commissioners appointed 
bv the general assembly of the state of Ohio 



for that purpose, agreeable to an act in such 
cases made and provided, the obligation is 
V(;id and of none effect, otherwise it will- 
stand in full force and \irtue. 

Witness our hands and seals, this 4th 
day of August, one thousand eight hundred 
and three. 

Joseph C. \'ance, (seal) 
David Hcstox, (seal) 

Joseph Wilson, (seal) 
Attest, John Paul, C. G. C. 

As we have said, the first court was held 
in the house of Owen Davis, which was five 
and one-half miles west of the present city 
of Xenia, on what is now known as the Har- 
bine farm, in Ikavercreek township. 

The June term, 1804, was the last term 
of court held in the old log house down on 
Beaver. The present site of Xenia having 
been selected as the permanent seat of jus- 
tice, Mr. \\'illiam A. Bealty, from Kentucky, 
was busy in front of our present court hcr,'>e 
cutting the logs to erect the first tavern in 
the new county seat. He had also rented 
the west room up stairs to the county for 
a court room, and it was a race between him 
atid Rev. James Towler which would be the 
first to finish their two-story log- cabins. 
Mr. Frederick Boner was building for 'Mr. 
Towler, on the lot now covered by H. H. 
Eavey's wholesale house. The tavern of 
Mr. Beatty was on the site now covered by 
the Leaman block, opposite the present court 
house. The evidence is in favor of ^Ir. 
Beattv as to who won the race, as his Ijuild- 
ing was finished and opened for business 
October i, 1804. The house was a hewed- 
log. double structure, two stories high, its 
length was from east to west, and width 
frt'ni north to south, and its west end was 
about fortv-five feet east of the southeast 



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ROBINSONS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



corner of Main and Detroit streets, on lot 
No. 13. where the Xenia National Bank 
now stands. 

The place that had been selected for tlie 
permanent connty seat of Greene connty was 
at tliis time covered by a dense growth of 
forest trees, as some one beautifully ex- 
pressed it, "The whole country around the 
present city of Xenia Avas one unbroken for- 
est, beneath whose sylvan shades the timid 
deer lay down to rest ; among whose 
branches tlie playful squirrel sported in free- 
dom, the songs of birds made the forests 
redolent with music and was altogether a 
scene of natural lieauty and harmonv pre- 
senting itself to the senses — delightful and 
enchanting. But as if nature could not 
blend in such harmony, the charm is broken, 
the spell dispelled by the dismal howl of the 
\yo\i, i,r the blood-curdling wlioop of the red 
men. "^lid such surroundings our forefa- 
thers hewed a home for themselves and made 
it possible fi.;r us to have tlie beautiful homes 
we have to-day." 

Down in what is now known as Cler- 
mont county, on its southern border near the 
Ohii) river, was a little town by the name 
of Bullskin, named for a small creek of the 
same name. From that place running north 
was a trail passing through Xew Burling- 
ton, thence what is now (1900) known as 
Detrcjit street. Xenia, and terminating at 
Urbana, Ohio. Starting west was another 
trail througli Franklinton, near the present 
city of Columljus. thence west over what is 
now known as Main street, Xenia, intersect- 
ing the Bullskin trail at the northwest cor- 
ner of the public square, thence in the same 
direction t(j what is known as \\'est street. 
Xenia. thence south from that point througli 
Wavnesville. Lebanon and on to Cincinnati. 



On the farm of Paris Peterson, four 
miles southeast of Xenia, had been com- 
menced what was known as the town of 
Ceasarsville, by one Thomas Corneal, as 
early as the year 1800. A court house had 
been built, a public well also near by, and 
scattered here and tliere were cjuite a num- 
ber of log cabins. In the early marriages 
of Greene county many parties were made 
one in tliat building, which had been erected 
for the court house by William I. Stewart, 
Esq. And it is also a fact that Ceasarsville 
was the one place of voting for Ceasarscreek 
township from May 10. 1803, until the or- 
ganization of Xenia township .\ugust 20, 
1805, when, as the record says, the first 
election for Xenia township shall be held in 
the house of \\'illiam A. Beatty, of Xenia. 

Tlie compiler of this has in his iwsses- 
sion the original tally sheet of elections held 
in Ceasarscreek township from the first di- 
\iding tlie county into townships, which was 
done ]\Iay 10, 1803. and from thr.t time un- 
til the organization of Xenia township the 
few pioneers then living at what is now- 
known as Xenia voted at the house of Will- 
iam I. Stewart at Ceasarsville, going out 
the trail now known as the Wilmington 
pike. 

In making arrangements lo remo\e from 
the old Court house some very valuable old 
papers have been found, which help to tell 
some of the stories of the past. Among 
them one which tells the names of the com- 
missioners that had been appointed Iw the 
legislature to locate the permanent county 
seat of Greene county. They were Ichabod 
B. Helsey, Balden Apsby and \\'illiam Mc- 
Clelland. The same commissioners acted as 
such for ^Montgomery county. 

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to show the aiithorit)- for every move that 
was taken to i rganize the county of Greene 
"in the beginning." And now we come to 
the time wlicn tlie permanent county seat 
liad been cliosen. an<l will proceed to tell 
how the said county seat came to be called 
"Xenia,"' and by whom named. 

A few months ago the compiler of this 
sketch had the pleasure of meeting at Spring- 
field. Ohio, Mrs. Maria Stone, youngest 
daughter of General Benjamin W'hiteman. 
Although in her ninety-third year, her mind 
was as clear as a perfect sounding bell when 
it came to talking of the long ago. It was 
with pleasure that we sat and listened as 
she gave her rccollectinns of tiie christen- 
ing or gi\ing a name to the new seat of 
justice for the county of Greene, as she said 
she had heard her father tell time and again. 

She rememhereil to have heard him 
speak of the time that he and his father-in- 
law. Owen Davis, antl his good wife, Laticia 
Davis, had receixed an invitation from Jo- 
seph C. Vance, John I'aul. William A. 
Beatty and others, to meet witli them at 
the "cross-roads" (where Main street now 
intersects Detroit), and assist in giving a 
wAwt for the new seat of justice that had 
been selected and laid out by Joseph C. 
Vance. Of course, the invitation was ac- 
cepted, and the (ieneral and his family were 
present that day with other pioneers who 
had been also invited, and there was some- 
what of a crowd. Many names were pro- 
posed : ami.ing" them were the names of 
^^'ashington, Wayne and Greenville. And 
it is also said that at this time there was a 
stranger, a scholarly-looking man, who 
stepped forward and said : "Gentlemen, 
allow me to suggest a name for your county 
town. In view of the kind and hospitable 



manner in which I have been treated whilst 
a stranger to most of you, allow me to sug- 
gest the name of "Xenia," taken from the 
Greek, and signifying hospitality. 

Th.e name was accepted and placed 
among the names that were about to be bal- 
loted for. Several ballots were taken, and 
at last a tie between Xenia and another name 
which she could not recall. Out of compli- 
ment to Owen Davis, ilrs. Stone's grandfa- 
ther, and who was also the owner of the 
building where the first courts of Greene 
county were held, and also the first miller in 
Beavercreek township, and a few years after 
the first miller in Miami township, near the 
present town of Clifton, Mrs. Davis was al- 
lowed to cast a vote, wliich vote was in 
favor of Xenia. And it is said that the 
stranger, as he started to ride away, after 
hearing the ballot was decided in favor of 
the name he had given, said, "Gentlemen, 
I thank you for deciding in favor of Xenia." 
That stranger was the Rev. Robert Arm- 
strong, who one year later became the pas- 
tor of the Massiescreek and Sugarcreek as- 
sociate congregations of Greene county. 

The objec't of this sketch is facts and 
not tradition. In this version w-e have ample 
proof of the statements made of its correct- 
ness. James E. Galloway, yet living (May, 
1900), says he retnembers to have heard his 
father, Major James Galloway, Jr., speak 
time and again of the circumstance as above 
related. In the records of the court held 
December term, 1803, we find that Rev. Rob- 
ert Armstrong took out license to solemnize 
a marriage. That was about one year pre- 
vious to his coming to settle permanently in 
this county, and while here he was called 
on for the purpose of joining a happy couple, 
and before doing so had to have a license. 



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Ill the Cincinnati Commercial, under- 
date of April, 1854, also comes the follow- 
ing from ^liami Uni\ersity, signed "AI.." 
whiclT gives the same story with some slight 
changes. This writer claimed to have been 
a son of one of the early settlers of Xenia : 

"The place contained a few houses, yet 't 
aspired to the dignity of a town, and com- 
missioners, or whosoe\-ers business it was, 
had assembled at the tavern to decide on a 
name: many names were proposed, some 
whiskey drank, and the afternoon spent, hut 
on no name could the}' agree ; the evening 
came and went, and yet they were undecided. 
In the meantime a stranger had put up at 
the tavern, and his manner and dress be- 
spoke one of education : they agreed that 
to him should be left the name for the vil- 
lage. The stranger was informed of their 
decision, and consenting to the arrangement 
promised them a name in the morning. 
Breakfast being over, the name was re- 
C|uested. He gave them "Xenia,' saying it 
was a Greek word meaning 'hospitality,' and 
that he gave it in consideration of his hos- 
pitable reception while a stranger in their 
midst.'' 

By an act of the general assembly of the 
state of Ohio, passed February 14, 1804, the 
ofifice of county commissioner was created 
as it stands to-day. Tlie first commissioner 
under this act was elected on the first Mon- 
day in April, 1804. They held their first 
court for the transaction of the business of 
the county in the following June, and at 
that meeting the following record was made : 
"At the liouse of Peter Borders, in Beaver- 
creek township, June. 1S04. Jacob Smith, 
James Snowden and John Sterrett, Gents., 
produced certificates of their being duly 
elected commissioners for the countv of 



Greene, and then there was a court held by 
the board of commissioners for said county, 
and John Paul was appointed clerk of said 
board of commissioners, and said commis- 
sioners cast lots for rank; Jacob Smith 
drew for three years, John Sterrett for two 
years and James Snowden for one year." 

ORG.\XIZATIOX OF XEXIA TOWXSHIP. 

August 20, 1805, James Collier, John 
Sterrett and James ^IcCiiy and others pre- 
sented a petition to the board of commis- 
sioners, at that time in session, for the above 
purpose, and was so ordered as follows : 

It is considered by the board of commis- 
sioners that there shall be one township or- 
ganized out of parts of Ceasarscreek and 
Beavercreek townships. 

All that part of Beavercreek township 
east of the Little Aliami and above the 
mouth of Massies creek, thence with Beaver- 
creek to\\nship, t(i the east corner of Sugar- 
creek township, thence with the Sugarcreek 
line to the mouth of Anderson's fork, 
thence up the main fork of Ceasarscreek 
with the meandcrings thereof to the east 
line of said county; thence north with said 
line to the northeast corner, thence west to 
the Miami, thence down the river to the be- 
ginning, whicli shall be called and known 
by the name of Xenia township. The first 
election shall be held at the house of Will- 
iam A. Beatty in Xenia. Previous to this 
the elections ha\-e been held at the house of 
William I. Stewart, Ceasarscreek township, 
at Ceasarsville, near the present residence of 
Mr. Pad Peterson. 

In the year 1807 Moses Collier was ap- 
pointed to take the enumeration of the white 
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twenty-cne years ; tlie following is the re- 
sult : 

William Aldridge, Littleberry Aklridge, 
John Allen, William Allen, \\'illiam Allen, 
Jr.. Samuel Alexander, Samuel Anderson, 
James Anderson. William Anderson, John 
II. Anderson, John Anderson, Daniel An- 
derson, Jt 'hn Alexander, Mathew Alexander, 
Angelo Adams. F.phram Adams. \\'illiam 
A. Beatty. Bartholomew Berra. William 
Bull, Sr., James Bull, Richard Bull. Thomas 
Bull, John Bull, John Boyd, David Boyd, 
Robert Boggess, Elias Bromagen, Daniel 
Boyle, Jonathan Brown, James Barkley, 
James Bunton. Henry Baldwin, James Bon- 
ner, David S. Bonner, Frederick Bonner, 
Elisha Bales, Jonathan Bales. John D. Bur- 
rel, James Bruce. Samuel Brazelton, James 
Butler. Samuel Bone, William Burnsides, 
George Boblett, Elbranah Bramlete, Henry 
Bray, Samuel Creswell, Walter Creswell, 
\\'illiam Campbell, Daniel Cotrell, Jacob 
Cutler, Benjamin Cutler. James Collier, 
Moses Collier, Joseph Conklin. Andrew 
Cronk, John Chambers, Cornelius Collins, 
Jesse Duncan, Elgin Driskell, Owen Davis, 
John Donnelly, Andrew W. Davison, John 
Dooley, Elijah Embree. Thomas Embree, 
John Ellis, William Ellis. William A. Ellis, 
George D. Edge, William Edge, Michael 
Fullum, John Fries, Josiah Grover, Benja- 
min Grover, James Gowdy, Samuel Gowdy, 
Robert Gowdy, Samuel Gatnble, William 
Gordon, William Gibson, Andrew Gibson, 
John Gregg, John Graham. Joseph Graham, 
Thomas Godfrey, Gray Gary, John Good. 
John Galloway, John Gaddis, Alathew Hil- 
lis. James Hillis, Sampson Hillis, David 
Hillis. John Hillis, Henry Haynes. Benja- 
min Hanes, James Hale, Jacob Helmick, 
Joseph Hamill, Robert Hamill, Enos Hol- 



land. John A. Hoop, Tinsley Heath, James 
Hickman. William Horney, James Haynes, 
Hank Inman, John Irwin, James Junkin, 
William Junkin. William Johnson, Arthur 
Johnson, Reuben Johnson, Philip Jackson, 
Joseph Kyle. Sr., Joseph Kyle, Samuel Kyle, 
William Kendall, David Laughead, Abra- 
ham Larue, Benjamin Lard, James Lyon, 
James Loyd, John Loyd, Samuel Lyon, 
William Lenard. David J^litchell, John 
Mitchell. James Miller, Jacob Miller. Will- 
iam Miller, Horatio Maxey, Bennett Maxey, 
James Morrow, John Milton, John Mattox, 
James Merryfield. John Marshall, W'illiam 
Morgan. John Murgan, Evan Morgan, Isaac 
Maitland, George IMerryman, Richard Men- 
denhall. John Mendenhall, Aaron Menden- 
hall, Charles Moore, W'illiam McFarland, 
John McFarland. John McFarland, Jr.. 
Robert McFarland, Alexander McCoy, Sr., 
David McCoy, Francis McCoy, Robert Mc- 
Coy, James McCoy, John McCoy, Alex- 
ander JMcCoy, Jr., Daniel McMillan, Isaiah 
McDonald. Dempsey McDonald, Levet ^Ic- 
Donald, Wilson McDonald, William Mc- 
Clelland, Adset ■\IcGuire, John McClure, 
Jacob Xisonger, James Neeley, Sr., James 
Xeeley, Jr., ^lichael Peterson, Thomas Per- 
kins, Joseph Porter, John Porter. Samuel 
Picklehimer, William Price, David Price, 
Eli Pendrv, John Paul, Jonathan Paul, 
Henry Phenix, Henry Phillips, John R. 
Robins, Stephen Roper, Alexander Ross, 
Conrad Richards, Arnold Richards, John 
Ruth. William Ruth, Samuel Ruth, Andrew- 
Scott, ]\Ioses Scott, John Stull, William 
Stanton, Jacob Steele, Hezekiah Saunders, 
Calvin Sayer, Thomson Simpson, James 
Small. Michael Spencer, Joseph Spencer, 
John Stevens, James Stevens, John Street, 
Rev. John Sale, Frederick Shigley, John 



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Shigley, Juhu Sterritt, Joseph Sterritt, Will- 
iam Stanfield, James Stephenson, William 
Stephenson, Thomas Townsley, Sr., John 
Townsley, Sr., William Townsley, John 
Tucker, Joel Thornliurg, James Towler, 
Isaac Vandeventer, Rememberance Will- 
iams, John ^^'illiams, Jonathan Wallace, 
Jonathan H. ^^'allace, Thomas Whalen, 
James White, William Wade, George Wade, 
William Witty, John Wilson, Joseph Wil- 
son, Stephen Winter, James \\'inter, Jesse 
Watson, Jolin Watson, Arthur \\'atts, Ed- 
ward W'atts. 

At the time Xenia township was organ- 
ized the following were then in office in 
Greene county: John Paul was clerk of 
courts and county recorder: William JNIax- 
well was slieriff : James Galloway, Sr., was 
treasurer of the county : and the county com- 
missioners were Jacob Smith, James Snow- 
den and John McClain: the county surveyor 
was James Galloway, Jr. ; and the associate 
judges were Benjamin \\'hiteman and James 
Barrett, Sr. James Galloway, Sr., acted as 
treasurer of Greene county from the time 
of his appointment in 1H03 until the middle 
of June, 18 19, when he ga\-e way to Ryan 
Gowdy. Jolm Hi\-ling never was treasurer, 
neither was James Popenoe, hut were simi)ly 
tax collectors. They were both sheriffs at 
the time they were said to have been treas- 
urers of the county, and as such were col- 
lectors of taxes. 

B.VTH TOWNSHIP. 

Bath township was organized March 3, 
1807. being taken from the territory of Eea- 
vercreek, its sf)Uth line originally, as now, 
running east and west along the north boun- 
■darv of the fifth of sections in the seventh 



range of townships. This line is one miie 
south of the village of Byron, extending 
from the west line of the county eas.t to the 
Little ^liami ri\er. The township included 
all the territory west of the Little Miami 
ri\er beween this line and what was then 
the south line of Champaign county. Bath 
township therefore extended two miles south 
of the present village of Osborn, and it in- 
cluded nearly all of what is now Mad Ri\-er 
and Green townshijis in Clark county, also 
the northwest corner of Madison townslnji 
in the same county. 

The first election in this township was 
at the house of Andrew Reed, April 29, 
1807, for the purpose of electing two justices 
of the ]jeace, which resulted in Andrew 
Reed being selected for the western portion 
of the township and Thomas Fream for the 
eastern portion, but both had quarters at 
what is now the village of Yellow Springs. 

Mr. David Sleeth had been appointed to 
take tlie enumeration of all the free white 
males over the age of twenty-one years, and 
the following are the names of those he 
found in the new township of Bath : Jame.-- 
Andrew. Hugh Andrew, William Anderson, 
John Anderson. John .\dams, Darrow .\ims, 
Zachariah Archer, Samuel Aldridge, John 
Blue. Sr., John Blue. Robert Blue. David 
Blue, John Black, George Brown, Samuel 
Brown, Robert Bell, John Burgess. Samuel 
Butler. Enoch Bots, Richard Bennett. Jacob 
Beall, John Badlcy. James Beck. Oding Bar- 
ton, Thomas Barnes, John Buffanbarger, 
Joshua Bozarth, John Barton, Thomas Bar- 
ton, George Botkins, Adam Chambers, 
James Chambers, Joseph Carpenter. Chris- 
topher Carpenter. John Carpenter. Isaac 
Cruzan, Job Clemens. Jolm Casad. Sr., John 
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Jacob Casad, Jr., Samuel Casad, Abraham 
Classmire. Isaac Clemens. John Crumb. John 
Cromwell. John Galloway, Ezra Clark. John 
Cox, Josiah Carson, Dennis Dunn, Benja- 
min Deveer, Mathew Dinsmore, John Dris- 
call, Robert Davis, Daniel Davis, Robert De- 
wilt, (jeorge Drummond, Abraham Enknv, 
William Emmitt, Robert Flack, Edward 
Flood, Jonathan Flood, Benjamin French, 
John Forgy, James Forgy, Daniel Foley, 
Arthur Forbes, Thomas Fream, William 
Freele, William Forqiveor, Jynas Forqueor, 
George Foulk, John Goldsby, Edward Golds- 
by, William Goldsby, Bridge ^M. Goldsby, 
John Goldsby, Sr., James Grimes, Samuel 
Grimes, John Grimes, W'illiam Gregory, 
James M. Galloway, David Grummen, James 
Grummen, Nimrod Haddix, William Had- 
dix, John Hall, Jacob Hall, Richard Hall, 
William Hamilton, Fredeiick Hosier, Peter 
Hosier, Ezekel Hopping, Jeremiah Hopping, 
Moses Hopping, David Hopping, George 
Harner. Charles Heflley, Samuel Hulie, 
Jacob Harbine, David Humphrey, James 
Johnston, Sr.. James Johnston, Jr., William 
Johnston, Arthur Johnston, George Kerken- 
dale, Adam Koogler, Solomon Kershner, 
Sr., Solomon Kershner. Jr., John Knox, 
Solomon Kelley, A\'illiam Low, John Lee, 
\\'arti;)n Lampton, Justice Luce, Benjamin 
Luce, Elisha Ladley, John Lardee, Jacob M. 
Marshall, George Minral, Jonathan Mercer, 
Robert Mercer. James Miller, Benjamin 
Miller, Martin Miller. James Miller, Sr., 
Christy ^Miller, Aaron ]\Iiller, \Mlliam ]\Iar- 
tin, John ^lartin, William Mears, Daniel 
ALoore. Richard Moore, Sr., Richard Moore. 
Jr.. John Morgan. Charles McGuire. John 
]\IcCullough, \\'illiam McClure, Alathias 
McClure, John McKage, Joseph ]McCord, 
William McKenzie, Joseph McCune, Alex- 



ander McXary, .\le.\ander McHugh, Samuel 
McKenney, John !kIcPherson. John !^IcGil- 
lard, Sr., John ]\IcGillard, jr.. James ]\Ic- 
Dormit, ISIr. McDermond, John Xelson, 
Phillip Petro, Nicholas Petro, Paul Petro, 
William Pasel, Andrew, Reid, Jess Rush, 
Jacob Rush, John Rue. John Rosegrant, 
Jacob Ryan, David Read, Jacob Rudy, 
Henry Sidensticker, Sebastian Shroufe, Sr., 
Sebastian Shroufe, Jr., Christian Shroufe, 
Samuel Stewart, John Stewart, Isaac Stout. 
John Sleeth, David Slceth, John Smith, ]\Ia- 
thias Smith, William Smith, Spencer Smith, 
Thomas Seamore, Samuel Stites, Evers Ste- 
vens, Borxecn Stout, George Shannon, 
Elijah Stibbons, Francis Sipe, William Ste- 
vens, Simon Shover, Samuel Shoup, Jacob 
Stoker, \\'illiam Stoker, Joseph Tatman, 
James Tatman, Peter Taylor, Joseph Taylor, 
Isaac Taylor, David Taylor, Henry Taylor, 
John Templeton, Joseph Tole, Jacob Tru- 
bee, John Trubee, Silas Trobridge, John 
Tingley, Christopher Trubee, Macajey Tole, 
Joseph Wadkins, Richard A\'ise, Zibbee 
Winget. Samuel Winget. Reuben Winget, 
Jacob Wilson, John Wilson. Michael \\"i\- 
son, .Christian Wilson, Valentine Wilson, 
Robert Wolburn, Benjamin ^^'hiteman, 
Ebenezer \\ 'heeler, George Wolf, John 
Wolf, John W(.)lf, Andrew Westfall, Jacob 
Vandevanter, Peter X'andcN-anter, Cornelius 
\''andevanter. 

MI.\MI TOWNSHIP. 

Miami township was organized on the 
8th day of June, 1808, being taken from 
Bath and Xenia townships. Its northwest 
corner was in the present Mad River town- 
ship. Clark county, in the south line of 
Champaign county, two miles north of the 



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present nurtheast corner of Bath townshii). 
From this point the west hne of Miami ex- 
tended south seven miles to the southern line 
of Bath township : thence it extended east to 
the east line of the county. The present 
southern line of Miami is part of the orig- 
inal line. Extend the present southern line 
of Aliami two miles west and then east to 
the east line of the county and we shall havi 
the original line. ]Miami township then in- 
cluded in what is now Greene ctjunty, the 
nijrthern portions of what is now Cedar- 
ville and Ross townships, and in Clark coun- 
ty about one-third of Mad River township, 
all of Greene and one-half of ^^ladison town- 
ship. The first election was held in the 
house of David S. Brodick at Yellow 
Springs. 

The enuiucration was taken by James 
Stewart, lister, of IMiami township, in i8oS, 
and is as follows : John Adams, John Am- 
bler, Jfihii Anderson. William Anderson, 
^^'illiam .\ndrew. William Alban, Thomas 
Barnes, William Berry, John Berry, Thomas 
Barton. John Blue, David S. Brodrick, Owen 
Batman, James Beck, ^^"idow Brad lute. 
Widow Curry, Elizabeth Currie, William 
Cotren, Cornelius Collins, John Calloway, 
\\"idow Dewitt, Owen Davis, Rachel Duffy, 
Robert Davis, Ephram Enlow, AN'illiam 
Edge, Thomas Freeman, Arthur Forbes, 
William Freal, Daniel Foley, Michael Folm, 
John (iarlough, David Garrison, John Gow- 
dy, Mathcw Gibson, Vv'idow Goldsby, Sarah 
Goklsb}', Jiihn Goldsby, George Goldsby, 
Edward Goldsby, John Graham, David 
Hopping. Ezekiel Hopping, Samuel Hulic, 
Da\'iil 1 luniphrcyville, Christopher Hulin- 
ger. Joseph Huston, Jacob Hubble, A\'illiam 
Johnson. John Knox, Elisha Leslie, Justice 
Luse. Christopher Lightfoot, George Logan, 



Daniel ?^lann. ?vlaurice Miller. Benjamin 
Miller. Jacob .Miller, John .Morland, Sr., 
John Morland, Jr., William Morland, W'ill- 
iam M. Martin, James Martin, Robert 
Mitchell, Andrew Alocdie. William hilars, 
John ^McClelland, Alexander IMcCullough, 
Moses Xapp, \\'illiam Passel, Michael Peter- 
son, Alexander Russell, Conrad Richards, 
.Vbraham Runion, John Riley, John Ray, 
John Rosegrant, John Stewart, Samuel 
Stewart, James Stewart, Abraham Stout, 
Isaac Stout. Sebastian Shrouf, Christopher 
Shrouf, Evan Stevens. Francis Sipe, Henry 
Tavlor, George Tavlor, Cornelius \'ande- 
vanter, Isaac ^'andevanter, David Vance, 
John \'ance, John AA'alker, Robert .Wal- 
burn, James Willetts, Ebenezier \\'heeler, 
John \\'iHiams. James Stewart, lister of 
IMiami township in 1809, The above were 
all tax payers at that date. 

SILVERCREEK TOWNSHIP. 

Silvercreek township was organized 
]\Iarch 4, 181 1, being taken from Ceasars- 
creek and Xenia townships, the greater part 
from Ceasarscreek. Its southwest corner 
was in the southern line of the county, one 
mile east of the old Ross county line; that 
is sex'en miles west of the southeast corner 
of the county ; thence it extends north eight 
miles, thence east seven miles to the east 
line of the county; thence south with said 
county line to the southeast corner of the 
county ; thence west to the place of begin- 
ning. Its northern limit originally was the 
same as that at present; it included all of 
what is now Jefferson township, and the 
eastern ])art of Spring Valley, about one- 
fourth of the township. The first election 
was held at the house of Noah Strong in 



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35 



said township. At the organization of Jas- 
per township, the 9th of June, 1853, a por- 
tion of Silvercreek township was added to 
the aforesaid township, and again on the "th 
day of June, 1858, Jefferson township was 
taken entirely from Silvercreek township. 

Previous to the formation of this town- 
ship there had been an election precinct at 
Bowersville. The petitioners for the new 
township were mostly from that part of the 
township. By the formation of this town- 
ship, Silvercreek was reduced in size one- 
half and to its present boundary. 

In 1813 James Bryan took the enumera- 
tion for taxable purposes, and reported as 
tax payers for the year 1813 : James Bryan, 
Morison Bryan, Herman Browder, Jona- 
than Browder, William Browder, Thomas 
Browder, Daniel Browder, Ezekiel Bes?, 
George Bone, Cornelius Curzen. John Camp^' 
bell, Lemuel Cotrell, Hiram Cottrell, John 
Curry, Lewis Chance, Thomas Chaner, John 
CoiDeland, William Copeland, Edward 
Chaney, David Davis, Andrew Downey, 
Christopher Ellis, Bazel Foster, William ' 
Gilmore, Uriah Hunt, William Hibljen, 
John Hoblet, Stephen Hussey, Ma- 
ry Hussey, Nathan Hussey, Sam- 
uel Johnson, John W. Johnson, jMichid 
M. Johnson, Joseph Johnson, John S. 
Johnson, Christopher Johnson, Moor- 
man Johnson, Jesse Kelsey, Josep-U. Lu- 
cas. Thomas Lenard, Nathaniel Lenard, 
Samuel Lee, Andrew Moorman, Plea.sant 
Moorman, Thomas P. Moorman, Chiles 
Moorman, Macajah C. Moorman. Thomas 
Moorman, Sr., Aaron Mendenhall, Martin 
Mendenhall, Stephen Mendenhall. John 
Myers. Michael Mann, James Medley, John 
Mickle. Mary Mulnick, John Oliver, Eb^n- 
ezer Perry. Thomas Palmer. John Pearson, 



Jacob Rumbaugh, George Rumbaugh, Asher 
Reeves, Malon Stratton, George Shaner, 
Sr., George Shaner, Jr., Adam Shaner, John 
Sheeley, Michael Sheeley, William Saun- 
ders, Noah Strong, George W. Strong,. 
Robert Stewart, James Stewart, Malon 
Suard, William Skates, William Stanberry, 
Hureules Turner, Walter Turner, Levi 
Townsend, Abraham Townsend. Richard 
Thornl)erry, John Watson, Sr., John Wat- 
son, Jr., David Watson, Stephen Williams, 
Joseph Wilson, Sr., Joseph \\'ilson, Jr., 
George Wilson, Edward Warren, Eleanor 
Wood, Phillip Wikle, Abraham Yotmg. 

ROSS TOWNSHIP. 

Ross township .was organized on the 
same day with Silvercreek, March 4, 181 1. 
It was taken entirely from Xenia township, 
and is bounded as follows : Beginning at 
the northwest corner of Silvercreek town- 
ship, it extended north to the south line of 
Miami, a distance of nearly six miles, thence 
east with the Miami line to the east line of 
the county; thence south to the northeast 
corner- of Silvercreek; thence west to the. 
place of beginning. Since its organization 
in 181 1 a portion of Cedarville township has 
been taken from it, and a portion of Miami 
added to it. In form it was originally a 
rectangle, seven miles in length from east 
to west, and nearly six miles in width from 
north to south. The first election was held 
at the house of John Bozarth. 

From the old records of the county we 
find that Wilson McDonald, as lister, took 
the enumeration of taxable property in said 
township May 26, 1813, and from his re- 
turns we gather the following names as to 
who the residents of the township were at 



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the aforesaid date : Daniel Burrous, John 
Bozarth. Joshua Bozarth, David Brown. 
John Bergin, Benjamin Bloomer, ^Margaret 
Baal, William Burk. Isaac Bice, John Camp- 
bell, William Campbell. Benjamin Cutler. 
John Cullum, Andrew Cronk, ^lichael 
Casada. Joel Dolby, Andrew Douglas, Ed- 
ward Flood, Sr., Jonathan Flood, Edward 
Flood, Jr., Upton Farmer, Jacob Follis, John 
Ferguson, William Ferguson, William 
Frasier, Mary Farmer, William Farmer, 
Frederick Goodheart, Angeline Gilmore, 
Abel H. Gibson, John Harrow. Samuel 
Herrod, Benjamin Harner, Alexander Irvin, 
Arthur Johnson, David Johnson, Benjamin 
Jo'hnson, Isaac Johnson, Reuben Johnson. 
James Junkin, William Junkin. Phillip Jack- 
son, James \\'hite, John \\'atson, Jr., John 
Watson, Sr., William A\'ilson. Eliza Young, 
Aaron Lambert, John Lambert, Chancey 
Laurence, John Mercer, William Miller, 
^\'iIson McDonald, Reuben McDonald, Rob- 
ert McFarland, Jacob Paullin, Rebecca Paul- 
lin, Alexander Rowen, Robert Ross, James 
Ross, Isaiah Sutton, Ammoriah Sutton, 
John Sutton, James Selby, Boncan Stout, 
Aaron Saunders, Samuel Sheley, David 
Sheley. Monnos Shook, John Shigley, 
Michael Spencer, Sr., Michael Spencer, Jr., 
Francis Spencer, James Stanford, Thomas 
Stanford, Rev. Moses Trader, Samuel Teel. 

VANCE TOWNSHIP. 

At a court held at the court house in 
Xenia. on the 31st day of October, 1812, 
there being present Thomas Hunter, Peter 
Pelham and Benjamin Grover, commission- 
ers, it was ordered that Miami township l)e 
divided as follows : Beginning at the north- 
east corner of section 30, in tifth township 



on the north side of Greene county line, 
thence south with the section line to the 
Miami river, thence to the northwest corner 
of Ross township: thence with said tijwn- 
ship line to Greene, continuing thence with 
said county line to the place of beginning. 
The said new township shall lie called and 
known by the name of X'ance township. It 
was ordered that Samuel Kyle, Esq., do sur- 
vey and lay off \^ance township, agreeable 
to the above order, and make rejxirt thereof 
to the ne.xt court of commissioners. It was 
further ordered that the first meeting of the 
electors in \ance township for the purpose 
of electing township ofificers shall be at the 
house of Adam Peterson in said tow-nship 
on the first ]VIonday of November next. 

On the 2d of January, 1812, Samuel 
Kyle reported as follows: "Pursuant to an 
order from the honorable board of commis- 
sioners of Greene county, I proceeded on the 
31st day of December, 181 2, to survey and 
lay off Vance township as follows, viz. : Be- 
ginning at a stake and white oak northeast 
corner to section No. 30 in township 5 and 
range 8, thence south with the line of this 
section ( crossing a branch at three miles 
and seventeen poles, and the north fork of 
the Little Miami three miles and 143 poles, 
again at three miles and 169 jjoles) f(3ur 
miles and 135 poles to the Little ]\Iiami 
river ; thence south seventeen, east two miles, 
202 poles to three elms and a burr oak, cor- 
ner to Ross township; thence east seven 
miles to three white oaks in the line of 
Greene county, corner also to Ross township, 
thence north (crossing east fork of the Little 
Miami at three miles and 255 poles, and a 
branch at five miles and 129 poles) seven 
miles to a black oak, white oak and hickory, 
corner to Greene countv: thence west 



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(crossing a branch at 136 poles, and the 
nortli fork of tlie Little Miami at six miles 
and 19(1 poles) seven miles and 242 poles 
to the beginning.'* 

May 26, 1 813, Jeptha Johnston com- 
pleted the work of taking the enumeration 
of the aforesaid township for taxaljle pur- 
poses, as follows : Charles Arthur, Charles 
Alsop, John Bacock, John Branson, Cieorge 
Buffen'barger, Mathew Bolen, John Briggs, 
Richard Bloxsom, William Brooks, Abra- 
ham Bash, Jacob Bowman, Isaac Cooper, 
Thomas Cooper, Lenard Cane, John Callo- 
way, James Curtis, Robert Davis, Peter De- 
witt, Elisha Dewitt, William Edgar, Michael 
Fallum, Alexander Foster, Daniel Griffin, 
William Gowdy, John Garlough, Sr., John 
Garlnugh, Jr., Prudence Gibson, George 
Hembleman, James Hays, William Harpole, 
George Humphreys, Richard Ivers, Jei)tha 
Johnston, Jacob Knave, Christopher Light- 
foot, Thomas Mills, Lewis Mills, Jacob Mil- 
ler, George Miller, William Marshall, Will- 
iam Moreland, Robert Mitchell, George 
Nagley, Sr., John Nagley, Henry Nagley, 
William Paullin, Ebenezer Paddick, Solo- 
mon Peterson, Adam Peterson, Michael Pe- 
terson, John Pollock, Conrad Richards, John 
Reese, Owen Reese, John Ross, Abner Rob- 
ertson. James Stewart, John T. Stewart, 
Samuel Stewart, Seth Smith, Jdin Stand- 
ley, George Stepleton, Moses Scott, Joseph 
Thornbury Uriah Thornbury, William 
Thompson, Thomas Thornbury, Isaac Van- 
deventer, David Vance, Joseph Vance, John 
Vance, Ephraim Vance, William Vandolah, 
Richard Vickers, Robert Walburn, Merida 
Wade, John Willet, George Weaver, Sr., 
George Weaver, Jr., Johrt Wilson, Anna 
Wilson. Joseph Wilson. John ^^'alter. 



AN OLD-TIME CONSENT AS TO MARRIAGE. 

January 25th, 1816. 

This may certify tliat John B. Law- 
rance, of Ross township, Greene coun- 
ty, applied to me for my "Consent" 
to join in matrimony with my 
Daughter Armelia Vickers, of Vance 
Township, County of Greene. I have 
therefore granted the above John B. 
Lawrance, his request, to marry my Daugh- 
ter in a Lawful manner agreeable to an act 
made and found for such cases. Therefore 
you may grant said License for the above 
named purpose, without any doubt of being 
called in question in any further jjeriod. 

Given under my hand and Seal the day 
and year first written in pursuance of its be- 
ing done in Vance Township, Greene Coun- 
ty- Ruth Vickers. 
(Signed) John B. Lawrence, 

CEDARVILLE TOWNSHIP. 

Cedars-ille township was organized on 
the 6th day of December, 1850. It was 
taken from the townships of Xenia, Ceasars- 
creek, Ross and Miami; it was the first 
township organized with very irregular 
boundary lines, and therefore created corre- 
sponding irregularity in the boundary lines 
of the townships out of which it was taken. 
This township has been changed but little 
since its first organization. 

In 1848, when an effort was made to 
form the township of Cedarville, some citi- 
zens of Ross objected to the measure, en- 
tering a vigorous protest against it, the 
parties making this protest saying to the 
commissioners: "Our reasons we will fully 



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set forth in your presence, only adding here 
that we are not wiUing to have any of our 
township cut off. wliicl: is ah'eady too small, 
to gratify the caprice or spleen of any." 

The commissioners ordered a notice to 
be given in three different public places of an 
election of three trustees, a clerk and a 
treasurer to be held on the 21st day of De- 
cember, 1850, in the town of Cedarville, at 
the house of John W. Walker. 

NEW JASPER TOWNSHIP. 

New Jasper township was organized on 
the 9th day of June, 1853, being taken from 
the townships of Ceasarscreek and Xenia. 

SPRINGV.^LLEY TOWNSHIP 

Was organized into a township on the 3d 
day of December, 1856, being taken from 
Sugarcreek, Ceasarscreek and Xenia town- 
ships. 

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP 

Was organized on the 7th day of June, 1858, 
being taken entirely from Silvercreek town- 
ship. Previous to its formation there had 
been an election precinct at Bowersville, 
and the petitioners for the new township 
were mostly from that part. By the forma- 
tion of this, the last township in this coun- 
ty, Silvercreek was reduced in size about 
one-half. 

JOHN P.AUL, THE FOUNDER OF XENIA, OHIO. 

Jdhn Paul was clerk of the courts of 
Greene county from 1803 to 1808. It is a 
source of regret that more care had not been 
taken to preserve the historv of the early 



pioneers of our county of Greene. Wt have 
the statement in a few words. "John Paul 
donated to the town of Xenia and county of 
Greene the ground for the public buildings," 
and again in answer to the question "Who 
was the founder of Xenia?" the answer is, 
"John Paul sold to the proper persons, who 
had been appointed to receive it, the two 
hundred and fifty-seven and three-fourths 
acres of ground which constituted the orig- 
inal corporation of Xenia." But who was 
John Paul, where did he came from, and 
what became of him? The compiler of this 
sketch had thought there would be no doubt 
but what our honored old townsmen, Thom- 
as P. Townsley, could answer the aforesaid 
questions, but he said he could not. He said 
that when he made up his mind to marry he 
went to Pennsylvania and secured his 
"Paull," and that the founder of Xenia was 
no relation to his wife's people that he was 
aware of. he spelling his name Paul, whilst 
his wife's was Paull. 

We gather the following from the rec- 
ords of Greene county : At the first organ- 
ization of the county John Paul was at that 
time a resident of Beavercreek township, 
and at the first meeting of the associate 
judges at the "house of Peter Borders" for 
the purpose of laying off the county into 
townships John Paul was appointed as clerk 
of courts. In the minutes of said court.' 
which was held on the loth dav uf Mav, 
1803. appears the following: "Jiihn Paul 
was a])])ointed to act as clerk for said cimrt, 
and tnok the oath of office," He continued 
to act as such until December 7. 1808, when 
we find in the minutes of a special court that 
liad been called the following communica- 
tion from Mr. Paul : "To the Commission- 
ers of Greene County: Mr. Josiah Grover 



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will attend as clerk at your next meeting, 
and at the end of same you may proceed to 
choose another clerk in my place. Signed, 
John Paul." 

Captain Benoni Nesbitt (now deceased) 
gives us a very interesting story of John 
Paul. He intimates that before the selec- 
tion i)t a permanent site for the cmmtv seat 
had been determined, Mr. Paul was then re- 
siding in a cabin "down on Beaver," and 
while there he learned that the point se- 
lected for the site of the county seat was at 
the fork of Shawnee creek. He forthwith 
closed his cabin, and was away to see the 
parties who were agents for the land that 
would comprise the new county seat, from 
whom he purchased two thousand acres, 
which would take in all, and more, of the 
aforesaid county seat. We find on an ex- 
amination of the records that the story of 
Captain Benoni has some foundation. In 
Vol. I, Records of Deeds, page i6, api>ears 
the following under date of June 7, 1803: 
"Bought of Thomas Richardson and wife 
Elizabeth, of Hanover county, Virginia," 
and goes on to describe the tract. Mr. 
Nesbitt was mistaken in the name of the 
party to the story, calliiiig him Jonathan (see 
history of Greene county, page 425) instead 
of John. "Jonathan Paul entered the land 
that is now called the John B. Lucas farm 
(see Vol. No. i. Deeds, page 542) and 
erected his cabin near where now the home 
of John B. Lucas stands. Jonathan Paul 
bought of Thomas Parker and his wife Sal- 
lie, of Frederick county, Virginia," and the 
deed is dated October 8, 1808. So it can 
readily be seen that John and Jonathan were 
not one and the same person. Jonathan was 
the youngest brother of Colonel John. Mr. 
Paul in his generous gift of the one and one- 



half acres of ground to the town of Xenia 
and county of Greene for public buildings 
was not exorbitant in his price for the bal- 
ance of the land, which he sold to the parties 
representing the new county seat for the 
sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for 
the two hundred and fifty-seven and three- 
fourths acres which constituted the original 
corporation of Xenia. Yet while Mr. Paul 
was liberal, there is evidence to show that 
while he was a good clerk of courts for 
Greene county he was also a man of good 
business qualifications, and had an eye to 
reaping benefits in the future as the new 
town would grow and improve. We have 
evidence to show that he was what is called 
today in the west "a town boomer," and 
that he had much to do in having the county 
seat of Greene county located at this place. 

In a map of Xenia which the compiler 
of this sketch has in his possession a num- 
ber of lots all over the town are marked as 
the property of John Paul. Josiah Grover, 
his agent, was his brother-in-law. 

From the best information that can be 
obtained Mr. Ptul, soon after he resigned 
as icelrk of courts of Greene county, re- 
moved to the present site of the city of 
Madison, Indiana, and became the founder 
of that city. 

Among the records of this county is a 
transcript taken from the courts of Jeffer- 
son county, Indiana, in the year 1816, and 
certified to by John Paul, clerk of courts of 
Jefferson county, Indiana. In comparing 
the hand writing- it is the same as our John 
Paul's, ex-clerk of courts of Greene county. 
In addition to this is evidence taken from 
the Cincinnati Gazette of some correspond- 
ent who had been a former resident of this 
county (and who does not give his name). 



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ROBIXSOXS HISTORY OF GREENE COUXTV. 



but does give some very interesting pen 
pictures of some of tlie early residents of 
Xenia. Of Mr. Paul he says : "He was the 
original proprietor of Xenia, Ohio, and also 
of Madison, Indiana, and that he was a pio- 
neer from Kentucky. A man of great en- 
terprise, and was for several years the in- 
telligent and active clerk of courts of Greene 
county, Ohio." He was also the father-in- 
law of Governor \\'illiam Hendricks, who 
was an honor to the state in which he lived, 
and tilled the office of a legislator, governor, 
representative and senator in congress with 
ability and rare integrity: and who, with his 
pioneer father-in-law, John Paul, the pro- 
prietor of two flourishing cities in Ohio and 
Indiana, sleeps in death in the cemetery in 
Madison, Indiana. 

Many of the early settlers of Greene 
county followed Mr. Paul to Madison and 
located there and in that vicinity. Major 
George Gordon mcn-ed him to that place in 
1809. 

In fixing the date when Mr. Paul first 
came to Greene county, Ohio, we quote from 
his family history: "In 1794 he was mar- 
ried to ]^^^ss Sarah Thomberry Grover. sis- 
ter of Josiah Grover, the second clerk of 
courts of Greene county, at Danville, Ken- 
tucky. They had four children, the first 
child, Mary Berry, dying when quite young. 
The next child, ^Ann Parker, was born in 
Kentucky (Hardin county) March 18, 1799. 
John P.. the next child, was born in what 
is now Greene county, Ohio, December 23, 
1800, which is near the time he first came 
and purchased of the United States the land 
known to-day (1900) as 'Trebein's,' three 
miles northwest of the Little Miami river. 
And it was Colonel John Paul who was the 



first to harness the waters of the aforesaid 
ri\er to get power to run his grist and saw- 
mill at that point, and it was then known as 
"PauFs Mill." At the close of the year 1802 
the territorial government was overthrown, 
and the state government established. Ac- 
cordingly representatives were chosen to 
formulate a state constitution, and take steps 
for admission to the union of states. Mr. 
Paul, then living in that part of Hamilton 
county which was soon to be Greene coun- 
ty, was chosen as one of the representatives, 
and helped to formulate the first constitu- 
tion of the state, under which we lived for 
nearly one-half a century. Colonel John 
Paul was also a member of the senate of 
,the first legislature that convened at the 
town of Chillicothe, March i, 1803. He had 
also a near neighbor of his in the house of 
the legislature in the person of William 
Maxwell, who was chosen as one of the 
first associate judges of Greene county." 
This brings his history down to the time 
he was chosen as clerk of courts Mav 10 
1803. ■ ' 

Colonel John Paul was the fourth child 
and second son of Michael Paul and Ann 
Parker, who were married at Germantown, 
Pennsylvania, about the year 175 1 or 1752. 
Michael Paul was a native of Holland. 
The time and place of his birth are un- 
known, as is also the date of his emigration 
to this country, and the fact as to whether 
he came alone or with others of his family. 
However, it is known that he had two broth- 
ers who lived at the same place, German- 
town, Pennsylvania. He left Germantown 
m the year 1766 or 1767 and went to Red 
Stone (Old Fort) now Brownsville, Penn- 
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now West Virginia, and from there in 1781 
to Hardin county, Kentucky, where he died 
in 1801. 

Ann Parker, wife of Michael Paul, was 
born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1724. 
She belonged to the order of Dunkards. She 
was a cousin to Rev. Samuel Davis, D. D., 
:i noted Presbyterian iireacher of that day, 
and president of one of the early theolog- 
ical schools of Pennsylvania or New Jersey, 
perhaps at Princeton. She died in Hardin 
county, Kentucky, in June. 181 3, at the age 
of eighty-nine. They were the parents of 
seven children, John, the subject of this 
sketch, being the fourth. He was lx>rn in 
Germantown, Pennsylvania, November 12, 
1758. and died June 6, 1830, in Madison, 
Indiana. He went with his father to Browns- 
ville and tij X'irginia, and afterward to Ken- 
tucky. In the year 1778 he went with the 
expedition of Gen. George Roger Clark, in 
the campaign against the Indians in Illinois, 
Indiana and Ohio. The expedition went by 
boats from Louisville, Kentucky, to Kas- 
kaskia, Illinois. When they debarked at Kas- 
kaskia the soldiers had to walk for a good 
distance in water up to the armpits, carry- 
ing their guns and powder horns above their 
heads to keep them dry, before reaching the 
fort. In 1794 he was married to Miss Sa- 
rah Thomberry Grover, at Danville, Ken- 
tucky. She was born in or near Baltimore. 
Maryland. March 21. 1775, and went to 
Kentucky with her parents somewhere in 
the decade of 1780. They had four chil- 
dren, Mary Berry, the oldest, dying when 
quite young. In 1809 Col. Paul left Xenia 
and came to the Indiana territory, landing 
with his family at the point wdiere Madison 
now stands, October 6. 1809. Previous to 
this he had gone to the "Vendue" of public 



lands at Vincennes. where he bought the 
land upon which New Albany now stands. 
Upon' this trip home from that sale he 
stopped at this purchase to fix a home, but 
concluding that it was an unhealthy locality 
he prospected along the river for a more 
liealthv situation. He decided upnn the 
present site of Madison as l>eing the best 
suited to his wishes, and went home to Ohio 
to await the ojjening of the sales at Jeffer- 
sonville, where this land was to i)e sold. 

In the spring of 1809 he went to the 
sale and bought the land, and returned home 
and arranged for the immediate removal of 
his family tn this place, where he aferward 
lived until his death. 

Colonel Paul was a man full of the milk 
of human kindness. His l>enefactions in the 
way of property for public uses are seen all 
along the pathway of his life. In Xenia. 
Ohio, he gave the site for the courthouse. 
In Madison, the ground for the old grave- 
yard, on Third street, the site for Wesley 
chapel, now the opera house. In Ripley 
countv. Indiana, the ground for the grave- 
yard in Versailles, and ground for the 
academy. 

He was a practical surveyor and a very 
good judge of the (|uality of the land, as 
is proven by the fact that a great many tracts 
of the best land in this county and Ripley 
were bought by him from the United States 
Ciovernment. He was a man endowed by 
nature with all of the elements of a leader 
among men, and he was one. In this day 
and generation he would have been called 
an athlete on account of hisactivity, strength 
and powers of endurance. He was tall, of 
fine. attracti\'e physi(|ue ; he had a C(jmmand- 
ing appearance: kind-hearted: he was gen- 
tle in manner to all, tender to those in dis- 



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tress; magnanimous, he was generous to a 
fault, always a friend to the poor and help- 
less, and ready to lift up and help forward 
young men. He was beloved by his friends 
and respected by all who knew him, even by 
his enemies, for like all men of positive char- 
acter, he had them. He was an energetic 
business man, and engaged in farming, mill- 
ing and real estate business. 

He was the first representative in the 
territorial assembly from a part of Clark 
•county, Indiana, and was a member of the 
legislature after that county was organized. 
He was elected a senator from Switzerland 
and Jefferson counties, Indiana, to the first 
legislature of the state, which convened at 
Corydon, Monday, November 4, 1816. He 
Avas called to the chair of the senate as ohair- 
man pro tempore, and was the first presid- 
ing officer of the senate. He was the first 
clerk and recorder of Jefferson county, In- 
diana, which office he held for many years. 

Col. John \'awter, in a letter written in • 
1850, says of Colonel Paul: "He was one 
of George Roger Clarke's men in the expe- 
dition against the British posts at Detroit, 
Michigan, and Kaskaskia, Illinois." He was 
at the capture of Vincennes, February 24, 
1779. 

At the time he located in this county 
Tiis family consisted of himself, his wife, 
Miss Ruth Grover, who was a niece of his 
wife, and who made her home with them, 
and their three children. The eldest, Ann 
Parker, was born March 18, 1799. in Har- 
din county. Kentucky. John P., who was 
"born in Greene county. Ohio, December 23, 
1800, and Sarah G., who was born March 
21, 1802. in Greene county. Ann Parker 
Avas married May 29, 1816, to William Hen- 
dricks. From this union were born nine 



children. She died September 12, 1887, in 
the eighty-ninth year of her age. John Por- 
ter Paul was a graduate of Washington 
College and became a surveyor. He was 
married to a Miss Eliza Meek. He died in 
Septeml:>er, 1835, in Clark county, Indiana, 
in the thirty-fifth year of his age. Sarah G. 
Paul was married three times. Her firsf hus- 
band was Dr. Robert Cravens, who died 
lea\ing one son, Judge John R. Cravens, of 
Madison, Indiana, who is now deceased. 
Her second husband was Dr. Samuel M. 
(joode, who died leaving one son, now liv- 
ing in Madison, Indiana, and known as Dr. 
Goode. Her third husband was B. C. Ste- 
venson, a Methodist preacher. She died in 
September 14, 1877. Mrs. Paul, the mother 
of the family, died May 8, 1866, in the 
ninety-second year of her age. 



GENERAL JOSEPH C. VANCE. 

A SKETCH OF THE M.\N WHO SURVEYED AND 
LAIDjDUT THE CITY OF XEXIA. 

An eventful life of usefulness, filled with 
exciting incidents. He was on; of those 
sturdy old Scotch Presbyterians, and pre- 
vious to emigrating to the Northwestern 
Territory was a resident of Washington 
county, Pennsylvania. A few years after 
the close of the war of the Revolution, he, 
with his family and property, embarked on 
a raft and commenced tiie journey down 
the Ohio. The trip was a dangerous one as 
well may be sup])osed. They were at times 
obliged to dodge the arrows shot at them 
by the wandering Indians, which came spin- 
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in the side of tlie boat. They frequently 
would wish themselves back in the old Key- 
stone State, but to return would be as dan- 
gerous as to go ahead, which they did, and 
the southern shore of Kentucky was finally 
reached, and here for a time he resided. The 
war whoop and tomahawk and scalping 
knife were the greetings the savages gave to 
strangers, and the warmtli of their recep- 
tions was hardly such as to lend enchant- 
ment to the whites. The first matter to at- 
tend to on landing was the erection of a block 
house, and here the neighbors met whenever 
there was an attack by the red men, which 
was oftentimes the case. At such times the 
General's family would be enlarged by the 
gathering of his neighbors for refuge and 
assistance. 

In the early spring of 1797 Daniel Wil- 
son (one of the earl}- settlers in what is now 
Sugarcreek township, Greene county, Ohio), 
as he was returning to settle permanently 
on land near the village of Clio, which 
he had pre\iously entered, overtook Joseph 
C. Vance and John Vance in the valley 
south of where Lebanon now stands. They 
were on their way to this locality, and hence 
were the first settlers where now is located 
the town of Bellbrook. Joseph entered tlie 
land extending along the east side of what is 
now Main street, Bellbrook, being part of 
Sections 31, 32 (3.5). He erected a log 
cabin on the site that used to be occupied by 
Willoughby & Davis as a carriage manu- 
factory, on the southeast corner of Main 
and Walnut streets. This was the first 
building that was erected on the site now 
called Bellbrook, and it was built in the year 
1797. It was the building which was to be- 
come historic on account of the use that was 
afterward made of it. This was the build- 



ing that James Clancey a few years after- 
ward purchased of Joseph C. Vance, and 
ran his first tavern — the place whereon the 
organization of the county into townships 
was selected as the place of holding elec- 
tions, and where on the aforesaid occasions 
would assemble the pioneers, from one-half 
mile east of the present village of New Bur- 
lington to the Montgomery county line on 
the west to cast their ballots for the men of 
their choice for the different offices. And 
in that cabin was the place where Rev. Rob- 
ert Armstrong, the pioneer associate preach- 
er, preached the word of life in the fall of 
1804, and on that occasion was for the first 
time sung the beautiful songs of the sweet 
singer of Israel, in that part of Greene coun- 
ty. Among the number on that occasion 
was Gen. Joseph C. Vance and family, John 
Vance, John and James McKnight (cousins 
of the McKnight's that came later) ; Will- 
iam and James Tanner, John Gowdy, Sr., 
and his son, Andrew, who was the father of 
Alexander, who is yet living (1900) on 
West Main street, Xenia; two Snod- 
grasses, two Snowdens (Jacob and James), 
Capt. Robert McClellan, John Torrence, 
John Hutchison, Abraham Van Eaton, 
Capt. Nathan Lamme, James Collier 
and others. In the first organization 
of the county into townships May 10, 
1803, Joseph C. Vance was the first 
clerk of the Sugarcreek township. He was 
also one of the number that was selected to 
sit as a grand juror "on the body of Greene 
county," as the old records express it. Au- 
gust 3, 1803, Joseph C. Vance was appointed 
to survey the county seat, and lay off the 
town of Xenia. This he did the same sea- 
son, and at the December term of the Court 
of Associate Judges received $49.25 for his 



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services. He furnished chain men in ma- 
king the survey, made a plat of the town and 
sold some lots. He was selected to act as 
director of said town and served in that ca- 
pacity until Tuesday, August 27, 1805, wlien 
he resigned and William A. Bcatty was ap- 
pointed in liis place. Mr. Vance previous 
to his resignation as director must ha\e ta- 
ken his departure from Xenia, for we find 
that according to our records Chrimpaign 
county was organized February 20, 1805. 
In the history of said county it is said that 
Joseph C. Vance was selected as clerk of 
courts, and was the founder of the city of 
Urbana. His military title was acquired on 
account of services under Gen. George Ro- 
ger Clarke against the combined British and 
Indian forces at the time of the Revolution. 
He lived a useful life, died and was buried 
at Buck Creek churchyard, six miles south- 
east of Urbana, Ohio. His son, Joseph 
Vance, was governor of Ohio from 1836 to 
1838. At the time of his canvass for that 
office some of his boyhood companions in 
Bellbrook, Greene county, remembered 
"Joe," who used to drive an ox cart over the 
Pickney road, when he was a lx)y at home 
on the site of where Bellbrook was after- 
ward built. 



FRAXCTS nUXLAVEY, 

FIRST PRESIDING JUDGE OF GREENE COUNTY. 

Francis Dunlavey was born near Win- 
chester, Virginia, December 31, 1761. His 
father, Anthoney Dunla\ey, came from Ire- 
land about the year 1745. and afterward 
married Hannah White, sister to Judge Al- 
exander White, of \'irginia. Of this mar- 



riage there were four sons and four daugh- 
ters. Francis was the eldest of the sons. 
About the year 1772 the family removed 
from Winchester to what was supposed to 
be western Virginia, on the west of the Al- 
leghany mountains, and settled near Catfish 
(Washington) in what is now Washington 
county, Pennsylvania. In this frontier set- 
tlement when the Revolutionary war broke 
out there was great exposure, as we have 
already seen, to Indian depredations. The 
men of the new settlements were constantly 
called upon to serve in longer or shorter 
tours of militia duty, which were considered 
essential to the safety of the frontiers. Mr. 
Dunlavey volunteered as a private on the ist 
of October, 1776, under Capt. Isaac Cox; 
his lieutenant was David Steele. His com- 
pany encamped in the woods at Holliday's 
Cove, on the Ohio river. opix>site a large 
island in what is now Brooke county. West 
\'irginia, now known as Brown's island, 
above Steubenville, Ohio, but below the 
mouth of Yellow creek. Here the company 
erected a chain of log cabins, block houses, 
and scouted in pairs up and down the river 
for the distance of twelve miles. This fort 
or station was on the line of defense from 
Fort Pitt to Gravel creek, erected as a pro- 
tection to the border against the Indians. 
Mr. Dunlavey afterward remembered that 
he frequently saw at this post Col. John Gib- 
son, of the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, 
who supervised the several stations on the 
river. His tour of duty expired on the 20th 
of December, and he was then discharged. 
During the latter part of the service of this 
tour he, with others, was detached and 
sent down the river about twelve miles, 
where Decker's Fort was erected, and where 
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inhabitants gathered their corn. In July, 
1777, Mr. Dunlavey served fijurteen days in 
the inihtia at Fort Pitt as a sul)stitute fur 
liis lather, Anthciney Dunlavey, wiio had 
been drafted for a month and had served the 
first half of it. General Hand had just ar- 
rived at the post. unaccomp;inied by any 
troops. Notwithstanding Mr. Dunlavey 
was a militia man. he did duty in garrison 
under officers belonging to the regular army. 
Capt. Harry Heath had command of the 
post upon the arrival of Hand. Col. John 
Gibson and some of his regiment. Thir- 
teenth Virginia, were in the garrison a short 
time. Captains Scott, Bell and Steele, well 
known about Pittsburg before, during and 
after the Revolutionary war, were in Fort 
Pitt at this time. Simon Girty was also 
present, then a subaltern. He seemed wholly 
taken uj) in intercnurse with the Indians, 
many of whom were in and around the fort. 

Mr. Dunlavey volunteered upon the ist 
of March. 1778, for one month's service. 
The rendezvous was at Cox's Station, on 
Peter's creek. Colonels Isaac Cox and Jnhn 
Canon attended to organizing the men; but 
in eight days the militia relinquished their 
arms to some recruits for the regular army, 
who relieved them and they returned home 
to attend to putting in their crops. 

On the 15th of August, 1778, Mr. D'un- 
lavey was again drafted for one month, the 
place of meeting was Pittsburg. He served 
this tour under Lieut. John Springer, the 
troops being attached to the command of 
Captain Ferrol, lately from the seaboard, 
who had a company detached from the 
Thirteenth Virginia Regiment. This body 
of men ranged the woods, visiting the sta- 
tions on the frontier line between Pittsburg 
and Wheeling, and finally relieving a com- 



pany of militia from Hampshire county, 
Virginia, at the latter place, commanded by 
Capt. Daniel Cressap, brother of the cele- 
brated Mike Cressap. Mr. Dunlavey was 
discharged at Pittsburg at the end of the 
month's service. 

About the 5th of October he again en- 
tered the service. He went this time as a 
substitute for Andrew Flood, joining the 
company of Capt. John Crow. His battal- 
ion commander was Capt. Hugh Stevenson ; 
regimental commander. Col. William Craw- 
ford. The army was then under the com- 
mand of Brig.-Gen. Lachlin Mcintosh. Mr. 
Dunlavey afterward reinembered that Col- 
onel Fvans was commander of one of the 
luilitia regiments, and that there were also 
present Col. John Gibson, of the Thirteenth 
Virginia, and Daniel Broadhead, colonel of 
the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. It was 
this army that built Fort Mcintosh at the 
mouth of Beaver creek. The army marched 
into the wilderness on the 5th of November, 
crossing the forks of the Muskingum, and 
building Fort Lawrence on the west bank of 
that river. He afterward returned to Fort 
Mcintosh and was discharged on the 20th of 
December. 

Mr. Dunlavey was again drafted on the 
25th of August, 1779; the rendezvous, Fort 
Pitt. He was in camp three days at the 
"King's Orchard," on the Allegheny river. 
He then marched up that stream under Colo- 
nel Broadhead as chief ofiicer. Colonel Gib- 
son next in command. His captain was one 
Ellis. In this army were Lieuts. John Har- 
din, of the Thirteenth Virginia, and Samuel 
Brady, of the Eighth Pennsylvania, both 
afterwards famous in Indian warfare. John 
Monteur, a half-blood (son of Andrew 
Monteur, a Frenchman), a man of informa- 



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tion and education, but a great savage, ac- 
companied tlie expedition, which consisted 
of about seven liundred whites, inckiding 
some light liorse. and about sixty Indians. 
Proceeding up the east bank of the Alle- 
gheny they crossed the Kiskiminitas, at its 
mouth, and a crooked creek, and came to 
Kittaning, where there was a garrison. The 
anny lay several days at an old Indian town 
on the river about twelve miles above the 
Kittaning. They then marched up the river 
and crossed about fifteen miles below the 
mouth of French creek. They then crossed 
the latter stream and moved toward the Mon- 
sey towns, meeting and defeating a small 
body of Indians, some thirty or forty in 
number. Four or five of the Americans 
were wounded, amone them Jonathan Zane, 
who was acting as pilot to the expedition. 
The Monsey villages were deserted. The 
army lay in the abandoned towns nearly a 
week, destroying several hundred acres of 
growing corn on the banks of the river. On 
their return a young man named John 
Ward was badly injured by a horse falling 
on a rock in a creek. Tliis accident occurred 
in what is now Butler county, Pennsylvania, 
where there is a township and post office 
called Slippery Rock. ]Mr. Dunlavey was 
discharged September 29. 

In the spring of 1 782 Mr. Dunlavey was 
a student in Rev. Thaddeus Dodd's Latin 
and mathematical "log cabin" school at Ten- 
Mile, in Washington county, near Amity. 
He was then considered "a young man of 
superior talent and amiable disposition." He 
did not remain long in this school, for. in 
April of that year, he again volunteered 
against hostile Indians under a call from 
James Marshall, lieutenant of his county. 



Tlie men rendezvoused at Decker's Station, 
or Fort, on the east bank of the Ohio, one 
mile above Cross creek. After a fe\v days 
the men were dismissed, a sufiicient num- 
ber to have undertaken any important move- 
ment not having assembled. He was absent 
from home only ten days. No sooner was 
tiie expedition against Sandusky announced 
than Mr. Dunlavey once more shouldered 
his rifle. By the 15th of May he had re- 
turned to Decker's Station. He soon after 
crossed the Ohio to Mingo Bottom, and. 
upon the organization of the army, was 
made a lieutenant in Capt. Craig Ritchy's 
company. After the return of Mr. Dun- 
lavey from the Sandusky campaign, and as 
soon as the peace of the country permitted, 
he was sent to the Dickenson College. He 
was afterward a student of divinity under 
Rev. James Hoge, of Winchester. Virginia, 
and finally taught a classical school in that 
state, having several pupils who subse- 
quently were distinguished for their talents 
and learning. About the year 1790 he moved 
with his father's family to W'ashington, 
Kentucky, or that neighborhood. In 1792 
he came to Columbia, near Cincinnati, where 
he opened a classical school in connection 
with the late John Reiley. of Butler county, 
Ohio. This school was continued for sev- 
eral years. He afterward moved to Leban- 
on, Warren county. Mr. Dunlavey was 
twice a member of the legislature of the 
Northwestern territory. He afterward 
was elected to the convention that formed 
the first constitution of Ohio. He was a 
member of the first state legislature, and 
was subsequently chosen presiding judge of 
tlie court of common pleas of the first circuit, 
which office he held for fourteen vears. The 



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counties of Hamilton, Butler, Montgomery, 
Greene, Warren and Clermont composed 
the first district. 

In the old graveyard at Lebanon, Ohio, 
near the middle of the north boundary line, 
is the grave of this old hero. A modest 
looking monument bears the following in- 
scription : "In memeory of Francis Dun- 
lavey, who died October 6, 1839. aged sev- 
enty-eight years." He was among the first 
white men who entered the territory now 
forming Ohio, was a member of the terri- 
torial legislature and of the convention that 
framed the constitution of Ohio. 

GEN. BENJAMIN W'HITEMAN. 

One of Greene county's first associate 
judges died July r. 1852, at his residence 
near Clifton, Ohio, at the age of eighty-four 
years. He was born on the 12th of March, 
1769, in 'Philadelphia, Pennsjdvania ; in 
1782, and when about thirteen years of age, 
he emigrated to Kentucky about seven years 
after the first white settlement had been 
made there by Colonel Daniel Boone, and 
settled near Limestone, or Maysville, as it 
is now called. He was associated with 
Boone in defending the white settlements 
from the ruthless hands of the savages, en- 
listinig and serving as a volunteer in General 
Harmer's campaign, and also in Genera! 
Anthony Wayne's army, after the appoint- 
ment of that gentleman by Washington as 
a successor of General St. Clair to the com- 
mand of the army engaged against the In- 
dians on our western frontier. In the month 
of Jklarch, 1792, he was in a desperate en- 
gagement with a party of Indians, headed by 
the gallant warrior, Tecumseh, in what is 
now Brown county, a few miles above where 



the town of AX'illiamsburg is nciw situated. 
Some horses had been stolen from Mason 
county, Kentucky; a party of men number- 
ing thirty^six, cominanded by that veteran 
Indian fighter, Simon Kenton, started in 
pursuit. General Whiteman being one of the 
party. 

On the morning of the second day, after 
crossing the Ohio river, twelve of the men 
gave out and returned, the weather being ex- 
tremely bad. About noon, the same day, 
they came on the Indian camp, and found 
them so numerous that the attack was de- 
frayed until night. They lay concealed un- 
til midnight, when the attack was made in 
three divisions, but the Indians stood their 
ground and returned the fire. The watch 
word of the Kenton men was "Boone," 
which being familiar with the Indians the 
name was shouted on all sides, and the com- 
batants became blended together, as was also 
the watch-word. The night was dark and 
the flashing and roar of the rifles, the yells 
of the savages and the shouts of the attack- 
ing party made the scene awfully appalling. 
The Indians being re-enforced from a neigh- 
boring camp, Kenton ordered retreat, which 
was effected with the loss of but two men. 
The Indians had about one hundred 
men lost, foinrteen killed and seventeen 
wounded. 

In 1793. when about twenty-three, Gen- 
eral \\'hiteman married the daughter of 
OAven Davis, the old miller down on Beaver 
creek, owner of the house of Peter Borders, 
Greene county, Ohio's, first court house, 
with whom he lived for a period of about 
fifty-nine years. The fruits of this marriage 
was a numerous and a very respectable 
family. 

In the fall of 1799 he removed with his 



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young family to Greene county, Ohio, and 
settled near the mouth of Beavercreek, in 
the vicinity of what is now known as the 
Harbine farm. In this neighburhood he lived 
about five years, and in 1799 he built the 
house in which the first court was held in 
the county. In this connection it will not be 
amiss to introduce the testimony of General 
W'hiteman himself as to when he first set- 
tled in Greene county, and while it will 
throw light on matters that have been set- 
tled, yet from his evidence will show con- 
clusively that errors will sometimes be ac- 
cepted as truth. 

A court of the master commissioner 
( Josiah Grover) was being held at the house 
of Amassa Reid, at old Chillicothe, or Old 
Town, for the purpose of taking depositions 
of some of the oldest pioneers, to be used 
in suits of ejectment against different parties 
then pending in the court of Greene county. 
General Benjamin Whiteman, in answer to 
the question "At what time did you become 
acquainted with the old Chillicothe, on the 
Little Miami river?"- said : "In the month 
of October, 1790. In 1792 I, together with 
a detachment of militia from Kentucky, en- 
camped on that point of land that lies just 
beyond Old Town, between what is now 
known as Massies creek and the Little Miami 
river. It was then ^generally spoken of as 
an island amongst us. and I always believed 
it to be an island until I became a resident 
of this county, in 1799. Alx)ut one year 
after I settled in this county I had occasion 
to go to the falls of the Little Miami, and, 
traveling up Ijetween the Little Miami and 
Massies creek, I found them to be separate 
streams, and as to the island below the 
mouth of Massies creek, at which I have 
since understood Jamison's entry com- 



menced at or called for, I have no knowl- 
edge of nor never heard of such a one until 
several years after I settled in this county. 
I first settled on Beavercreek, about six 
miles from the Old Chillicothe, in what is 
now the bounds of (jreene county, and there 
was no settlement at that time above Davis' 
mill, above Beavercreek, except three fam- 
ilies on the Little ]\Iiami, in the limits of 
what is now Greene county, and the settle- 
ment on what I then lived on Beavercreek, 
and it did not exceed six or eight families." 

The three settlements spoken of above 
were those of James Galloway, Sr., George 
Galloway, cousin of James, Sr., and Robert 
Boggess, the last named near the falls of 
the Little Miami, and the first two spoken 
of were located, James Galloway, Sr., on 
the left of the road across the Little Miami, 
going north, and George Galloway on the 
right opposite what is now (1899) the IMi- 
ami Powder Works. General W'hiteman 
was asked "How often had you passed 
through or near Old Chillicothe?'' and he 
answered, "I passed through that point of 
land three times in three different years, be- 
tween the years 1790 and 1794, once under 
the command of Colonel Edwards, with 
about four hundred volunteers, and twice on 
small scouts." 

General Whiteman resided in Beaver- 
creek township for about five years, and 
there built the house in which the first courts 
were held in the county. In 1805 he re- 
moved to a tract of land which he had pur- 
chased in the vicinity of Clifton, and on the 
spot where his old mansion now stands he 
lived for a period of forty-seven vears. He 
was present at the naming of the new coun- 
ty seat of Greene county, when the forks 
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inaiieiit location, and was one of the tirst 
associate judges of the first court held in the 
county. He was associated with Generals 
Gano, Findley and others in first organizing 
the military system of Ohio, and held a com- 
mission of lieutenant colonel in the militia 
of Greene county in 1805, and was also at 
the time president of the court of inquirj- of 
said count}'. W hen the war hetween this 
country and Great Britain broke out he was 
appointed brigade general of this division, 
and having entered upon the active duties 
of his office he continued to serve his coun- 
try to tlie end of the war. 

After the war closed he retired to his 
country residence, in the vicinity of Clifton, 
where he spent the remainder of his days in 
educating his children, and enjoying the 
sweets of domestic life. He was one of the 
early pioneers- of Greene county, his name 
being associated with the earliest recollec- 
tions of the old settlers. It is incorporated 
with our social, civil and militarv affairs in 
their earliest history. He lived to witness 
the origin, progress and development of our 
county and state from the time she was 
rocked in the cradle of infancy until she 
look her stand as the third state in this great 
confederacy. General Whiteman was both 
a soldier and a patriot, as well as a dignified 
gentleman of honest and high-minded prin- 
ciples, who scorned a mean action, was a 
good citizen, a pleasant neighbor and a kind 
father. 

We have the assurance also from the 
testimony of Rev. Moses Russell, to whom 
we are indebted for part of this sketch, that 
among the last acts of his life was a distinct 
avowal of the principles of Christianity, and 
especially the doctrine of justification by 
faith in Christ, and the expression of a hope 



that through his death he might obtain sal- 
vation. 

How much has been Icjst to Greene coun- 
ty in the death of this grand old pioneer. 
Could his biogra])hy have been written of 
the many facts of local history, which he 
had in reference to the early times and set- 
tlement of this county, it would have made 
a large volume, almost priceless in value. In 
the cemetery at Clifton, Ohio, his body lies 
buried with the simple and modest inscrip- 
tion on his monument, "Benjamin White- 
man, born ^larch 6, 1769; died Julv i, 
1852." Nothing to indicate his record as a 
soldier, or which W(juld lead one to think 
of the biave and daring life that he lived as 
a soldier, the stirring events that have been 
his to share. Ma\- he rest in peace. 

ASSOCIATE JUDGE WILLI.\M M.\XWELL. 

On account of Mr. Maxwell's early 
death, which occurred in the year 1809, and 
his immediate friends and descendants hav- 
ing removed from the county, it has been a 
very difficult task to compile and pay any- 
thing like a just tribute to his worth as a 
bra\e and enterprising pioneer of Greene 
county. The facts that we have been en- 
abled to gather here and there read almost 
like fiction. We learn from the early his- 
tory of Hamilton county that he was a na- 
tive of New Jersey, and not long after the 
organization of said county he came out 
and settled on the site now known as Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. \\'e also find that Mr. Max- 
well had the honor of publishing the first 
newspaper that was published in that city, 
if not the first one that was published north 
of the Ohio river. He came to the front 
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encDurajii'ecl lie set up an office. It was a 
primitive affair, located in a small room in 
a log cabin, which stood on the corner of 
what is now known as Front and Sycamore 
streets, near the river. The settlement at 
that time contained not more than two hun- 
dred souls. His press was brought down 
the river from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 
The name of the paper was "The Sentinel 
of the Northwestern Territory." He was 
also the second postmaster of Cincinnati, the 
^'uccessor of Abner Dunn. It was along 
about this time that an event occurred which 
is related by his granddaughter, Mrs. Sarah 
Beath, of Normal, Illinois, who says : "My 
grandmother's (the wife of William Max- 
well) maiden name was Nancy Robins. Her 
father was killed by Indians in Virginia, 
and her mother with two or three children 
escaping to Cincinnati took refuge in the 
block houses there, when the village was 
beseiged by the Indians." Mrs. Beath's 
great-grandmother afterward became the 
wife of Ebenezer Zane, the founder of 
Zanesville, Ohio. And it was under trying 
times, as above stated, that William Max- 
well, ex-representative to the first legisla- 
ture that met at Chillicothe, to formulate 
and enact laws for the new county of Greene 
and state of Ohio, ex-associate judge and ex- 
sheriff of Greene county from Deceml)er 7, 
1803. until 1807, met, won and married 
Nancy Robins. From the old records we 
find that Mr. Maxwell and his little family 
in 1799 removed to the then more northern 
part of Hamilton county to what is now 
known as the Ma.xwell farm situated* in 
Beavercreek township, Greene county, Ohio. 
Many facts which are a mystery are made 
plain by the aid of which we term the "old 
records." Many questions never could have 



been answered had it not been for the light 
from them that is thrown backward down 
the road that leads back to the "long ago." 
For example, when the first legislature con- 
vened at Chillicothe to designate the tem- 
porary county seat for the new made county 
of Greene, how did they know about the 
house of Owen Davis on Beaver creek ? The 
answer to that is, William Maxwell, the sub- 
ject of this sketch, and a member of that 
body at that time, had been living for more 
than five years in sight of the house of Owen 
Davis, or, as it is sometimes called, the house 
of Peter Borders. His land adjoined, and 
in many places was the boundary line, of 
the land then known as the Owen Davis 
farm, now the home of our honored fellow 
citizen, Jacob Harbine. 

Mr. Ma.xwell was also an officer and an 
active worker in helping to establish the 
militia in Greene county. As far back as 
1805 he held the position of major. De- 
ceml)er 7, 1803, having resigned the office 
of associate judge, he was elected sheriff of 
the county in place of Nathan Lamme, who 
had resigned said office on account of his 
large land interests. .Among the old relics 
of Greene county in the way. of historical 
papers are three of the original bonds igiven 
by Mr. Maxwell for faithful performance 
of duty : two of said Ixrnds are for the office 
of sheriff, the other is for the office of col- 
lector of taxes. After Mr. Maxwell's death 
his widow married John White. The chil- 
dren of William Maxwell and wife Nancy 
are as follows : sons, William, John, EJias, 
George, Ludlow, and daughters, Nancy, who 
married John Sayers ; Eliza, who married 
Samuel Owens ; and Levina, who married 
Baker Butler. 

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of the village of Alpha, not far clown the 
Little Aliami river from what is known as 
the "Indian Riffle Bridge," on ascending the 
hill can be seen the stones that were placed 
there by the hands of him of whom we write, 
as the foundation of his spring house. Not 
far from the spring was the first cabin which 
he erected as his home, and not far friim the 
spring on a high point of land is the grave 
of William Maxwell. Sr., but \\here the spot 
is where loving hands laid him to rest in 
1809 none as yet can tell. 

JAMES B.\RRETT, ONE OF THE FIRST ASSO- 
CIATE JUDGES OF GREENE COUNTY. 

He was a native of the state of Virginia. 
The first notice of Mr. Barrett as a public 
man we find to be that on the 6th day of 
.\pril, 1S03, the two houses oi the first leg- 
islature of Ohio, which had assembled at 
Chillicothe, met in joint cnn\'ention anrl se- 
lected three associate judges for each of the 
then existing and newlv organized counties. 
The gentlemen selected for Greene county 
were Benjamin ^^'hitema^, James Barrett 
and \\"illiam [Ma.xwell. After his appoint- 
ment Mr. Barrett served as such until the 
}ear 1810. He was at this time well up in 
years and the infirmities of age were grow- 
ing u])on him. He first purchased one half 
of a section of land in what was then known 
as Hamilton county, in the early part of the 
year i8oj. This land was in the first entire 
range of townships, and in the second town- 
sb.ip and known as lot Xo. 32 in said town- 
ship on the general map of the ]\Iiami pur- 
chase ; the north part of said section was set 
of¥ to James Barrett. Islv. Barrett's fanfily 
at this time consisted of his wife Elsie and 
four children, two sons, James and Philip, 



and two daughters, Eleanor and Hannah. 
His son James at this time was upwards of 
twenty-one years of age and his brother 
Philip was nineteen. 

The family on first coming to> Ohio in 
iSoo resided in that part of Hamilton coun- 
ty that is now known as Butler county, on 
Dick's creek. In the fall of 1801 Mr. Bar- 
rett started out to select a location for his 
future home, where he and his family could 
go to work and open up a farm of their own. 
He returned and told his boys that he had 
found a place which suited him, and he 
wanted them to go with him and see it. If 
they were as well pleased with it as he was 
he would purchase a half-section, and if thev 
v.ould go with him and settle upon it, it 
should be theirs. The result was the boys 
came with their father to what is now known 
as Greene county, and he purchased the one- 
half section of land in Sugarcreek township, 
r,ow (1900) owned by Mi'. Dinsmore Big- 
ger, Hattie Bigger, Samuel ^^'eller and, I 
think, what is known as the Robert Tate 
farm. April u, 1802, they removed to it 
and commenced making improvements on 
the southeast half of said section, where 
they continued to live in common until Sep- 
tember I, 1808; Philip was married to Miss 
Elizabeth Barnes. Previous to this James, 
the elder son, had married Xancy Mantan. 
September 17, i8oC). Eleanor was the first 
of his children to marry. She married Arm- 
strong McCabe, April 12, 1805, and some 
time later they removed to Vigo county. In- 
diana. At a later date Hannah was mar- 
ried to David Wilson, son of Daniel, and 
tliey also remo\-ed to Montgomery count}-. 
After Philip's marriage he erected his liouse 
on the other part of said one-half section, 
and continued to live there until 1826, when 



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he died. Judge James Barrett continued to 
make his liome with his elder son, James, un- 
til May, 1822, when he died leaving his 
wife, Elsie, a widow. Judge Barrett was 
buried on the old farm in one corner of the 
orchard in the rear of what is now the Dins- 
more Bigger farm, and there is nothing to 
mark his grave. Xear by is the grave of 
Nancy, wife of James Barrett, Jr., who died 
May ig, 186^, aged seventy-seven years. 
Her husband, James Barrett, Jr., died in Al- 
len county. His house taking fire, he was 
found dead in the yard. The first half-sec- 
tion of land spoken of in this sketch was 
near Coldrain in Hamilton county, and was 
set ofif in Mr. Barrett's will for Eleanor and 
Hannah, his daughters. In the city of 
Xenia, in the old part, are three streets run- 
ning north and south, from \\'ater (or 
Third) street to Church street, that were 
named in honor of Greene couny's first as- 
sociate judges, James Barrett, William ]\Iax- 
well and Benjamin \\"hiteman. The first 
street east of West street is Barrett, the 
next street east of Barrett is Maxwell and 
the first street east of Detroit is W'hiteman. 
May their names ne\-er l:)e changed is the 
prayer of the compiler of this sketch. 

A VISIT TO Tin-: GR.WE OF JACOB SMITH. 

A good old-fashioned name, and strange- 
ly familiar, can there be any storv connected 
with that lonely grave? Such was the 
tbought that passed through the mind of 
the writer of this sketch as one day he was 
waiting at Harbine's Station on the Xenia 
and DaA'ton branch of the great Panhandle 
railroad for the train for Xenia. ^^'e had 
been conversing about the old pioneers of 
Beavercreek township and old graveyards. 



My companion, V^r. John R. Ridenour, said, 
pointing in the direction of the building that 
was used as the first court liraise of Greene 
county, '"About two hundred yards south of 
that building are two graves that are not 
marked. . I do not know whose graves they 
are, but I have heard that one of them is 
the grave of one of the first settlers in 
Beavercreek township. Init his name I can- 
not recall. " 

Looking at my watch, I found that I had 
one hour to wait, so concluded that I would 
go and investigate. Arriving at the place, 
I saw extending up the south line of the 
Harbine farm a strip of land apjiarently 
twelve feet wide by one hundred feet long, 
which looked as if it might have been used 
as a graveyard. Here and tliere were indi- 
cations that someone had been Ijuried. Xo 
mark — save about the length and width of 
a bod}- — was seen. A hollow or depression 
of earth showed that someone was sleeping 
there, the long sleep of deadi. About the 
middle of this graveyard was the grave of 
our subject, Jacob Smith, and by his side 
that of his wife. Patience Smith. Removing 
the weeds and vines which grew in front of 
the stone, we observed at first sight that he 
was a Mason, on the face of the stone being 
engraved the square and compass, the gavel, 
the ()])en book and irdwel. and the following 
inscrii)tion : In memory of Jacob Smith, 
who died the I2lh of December, 1819, in 
tile sixty-sixth year of his age. For twelve 
years he represented the county of Greene 
in the state senate. He was a useful citizen 
and diefl lamented. His actions were 
squared by justice : he kept his passions 
within compass. Tn him faith, hope and 
charity were united." Patience Smith sur- 
vived her husband till Marcli 23, 1835, when 



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she also laid aside life's burden and was laid 
to rest beside her husband. 

Although these were on the margin of 
an open field which had been cultivated from 
time to time, yet from the time that the 
land had become the property of J\lr. Har- 
bine, the graves had been respected. Yet 
there were indications showing by tlie near 
approach of the marks of the plow that it 
had been a great temptation to the different 
tenants to take just one more round from 
the rich earth which had had such a long 
rest. \\'hen the Masonic brethren were told 
of this lonely grave, and whose it was, they 
were not long in making arrangements to 
have the bodies mo\-ed to their own lot in 
our own beautiful W'oodlawn, Xenia, which 
was done October 14, 1898, by the brethren 
of Xenia lodge. Dr. W. GL. Galloway de- 
livered a fine address at Woodlawn on that 
occasion. Never can the writer of this 
sketch forget the morniuig of the above date 
w hen the people began to assemble near the 
spot that will ever be historic on account of 
its being, as it were, the cradle of Greene 
county's judicial history, near the house of 
Peter Borders, the county's first court house. 
They met nut to bury Jacol) Smith, these 
-Masonic Ijretliren, but to remove whatever 
might remain of him to a more suitable place 
for the interment of one who had been of so 
much niite in the county of his choice, and 
which he had so highly honored. X^'early 
eighty years he had been buried and his wife 
si.xty-three. \\'ou]d there be anything re- 
maining of what had been placed there by 
loving hands so long ago? And while the 
cold wind of that early October morning 
came sweeping across the Beavercreek 
prairie, chilling those who were standing 
around and warning them of the near ap- 



proach of winter, the men employed con- 
tniued in silence their work. The remains 
of Mrs. Smith were first found at a depth of 
four feet and si.K inches to the bottom of 
the grave. Those of her illu.strious husband 
were soon after brought to the light at a 
depth of six feet. Tradition says "as was 
the heig-ht of a man so deep should his 
grave be." Nothing remained in either 
grave of coffin or casket, except here and 
there small pieces of wood and a few brass 
buttons from ^Ir. Smith's coat. After the 
remains of Mr. Smith had been carefully 
uncovered they were seen to be complete, a 
])erfect skeleton ; the bones of the hands and 
arms were crossed just lielow the breast, the 
head turned slightly to one side and a small 
p\Tamid of bones at each foot. In remov- 
ing the bones from the grave, of course the 
skeleton was taken apart. It was with pe- 
culiar emotions that the writer held the skull 
of Jacob Smith and gazed into the sightless 
eyes and at the mouth and chin which de- 
noted that he had been a man of strong will 
and great firmness of character. In the "old 
records of the county" is to be found here 
and there the following story of his life in 
part : Jacob Smith was a native of Fred- 
erick county, Virginia. Late in the fall of 
1798 he and his wife. Patience, with their 
family turned their footsteps from their old 
-Virginia home to find a new home in the 
then far west country. In 1800, after hav- 
in.g stopped for about two years at Red 
Stone and "Old Fort" in Pennsylvania, he 
reached the Miami valley and located his 
home in Beavercreek township, Greene coun- 
ty, near the present town of Alpha. There 
he reared a large family. His eldest son, 
John Smith, was a charter member of the 
Nenia lodge (Masonic) and was sheriff of 



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Greene county. Oliio, from 1819 to 1824. 
He removed to Springfield, Ohio, where he 
(lied Mav 4, 1S5J. and was Ijuried with 
Masonic honors. The other children of 
Jacoh Smith were: sons, Josiah B., Isaac, 
Seth and Jacob, Jr. His daughters were : 
Rachel, wife of James Collier, one of Xenia's 
pioneers ; Ann, who married Samuel Kyle, 
grandfather of Harvey and Samuel Kyle, 
our fellow townsmen, and he was also the 
great-grandfather of Wilbur O. Maddux, of 
Xenia. wlio is also a Mason ; Elizabeth, who 
married Joel Dolby, the grandfather of the 
Rev. Francis Clemens, who was present the 
day his grandparents were removed; Sarah 
was married to Henry Snyder ; Lydia mar- 
ried Jacob Staley ; Hannah married Rev. 
Edward Flood : Marv married George Tav- 
lor. In all. eleven children reached adult 
age and all were worthy of their illustrious 
father and good mother. 

The ptilitical life of Jacob Smith was an 
interesting one. At the first meeting of the 
court. May 10, 1803, among the number 
present that day was Jacob Smith. In the 
meeting of the court, Decemlier term, 1803, 
we find the names of Jacob Smith and 
others attached to a petition for the laying 
out of a road from Springfield to Yellow 
Springs, thence to Owen Davis' mill to in- 
tersect the Pickney road. Although this was 
not the first road in the county it was the 
first to be established by the legal authoritv 
of the county. The act passed by the gen- 
eral assembly, February 14, 1804, creating 
the ofifice of county commissioner. W'e find 
Jacob Smith one of the first commissioners 
chosen for Greene county. On Octo1:)er 8, 
1805. Jacob Smith was chosen state senator 
at tlie annual election by a handsome ma- 
j(jrity. .Altogether he served Greene and 



Clinton counties as senator nine terms as 
follows: In fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, 
tenth, ele\'enth, twelfth, fifteenth and si.\- 
teenth general assemblies. The last canvass 
he made for that position was October 13, 
1818. when he was defeated by the Hon. 
William R. Cole, of Clinton county, whn 
was a son-in-law of Josiah Elam, a sol- 
dier of the Revolution. This was about 
one year l>efore his death. He was also the 
owner of the Owen Davis mill, which he 
sold to our old townsman. James A. Scott, 
in 181 5. 

liX-COMMISSIOXER .\XD ASSOCI.\TE JUDGE, 
J.\MES SXOWDEN. 

On the early records of Greene count}-, 
Ohio, the first enumeration taken by James 
Collier of the free white male inhaliitants 
over the age of twenty-one years appears 
the names of James and Jacob Snowden. 
Of Jacob little can be learned, but of James 
Sn(j\\den there is much that has been left on 
record. It has been stated by one that he 
was one of the first associate judges of 
Greene county. That is a mistake, he was 
an associate judge, l>ut not one of the first. 
He was one of the first commissioners of 
Greene comity when that ofiice was created, 
and .served until 1808. 

James Snowden settletl first northwest 
of Bellbrook about 1799. He came from 
Xcw Jersey and buili a cabin just n(.)rth of 
the present residence of Henry Harman, be- 
ing southeast of center of section 2 (2.6). 
His lands embraced all of the east part of 
the above section, Ijeing then all the western 
liart of Bellbrook, which he in 1815 sold 
to Stephen Bel! and Henry Updyke. ?Ie 
was appointed associate judge first in 1809, 



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53 



and liis associates on the l^encli were Davitl 
Huston and James Barrett. It is said in 
1810 Presiding Judge Hon. Francis Dun- 
lavey and Mr. Snnwden differed somewhat 
in regard to an oalli ; ]\Ir. Snowden refused 
to be sworn, whereujjon the judge ordered 
the sheriff to lock him up. This Slieriff 
Colher refused to do, and thereupon the 
judge liad them l)iith jiut l)eliind tlie "bars" 
for contempt of court. It is said that he 
was very punctual in attending court and had 
an aversion to riding and would walk all 
the way to Xenia and back through the then 
unbroken forest. He was once prevailed 
upon to take a horse, and on starting he 
neglected to mount, but sli])ping the bridle 
rein over his arm he proceeded to walk, 
leading the horse. The judge, no doubt, 
fell into deep cogitations of legal lore, and 
the horse coiicludiug his comjiany more 
ornamental than useful slipped his bridle 
and turned his attention to the more pleasing 
prospect of the then unexplored pastures of 
the ?\liami bottoms. In the meantime the 
judge pursued his way alone, until reaching 
the end of his journey he found the empty 
bridle hanging on his arm. It is said that 
Mr. Smnvdcn after disposing of his land in 
181 5 removed to Indiana, where he died. 
His trips to Xenia on foot are thus graphic- 
ally described by one of the early writers 
of the time, John A. Taylor: "Xow James, 
the son of Jupiter, got him up early in the 
mornings, put a few unleavened cakes in his 
script, grasped his staff and setting his face 
toward the sunrising took up his march for 
the great city of X-Zeninia." These chron- 
icles were at the time published in a paper 
printed in Xenia. and abouufled, it is said, 
with much genuine wit and pleasant humor. 
The paper of which we speak was called 



"The Greene County Gazetteer." and was 
edited by Xathaniel JMcLain. The otiice in 
which it was printed stood on Main street 
not far from the present book store of Mr. 
West. It had a go(jd circulation in this ])art 
of the county, and was carried by a boy on 
horseback. When it was "muster 'day'" in 
Xenia, General Whiteman was there be- 
decked in his glittering regimaitals; and the 
newsboy for some unaccountable reason 
never arrived home until after dark. 

JAMES G.\LLOWAY, SR., A SOLDIER OF THE 
REVOLUTION. 

James Galloway was born in Pennsyl- 
vania, May 2, 1750. He emigrated to Ken- 
tucky shortly after the commencement of the 
war of the Revolution and to Ohio in the 
year 1797. settling in Greene couny. al)oul 
five miles north of Xenia, and west of the 
Little Miami river, opposite the present Mi- 
ami Powder Mills. He died August 6, 
1838, at the good old age of eighty-eight 
years, and was buried in the old Massies 
creek church yard, four miles northeast of 
Xenia. He was in the service of the United 
Stales during the I\evolutionary war eight- 
een months in the capacity of hunter for the 
army to procure game. Mr. Galloway is 
said to have possessed many of the traits of 
Daniel Boone. He was also with General 
Roger Clarke in his second expedition 
against the Indians at Old Chillicothe in 
1782. Daniel Boone was also along with 
this expedition and in his narration states: 
"When General Clarke, at the falls of the 
Ohio, heard of it (the defeat of the whites 
at the Blue Licks), he ordered an expedition 
to pursue the savages. We overtook them 
within two miles of their town and we would 



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ROBINSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



have obtaned a great \ictory had not some 
of them met us wlien about two luuidred 
poles from tlieir cam]3. The savages tied in 
the utmost confusion and disorder and evac- 
uated all their towns. We burned Old Chilli- 
cotlie to ashes, Piqua, Xew Chillicothe. 
Willstown. entirely destroying their corn 
?nd fruits, and spread desolation through 
their country. We took seven prisoners, ten 
scalps and two whites." One time he came 
face to face with that arch traitor to his race, 
Simon Girty, who, observing that Gallowav 
was unarmed, accosted him thus : "Xow, 
Galloway, d — n you, we've got you," and in- 
stantly fired. Galloway received a danger- 
ous wound, and was supposed by Girty to 
have been killed. He, however, wheeled his 
horse and made for camp, a 'inile distant, 
which he reached in safety, but in a fainting 
condition. The ball passed through his 
shoulder and lodged some place near the 
back of his neck. He carried the ball manv 
years and it was extracted by Dr. Josiah 
Martin. 

Mr. GalJDway was first married to Miss 
Rebecca Junkin, in Cumberland count\-. 
Pennsylvania, November 2^,. 1778. and to 
them were given the following children : 
James. Samuel. \\'iiliam. Andrew, Anthonv, 
ar.d two daughters, Rebecca and Ann. An- 
ihnny and Ann were born after he came to 
Ohio. His first wife dying, he afterward 
married ]\Iiss Tamar Wilson, April 13, 
1817. Of this later marriage there was no 
issue. He was honored bv bis fellow pio- 
neers to an office of trust in the county, that 
of county treasurer, wliich he continued to 
fill fr(jm the first organization of the county 
in 1803 until the middle iif June, i8iy. when 
he g'lve way to Mr. I^tyan Gowdy. In the 
year 1810 he erected the old stone house 



that used to be on the hillside near the 
powder mills, and which many yet living 
remember to have seen. He was a man of 
deep religious convictions, and those convic- 
tions he carried out in life by doing acts 
of kindness to his neighbors and in work- 
uig f(jr the good of humanity. To him is 
the psalm singing portion of the communit}' 
under obligation for his untiring efiforts in 
bringing first to this county the Rev. Rob- 
ert Armstrong and other preachers of that 
faith, and making his home theirs. During 
his long and useful life he was ever ready 
to help those deserving of help. 

M.\J0R WILLI.\M .A.. BEATTY, FIRST T.WERX- 
KEEI'ER IX XENIA. 

The granting of licenses for keeping 
ta\-ern and selling merchandise was still 
retained as tl.ie duty of the associate 
judges, and at the first court of asso- 
ciate judges held in Xenia on the 15th 
day of Xo\'ember, 1804, four tavern li- 
censes were granted, one to A\'illiam A. 
Beatty for keeping a ta\-ern in the town of 
Xenia, "for one year from the first day of 
October last past, on his paying eight dol- 
lars and fees." This was the first tavern in 
Xenia. and seems to have been opened on 
the 1st day of October, 1804. This house 
was a hewed-log, double structure, tw^i 
stories high. It stood on the south side of 
Main street, very nearly opixisite the middle 
point of the pulilic square. The length was 
from east to west, and width from north to 
south, and its west end was about forty-five 
feet east of the southeast corner of Main and 
Detroit streets, where the Xenia Xational 
Bank now (190Q) stands. This building 
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but it was also Greene county's second place 
of holding- court. Courts were held in it 
from the 15th of Xovember, 1S04, till the 
completion of the first court house proper 
on the 4th day of August, 1809. The court 
was held in the west mom of the second 
story. August 20. 1805. Xenia township 
was organized, and the first election for 
Xenia township and the town was held at 
the house of William A. Beatty. Previous 
to this Xenia was in L'aesarscreek township 
and the few voters then in the town voted 
at Caesarsville, which was located near the 
home of the late Paris Peterson, southeast 
of Xenia. The first court was held in this 
building X'ovembcr 15, 1804. and continued 
to be used as such until the completion of 
the building that had been commenced by 
Mr. William Kendall in 1806, and wcis com- 
pleted August 14, 1809. 

jNIr. Beatty was also director of the town 
of Xenia, being the successor of General 
Joseph C. \'ance, who removed to Cham- 
paign county in 1S05. at the organization 
of said county, and continued to act as sucli 
until 18 1 7, at v.-hich time lie removed ti.: 
Brownstuwn, Jackson county. Indiana. He 
died intestate and insolvent in Xovember, 
182 1, leaving, at the time of his death, his 
widow, Jane Beatty, who afterward married 
Robert Holmes, a resident of Scott county, 
Kentucky, also the following children, to- 
wit : John A., who died without issue; 
James F. ; \\'illiam S. : Josiah G. : Samuel 
M. ; ]\Iarv L. : and Francis. Josiah and 
James F. remained in Xenia for some years. 
The balance of the famiy went to Kentucky 
after the marriage of their mother to Mr. 
Holmes. William A. Beatty came from 
Georgetown', Kentucky, to Xenia, Ohio, 
some time in the summer of 1803. 



OWEX D.WIS, THE OLD MILLER ON BEAVER 
CREEK. 

Xo name is perhaps of more historic in- 
terest than that of Owen Davis. In the early 
settlement of Greene county came men who 
had the courage and hardihood to face dan- 
ger and even death, if need be, that this 
garden spot of the state that we now call 
Greene county might be reclaimed from its 
wild and primitive state in its condition as 
a wilderness and be made to bloom and blos- 
som as a rose. They came, they saw, and 
as a result of their courage and persever- 
ance we see the forest has disappeared and 
in its jjlace we belli ild waving fields of grain, 
beautiful homes, towns grown into cities, 
with the sounds of industry on every hand, 
where used to be the solitary path of the 
Indian. We now liehold roads, pikes, rail- 
roads and electric car lines leading from 
cities to towns and hamlets, and the surface 
of the earth that less than one hundred 
years ago was a wilderness, the habitation 
of wild animals, and a more savage race of 
]>eople, now traversed by a net work of im- 
pro\'enients, onlv excelled l.iy that which we 
can see at night in the starry firmament 
above, which God, the creator of all, has 
placed there for our admiration and wonder. 

Before the organization of the county 
came Owen Davis, and settled in what is 
now known as Beavercreek township. The 
earliest date that we find of the Davis family 
(those from W'ales, who were related to the 
subject of this sketch) we find in Mr. John 
F. Edgar's '"Pioneer life in Dayton and vi- 
cinity from 1796 to 1840." It is an able 
and interesting work of the pioneers of that 
section. On page 22 he says : "During the 
winter of 1795 and 1796 forty-six men 



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KOBIXSQN'S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY. 



agreed to settle in Dayton. In the spring 
of 1796, wlien the time came to start, only 
nineteen responded, and they set out in three 
sections, two overland and one by water. 
On March 21, 1796, the party in which was 
the Davis family started overland and were 
about two weeks on the road. Thomas 
Davis, the senior member of the family, was 
a native of Wales. He was in the Revolu- 
tionary war. was taken prisoner and was ex- 
changed at Philadelphia. He settled near 
the bluffs two miles south of Dayton, where 
he died in the fall of 1803, and Hannah 
Davis, his widdw, was appointed to settle 
his estate. This Thomas Davis was a 
brother of Owen Davis, the old miller, who 
came later in the fall of 1799 and settled in 
Beavercreek township, Greene county. 
Owen Davis had married Letitia Phillips, 
and had but two children, a son, Lewis, who 
never married, a short sketch of whom will 
be found in tliis l:)ook, and a daughter, Cath- 
erine, who was the wife of General Benja- 
min Whiteman. They were married in 
Limestone (or Maysville), Kentucky, in 
1793. Mr. Whiteman at tliat time being 
twenty-three years of age. Thomas Davis 
had a son. 0\\en Davis, named after his 
brother Owen, who was married ^larch 16, 
1809. to ^liss Jane Henderson, by Rev. 
Joshua Carman, who was a Baptist preach- 
er and lived in Sugarcreek township, Greene 
county. Tliis Owen Davis was the grand- 
father of Mrs. Fredrick Beaver and ifrs. 
Stillwell. of Dayton, and James Popenoe, 
senior's, first wife, who died in i8jo, was 
also of this branch of the family. After 
the coming of Mr. Davis and his son-in-law, 
Benjamin Whiteman, in J 799, it was not 
long uiuil he had his historic mill erected on 
I>ca\cr creek, and it is said that this mill 



drew custom from a radius of thirty miles, 
and we know that the members of the Dutch 
Station in ^liami county brought their corn 
here through the woods, camping out at 
night. Mr. Davis is spoken of by them as 
having been a genial, accommndating man. 
often remaining up all night to oblige them. 
This mill was finished in the winter of 1799. 
Two block houses were built a little east of 
the mill with the intention, should danger 
necessitate, to connect by a Wy.e of i)ickets 
so as to include the mill. Mr. Davis often 
started his mill on the Sabbath and ground 
corn for the customers who had come a long 
distance. To this some of his extremely re- 
ligious neighbors protested, even threaten- 
ing him with prosecution. Mr. Davis re- 
plied that as soon as steps were taken in this 
direction they would gcj without their meal 
and fiour. This argument proved effective 
and the subject was dropped. The build- 
ing known as the house of Peter Borders. 
where the first courts of Greene county were 
held, was erected by his son-in-law. Mr. 
Whiteman, a short distance south of the mill 
and about one hundred from the south line 
of what is now known as the Harbine farm, 
and about two hundred yards east of Beaver 
creek. A little to the northeast of this 
building was a small ten by twelve house. 
which was in the time of holding court used 
as a jury room. About two hundred yards 
northeast of the old court house stood the 
block house, which on the 19th day of Au- 
gust. 1803, was made use of for a jail, the 
first institution for that ])urpose in the coun- 
ty. Owen Davis and his son-in-law. General 
Benjamin Whiteman. in the year 1805 dis- 
posed of their property in Beavercreeic town- 
ship and removed to Miami township, where 
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57 



Davis had not more than settled in his new 
home, the present site of the town of Chi- 
ton, Ohio, until he commenced to erect the 
first mill in Miami township, the stone foun- 
dation of which ( 1900) can be seen near 
the sawmill east of the present Clifton mill. 
Previous to his removing from Beavercreek 
townshi]) he had suld his mill propertv to 
Jacob Smith, who in 1815 sold the same to 
our old townsman, James A. Scott, and his 
brother John. Owen Davis was a soldier of 
the Revi'lution ;uid a fearless Indian lis;ht- 
er, and at a meeting of the first court of 
common pleas proper, August 2, 1803, we 
find that he jileads guilty to a charge of 
assault, and is duly fined eight dollars for 
the same. The cause of the fight was Air. 
Davis had charged a man from Warren 
county of stealing hogs. After the fight he 
went into the court room and addressing 
his illustrious son-in-law. General Benjamin 
Whiteman. who was one of the associate 
judges, .said: "Well, Ben, Tve v>hi])ped that 
hog thief; what's the damage?" and farther 
added, shaking his fist at the judge, "Yes, 
Ben. if you'd steal a hog. I'd whip you, 
too." 

In enumerating the early settlers of Mi- 
ami township. Greene county, the name of 
Owen Davis should not be forgotten. In the 
old historic graveyard'. Clifton, Ohio, not 
far from the north line and near the middle 
of said graveyard, is the grave of Owen 
Davis, who was a native of Wales, and was 
born October 13, 1751. and died at his Imme 
near Clifton. Ohio, t'ebruary 18, 1818, aged 
sixty-six years, four months and five days. 
And by his side his wife, I.etitia Phillips 
Dax'is. who died September 8. 1824. in the 
:seventv-hfth vear of her age. 



.lOSI.MI GROVER, SECON.D CLERK OF COURTS. 

The first, trace of the Grover family, the 
ancestors of Josiah Grover. clerk of courts 
from 1808 till 1829, was when Josiah and 
Benjamin (irover had settled and were liv- 
ing near Plarper's Ferry. Virginia. The for- 
mer was the father of Josiah and Benjamin 
Grover, who in the year 1804 came and set- 
tled in Xenia. Their parents had emigrated 
to the state of Kentucky and had located 
near nan\'ille. 

Josiah Gro\-er, Sr.. married Aliss Mary 
Anderson about the year 1720, and to them 
were given five chidren, two daughter and 
three sons. The eldest of these was Sarah 
T., who married Colonel John Paul, the 
founder of Xenia, Ohio, and Madison, In- 
diana (a sketch of whom appears in this 
book). The second, a daughter. Jemima, 
who married a Mv. Mockley. The third, 
a son, Josiah. who married Martha Mc- 
Clure. And in adilition to these were two 
sons, Benjamin and .\braham. Benjamin 
came to Xenia with his brother J(_)siah. and 
was a useful man in the new town. On the 
lot now owned bv Mrs. James Kvle (mother 
of Charles Kyle. Escp j. he erected the first 
school house of logs in 1805, and was the 
first to teach school in Xenia. He afterward 
served the county as commissioner in 1813 
and 1814. Josiah Grover, the third child 
and first son ofjosiah and Mary Anderson 
Grover, was born near Baltimore. Maryland, 
in 1 770. Josiah Grover and his wife, 
Martha McClure Grover, had given to them 
eight cliildren : Abraham, who married 
Miss Dunham: John Paul, who married 
Miss Juliet Beall : James Liggett, who mar- 
ried Miss Nancy Ann. youngest daughter 



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of Hon. John Alexander, and who also was 
the successor in office to his father as clerk 
of courts of Greene county, Ohio, for seven 
years, and was a minister of the gospel in 
the Methodist Episcopal church,' where he 
was a man of note and loved by all. He 
was for years the efficient lil)rarian of the 
state library at Columbus from 1872 until 
the day before his death, which occurred 
l\Iay 5, 1897, at the age of ninety-one years. 
He was born in Xenia, Decemljer u, 1806. 
His youth and early manhood were spent 
in Xenia ; at the age of eig-hteen he had 
graduated from the Xenia Academy. The 
fourth child was a daughter, Sarah Paul, 
who was born in Xenia in 18 10 and died at 
X'ew Albany in 1873, aged sixty-three years. 
She married George H. Harrison, who was 
a native of Harrisonburg, Virginia, and who 
was born in February, 1809, died at Xew 
Albany in 1854. He is said to have been a 
teacher of rare ability. He was for some 
years a resident of Xenia, as his son, James 
G., was born here September 29, 1834, and 
they removed to X^w Albany in 1839. The 
fifth child was a son, Oliver Hazard Perrv. 
who was killed in the Mexican war. The 
sixth child, a son, Benjamin Whiteman, 
married Letitia Sheets. The seventh and 
eighth sons were twins, Xelson Ira and 
Reade Ellis. 

Josiah Grover is sometimes mentioned as 
Judge Grover. The reason for that was, 
under the old constitution of the state, the 
clerk of courts had all the work to do whicii 
the probate judge has to do to-day under 
the new constitution. In addition to the 
work of clerk of courts he was count\' re- 
corder, master commissioner, that is held 
court at different points to take depositions, 
etc. And he was also one of the associate 



judges for the years 1806, 1807 and 1808. 
The old Josiah Grover home is yet (^1900) 
still standing, the house now occupied by 
Coleman Heaton. Mr. Grover removed 
from Xenia to Aladison, Indiana, in 1830, 
to the city on the Ohio river which his hon- 
oretl brother-in-law, John Paul, had found- 
ed. On the hilltop near Malison is resting 
all that is mortal of this illustrious man and 
his loving helpmate, and by his side Colonel 
John Paul, the founder of the two cities, 
Xenia, Ohio, and Madison, Indiana. 

remi;mbr.\xce willi.vm.s a soldier of 
the revoh-tiox .\nd first set- 
tler xe.\r xenia. 

Rememlirance Williams was born near 
the Potomac river, Harrison county, \'ir- 
ginia. He was a soldier of the Revolution, 
and was with Washington during that dis- 
tressing winter at Valley Forge. After the 
close of the war in 1790, he, together with 
his family, emigrated to Kentucky, settling 
a few miles back of Louisville, in Xelson 
county, where he continued to reside until 
the year 1800, when he removed to Ohio, 
crossing- the Ohio river at the mouth of 
Licking river, and from that point came 
direct to what is now Xenia, and entered a 
section of land, what is now known as the 
Silas Roberts' farm, and near what is called 
the middle spring he built his cabin. That 
was three years before Xenia was surveyed 
and laid out as a town. In the fall of 1803, 
when Joseph C. Vance came to survey and 
lay off the new county seat for Greene cotm- 
ty, part of the niiith line of the new town 
was the south line of the land of this old 
pioneer. His family at this time consisted 
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brance, Garrett, Jesse and Robert. They 
had but two daughters, Margaret, who mar- 
ried Thomas Branliam, and Hannah, who 
married Sidion JNlericreif. In 1814 he re- 
moved with his family, with the exception 
of his eldest son, John, tO' Jefferson county, 
Indiana, and settled near Dupont. He had 
disposed of part of his land in Greene coun- 
ty, previous to removing, some to his son 
John, R}-an Gowdy, Samuel Gamble, and in 
1817 he sold the remaining two hundred 
and sixty-nine acres to David Connelly. His 
son Rememljrance, Jr., and Jesse later re- 
turned to Ohio and settled near Mechanics- 
burg, Champaign county. Remembrance 
\Villiams, Sr., died on his farm in Indiana 
l^ebruary 2, 1843. J'^'^ii ^^ ihiams, liis eld- 
est son, was born in Virginia, April 4, 1783, 
and died in Xenia, Ohio, April 6, 1826. He 
was the father of the following children: 
Alary, who was married to Samuel Gano ; 
Eleanor, wife of David Medsker : Cass- 
andra; Catlierine, wife nf Wilson B. Mc- 
Cann ; Margaret, wife of James AlcCarty ; 
Elizabeth, wife of \\'illiam B. Fairchild. 
The last named is the only one now ( 1900) 
living. Four sons of the old pinneer were 
soldiers in the war of 1812, namely: John, 
Remembrance'. Garrett and Robert. 

JAMES POPEXOE, SR. 

His first visit to the present site of Xenia 
was in the year 1799. when he was one of 
a number of daring explorers and Indian 
hgliters from Kentucky who paid this part 
of the country a visit and passed over the 
ground where Xenia is now located. ]\Ir. 
Popenoe, with his l^rother, Peter, came to 
Greene county to locate permanently some 
time previous to 1803 and settled in Beaver- 



creek townsliip. His brother Peter took the 
fij'st enumeration of all free white males 
over the age of twenty-one in 1803. Peter 
settled in what is now Clark county and 
afterward removed to the state of Missouri 
in 1806, and was killed by the Indians. 

James Popenoe's political life was an in- 
teresting one. The first elective office w hich 
he held was that of coroner of Greene coun- 
ty, he being the first to occupy that posi- 
tion, which was in the year 1805. He was 
also a soldier in the war of 18 12 under Gen- 
eral' Harrison. In the year 1815 he was 
elected sheriff of Greene county, being the 
successor of Ca])tain John Ilivling, which 
office he filled with acceptance until 18 19, 
when he gave way to John Smith, son of 
Jacob, Smith, who had bought of Owen 
Davis the first mill that was built in the 
county, and who was also owner of the 
house of Peter Borders, where the first 
courts of Greene county were held. While 
he was acting as sheriff' in 1816 Mr.- Pope- 
noe built the well known home of Hon. R. 
F. Howard, which was located on Main 
street, lot Xo. 19, and which place, April 
2, 183 1, he sold and conveyed to Dr. Joseph 
Templeton. That house was the birthplace 
of many of his cliildren, and is yet, in 1900, 
standing and in gnod condition. In the 
years 18 19 and 1820 Mr. Popenoe repre- 
sented Greene county in the Ohio legislature 
(in the house). In the year 1824 he was 
again elected sheriff' of the county and con- 
tinued to act as such until 1829. when he 
gave over the office to James A. Scott. It 
is said in history that Captain John Hivling 
and Mr. Popenoe were treasurers of the 
county. That is a mistake. The sheriff 
ofttimes acted as collector of taxes, for 
which he received a percentage in addition 



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to liis pay as sheriff, and that fact must 
have missed tlie compiler. 

Mr. Poi)enoe reiinived to Centerville in 
1830. Peter, his eldest son, removed to 
Lawrence, Kansas, where many of his de- 
scendants are yet living. James Popenoe, 
Jr., is yet living at Centerville. Ohio, a hale, 
hearty, old man, aged eighty-two. And 
still another son, \\'illis Parkison Popenoe, 
resides at Topeka, Kansas, a,ged eiglity- 
seven, who was born in the house before 
mentioned. 

Mr. Popenoe in addition to other prop- 
erty owned what was called the "Indian 
Riffle farm." west of Xenia on the Little 
iliami. He was born August 20, 1777. and 
died at his home near Centerville, Mont- 
gomery ci^unty, Ohio. August 19. 1848, and 
is buried in the old graveyard near that 
place. 



LEWIS D.WIS. MI.\MI TOWNSHIP S FIRST 
SETTLER. 

In the history of Jefferson county. In- 
diana, is found th.e following history of 
Lewis Davis, which says that "he was one 
of the original proprietors of the town of 
Madisnn, Indiana; was a man of middle 
age when he met John Paul at the sale of 
lands at Jeft"ersonville in the spring of 1809. 
Where he was born or where he died is not 
known. Pie left Madison some time in 1812 
or 181 3 and went to Xenia. Ohio, lo reside. 
Afterward he resided in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
In 1817 he was there, as- is found by a deed 
conveying his entire remaining interest of 
lands in ]^Iadison, Indiana, to Lewis White- 
man. bearing date of X'ovember 24, 1817. 
On October 8. 1813. Davis had sold one- 



half of his interest in Madison to 'Sh. Jacob 
Burnett, of Cincinnati, he then being a resi- 
dent of Greene county, Ohio."' 

From the history of Greene county, 
Ohio, and old records we gather the follow- 
ing about Miami township:. Lewis Davis 
was perhaps the first settler in this town- 
ship, as he came in the early days of this 
century. While at Dayton, then a small 
hamlet, he met an Indian just arrived from 
the Yellow Springs, by whom he was in- 
formed of the extraordinary natural advant- 
ages in its immediate \icinity. The sa\age 
further explained to him that the springs 
were located near a branch of the Little Mi- 
ami river. Accompanied by a friend, he fol- 
lowed the instructions gi\-en by his dusky 
infortuant, and upon the discovery of the 
springs went to Cincinnati and entered tlie 
land. He was frequently engaged in sur- 
ve}'ing land, accumulated consiilerable prop- 
erty, and was considered an upright and 
enterprising citizen. L'n fortunately he fcil 
a prey to the wiles of King Alcohol and was 
completely ruined thereby. He finally re- 
moved to Bellfontaine, Ohio, wliere he ended 
his days. His last resting place is thus de- 
scribed by one who discovered it accident- 
ally: "On the left hand side of the state 
road, six miles west of Pellfontaine in an 
open forest, in a sandy knoll surrounded 
by a rail enclosure and covered by an oval 
shaped liowlder perhaps six feet in diameter ; 
beneath this stone reposes all that remains 
of Lewis Davis, unhonored. unwept and un- 
known." For years he had lived the life of 
a pauper, and when he saw the grim vision 
of death approaching he expressed a desire 
that this s]X)t should be his last resting 
place. He was the only son of Owen Davis, 
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RECOLLECTIONS OF XEXL\ IN 1809 BY REV. 
JAMES TOWLER AND JOHN MILLS. 

Rev. James Towler was born in Prince 
Edward county. \'irginia. April i8, 1768, 
and died on his farm nortliwest of Xenia. 
July I). 1836, aged si.xty-eight years. .\ 
pinneer in tlie wilderness, he l)uilt the second 
hiiUse that was erected in Xenia, what was 
known as the old Cruiubaugh house, where 
now stands the wholesale grocery of Eavey 
& Company. Fredrick liimner doing the 
carpenter work for the same in the fall of 
1804. At the recent centennial of the set- 
tlement of Greene county held in Xenia in 
J 897 there were tools that had belonged to 
Frederick Bonner. Sr., on exhibition as rel- 
ics, and some of them he had used in finish- 
ing this house. The records of the counl\- 
show that James Towler. of Petersburg. Vir- 
gnia. bought of John Cole, of Dinwiddie 
county. \'irginia. three thousand acres of 
land situated on the waters of Shaw- 
nee creek, and at his coming to Greene 
county soon after he purchased of Jo- 
seph C. Vance lot Xo. 39, on which 
the aforesaid house was built. Mr. Tow- 
ler was an earnest Methodist, and in the 
early records of the First Methodist Epis- 
co])al church, Xenia. his name appears 
as a member of the official Ixjard of said 
church. He afterward connected himself 
with what was known as the Radical or 
Protestant church. He was a preacher in 
that denomination, and used to go among 
the Indians, and at one time brought a 
couple of Indian boys home with him to 
h.ave diem educated. They remained in 
Xenia for some time, forming many ac- 
([uaintances. and then returned to their 
tribes. Mr. Towler donated to the Radical 



church a strip of land for a graveyard, sit- 
uated near the present residence of Norman 
Tiffan\-. and nearly two hundred of the resi- 
dents of Xenia were Inirietl here. 

He was the first postmaster of Xenia, 
Ohio. The following is a copy of a letter 
th.at was written bv Mr. Towler to an east- 
ern friend and is in the iiossession of Mr. 
Ira C. Harper, of Allegheny. Pennsylvania. 
A copy was procured by ]\Ir. Warren K. 
Moorehead. our youn,g friend, who is search- 
ing around for all sorts of antiquities. ]Mr. 
Towler was at that time postmaster of 
Xenia : 

"Xexia, Ohio, May 8, 1809. 

"This town is the seat of justice of 
Greene county. It was laid out in the fall 
of 1803 by Joseph C. Vance, and contains 
at this time twenty-eight families and one 
htmdreil and fifty souls, a court house of 
brick, forty feet square, with a cupola. The 
town is washed by Shawnee creek, a branch 
of the Little ]\Iiami ri\-er, from whose mouth 
we are three miles, and fifty-five miles from 
Chillicothe. In the county are nine grist 
mills, nine sawmills, one fulling mill and one 
nail factorv. Xe\-er failing and excellent 
springs are numerous. The Yellow Springs, 
^\hich are deemed a natural curiosity, are 
nine miles north of this place. It takes its 
name from a vellow or pale red sedimenr, 
which it emits from the water, and of which 
a large bank in found below the spring, over 
which the water has a fall of seventy feet 
into a hollow. It is believed the spring af- 
fords a sufficiency of water to turn a grist 
mill the year round, and is said to be im- 
pregnated with copper, copperas and iron. 
It is considerably visited during the sum- 
mer season, and afTords relief for sore eyes, 
rheumatism, etc. It is diuretic, and the sedi- 



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ment when ground in oil. paints as well as 
Spanish brown. The falls of the Little Mi- 
ami (which is about three miles distant, 
falls over a rock twelve feet perpendicular, 
and the whole distance, two hundred feet) 
are of considerable importance to this coun- 
ty. There are remains of artificial walls, 
and mounds, in several parts of the county. 

"Our trade is chiefly in hogs and cattle, 
which are purchased by drovers for the east- 
ern markets and Detroit. There are two 
stores in the town, which I consider a great 
•evil, as they keq> our neighborhood drained 
of cash. We have e.xtensive prairies. 
Wolves have been bad on our sheep. Corn, 
wheat and rye are our principal crops. The 
soil is generally good and pretty equall}- di- 
vided into upland and bottom. The settlers 
are principalh- frcmi I'cnnsyhania, Xew 
Jersey, Virginia and Kentucky. Religion, 
Methodist, Seceders and Baptist. The 
county is twenty miles long, twenty miles 
broad, and is about one hundred and ten 
miles from Lake Erie." 

In connection with what has been said 
by Mr. Towler, of Xenia and Greene coun- 
ty at that date (1809) we will add yet an- 
other testimony, that of John Mills. His 
father, Jacob, was one of the first to settle 
near what is now called Greene county, 
whose coming was in the year 1796. The 
land he first entered was over the line in 
\\'arren county. He came from Kentucky 
with John \\'ilson, and his sons, Amos, 
Daniel and George, where they located as a 
colony. \n the subsequent division into 
states and counties the purchase was found 
to be in the southwest corner of Greene 
<:ounty, near Clio, or Ferry, as it is now 
(1899) called, while the purchase of Daniel 
fell into Montgomery, and Jacob Mills' into 



^^'arren county. And yet they worked to- 
gether, assisting one another in providing 
themselves homes. In 1809 Jacob ^lills 
came with his family from \\'arren county 
to near where Clifton is now located in Mi- 
ami township, Greene county, bringing with 
him his three sons-, John, Daniel and Thom- 
as. History is silent in regard to his part- 
ing with his old friends, John Wilson and 
his sons, and why he had left that part of 
the state where lie had spent s<ime thirteen 
years of pioneer life. And yet the distance 
was not so great but what they could visit 
one another. We find that shortly after the 
coming of Jacob ?klills to Miami township in 
1809 a singing school had been organized 
in Xenia, and the teacher of said school was 
David \\'ilson, oldest son of Daniel Wilson, 
their old neighbor, and it was no wonder 
tb.at John Mills, then a lad of fifteen, wanted 
to go; for three reasons, first, to see his okl 
playmate, David ; second, to see the Xenia 
girls: and lastly, to see the ti-iwn. which was 
])retty much of a town at that time, with its 
about thirty log cabins and a brand new court 
house. The singing school was to be held 
in that new court house, and as John wanted 
to go he went. .\nd we are very glad that 
he did, for it is to him that we are under 
obligations for furnishing us a descriptif)n 
of Xenia as he saw it in the year 1809. He 
must have had a splendid time. Young- 
folks in this age think that they have good 
times, not more so than they, — don't know 
whether John took his best girl along or not, 
but we will let him tell his nwn story. Ho 
says : 

"The singing school was held in the new 
court house, and the girls came with their 
beau.x on horseback, dressed in linsev. and a 
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extreme of fashion, aspired to by a few. 
And the boys arrived there all right, for the 
girls who had acted as guards of honor 
(rear guards) would not let them fall off. 
'Oh blessed days' when horses, were made 
that would carr\- double."' John said that 
they had a grand time and returned home 
o\-er about Clifton with enlarged views of 
life and creation generally. Years after- 
ward, at his home in Jamestown, Ohio, 
Jiihn, then a stead}- (ild man, gives us 
from memory his recollections of the long 
ago. He says : "During the winter of 
this same year, 1809. while in Xenia, 
I saw a man selling cider at tweh'e and 
one-half cents a quart, in front of the 
court house. A large stump was stand- 
ing in the street, by the side of which 
he had a lire, in which he heated several rods 
of iron, and when he would make a sale he 
would hold the iron rod in the cider to bring 
il to a drinkable temperature." He states 
also at that time all houses in Xenia were 
built of l<-)gs, except one frame dwelling that 
stood where now is located the grocerv of 
Harner & Wolf, the property of James Gow- 
dy. and the brick courthouse. In front of 
v.hat used to be the Second National Bank, 
on the southwest corner of Greene street, 
fronting on Main, was a stag'nant pool of 
water, a general rendezvous for geese, ducks 
and hogs. Opposite the courthouse was a 
two-story hewed log house kept by !vlaj. 
William A. Beatty as a tavern. On East 
Main street, on the present site of Trinity 
church. Henry Barnes, Sr., had built a log- 
cabin in the woods. 

In ciMitrast v.ith the price that dry goods 
are now selling for, and what they cost then, 
young men of this age are favored. 'Sir. 
Mills savs the material of which his wed- 



ding shirt was made cost a dollar a yard; 
same material can be bought to-day for six 
or eight cents per yard. The highest price 
paid for labor then was fr(jm fifty to seven- 
ty-five cents per day, and scarce at that, 
while every species of merchandise was 
from ten to twentyfold higher than at pres- 
ent. Salt hauled from Cincinnati was (four 
barrels by a four-horse team) four dollars 
per bushel. 

THE COMING OF THE GOWDV F.XMILY. 

In February. 1845, James Gowdy (then 
sixty-eight years of age), beng solicited In- 
some of his children, gave the following 
account of his ancestry, and contemporary 
connections : "My progenitors on my fa- 
ther's side were Welsh and Irish. They 
emigrated from Ireland in A. D. 1707. and 
settled in the states of Delaware and Penn- 
sylvania. My grandfather's Christian name 
was James. He had four children wlm 
Hved to maturity, viz. : Adam, who died 
young and single: John (my father) ; Rob- 
ert and Jane. My father was born on the 
fifth day of November, 1742, in N^ew Castle 
county, Delaware, and removed, with some 
others of the family, into Pennsylvania, 
about 1760, where he married Abigail, the 
youngest daughter of John Ryan, about 
1772, with whom he lived about fort}--two 
years, and liad eleven children, six sons and 
five daughters, all of whom li\-ed to marry 
and raise families, except Mary, who was 
born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, 
on the 13th of April, 1775, and died in 
Greene county, Ohio, the cjth day of June, 
18 1 2. James w-as born in Lancaster, Penn- 
sylvania, on the 20th day of ^lay. 1777: 
Samuel, born 9th of January, A. D. 1780; 



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jRobert. burn on the 4tli of April. 1782 : .Mar- 
tha. Ixirn on tlie 27th of January, 1785, mar- 
ried John jii'ily. and h;id one son, James; 
Jane, born on the 31st of May, 1787; John, 
born u\\ the 3d of August. 1789; .\lexander, 
born on the 2d of April. 1792; Ryan, born 
on the 3d day of February, 1795; Abigail, 
born on the I7tli of July. 1797; Sarah, born 
on the 6th of March, 1803. This in brief 
is the beginning of the large connection of 
that name, coming to Greene county. Ohio, 
in icSo;." 

JAMES GOWDV, THK FIRST M KKCll AXT IX 
-XENIA. 

James Cio\\d_\', the subject uf this sketch. 
eldest son of John and Abigail Gowdy. was 
born in Lancaster county. Penns_\lvania. ijii 
the 20th day of May,. 1777. and died at his 
home, in Xenia, Ohio, December 24, 1853, 
aged seventy-six years, and is buried in the 
old Associate Reformed graveyard. East 
Third street. The first trace that we find of 
Mr. Gowdy as a merchant, is when he en- 
tered into partnership with his brother, 
Samuel, in the mercantile anil cabinet busi- 
ness in the fall of 1802 at Mt. Sterling, 
Montgomery county, Kentucky. The brotli- 
ers carried on the above business on a 
moderate scale there for three years to 
some advantage, having the post office 
to keep part of the time. In the fall of 
1805 James took part of the goods and re- 
moved to Xenia. Ohio. His brother. Samuel, 
having closed their business in June. 1800, 
nl-o cn.me. with the balance of their stock. 
•lia. They also had their younger 
III i.-.^r. Ryan, to assist them in their wi rk 
ill the stcre. he then being a small boy. 
I hev were the first merchants who made a 



permanent stand with store goods in Xenia. 
They continued in business as partners with 
mutual satisfaction for five or six years, and 
increased their store capital and gained some 
real estate in town, anil land in the country, 
until the spring or summer of 18 14, when 
they dissolved partnership by mutual con- 
sent, and each of them ran stores of their 
own for five or six years, when Samuel sold 
his store and settled on a tract of woodland 
near the town. James Gowd}- continued in 
the business, with the aid of hs younger 
brother. Ryan, and an apprentice, John Ew- 
ing. who was related to his first wife. When 
Ryan became of age, he left the store and a 
second apprentice was taken, William Per- 
kins. Mr. Gowdy had several partners from 
time to time. John S. Perkins was also one 
of ]Mr. Gowdy's apprentices. John R. Gow- 
dy (eldest son of Samuel) was taken in as a 
member of the firm on the 5th of July. 1833, 
which ijartnership continued until near the 
time of his death, in ]\Iarch, 1834. Then 
Alexander G. Zimmerman and John A. 
Gowdy (son of Robert) were taken into 
partnership under the firm name of Gowdy. 
Ewing & Company and continued until the 
12th of August, 1836, when John A. Gowdy 
settled with the firm and moved to Illinois. 
The above firm continued until the 19th 
of July. 1838. when Janies Gowdy, Sr., sold 
out his interest in the firm to John Ewing 
and Alexander Zimmerman, and took the 
firm's share in a branch store which they 
had established in Jamestown, Ohio, about 
eighteen months before, in which store John 
McBride had an interest of one-half. James 
Gowdy attended the store. During the above 
time of thirty-six years in the mercantile 
business, he had reason to be thankful that 
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ness, excepting some considerable losses sus- 
tained by crediting- persons who became in- 
solvent, or proved dishonest. During this 
time he purchased several lots in Xenia, and 
his father's farm, two and one-half miles 
west of town, and a small farm between the 
two last mentioned places, and put up some 
valuable buildings in town, and some cheap- 
er ones which he rented at a moderate price. 
Mr. Gowdy was a loser by his Jamestown 
store, and it was discontinued in 1844. Al- 
together he was in the dry goods business 
for forty-four years. He had married Jo- 
anna, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Town- 
sley, January 27, 1814, with whom he lived 
three and one-half years until her decease 
and that of their only child, a daughter, 
which took place on the 25th of July, 1817. 
His wife was then twenty-eight years old. 
He married a second time, November 11, 
1819, ]Miss Sarah Brown, who resided at 
the time in Clark county, Ohio. She was 
the daughter of John and Margaret Brown, 
late of Xorthuml)erland county, Pennsyh'a- 
nia, where she was born and reared, and 
with whom she Ii\'ed nine years or more, un- 
til the time of her death, ^March 6, 1829, at 
the age of forty years. She was the mother 
of his children, six sons and one daugh- 
ter, viz. : John Brown, James Ryan, George 
W'., Abigail Joanna, Samuel Philander and 
his twin brother, not named. He was mar- 
ried the third time, on the 23d day of April, 
1832, at Mansfield, Ohio, to ]\Iiss Jane Pur- 
dy, daughter of Patrick and Jane Purdy, of 
Richland county, Ohio. They lived a mar- 
ried li^e eleven years until her death on the 
24th of July, 1843, aged fifty-one years. Of 
this marriage there were no children. 

In the war of 1812 he was a soldier in 
the company of Capt. Daniel Reeder. He 



was also treasurer c^f the Greene Count\- 
Bible Society for o\'er thirty years, and dur- 
ing all that time his laljor was untiring and 
valuable. For twenty-three years he was 
treasurer of the Greene County Coloniza- 
ii(.)n Si ciety, and his zeal in that cause was 
ardent. He had been a member of the As- 
sociate Reformed church since its fir.st or- 
ganization, and contributed of his means to 
the erectii.n nf three successive buildings for 
that church. hi all the benevolent enter- 
prises of the day for the relief of the suf- 
fering and the goo-d of his felK.iw men, or 
the spread of the gospel. Air. Gowdy cnuld 
be relied upon. 

And, nijw. in concluding this sketch of 
this old pioneer father, listen to his own 
words : "On a review of my past life, what 
shall I say, but that goodness and mercy has 
followed me all my life long? If 1 should 
Count the instances, thev are more than can 
be numbered by me. Upon the whole re- 
view of my eventful life, I have much rea- 
son to set up mv Ebenezer, saying: 'Hith- 
erto hath the Lord helped me.' and trust 
that He will not leave me wnen I am old 
and gray-headed grown, till to this age His 
strength and power to all to come, I have 
shown." 

RY.\N Gownv. 

He was born in ]\Iercer countv. Ken- 
tucky, on the 3d of February, 1795, and 
died near Francona, June 6, 1863, aged 
sixty-eight years. He came to Xenia, Ohio, 
with his brother, Samuel, in the spring of 
1806. His eldest brother, James Gowdy, 
had come to Xenia the year previous, and 
had established himself in the mercantile 
business near the corner of what is now- 
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purcliased lot Xo. 34. and had his caljin 
store opened and ready tor trade. Young; 
Ryan, tlien a lad of eleven years, accepted a 
clerkship in his brother's store, and there 
continued until he was of age, when he com- 
menced l)usiness for himself. He made his 
mark in improving Xenia. In 1827 he built 
that large and substantial brick house on 
the southwest corner of Main and Detroit 
streets, known as the "Xunnemaker corner," 
(present site of the ".\llen building)."' His 
next move was to the northwest corner of 
Detroit and Market streets (present site of 
the Reformed church), where he opened a 
store and made more improvements. Sulv 
sequently he purchased a large brick house 
on Main street, opposite the courthouse (the 
same buiding that was burned on the night 
of the 3d of August. 1845. and in which 
two young men, James Kenney and William 
Steele were murdered). Here, in partner- 
ship with his brother. Col. John Gowdy, he 
opened another store. A few years later 
he went to Missouri, but did not remain 
long in that state. Returning to Xenia he 
opened a grocery and provision store on the 
northeast corner of Main and \\'hiteman 
streets (present site nf William Hannon's 
grocery). In 1833 he was elected commis- 
sioner of Greene county, and on the 4th of 
July, 1836, he met with the board for the 
last time. While he was a member of the 
board a costly and for those days a \ery su- 
perior county jail, was erected, a little back 
of the northeast corner of the public square. 
It was also mainly through his efforts and 
influence that a large two-story brick market 
house on the north side of the public square 
was built. He was also in the years 1819 
and 1820 treasurer of Greeaie countv. In 
i8-iS ' ;^ ■• --nd up his business in Xenia. 



sold out, and the ne.xt year \\ent to Califor- 
nia by the overland route, and from thence 
to Oregon, a flyinig trip, but soon returned 
to San Francisco. He was unfortunate in 
the land of gold. In a letter he wrote in 
1 85 1, he said he had traveled hundreds of 
miles in California, and could find nothing 
which he could do. He returned in 1852. 
Though a business man of early training 
and mature experience, he preferred teach- 
irig school, and became a successful instruc- 
tor. In this j)ursuit he was so successful 
that he never lacked for employment. He 
had been teaching in Richland county some 
three years previous to his death. He was 
taken ill of typhoid fe\er. During his sick- 
ness of five days he was conscious to tlie 
last, expressed a desire to see his brothers, 
naming one of them. His last words in de- 
clining to take medicine, were: "Xo use; 
it would not do any good.'' Of his pros- 
pects in another state of existence he was 
entirely reticent. In his younger days with- 
out being foppish he went generally elegantly ■ 
dressed, the ''glass of fashion and the mould 
of form."' He had some eccentricities, was 
versatile, fluent in conversaton, of ready wit. 
original and mirth-inspiring humor, and 
when he chose, of pungent sarcasm. He had 
transacted much business, traveled far, gone 
through many ups and downs in his jour- 
ney through life, and was well versed in the 
knowledge of human nature. After life's 
fitful fever he sleepeth well. 

TOHX IIK.VTOX, SR. 



In the first enun"',en';tion of Caesars- 
creek township, taken in 1803. appears the 
name of John Heaton. From the old records 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ginia ; that prcnious to his coming to Ohio 
he married Sarali, daughter of Jolm War- 
den ; lie had also purchased in Caesars- 
creek township eighty acres of land. Some 
time i,n the year 1823 he died, and was bur- 
ied in the "Old Mercer graveyard," about 
four miles south of Xenia, on the Bullskin 
pike. He left his widow, Sarah Heaton, 
with the following children: three sons 
and six tlaughters, namely : Ebenezer, John 
and Joseph Heaton; Elizabeth (Heaton) 
Millarfl, Sarah (Heaton) Worrel, Lydia 
(Heaton) Eaton, Phebe (Heaton) Elam, 
Parmclia (Heaton) Rogers, Hannah (Hea- 
ton) Peterson. His will was recorded May, 
1823, in Book E, page 70. 

His wife was later buried at his side in 
the "Mercer graveyard." These are the 
ancestors of the Heaton family, in Greene 
count}-. 

J.\MES COLLIER. 

James Collier was born in Rockbridge 
county, Virginia, ou the 4th day of January, 
1774. and died in Xenia, Ohio. April 17, 
1S51, aged seventy-seven years. In 1786 
his family emigrated from Virginia, their 
destination being Kentucky, but on account 
of his mother's health, they stopped on the 
River Holstan, in what is now East TeiT- 
nessee, and there remained until the follow- 
ing summer, when the journey was resumed 
until they reached their destination in Ken- 
lucky, some eighteen miles north of Crab 
Orchard. Here he passed his early youth 
and manhood on the frontiers of what has 
been so aptly called the "dark and bloody 
ground,"" among a people who, for enter- 
prise, hardihood and self-reliance and true 
heroism of character, have never been sur- 
passed in the annals of the human family. 



It was a nursery that produced soldiers and 
men equal to the days of chivalry. 

SERVES .\S .\ SPY. 

In 1794, being twenty years of age, he 
served as a spy in the Xich-a-jack campaign. 
He was with Col. William Whiiley, who had 
organized in Lincoln county, Kentucky, 
some six hundred brave Kentuckians. Mr. 
Collier"s place as a spy was in advance of 
the army that was advancing against the 
Chikamongas Indians while General Wayne, 
with a well appointed and disciplined army 
from Ohio, was marching to join them. 
The result of Wayne's victory, at the Mau- 
mc'e Rapids, in Ohio, is so well known that 
it is needless to repeat. But it is a fact of 
local history that it is well worth preserving 
that he who is the subject of this sketch and 
whose body is now laid to rest in our own 
beautiful Woodland, was also there two 
years later, March 13, 1796. 

.\RRIVES .\T MI.-\MISBURG. 

At Holes Station, in Montgomery coun- 
ty, Ohio, on the nth of April, 1796, Amos 
Wilson raised his log cabin, the first ever 
erected for the residence of a white settler 
within the present limits of Greene county, 
and soon after he assisted to raise the third 
house built in the same neighborhood. This 
is conclusive evidence that our old pioneer 
friend and fdlow townsman of Xenia was 
well acquainted with John Wilson and his 
boys, and his coming into Greene county 
was at the time the Wilsons first settled 
here. 

These houses or cabins were erected 
near the present village of Ferry, southwest 



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of Bellbrook, Ohio. Two months later :Mr. 
ColHer made a trip to Fort Defiance, in 
June, 1796. traveling on Wayne's trail, or 
military road. He performed the journey 
alijne and on foot, sleeping on the ground, 
with no shelter but his blanket; he was well 
armed, and had no other dependence fur 
self-protection but his trusty rifle, and his 
courage and presence of mind. The object 
of his lonely journey through the wilderness 
was the recovery of stolen horses, an object 
which he failed to accomplish. He returned 
some time during the same month and took 
up his residence in this county, at which time 
there were not more than a dozen settlers 
within its present borders, nor was the coun- 
ty organized until seven years afterward. 

There can be no doul)t but what Mr. Col- 
lier made his home for a while in the Wil- 
son and Mills settlement, near Clio, or Fer- 
ry, as it is now called. We next find him lo- 
cated on the farm of Capt. Xathan Lanime, 
a soldier of the Revolution, whose land was 
niirth of the present town of Bellbrook. We 
have also from the old records of the county 
evidence that he was present at the house of 
Peter Borders, on Beaver, when the county 
was first organized, and was appointed to 
take the enumeration of Sugarcreek town- 
ship. He received that appointment May 
10, 1803, and commenced the work August 
3, 1803, and finished on the loth of the 
month, reporting the names of seventy-one, 
wiio, at that time, were residents of what is 
now Sugarcreek. then comprising all of 
Spring Valley and a portion of what is now 
Xenia township, that were over the ages of 
twenty-one years. 

Seven days" work! We are filled with 
wonder and surprise when we read his re- 
port. And think of the condition of the coun- 



try at that early day ! Covered with the prim- 
itive forests, no roads, or pikes, as now — 
nothing but bridle paths for pack horses, that 
led from one settlement to another. 

FIRST ELECTION IX SUGARCREEK. 

On the 2 1 St of June, 1803, the electors 
of Sugarcreek township held the first elec- 
tion in the township, at the house of Mr. 
James Clancey, whose cabin at that time was 
located on the present site of the town of 
Bellbrook. Our honored old pioneer was 
one of the candidates for the office of town- 
ship lister, and Joseph C. \'ance, the father 
of Governor Vance, was a candidate for 
clerk at the same election. 

MOVES TO XENIA. 

In the spring of 1805 he takes his de- 
parture from Sugarcreek township, and 
moves to Xenia. He was at this time act- 
ing as dqnity sherifY, under William Max- 
well, who had on the 17th day of December, 
1803, resigned his position as associate 
judge, and had been elected sherift of the 
county. Capt. Xathan Lamme had previous 
to Mr. Maxwell's election been the sheriff 
(by appointment), but finding that it inter- 
fered too much with his large landed inter- 
est, had resigned. ]\lr. Collier continued to 
act as deputy until 1807, when he was elect- 
ed sheriff. 

SHERIFF OF GREENE COUNTY. 

Mr. Collier served out the constitutional 
term. While he held this office the county 
was the temporary residence of certain des- 
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lence and crime, had driven them to the fron- 
tiers l:)eyond tlie jurisdiction of laws, or out 
of reach of tlie ministers of justice. Num- 
bers of them were ronfederated together at 
different points, forming a chain of commu- 
nication, all the way from Kentucky to Can- 
ada. Tiiey would warn each other of ap- 
proaching danger; would mutually assist 
each other in rescues, escapes and conceal- 
ments. They would receive, conceal and 
convey stolen property from oaie to the oth- 
er, which rendered detection and conviction 
very cliflicult. Several daring robberies were 
committed in the cuuntv. It was no unu- 
sual circumstance in those days for citi- 
zens, on retiring to rest, to bar the door se- 
curely, and place a gun and ax at the bed- 
side ready for self-defense in case of a noc- 
turnal attack. An instance of their audacity 
and success may suffice to illustrate the state 
of the times. 

JOHN WOLF ROBBED. 

Thirteen robbers, armed to the teeth, with 
faces concealed with black crepe, one night 
entered the house of John \Volf. Sr.. a citi- 
zen near the site of the village of Byron, and 
robbed the owner of about four hundred and 
fifty dollars in specie. Not satisfied with the 
amount nf booty obtained, they threatened 
the owner of the house witli torture, pro- 
posing to pinch his fingers in a vise, unless 
he infnrnied them where more money could 
be found. They would have carried their 
threats into execution but for the opposi- 
tion and influence of one of their number, 
more human than the rest. 

:Mr. Collier was instrumental in breaking 
up their association and driving them from 
the county. His vigilance, intrepidity and 



perseverance was such tliat they had neither 
rest or security. He, with his assistants, 
hunted them from their hiding places, sur- 
rounded their houses in the night season, 
and arrested every one he could lay his 
hands on. until, finally, they were all either 
captured or driven from the county, and the 
citizens were left in peace and security of 
life and property. 

Mr. Collier continued to act as sherifif 
until the election of 1811. when he gave way 
to Capt. John Hivling. 

CORONER OF GREEXE COUXTV. 

He was, in 181 4, elected coroner of 
Greene county, and continued in that office 
until the year 1820, when he was succeeded 
by David Connelly. He was again chosen 
coroner in 1826. and continued in that office 
until 1830. 

REMOVES TO XEXI.V. 

We will now return to the time when 
Mr. Collier removed from Sugarcreek to 
Xenia. It is said that the first person buried 
in the pioneer graveyard at Bellhrook was 
the wife of James Collier. He afterward 
married the daughter of Jacob Smith, who 
was a man of note in the early history of 
the county. The same Jacob Smith, whose 
body our Masonic brethren removed from 
tlie Harblne farm and reinterred in ^^^:lod- 
land cemetery, Xenia, in 1898. 

It must not be supposed that ^Ir. Collier 
had nut been in Xenia previous to 1805 : his 
dutv as deputy sheriff would oftimes bring 
him to Xenia, and besides that we find in the 
old records of the county the following: 
"On the 15th day of November, 1804. Jo- 
seph C. Vance conveyed to James Collier lot 



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No. 60, see book 3, pages 3 and 4, Records 
of Deeds : and again a year later on tlie 8th 
day of November, 1805, \\'illia:ii A. Beatty. 
director of the town of Xenia, conveyed to 
James Collier lot Xo. 58, book A, page 156. 

EUIiCTS HIS CABIN. 

On lot Xo. 60, facing on Detroit street, 
about twenty feet back from tlie inside line 
of the sidewalk, Air. Collier erected in the 
summer of 1805 his cabin, a one-story, 
hewed-Iog, witli two windows down stairs, 
and witli a do(jr in tlie center, witli what is 
called one-half window up stairs over the 
two windows to give light into the attic 
room above. That building is still stand- 
ing in Xenia to-day (1899) and belongs, I 
believe, to a Mrs. Middleton, and is the first 
house east of the colored high schcx)l build- 
ing, East Market street, Xenia. It has been 
weatherboarded outside, and is still in pretty- 
good condition. When thev were removing: 
the old Collier house the original home of 
Air. Collier was just back of it. and was 
bought by Mr. Aliddleton and removed to its 
present site. It was in this building that 
Mr. Collier and his young wife, nee Raclit.l 
Smitli. daughter of Jacob Smith, com- 
menced their married life. 

Wq find the following in the records of 
the proliate court, under date of June 5. 
1805: "Married by the Rev. Joshua Car- 
man. James Collier to Rachel Smitli." 

.\ SOLDIER OF THE W.\R OF l8l2. 

It seems quite natural to see the name 
of James Collier enrolled among the nations 
defenders in the war of 1812. as will be seen 
from the following taken from the ofiiciul 



records: "I do hcre1)y certify that James 
Collier did volunteer under the proclama- 
tion of the governor and the circular of 
General Harrison, on the 15th day of Sep- 
tember, 1S12, and the said Collier did act 
the part of a faithful soldier during his con- 
tinuance in my company, and is hereby dis- 
charged. Given under my hand this the 5th 
day of January, 1813. Daniel F. Reedev. 
captain." 

THE 01.11 roLHER HOUSE. 

This house was built the summer after 
Jiis return from that tour of duty in the 
army. W' hen first erected it consisted of one 
room and hall fronting on Detroit street. 
V, ith two rooms in the rear. It was a 
woixlen frame, liuilt over with brick; as was 
jokingly said at the time of its erection, it 
was "a frame house weatherboarded with 
1-rick." It was opened as a public house be- 
fore being finished, the front room being the 
bar-room. In 181 4 the south end was built. 
Reuben Hixon, who removed to Lebanon, 
made the bricks, and some l)rickmason5 
from Kentucky put them up. Alathew Alex- 
ander, the father of Captain John Alex- 
ander, (lid the wood work. The north end 
was built some years later. At the time the 
first part was erected there were two other 
brick houses in Xenia. besides the court 
house: one of them stood wiiere ( 1859) 
John F. I'atton's drug store used to stand, 
and the other on the ground now occupied 
by John Knox's saddle shop, or near that. 

The cimrl and l)ar put up at the Collier 
Plouse from the commencement, and it was 
far known and noted as a tavern. Recruit- 
ing officers boarded at the Collier House in 
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officer and liis servant, who were prisoners 
01 war, were there on parole. Court niar- 
slials, courts of inquin,- and courts of appeal 
were frequently held in this house by militia 
officers. The office of commissioner of in- 
solvents was kept in it until the law abolish- 
ing imprisonment for debt went into opera- 
tion. The first regular ball in Xenia came 
oft at the Collier House. Such was the 
.scarcity of females who could, or would, 
dance that girls were enquired after, and 
brought to town from a distance of eight or 
ten miles. It was kept by Mr. Collier as a 
public house for twent\--nine years, and for 
a while the regular mail stage stopped there. 

The Iniilding- next to where now stands 
the Reform church, and which formed an ad- 
dition to the Collier House, was built by 
Phillip Good, father of Judge Good, of Sid- 
ney, Ohio. Dr. Joshua Martin lived in it 
when he was first married, and continued to 
live there until he had a house built, which 
hfc occupied until the time of his death. 

Peter Pelham, Esq., one of the Greene 
county commissioners in 1812, and for sev- 
eral terms afterwards, and also who was the 
first auditor of Greene ctxmty in 1820, also 
lived in this hijuse. He was born in Bos- 
ton. Massachusetts, in 1747, and he was 
noted for his ardent piety, benevolence and 
numerous charities. He died in 1822. 
Many of the oldest citizens of Xenia still 
remember the old land mark, extending 
nordi from the Gallowav buildings to the 
south line of the present Reform church on 
Detroit street. In the files of the Torch- 
light, of July, 1859, appears a notice that it 
is to be sold, "this noted property w'ill be 
sold at pultlic sale by the executors of the 
estate of the late James Collier." 

No building in Xenia has a historv which 



equals in interest the history of this now 
dilapidated structure. It is a relic of the old 
times, the times of bridle-paths and corduroy 
roads, of horseback traveling and saddle 
bags, dating before turnpikes had entered in- 
the imagination of men in the west. Mr. 
and Mrs. Collier never had any children to 
brighten their home, and the ones we have 
had in our county by that name were the 
children of his younger brother, Moses, who 
was ten years younger than James, a sketch 
of wliom will appear further along. .Vnd 
as so much could be said of James Collier, 
we will for fear of wearing the patience of 
the reader close this history by adding .1 
tribute to his memory as furnished by his old 
and intimate friend, Thomas Coke Wright, 
who says, when asked if he had anything to 
say, after the death of his old friend, in the 
year 1851 : "He, like many of the old pio- 
neers, had his strong points of character, 
which stamped iiim with originality. The 
incidents of his early life evinced that he was 
enterprising and resolute. He originally 
had a good constitution and much hardihood 
and powers of bodily endurance, which en- 
abled him to endure cold and the inclemen- 
cies of the seasons with iminmity. If while 
hunting in the tall woods of the west, night 
finding him far away from any human hab- 
itation oi- shelter it made little or no dif- 
ference to him. Kindling a fire from a fiint 
and steel, he would pass the night without 
a tent or blanket, or other covering than the 
canopy of heaven. He possessed much 
firmness and decision of character, and when 
his mind was made up, his purpose fixed, it 
was no easy matter to turn his determination. 
He possessed the faculty of concentration in 
a great degree, and whate\'er he engaged in 
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miglit. If employcil in scune out-door labor 
and it came on to rain, and his mind intent 
on tiie business on hand, he has been known 
to continue on as though unconscious that 
any rain was falHng. In all his dealings 
he was strictly honest, and trutli was an idol 
with him. Xot one particle would he 
swer\e from the literal naked facts and 
woukl tolerate neither ideality nor embel- 
lishments, but adhere to the simplicity of 
truth in all his narrations and statements. 

'"Most cordially did he detest falsehood 
and meanness in every station in life; he 
was always the good honest worthy citizen, 
discharging e\ery duty as a public officer 
and private citizen to the best of his skill 
and ability, faithfully and honestly. In his 
friendships he was sincere and true, and hi.s 
attachments ceased only with life. His 
men^ory was \ery retentive, and was richly 
stored with a \ast number of facts and in- 
cidents, historical and biographcal, concern- 
ing early times in the west, which he could 
relate with an accuracy and minuteness of 
detail that was truly surprising. He could 
point out and correct more errors, which 
have found a place in western history, than 
perhaps any other man now livmg, and could 
his biography have been written, connected 
with all the information he possessed, it 
would have pro\-en a treasure to western 
history. It would have preserved numerous 
facts, now lost fore\'er, and corrected di\-ers 
errors in accounts already given to the pul)- 
lic, which will now go down to history as 
true. For instance. Butler in his history of 
Kentucky says: "In the attack of Colonel 
Bowman made on Old Town in July, 1 779. 
the Indian chief. Black Fish, the one who 
had headed an expedition against Harrods- 
burg. and liad taken Boone prisoner, was 



killed." Whereas, that same Indian was 
killed in Kentucky early one Sunday morn- 
ing, w ithin three miles of where Mr. Collier 
was at that time. He had broken into a set- 
tler's house, and was engaged in a desperate 
struggle on the flo(ir with the owner of the 
premises, when his daughter, a brave young 
woman, seized a hunting knife, flew to the 
assistance of her father and stabbed the In- 
dian. The Indians were ashamed to have it 
known that their famous war chief had fal- 
len at the hands of a white squaw, con- 
cealed his rank and name at the time, and 
afterwards countenanced the report that he 
had fallen in battle. 

"Judge Burnet in his notes says that 
early in 1796 the British government sur- 
rendered the northern p'jst, including Mi- 
ami and Detroit. The posts were delivered 
to General Wayne, while Air. Collier was 
at Fort Defiance in June, 1796. General 
Wilkenson one morning reached that post 
and sat upon his horse in company with his 
staff officers on the lianks of the Auglaize 
river opposite the fort until a salute of fif- 
teen rounds had been fired from a twelve 
pounder. He had Ijeen to Detroit, and [n 
conversation with Mr. Collier Informed him 
that the inhabitants of Detroit treated him 
with coldness and reserve, except one young 
Frenchman, who invited him to his mother's 
house, where he was received with kindness 
and treated with hospitalitw And farther 
the post would have been surrendered to him, 
but for the want of men he could not take 
possession. In the following September he 
saw General \\'ilkenson on his way to De- 
troit with part of two regiments of men to 
take possession : the surrender was made of 
course to him in pursuance of the stipula- 
tions nf Jay's treaty made in 1793." 



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ins LAST ILLNESS. 

For a vear or so previous to his death 
lie hatl been intinii. and was frequently sub- 
ject to severe attacks from wiiich liis re- 
covery seemed duuljtful, and it was a com- 
mon remark among his friends tiiat the old 
pioneer was failing fast. Still from every 
attack he recovered again, so as to be up 
and ahiiul. until about seven weeks previous 
to his death he was again prostrated with 
dyspepsia. As the days progressed his sys- 
tem wasted away to a mere shadow ; he took 
riot a particle of nourishmient for twenty- 
three days, yet he continued to live with a 
tenacitv beyond any example ever seen by 
tlie many friends who Wiere in attendance 
or daily \isitcd him. He continued i)er- 
fcctly in liis senses, and was not only re- 
signed In die, but willing and imjiatient for 
that event to take place. At length worn 
out nature viekled. and he fell asleep with- 
out a sigh or struggle. And thus he has 
gone, one of the early pioneers of Greene 
county, who was here nearby when the first 
improvement was made within its limits. 
On each memorial day in our own beautiful 
Woodland can be seen two flags and the 
flowers that are still put there to commem- 
orate the brave acts of the two brothers who 
were both soldiers in the war of i8i J. James 
and Moses Collier. 

MOSES C0LI,IER. 

The younger brother of James Collier 
was born in Rockbridge county. Virginia. 
on the 4th day of January, 1784, In 1786 
when he was but two years old his family 
emigrated from Virginia, their destination 
being Kentucky, but in consequence of his 



mother's health thev stopped nn the river 
Holstan, in what is now east Tennessee, and 
th.ere remained until the following sum- 
mer, when the journey was resumed until 
thev reached the place of destination in 
Kentucky some eighteen miles north of Crab 
Orchard. Here he continued to reside with 
his parents in Lincoln county and spent his 
earlv youth. The next we hear of our old 
pioneer friend was in 1797. when he was 
making his home with his brother James on 
the land leased from Captain Nathan 
Lamme. He was then a mere boy, thirteen 
vears old, and his brother James twenty- 
three, and it is said by a Bellbrook historian 
that they lived in a cabin near the present 
residence of John Kable, north of Bellbrook, 
being central part of section ^^-5, 6. Moses 
is said to have been remembered as the first 
assessor of the township. (That is a mis- 
take, as the book which contains that enu- 
meration has been found, and is now in the 
vault of the auditor's office, and shows that 
it was James and not Moses.) 

In the fall of 1805. at the October elec- 
tion, we find for the first time the two Col- 
lier brothers. James and Moses, voting in 
Xenia township. This was the first vote 
cast bv Moses in Greene county, and he was 
now twenty-one years old. A year previous 
he had bought of Joseph C. Vance, director 
of the town of Xenia. lot Ko. 128, now- 
owned by President Fay, as the !\Iiami Pow- 
der Company. He was one of the best sur- 
veyors that Greene county evei had. and he 
served the count)' in that cajiacity from 1817 
until 1829. when he was elected tri represent 
Greene county in the lower house of the 
legislature. 

He was afterward elected surveyor of 
the count V in 1834. and continued to act 



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as such until the year 1840. He was mar- 
ried, September 19. 1810, to Miss Elizabeth 
Small, bv Rev. Joshua Carman, The result 
of this marriage was six sons and four 
daughters: P'ranklin, David, James, Jr.. 
Albert, Theodore and Ira, sons, and daugh- 
ters. Mrs. Pugh Sterritt, Mrs. Daniel Job. 
Miss Ruth Collier, residing at Yellow 
Springs, and Mrs. Joseph Linkhart, of 
Xenia. After little more than half a cen- 
tury of married life he died at his residence 
on Clifton road, November 28, 1861. after 
a brief illness. For more than half a cen- 
tury he resided here, and during the long 
period had ranked worthily among the best 
men in the county. 

In addition to what has been said before, 
Moses Collier filled the position of clerk of 
the coxin of inquiry of the militia of Greene 
county. Away back in the years 181 o- 
ii-ij. when the county was under the old 
system of valuation, he was assessor of real 
estate, making his last assessment in 1840. 
He was among the first men. in tlie then 
town iif Xenia in 1816 to enroll liis name 
as a stockholder in the first library associa- 
tion that was organized in the town. Later 
on, upon the organization of the old Xenia 
Lyceum, he contributed many valuable 
works, and contril>utions were more impor- 
tant in that day when books were scarce than 
it would be now. Of the early settlers of this 
countv Mr. Collier was about the last one 
left, and he was at the day of his death 
standing almost alone as the representative 
of the men who felled the forest and opened 
the fields of the ]\Iiami valley. He was a 
soldier for a brief tour in the war of 1812, 
under Captain Robert McClelland, to go to 
the relief of Fort Wayne. At his funeral 
a large concourse of neighbors and friends 



followed his remains to the last resting place 
in Woodland cemetery, Xenia, Ohio. 

SUG.XRCRKEK TOWNSHIP. 

• 

So much can be written of this township 
that one is at a loss where to commence. 
We find that on the lofh day of May, 
1803. Greene county's first associate judges 
met in the house of Peter Borders, in 
Beavercreek township, on the farm known 
at this time (1900) as the Harbine farm. 
for the purpose of laying off the county 
into townships. This township was the 
place of commencement ; Sugarcreek was 
designated as No. i. It was and had been 
the gateway into the county -of almost all 
of the early pioneers. And in order to avoid 
repetition of what has been written in the 
fomier part of this book as to its organiza- 
tion and boundaries and who were the peo- 
ple that were living in the county at that 
time would refer the reader to that descrip- 
tion. ]\Iost of this work has been compiled 
from the old records of the county that had 
b>een carted away to different out of the way 
places in the court house which was this 
year ( 1900) torn down, as well as in the 
one that was torn away in 1842, and which 
had been built in 1806. It has been said 
that "Moses Collier was remembered as "be- 
ing the first to take the enumeration of 
Sugarcreek township."' That is a mistake. 
James Collier was the one who made that 
enumeration, as his book has been found, 
and in it he says. "I commenced the work 
Augtist 3, 1803. and completed it August 10, 
1803." In this connection we quote from 
a statement furnished by John L. Elcook. 
assisted by Silas Hale, in 1874. He says: 
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Bellbruok now stands was a wild unbroken 
wilderness. Herds of deer roamed through 
the forest and occasionally a bear was to 
be seen. The first house in the county had 
not long been built, and stood about half 
a mile north of the present village of Clio, 
or Ferry, on what is now known as the Ab- 
ner Wilson farm." 

FIRST HOUSE IN GREENE COUNTY. 

It was raised on the 7th day of April, 
1796, and belonged to Daniel W'illson. one 
of the early pioneers of the county. It was 
ciinstructed of unhewed logs, and like the 
other cabins of early days had no floor but 
that afforded by the broad breast of mother 
earth. Other cabins of the same kind were, 
however, soon built. 

FIRST MILL IN GREENE COUNTY. 

.\ mill Stood on the southern part of the 
farm now owned by Thomas Brown and 
was the first mill of which we have any 
record in the Cdunty. It was a hand mill, 
and the neighbors from si.x or seven miles 
around came here to grind their grist. 
Sometimes as many as seven and eight met 
at the mill, and this number in those days 
was a crowd ; but by "spelling each other 
ar the crank" they soon got the grain ground 
and left contentedly for honw. One of the 
srones of this mill is now in the possession 
of ]\Ir. Brown, who has collected quite d 
cabinet of curiosities and relics, and has, it 
it said, one of the finest collections of min- 
eralogical and geological specimens in the 
state. This mill stone is about fourteen 
inches in diameter, and three inches thick 
on the circumference. 



FIRST SETTLERS. 

Among the first settlers in the vicinity 
of what is now known as Bellbrook were 
Joseph C. Vance, Captain Nathan Lamme, 
John McLean, John C. Hale, Ephraim Bow- 
man. James Barrett and a few others. (For 
a complete list see Sugarcreek township, 
first part of the book.) Joseph C. Vance 
located and settled op the land lying east of 
the street that leads to Alpha. Here he 
built a cabin, which was the first dwelling 
erected on the ground that was long after- 
ward laid out for the town. It was built 
of rude logs and stood a littlj to the rear 
of where Ephraim Bumgardncr's paint shop 
used to stand. This cabin was afterward 
sold to James Clancey, and was used by him 
for a kStchen^, he, to meet the growfing 
wants of trade, having erected a finer and 
more commodious log house, in which he 
kept tavern. 



E.'v-GOVERNOR JOSEPH V.\NCE. 

And here we may remark that Joseph 
Vance, the e.x-governor and son of the above 
Joseph C. Vance, is remembered by the 
school children of that day as a young man 
in "liuckskin breeches'' and the driver of an 
ox cart on the "Pickney road." What 
visions o-f future glory haunted his mind 
while engaged in this humble occupation' 
we shall never know. But that he was not 
cntirelv disappointed in his aspirations we 
may safely judge. The "Pickney road" de- 
rives its name from "Pickney pond," near 
Harbine's, bv which it ran. It is the same 
road that is mentioned as leading to 
Alpha. 



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CAPTAIN XATHAX LAMME 

Entered the land now owned by David 
Clemmer. John Xave and the widow Lamnie. 
Tlie comi>iler of this sketch has in his pos- 
session a list, or roll, of the officers of the 
sixteen Virginia regiments of the Conti- 
nental army who had received land 
bounties in tlie \'irginia military district 
in Kentuckv and Ohio, and among the 
number is the name of Captain Xathan 
Lamme, who received four thousand 
acres. He came to Sugarcreek town- 
shij) in tlie year 1797. and entered his 
land in sections 33 and 27 (3.6), north- 
east of Bellbrook. He built a cabin on the 
hill north of the Washington mill. He 
served as a volunteer in the Lord Dunmore 
war and participated in the battle of Point 
Pleasant, at the mouth of the Great Kan- 
awha, under General Lewis, which lasted 
from dawn of day until sundown, and it 
was a hard fight and bloody battle. And 
during the war of the Revolution he was 
ff und wearing for eight years the uniform 
of a captain with honor to himself and coun- 
try. At the organization of Greene county, 
Ohio, Xathan Lamme was appointed sheriff. 
but on account of his large land estate lie 
only served three months and resigned. 
\\'illiam Maxwell, who was at the time serv- 
ing- as one of the first associate judges, re- 
signed that position and accepted the place 
made vacant by Mr. Lamme. Mr. Maxwell 
with his able deputy. James Collier, served 
two terms, when Mr. Collier was elected. 
Thus from away back we have the precedent 
for the deputy to take the place of the prin- 
cipal, which has been kept up with few ex- 
ceptions to the present time. It is said of 
Captain Lamme tliat he was intimately ac- 



ciuainted with Simon Kenton, whom he had 
often entertained for weeks in his log cabin 
as the old pioneer passed to and fro from 
Kentucky to his lands in Champaign county. 

In the pioneer graveyard in Bellbrook is 
buried this grand old hero of the war of the 
Revolution. He died in 1834, aged eighty- 
nine years, ilen of higher rank and less 
worth have had expensive monuments erect- 
ed by a great government, while this one is 
almost forgotten. 

Mr. Lamme had five sons, Josiah, W'ill- 
iam, James, Samuel and David ; also two 
daughters, Anna and Martha. Of the five 
sons, all of them took part in the war of 
1812. The following is a sketch of his 
} oimgest son : 

DAVID LAMME, SOLDIER OF l8l2. 

Mr. Lamme was born in Kentucky. Jan- 
uary I. 1 791, and removed with his father 
to the late residence on the banks of the 
Little Miami in 1797. where he was resid- 
ing when the tocsin of war was sounded be- 
tween this country and Great Britain. He 
joined the citizen soldiery first as a substi- 
tute under Captain Robert McClelland at 
Xenia, from whence he was marched to Up- 
pei' Sandusky to meet the northern invaders 
and their red allies. After his discharge he 
volunteered under the immortal Harrison 
to the relief of Fort Wayne, then beseiged 
by the Indians, after which he volunteered 
twice, thus serving four distinct campaigns 
during the war. X'otwithstanding his pio- 
neer and Kentucky heroism placed him in 
the front ranks in defense of his country, he 
was emphatically a man of peace, a good 
soldier, "a good citizen, a dutiful son. a 
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a kind neiglibor. It appears that while the 
Lammes were Virginians, yet like many 
from that state who came to Ohio in the 
late Civil war they were true to the "stars 
and stri])es." We tind from good authority 
that Captain Lamme after the war of the 
Revolution was shortly afterward in Ken- 
tucky, and it is no doubt but that is wiiere 
he became acciuaiiileil with Simon Kenton. 

FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE IX BELLBROOK. 

On the site of the present beautiful resi- 
dence of Jacob Haines, Jr., and surrounded 
by a forest of stately oaks and sugar trees 
stood the first school house in the commu- 
nity. It was a large log building and had 
a huge fireplace at either end. Here the 
future \-illage fathers dnmed o\-er their dog- 
eared spelling books, and between the "rule 
of three" and the master's "birch" spent 
many miserable days. The seats were not 
tl:e varnished comfortable affairs with 
which school houses are now furnished, 
but rude plank or puncheons resting 
on pins at a slight angle. The writing 
desks were ranged around the walls and 
were made by driving wooden ]iins into 
auger holes bored in the logs, so that they 
stood at a proper angle; on these pins were 
placed boards or planks to serve as a rest 
for the copy book. Glass was very scarce, 
and altogether too e.xpensive an article to 
have in a school house, and this temple of 
learning was innocent of sash or pane, but 
necessity is the mother of invention, and a 
large greased paper was stretched over the 
window, which in a measure supplied the 
deficiency and admitted some light at least. 
This house w'as afterward torn down by 
Stephen Bell, and a dwelling erected in its 



stead. The master of this backwood"s school 
house was James Bain. 

J.VMES B.\I.\. 

In a sketch written, I think, by Rev. 
Thomas Beveridge, of the life of Rev. Rob- 
ert Armstrong, as to the cause of his com- 
ing to .\nierica, he says: "Four members 
of the .\ssix-iate church having settled in the 
same neighborhood in the vicinity of Lex- 
ington, Kentucky, in 1796, namely: James 
L'.ain, Adam Goodlett, Thomas Robinson 
and James Pringle, took council together at 
a prayer meeting on the best means of ob- 
taining a dispensation of the gospel among 
them. Among the early records of the 
county James Bain's name appears on the 
aforesaid records in 1804. He settled in 
Sugarcreek township, Greene county, the 
same year as Mr. Armstrong, which was 
on the 2d day of September, 1804, which 
was the date Mr. Bain came into Sugar- 
creek township. He settled the land now 
owned by Archibald Berryhill's heirs, north 
of Bellbrook, northeast section 32 (3.6). 
He built a cabin near the present farm 
house. Subsequently he erected a malt house 
west of the cabin. He was a school master, 
combining the two avocations of teaching 
the school and brewing beer. He is a man 
remembered as combining many other seem- 
ingly uncongenial professions. It is related 
of him that he would rise very early in the 
morning, proceed to his "clearing," work 
until his good wife, Sarah, who died Xo- 
vember 17, 1818, at the age of forty-five, 
would blow the horn for breakfast, after 
which he would proceed to his school, and 
the faithful horn would call him to dinner, 
and at evening the sound of the horn echo- 
ing through the woods gave welcome warn- 



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ing to tlie boys and girls that the dreary 
hard day's work of school was done, but 
called the master to his clearing and the 
maul and the wedge. 

He was a soldier of the war of 1812, 
and was in the company of Captain Ammi 
Maltbie, wliich was a part of the First Regi- 
ment, Second Battalion and First Division, 
and the fact that he was the owner of a 
private "still" is no reflection upon him. 
The most of the old pioneers, leading men 
in the church and other good works, did 
not at that time think it a sin to have about 
and make their own liquors. It is said of 
him that while teaching that, in addition to 
that, he \\ou!(l make one hundred rails a 
day by his early rising. He laid out and 
sold to tlie Associate or Seceder congrega- 
tion the site for the church and burial place, 
the strip of land now known as the "Pioneer 
Associate graveyard." It had been the 
opinion of some in the neighborhood that 
this lot was donated with certain peculiar 
conditions, but this is a mistake ; the deed 
reads thus : "This indenture made and con- 
cluded this 8th day of June. 1816, between 
James Bain, of tlie county of Greene, etc. 
\\'itnessed that said James Bain for and in 
consideration of the sum of three dollars to 
him paid doth grant, bargain, etc.. a certain 
lot of ground enclosing the church, knmvn 
bv the name of the Sugarcreek meeting 
house. The deed is given without reserve." 
And in that place, first line of graxxs, near 
the east line, south corner, he sleeps the long 
sleep of death. Mr. Bain was Ijorn in the 
year 1748, and died August 9, 1832, at the 
age of seventy-fi\e years. 

THE PICKNEY ROAD. 

One reason wliy Sugarcreek township 



was the gateway by which so many of the 
early residents of the county entered was 
on account of this road. It was the tirst 
beaten track through thf wilderness leading 
from Cincinnati through Lebanon extending 
north through what is now ]\Iain street, 
Bellbrook, north toward Al])lia. past what 
was then known as Pickney pond, from 
which the road is supposed to have taken its 
name. Over this road the early settlers re- 
ceived their supplies of salt and iron and 
such other commodities as they could not 
produce for themselves. It required long 
absences from home and laborious travel to 
go to Cincinnati then w ith a load of ground 
corn and exchange it for salt and return 
home again. After a time this road became 
more of a thoroughfare, the demand for 
supplies for the growing settlements con- 
tinued to increase, and large teams of belled 
horses began to make regular trips carrying- 
loads of flour and returning with mer- 
chandise. 

-Another road leading from this one was 
called the "Beer road," because it was used 
iiiostly by our old pioneer friend, James 
Bain, to transfer from his place in the liol- 
low, back of what is known as the Pioneer 
graveyard, to Dayton his beer. The main 
road crossed the .Miami at what is now the 
"Upper" mill and passed north of where 
Bellbrook now is. and e.xtended toward 
Centerville. Over this route the mail was 
carried weekly to Xenia. 

THE OLD AS.SOCIATE, OR PIONEER, GRAVE- 
YARD.^ — MRS. JAMES COLLIER. 

It is said the first body buried here was 
the wife of Colonel James Collier, which 
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or 1805. as Mr. Collier removed from Cap- 
tain Xatlian Lamme's farm to X'ciiia in the 
snmmer of 1805. Xo stone or marker can 
1)6 fonnd of her grave. 

JOSEPH ROBINSON, SR. 

The oldest tombstone standing has in- 
scribed npun it the name of Joseph Rubin- 
son, Sr., who died March 6, 1806, aged 
seventy-two years. This tombstone is of 
great historical interest to some who are de- 
scendants of his, who were at this time liv- 
ing in Xenia. He was the grandfather of 
the grandfather of our ex-deputy clerk of 
courts. Miss EcHth Robinson, and was the 
great-grandfather to ^\'illiam .F. Trader, at- 
torney at law, and others. Mr. Robinson, 
Sr.. has two sons also buried here, one of 
whom Joseph, Jr., was a soldier in the war 
of 1812, and his brother, Edward, who died 
October 17. 1845, at the age of seventy- 
three years. 

MAJOR WILLIAM ROGERS. 

Xot far from this lot where the pio- 
neer Robinson family are buried is another 
grave. It also is of local interest to some 
living at present in Xenia. It is the grave 
of Major William Rogers, who was a sol- 
dier in the war of 18 12, and w'lio was the 
father of Amuicl Rogers and his brother 
Luke. He was the grandfather of Mrs. Jo- 
seph Milburn. On his tombstone is the fol- 
lowing record: "Born September 7, 1774- 
Died December 3, 1815." He built what 
was called the Roger's mill, the first water 
power mill erected in Sugarcreek township. 

ALEXANDER BERRYIIILL. 

This soldier of the Revolutionarv war 



was a native of Augusta county, Virginia, 
and at the age of nineteen vears volunteered 
in the American army, under the command 
of General Nathaniel Greene. At the battle 
of Guilford Court House, Xorth Carolina, 
in the heat of the engagement his company 
was surrounded by the merciless, victorious 
British, commanded to give up their arms, 
and on doing so he was struck on the head 
with a sw"ord which produced a se\ere 
wound, the scar of which remained until the 
day of his death. He was held a prisoner 
by the captors two years, then exchanged, 
returned to his home, and after some years 
he married and settled on a farm. Mr. 
Berryhill's wife was a niece of Charles 
Thompson, of Revolutionary fame, and sec- 
retary to the first continental congress, a 
man of sonw executive ability and a lover 
of liberty. To them were born eleven chil- 
dren, eight sons and three daughters. Their 
names were James, William, John, Alex- 
ander, Margaret, Samuel. Archibald, Rachel, 
Matthew, Elizabeth and Franklin. Mr. 
Berryhill's father, John, was a native of 
Ireland, who settled in Virginia at an early 
date and there reared a famil_\-. 

We have lingered longer at these two his- 
toric graves, the graves of those illustrious 
representatives, than we had intended, so 
'.vith feelings of almost re\-'erence we take 
our departure from the tombs of Alexander 
and Rachel Thompson Berryhill, only stop- 
ping long enough to copy the inscriptions 
that tell of the time of their death. Alex- 
ander Berryhill died in September, 1823, 
aged fifty-nine, his wife, Rachel, in 1838. 
They came to Ohio in 1814. 

The next gra\'e that we \'isited. not far 
from Mr. Berryhill's, is the grave of 



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JAMES BAIX. 

Along the east line near the south corner 
apparently in the first tier of lots,' hidden by 
a cedar tree whose branches reach the 
ground, is the grave of James Bain. 
After parting the liranches his tombstone 
appears in sight, and by his side are 
buried some of his children and his faithful 
wife, Sarah. As you stand and gaze in- 
voluntary you listen if perchance to hear the 
sound of the horn that called him from la- 
bor in the school and from his work i'.i 
the clearing. Mr. Bain died August 9, 1832, 
at the age of seventy-five years. As we 
have a sketch of his life elsewhere we will 
proceed to the next, which is the grave of 

wii.i.iAM m'caxlas, 

\Mio first came in.to the county in 1S17 and 
was related to ^Ir. Bain. He died August 
9. 1835. aged forty-seven years. He had 
also a brother Robert. Xot far from this 
lot, going north, is the grave of 

WILLIAM BAIX, 

A\'ho was a son of James Bain. Sr.. and 
was well known in Greene county, and is 
still remembered by some of the older in- 
habitants as a genial and well disposed man. 
Not far from his grave toward the west is 
the grave of anotlier well known pioneer, 

WILLIAM LAW, SR. 

^Ir. Law first came nito Greene county 
in 1804 from Kentucky and settled in Sugar- 
creek township. He has a number of de- 
scendants yet living. His son, Jesse Law, 



who was a soldier in the war of 1812, and 
who was for years a resident of Xenia town- 
ship, is still rememljered by many in Xenia 
and throughout the county. \\'illiam Law, 
Sr., died January 26. 1826, aged seventy- 
six years. Xot far from where ^Mr. Law 
is buried is th.e grave of 

GEORGE WATT, SR. 

This grave is of more than usual inter- 
est, and as we take our place in front of the 
stone that marks the last resting place of 
this hardy old pioneer, George Watt, listen 
to the story of his life. 

In the year 1820 he left his home in Bel- 
fast. Ireland, with his family. His destina- 
tion was the L'nited States of America, state 
of Ohio, county of Greene, where they ar- 
rived the same year. His brother, Hugh, 
had preceeded him to this country. Hugh, 
who was six years younger, and who was 
the father of the late Dr. George Watt, of 
Xenia, had settled in 181 7 not far from 
Cedarville, whilst George, the elder, settled 
in 1820 on the hilltops west of the Little 
?iliami river between what is known as the 
"Indian Riffle" and the old Eureka mill. 
George Watt, Sr., was the father of George 
Watt, Jr., who lived in the house on the 
southwest corner of Market and West streets 
(present home of Mr. Collins, the car- 
penter), whilst two other sons, Hugh and 
Andrew, removed to Indiana. James \\'att. 
the fourth son, died in Xenia ; he never mar- 
ried. James and Andrew made applications 
to become citizens of the United States in 
1840. which were granted. He had also four 
daughters: Mrs. Betsey Dodd, wife of 
John Dodd. Sr. : ^Irs. Samuel Smeigh: 
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ROBIXSO.VS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Siigarcreek : and Margaret, who was single. 
Of liis children, I think, Mr.s. Samuel 
Snieigh, mother of Mrs. George Kendall, is 
the only one living. Mr. Wan, who was 
born in 1765, came to America in 18 jo. and 
died in 1845, aged eighty years. 

THE GOWDV FAMILY. 

Not far from the grave of Cieorge Walt, 
Sr., is the grave of John Goudy. as the name 
is spelled on the tombstone. Along side of 
him is buried his good wife, Ann Gowdy. 
What time Mr. Gowdy came and settled in 
Sugarcreek town.ship is no-t known. This 
much is known : He was there previous U) 
1803, as his name and that of his son, An- 
drew Gowdy, appear on the first enumera- 
tion taken of the aforesaid township in 1S03. 
Mr. Gowdy died November 13, 1807, at the 
age of seventy-seven years. His son, An- 
drew Gowdy, was married to Mary ]\Ic- 
Connell. l-'cbruary 7, i8of), i)v the Rev. Rob- 
ert Armstrong, and from his tombstone we 
learn that he was born April 2. 1777, and 
died September 25, 1818, aged forty-one 
years. There are living in Xenia ( 1900) 
one son and one daughter of Andrew Gow- 
dy, namely, our venerable and resi>ected 
townsmen who has spent so many years of 
his life in nur midst. .Alexander Gowdy, 
now in his eighty-seventh year, living on 
W^est Main street, and his sister, Mrs. Jacob 
Miller, residing on East Main street, mother 
of Mrs. Joseph M. I\Iillnn-n. John Gowdy, 
Sr., was a native of Pennsylvania, removing 
from there to Kentucky, and thence to Ohio 
at the date given. Other children he had be- 
side Andrew: One son, John, who was a 
soldier from Greene county in the war of 
1812, and William Gowdy, who went to 
5 



Kentucky, and removed Rev. Armstrong to 
this place in 1804. John removed to Frank- 
lin, Indiana, as did two other sons, Robert 
and Thomas. His daughter, Ann, Xovau- 
ber 8, 1804, was married to Air. James 
Bull, and it was an event that was made his- 
torical by our old pioneer friend, Hugh 
Andrew, who was one of the guests at the 
wedding. He says: "Th2y were there 
from Dan to Beersheba." Another daugh- 
ter of John Gowdy, Xancy, born August 14, 
1817, was married to Jesse Law, a well 
known pioneer of Greene county. The chil- 
dren of Andrew Gowdy were John, Jane. 
Adam, Susanna, Alexander, Mary Ann and 
Eliza. 

But to mentii/U all of the illustrious dead 
that are buried here would make this article 
tiK) long, so we pass these graves and go to 
the next and last that we sliall mention, 
which is the grave of Captain Nathan 
I.amme, a gallant soldier of the Revolution, 
and by his side his son, David, a soldier of 
the war of 1812. A brief sketch of both 
will be found elsewhere in fhis book. 

THE HUTCHISON F.\MILY. 

One of the early settlers of Greene coun- 
ty was John Hutchison. He came from 
Bourlwn county, Kentucky, in 1806. He 
and Mr. Frazier had married sisters by the 
name of Finley in Rockbridge county, Vir- 
ginia, and because of slavery they only re- 
mained in Kentucky some ten years. John 
Hutchison bought a farm one mile southeast 
of Bellbrook. the east line along the Miami, 
now known as the Alorris farm. He was a 
weaver and while he worked at his trade his 
sons George, John, Andrew, Samuel and 
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George and Sarah. Juhn and Andrew, Will- 
iam and Martha ( Sterrett ) were twins. 
Samuel, May (Jobe) and Jane (McClure) 
were "not in it." John cultivated the farm 
after marriage to Ellen Clancey, April 24. 
1822, until he bought one hundred acres 
near Xenia, a half mile northwest of the fair 
grounds, now the "Shoup farm," which he 
sold in 1835 ^''"^^ moved to Shelby county, 
near Sidney, and died in Sidney at the age 
of eighty-six years. His father and mother 
died in the same week of fever and are 
buried in the "Upper graveyard," he at the 
age of fifty-five years. He belonged to the 
first board of trustees of the First United 
church of Xenia, and tlie family came on 
horseback to church. And what a task in 
the absence of con\-eniences must ha\-e l)een 
the rearing of such a family. The mother 
dare not leave one of a pair by itself when 
she went to the spring to carry water, but 
carried one on the back, another under one 
arm, leaving one hand for the bucket. An- 
drew came to Xenia to learn the tailor trade 
with Mr. Currie, and pursued it until the 
last day of his life. He died in 1865 at 
the age of sixty-nine years. He was the fa- 
ther of W. C. the merchant. Mrs. Gevirge 
Ebright and Miss Emma, who are still li\- 
ing in Xenia. 

SAMUEL LOG.VN 

Died at Bellbrook, Ohio, X'ovcmlicr 21, 
1873, at the age of sixty-eight years. He 
was an old bachelor, and had made his home 
with Mr. Samuel Pogue for a long time past. 
He was one of th.e most eccentric and ])e- 
culiar men of our age. One of his oddities 
that we have no record of any one else copy- 
ing was that he would not accept any more 



than seventy-five cents per day from any one 
for doing work. He was a good workman, 
and made a good hand at carpenter work. 
But he always said that seventy-five cents 
was all that a day's work was worth, and 
would not accept any more. He began life 
a poor boy without a dollar, was always in- 
dustrious, made a good living, wore good 
clothing and saved six thousand dollars, 
which he earned by a day's work at seventy- 
five cents per day. In the western and south- 
western part of this county are still stand- 
ing in fair condition houses that he built 
}ears ago. He would go to some of the 
farms where the residents were living yet in 
their cabins, cut down the trees and hew 
the timbers for the frame of a house, and in 
the fall wcjuld ha\'e the aforesaid families 
lixing in their new homes. The old maxim 
would hold good in his case, "It is not what 
we make, but what we save that makes us 
wealthy." "Old Honesty" would be a fit in- 
scription for his monument. In his will he 
gave Mrs. E. Pogue seven hundred dollars ; 
William Duck fi\e hundred : Miss Kate 
Hawkins two hundred dollars : and one bun- 
dled dollars to. Miss Bell : and the remainder 
tr the Parker heirs. 

JOHN TORRENCE, .\ SOLDIER OF THE REVO- 
LUTIOX. 

He was a pensioner under the act of June 
I. 1832. Application was made for same 
September 15, 1832, he being then seventy- 
four years of age. The pension was granted 
May 3, 1833. He was a native of Cumber- 
land county, Pennsylvania. At the outbreak 
. of the war of the Revolution in this country 
lie was a member of Colonel Dunlap's regi- 
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Pennsylvania militia. He was then a pri- 
vate soldier in that regiment. July 28. 
1777. the United States government called 
his regiment into actual service; he was 
then ])romoted to the position of orderly ser- 
geant of his company, which position he 
filled with honor for seven months and fif- 
teen days. After the war was over he emi- 
grated t<j the state of Kentucky, locating 
near Lexington, and from Kentucky lie re- 
moved to Ohio, where he arrived in 1804, 
settling in Sugarcreek township. Greene 
county. The old records of the county show 
that he was a useful man hoth in church ami 
state, and lived to a good old age, when he 
died and was buried in the Associate church 
yard. West Market street, Xenia, the site 
now co\-ered by the school house of th it 
name, lie was afterward taken up and 
l)uried on the lot of his son, Aaron Tor- 
rence, in Woodland cemetery, Xenia. Mis 
oldest son. William, was a soldier in the 
war of 1812. He had beside William three 
sons, Aaron : John, who was the father of 
Henry Torrence, ex-recorder of Greene 
county: and David, who was the father of 
Finley Torrence, of the firm of 'McDowell 
& Torrence : also four daughters, namely : 
Elizabeth. Ann. Mary and Clarissa. 

JESSE SANDERS, .\ SOLDIER OF l8l2. 

He was born on the 3d day of Septem- 
ber. 1704. in Stokes county. X^'orth Caro- 
lina. His parents were Jesse Sanders and 
Sarah Reddick. They were both natives of 
X'orth Carolina. On the 15th day of De- 
cember, 1804, the father of Jesse with bis 
family and household goods departed from 
old Carolina in wagons via Virginia and 



Lexington, Kentucky, to Cincinnati, arriv- 
ing in Greene county on the 13th day of 
February, 1805, and immediately settling in 
Sugarcreek township ( now Spring \''alley 
township) on what was then called military 
lands. He bought his land (two hundred 
and forty acres) of Colonel Xathaniel Mas- 
sie, one of the first settlers of Ross county, 
Ohio, [n 1806 he died. In December, 1807, 
his wife followed him. The oldest of the 
children, Forace, died in Laporte, Indiana, 
in 1869, having been through life a farmer 
and mechanic. John died in 1812 in Spring 
V^allev township. Jemima married Jeffrey 
Saulsbury. a farmer of Warren county, 
Ohio, and died in 1S14. Jane married Isaac 
Beason. a farmer of Wayne county, Ohio, 
and died in 1809. Susanna never married, 
and died in 1809 in Wayne cnunty, Ohio. 
Jesse, the subject of this sketch, died at his 
home in Spring Valley township, May 21, 
1880, aged eighty-eight, and is liuried in 
Woodland cemetery, Xenia. 

During the war of 1812 Mr. Sanders 
performed a cons])icui)us part as a member 
of Captain John Clark's company. He had 
thmugh life followed farming. He was 
nnirried, on the 5th day of Xovember, 1840, 
to Elizabeth Simerson, a native of this coun- 
ty. Her parents were natives of Maryland, 
and very early settlers of Greene county, 
coming in 1801. They were the parents oi 
four children. Politically he was a Demo- 
crat ; voted first for General Jackson. Re- 
ligiouslv he was by birth and early training 
a Quaker, but on account of joining the 
armv was expunged, and ever afterward pre- 
ferred to have a creed not circumscribed by 
the doctrines of any church. Mr. Sander's 
name will forever live as one of the pioneers 
of Greene countv. Ohio. 



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JOSIAII ELAM, A SOLDIER OF THE REVO- 
LUTION. 

Josiah Elam and liis wife, Sarah A. 
(Porter) Elam. settled in what is now- 
known as Spring \'alley township in the 
spring of 11-^03. Mr. Elam was a native of 
Culpeper county, Virginia, and was born in 
1753. He had in 1801, previous to his set- 
tling in O'hio come out and selected a place 
for his future home, entering one thousand 
acres of land on Caesar"s creek. He was a 
soldier in the war of the Revolution, and in 
the French and Indian war held a captain",; 
commission under General St. Clair in the 
Indian campaign of 1791. He died Feb- 
ruary 28. i8ji, aged sixty-nine years, and 
is buried in the Elam graveyard in the 
orchard in front of what was known as the 
Ambrcjse Elam farm. The old home is sit- 
uated live miles south of Xenia near the 
Burlington pike. His family consisted of 
six sons and four daughters ; one of his 
sons, John, was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
The wife of Josiah Elam died September 25, 
1850, aged seventy-nine years, and is buried 
at his side; also his wife's mother, Susanna 
Porter, who died October 21, 1821, aged 
eighty-four years. 

^THE THREE ORIGIXAL FOUXDERS OF BELL- 
BROOK, HEXRV UPDYKE^ JAMES CLAX- 
CEY AND STEPHEN BELL. 

Henry Updyke was the eldest son of 
Captain Albert Updyke, a soldier of the 
Re\olution, from Xew Jersey. Henry was 
born in Bethlehem, Xew Jersey, Xovember 
16, 1774. and came to an untimely death by 
an accident in 1825. While digging a well 
on the Steele farm a mattock fell on him 



while he was down in the well. He was 
buried in what was known as the Methodist 
Episcopal church yard, which was on the 
southwest corner of Thomas White's farm. 
Afterward his body was removed with other 
deceased members of the family to the cem- 
etery at Dayton, Ohio. 

He built the brick house on the farm and 
owned the land on which the west part of 
Bellbrook now stands. He, with Stephen 
Bell and James Clancey, laid out the town 
in 1815. In another place in this took is a 
notice inserted in the "Vehicle," a paper 
published in Xenia in 1815, Samuel Pel- 
ham, editor, in which notice is given of the 
sale of the aforesaid lots. It is said there 
was some trouble in selecting a name for the 
place, but at length Air. Updyke suggested 
the name of Bellbrook, which was at once 
agreed upon and adopted. As can be seen, 
the town takes its name in part from the 
name of one of its founders, Stephen Bell, 
anil the latter part of it from the numerous 
streams and rivulets in that vicinity. 

JAMES CLANCEY. 

In tracing the history of the old pioneers 
of the county it is a source of regret that 
our records do not extend farther back than 
1803. James Clancey's name appears on the 
roll of the first enumeration that was taken 
of the free white male inhabitants over the 
age of twenty-one. He was a native of Vir- 
ginia, and had located in what is now 
known as Sugarcreek township, Greene 
county, and on the present site of the vil- 
lage of Bellbrook some time previous to 
1803. It might be truthfully said of him 
that he was a tavern keej-jer fnmi "away 
back." As has been said elsewhere he had 



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i)urchasecl tlie first cabin that Iiad been erect- 
ed by Joseph C. Vance, in 1797, to be used 
as a kitchen to his new tavern, whicli he had 
completed, to accommodate liis large and 
growing trade. His bar-room was the re- 
sort of the choice spirits, in more senses 
than one, of the surrounding country. On 
the long winter evenings they would con- 
gregate around the huge fireplace and after 
sundry visits to the bar would while away 
many hours in recounting their adventures 
\\ ith the Indians and bears as the case might 
be. Many a weary tra\-eler slaked his thirst 
and found a comfortable bed beneath their 
hospitable roof. Captains Robert McClel- 
land, .\nimi Maltbie antl Captain John Clark 
had each recruited and taken fmni the town- 
ship full companies of men, and during the 
war of 181J, and after, Clancey's tavern 
was matle "headquarters," thc\- would often 
meet here with the rank and file of their com- 
panies and fight over their battles again and 
again. So much can be gleaned and gath- 
ered here and there even after so long a 
time of this historic old township that one 
hardly knows when to stop. One petition 
of cur subject. Mr. Clancey, to kee]> tavern 
in Bellbrook. the original of which the com- 
piler of this sketch has in his possession as 
custodian of the county, we will here co])y : 
"To the honoral.ile judges of the court of 
common pleas of Greene county. The peti- 
tion of the undersigned free holders of 
Sugarcreek townshi]> humbly represent to 
yi>ur honors that we conceive a i)ublic house 
of entertainment in said township would 
conduce to the public convenience. We 
therefore recommend James Clancey. one of 
our citizens, as a man of good character and 
in e^•ery way calculated to keep a public 
house. \\ e therefiire pray your honors 



would grant him a license for that purpose 
and your petitioners as in duty bound will 
ever pray. Signed. January. the 22d, 1816, 
John Hutchison, .\ndrew Bird. Joseph Gil- 
lispie, James Gillispie, David Lamme, Will- 
iam Standley and Alexander Armstrong." 

Rev. Robert Armstrong, on his first ar- 
rival from Kentucky in answer to a call to 
become pastor of the Associate or Seceders, 
as they were then called, preached first at 
the house of James Clancey, present site of 
Bellbrook, to he following families : Esq. 
John and his brother, Joseph McKnight, 
John and Joseph C. Vance, whose son was 
afterward governor of Ohio ; Captain Na- 
than Lamme; \\'illiam and James Tanner; 
the three Snodgrass brothers, William, 
James and Robert : two Snowdens. James 
and Jacob; Abraham ^'an Eaton and others. 
.\ few of these were meml)ers of the Asso- 
ciate Reformed and Presbyterian churches, 
but were glad to listen to ^Ir. Armstrong. 

About 182P Mr. Clancey removed to near 
Flat Rock, Indiana, with his family, all but 
I'.is son. Dr. James Clancey. Jr.. who had 
about one vear previous formed an alliance 
fur life with the daughter of Dr. William 
Frazier, which event reads as follows : "Au- 
gust 12, 1819. married at the home of the 
bride, Mr. James Clancey, Jr., to Miss Sarah 
Frazier, daughter of Dr. William Frazier." 

James Clancey. Sr.. on his arrival at his 
new home. Flat Rock, Indiana, purchased 
eightv acres of land, and not far from the 
creek erected his cabin, where he continued 
to reside near two of his former Greene 
county nighbors, Mr. Van Pelt and Mr. 
Avery, until 1822, when his life's work was 
done and he was called home, and was buried 
in the graveyard not far from his home, 
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Back fruni the mcutli of Conn's creek in the 
fork thus formed was the graveyard in 
which was iiut away all that was mortal of 
James Clancey, Sr. After his deatli his two 
sons. CJeorg^ and William, returned to their 
old home. Rev. J. F. Hutchison, of Xenia, 
is a grandson of Mr. Clancev, and many 
other citizens here and elsewhere are the de- 
scendants of this grand old pioneer. The 
first election ever held in Sugarcreek town- 
sliij) was by order of the court held in the 
house of James Clancey, and it was for 
years the voting place of the .'ownshi;,. 

STEPHEN BELL. 

Stephen Bell was born in Xew Jersey, 
August J 8, 1774. and was married to Aliss 
HannalT Scudder in Lycoming county, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1795. Of this union there were 
born ele\ en children, viz. ; John S., Will- 
iam, Charles, Aaron, Rebecca, Mary, 
Xaoini, Permelia, Casander, Benjamin ant! 
Franklin J. Little is known of his early 
da\s except that he learned the trade of a 
millwright in the east, and there being a 
demand f^r that kind of skilled labor in the 
west he with his family mo\-ed to Ohio in 
the early ])art of 1812, stopping for a short 
time (jn the James Trnvler farm west of 
Xenia. 

.\I)out 1813 or J 8 14 he bought out and 
iiKjvcd on the farm now owned by Jacob 
Haines, living on that property at the time 
of the marriage of his five daughters, so you 
can imagine the (dd property has seen some 
fun within its walls. He worked at his 
trade while living there and helped to t)uild 
several mills on the Miami river, and also 
built a mill for Henry Updyke on Sugar 
creek just above the Escj. Ferguson prop- 
erty. The older Bellbrook "boys" can yet 



remember the old frame where so often they 
have played "hide and seek" after it played 
out as a mill. About the year 18 15 Stephen 
Bell and Henry Updyke purchased of James 
Snowden the southeast of centei of section 
2 (2.6) ; the lands embraced all of east part 
of the above section, being then all the west- 
ern part of Bellbrook. The town had been 
surveyed and laid otif in lots and a notice 
sent to Mr. Samuel Pelham. editor of the 
Vehicle, a paper publisheil in Xenia. calling 
attention to tlie new town, anil also to the 
date when the sale would take place. 

THE VILLAGE OF BELLBROOK. 

Taken from the "Xenia V'ehicle,"" a pa- 
per published in Xenia, 1815, owned by 
James Galloway, Samuel Pelham, editor ; 

NOTICE. 

The subscribers hax'ing laid out the town 
of Bellbrook in the county of Greene. Sugar- 
creek township, on the great mad that leads 
by James Clancey's ta\-ern, leading from 
Lebanon to Urbana, and where the road 
crosses leading from Franklin to Wilming- 
ton. The lots in said town will be sold at 
public sale to the highest bidder on Satur- 
day, the 7th day of October, ensuing. Tlie 
terms of the sale will l)e made kn(jwn on 
the day of sale. The situation of the town 
is healthy^ and convenient to springs which 
can be easily conveyed through the town. 
Saw and grist mills within a mile, .\djoin- 
ing the town lands is a stream of water on 
which all kinds of machinery may be erect- 
ed. Signed, September 19, 1813. 

Stephen Bell. 

Henry Updyke. 

J.\me.s Clancey. 
Sale to be Octoljer 7. 1815. 



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Tlie limits of the town as then laid out 
extended north to the alley that runs be- 
tween the properties of George Webb and 
Samuel Willi lUi^'hliy. On the ■ixcst to the 
street that runs from this alley south. On 
the south to what is known as the lower 
street. And on the east to the street that runs 
frum the southeast corner of David Rape's 
lot north to a large rock that still is to be 
seen a little west of the two apple trees on 
"HoiikiiTs Hill." The lots were in Xo. 84, 
each fi)ur rods wide and ten rods long on 
each side of Main street. The first sale 
of lots on the date above stated took place; 
Aaron Xutt, an old pioneer of Centerville, 
Montgomery county, Ohio, was the auction- 
eer on this occasion. 

Mr. Bell about the year 1832 or 1833 
sold this farm where his children had grown 
up to manhood and womanhood and liought 
a farm across the road (reaching from the 
south line of the new cemetery to the north 
line of the Lewis Kemp farm, and on which 
is built all that, part of the town east of 
North Main street ) from the venerable 
Judge Jdlrn McLane. on which stood the 
tavern then kept by William Edwards. 
where the young men and maidens often met 
to while awav the evening hours in the d^un- 
try dance. 

In 1838 ]\rr. I'ell had a se\-ere attack of 
western fever, and Iowa then being the El- 
dorado of Xnrth America he sold his farm 
to Ca])tain John C. Mur|)h\'. intending to 
move there, but his wife dying in May, 1839, 
changed his iilans for his future course in 
life. He served one term in the legislature 
of Ohio as a representative from Greene 
county. From 182J to 1828 he served 
Greene county as one of her county com- 
missioners. In 1839 he married the widow 



Daughterty, of Springfield, Ohio, and made 
that place his home, where he was an hon- 
ored citizen, serving as the first mayor of the 
city, and afterward li\ing a quiet, unassum- 
ing life until the time of his death, May 14, 
1852, It is said that Mr. Bell in his old 
age, knowing that time with him would 
soon close, and having a mental dread of 
being laid away in the cold, cold ground, 
where no kindly eye or loving friends could 
ever see him again, he had a vault built in 
the Green Mount cemetery east of the cit\', 
corner of Main street and Green Mount 
avenue, Springfield, Ohio. He was placed 
therein and there he is to-day resting to ail 
appearances as natural as the day he fell 
asleep. One of his great-grandsons visited 
the vault a few days ago, and on coming 
home remarked, "How much grandfather 
looks like Uncle Benedict."' The body was 
petrified. Mr. Bell was also a soldier in the 
war of 1812, under Cajstain Robert Mc- 
Clelland. 

E.\-.\SSOCI.\TE JLDOl-: JOll.X MC l..\XE. 

John McLane entered the land on which 
\\'illiam Huston now resides. His cabin, 
which was erected near the site of the pres- 
ent residence, was rudeh- constructed of 
rough logs. He was a bachelor, and here 
with no other companion but a dog and his 
rifle he lived. Often at night, while repos- 
ing on his lonely couch, he heard coming 
from the depths of the forest solitude around 
him the piercing scream of the wild cat and 
the hungry hcui of the w-olf. To protect 
himself from these beasts he each night 
made and kept a large fire in front of the en- 
trance to his abode. Even at that day he 
was known as a "queer genius." and many 



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are the anecdotes told of his eccentricity. 
One of these we will relate. While at vari- 
ous log rollings in the sui:rounding country 
he had heard the settlers boasting much of 
tiie prowness of their dogs in fighting wild 
cats. This made IMcLane feel a little en- 
vious, and one day while out hunting his 
dogs treed one of these animals. Xijthing 
could have pleased John better, and he im- 
mediately set about to see what kind of wild 
cat dogs his were. Setting his gun by the 
side of a tree he Ijegan to climb tiie one 
"outer was the cat," but he had not climbed 
within more than ten feet of the "varmint" 
when it rolled up its back, set its hairs all 
the wrong way and looked him right in the 
eye. He tried to draw off its attention, but 
no, said he, "No whar would it look but 
right in mc c\-e." He licgan to descend the 
tree slowly and cautiously at first but more 
rapidly as he neared the ground. Once 
again on solid earth he grasped his rifle and, 
after (|uieting the "buck ager" that had ta- 
ken possession of him, brought it to his 
shoulder and sent the ball crashing through 
the brain of his foe. He used to sa_\' when 
relating" this adventure that it was the only 
time in his life that he was "skared," and 
that it was the first and last time that he 
e\er tried to shake a ])ainter "offen" a tree. 
John ]\lcLane came from Lexington, 
Kentucky, and entered the land where his 
body lies buried. He came some time jire- 
\-ious to 1803, as his name appears on the 
records at that date. 'J'he associate judges 
a])piiinted him on the 15th of Xovember, 
1804. to be (3ne of the commissioners in 
place of Jcihn Sterritt, who bad resigned. 
We also find that he was one of the associate 
judges nf (ireene county, and while he may 
not have lieen a well educated man, he was 



a man of good judgment and sterling 
worth. It is said of him that being a 
bachelor, and having no children of bis own, 
he used to speak his mind pretty freel_\- when 
speaking of our legislators, who would enact 
a law that would compel him to pay for 
schooling other people's children, and de- 
nominated such as "a set of dung-hill gods," 
from which he jirayed to be delix'ered. 

\IS1T TO TIIF. GR.WE OF JOHN ilC LAXE. 

The compiler of this sketch paid a visit 
to liis tomb one bright day in June, 1899, 
and was well repaid for the \isit. Leaving 
the cars at Shoup's Station, on the Pan- 
handle Railroad, I started from there due 
sou:th toward !Mt. Zion church, which is 
about two miles fri:)m said station. I stopped 
at the home of Capt. Benjamin Darst to 
inquire as to where was the tomb of John 
McLane, and was told that it was at least 
three miles from his home, and "Yonder is 
my horse and in that shed is my buggy : you 
.shall not walk," and, in almost as short a 
time as it takes me tt^ write abotit it, the 
captain had me seated in his buggy. "And 
now for the direction: keep right on the di- 
rection south, that \'ou ha\'e been in coming 
here: cross the p'ike that leads past ]\It. Zion, 
contiinie the same direction until you come 
to another pike that leads toward Dayton; 
tiu-n to the right and go about two miles, 
which will lead you to where, on your right 
hand, you will find a building that used to be 
the "toll-gate house:" at that place near you 
w ill find a narrow lane on the right : drive 
north about one-half mile and in the woods 
on the left you will find it." I did not for- 
get a single direction that the captain gave 
me, and was soon there. .\nd, clim1)ing the 



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fence, soon had transferred fnim the tomb- 
stone to my book tlie following : "Here hes 
the remains of John McLane, who died Uc- 
tol>er 21, 1848, aged eight} -three years and 
ele\-en months. 

Let no one disturl) my humlile C(jt, nor 

i)realv my peacefnl rest, — 
Till corrupt earth shall be no more, and 

saints be continuously blest." 

With the words that I have copied from 
liis liroken tombstone still ringing in my ears 
" Let no one distiuMj my iuimble cot", it 
looked as though his wish had been respect- 
ed, and for fifty-one years no one had been 
near that lonely grave. Back from the lane, 
over the fence I had worked my way among 
the thick underlinish and \'ines, and there 
about twelve feet from the fence was a stone 
enclosure about four feet in height, the walls 
two feet thick, the end next to the east about 
eight feet from out to out, and twelve feet 
long from out to out, the one acre of ground 
that had been reserved for a burial place. 
It looked as though in the past the primitive 
lorcst had been cut off, and the present 
growth of trees had grown to their present 
heig^'ht. 

The walls tlial kind friends had erected 
around where his bodv had been laid were 
broken and had fallen inward from either 
side, and had hid from \"iew the grave of 
John IMcLane. Out from among the stones 
had sprung up grape \-ines at least two inch- 
es in diameter. The tombstone was broken, 
/)ne half of whicli was supported and kept 
from falling by the \-ines aforesaid. The 
woiid in which this one acre of ground had 
T)een reserved and in which was the tomb, 
<loes not look unlike it did wdien its owner 



used to travel through it near one hundred 
years ago, 'Tis true tlie white man has 
destroyed the wild game that was so plen- 
tiful in the days of Mr. IsIcLane l>nt the face 
of nature remains unchanged ; as you stand 
and gaze, the silence of this spot seems un- 
broken and while standing alone you almost 
expect to see some of the objects that used 
to be seen, to hear the cry of t!ie wild cat. 
or the howling of the wolf. 'Tis a scene 
both wild and wierd and well repaws a visit. 

JOHN C. HALE, SR. 

John C. Hale was a son of James Hale, 
who was lx)rn in England in 17,17. He first 
settled in Baltimore county, Maryland, in 
1767. He removed to Blair county, Penn- 
s} Ixania. How long he resided in the latter 
Plate is not certain. He removed from Penn- 
sylvania to Mason county, Kentucky, where 
he died in iSor or 1802. His home in Ken- 
tuckv was on Clark's run not far from 
P>rant's Station, nine miles from ]\Iaysville. 
John Hale had taken to him.self as wife Miss 
Catherine Baird, who was born in 1774, and 
was of Welsh descent. Of this marriage 
there were born eight children : Rebecca, 
Joseph, Lydia, John, Hannah, James, Thom- 
as and Silas. 

In 1802 the widow came to what was 
tlnn the Northwestern territory with her 
cliildren and settled in that parr that is no\v 
known as the great state of Ohio, county 
of Greene and Sugarcreek town-^hi]j. In the 
first enumeration of the male inhabitants 
over the age of twenty-one taken by James 
Collier and completed August 10. 1803. we 
find the names of three of Mr. Hale's chil- 
dren, who were of the required age, name- 
ly : Joseph, John and Thomas. James 



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Hale"s name appearing first on tlie list of 
voters October, 1805. and Silas, the last son, 
voting for the first time in April. 1826. 
After 1810 none are left in tlie county save 
John and his son. Silas Hale. Jr. In the 
year 1802 John Hale built a log cabin on the 
present site of the residence of William 
Lansing. In this cabin our late venerable 
friend, Silas Hale. Jr.. was born, and near 
it. when a child, he matle a narrow escape 
from being devoured by a hungry bear, but 
through the efiforts of his mother he was 
rescued. The floor of this cabin was made 
of planks sawed out by hand, there being 
a; that time no sawmills in the neighbor- 
hood, and but few in the county. This cabin 
was afterward torn down, hauled to Bell- 
brook and re-erected by Joseph Gillespie at 
the rear of tlie house in which ^Irs. \'aughn 
used to live. The method of sawing plank 
in that day was novel : the log was first hewn 
square, then lined on two opposite sides, one 
erid of it was raised to a scaffoling, so that 
it stood on such an incline as to admit of 
one standing under and another on top of 
the log both using the saw with ease. Those 
days have passed and gone, and the savage 
"swish" of the saw as it is drawn by steam 
or water power is now heard in the land. 
John Hale, the subject of this sketch, re- 
moved from the county to Kosciusko 
county. Indiana, in 1838. He was born 
Xovenil)er 25, 1775, and died in Kosciusko 
county September 25, 1845, 3'"^^! was buried 
in the Dunkard graveyard in Jackson town- 
ship, that county. 

Silas Hale, Jr., son of John, took unto 
himself as a wife, Miriam Updyke, daugh- 
ter of Henry and Catherine Updyke. .-'v 
sketch of Henry Updyke as one of the foun- 
ders of the town of Bellbrook appears in 



this book. To Silas Hale and liis wife were 
born ten children, seven sons antl three 
daughters. Mr. Hale was born August 26, 
1803, and died June 20, 1889. Mrs. Hale, 
the widow of Silas, was born February 5, 
1814. and was in 1S99 still living, and it ;s 
hoped that she will l>e left for many years 
to be what she ever has been, a source of 
pleasure to her numerous friends, children 
and grandchildren. To the descendants yet 
living of this family it is a pleasure to meet 
them, and kindly thoughts of them you will 
have when j-ou say g(X)dbye. 

MOSES WALTON. 

Moses Walton, one of the pioneers of 
Greene county, was born i;>n the 27th day u' 
June, 1809, in what is now Spring \"alley 
township. His parents were Edward Wal- 
ton and Deborah Allen. His father was one 
of the earliest pioneers of Greene county, 
coming in 1806 from Virginia. He was 
born on the 30th of January, 1777, in Shen- 
andoah county, Virginia, and belonged to a 
family who bore their part in the Revolution. 
The Walton family, of four brothers, orig- 
inally came from England, and in 1664 set- 
tled near Philadelphia. They were the ad- 
vance of William Penn's Quaker colony. 
Tlie Walton family to-day. on both sides, 
hold to the creed of their forefathers. The 
father of the subject of this sketch departed 
this life on the 10th day of April. 1867. in 
Spring Valley township, having reached the 
advanced age of ninety years and seven 
months, and was buried in the Caesarscreek 
Friends' churdi^ard. south of New Burling- 
ton. He had through life been a farmer, 
and a man of stanch integrity and useful- 
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Mcses began life on liis own resources as a 
farmer, in Spring \'alle}', wh^re he ever 
afterward resided. On the 30th day of Oc- 
tol)er, iiS34, lie was united in marriage to 
Mary Cook, a daugliter of John Cook, one 
of the first pioneers of Warren county. She 
died March 13. 1844, aged twenty-eight 
years, leaving h\e children. On the ist of 
October Mr. Walton was united in marriage 
to ivachel Reagon, a daughter of Reason 
Reagon, one of the early pioneers of War- 
ren county, Oliio. She died April Jo. 1844, 
aged twenty-three years, leaving one child. 
Mr. Walton was united in marriage to De- 
borah Johnson, a daughter of Josepli .\. 
Ji'hnson. an early ])ioneer of Highland coun- 
ty, on the 19th of Sei)teml)er, 1849. ^'''• 
;ii;d Mrs. Walt<in were the parents of eight 
cliildren. Mr. Walton died January 8. 1887, 

in his sexenty-seventh year. 

I 

RICII.XRI) CVXXI.\'Gn.\M. A SOLDIER OF THE 
REVOLUTION. 

His name is found upon the records of 
(jreene county. Ohi(j, first in the enumera- 
tion of the inhabitants of Sugarcreek town- 
ship of the year 1S20. At that time he was 
the owner of lots Xos. 9, lO and 28 in the 
town of Bellbrnok. and afterward ran a 
hotel in that place, and was also constable 
in Sugarcreek township. "On the 30th of 
Ainil. 1827, personally appeared in court 
( ilie court of common pleas lor the county 
of Greene, being a court of record in the 
seventh circuit of the state of Ohio) Rich- 
ard Cunningham, a resident ot said county, 
aged seventv years, who tirst being duly 
sworn, according to law. doth on his oath 
say and make the following declaration in. 
order to obtain the priivision made by the 



acts of congress of the 18th of ^larch, 
1 818, and the i8th of May, 1820, "That he, 
the said Richard Cunningham, enlisted for 
the term of three years, some time in the 
spring of the year 1777, in Franklin coun- 
t\ , in the state of Pennsylvania, in the com- 
pany commanded by Captain Crawford, in 
the regiment commanded by Colonel Dun- 
lap, in the line of the state of Pennsylvania 
on the military continental establishment. 
As well as his recollection serves him, lie 
knows that at the battle of Brandywine he 
was commanded by Colonel IJunlap, but at 
the battle of Germantown he w as under the 
coinmand of General Armstrong. Then 
when that part of the army to which he be- 
longed went into winter cpiarters at \'alley 
Forge he was detained to drive a public 
team, which he followed for a consideraljle 
time, after which he was attached to and did 
duty in a ril1e company under various of- 
ficers, in scouting or spying parties: the 
names of these latter officers he does not 
now recollect. That he continued to serve 
in this latter species of service until the ex- 
piration of his term of service, when he was 
honorably discharged at the town of Lan- 
caster, in the state of Pennsylvania, having 
previously received a certificate in the state 
of New Jerse_\'. .Soon after his discharge 
he volunteered his services for one year, and 
served as a rifleman for that time in scouting, 
spying, etc. He was afterw-ards out for 
nine months in General Mcintosh's cam- 
l-aign against the Indians as a pack-horse 
man. and served one year in the late war 
{1812) under Lieutenant John Hopkins, of 
the corps of rangers (I think from Warren 
countv, Oliio)." He had one son by his sec- 
ond wife. Richard S. Cunningliam, who at 
this time (1827) was fifteen \-ears of age. 



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His pension was ailmved. and he was placed 
on tlie roll May 4. iS^^^. His pension com- 
menced ^larch 4. 1831, at the rate of eighty 
dollars per year. 

SACKETT FARM, IX ONE XAME, FROM 1 799 
TO 1899. 

The following is taken from the "Fjell- 
brook ^loon :" "One hundred years ago 
Cyrus Sackett, accompanied by his wife and 
three children, came from Kentucky and set- 
tled on wiiat has been known in later years 
as the Alexander Sackett farm. Mr. Sackett 
bought this farm of one hundred and fifty 
acres at two dollars per acre. They arrived 
there on October 17, at three o'clock in the 
afternoon. The land was then covered with 
dense forests. He, however, cleared a small 
space, where they pitched their tents made 
of bed clothes, in which they managed to 
live for some time. Mr. Sackett then built 
a log cabin, which was called a round-log 
cabin, in which they lived for several years. 
He then built a large hewed-log house, 
wliicli was at that time considered \-erv fine. 
Here INlr. Sackett and wife spent the re- 
mainder of their lives. After their death the 
farm was di\ided into two parts and sold. 
Alexander Sackett bought the eastern part 
contain.ing eig-bty acres, and Preston Poaguc 
bought the remainder of the farm, which is 
now owned l)y the heirs of the late Benjamin 
Vaughan. Alexander Sackett held this farm 
in his possession until his death, which oc- 
curred April TO, 1893. The farm was then 
purchased ji^intlv 1;\- Phineas \\'ilson and 
Emily Sackett, grandchildren of Cyrus 
Sackett. The farm remained in their pos- 
session until the end of the year 1899, when 
they sold it to Jacob Carey. Thus it passed 



out of the Sackett name after being in their 
possession one hundred years, two months 
and eighteen days. This is a very rare oc- 
curance." 

In tile old Baptist grax'eyard about one 
mile south of the village of Bellbrook lies all 
that is mortal of Cyrus Sackett, Sr. Many 
more of historic worth also are buried there ; 
among the number are Rev. Josiah Carman, 
the veteran pioneer Baptist preacher, Cap- 
tain Ammi Maltbie, who made a name for 
himself in the war of 1812, Andrew Byrd, 
Sr., and others. Mr. Cyrus Sackett, Sr., 
died at his home July 13. 1846, aged eighty- 
three years, leaving his wife. Xancy, and the 
following children : sens. Alexander, Jo- 
seph, Samuel and Cyrus Sackett, Jr. ; daugh- 
ters, Sarah Hand, Mrs. Anna Hoblet and 
]Mrs. Poague. 

GEORGE HIXEY, A SOLDIER OF THE REVO- 
LUTIOX, 

Was Ixjrn in 1754 and died }ilay 21, 1S49. 
at the good old age of ninety-five years. He 
was a native of Penns_\I\-ania, and at the 
time of the Revolutionary war was a private 
soldier in the Pennsylvania militia. The 
records on file in the pension office at Wash- 
ington, D. C, show that he was drawing a 
pension, and was then a resident of Greene 
county, Ohio. His annual allowance was 
se\enty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. He 
applied for the pension May 4, 1831, being 
al that time se\'enty-nine years old, and he 
was placed on the roll October 12, 1833. 
.\fter the close of the war he removed first 
to \'irginia. and from that state in 1820 to 
Ohio, settling in Greene county, where he 
continued to live until his death. 

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were a liard-working, Imnest set of men. 
Just over tlie line in Clinton ctiunty, near 
Luniljerton. is a l)eaiitiful little cemetery; in 
that lies all that is mortal of this old hero, 
George Hiney. .\t his side lies his wife, 
Mary, who died September 22, 1858, aged 
eighty-one years. His son Henry also lies 
there: he died Septeml)er 24, 1869. at the 
age of eighty years. 

FIRST COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 

The gathering of the pioneers of Greene 
county in what is known as Beavercreek 
township, August 2, 1803. The wheat har- 
vest had been gathered by many of the early 
pioneers in the young count}-. Work by 
manv had licen laid aside, and some had re- 
ceived notice to ap])ear at the house of Owen 
Davis, which was situated five and one-half 
miles west of the now city of Xenia, on the 
farm now (1900) known as the Harbine 
farm. Others came out of curiosity ; some 
few had come in the night before, and were 
the guests of mine host, Peter Borders, who 
was at that time the tenant of Owen Davis, 
who was ready to supply the wants of both 
man and l>east with the necessities of life 
arid comfort. Some had traveled far 
through the trackless forest. Tomorrow 
v.ould be a great day in the history of the 
new made county and of Beavercreek town- 
ship. Three months previous there had been 
a gathering. May 10, 1803, for the purpose 
of organizing the county into townships and 
other matters pertaining to starting the 
wheels of the county government. But this 
da}- had lieen spoken of among the few 
hardy settlers as they would meet to assist 
each other in the erection of their cabin 
homes in the few townships then organized ; 



tomorrow would l>e a chance to meet hardy 
men like themselves, representatives from 
the four townships which constituted Cireene 
county. This day was to be a countv re- 
union. 

It was to l)e a great day in the county, 
and the people were gathered in large num- 
bers ; here was the presiding judge, and his 
associates, prosecuting attorney and grand 
jury; here was the coiui: house and jury 
room, and also the tavern of Peter Borders, 
whose bar was well supplied with whisky. 
What was the meaning of this gathering? 
The lirst court of common pleas for the new 
made county of Greene was to meet to-day. 
And it had been said on one occasion previ- 
ous to this, "there were giants in those 
days," so could it lie said i>f the cian-t and 
grand jury truthfully that had assembled 
at the house of Owen Davis on this oc- 
casion. And as the court has met. and the 
business of the dav conmienced, we will step 
inside and proceed to introduce the members 
of the court. First, the presiding judge 
is the 

HOX. FR.\XCIS DUNL.WY, OF W.\RREN 
COUNTY. 

This is his first visit to Greene county, 
which is one of the points on his circuit, 
which he continued to travel until 1817. A 
Virginian Ijy liirth, he was born near Win- 
chester, December 31, 1761. His father, 
Anthony Dunlavy, came from Ireland in 
1745. and took for a helpmate Hannah 
White, sister of Judge Alexander White, of 
Virginia. Of this marriage there were four 
sons and four daughters. Francis was the 
oldest son. He was a soldier in the war of 
the Revolution, was also twice a member of 



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ROBIXSO.VS HISTORY OF GKEEXE COUXTV. 



the legislature of the Xorthwestern terri- 
tory, and also a member of the convention 
that formed the first constitution of the state 
of Ohio, and was also a member of the first 
legislature of Ohio. The next member of 
the ciiurt is the 

HON. WILLIAM MAXWELL, 

One of the associate judges, who was nut 
unknown to the presiding judge, for both 
of them Ivad been members of the first legis- 
lature of Ohio, which had met ]\Iarch i. 
1803, at Chillicothe. Mr. Dunlavy was a 
member of the senate and Mr. Maxwell a 
member of the house, but in matters which 
■called for a joint session were brought face 
to face. This explains another item of his- 
tory. Mr. Ala.xwell being a member of the 
body that formulated and passed the act 
creating the new counties of Butler, Warren, 
Montgomery and Greene, whilst in the leg- 
islature had received the appointment of as- 
sociate judge, along with Benjamin White- 
man and James Barrett, and while there had 
taken the oath of office. When the court 
met "Slay 10, 1803, he administered the same 
to his two associates. I\Ir. Maxwell was 
akso a soldier, and he is said to have pub- 
lished the first paper printed in Cincinnati. 
He was a "resident of what is now known as 
Bea\ercreek township, Greene county, at the 
time be is credited as being a representati\'e 
from Hamilton county, Ohio. 

Mr. Maxwell resigned as associate judge 
and accepted the ofifice of sheriff' of Greene 
county, in place of Captain Nathan Lamme, 
who had first been appointed and served 
six months. He continued to act as sheriff 
imtil 1807. when he was relieved by Colonel 
James Collier, who had been his faithful 



deputy. It was while ]\Ir. Ma.xwell was 
sheriff, in 1806, that the notorious fight oc- 
curred between Ben Kizer and Aaron Beall. 
Mr. Maxwell in his attempt to uphold the 
majesty of the law rushed into the ring to 
stop the fight, received a blow that sent him 
reeling and bleeding from the ring. 

The next one sitting near Mr. Maxwell 
is one upon whose face if you once gazed 
you would li->ok again, attracted by his fine 
military look and bearing; that man was the 
companion of Daniel Boone and Simon Ken- 
ton, and is well known by all present as a 
brave soldier, 

GENERAL BEXJAMIX WHITEMAX, 

Another of the three associate judges of 
Greene county, and son-in-law of Owen 
Davis, the owner of the building in which 
the court is being held, which building 
General \\'hiteman had erected for his fa- 
ther-in-law in 1799. He is at this time in 
the prime of life in his thirty-fourth year. 
He was liorn on the 12th day of March, 
1769, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania. AX'hen but thirteen years of age he 
had emigrated to Kentucky, about seven 
years after the first white settlement had 
been made by Colonel Daniel Boone, and 
settled near Limestone (now Maysville). 
He himself says he came to Beavercreek 
township in 1799. 

Th.e ne.xt and last associate judge sitting 
near Mr. Whiteman is 

JAMES BARRETT, OF SfGARCREEK. 

He was a native of Virginia, and on 
coming to this township in 1802 his family 
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95 



cliiUlrcn. two sons, James and Philip, and 
dangliters Eleanor and Hannah. He was at 
this time well up in years, and the inlirmities 
of age were beginning to show that he had 
reached the top of the hill and had com- 
menced going down. In cuming into the 
township he located on the land better known 
as the farm of Robert Tate, nortiiwest of 
the present village of Bellbrook, being south 
part of section 9 (2.6). His boys were hale, 
hearty fellows, James at this time being 
twenty-one years old, and I'liilip nineteen, 
and as they all had their Imme in common 
the father and mother were well cared for. 
Mr. Barrett and his family in first coming to 
Hamilton county settled on Dick creek in 
what afterward was ] hitler county. 

The next member of the court that at- 
tract.-; our attention is that distinguished 
looking man that is present to act as pros- 
ecuting attorney, the 

HON. D.\XIEL SYMMS, 

A former native of Xew York, who had 
emigrated early to the Northwestern terri- 
tory, and had settled in what proved to be 
Hamilton county. He ha<l Ijeen chosen to 
represent Hamilton county in the first ses- 
sion of the legislature which met at Chilli- 
cothe. March i, 1803, and was a member 
of the senate of said body, and here it was 
that "Hon." was first prefi.xed to his name. 
He makes the fourth member of that honor- 
able body that is now present at this first 
court of common pleas, which met at the 
house of Peter Borders.. The others are His 
Honor Francis Dunlavy, of \\'arren coun- 
ty ; John Paul, the etificient clerk of the court 
and whose home was at this time at what is 
now known as Trebein's Station, where he 



first settfed when, in 1800, he came to (ireene 
county. Here Mr. Paul had. as it were, har- 
nessed the waters of the Little Miami to 
run his sawmill, and it was known at the 
time as "Paul's mill." These three, a short 
time before, were members of the senate, 
and William Maxwell, of whom we have 
sjxjken l>efore, was a member nf tlie hini^e 
of that first legislature. 

Over the hill southeast of where the hon- 
orable court is now sitting is the home, and 
was when he was in this first legislature of 
Ohio, of William Ma.xwell. "Honor to 
whom honor is due." History says that 
Messrs. Paul and Maxwell were members 
from Plamilton county, which was in part 
true, nevertheless they were residents at the 
time of what is now known as Greene 
county. 

Mr. Symms continued to represent Ham- 
ilton county, and was the s])eaker of the 
senate for the years 1804 and 1805. 

THE FIRST GRAND JURY OF GREENE COUNTY. 

Over in the corner sit the members of the 
grand jury, a fine looking" body of men. 
Sugarcreek township is well represented on 
said jury. Out of the fourteen. Sugarcreek 
has seven, namely, Joseph C. Vance, John 
Wilson. William Buckles, Abraham Van 
Eaton. James Snodgrass, Robert Marshall 
and Alexander Armstrong. ?ilad River 
township for some cause was not represented 
on this first "grand jury." Caesarscreek 
was represented by William I. Stewart, w-ho 
was cliosen as foreman, and Martin Men- 
denhall and Joseph Wilson. Beavercreek 
township, in which the court was being held, 
was represented by John Judy, E\-an JNlor- 
gan, Jolm Buckhannon and Harry Martin. 



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REV. MOSES SHOUP, 

Son uf George and Chaiiutte Shoup. was 
born in Frederick county, ^Maryland, on the 
I St day of October, 1793. and emigrated to 
Greene county in the spring of 1805. His 
life was one of usefuhiess, and his kind and 
genial disposition won for him the good will 
of all. He was a faithful minister in the 
German Baptist church fur more than fifty 
years. He was married to Elizabeth ]\Iil- 
ler in the year 1818, and with whom he 
lived more than fifty years. She died in 
1877. Mr. Shoup died ]\Iay 7, 1880, in his 
eighty-seventh year, and is buried at ;\It. 
Zion churchyard. His grandfather, Martin 
Shoup. was a native of Switzerland, and his 
three sons, George and Solomon settled in 
Beavercreek township, whilst Samuel made 
his home in Bath township the short time 
that he lived after coming to Ohio. He died 
at his home in Bath township, July 18, 1812, 
aged fory years, and is Imried along side of 
his wife, Dorothy, who died March 28, 1837, 
at the age of sixty-four years. Both are 
buried in what is known as the "Cost grave- 
vard," in sight of Fairfield, Bath township, 
Ohio. George Shoup, Sr., father of ]\Ioses 
Shoup. was the father of the following chil- 
dren : Moses, George, Solomon, David, 
and one daughter, Mary Hawk, living in 
Frederick county, ^Maryland. Rev. Moses 
Shoup" s children who arrived at adult age 
consisted of the following: One son, Daniel 
M. Shoup, and daughters. Airs. Charlotte 
Coy. Mrs. Catharine Gearhart, Mrs. Sarah 
Wampler, Mrs. Harriet Brubaker and Mrs. 
Rebecca Ann Darst. 

S.\ML"EL .\LLISOX, SR. 

Mr. Allisi n was a soldier in the war of 



1812. He was married to ]^Iiss Mary Cad- 
well in Xurthumberland county, Pennsyl- 
vania, December 17, 1816, and in the fall 
of 1820 he, with his wife and two children, 
emigrated to Ohio, settling first in Franklin, 
Warren county. They came in true emi- 
grant style with wagon and four horses at- 
tached, and were six weeks making the jour- 
ney. After residing in Franklin two years 
the family removed to Beavercreek town- 
ship, Greene county, in tiie year 1822, and 
settled near what is known as Harbine's 
Station, and continued to live there until 
the year 1S34, when they removed to Shel- 
by county, Ohio, into what might be termed 
then the back woods of Ohio, and for a 
number of years endured all the hardships of 
frontier life. Mr. Allison died and was 
Ijuried in Shelby county. For a while 
when they \\\td in Beavercreek town- 
ship they resided in that ever to be 
rememljered house, the house of Peter 
Borders. Greene county's first place vi 
holding courts. And here in this house some 
of their children were born. After the death 
of Mr. Allison the mother was left with a 
family of nine children, the care of which 
was thrown upon her, and well did she do 
her part. Mrs. Allison's parents emigrated 
from the north of Ireland in 1782 to Cum- 
berland county, Pennsylvania, and were of 
the highest type of Scotch Presbyterians, 
and she inherited all the traits of character 
peculiar to that race of people to a very liigh 
degree. In 1882 six of her children were 
living, three sons and three daughters. 
James, the eldest, when quite a boy, learned 
the mercantile business with Samuel Puter- 
baugh : William, the well known insurance 
agent ; and Samuel, manufacturer of liinder 
twine : also another son. Robert, who emi- 



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grated tci Kansas, settling at Olatlia, thirty- 
five miles south of Kansas City, Missouri. 

THE COMING OF THE H.AKBINES TO GREENE 
COUNTY. 

I*"ew families have been as successful in 
tracing their ancestors back to "the long 
ago" as lias been the case with this honored 
famil}-. i'he history as gleaned here an<l 
there reads almost like the beginning of fic- 
tion. The Harbine family descended from 
the Huguenots, and their early ancestors 
were driven from their native France to 
lands where thev might wnrship according 
to the dictates of their own consciences. 
Three families of that name left their native 
lands about the \ear 1700. One family set- 
tled in Algiers, where a small town now 
now bears their name. The other two came 
to the United States, one settling in West 
Virginia, and the dther in Herks county, 
Penns_\-lvania. Peter Harbine was at the 
head of the Jast family spoken of. and was 
the ancestor of our Greene county Harbines. 
Briefly fullowing out the Scrijjtnral form. 
we would say of John Harbine. he was the 
son of Daniel, who was the son of Adam, 
who was the son of Peter Harliine. who in 
1749 purchased a tract of land from Thom- 
as and William Penn in the then province 
of Pennsylvania. Daniel Harbine, Sr., had 
removed to Washington county, Maryland, 
where. January 17. 1804, the subject of this 
sketch, John Harbine, was born, and there 
continued to reside until the year 1828. He 
was married in Lancaster county, Pennsyl- 
vania. August 21. 1827. to Miss Hester 
Herr, and the year following, with his young 
wife, started for their new home. They 
drove through in a carriage, and not long 



after Mr. Harbine"s arrival he purchased 
the land on which stood the first court house 
for Greene county, in Beavercreek township. 
They moved intO' the building thus obtained, 
and the husband occupied himself as miller 
and owner of the Owen Da\-is mill, the first 
that was built in Greene county. He con- 
tinued milling for some years, and finally 
built extensive oil, flour and woolen mills, 
together with the store, and became largely 
interested in the grain trade in .\enia. He 
also had two mills on the Miami river, 
where was erected the first cotton factory of 
this section, ami was largely interested in 
the dexelopment of the lurni)ike system, be- 
sides being instrumental in securing the 
building of the Little Miami road. He was 
warmly interested in the establishment of 
schools. Politically he was' a Whig, and 
later a Republican. Religiously he was a 
prominent member of the Reformed church. 
To him and his estimable wife there was 
born a family of eight children, ail of whom 
grew to mature years : Daniel R. ; Jacob 
H.. who i« still a resident of the old home; 
Marv E.. who was married to David G. 
Steele; Hattie M.. wh< became the wife of 
the Hon. John ^filler: Sarah J. married Dr. 
William Hagenbaugh : Anna C.. the wife of 
George Smith ; J. Thomas ; and B. F. Har- 
bine. 

June 8, 1873, after a life of usefulness, 
the father, John Harbine. died. .\t the age 
of eighteen he was received into full com- 
munion with the Reformed church at St. 
PauFs church, near Clear Springs. Mary- 
land. The esteem in which he was held as 
a citizen and neighbor was exinced by the 
large procession that followed his remains 
to their last resting place in \\'oodland cem- 
etery. Xenia. Ohio. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



THOMAS DAVIS. A SOLDIER OF THE REVO" 
LUTIOiX. 

At the September term of the court of 
common pleas of Greene county. Ohio, in 
tlie year 1821 personally appeared in open 
court before the court of common pleas 
Thomas Davis, aged sixty-five years last 
January, a resident of Bath township, in the 
county of Cireene aforesaid, who being 
sworn according to law doth on his oath de- 
clare that he served in the Revolutionary 
war, as follows : "I served as a private in 
the company commanded by Captain Thom- 
as Young, Western Battalion, in the regi- 
ment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Jo- 
seph Crockett, in the service of the United 
States." Mr. Davis had previous tO' this 
made a])plicatii:in and was recei\'ing a 
pension of eight dollars per month under 
what was termed "the law of 1S18." whicii 
pension was granted him at the rate of 
eight dollars per montli. He made that ap- 
plication in Clark county, Kentucky, previ- 
ous to his coming to Ohio. The date of his 
certificate under the law was No. 7258. He 
had at the time of making his last applica- 
tion two children living, a son, John Davis, 
who was then thirty-six years old, and was 
a cripple in his left arm, not able to help his 
parents ; and one daughter. Nancy Davis, 
aged sixteen years, who was acting as house- 
keeper. He farther states that he served five 
years in the Revolutionary war and three 
years under General Anthony Wayne. 

WILLIAM READ 

Died at "'Read's Hill," near Fairfield, De- 
cember 25, 1862. aged sixty-nine years. He 
was born in Paris, Kentucky, January 21, 



1793, and was the second child of Andrew 
and Catharine Read. During the year 
1799 he removed with his parents to Ohio 
and settled on ]SIad river, four miles north- 
east of Dayton, thence removed in the spring 
of 1802 to near Fairfield, settling upon what 
has been called "Read's Hill." During the 
war with England in 18 12 and 181 3 he 
served as a teamster, carrying commissary 
stores from Dayton to Urbana. Bellefontaine 
and stations far beyond. Still later he sers'ed 
as a private under Captains Stevenson and 
McClellan, and was stationed at Fort Mc- 
Arthur, guarding the open frontier and keep- 
ing a line of comnuinicatinn ojien to Fort 
Meigs. After his return home he was mar- 
ried, in 1814, to ]\Iiss Mary Tatman, eldest 
daughter of Rev. Joseph and Rebecca Tat- 
man. There were biirn unto them six chil- 
dren. He was an active member of the 
Alethodist Episcopal church. He was jus- 
tice of the peace for many years, and a 
commissioner ior six years. He lacked just 
twenty-eight days of being sex'entv vears old 
at the time of his death. 

NIMROD HADDOX. 

During the year 1800 Ninn-od Haddox 
started from Virginia with two pack horses 
and came to Qiillicothe, Ross county, and 
while traveling at Deer creek met an old 
friend from \'irginia, with win nn he stopped 
over night, and liking the surroundings he 
prolonged his stay over winter. In the fol- 
lowing spring he and five other families 
moved up Deer creek to Lamb's purchase, 
and squatted cm it. After having made a 
little improvement, learning that his nephew 
had settled on the Little Miami, he came 
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After remaining here a couple of years he 
learned tliat his mother and family had 
moved to Kentucky, and he determined to 
visit her. Packing up, he started; and aljoiu 
three miles below Dayton he fell in with an- 
other old friend from Virginia w lio per- 
suaded him to remain all winter and teach 
a school in the vicinity. In March the 
smallpox appearing in the settlement he 
moved across the river and began making 
sugar. Having good success in this direc- 
tion, a fine lot of sugar was the result. 
About this time the great Hood took place. 
The water began to rise and he was com- 
pelled to cross the river with his sugar to 
a cabin on higher ground. The water still 
rising, lie moved to a house owned by a 
Mr. Taylor. This, also, being' surrounded 
by water, he put his sugar in the loft, and 
they all paddled across to an elevated spot 
and camjied for the night. Mr. Iladdox 
was ])laced on watch, and about midnight 
the water reached them and they were com- 
pelled as a last resort to cut trees and fall 
their tops together and climb them, and re- 
main on them from Friday till Monday with- 
out food or drink. On Mmidav the water 
began to subside, and soon they descended 
from their perch and went to the house, 
which was turned around. They rowed 
their boat to the upper window and crawled 
in, and finding a large iron kettle in the loft 
and some meat they made a fire in the kettle 
and l)roiled some of it ; and also finding a 
sack of meal stowed awav in the loft they 
mixed this with water and baking it also in 
the impromptu oven soon had a good meal. 
On looking for his sugar, he found that it 
hail mostly disappeared. Fully satisfied with 
his \isit, he returned to his nephew's house. 



traded a horse for an improvement, and be- 
came a citizen of our county. 

WHAT BECAME OF PETER BORDERS. 

From the old files of the "Torchlight" 
under date of Octol)er 23, 185 1. we find the 
following: "Died at Irish Grove, Menard 
county, Illinois, Sylvia Borders, wife of Pe- 
ter Borders, aged seventy-eight years. Mr. 
Borders kept the first [lublic house in Greene 
countv, Ohio. And the first courts of said 
county were held in his house. He was at 
the time his wife died an old man eighty- 
four years of age, in good health, and 
astonishing activity for one of his age. 

STEPHENSONS OF BATU TOWNSHIP. 

William Stephenson, Sr., wilh his wife 
and four children, namely, William, James, 
Peter and John, left the state of Kentucky 
some time previous to 1803 and settled in 
Bath township, Greene county, one mile and 
a half east of the present town of Osborn 
on land which in later years came to be 
the home of John Dispenett. His son. Will- 
iam, was a soldier with the rank of captain 
in the war of 1812. 

JOHN HOSIER, SON OF FREDERICK. 

Mr. John Hosier, of Osborn. Bath town- 
ship. Greene county. Ohio, died on Friday. 
December 24. 1869. at the mature age of 
eighty-one years. He was born in Shenan- 
doah county, Virginia, in 1789. to which 
place his parents had remo\-ed and where 
thev made their home until 1797. They 
brought up a family of seven children, of 



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whuiii John was tlie youngest save one. In 
1/97 tlie family removed to this state, which 
was then hut a part of the "Xorthwestern 
territory, " and in a wilderness condition, in- 
habited or rather occupied by the "red men 
of the forest." Thev made a halt in Mason 
countv for about four years, where they 
rented some land and lived as most "back- 
woodsmen" lived in all new countries in a 
primitive way, with wants few and easily 
supplied. 'There were the carcasses of wild 
animals, many varieties of which abounded 
in every part of the great Northwest. The 
bread was made from corn meal, which was 
ground in little hand mills, somewhat like 
those in eastern countries, as in Bible times 
"upper and lower mill stones." the upper 
being turned liy a \)\n of wood or irijii in- 
serted in the top, and near the outer rim or 
edge, for the hand of the operator to take 
hold of while the other hand supplied it with 
corn. It was sifted through a primitive 
screen, made of untanned deerskin, with 
holes made with the tines of a common table 
fork, which had been made red hot for the 
purpose. This process of burning the skins, 
through which the heated fork tines passed, 
prevented it from resuming its original shape 
again, and the seared and crisp material 
ser\'ed the purpose for which it was designed 
for long periods, and was certainly a good 
substitute for the wire sieve of to-day, 
though the process, like the grinding, as 
above described, was decidedly slow and 
tedious, compared with the method of doing 
the same work in our old settled country. 
At the end of the four years the family 
made another journey toward their ]ircsent 
home, and halted at a point near Cincinnati, 
called Columbia, at that day. Here they 
stayed more than two years. In coming 



from Shenandoali they stayed one entire win- 
ter in a rude camp which they hastilv con- 
structed lor the purpose at the mouth of 
the Little Kaitawha river, and where they 
had expected to embark on a flat boat for 
their coveted western home, with their two 
horses and two cows and household goods 
and provisions, but with no wagon or other 
vehicle to facilitate land transportation. The 
boat did not come as anticipated, and they 
had no recourse but to make "virtue a neces- 
sit}'," and winter where they were, in their 
rude cabin, three miles from any white in- 
habitants and under the necessity of winter- 
ing their animals on browse, which they 
cut for the purpose in the surrounding for- 
ests, together with a little corn which they 
secured from the nearest settlement. The}' 
had no meat on their table with the excep- 
tion of a large fat bear, which one of the 
larger boys had killed, with now and then 
a wild turkey. Their bread during the long 
winter was made from corn that was pound- 
ed in the hole of a large stump, hollowed 
out for the purpose with fire, a spring pole 
pestle being used for the purpose of mash- 
ing it. The next spring they embarked on 
a flat boat, according to their original plan, 
and finallv landed on the shore of the Miami 
river near Cincinnati. At this place, three 
miles from Cincinnati, they occupied a farm 
which was owned by a Mr. Isaac VanNess. 
The house was back from the river, on the 
"second bottom," tlnxigh some of the im- 
proved gTound was on the "lower bottom," 
nearer the river. They' were yet on this 
farm of Mr. VanNess when the great flood 
of 1803 occurred and where their cows got 
surrounded with a wide waste of whirling- 
waters, while they had a little more than 
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knoll, just eniiugli to keep them from be- 
ing swept a\va\' 1)_\- the seething flood. At one 
time, during the progress of the fltxad, our 
subject, with another l^rother, came near 
being drowned by the upsetting of their nar- 
row, sliai>eless log of a canoe, with which 
they were striving to convey some food to 
their imprisoned animals, an eddy in the 
seething flow brought them into collision 
with a lug whicli was being whirled alnng 
at a rapid rate and which upset them ; how- 
ever, he managed to grasp a branch of an 
elm tree and to climb among its branches, 
where he rested until his brother got safe to 
land, and returned with another raft of the 
same kind, and which had been dug out just 
the day before, as if to be ])riividentially 
readv for the occasion. There were no 
levees to confine the accumulated waters of 
the spring freshet within the legitimate 
banks of the river and, of course, they spread 
themseh'es out intn the forest on either side 
of the stream proper until the Miami \-alIey 
was like a vast lake, or an inland sea, or 
like the great father of waters in width and 
volume. 

They came here in the valley of Mad 
river in 1803, and settled upon the eighty 
acres of land upon which uur subject re- 
sided until his death, midwav between the 
village of Osborn and Fairfield. The lanrl 
had been i^re-empted bv John Hunt, as were 
most of the government lands in that im- 
mediate locality by different individuals. 
They paid Mr. Hunt two shillings per acre 
for his pre-emption rights and then paid the 
government agent two dnllars per acre, with 
five years payments. But the land was in a 
state of nature, covered by a thick growth 
of ]3lum and hazel Ixishes. Fairfield had Isut 
a single hut at that time, and there were Init 



few inhabitants anywhere in the vicinity. 
Their household goods were unloaded in the 
woods, where they had no shelter but the 
canopy of the heavens, until they could 
hastily construct a tentlike structure of their 
bedclothes on short sticks set in the ground. 
After they had made their lirst pavment on 
their land they found themselves destitute of 
available meani, and, of course, depended 
ui>(in their good constitutions, their acquired 
skill in battling with the hardships and pri- 
vations of pioneer life, and, of course, on 
the blessing of God. ThcA- had all of their 
provisions to procure by their labor in work- 
ing for others who needed their services. 
Wages were low, and pries of pro\isions 
were correspondingly low. The price of a 
day's work with sickle in harvest was only 
four shillings, yet there was an active de- 
mand for it; all of the grain of the country 
had to be cut with the sickle for .several 
years, and until the grain craille was in- 
^•ented and brought gradually into use. 
They got their grain, corn and wheat ground 
.MJinctimes at McCormack's mill on Mad 
river, nearby on the "chopinng mill' of the 
late John Knisley, sometimes at ]\lr. Steel's 
mill at Midway, near the site of Mr. Felix 
Wise's ]iresent woolen factory, and some- 
times at Mr. Davis' mill near Clifton. The 
flour wherever made was bolted bv turning 
the machinery by hand. This was usually 
done l)y the owner of the "grist" so as to 
accelerate the process of making the wheat 
into flour and bran. This vicinity to Tat- 
man's prairie near Fairfield enabled them 
to share with others in cutting the grass of 
that prairie for their cows and horses in the 
first winter. 

yiv. John Hosier was married, in 1819. 
to Miss Mary Haddix. sister of John Had- 



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dix. of Oslx)ni. She was the motlier (if 
thirteen chilch-en. Mr. Hosier was converted 
to tlie service of God in 1840 and connected 
witli tlie Methodist Episcopal church. His 
opportunities for attending religious meet- 
ings had been few and far between. The 
first meeting that he attended was at "Read's 
Hill." east of Fairfield village. 

He lived to see manv changes, and was 
one of the most useful men that lived in his 
day and generation. He was not the man to 
make himself too consjHCuous in the neigh- 
borhood where he lived, unless it was that 
he was known for his modesty and moral 
worth, for his honesty and integrity could 
not be called in question ; he would be ki\own 
as a good man, good citizen and a good 
Christian, and such he was in the judgment 
of charity. He had lived to see our coun- 
try ])ass thrdUgh conflicts with foreign 
powers successfully, and then the great re- 
bellion which threatened the life of the na- 
tion. He lived to see peace restored to our 
countrv. W'hen his time came he was readv 



JI.\.MK.S MC PIIERSOX S .\PPLIC.\TIOX TO KEEP 
T.WERX IX M.\D RIVER TOWXSHIP. 

"To the Worshipful Court of Greene coun- 
ty, humbly showeth : 
"That whereas your petitioner liath been 
solicited from time to time liy travelers 
from remote distances as well as adjacent, 
tliat hath been and now continue to exjjlove 
the flourishing and fertile lands of Mad 
river, to ask license from the Honorable 
l>ench to keep a public house of entertain- 
men. That for want of such a place of cim- 
vening for a recourse for shelter hath often 
sufficed in their recognizing in the said tour 



through this e.xtensi\e country, and being yet 
almost unsettled for many miles from m_\' 
dwelling. And beside all this he farther 
adds that without said lawful indulgence to 
obtain said license, must sustain great loss ; 
for at times am much crowded with sojourn- 
ers to the dissatisfaction of private life, with 
no man near of profit, but an entire fatigue. 
His habitation being north fmni Sijringheld 
twent)- miles, from Chillicothe sixty miles. 
Ottawa Town forty miles northwest, from 
Mr. Isaac Zane's ten miles west. Your peti- 
tioner hopes to obtain and of your clemency 
the said license, and as in duty bcjund will 
e\-er pray. Signed by 

"J.VMES McPnERSON. 

"May 20, 1804." 

The petition was also signed by Simrm 
Kenton, Peter Olix'er. Thomas Davis. Jo- 
seph Sutton. John Fisher. J. T. Galloway. 
Lewis Da\-is. Lewis Sutton. George ^L 
Smith. William Moore. 

The author of this remarkable petition. 
James McPherson. or Sc]ua-la-ka-ke, "the 
red-faced man," was a native of Carlisle, 
Cumberland county. Pennsylvania. He was 
taken prisoner on the Ohio at or near the 
mouth of the Big Miami at the time of 
Ldughry's ilefeat, and was for many years 
engaged in the British Indian department, 
under Elliott & McKey. Married a fellow- 
prisoner, came into our service after Wayne's 
treat)-, 1705. and continued in charge of the 
Shawnees and Senecas of Lewistown until 
liis removal from oflice in 1830, since which 
he has died. His nearest neighbor at this 
tinie was Isaac Zane. living ten miles east. 
Our own grand old pioneer, [Major James 
Galloway, was up in that part of the state 
in tlie year 1800, and there can be no ilnuln 
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McPherson. Zane and dlliers ni tlic i)ii)neers 
of that section of the country. Years after- 
ward he gave from memory his recollections 
of that part of what is now Logan county, 
and which had been fruni 180^:5 until 1H05 
a part of Mad River township. Greene coun- 
ty, previous to the organization of Cham- 
paign county at that date, thus circumscrib- 
ing Greene in its northern limits. .Vnd 
again in the fall of i.Sij we gave to Clark 
county a part of our northern territory, yet 
we ha\e historically the satisfaction of 
kiiowing that all of their early inhabitants 
or pioneers were first ours. And when 
Logan and Champaign counties point with 
pardonable \n-k\e to the home and place 
where the bodv of Simon Kenton was laid 
to rest "after life's long and titfid sleep." 
we can open our little poll Ijooks and the 
enumeration of the pioneers of Mad River 
township in Greene county from 1803 to 
1805 and see the name of the aforesaid 
Simon, and we listen as he is being inter- 
viewed by John Daugherty, "lister"' of Mad 
River township for the year 1803. and we 
hear him sa\- in answer to the questions that 
are asked him : "This mill here on Mad 
river is worth, I suppose, one hundred and 
fifty dollars." .\nv cattle?' "Yes, I have 
three horses and twenty-two cattle." 

At the first election held in said town- 
ship, June 2 1, 1803. at the house of Griffith 
Foose, town of Springfield, John Daugherty 
and Roljert Loughry, clerks, and James 
Woods, Tliomas Redman and J(ihn Clark, 
judges. At this election a|)pears the name, 
among others selected for the different oi- 
fices, Simon Kenton, who was chosen to act 
as overseer of the poor. The subject of this 
sketch. James McPherson, was present and 
cast his Ijallot and helped to organize. The 



compiler of this sketch has the original peti- 
tion of James McPherson framed and ready 
to return to the new court house among a 
number of papers of iiistorical interest, 
.^niong the signers of this petition is the 
autograph of Simon Kenton. 

M.^JOU TMOMAS C.XRNE.^L. 

Alajor Thomas D. Carneal, founder of 
Caesarsville, Greene county. Ohio, and one 
of the earliest settlers of Cincinnati, but of 
late years a resident of Frankfort. Kentuckv, 
died at the residence of Nicholas Longworth 
in Cincinnati, Xovember 3, i860, aged sev- 
enty-six years. Jn the early days of Ohio 
he was an extensive speculator in wild lands, 
and located m;my warrants in the Virginia 
military district. .A few years since he set 
up a claim to sundr}- tracts of land on 
Caesar's creek in this county, but never pur- 
sued the matter to adjudication. 

Like all others who invested in lands in 
the Ohio valley at an ^arly date, he realized 
a f(jrtune. He was the founder of the town 
of Caesarsville. which place was located four 
miles southeast of the present city of Xenia, 
on the farm where now (1899) resides our 
old friend. Pad Peterson. And strong hopes 
were entertained that it would become the 
jx^rmanent county seat of Greene countv. 
Buildings were erected for that purpose and 
a house that was to be used as a "court 
house." and east of this building was the 
public well (that can be seen to-day. 1899). 
covered with a large flat stone, located in the 
barn lot of Mr. Peterson. And scattered 
here and there w^ere some tw'enty-five or 
thirty cabins, which at that early date 
( 1800) was to be the county seat of Greene 
county. At the organization of Greene 



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county into tnwnsliips. ^lay lo. 1803, by 
order of court this was to be the voting 
place of Caesarscreek township, and was un- 
til the organization nf Xenia township, Au- 
gust 20, 1805. 

William J. Stewart was acting as justice 
of the peace, a \'ery important office at that 
day, as the tally sheets of elections will show 
more \-otes were cast for the candidates for 
that oFlice tli.'ni in the fall for governor of 
the state. .Mr. Stewart seems to have been 
acti\-e in trying to help settle or to legalize 
methods that would have a tendency to build 
up and create a population, as the following 
record will show. 

Married at Caesarsville at the house of 
William j. Stewart and by him, November 
8, J 803, Mr. Samuel Bone to Miss Aletha 
Bcason ; by the same. }*Iay 10, 1803, Mr. 
Samuel Ruth to Miss Jane Wilson- again 
bv the same, under date of July 12, 1804. 
Mr. Jiihn Price to Miss Hannah Davis; and 
again, .\pril ic), 1804. ]\lr. Reuben Strong 
tc Miss Anna Wilson. 

JOSHIW BELL. 

He was a nati\e of Harford county, 
Maryland, but was raised in Baltimore coun- 
ty. He came to Caesarsville in April, 1807. 
and had not been in the village but a short 
time until we find in the records the fol- 
lowing notice: "Married June 23, 1807. 
Mr. Joshua Bell to Miss Mary Bales by the 
Rev. Bennett Maxey. She was a sister of 
John Bales, and we find from the records 
that ]\rr. Bell was keeping tavern in tlie 
same house that had been erected for a court 
bouse and continued to do so until the year 
1829. when he removed from Greene coun- 
tv first to Indi.nna. then to Henrv countv. 



Iowa, in 1841, where he continued to live 
until July i. 1856. when notice is sent back 
to his old home that at the above date he 
had died at the age of eighv-six vears. Nu- 
merous receipts and papers in the old records 
will show that he was acting as agent for 
Mayor Carneal in collecting interest and 
other money that were due ~Slv. Carneal for 
lands sold to the earlv settlers, l.)ut who 
never was a resident of the county. Ijut was 
largely interested in what was termed wild 
lands. 

SAMl'EL PETERSON. 

In the spring of 18 15 Samuel Peterson 
came from Virginia to this countv for the 
purpose of assisting his brother-in-law, Jo- 
seph Bootes, on his farm. In company with 
a Mr. Hegler, he made the long journey "n 
horseback, remainin.g all summer, then with 
a few friends returned to \'irginia b_\- the 
same mode of crnneyance. In the fall fol- 
lowing his father came to this county with 
his family of five sons and two daughters 
and located on a tract of fi\'e hundred acres 
on Caesar's creek, south of Xenia, which he 
had previously purchased. Soon after his 
arrival one of his daughters was married to 
Jonathan Ketterman. who had formerly 
lived in this county, ^^"hen he started back 
to Virginia with his bride on horseback, his 
father-in-law sent Samuel to Cbillicothe 
with llicin to buy the bride a new saddle, 
which was presented to her as a bridal gift. 
T!ie father and his five sons, Samuel, Joel, 
Moses, Jacob and Felix, immediately began 
a vigorous assault uixm the dense forest that 
surrounded them, the efifect of which was 
soon visible in the sweeping crash of the 
mighty oak, the burning heap and the 
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thus cleared they were planted in cnrn, for 
wliich not finding a readv market in the ear 
they tram[)e(I it out on the puncheon rtiior, 
took it to a distillery, had it made into 
whisky, took the whisky to an iron-furnace, 
traded it for iron, which they sold, and thus 
realized a good price for their whisky. 

Samuel was a powerful man, and on one 
occasion lifted a trip hammer weighing seven 
hundred ])ciunds. lie cut the limher and 
made four hundred and lifty rails in one day. 
When ahout twenty-one he and Samuel Heg- 
ler, Colonel Mallow and I'cter Price, all 
3-oung men, each took a four-horse load 
of flour from Oldtown mills to Cincinnati 
for William P.eall. Starting early in the 
morning with ten barrels each, ihev suc- 
ceeded, by (k)ubling teams at every hill, in 
getting as far the first day as the present 
locality of Spring valley. Cam])ing out all 
night, the next day thev drove within a mile 
of \\'aynes\-ille, when Beall hired another 
team, which enabled them to travel more 
speedily. Reaching Cincinnati, thev were 
paid one dnllar ])er barrel for hauling, and 
started for home, making the round trip in 
ele\-en days. Beall, not being al)le to dis- 
pose of his Hour in Cincinnati, shipped it to 
New Orleans and walked back, 

February 22, 1821, Samuel Peterson 
was married to Miss Hannah Heaton, who 
had come to this county a few years previ- 
ous. He lived with liis parents for some 
time, then moved to a tract of one hundred 
acres given him by his father, upon which 
he had previously built a hewed-log house, 
considered in those days one of the most 
imposing structures in the country. Being 
entirely alone, the labor of clearing out tlic 
forest proceeded very slowly until 1825. 
Avhen lie leased the premises and mo^■ed to 



Xenia. where he engaged in the wagon- 
maker's trade. The first year he lived in 
a log house on Main street, near where the 
old pottery stood : the second in a house near 
the northeast corner of Second and White- 
man streets. The man to wlmm he had 
rented proving worthless, he returned to the 
farm in 1827, where he remained until 1849, 
ir. the meantime bringing it under a high 
state of cultivation, when, lea\ing it in 
charge of his son, he returned to Xenia. 
Bringing a span of good horses and a wagon 
with him. he followed teaming until 1865, 
when, having sold his farm to Jonas Peter- 
son and bought another of a Mr. Tressler, 
five miles southeast of Xenia, he removed to 
it the same year. At this place his wife 
died suddenly of heart disease, April 22, 
i.'i'/2. aged seventy-one. After this Mr. 
Peterson spent the balance of his days with 
his son-in-law. William Rader. in Xenia. He 
died June 12, 1882, aged eighty-six, and was 
buried in \\'oodland cemetery. 

GEORGE MALLOW. SR., 

Was granted a pension for services as a 
soldier in the war of the Revolution at the 
rate of ninety-two dollars and twenty-two 
cents per year. His first rank was as a pri- 
vate soldier, and he was afterward promoted 
to the office of ensign or second lieutenant. 
He was allowed his pension under the act 
of June 7, 1832. Date of his pension cer- 
tificate was April 2, 1833. Lewis Cass was 
at that time secretary of war. He was a 
native of Virginia, but had been a resident 
of Greene county sixteen years at the time 
he received his pension. His place of resi- 
dence was Caesarscreek township. He died 
April 17, 1837, and was buried in \\hat is 



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now called the Boot's graveyard. Mr. Mal- 
low had purchased two hundred and seventy- 
live acres more or less, which was a part of 
niilitarv survey Xo. 2383, situated at the 
muuth. mirth fork, of Caesar's creek. 
George Mallow. Sr.. was of German origin, 
but from what part of the fatherland he 
came I know not. He had three sons who 
came with him from Rockingham ci:>unty, 
Virginia, namely, George, John and Peter, 
His oldest son. Colonel George Mallow was 
a military man and made for himself quite 
a name in the war of 1812 and afterward. 
In the breaking out of the war of 1812 he 
\olunteered his services in defense of his 
country, and during" the summer of that 
year marched to Williamsburg, fifty-eight 
miles from Richmond, Virginia, and from 
thence to Hampton, near the bay. Ixith towns 
of historic interest, where he remained in the 
service for a term of six months. After 
peace was declared between the two coun- 
tries he, with his parents, removed to Ohio, 
and for scime forty vears resided in this 
ci unt\'. Prior to his settling in Greene coun- 
ty lie had settled in Warren county, near 
Springlioro, and removed to Greene county 
in 1817. He was emphatically a military 
man. During his residence in this county he 
successively held commissions from the gov- 
ernor of the state in the peace establish- 
ment of the state, as first lieutenant and cap- 
lain of the Volunteer Rifle Companies, and 
colonel of militia. It was in the latter he 
acquired the title of colonel. 

His kind, social ways made for him many 
friends. .-\s a citizen and a neighbor he was 
well respecte<l.. His numerous friends and 
acrpiaintances heard with regret of his sud- 
den departure. On Friday, April 19, 1861, 
the whole community was shocked by the in- 



formation that Colonel Mallow, of Xew Jas- 
per township, had died very suddenly. Dur- 
ing the day of his death he had been on 
horseback several places in the neighbor- 
hood, seemingly in as good health as usual. 
At five o'clock he took supper, as usual eat- 
ing heartily. After supper he went to the 
corn crib to feed some hogs. About an hour 
afterward he was found prostrate on the 
ground in the yard, and was dead when 
found. Everything about him showed that 
he had been stricken down suddenly with 
disease of the heart. For some time previ- 
ous he had shown symptoms of this dis- 
ease, and had to some extent endeavored to 
fortify his system against it. He has left 
many honored descendants in this county. 
Both of these grand old heroes, George Mal- 
low, Sr., and George Mallow, Jr., are laid 
to rest a little way south of whf^t is known 
to-dav as the Boots and Bickett stone cpiarry. 
near Xew Jasper. 

STEPHEN SCOTT, OF C.\ES.\RSCREEK TOWN- 
SHIP. 

In January, 1879, an enterprising re- 
porter of the "Xenia Tordilight," inter- 
viewed Mr. Scott. He was at that time sup- 
posed to have been the oldest man living in 
Greene county, and the result of that inter- 
view is worth reading as recorded. He was 
at that time in his ninety-fourtli year, in 
good health, though totally blind, while his 
mental faculties seemed unabated. He 
was born in Bedford county, Virgmia, June 
5, 1785. He left \'irginia at the age of 
eight years, spent the next twelve years with 
his parents in Kentucky, from which place 
he emigrated to Greene county, Ohio, locat- 
ing on the Little Miami river near what used 
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visit to Xenin was on the 8tli of January, 
1815, the clay of tlie liattle of Xcw Orleans. 
It is scracely necessary to say tliat Mr. Scott 
did not hang around the telegraph office to 
observe the progress of the battle as from 
time to time it was announced on the bulletin 
boards : in fact, it was six weeks before the 
results of that battle were known to the peo- 
ple of Greene county. Mr. Scott said that 
Xenia then had Imt three brick houses, a 
numl)er (jf cabins and log houses and one 
tavern. The tavern was kept l)y one Con- 
nelly, and was the scene of many a fight 
just for the fun of it. He spoke of one to 
which he was an eye witness, which he 
called a drawn battle, in which a Captain 
Steele and a man by the name of Tucker 
were the principals. Both had imbibed 
rather freely at the tavern bar, and very 
naturally got into a quarrel, ending in a 
fight, in which Steele brushed up Tucker 
badly. Returning to the bar to drink antl be 
friends. Tucker said he guessed it had not 
been fairly done and would like to try it over. 
They did, and the result was that Steele was 
as badly whipped as was Tucker in the first 
round : and all of this for the fun of it. 
Don't say that we have not advanced in 
m.vrals since that day. Mr. Scott was a 
good man in his day and generation. He 
was a member of the Caesarscreek Baptist 
church away back in the year 1820. He con- 
tinued ti) live .some four years longer from 
th.e time he was interviewed, and died in 
February. 1884. aged ninety-nine years, and 
is buried near the Maple Corner churchyard 
in Caesarscreek township. 

PEN PICTl'RE DR.VWX IX 1852 OF IIOX. JOITX 
FUDGE, 

Who at that time represented the counties 



of Clinton, Fayette and Greene in the senate 
of Ohio. He is a Whig, of course, coming 
from that district. He is pliysically the 
largest man in the senate, weighing two hun- 
dred and forty pounds. His age is sixty- 
five, has been thirce married, and is by pro- 
fession a farmer. He resides a few miles 
east of Xenia.^ He is a native of Botetourt 
county,' Virginia, but has been a citizen of 
Ohio most of his life. He is the son of 
Christian Fudge, also from Virginia. He 
is a robust, hale man. with black hair, carry- 
ing his age well, kxiking young and not yet 
gray. His complexion is dark and his tem- 
perament bilious. In manners he is courte- 
ous and agreeable. Indeed he is remarkable 
for plain old-fashii.med bun Imme. \nu will 
always see him in liis place in a good humor, 
and ready to cast a vote intelligently and 
conscientiously. He has filled a seat in the 
legislature several times, and has seen ster- 
ling days in that service. As a senator he is 
something of a model, attending well to 
what is to be done, and taking no part or 
interest in the useless flourish of legislation. 
A senate and house of such men would do 
matters up in a reasonable time, bore no- 
body with their fancies, vote themselves fair 
wages, and go home and meet their con- 
stituents with a good face. As a candidate 
for office he comes up to the Jeffersonian 
ideal, honest, capable and faithful. He loves 
fun, Ijut will not indulge in it at the expense 
of propriety. You would like him at first 
n;eeting and shake hands with him warmly 
at parting. 

DAXIEL H.WERSTICK, SR. 

Died on the morning of April lo. 1858. in 
the seventy-fifth year of his age. and was 
buried in Woodland cemetery. He was a 



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native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. 
Fiftv vears since he was married to Catli- 
erine Xcwnian. Tlie number of their cliil- 
dren was sixteen, while his grandchildren 
at the time of his death were sixty-four in 
number. 

ROBERT T. M.\RSHALL. 

The death of Robert T. ^Marshall oc- 
curred at his residence in Urbana, Cham- 
paign county, Ohio, on the 25th day of Oc- 
tober, 1875. at the age of seventy-two years. 
Mr. Mar-shall was the first male licrn in 
wJiat is now the corporation of Xenia, Ohio, 
on the 4th of September. 1804. Here he 
s])ent his childhood and continued in the 
countv living on the waters of Massies creek 
until the last ten years of his life. He united 
with the Massies Creek church under the 
pastorate of Rev. James P. Smart. In the 
spring (if 1865 he removed to Champaign 
county in the vicinity of Urbana. where he 
continued to live until his death in 1875. 

He was united in marriage to Elinor 
Weir, who still (1876) remains to mourn 
his loss. He was the son of John Marshall, 
who was one of the first settlers in what 's 
now the city of Xenia. and built the first 
cabin home on lot X'o. 193. which is sit- 
uated on the corner of Third and \\'est 
streets. This cabin was raised April 27, 
1804. He also owned the next lot east, X^o. 
194. The lots when ^Ir. ^Marshall pur- 
cha.sed them faced on Third street and ex- 
tended south to the north branch of Shaw- 
nee creek. In the rear of the present resi- 
dence of Mr. Rudolph Hustmire was the 
cabin of Mr. John Marshall, where our sub- 
ject was born. An old pioneer says that he 
has stood in Mr. Marshall's back vard and 



shot wild turkeys at the foot of the hill near 
the creek. 

A BE.VR STORY THAT H.VS THE VIRTUE OF 
BEING TRUE. 

A short time after 'Sir. Jolm Marshall, 
Robert's father, had purchased his two lots, 
one day while engaged in clearing up a space 
upon which to erect his cabin and also 
ground enough for a garden, he was for- 
tunate enough to capture a "cub" bear, at 
that time no larger than an ordinary cat, and 
as neighbors were scarce here was company 
for John, which he from that time adopted 
into his family, and it grew up under his 
care and became the pet of him and his 
wife. It is said that after it had grown to 
full size it became as docile as do our com- 
mon domestic pets, the d(^ and cat, and 
would at times follow John to his work 
while engaged in clearing his land, and 
would at other times stretch himself near 
ihe fire in the ca.bin and sleep the sleep, if 
not of the just, of the bear. But there came 
a time after "Little Robbie"' had made his 
advent into the cabin tliat John and his good 
wife came near losing faith in their efforts 
to tame the l^ear, and they had good reason 
to think that their pet, which was now full 
grown, had assumed and asserted its savage 
nature, and had destroyed or carried of? little 
Robbie. The mother, in the morning spoken 
of, liad tucked little Robbie up carefully in 
the cradle, and had put him to sleep. She 
went to the door, and seeing her young hus- 
band near engaged in planting the spring 
garden, and we must not blame her, if on 
this beautiful spring morning she was tempt- 
ed by the beauty of the day and a desire to 
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songs of the birds, to step outside and leave 
tiie babe in care of their pet, and join her 
hnsband in liis labor in the garden. Before 
deciding she turned around, gave one glance 
at lier sleeping babe, and liear. and joined 
John at his work. Becoming interested in 
her wi-rk. she forgot for the time little Rob- 
bie, and she toiled away witii her hoe and 
time passed rapidly. All at imce the motli- 
er's thoughts returned to her child that she 
had left sleeping. Slie quickly stands her 
hoe up against a tree and away to her little 
one. She enters the cabin, her eyes rest tirst 
on the cradle, as she sees the covers that she 
had so carefully tucked around the sleeping- 
child now scattered in wild confusion over 
the floor. The cradle was empty, little Rob- 
ert was gone, as was also the bear. For a 
moment she looked wildly around the room. 
Her eye is quick to take in the situation ; 
she goes to the door and calls to John, "Oh, 
John, Robbie is gone, and the bear is gone." 
John drops his spade and rushes to the cabin, 
gives one glance at the empty cradle and the 
disordered state of the cabin, reaches up and 
quickly takes from over the door his trusty 
rifle, and followed by his wife they start on 
the hunt of the bear up Shawnee creek, back 
of what is now known as the U. P. Theo- 
logical Seminary, then covered with a dense 
growth of forest trees and under growth, 
and back toward their cabin home. John 
contin.ues the search, while the good wife 
enters the cabin with the hope that she may 
find her lost one there. She stoops down 
and looks under the bed, and sees something 
away back under the corner of the bed; 
she creeps under and there was the bear 
with little Robert hugged closely to its 
breast, and both bear and little Robert sleep- 
ing. She eives the bear a cuff on the side 



of the head ; it opened its muuth and 
yawned, stretched out its fore feet releasing 
the baby, which she soon had in her arms. 
The baby was not any the worse of the kind 
care of the faithful pet. 

Two sons of "Little Robbie" are yet 
( 1900) living in Xenia, William Marshall, 
janitor of the West Market Street school 
house, and his brother James. 

GEXERAL C. L. MERRICK. 

Casper L. Merrick, one of the pioneer 
merchants of Xenia. died at his residence at 
Xenia, Ohio, March 12, 1882, peacefully, 
and at the ripe age of eig'hty-one years. 
Mr. Merrick first came to Xenia in 1824, 
when the town was young. He landed in 
Cincinnati with his father, Roswell Mer- 
rick and family, from Massachusetts, in 
1820, and associated with his father he 
started the first horse ferry boat, it is said, 
over the Mississippi river at Cairo. He re- 
turned to Cincinnati and remained for about 
three years, engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness. He was married, in that city. April 
28, 1822. Thence he went to Lebanon, 
but did not stay long at that place. Li 1824, 
as has been said, he removed to Xenia with 
his wife and child, and engaged in the dry 
goods business in partnership with his 
brother-in-law, L. P. Frazier. In 1828 he 
took charge of the Hamell tavern, which 
stood where Allison & Townsley's store used 
to be on Main street. In 1832 he removed to 
the old Hivling House. In 1836 he opened 
the Ewing House, then Merrick's Hotel, 
now (1900) the Grand Hotel. In 1847 '""^ 
engaged again in the dry goods trade, in 
which he remained for nearly a third of a 
century. A week before he died he was on 



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the street in apparent health, but the next 
day, Thursday, he was stricken with paraly- 
sis and scarcely spoke afterward. Yet for 
two days after the stroke he recognized his 
friends and children with a pressure of the 
hand. His death was apparently painless 
and without a struggle. He had been a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church 
since 1848. His military title, "General," 
he acquired in the service of the state 
militia. 

Merrick's hotel. 1836. 

That was the name of it. In the good 
old days of stage coaches Merrick's Hotel 
was a prominent institution. It was there 
we gathered the news that we could not do 
without till the issue of the weekly papers. 
Merrick's Hotel regulated the price of corn, 
oats and hay ; it was there the stage stopped. 
How well the writer remembers the self 
same team of four gray eagles bounding 
into town, and up Main street : the driver's 
horn having suggested that food and rest 
were waiting for them at ^Merrick's Hotel. 
Well do we remember with what pardon- 
able pride of the Jehu of that day bringing 
his four-in-hand to a stand still at the hotel. 
When twO' stages came loaded with passen- 
gers it was inferred that a convention was 
to be held at Columbus, or that an epidemic 
had broken out in Cincinnati. 

If bricks could talk, these in the walls ')f 
the Ewing House building might describe 
lively old times, and detail interesting in- 
cidents occurring in what was, in the good 
of days, the pride of Xenia. Merrick's Hotel. 
Many of the jjioneers will testify that in 
those days Alerrick's was the most popular 
"hotel in the state, being the favorite of tlie 



traveling public, as it was the pride of pro- 
prietor and his fellow citizens of Xenia. 

XENI.\ IX 181 I, REMEMBERED BY SAMUEL 
WRIGHT. 

Mr. Wright says they had been fifty- 
seven (lavs on the wav from their old \'ir- 
ginia iiome in Brunswick county to Xenia, 
Ohio. Of Xenia, at the time he remembered 
it as they passed through ft to the place 
where they settled two miles out on the 
Wilmington pike, he says it was a little 
stumpy, struggling \-iIlage. The first house 
in it was built by one John Marshall on the 
southwest corner lot of the then corporation 
of Xenia, lot Xo. 193. It was rai-sed on the 
27th dav of April. 1804. On Main street 
there was at that time twenty-three struc- 
tures ; two of those were brick, four of 
frame, the balance hewed-log liouses and 
four log shops. 

ON DETROIT STREET 

There were two log currying shops, seven 
one-story log houses, only two of them hav- 
ing shingle roofs and brick chimne)'s and two 
frame houses two stories hig^i. It was in 
1856 that Mr. Wright was relating this, he 
being then ninety years old, and he said 
that only two houses then remained on De- 
troit street. One stood on the present site 
of the mill south of the upper depot then 
lielonging to Jonathan Wallace, the other 
stood on the corner of Second and Detroit 
streets, where JMrs. Frank McClure now 
lives ( 1900). That house is yet standing 
on West Main street, the first house east of 
John Lutz's blacksmith shop. It was bought 
by Major John Heaton and mo\-etl to that 
place. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Ill 



MAIN' STREET. 

(^11 Main street was the (j(j\vclv two 
st(ir\- frame ln.iuse. afterward used as a tin 
shop hy James Xig'h. In fr^mt of this build- 
ing was the only l:)rick pavement in the 
place. The streets had no gravel on them. 
were le\-el from side to side, without gutters 
to carry away the water, and in rainv weath- 
er were a mass of- mud, deep at that, from 
one side to the other. There were two [wnds 
of water on Main street, one opposite, or 
near where Charley Trader's grocery now 
( 1900) is, and the other an<l larger one op- 
posite the present residence of l^r. Clark M. 
Galloway, which extended north and west. 

REMEMBR.XNCE WII.I.I.\MS. 

Remembrance W'illiams erected the first 
cal)in that was erected near wnat is now the 
city of Xenia. He emigrated from Vir- 
ginia to Kentucky in ijyo, thence to 
what is now Greene county, in 1800, cross- 
ing the Ohio at the mouth of the Licking. 
He entered a section of land where now is 
located the "Rolierts" Villa," and mirth of 
that he erected his cabin and continued to 
live there until 1814. when he .sold the lar- 
gest part of that land to David Connelly and 
removed to near Madison, Indiana. He gave 
to his son, John Williams, a portion of the 
farm on the east side of said section. That 
cabin was built three years almost before 
Xenia was laid out, and he and his family 
were alone in what is now called Xenia. 



its of Xenia. He purchased lots Xo. 193- 
104 and the 27th day of April, 1804, his 
cabin was raised on what is known on the 
town plat as lot Xo. 193. Two grands<ins 
of the old pioneer are living in Xenia at this 
time ( 1900), William and James Marshall, 
their father, Robert T., was born in that cab- 
in on the 4th day of Se]5teml)er. 1804. He 
was the first white child born in the town. 

WILLIAM A. BEATT^•. 

William A. Peatty, who had come from 
Georgetow'u, Kentucky, some time jjrevious 
to 1803, was the first to keep a tavern 
in Xenia. He was next to fnllnw in the line 
of improvements, and yet it was a matter 
of doubt which house would loe com])leted 
first, his or the one that was being built at 
the same time for the Rev. James Towler. 
both of which were two-story log houses. 
But the evidence seems to be in favor of Mr. 
Beatty's. One thing we do knnw' that Mr. 
Beatty was doing all that he could to get 
his done first. Noah Strong was on hand 
with his two oxen that he had brought with 
him from the far away hills of \'ermont, 
naiuely, "Buck and Brandy," and more than 
that the honorable court liad engaged the 
west room upstairs in which to hold court, 
and they must have it by the 15th of X^o- 
vember, 1804. The building was finished 
and opened as a tavern on the first day of 
October, 1804, on lot X^o. 14, opposite the 
[Hiblic square, on the site that is known as 
the Leamon block. 



JOHN MARSHALL. 



REV. JAMES TOWLER. 



John Marshall had the honor of build- Mr. Towler flid not have long to wait 

ing the first cabin inside of the corporate lim- for his new building. He had purchased 



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lots No. 39-40. He was a native of Prince 
Edwards county, Virginia, and emigrated 
to Greene county in 1803. This house was 
lietter known as the Crumbaugh house, and 
stood on tlie north sitle of Main street, pres- 
ent site of Ea\-ey & Co., wjiolesale house. 
He was tlie first postmaster of Xenia, Ohio. 

JOSI.Mi OROVER 

Was the second clerk of courts of Greene 
county, accepting that position in 1S08, af- 
ter his brother-in-law, John Paul, had re- 
signed. His first cabin was erected on lot 
Xo. 192, West Third street, on the corner. 
present site of the home of Timothy O'Con- 
nell. He came to Xenia previous to 1803. 

BKXJAMIX GROVER, 

Brother of Josiah, was the first school 
teacher of Xenia. The school house was on 
AV'est Third street, and stood Oii the lot that 
now is the home of Mrs. James Kyle, moth- 
er of Charles Kyle, Esq. It was a one- 
story log house, and was built in 1805. It 
was used for a school liouse for some years. 
Mr. Hugh Hamill, who came to Xenia in 
1810, taught in that house. 



he first built his cabin in 1805 he set 't 
Lsck alxjut twenty feet from the in-line of 
the sidewalk so that in 1S13 when he erected 
his noted tavern, that was in the rear and 
became the kitchen. \Mren in later years 
the march of improvement made way with 
the old to be replaced with th.e new, that 
old hewed log cabin home, weather-boarded, 
was moved to East Market street, first house 
east of the East Market Street High School, 
and was still standing in 1899, but has 
since, in 1900, been torn down. 

HOX. JOIIX ALEXAXDER, 

Grandfather of the late William J. Alex- 
ander, at this time owned a whole square on 
West Market and Church streets, botmded 
as follows : Where the present residences 
oi H. H. Ea\ey and Rev. J. G. Carson stand, 
thence westerly to Galloway street. He 
iiad emigrated from South Carolina in 1804 
:md was the first lawyer to settle in Xenia_ 
Ir 181 1 his house had been appraised at 
seven hundred and fifty dollars, and is still 
( 1900) standing on North King street, the 
l^roperty of Judge C. C. Shearer, a relic of 
the past, and when moved to its present site 
was as good as when first erected. 



COL. J.\MES COLLIER 

Was one of the first to come into the North- 
west territory in the year 1796: stopped 
first at what was called Holes Station (Mi- 
amisburg). from there to the Wilson set- 
tlement, thence to the farm of Capt. Na- 
than Lamme. and to Xenia, in the early 
summer of 1805. In that year he erected bis 
cabin on lot No. 60, about the present site 
of Rair^ meat <bi p. on Detroit street. When 



JAMES BrXTIXG 

Arri\ed in Nenia in 1805. He was a good 
car[)enter, and we find that he was a man of 
enterprise. In 1806 he purchased lots 124 
and 130, upon the former he erected a two- 
story log structure on West Second street, 
lietter known as , the McWHiirk property, 
where Da\id Hutchison latef built two brick 
cottage houses. 



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ELI ADAMS. 

Mr. .\dams came to Xenia in 1S08. In 
1810 lie purchased of William A. Beatty, 
then director of the town of Xenia. lot Xo. 
140. (in the corner of Second and Collier 
streets, now (1900) owned by Davis Fl- 
ier's heirs, and on the western side of said 
log- liouse, which was weather-boarded. 
This house was still remembered in after 
years by many old citizens as the home of 
Tillbury Jones, marshal of Xenia in the 
early 'fifties. 

HOME OF WILLIAM .\. BE.VTTV. 

In addition to his ta\ern on Main street, 
and which also was the place of holding 
the courts of Greene county. Mr. Beatty was 
tlie owner of lot Xo. 165, on the southwest 
corner of Second and Collier streets, now 
(1900) owned by Rev. Samuel Hutchison, 
and on this lot he had built his caliin home. 
This home was valued for ta.xable purpose 
in 181 1 at one hundred and sixty dollars. 

WILLIAM GORDOX 

Was the owner of lot X'o. 33 in the year 
1807. This lot was situated on the north- 
east corner of Main and \\'hiteman streets, 
on which now stands the clothing house of 
Robert Kingsbury. George Gordon, his 
brother, came up from Warren county with 
his team to assist in hauling the logs for 
this building, which was a two-story log 
structure, fortv Ijy forty feet, and was for 
many years used by ]\Ir. William Gordon 
as a storeroom, ilajor Gordon previously 
had moved his brother, William, from War- 
ren county to Xenia in the year 1805. His 



brother had at that time [lurchased lot Xo, 
176. situated on the corner of Third and 
Whiteman streets, and is at the present time 
(1900) owned by the heirs of Marjey Mc- 
Farland. Mr. Gordon had erected on this 
lot a small log house, the 

FIRST BREWERV OF .\EXIA. 

This property was once owned by Mr. 
James Brown, and the older persons can yet 
rememlier when this part of Xenia was 
known liy the name of "Brown Town." He 
was killed in the gra\el ])it west of Xenia, 
June 4, 1849, aged seventy-three years. His 
death was caused by the caving in of the 
surface dirt. When dug out he was dead. 

HUGH HAMILL 

Came to Xenia from Prclile county in 18 10. 
and purchased lots Xo. 197- 198- 199-200. 
These lots fronted en Third street, and 
were situated between Barrett and Maxwell 
streets, running thence south to the bank of 
Shawnee creek. He erected his cabin near 
the brow of the liill, overlooking Shawnee, 
on the south end of lot Xo. 200. In the 
rear of his cabin on this lot extending west 
to Barrett street was his tanyard. The brick 
house yet standing was erected in 1845, and 
is occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Lydia 
Bigger. 

DR. ANDREW W. DAVIDSON. 

Dr. Andrew Davidson on the nth day 
of X^'oveniber, 1808, purchased of Henry 
Phenix lot X'o. 38, on which in 181 1 he 
erected a two-storv brick house. This let 
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the present site of John Knox's saddlery 
shop. Dr. Davidson came to Xenia in 1805 
and was tlie first physician to locate in the 
town. 

J.VMES GOWDV'S STORE. 

In the year 1805 James Gowdy first 
came to Xenia and built his storeroom, the 
first one in Xenia, on lot No. 34, first lot 
east of Greene street, on Main, and here 
in 1806 he commenced selling merchandise. 

THE FIRST COURT HOUSE. 

The first court house for Greene county 
was let to William Kendall in 1806. Pre- 
vious to this time the county had been pay- 
ing rent, first for the house of Peter Bor- 
ders down on Beaver, second to Wm. A. 
Beatty in Xenia. This latter house \fas 
completed in 1809. 

S.\MUEL d.VMnLE 

Had erected a small house on lot No. 144, 
on the corner of Second and Monroe streets, 
north side, lot now ( 1900) owned by the 
heirs of the late John Kyle. Mr. Gamble at 
this time also owned one-half of lot X'o. 
15 on Main Street. 

JOnX GREGG 

Was in 181 1 the owner of the first lot east 
of Mrs. Frank McClure on Second street. 
On this lot No. 134 he raised and completed 
a cabin. 

C.\PT. JOIIX HIVLING, 



corner of Main and Detroit, south side, 
present site of the Xenia Xational Bank. 

JOSEPH H.\MILL. 

In 181 1, was the owner of lot No. 14, oppos- 
ite the Court House, and it was here that he 
kept his noted tavern, or what was known 
as Hamill's Inn. He was one of the early 
justices of the peace in Xenia. His build- 
ing was part of what in later years was 
known as the Puterbaugh store, where 
young Kennc}- and Steele were murdered in 
the great fire of 1845. 

ABR.XHAM L.\RUE, 

In 181 1, was the owner of lots No. 131- 132, 
comprising about one-fourth of the square 
on what was later known as the J. C. Mc- 
Millan corner, .Mr. Larue's lots extending 
from the corner running west on Second 
one-half the distance of the square and from 
the same corner running north the distance 
on Detroit. His house was erected on lot 
No. 132. He also owned out lots Nos. 7 
and 8. 

D.WTD L.\UGHE.\D, SR., 

Ir. 1811 was the owner of lot No. 143 sit- 
uated on East Second street, better known 
as the home of Mrs. Newton, the mother of 
Chancey and Samuel Newton. Upon this 
lot he erected a one-story house. Tlie 
ground at this time is the site of the beauti- 
ful homes of Ben LeSourd and Judge 
Stewart. 

PETER PELH.XM, 



In 181 1, was the owner of lot Xo. 13. upon Who came from Ijcjston. ^Massachusetts. 
which he had completed a building on the in 



1807, and uho was the first auditor of 



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Greene county, creeled Iiis cabin on lot Xo. 
144. corner of Main and Barrett streets, 
iiortli sitle, later known as tlie old home of 
William T. Stark (deceased) and at this 
time tlie luime of Mrs. S. K. Harner and 
family. 'I'he house is still standing (1900) 
near Kelley"s rope walk. 

IIEZEKIAII S.VXDERS 

Came to Xenia in 1807. He was the owner 
of lot 133 and erected his house, a two-story 
frame, (jn the northwest corner of Second 
and Detroit streets. W'iien the present resi- 
dence of Mrs. Frank McClure was built for 
a bank buildine;- Major John lleaton bought 
the old -Sanders house and had it remox-ed 
to liis lot on West Main street, first lot 
west of John Lutz's blacksmith shop, where 
it yet stands in g'ood condition. 

JOHN STERRITT 

Built his ca])in on lot No. 89. situated at 
corner of Market and Whiteman streets, 
northwest corner. This ])roperty is l^etter 
known as the fi;rmer residence of Colonel 
John Duncan. It is now owned and occu- 
pied as a residence by Mrs. F.lias Quinn and 
daughters. 

J.\MES \V.\TSON 

Was in iSi i the owner of lot Xo. 7. which 
is situated on West ^lain street. He had a 
cabin erected where the office of the Aliami 
Powder Company is now located. 

HENRY BARNES. SR. 

Henry Barnesf, a native of Virginia, re- 
moved to Kentucky in 1799, and came to 



Xenia in 1807. He was the father of Henry 
Barnes, Jr., ex-sheriff of Greene county, and 
the grandfather of Major George Barnes, 
yet living in Xenia. He was the owner of 
lots Xos. 29-68. X^'o. 29 was situated on the 
corner of Main and Collier streets, on which 
xvas liis cabin home. Lot 68 was in the rear 
of this, fronting on ■Market street. 

JONATHAN ir. WAM.ACE, HATTER. 

'Slv. \\'allace was at this time the owner 
of lot Xg. 180, whicii was situated on the 
corner of Third and Detroit streets, south- 
west corner. He came to Xenia in 1807 and 
was for many years engaged in the busi- 
ness of making hats. He was a soldier in 
the war of 1812, and afterward removed to 
Clark county, Ohio, where he died at the 
hoane of Anthony Byers or (Hyers), April 
25, 1850, aged seventy years. 

CAPTAIN ROBERT GOWDV 

In 1811 had a tan_\ard on the corner of 
Third and Detroit streets, where now is lo- 
cated the firm of Chandler & Maddux. His 
currying shop, a long one-story log house, 
stood near that place. Across Detroit street 
east, where now ( 1900) is located tlie lum- 
ber yard of McDowell & Torrence, was an- 
other tanyard, carried on under the firm 
name of 

\\1LLI\M ALENANDER & RICH.VKD CONWELL. 

]Mr. Alexander was a brother of the 
Hon. John Alexander, a nati\-e of South 
Carolina, and who died June 3, 1824, and is 
buried on the lot of his -Iirother John in 
Woodland cemetery. 



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And thus was Xenia as far as the house- 
holders are concerned in the year A. D. 
1 81 1. Scattered here and there, no wonder 
tliat Mr. Wright said in describing it tiiat it 
was a Httie "stumpy, struggling village." 

'iHE FIRST PUBLIC LIBR.VRV, ORG.A.NIZED IX 
XE.NI.\ IX 1816. COXSTITUTIOX. 

"With all thy getting, get understanding." 

To provide the means of diffusing lit- 
erature and knowledge is an object of the 
greatest importance to society, and claims 
the attention of every friend of humaniy. 
For his purpose we, the subscribers, have 
determined to establish a public library in 
the town of Xenia, which shall he open to all 
under the following regulations : 

1st. Each subscriber shall pay to the 
librarian five dollars on each share annually. 

2d. The subscribers shall meet on the 
fourth Saturday of March, 18 16, and on the 
same day annually forever and elect by bal- 
lot nine directors, who shall be a standing 
committee, five of whom skall form a 
([uorum, to regulate the affairs of the li- 
brary, with the following powers, to-wit: 
To appropriate the funds of the library for 
the benefit of the subscribers; to appoint a 
])resident and librarian from their own num- 
ber, and to assign them their duties ; to call 
a meeting of the subscribers on matters of 
importance at any time when they think 
!iecessary. and to enact by-laws for regulat- 
ing the affairs and securing the interest of 
the library. 

3d. At each annual meeting a report of 
the proceedings of the committee, together 
with a list of the books purchased, shall be 
laid before the subscribers for their inspec- 
tion. 



4th. Two-thirds of the subscribers pres- 
ent at any annual meeting shall have power 
to alter or amend these regulations. 

5th. Any person neglecting his annual 
contribution or any fine imposed ujxjn him, 
when amounting to the sum of two dollars 
and fiftv cents, shall forfeit his share to the 
use of the company, and if under that sum 
he shall not enjoy any of the privileges of 
a subscriber until such sum shall be paid. 

6th. Any manager may be removed 
from office at any time by a two-thirds vote 
of the subscribers. 

jtli. Shares may be transferred on the 
books of the librarian, and each subscriljer 
shall be entitled to draw lx)oks in proportion 
to the number of his shares. 

8th. The library shall go into operation 
immediately after forty shares shall have 
been subscribed. 



NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS. 

James P. Espey, Josiah Grover, William 
T. Elkin. Philip Good, William Ellsberry, 
Samuel Pelham, Joshua Martin, Moses Col- 
lier, Stith Bonner, Thomas Hunter, John 
Gaff, John Haines, Thomas Gillespie, James 
Collier, John Smith, William Laughead, 
William Alexander, George Junkin, Jesse 
^^'atson, Robert \\^ Stevenson, Anthony 
Cannon, Samuel ]\IcBeth, Bratton & Beall, 
Jacob Haines, Francis Kendall, James Tow- 
ler, Matthew Alexander, Josiah G. Talbott, 
Jacob Smith. Henry Morgan, James 
Lamme, James Galloway, Jr., Lewis Wright, 
William A. Beatty, Alexander Armstrong, 
\\"illiam Richards, Daniel Reece, James 
Popenoe, ^^'illiam Currie. Robert D. Fors- 
n-'an and Thomas Embree. 



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THE FINAL EFFORT TO HAVE XEXIA INCOR- 
PORATED. 

The first effort to have Xenia incor- 
porated was presented to the legislature by 
Jacob Smith, at that time representing 
Greene county, and can be found ii; the 
local laws of 18 13. For some reason the 
law had become inoperative, and hence this 
second effort to have the town incorporated. 
Joseph Tatman in 1817 was rqM-esenting 
Greene county in the house of our state leg- 
islature, while Jacob Smith was a member 
of the Ohio senate from the counties of Clin- 
ton ;ind Greene. Mr. Tatman was a resi- 
dent of Bath township and 'Sir. Smith a 
resident of Beavercreek. So the western 
portion of Greene county was well repre- 
sented at that time. This effort also for 
ScMiie reason proved a failure. The petition, 
however, is interesting, and is deemed worth 
saving, and will be returned to the new 
court house to be placed in the relic room, 
tlial is ti> be, in the sweet by and bye. 

A COPY OF THE PETITION. 

To the Honorable Court of Comuion Picas 

for the County of Greene: 

The representation and petition of the 
subscribing inhabitants and householders of 
Xenia town respectfully showeth that the 
town of Xenia contains eighty-eight house- 
holders, and that the town of Xenia is the 
county seat of Greene county, and is sit- 
uated on the north side of Shawnee run, 
about three miles from its juncture with tlie 
Little Miami river. It was laid out by Jo- 
seph C. Vance, Esq., late director of said 
town, in the vear 1803, by order of the hon- 



orable court of common pleas for the county 
ot Greene. 

That the plat of said town was duly re- 
corded in the recorder's office of said county 
m 1804, and is bounded and described as 
follows', to-wit : Beginning at a stake stand- 
ing on the northwest corner of Back street, 
X". 78 degrees, E. 302 poles, to a stake in 
Remembrance Williams' land, thence S. 83 
degrees, E. 61 poles, to the northeast corner 
of the out lots of said town, thence S. 12 de- 
grees. E. 83 poles, to the corner of lot 27, 
thence S. 7 degrees, W. 30 poles, to a stake 
on the bank of the Shawnee run ; thence 
down said run with the meanders thereof to 
the south end of West street, thence with the 
west side of said street, X*. 12 degrees, W. 
127 poles, to the beginning, including all the 
in lots and fractional in lots and all the out 
lots numljered and marked on the town plat 
oi said town, as recorded in the office of the 
recorder of said county, containing two hun- 
dred and seventy acres, be the same more 
or less: being comprised in one plat as 
aforesaid, and being part of a survey for 
one thousand acres, X'o. 2243, entered and 
surveyed for Warren and Addison Lewis, 
patented to Robert Pollard. 

That on account of the late act for in- 
corporating the said town having become in- 
operative, many inconveniences have been 
experienced by reason of disorders, nuis- 
ances, which have been openly and secretly 
created bv ignorant <ir malicious persons to 
the great detriment and annoyance of the 
peaceably disposed citizens, and that so long 
as the present state of things continues no 
approiiriation can be made of the money col- 
lected by taxes for two years, during which 
the aforesaid law was inoperative, for the 



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benefit of the town, by erecting a market 
house, improving the streets, or any other 
public or useful purpose by any existing 
authority competent thereto. 

We therefore pray that the said town of 
Xenia may be incorporated according to 
law. and that the honorable court will take 
all due measures for the accomplishment of 
this desirable object, and your petitioners as 
ill duty bound will ever pray. 

Signed by William Kendall. Francis 
Kendall, James Watson, Enoch Hixson, 
Robert Gillespie, John Hivling, Jonathan H. 
\\'allace, John Davis, Joseph Culbertson, 
Eli Harlan. \\'illiam Richards. Sannid Gow- 
dy, William Currie, John Flowers, James 
Popenoe, William Johnson, Henry McBride, 
Abraham Corson, David Stewart, Joseph 
Barker. James L. Johnson, James Gill, John 
Gowdy, Warren Aladden, Ryan Gowdy, 
Benjamin Xewkirk, Robert ]\IcKenzie. Sam- 
uel M. Good. Joseph Johnson, J. Herdle- 
son, James Galloway, Jr., John Dorsey, 
Thomas Gillespie. Joseph Hamill. Samuel 
Shaw, Jonathan Owens, Moses Collier. Rob- 
ert True, Robert Casbold, John Milton, 
Mills Edwards, Josiah Talbert, James Gow- 
dy, David Connelly, .Andrew W. Davidson, 
James Edwards, Henry Barnes. Sr., George 
Townsley, James Jacoby. John Deary, Pleas- 
ant Moorman. Andrew Moorman, George 
Townley, Josiah Davidson. William Don- 
r.el, Elijah Ferguson. William E'llsberry. 
John Stull, Lemuel John, William John. 
David Douglas, John Van Eaton, George 
M. Smith. John Howard, Stephen Howard. 
and John Williams. 66. March 24. 18 17. 

S.\LE OF P.\RT OF THE I'L'EI.TC SQU.VRE IN 
XEXI.\ IX 181 7. 

The fathers of Greene county's public 



mterest were said to have been honest and 
economical men; no one going through their 
accounts could for a niDment think other- 
wise, quick to plan and prompt to carry out 
their plans. This was especially true as re- 
gards her first commissioners. When a new 
township was to be laid out in answer to 
petitions from her citizens, it was promptly 
done and the necessary machinery soon put 
in m<jtion to bring about that result. When 
a new road was called for the same prompt- 
ness marks their every act. Samuel Gamble. 
John Haines and Thomas Hunter were the 
commissioners at the time of the sale of 
that jjart of the public square. Hmv long 
they had been jilanning to save money to the 
county by the sale of the aforesaid portion 
is not known. \\'e learn from the records 
that on the 4th dav of January, 1S17. they 
met for the purpose of surveying and mark- 
ing the different lots that were to be sold 
of the public square, and to make prepara- 
tion for their sale agreeable to an order from 
court. William A. Beatty, director for the 
town of Xenia. makes his report to them un- 
der date of February 14, 1817, as follows: 

To the Honorable Court of Conuiiission- 
ers of the County of Greene, Gentlemen: I 
have proceeded to and ha\e sold the lots in 
Xenia vou ordered me to sell; the jiersons 
who purchased and the prices they brought 
are as follows: John Barber, part of in lot 
Xo. 62, $482.00; George Townsley. i)art of 
in lot Xo. 65, $615.00; George Townsley. 
part of in lot Xo. 62, $315.00; John Davis, 
part of in lot Xo. 62, $482.00; Ryan Gow- 
dy, lot Xo. ^~,. $1,381.00; total amount. 
$3,253.00. I believe the above statement to 
be correct. William .A. Be.a.tty. 

Director of Xenia. 



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Tile one marked Xo. ;^^. facing on Main 
street fifty-seven feet and running hack (ine 
hundred and sixty-five feet along the eastern 
boundary line of the inihlic square (Greene 
street not opened), has quite a history, and 
a story of the same might he written. 

Ryan Gowdy and James Gnwdv \s. 
Commissioners of Greene county. This 
action was filed June 17. 18 17. This suit 
brought by Ryan and James Gowdy against 
the commissioners of Greene countv ap- 
pears to have settled forever the Cjuestion 
of the right of the commissioners to sell or 
dispose of any of the public square. And 
to James Gowdy to-da\- the ])eople of Greene 
county are under oliligations for saving to 
us intact as it came from the hand of the 
donor, John Paul, the afnresaid public 
square. There ma}- ha\c been (ni the part 
of Mr. Gowdy something partaking of the 
nature of selfishness, or what might be called 
business tact, or shrewdness, that prompted 
him to this act. He speaks through his at- 
torney, John Alexander, of the time he first 
came to Xenia from Kentucky to locate here 
in 1805, how he had been led to purchase 
the lot next to the ])ublic s(|uarc, that he 
was assured that it wnuld be a good loca- 
tion for a merchant, that no one could en- 
gage in the same business, at least not west 
of him, and therefore he located there, and 
was successful in business, had been engaged 
there for eleven years or more, when ior 
the first time he learns of the action of the 
commissioners, — learns of their order to 
William A. Beatty. the director of the town, 
to put up at puljlic auction and to sell part 
of the public square, and knowing one of 
these lots was Xo. 35, which would be a 
good location for some one and which he 
considered would be an injury t(j him to 



allow some one else to buy. it was no wonder 
that even though he had doubts of the com- 
missioners' right to sell, yet he did not want 
to take any chances, and therefore instructed 
his brother, Ryan, to attend the sale and to 
buy that lot next to him at any price. He 
intimates that some one was seeking to in- 
jure him in his business and had used un- 
due influence over the commissioners in hav- 
ing them include lot Xo. 35, the one next 
to him. And mnv after the lapse of nearly 
one hundred years we look at the price the 
other four sold for and compare what he 
had to pay for lot .\'o. 35. the one next to 
him, and it does seem as though some one 
did want that one and wanted it badly. 
The case as has been said had gotten into 
court. A little more than one year later, De- 
cember 2~. 1818, James Gowdy, through 
his attorney, the Hon. John Alexander, in- 
troduces his amended bill of complaint, and 
in that he speaks of his ignorance of the 
law. and had he known that the commis- 
sioners could not give him a good title to 
the lot he bought he would not have given 
one cent for the aforesaid lot. But at the 
time of the sale he was in doubt, and others 
with whom he had conversed were also un- 
certain, and were of the opinion that the 
commissioners had transcended their power 
as agents of the company to sell that which 
had been donated to the county expressly for 
public liuildings for the county. But the 
tiiue for action was short, and he did not 
want to take any risl^, and had his brother, 
Ryan, to attend the sale and purchase the 
lot, and farther stated that if the court 
thouglit the action of the commissioners was 
legal and a clear title could be given he 
would abide by the sale and pay the three 
notes that had been given by him, one of 



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which would have been due six months after 
said sale; one in twehe months and the last 
in eighteen months after date. This had 
been made a test case, brought, as has been 
said, a short time before the first note of 
!Mr. Gowdy would have been due. The 
names of other parties who had jmrchased 
lots were not shown in the case. Without 
pursuing the matter further, the supreme 
court, Mav term, 182 1, granted a decree in 
favor of complainants, and the commission- 
ers were ordered to return the notes to the 
parties who gave them. John Alexander, 
attorney for complainants, and Francis 
Dunla\-ey, for defendants, before the Hon. 
Calvin Pease, chief judge for the supreme 
court. The lot on which this suit was 
brought has been described as Xo. 35. The 
other four lots were on Detroit and ?klarket 
streets (then called Third street), beginning 
at the northern end of what is now Greene 
street, beginning at a point on Detroit street 
one hundred and sixty-five feet south of 
the northwest corner of the public stjuare. 
The outer lines of the lots extending tlience 
northerly to Market street, thence easterly 
tt the east line of what is now Greene street, 
thence southerly on that line one hundred 
and sixty-five feet on Detroit street, the two 
lots being si.xtv-six feet deep. On Market 
tlie lot was one hundred and four and one- 
half feet deep, and the northeast corner lot 
was sixty-seven feet on Market street. The 
public square contains one and one-half acres 
of ground. 

THOMAS COKE WRIGHT. 

He was the successor of William Rich- 
ards as auditor of Greene county (1837- 
1854), and was followed by James A. Scott. 



who filled the office two terms. He was the 
most eccentric as well as the most beloved 
man of his time in Greene county. He was 
nearly six feet in stature, very fleshy, florid 
face and was very deaf. His voice was 
light, pitched upon a high key, and he was 
a complete specimen in his simplicity of a 
child man, susceptible and quickly- responsive 
to e\ery shade of emotion. At one moment 
when speaking of something sad his face 
would put on the most solemn aspect, and 
his fine high voice crying tones, then in a 
twinkling, as something droll flitted across 
his memory which he would relate, there 
would come out a nierrv laugh. The expres- 
sion of his face when at rest was sad, as is 
usual with very deaf people of strong and 
social natures. Mr. Wright was indeed 
what tliey term a character, one worthy of 
the pen of a Dickens. He was a native of 
Brunswick county. Virginia, and was a lad 
twelve years of age when, in 181 1, he first 
came to Xenia. \\"hen a young man he had 
l>een a teacher under Father Finley. the mis- 
sionary to the Wyandots. He had studied 
law. but becoming too deaf to practice the 
people gave him the piisition of county 
auditor. He was a poor accountant, but he 
got along with an assistant. His deficiencies 
made no difference, his superabounding af- 
fection for everybody was such that the plain 
farmers, irrespective of party, would have 
given him any ofliice he wanted. He was 
such a warm friend of everj'body, and so 
anxious to do everybody some good. He 
was a Republican, loved his native Virginia, 
and told some excellent anecdotes illustra- 
tive of the aft'ection some of the old-time 
slave holders had for their old servants, 
with whom they had Ijegun life as children 
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ested in writing piuneer sketches, many of 
wliich he liad gleaned from his old friends, 
James Collier and Jacob Haines. It is said 
that he had at one time compiled what would 
have made a book of two thousand pages, 
which became scattered and lost. He died 
in Xenia, I*"ebruary 24, 1871, at the age of 
seventy-three years, and is buried in Wood- 
land cemetery. But as yet he sleeps in an 
jnmtarked grave. He was also editor of a 
newspaper in Xenia pulilished by James 
Douglass, 1 829- T 833. "The Xenia Tran- 
script.'' Among the stories that are on rec- 
ord, written by Thomas Coke Wright, the 
story of Josiah Hunt is of grreat ip.terest, 
from the fact that from the years 1802 to 
1814 he was a resident of Caesarscreek 
township. .\t the former date he had pur- 
chased of Edward ^Mercer fifty acres of land 
situated on the road from Spring \'alley 
leading to Painters\-ille, as you go south on 
what is now called the Burlingtun pike, and 
where the i)ike intersects the Spring Valley 
pike, turning to the left on what is now 
known as the Robert Ferguson farm, was 
the cabin of Jose])h Hunt, niit far west of 
the residence of Mr. Ferguson. He removed 
from Greene county in 1814. going, I think, 
to Madison, Indiana. Josiah Hunt was a 
.stout, well formed man, hea\'y set. capable of 
enduring great hardships and privations, 
ar.d was a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church. There was a tone of candor 
and sincerity, as well as modcstv in his man- 
ner of relating the thrilling scenes of which 
he had been an actor, which left no doubt 
of the truth in the minds of those wdio heard 
him. He was one of Wayne's legion, and 
was in the battle of the "Fallen Timber," 
•on the 20th of August. 1794. At the com- 
mencement of the onset, just after entering 



the fallen timber, Hunt was rushing on and 
alxiut to spring over a fallen tree, when he 
was fired at by an Indian concealed behind 
it. The latter was compelled to fire in such 
haste that he missed his aim. It was, how- 
ever, a close shave, for the bullet whizzed 
through the lock of his right temple, caus- 
ing that ear to ring for an hour afterward. 
The Indian's body was entirely naked from 
the waist up, with a red stripe painted up 
and down his back. As soon as he fired he 
took to his heels. Hunt aimed at the center 
of the red stripe, the Indian running zig- 
zag like the worm of a fence, ^\'hen he 
fired the Indian bounded up and fell for- 
ward. He had fought his last battle. 

Hunt was an excellent hunter. • In the 
winter of 1793 while the army lay at Green- 
ville he was appointed to supply the officers 
with game, and in consequence was exempt 
from garrison duty. The sentinels had or- 
ders to allow him to leave and enter the 
fort whenever he chose. The Indians made 
a practice of climbing trees in the vicinity 
of the fort, the better to watch the garrison. 
If a person was seen to go out. notice was 
taken of the direction he went, his path am- 
bushed and his scalp secured. To avoid this 
danger. Hunt always left the fort in the 
darkness of the night, for said he. "When 
once I had gotten into the woods without 
their knowledge I had as good a chance as 
they." He was accustomed on leaving the 
fort to proceed some distance in the direction 
He intended to hunt the next day, and camp 
for the night. To keep from freezing •■o 
death it was necessary to have a fire, but to 
show a light in the enemy's countrv wtis 
to invite certain destruction. To avoid this 
danger he dug a hole in the ground with his 
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hat crown. Having prepared it properly, 
lie procured some roth, meaning some thick 
oak bark, from a dead tree, wliich will re- 
tain a strung heat when covered with its 
ashcj. Kindling- a fire from flint and steel 
at the l)ottoni of his "coal pit," as he termed 
it. the hark was turn into strips and placed 
in la_\-ers crtisswise until the pit was full. 
After it was sufficiently ignited it was cov- 
ered o\'er with dirt with the exception of 
two air holes in the margin, which could l)e 
opened or closed at pleasure. Spreading 
down a layer of bark or brush to keep him 
oft' the Cold griiund, he sat down with the 
"coal pit"' between his legs, enveloped him- 
self with his blanket and slept cat dozes in 
aii uprigiTt position. If his fire became too 
much smi>thered he wouUl freshen it up by 
blowing into one of the air holes. He de- 
clared he could nfake himself sweat when- 
ever he chose. The snapping of a dry twig 
was sufficient tn awaken him. When, un- 
covering his head, he keenly scrutinized in 
the darkness and gloom around, his right 
l:and on his trusty rifle ready for the mis- 
chance of the Imur. 

A ]5erson now, in full security from dan- 
ger, enjoying the comforts and refinements 
of civilized life can scarcely bring his mind 
to realize his situation, cr do justice to the 
powers of bodily endurance, firmness of 
ner\-e, self-reliance and courage, manifested 
by him that winter. A lone 'man in a dreary, 
iriterminablc forest, swarming with enemies, 
bloodthirsty, crafty and of horrid barbarity, 
withmit a friend or human help to afford 
h.im relief, or the lea.st aid in the depth of 
winter, the freezing winds moaning through 
the bare and leafless trees, while the dismal 
howling of a pack of wolves, cruel as death 
and hungry as the gra\-e. liurning for blood, 



bonv, gaunt and grim, might be heard in the 
distance mingled with the bowlings of the 
wintry winds, were well calculated to create 
a lonely sensation about the heart and ap- 
pall any common spirit. There would he sit 
nodding in his blanket indistinguishable in 
the ilarkness from an old stump, enduring 
the rigor of winter, keeping himself from 
freezing, yet showing no fire, calm, ready 
and prompt to engage in mortal combat with 
whatever enemy might assail, whether In- 
dian, bear or panther. At daylight he com- 
menced hunting, proceeding slowly with ex- 
treme caution, looking for game and watch- 
ing for Indiaiis at the same time. When he 
found a deer, previous to shooting it he put 
a bullet in his mouth, ready for reloading 
his gun with all possible dispatch, which 
he did before removing from the spot. Cast- 
ing searching glances in every direction for 
Indians, cautiously approaching the deer 
after he had shot it, he dragged it to 
a tree and commenced dressing it with 
his back towards the tree and his rifle 
leaning against it in reach of his right 
hand. And so with his rear protected 
bv the tree he would skin a short time, 
then straighten up and scan in every 
(lirectiiin to see if the report of his 
rifle liad brought an Indian into his vicinity, 
then applv himself to skinning again. If 
he heard a stick break or the slightest noise 
indicating the presence of animal life, he 
clutched his rifle instantly and was on the 
alert prepared for any emergency. Having 
skinned and cut up the animal, the four quar- 
ters were packed in the hide, which was so 
arranged as to be slung on his back like a 
knapsack, with which he wended his way to 
the fort. If the deer was killed far from 
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ters. One day he hnd gotten within gun 
shot of three Indians unperceived by them. 
He was on a ridge anil they in a liollrnv. 
He tooi< aim at the foremost one, and waited 
some time for two to range with eacli other, 
intending, if they got in tliat position, to 
slioot two and take his cliance witli tlie otlier 
in single comliat, but tliey continued to 
march in Indian file and though he should 
have killed one of them, the other two 
would ha\e made the odds against him too 
great, so lie let them pass unmolested. 
Amidst all the dangers to which he was ex- 
posed he passed unharmed. Owing to the 
constant and powerful exercise of the fac- 
ulties, his ability to hear and discriminate 
sounds was wonderfully increased, and the 
perceptive faculties much enlarge<l. He 
made seventy dollars that winter by lunit- 
ing. over and alx)ve his pay as a soldier. At 
the treaty of Greenville, in 1795. the In- 
dians seemed to consider Hunt as the next 
greatest man to Wayne himself. They in- 
quired for him, got round him and were 
loud and earnest in their praises and com- 
pliments. "Great man. Captain Hunt. 
Great warrior, good hunting man, Indian 
no kill him." They informed him that some 
of their Ijravest aud most cunning warriors 
had often set out to kill him. They knew 
how he made his secret camp fire, the in- 
genuity of which excited their admiration. 
The parties in quest of him had often seen 
him. could describe the dress he wore and 
his cap, which was made of a raccoon skin 
with the tail hanging d(iwn l>ehind. the front 
turned up and ornamented with three brass 
rings. The scalp of such a great hunter 
and warrior they considered to be a great 
trophy. Yet they never could catch him off 
his guard, never get within shooting dis- 



tance without being discovered and exposed 
to his death dealing rifle. 

E.\RLY PHVSICI.-KiVS OF XENIA AND GREEN'i 
COUNTY. ANDREW W. DAVIDSON 



Was the first physician to settle in Xenia, 
which was in the fall of 1805. He was an 
enterprising, public-spirited citizen, and in 
181 1 built the tirst brick house ever erected 
here, on Main street, near the site of Brice 
Knox's saddle shop, and in 1814 he built 
the first stone house in the ti>\vn, als(_i on 
Main street, of which a part was occui)ied 
by the late John Dodd as a grocery. June 
1.5, 1807, Dr. Andrew- Davidson and Re- 
becca Todd were married by William Mc- 
Farland, Esq., this marriage being Xo. 99 
on the marriage records of the county. Sub- 
se(|uently the Doctor became a merchant and 
tailor. In the course of his business, 1820- 
21. he movetl with his family to Columbus, 
Indiana, and subsequently to Madison, In- 
diana, wiiere he died in the thirty-ninth year 
of his age. Dr. Andrew Davidson and wife 
were of those wdio constituted the old asso- 
ciate congregation of Xenia, under the pas- 
torate of the Rev. Francis Pringle in 181 1. 

DR. JO.SHUA MARTIN 

W'.'is burn in Loudoun county. Virginia, 
March 2;^. 1791, and died in Louisville, 
Kentucky. X^ovember 30, 1865. When quite 
young he commenced to study medicine with 
Dr. HufT, in the town of Waterford, and 
while engaged in the prosecution of his 
studies he attended a course of lectures in 
Philadelphia under the celebrated Dr. Rush, 
but completed his medical education in the 
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tr.cky. Some time after lie had commenced 
practice, in company with his precqDtor. he 
emigrated to Ohio, in 1813, travehng from 
W'aterford to \MieeHng on horseback and 
in Nvagons, and thence to . Cincinnati 
down the Oliio in tlatboats, Cincinnati at 
that time l)eing- a village compared to its 
present condition, and to all appearances 
tliere were already-there fully as many physi- 
cians as it was thought the population of the 
place would warrant: he consequently had 
to look elsewhere for a suitable location, and 
after visiting several places he located in 
Xenia. Accordingly in the fall of 1813 he 
settled in Xenia, Ohio, and commenced to 
practice medicine. At that time there was 
prevailing here and in the west an epidemic 
kjK.iwn as the cold plague, which the older 
physicians were not successfully treating, it 
being very fatal. His mode of treatment 
was successful and at once brought him into 
extensix'e practice, which extended south to 
Lebanon, north to Urbana, east to Wash- 
ington and beyond Londton, and \\est of 
Dayton. The country was then new. the 
roads bad, the streams destitute of bridges, 
and the traveling disagreeable and danger- 
ous, yet such was his temperament that when 
called to see a patient he always obeyed the 
call. Although liaving an extensive prac- 
tice, he received little pay, and as he had his 
labor to depend on for his stipport, after two 
years he removed to Lawrenceburg. Indi- 
ana, where he embarked in the mercantile 
business with his brother. The investment 
was not a success, and in a short time he 
lost all and also involved himself. This sat- 
isfied him with that \-enture, and he deter- 
mined t(i persevere in his profession. After 
a little more than one vear's absence he re- 
turned to Xenia and resumed his practice. 



On the 4th of June, 1818, he was united in 
marriage to Hester W'hiteman, daughter of 
General Benjamin \Miiteman, with wlnim 
he lived until her death, in February, 1834. 
In April, 1835, he was united in marriage 
to Sarah Poague. who died in 1840, leaving 
an infant daughter. In 1814 his father's 
family emigrated to Ohio and settled in 
Lebanon, Warren county, where his father 
died in 1824, after which his mother and 
four sisters made their home with him. His 
mother died in 1835. '^'''d his eldest sister 
in 1851, while his three surviving sisters 
and daughter constituted the family that he 
left at his death. \\'hen his body was 
brought back from Louisville for burial al- 
most the whole town turned out to pay the 
last tribute Oif respect to his memory. Few 
men ha\-e left an impress of their own char- 
acter on a community so distinctlv marked 
as has Dr. Joshua Martin. 

DR. JOSEPH JOHNSOX 

Came to Xenia in 1814 and in 1820 was 
elected to represent Greene county in the 
house of the Ohio legislature. He removed 
from the county to Galena, Illinois, where he 
died, June 5, 1847. aged sixty-four years. 

DR. IIEXRV GOOD 

\\"as also a resident of Xenia in 181 7. I 
think he removed from here to Madison, In- 
diana, and Dr. Jeremiah Wciolsey. the 
grandfather of the present ^Irs. Dr. Wool- 
sin;, of Xenia, was here as a physician in 
the year 1827; he remo\-ed from here to 
Cincinnati. Ohio, where he died February 
6. 1834. A brother of his. Daniel by name, 
was also a resident of Xenia and he remo\-ed 
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UR. WILLIAM H1:lL. 

Long ago Dr. Bell was a practicing 
physician at Bellbrook, Ohio. He had quite 
a local reputation, but in later years he re- 
mv)ved to Xenia. wliere he died. 

CED.VRVILLE, OHIO. 

Though a neighborhood center, rtrst it 
was called X'ewport's mill, then again it was 
known as Hanna's store, then as the 
"Burgh," next as Milford, and finally as 
Cedar\ille. Xo ]>hysicians there in early 
days; Ur. INIcTruue was there in 1833, and 
next probably Dr. Andrew Cowden. who re- 
moved to Washington, Iowa,, where he died. 

DR. JOSEPH TEMPLETOX. 

In 1826 Dr. Joseph Templeton, from 
western Pennsyhania, settled in Xenia, and 
iiad an extensive practice and great influ- 
ence outside of professional life. He was 
one of the early abolitionists, and thus be- 
came a valuable support to his pastor, Rev. 
Samuel Wilson, D. D. Our young fellow 
citizens can have but a very indistinct idea 
of the moral courage necessary to be an 
alx)litionist in those days. Dr. Templeton's 
wife is said to have been the first to estab- 
lish schools for colored children in Xenia. 
On account of familv ties, Dr. Templeton re- 
turned to Pennsylvania and w'as succeeded 
by Dr. Samuel Martin. But after a lapse 
of a few years he returned to Xenia, oc- 
cupying the prtiperty known as the R. F. 
Howard homestead. In 1843 he again went 
to Washington, being made very wealthy by 
the estate of his father-in-law, deceased. In 
1865 he made a brief visit to Xenia and died 



suddenly a few days after his return home. 
A leading dentist of Pittsburg, Pennsyl- 
vania, is a namesake and nephew of Dr. 
'J'empleton. He is a man six feet, three 
inches tall, and weighs two hundred and si.x- 
ty [Kjunds, although he weighed but three 
pou!ids at his birth. 

UR. S.\MUEL MARTIN 

Died at his residence in Xenia, Ohio, on 
Saturday morning, June 21, 1879. aged 
eighty-three years. He was a native of Ire- 
land and educated in Glasgow University, 
Scotland, for the English navy. But on 
graduating he declined to enter the service, 
married his first wife and began the prac- 
tice of his profession in Ireland. In less 
tlian a year his wife died, and the young 
doctor sought the United States as a place 
for a short sojourn, but soon becaine so well 
l)leased with the country that he determined 
to make it his home. He settled in Xobles- 
ville, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss 
Helen Anderson, the mother of his children, 
and who died in Xenia about 1859. In 1834 
Dr. Martin became a resident of Xenia, 
Ohio, and for forty-five years, with the ex- 
ception of a few years, he was continually 
engaged in the successful practice of his pro- 
fession. He had many generous qualities, 
and had endeared himself to a large number 
of friends. His last wife was Miss Nancy 
Liggett, who during his last days and 
through his illness waited upon him with 
great kindness and faithfulness. Dr. George 
Watt, one of his pupils, has left on record 
his recollections and tribute of respect to our 
subject as follows: "Dr. Samuel Martin 
was no ordinary man and his life in this 
community no ordinar}^ career. In the prime 



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of his manhood he came among us in 1834, 
and was immediately recognized as a lead- 
mg physician Ijy the extensive practice ac- 
corded to him. He gave his whole mind 
to the practice of his profession and enlist- 
ing into his service an extensive library and 
the leading medical journals of the day. His 
patrons recognized him not only as their 
phyiscian, but their friend." 

The present generation have no concep- 
tion of the hardships of the practice at that 
early day. The average roads of that day 
would be regarded as impassable to-day. A 
strong horse with a saddle were the requis- 
ites. Day and night through mud and storm 
did Dr. Martin plod his way till his form 
became familiar to all, and he continued to 
be "the man nn horseback"' till laid aside 
about five _\ ears before his death by paraly- 
sis. As a teacher of young men. Dr. Mar- 
tin was earnest, industrious and faithful. 
.\t least some of liis pupils can recall 
"horseback"' recitations of twenty to forty 
miles in length, interrupted only by occas- 
sional stops to examine and prescribe for 
patients. Seven of his pupils attended his 
funeral, four of them, residents of this city, 
being pall bearers. At last, however, the 
silver cord began to loosen and after a long 
and patient waiting the wheels of life stood 
still and the old man passed to his rest. 
John W. Shields also adds his tribute, as 
follows: '"He was kind and generous even 
to a fault: had he saved his earnings, he 
would ha\e been rich. I remember, in 1S49, 
when the cholera was so fatal here, that Dr. 
Martin fitted up part of his stable as a hos- 
pital, and there he nursed and doctored 
homeless Irishmen until they were able to 
return to work on the railroad which was 
ll-.en l)eing built. During the last few years 



his mind dwelt chiefly on religious matters, 
and his readings were all of that nature. 
We will not soon forget him as he sat in the 
shade by the door reading his Bible, but he 
has gone to his rest and we will cherish his 
memor}-."" 

ROr.ERT CASBOLT. 

• 

In connection with this it mav not be 
out of place to add here some history in re- 
gard to Dr. Martin"s old home, which is 
still standing on East Main street, Xenia. 
The house in which the late Dr. Martin lived 
for fort\--five years was built by Robert Cas- 
bolt in 1 81 4. and is now among the few re- 
maining monuments of the olden times. 
Only a few of our oldest citizens will re- 
member Mr. Casbolt. who used to act as 
constable and tax collector. "He had tender 
eyes and on cold windy days would ride with 
a vail over his face. Mr. Casbolt and his 
wife. Polly, came here in 1806, when Xenia 
was quite new. When he first came to 
Green county, like many old pioneers, he 
made Sugarcreek township his first home. 
He removed from there to Xenia in 181 1 
and became a resident of Xenia, and, as 
tradition says, "the course of true love never 
runs smooth." and Robert Casbolt, who was 
thirty, found it difficult to marry Polly 
Todd, a precocious maiden of fourteen. 
Polly was willing but the old folks were not. 
An elopment was planned. Poll}- went out 
in the shade of the evening to milk. and. 
setting her pail on the fence, led her father's 
horse out of the stalile. jumped on behind 
b.er lover, rode away and they were mar 
ried. In the early times here Mrs. Casbolt 
practiced a very useful vocation, as many 
now living can well attest. On such oc- 
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with a peacli tree nxl, telling how far the_\' 
wmild have to dig by the ninl of the wand. 
Mrs. Casbolt was a strong-minded woman, 
and had she li\'ed in these days when women 
have organized for their recjuired rights she 
would have stood high among them. 

Robert Casbolt was a soldier of the war 
of 181 _', under Captain Robert McClellan, 
of Sugarcreek township. He was also a sol- 
dier of the war of the Revolutioid, in t!ie 
Continental army. He was placed o'; liie 
roll as pensioner for that war. Septembe" 
27, 1832, at the rate of eighty dollars per 
year. Sometime in the '40s he remo\x'd to 
Sidney, Ohio. 

DR. HORACE LAWRENCE. 

JJr. Horace Lawrence was the lirst one 
I ever saw, and I do not recollect at what 
]>eriod of time: he resided near Bloxsoms 
bridge, where the Columbus pike crosses 
Massies creek, some five miles east of Cedar- 
ville; he retired from practice at middle life. 
Two of iiis nephews were physicians, Dr. 
Deluna Lawrence, eldest brother of Mrs. 
Joseph l>rotherton, and Dr. Horace Law- 
rence, son of Levi L. ; the former died 
young, the x'ictiin of consumption; the other 
was killed by acciden at Kenton, Ohio, where 
he had succeeded the writer in practice. 
Both were good physicians and gentlemen. 

DR. MATHIAS WIXANS. 

Dr. Winans came from Maysvillc, Ken- 
tucky, to Greene county in 1820, and pur- 
chased land in what is now Silvercreek 
townshi]), but practiced medicine in James- 
town, and in later years had his son-in-law. 
Dr. John Dawson, for a partner. He was 



the father of Judge James Winans, and, I 
th.ink, two of his sons were ph_\-sicians. He 
had a large practice. It was said ll".at he 
was sceptical in early life, but I can best 
recollect him as a minister of the Christian 
or Disciples church. Dr. Harper, a promi- 
nent physician of Lima, Ohio, married one 
of his daughters. He died in Cincinnati in 
July, 1849, aged fifty-eight years, and was 
buried at Jamestown. 

DR. EWLASS BALL. 

Dr. Ewlass Ball as early as 1827 kept a 
store at Clifton, then Patterson's mill, and, 
1 think, practiced medicine; also Dr. Joshua 
Wilson, late of West Second street, Xenia, 
and Dr. Prescott also practiced at Clifton 
at a later date. Dr. Prescott afterward be- 
came a lawyer, still later a preacher. It is 
stated that a young man asked his advice 
as to selecting a profession and he recom- 
mended him to the law, saying a man will 
contribute a dime to his soul's salvation, a 
quarter to be restored to health, but for the 
satisfaction of having his own wa\- the "al- 
might dollar" will be sacrificed. 

PROFESSIONAL MEN OF GREENE COL'XTY IN 
1830. 

On the nth of Jime, 1830, the com- 
missioners and auditor proceeded to estimate 
the annual income of the practicing' law- 
yers and physicians, and to charge a tax 
upon each of them, which tax, as charged, 
i^ attached to their respective names on the 
list returned by the assessors to the auditor. 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW. 

John Alexander. William Ellsberry. 



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Aaron Harlan. Tliomas C. Wright, Joseph 
SexUn and Cornehus Clark. 

PHVSICI.VNS AND SURGEONS. 

Joshua ]\lartin, Joseph Johnson. Joseph 
Templeton. Jeremiah Woolsey, William 
Bell, Matthias W'inans, Horace Winans, 
Robert E. Stevens, Ewlass Ball, Randolph 
R. Greene. Lenard Rush and AI. P. Baska- 
ville. 

STEAM DOCTORS. 

Stacey Haines. Mounce Hawkins, Fred- 
erick Beemer, Amassa Reid, James Hays, 
Childress Askew, Thomas P. Moorman and 
Abraham Cause. 

"VE OLDEN TIMES," CONTRIBUTED BY DAVIS 
HAWKINS. 

"During my last atifliction I thought I 
might spend a portion of my time in jotting 
down a little sketch of people and things as 
they were about Xenia from sixty to sev- 
enty-five years ago. It may interest some 
who know but little about pioneer life in 
those early days. I was born in Shenandoah 
county, \'irginia, March 14, 1813, and that 
fall Davis Allen, my grandfather, came to 
Ohio to look for a new home. He had a 
couple of brothers-in-law living in Greene 
county, and. of course, it was natural for 
him to make them a visit. One of them, 
John Haines, lived on a farm now divided 
into two farms, one owned by John Middle- 
tiai, and the other by David S. Harntr. He 
occupied the house that was known a few 
years ago as the Chaney house. The house 
was built three years before he moved into 
it. making it about seventv vears old, a 



pretty ripe age for a house. The other 
brother-in-law was Edward Walton, of 
Spring \'alley. There is a representation of 
his log cabin in the Greene County Atlas. 
.\fter visiting with those friends, the next 
thing was to select a new home. He se- 
lected a beautiful and fine tract of land lying 
right by the side of John Haines' farm. It 
is that portion of land that lies between the 
iron bridge road and the Dayton pike, now 
known as the Hawkins, Steele. Willian.i 
]\ioore and Lucas farms, containing in all 
a thousand acres, more or less. He then 
returned to his home in \'irginia for his 
family, consisting of his wife, Elizabeth Al- 
ien, and his children, Reuben, Deborah, 
Davis, Ji'hn, Obed, Barsheba, Homer, Milo 
and Jackson Allen. Two other families 
came with them ; the first of these consisted 
jt Mounce Hawkins and his wife Mary, 
nnd three children, Reuben, Joseph and 
Davis, tlie writer of this article. The sec- 
ond family consisted of Frederick Beemer 
and his wife Sarah and one child, Samuel. 
A young man by the name of Harve Evans 
CF.me west with the last family to grow up 
with the country, and he became clerk of 
the court in one of our eastern counties. All 
were now ready for the move and with five 
V. agons, a carriage, several head of cattle, 
in April, 1814, the line of march was taken 
up. A journey of six weeks was performed, 
with no railroads to speed you on the wa\'. 
Jn due time all landed near Xenia, safe with- 
out the loss of one of the crew. After pass- 
ing through Xenia thev landed in a couple 
of log cabins on the big farm that bad been 
bought the fall before. These cabins stood 
on the \\'illiam I\Ioore farm, near Shawnee, 
in which the three families summered. But 
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Allen, liaving started brick-making for a 
house, expected tu winter in it, but the work 
did not get along far enough, and so he re- 
irained in one of the cabins for the winter. 
Father commenced to cut and hew logs on 
the site of the cross roads where Homer 
Hawkins now lives, and got up a story and 
a half hewed-log house and covered it. It 
had a stick and mud chimney about half the 
lieight of the house ; a doorway was cut 
with no door up, and a coverlid was used 
for a duur. Here father w intered through 
1814. 

"Perhaps the next thing in order would 
be a description of the country. At that 
time it was almost a wilderness, no clearing 
being done on the Hawkins or Steele farms, 
except what part of the Old Town prairie 
that runs down across the bottoms. The 
rest of the farms owned by these two gentle- 
n;en was a dense forest with some littlej:)ar- 
rcns of large and heavy timbers. The 
Haines farm had some cleared land and sev- 
eral acres of prairie on it. Some clearing 
had been done on a part of the thousand-acre 
tract that grandfather had reserved for him- 
self. At this time the country abounded 
in wild animals, such as wolves, wild cats 
and wild hogs. Our nearest neighbors who 
were landholders were John Haines and 
Jonathan Paul, tlie first named gentleman 
living on part of the farm now owned by 
John B. Lucas. James Gill owned what is 
now the Richard Galloway farm, the fair 
ground, the Crawford, Xesbitt and ^^'ol)d- 
row land, also the field adjoining the fair 
ground on the west side. This James Gill 
was an Irishman and belonged to what was 
called 'the w hiskey boys,' of whom you ha\'e 
read in history. I have often heard him 
talk about it in his Irish bi'ogue. He said 



it was 'a bad piece of business," .but the old 
man has long since gone to his rest. 

"One of our neigh.bors was James Tow- 
ler. He ow'ued the lands where David Vor- 
hees and Peter Bankard used to live. He 
was a local Methodist preacher, and used 
to go among the Indians as a missionary, 
and at one time brought a couple of Indian 
boys home with him to have them educated. 
They remained in Xenia for some time, 
forming many acquaintances, and then re- 
turned to their tribes. Mr. Towler was one 
of the leaders of the Methodist church. 

"Other neighbors were near us, but they 
were only renters or leasers. I will conie 
back to my early boyhood days. I was 
pretty young w hen I first commenced going 
tc school, and so did not go regularly. The 
school was in a little log cabin, located 
about where John B. Lucas' house now 
stands, and my teacher's name was Amos 
Root. The next school that I attended was 
located where John Purdom now resides on 
the Boyd farm. The teacher was Julrus 
Hunter. The next school was taught by 
Israel Hanes, in a little room in the secouvl 
story of his own house. Still later Ransom 
Reel taught school at Old Town. The 
building in which he taught was of frame 
and was used for both school and church. 
William Galloway also taught in the same 
building about 1822. Thomas Steele was 
then living with his father in the old brick 
building on the Gordon lot. He taught 
school in a little frame building on or near 
w here the Center building now stands. The 
older brothers and myself were sent to him. 
I will mention some of the prominent schol- 
ars as far as I can remember ; David \\'. 
Connelly and Robert were among them. 
Da\-id was studying surveying, and after- 



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wards distinguished himself in surveying 
for the government in tiie southern states, 
especially in Louisiana. Robert died with 
yellow fever while in the employ of his 
brother. Then there was James and Ben- 
jamin Grover; James afterward became 
clerk of the court of Greene county, and 
later a prominent Methodist preacher. 
Others among these pupils were Jack and 
Henry Barnes, the latter ex-sheriff of 
Greene county, James and Henry Larue and 
Jackson Allen. It may not be amiss to give 
some of the names of girls or young women. 
I will commence with tin; Connelly family. 
There were Xancy, iNlartiia and Mary Con- 
nelly. Harriet, Abigail and Joanna Hivling, 
-Rachel and Margaret Eyler, Mary and Lydia 
Eyler and Jennie Barnes. There were a host 
■•of other boys and girls ; among them were 
David and John Rader, and two families of 
Shaws, many of them are beneath the sod 
and others soon will be. 

"I will now speak of the town and its 
■surroundings. The city did not extend be- 
yond Church street on the north side, Mon- 
roe street was the east limit. Water street 
was the south limit, and the boundarv line 
on the west was the Cincinnati pike and 
West street. Most of the buildings were on 
Main street. John Alexander, the grand- 
father of W:iriiam J. Alexander, -had his 
home on a large lot in the vicinity of whefe 
Henry H. Eavey's fine residence now stands; 
also and close by and belonging to him was 
an orchard and deer park. The ])rincipal 
merchants were James and Ryan Govvdy, 
Hivling and Nunamaker and John Dodd. 
The hotels were the Hivling House, Collier 
House and the Browder House. This latter 
house was kept in the hewed-log house that 
stood on the site where the wholesale gro- 



cery now stands. Quite a contrast between 
it and the Florence Hotel of to-day. A tan- 
yard stood on the site of Chandler Brothers' 
coal office. A small stone building was used 
as a shop, and Robert Gowdy carried on 
the business. A blacksmith shop was run 
by John W'illiams in a log cabin shop that 
stood on the lot where Mrs. William B. 
Fairchild used to reside on Market street. 
And in this shop the first elephant that was 
e\er shown in Xenia was put on exhibition, 
and many of us had the chance of seeing our 
first elephant. The public buildings rf the 
town consisted of a court house, jail and 
market house. The court house occupied a 
part of the same ground that the present 
one does. It was a plain square building 
with a cupola to designate its use. In that 
house I cast my first vote. The jail was a 
small stone building made of those soft yel- 
low stones, such as lie east of James Ralls 
slaughter house. These stones proved an 
easy thing for the prisoners to pick holes 
through. The market house was a two- 
story structure, built with pillars, a sufficient 
distance apart to form stalls on each side 
and open at each end. This building stood 
on the public square, on Market street back 
of the court house." 

(In revising Mr. Hawkins" "old-time 
article" for publication the editor of the 
Gazette, on what was deemed good author- 
ity, made a correction about the market 
house, and gave a description of Xenia's 
market house a decade later than the one 
about which Mr. Hawkins wrote, hence the 
following from him : 

"Editor Gazette : The market house that 
I spoke of was on Main street and only one 
story high, and was nearly in the middle of 
the street ; its one end was perhaps two or 



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three rods east of Detroit street, and ex- 
tended up in front of the court house, and 
\v as so situated that tliey could drive on 
either side of it. The one on Market street 
was of later date. 1 do not known tliat I 
could hnd a man to prove the above, but 
nevertiieless it is true. — David Hawkins.") 
"I will now tell of some prominent 
gentlemen who were large land owners and 
whose land bordered on the town. The first 
of these was James Galloway, who owned 
a large tract of land bordering on the west 
and northwest of the tovviT The next was 
David Connelly, who owned the large tract 
of land norlh and northeast of the town, 
and now (nvned by the Silas Roberts' heirs, 
luist from this was the Robert D. Forsman 
farm, and tlie Benjamin Haines farm, or 
the Henry Conklin farm as it is now. With 
tile Sdutlieast and south I was not acquainted 
until it came to the Judge Grover farm, 
which has since been nearly all taken into 
the citw Mr. Cirover"s bouse is the present 
residence of Coleman Heaton. On the 
southwest was the farm of Henry Hypes, 
father of Mrs. Maria Drees and Mr. Sanuiel 
1 lypes ; s<me of bis land bordered on James 
Gangway's land. Close by James Gallo- 
way's land lay Samuel Govvdy'^ farm. Not 
far from these last named farms lay the 
gra\-el bank, a large portion of which was 
iiwncd by Abraham and John Hi\-ling. 
Abraham Hivling also owned that portion 
i«f land north of Church street and west of 
Detroit out as far as the Gordon's. This 
was then farm land and contained within 
its borders a house, barn and such other 
liuildings as pertain to a farm. The Gordon 
property, except the old brick house and lot 
that is southeast of them, and all land west 
to the Richard Galloway line, was owned 



by James Gowdy. Most of it was farm land, 
but the north end was forest, including John 
T. Harbine's lot. But the city has covered 
this farm land and even the forest. On the 
lot where Fawcett's jewelry store now is 
stood a little one-story brick house, which 
was first used as a school house, but it was 
afterward occupied by a man b\- the name 
of Tolbert as a hatter's shop, so there has 
been some change there. 

"1 will now come nearer luime; nearly 
all of Richard Galloway's farm was a for- 
est. We had no public road, but such roads 
as farmers have in their woodland to haul 
rails and wood over. A small field was 
cleared where tht race track now is in front 
of the Galloway house, and the field west 
close by was also cleared, but from there the 
remainder of the way home was through the 
woods, which in some places were pretty 
thick. NVhen we left Shenandoah county 
our colony numbered twenty in all. I am 
the only one left in the county, and all but 
three of these have been laid beneath the 
sod. Obed Allen, if living, is in Rochester, 
Indiana, and Homer Allen is in Bellefon- 
taine. Ohio." 

JAMKS SCOTT, A SOLDIER OF l8l2. 

James A. Scott was born in Northumber- 
land county. Pennsylvania. January i, I794- 
In i8i2 he was a member of one of the 
companies composing a brigade of soldiers 
which left Pennsylvania and started to the 
scenes of action in which Hull and his forces 
were then engaged. On arriving at Pitts- 
burg they learned of Hull's surrender, and 
were ordered to Erie, where Perry was then 
engaged in building bis fleet. At Pittsburg 
thev were furnished with tents and other 



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necessary equipments for their comfort. lia\ - 
ing been obliged to sleep in the open air. or 
sheds, pigpens or whatever old l>uildings 
they could find a place of shelter for a time. 
They remained for a short time and were 
ordered to Buffalo, where they were de- 
tained until late in December of that year, 
when they were discharged. They were 
left to get home as best they could, and 
voung Scott with many others traveled the 
distance, over two htmdred miles, on foot 
thrcugh the forest. They drew one month's 
pay while at Erie, which was all the wages 
that Scott received until he had been a resi- 
dent of this county some time. He again 
joined the army in 1S14. His brigade met 
once, organized at Danville, Pennsylvania, 
and proceeded toward Sandy Hook. They 
reached Northumberland, Pennsylvania, and 
here learned of the treaty of peace, and were 
discharged. 

In October, 1815, he came on a tour of 
inspection to this and adjoining counties in 
company with his brother John. They were 
accjuaintances and friends of John Jacoby 
(who then owned and run the Old Town 
mills) and his family, and with them they 
made their headquarters during their stay 
in this section. General Robert T. Fors- 
man was then a single man and lived with 
Henry Jacoliy, in partnership with whom 
he ran a distiller}-. He sold out his interest 
to his partner not long after the building 
of the distillery. 

During this trip Mr. Scott saw very little 
of Xenia, making a few short visits to the 
place. It then contained very few frame 
or lirick buildings. The principal business 
houses were l)uilt of logs, and nearly all the 
dwellings were log structures of a variety of 
styles and sizes. At that time there %yas a 



tavern about where John Glossinger's saloon 
used to be, kept by an Englishman. There 
was another just east of it kept by Thomas 
Gillespie, who was afterward appointed land 
commissioner in the northern part of the 
state by President Jackson. Connelly then 
kept the tavern near the old Hivling cor- 
ner. James Collier was then running his 
famous house on Detroit street and a Mr. 
Watson was proprietor of another on the 
south side of Main street, west of Detroit. 

The first mill built in the county was a 
small structure erected in 1799 near the site 
of the Harbine mill at Alpha. Some years 
after it proved too small for the increasing 
trade and was abandoned for a larger one, a 
frame building erected near by. A woolen 
mill was also built and put into operation 
at the same place. It was afterward used as 
a cotton factory for some time and then 
again converted into a woolen mill. This 
mill property then belonged to Jacob Smith, 
who was a member of the fourth general 
assembly of the state in 1805, as a senator 
from this and Clinton counties, which office 
he filled several times afterward. 

.Vfter weeks spent in the inspction of the 
different mills in this part of the state Mr. 
Scott and his brother John negotiated for the 
purchase of this property from Mr. Smith 
and then started back to Pennsylvania. They 
had not journeyed as far as the Scioto river 
^vhen James' horse died. The animal was 
an excellent one, and as usually found in 
the west at that time horses were of an in- 
ferior stock. INIr. Scott would not pur- 
chase one with which to complete his jour- 
ney home, but proceeded on foot. Some 
days he traveled as nnich as fifty miles, and 
would very often reach the point designated 
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following night some time in advance of his 
brother who was on horsel)ack. Their aver- 
age rate of travel during the entire journey 
was between forty-five and forty-seven 
miles. Twenty-five miles this side of Pitts- 
burg, at a place then called Bricklings Cross 
Roads, his brother was taken very ill and 
they had to remain at this place some six 
weeks until the sick man was able to proceed 
on the journey. They arrived home during 
the holidays. Mr. Scott returned to this 
county in February. 18 16. and assumed 
charge of the mill purchased of Mr. Smith. 
Xot anticipating the immediate use of a 
horse after his arrival here, he declined to 
bring one with him and made the entire 
journey on foot. In the fall of the year he 
again returned tn Pennsylvania, this time 
making the trip nn horseback. 

MARRI.\GE OF MR. SCOTT. 

On the 17th of October. 1816, he was 
married to Elizabeth S. Shannon, who was 
then living with her parents not far from 
]\Iilton, Pennsyhania. Slic was born July 
6, 1796. Mrs. Scott had a brother living in 
Piqua. Ohio, and another in Pennsylvania, 
these three being the only surviving mem- 
bers of a large family. Jnhn Shannon, who 
once li\-ed at Alpha, this county, was an- 
other brother. Soon after their marriage 
thev moved to this countv in a wagon. They 
lived in the house in which the first 'rourt. 
were held in this county, which was then the 
residence of Peter Borders, and in which he 
kept a tavern for many years. 

John Scott, u ho had accomiianied James 
on his first visit to this count}', lived with 
them here. He was a millwright and erect- 
ed a number of mills in this and adjoining 



counties. He afterward settled in Aliami 
county, where he died in the eighty-second 
\ear of his age. Captain Casper Snyder, 
James Fulton and two of James Scott's 
sons, \\'illiam and David, learned the trade 
with him. 

Mr. Scott tells of a case of sharp prac- 
tice which occurred in the neighborhood of 
Alpha some time before he came to the 
county, but of which he often heard after 
his arrival here. Jacob Herring was the 
owner of a tract of land near Beaver creek, 
nortii of Alpha. An adjoining tract lying 
between his land and the creek contained 
some verv excellent bottom land, and on it 
there were some very fine springs, and this 
Herring desired to possess. Benjamin 
W'hiteman learned of this desire and know- 
ing that the land had not yet been entered 
by any one went to Herring, assumed the 
right to sell the land, bargained with him 
for its sale at five dollars per acre, went 
immediately to Cincinnati and entered it in 
his own name at less than half that price, 
then returned and made Herring a deed 
for the land, making quite a sum of money 
in the operation, which Herring could have 
retained had he known to what party the 
land belonged. 

While running the mill ^Ir. Scott once 
sent his team to Cincinnati with a load of 
flour. On the return the driver missed the 
way and after wandering about in the for- 
ests of Clermont and Brown counties for 
many days finally reached the mill again 
after an absence of about three weeks. 

A few days after moving to this county, 
with his wife Mr. Scott came to Xenia to 
purchase necessary household goods. He 
selected a number of articles, among them 
a "dutch oven" at James Gowdy's store, had 



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them set aside, and then drove liis team to 
John Alitten's chair factory, wliich stood 
v\here the Grand Hotel now stands, to pur- 
chase some chairs. Having driven away 
from the store without paying for what he 
had selected, or telling Mr. Gowdy where 
he was going (he presumes that Gowdy 
thought he was going to leave the goods on 
his hands and had gone home without them) 
Mr. Gowdy sent John Ewing. a clerk in the 
store, in search of Mr. Scott and to inquire 
if he had forgotten the articles set aside for 
him. Mr. Scott satisfied him, however, by 
returning to the store after he had gotten 
the chairs and pa^-ing for the articles and 
taking them home. 

The German Reformed, as it was called, 
the Lutheran and.Xew Light were the only 
church organizations in that part of the 
county wlien Mr. and Mrs. Scott lived at 
Alpha. Their ancestors were Presbyterians, 
and as there was not then any organization 
of tliat denomination near them they at- 
tended the services of the Reformed and 
Lutheran churches for a number of years. 
These two denominations built a large log 
church about 1820, near the site of the pres- 
ent brick church edifice on the Dayton and 
Xenia road near Alpha. The two congre- 
gations occupied the church alternately. 
Rev. Thomas Winters, who li\ed near Dav- 
ton, the father of the popular David \\"m- 
ters, now of Dayton, and Rev. Thomas Win- 
ters, of Xenia, was then pastor of the Re- 
formed congregation. Rev. Da\'id Winters, 
then a young man, preached the first sermon 
Mr. Scott ever heard him preach in this 
church. Mr. Scott knew of but one ^leth- 
odist family in the township at diat time. 
It was the family of Jacob Xesbitt, father 
of Benoni Xesbitt, of Xenia. There was 



then no congregation of Dunkards in the 
township, but there were a few persons there 
of that denomination, and tnrough their ef- 
forts were induced to settle there, until in 
later years a congregation was organized, 
and still exists at Zimmermanville. Soon 
after the organization of the first Presby- 
terian congregation in this city, and when 
Rev. Moses Swift, now of Allegheny, was 
its paster, Mr. and Mrs. Scott united with it, 
and ha\'e since remained meml)ers of that 
church. 

Mr. Scott was well acquainted with .\s- 
sociate Judges Houston and Haines, who 
w ere his neighbors for a long time. Among 
other personal acquaintances and friends 
during the first year of his residence in this 
county were Henry Ankeney. Captain Jacob 
Shingledecker, Captain Robert IMcClellan 
and Major James Galloway, who were sol- 
'tliers in the war of 181 2. ^Ir. Hugh An- 
'drew , Mr. George Wright and Mr. Scott 
were the only pensioners of the war of 1812 
mider the old law that were living in 1879 
about Xenia. 

Mr. Scott said that the people then liv- 
ing in Bea\-ercreek township were the most 
sociable and hospitable, honorable and up- 
right in all their dealings of any community 
in which he had e\'er lived. It was made up 
principally of people from Pennsylvania and 
Maryland. His mill custom then extended 
to the east and south, east a distance of 
twent}-five or thirty miles. In addition to 
attending to the running of the mill he lieM 
the office of justice of the peace in that 
ti.wnship for five years. 

After conducting the mill business for 
over ten years the property was sold to a 
yiv. Herr, and from him to Mr. John Har- 
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what was then caUed Staley's, afterwards 
Tresslar's, mill, a few miles farther down 
the river, where he remained for a short 
time. 

While there he was elected sheriff of the 
county and assumed the duties of that office 
in 1828, and held the uflice fur two succes- 
sive terms. At that time the county jail 
was an old stone building, which stood on 
the west side of the present city park. The 
county did not then provide a residence for 
the sheriff, and he lived in a small frame 
house on the same lot on East Second street 
where he was living at the time of his death. 
This building was moved in late years to 
East Church street. In 1833 'i'^ ^\'''=' elected 
to the state legislature and served one year 
as representative. • Before going to the leg- 
islature and after his return from that body 
he held the office of justice of the peace in 
Xenia. He. was then elected sheriff' and re- 
entered that office in 1836, again ser\ing 
two terms. Soon after the beginning of the 
first term a new jail was built in connec- 
tion with a sherift"s residence, on the east 
side of the public square, was completed, and 
Mr. Scott and his family settled in the resi- 
dence thus furnished them. The washing 
for the prisoners was done at the expense of 
the sheriff", who also had to furnish all nec- 
essary fuel and was paid only twenty-live 
cents per day for boarding each prisoner 
confined in the jail. There were then very 
few sheriff' sales; people then helped each 
other out of their financial difficulties, and 
there were few failures in business. What- 
ever sheriff' sales there were then, were al- 
most exclusively sales in partition. 

The law authorizing imprisonment for 
debt was then in force, and among many 
others confined in jail on that account while 



Mr. Scott was sheriff' was Dr. Thomas Neal, 
who was sentenced to a long tenn of im- 
prisonment. On account of his unusual 
trustworthy disposition in a matter of that 
kind he was for awhile allowed the priv- 
ileges of the jail yard during the day, and 
some times they permitted him to take a 
stroll about town. After his release Mr. 
Scott and others who took an interest in his 
welfare set him up in business in a small 
botanical drug store and succeeded in get- 
ting him a small practice. His wife, known 
by all as "Auntie Xeal," was a general fa- 
vorite in the town and especially with the 
children. The old couple removed to 
Jamestown some years after and there they 
died not a great while ago. 

In 1839 Mr. Scott was again elected 
representative to the legislature, and thfs 
time served two terms. Among others 
whom he remembered as members oi the leg- 
islature when he was one of that body, and 
with w horn he was then acquainted, he men- 
tioned Thomas W. Bartley and David Todd, 
both of whom afterwards became governors 
of the state: Joseph Vance, who was then 
in the senate and had been governor ; Sea- 
burry Ford, who afterwards was governor; 
Charles Brough, who afterwards became a 
very prominent citizen of Cincinnati, and 
who was a brother of John Brough, who 
was then auditor of state and was afterward 
elected' governor; George H. Flood, after- 
ward United States minister to Texas be- 
fore its annexation ; Judge Smith, of War- 
ren county, father of Judge Smith, so well 
known in our present courts ; Aaron Harlan, 
who was once a member of congress from 
this county ; George D. Hendricks, who w^as 
once noted for his ready wit. Once when 
Hendricks had the floor another member 



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iirose and said : "Mr. Si)eaker, is there any- 
thing' before the I'.ouse?" When Hendricks, 
referring to the member that had interrupted 
liim, exclaimed soto voce, "Yes, there is a 

thing from county before tlie house." 

At another time a member, a Baptist preach- 
er, presented a Ijill providing for tlie erec- 
tion of a dam across one of the largest trib- 
utaries to tlie ^Muskingum river. He was 
very earnest in urging tlie passage of the 
bill and made an imnecessarily frequent use 
of the name of the structure for wliich the 
provision was urged, and wlien lie closed his 
speech Hendricks arose and said : "Mr. 
Speaker, I move that the word "dam" be 
struck from this bill: the frequent use of 
such profanity is decidedly corrupting to the 
morals of this august body." 

While at Columbus ]\Ir. Scott became 
intimately acquainted with Judge Bellamy 
Storer, who was often in that city on legal 
business. During his first term in the legis- 
lature he drew up the bill for the incorpora- 
tion of the first bank ever incorporated in 
Xenia, called "The Xenia Bank," with John 
Hivling, president, John Ankeney, James 
Galloway. John Dodd. James Gowdy, Gen- 
eral R. D. Forsman, Silas Roberts and 
others as incorporators. This bill was pre- 
sented by George D. Hendricks, and by him 
its passage was materially aided. Wdiile in 
the legislature the second time Mr. Scott 
presented a bill for the incorporation of the 
Dayton and Xenia Turnpike Company. This 
bill was passed, Ijut he thinks that the road 
^^as built under a subsequent incorporation. 
The first bank in Xenia, however, was or- 
ganized iti 1818. with William Elkins cash- 
ier. 

After Mr. Scott's return fmni his last 
tenn in the legislature he moved with his 



family to the John Ewing farm, just east of 
Xenia, and there followed the occupation of 
farming. The farm residence was a log 
house, which stood near where the brick 
house stands in which Adam Rader used to 
live. ]\lr. Scott remained there for two 
years and then moved to the Hivling farm, 
on the west side of Xenia, and lived in the 
house which has since l)een enlarged and im- 
proved and is now (1899) occupied by Mrs. 
Jerry Parkhill. flere he continued farming 
for about two years, when he was elected 
to the of^ce of county recorder. 

It was about this time that the great and 
disastrous Puterbaugh fire occurred. The 
fire was first disco\-ered by John Crumbaugh, 
\\'illiam McDaniel. and Jacob Bazzel, who, 
being out \'ery late that night, were pr<.i- 
ceeding toward home, when they stopped at 
the corner of Main and Detroit streets for 
a moment's chat. While there their atten- 
tion was atttractcd by peculiar sounds of 
some one in great distress, and in proceed- 
ing in the direction from which the sounds 
came, they discovered that they were the 
groans of some one within the Puterbaugh 
storeroom, and the building was on fire. 
They gave the alarm and soon hundreds 
were gathered around the terril>e scene, 
wluise revelations of murder aii'' work of de- 
struction stamped a picture so indelibly upon 
the minds of all who witnessed the scene 
that time will fail to erase it. The date of 
this sad occurrence was August ,v 1^45- 
Two young men in the store were murdered, 
William Steele and James Kinney. The lat- 
ter is buried in Woodland cemetery. Mr. 
Steele was buried in the northeastern cor- 
ner of what is now known as the \\'est Mar- 
ket street school yard, then known as the 
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^\'llile recorder, Mr. Sci>it iutrotluccd a 
new s\stcni of indexing tlie records, which 
has ever since aided greatly in facilitating 
the business of the office. He was continued 
in this office for nine years, .\fter his third 
term c.x]iircd he was elected to tlie office of 
count\- auditor, and tilled that i)Osition one 
term. Xot many years afterward he was 
elected township trustee, and was continued 
in that (ifiicc fur many years, and until he de- 
clined to serye longer on account of his de- 
sire to relinquish the labors and responsi- 
bilities of active life, in order to live in a 
more retired manner during his remaining 
days. 

He is now in the eighty-sixth year of his 
age. and has retained the natural faculties 
of mind and ImkIn- to an innisual degree. His 
father died at the age of eighty-six years at 
the residence of his son, John, near Troy, 
Ohio, in 1S34. His mother died in I'eiin- 
syh'ania some years before. John Scott, his 
brother, .died near Troy, Ohio, after having 
passed his eighty-second year. And anfUher 
brnther. \\'illiam Scott, now lives in 'JVoy, 
and is in his eighty-second year. This sim- 
ilarity in the longevity of the father and the 
three sons and only children is somewhat re- 
markable. Mrs. Scott was, at the aforesaid 
date, in the eighty-third year of her age, and 
has been blessed with a continuation of 
health and strength of both body and mind 
to an extent equal to that of her husband's. 
, They have been married for o\'er sixty-two 
}cars, The_\- have survived six of their chil- 
dren, and have but three living: ^Irs. John 
^^'. Manor, of this city : David Scott, who 
li\-cs in Indiana: and James, who resides 
with his parents on East Second street, this 
city. ]\Ir. James A. Scott, the subject of 
this sketch, after a long and useful life, died 



at his residence on East Secuntl street, Xe- 
nia, Ohio, August 12, 1881, aged eighty- 
seven years, and is buried in our own beau- 
tiful Woodland. 

HISTORY OF THE G.VLLOWAV CORNER. 

We find that away back in 179<S it \\,is 
a part of what is known as survey Xo. 2243. 
in the name of Warren and .\ddison Lewis, 
patented to Robert Pollard on the 24th of 
December, 1798, calling for one tiiousand 
acres. On July 6, 1801, Robert Pollard 
and Jael, his wife, conveyed the same to 
Thomas Richardson and wife, Elizabeth. 
On the 27th of June, 1803, John Paul, 
the founder of Xenia, became the owner 
of the aforesaid one thousantl acres, of 
which lot X"o. 2/, the (jalloway corner, 
was a part. On the 14th of Xovem- 
ber the honoraljle court of the county 
of Greene had decided that the forks of 
Shawnee creek was to be the iiermanent 
county seat of Greene county. Ohi(j. Jo- 
seph C. X'ance had been employed to survey 
and lay out the count \- seat and had been 
selected to act as director for said county 
seat. Mr. Vance served in that ca])acity 
until Septemljer. 1805. and ;it that date re- 
t^igned and \\'illiam A. Beatty was chosen 
as his successor in office. On the 13th of 
September, 1810. James Galloway, Jr., pur- 
cliased of William A. Beatty lot Xo. ^j, 
ninety-nine feet on Chillicothe, or Main, 
street, and one-half the distance of the 
square running north on Detroit street, con- 
sideration for the same three hundred dol- 
lars. Prior to this on the nth of Septem- 
ber. 1807, William A. Beatty had con^•eyed 
to Henry Phenix, lot X^o. 38, immediately 
west cf and adjoining Mr. Galloway's lot, 



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and on which he liad erected a cabin en llie 
present site of what is now (1900) known as 
the Drees and Thornhill Iniilding, and was 
keeping tavern. On the 14th of Xovember, 
1808, j\Ir. Phenix sold to Dr. Andrew W. 
Davidson, Xenia's first physician, lot No. 
38. On that lot, present site of th.e John J. 
Knox saddler's shop, Mr. Davidson erected 
a two-story brick house. March 11, 1813, 
Mr. Davidson cuineyed to James Galoway, 
Jr.. the lilt, which extended west to what is 
known as the Crnmbaugh line. The same 
year, 1813, that Mr. Galloway purchased lot 
Xo. 38, he commenced to build what has 
been known for almost three-fourths of a 
century "The Galloway corner," which gave 
rise to the subject of this sketch. Mr. Hugh 
Andrew says that a Mr. Hartsook did the 
mason work, and that it was the largest 
brick buildings in Xenia at that time. The 
other corners at this time were vacant, and 
many of the inhaljitants of Xenia got their 
fire wood from the lots on which they lived. 
The streets at that time were full of stumps 
and everything presented a wild appearance. 
-\Ir. Galloway had [jrevious to this time 
completed a large brick house in 1809 on his 
farm, six miles north of Xenia, on the Fair- 
field pike, known as "Ramblers' Retreat." 
The old home is yet standing ami owned l)y 
William H. Collins. Four of Mr. Gallo- 
way's cliildren were born at this place. The 
father of Major Galloway had come from 
f'ennsylvania, and had removed and settled 
in Kentucky, during tlie most perilous times 
of Indian warfare, and had participated in 
the dangers along with Boone, Simon Ken- 
ton and others, in their struggle to reclaim 
the land from the savage foe. He was also 
along with Gen. Roger Clarke, in 1782. in 
his second expedition to Old Chillicothe, on 



the Little Miami, and other points. In the 
year 1797 he removed from Kentucky to 
his home in Ohio, and located on land west 
of the Little Miami, opposite the present 
}vliami Powder Mills. About nineteen years 
previous to his coming to Ohio, Xovember 
-3- ^77^- he had married Miss Rebecca 
Junkin, in Cumberland county. Pennsylva- 
nia. Maj. James Galloway, his eldest son. 
and the builder of the Galloway corner, had 
an eventful life. At the age of twenty years, 
accompanied by his father, he made a trip 
back to his old Kentucky home, in 1802, and 
through the influence of his father. Jame? 
Galloway, Sr., who had known Col. Rich- 
ard Anderson in the war of the Revolution, 
and his uncle, George Pomeroy. he succeed- 
ed in getting the ai)pointment of dejiuty sur- 
veyor of the \'irginia military district of 
Ohio. And one is filled with surprise and 
wonder to-day ( 1900) as he looks at and 
examines his large ledgers, books of sur- 
veys, field notes, and the hundreds of let- 
ters pertaining to his business in his various 
transactions, and the thoughts will come, 
and questions will arise, how could one man 
accomplish so much, and do it so neatly. 
And in addition to this work, his home du- 
ties, duties to his country in the war of 
1812, in which he took part, sometimes as .i 
private soldier, other times as captain of a 
company, and as major of a regiment, and 
in all the work that was essential to making 
the conditions of his fellow men better, we 
find Alajor Galloway did his part and did it 
well. But we will return to our subject, 
"The Galloway corner." John W. Shields, 
along about 1877, says: "In 1814 ]\Iajor 
Galloway removed from his place. "Ramb- 
lers' Retreat,' to Xenia. and into the corner 
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prepared fur the family, in addition to the 
storerooms on the corner. It is witii feel- 
ings of regret that a complete list of the par- 
ties that transacted business in that corner 
can not be given. The tirst to sell merchan- 
dise was the firm of George Townsley & 
Co., in 1814. The next to occupy the corner 
probably was the firm of Dodd, Parkison & 
Lowry. Mr. John Dodd, the senior mem- 
ber of the firm, had been to Philadelphia, 
and had brought home with him among 
other articles, which he had purchased, the 
first lucifer matches that had been brought 
to Xenia. They were a great curiosity, and 
were stared at by his customers who thought 
they would l>e a great thing, enabling them 
to start a fire without taking a shovel and 
going half a mile .to a neighbor to borrow, 
but no one thought how universal they 
would become, and what a help they would 
be to ycnmg boys learning to smoke, and how- 
convenient they would be to incendiaries. A 
few yet,li\ing perhaps still remember Mr. 
Dodd, his personal appearance in his best 
days, his energetic, animated face, short 
neck, and his right shoulder carried higher 
than the left. Of these old-time merchants 
only two ( 1877) remain on our streets, John 
Ewing and Gen. Casper R. Merrick, who 
are still notetl for their (|uick step and vi- 
vacity, yir. James E. Galloway has in his 
home a photograph of the old corner which 
he was thoughtful in securing, and it is a 
valuable picture, and will become more so 
as time rolls on. In the (jld building there 
was a hall entering from Detroit street, and 
north (jf this hall were the parlor and sit- 
ting room, with dining room and kitchen 
in the rear. The second story afforded the 
family chambers, and were more spacious 
and comfortable than was common in that 



day. When the family removed to their 
present mansion the old parlor and sitting 
room were converted into a storeroom for 
Philip Lauman. After the removal of the 
lamily the second story was used for sev- 
eral years as a tailor shop by Andrew 
Hutchison, as genial and clever a man as 
ever lived in Xenia. He was the father of 
Clark Hutclrjson, yet conducting business 
in Xenia near the site where his father used 
to be. The Galloway corner is occupied 
by the present Steele building. The present 
Galloway mansion (1877) was erected in 
1S30; the materials were all carefully se- 
lected ; Gen. Daniel Lewis was the mason, 
with his two apprentice boys, Aniel Rog- 
ers and William C. Robinson, better known 
as "Hud" Robinson; his carpenter was the 
late Robert Nesbitt. The family moved in- 
to their house in 1831, and there they have 
remained ever since. It is seldom that any 
family has remained in one place so long, 
forty-six years in the same house, and sixty- 
three on the same lot of ground. But fa- 
th.er anil mother have passed away, and also 
brothers and sisters, and now the family is 
reduced to two. L'nder those circumstan- 
ces the old mansion was converted into busi- 
ness purposes. Major Galloway had the sa- 
gacity to foresee in the fertile soil of Ohio 
and its rapid settlement a fine opportunity 
for acquiring independence and, perhaps, 
wealth, he became, as we ha\'e seen, a sur- 
veyor and pursued his calling diligently for 
several years. He acquired large tracts of 
land in what is known as the military dis- 
trict that had been set aside for the soldiers 
of the Revoluion. We are informed on 
good authority that Mr. Galloway after hav- 
ing secured the position as deputy surveyor, 
under Col. Richard C. Anderson, supplied 



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himself with all the necessary implements, 
books, etc., that were recjuired for his busi- 
ness, by taking his trusty rifle and going to 
the woods hunting, and by the results of 
such efforts made money enough to pay for 
all that was needed to perfectly supply his 
wants in regard to the aforesaid articles. 
A loft in one of the out buildings at "Ramb- 
lers' Retreat" was his office, which he fitted 
up. It is no wonder that success crowned 
his efforts. The rapid rise in the value of 
those lands enabled him to sell and reinvest. 
His success was, I suppose, much greater 
than he had at first anticipated. The conse- 
quence was, that he was able to support a 
style of life in Xenia that no other family 
here has ever maintained. His Glady farm 
of one thousand acres was the Egypt from 
which he drew his supplies. His stables 
were stocked with fine horses, and he kept 
his carriage and coachman. His sons were 
graduated from Miami iuii\-ersity, and his 
daughters were graduates of the best schools 
in Cincinnati. He was a lenient creditor, an 
indulgent landlord, and it gave him pleasure 
to help a poor man to independence, if he 
thought him worthy of assistance. He was 
an elder in the Associate church, under Rev. 
Francis Pringle, away back in 1811. And 
his home was ever open, as his father's had 
been, to the itinerate ministers of that church 
as well as to all of his friends. 

THOMAS STEELE, 

Thomas Steele came to the United 
States in 181 2. He was a native of Ireland. 
Sometimes but a trifle settles the destinies 
of man, and, it is said, that the ship on 
which he sailed was stopped at sea by a 
British man-of-war. in order tn press young 



men in the na\-al serxice. 'Sir. Steele being 
c[uick and acti\c hid himself in tlie liold of 
the ship so securely that John Bull could not 
find him, and by this circumstance Great 
Britain lost a good sailor, but Xenia gained . 
an excellent teacher. Mr. Steele resided at 
first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for 
about two years, then went to Lexington, 
Kentucky, where he remained one year and 
in the winter of 1S15 came to Xenia, Ohio. 

In the spring of 1816 he commenced his 
school in Xenia, which he continued until 
about 1848. being sustained by his merit as 
a teacher. His old pupils well remember 
his modest and humble dwelling and school 
house, on the site now occupied by our Cen- 
ter school building, also the thoroughness of 
his teaching. He was a devout Christian, 
religion being with him a calm and abiding 
conviction and through all h.'s life he re- 
mained firmly attached to the Covenantor 
church. 

Soon after coming to Xenia Mr. Steele 
was united in marriage October 9, 1818, to 
Miss Maria Gaff, of this county. His eldest 
daughter, ]\Iartha Jane, widow of the late 
Dr. Adams, of Waynesville, Ohio, in 1876 
resided in Kansas City, Mo., with her sis- 
ter, i\Irs. Louise Trumbull. His son. Dr. 
Ebenezier Steele, was assistant surgeon of 
the Seventy-fourth Ohio Infantry during 
the late Civil war. He died at N^ashville, 
Tennessee. His second daughter. Margaret, 
was the wife of the late R. F. Howard, one 
of Xenia's best lawyers, while his daughter, 
Mrs. Mary A. Patrick, now a widow, re- 
sides with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Tor- 
rence, at Belle Center, Ohio, and his son, 
William, is now (1876) in the state of 
Texas. In 1848 Mr. Steele moved to Ad- 
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f(_;rtunate and lie returned to Xenia in 1853, 
wliere he remained until i860, when he 
went to s])end the reniainder of his days 
with his daughter at Belle Center, Ohio. 
Willi of the older people of Xenia but 
remembers Thomas Steele? Among some 
of his pupils were Abraham Hivling, Alfred 
Trader, Thornton J^Iarshall, George Mon- 
roe, Benoni Nesbit, Albert Galloway and 
Thomas P. Townsley, but to enunxerate 
is out of the question. We must take 
them by families. There were the Starks, 
Merricks, Roberts, Crumbaughs and from 
;inn>ng almiost all the old families of Xenia. 
Peace be to his ashes. He died at Belle 
Center. August 6, 1875, aged eighty-four 
years. 

ROBERT NliSIilT 

Was a carpenter by trade. Many of the first 
arid best houses were built by him in the 
county at an early date. He came from 
Iiuliaiia county, Pennsylvania, in 181 7, and 
was married to Miss X'ancy Townsley, 
daughter of Thomas Townsley, Sr., who 
\\as one of the first settlers near the pres- 
ent site of Cedarviile. His wife was a sis- 
ter to Mrs. Major James Galloway, Jr. He 
was born in Ireland. December 27, 1790, 
and died in Xenia, Ohio, Jun* 26 1876, at 
the ripe age of eighty-six years. He is bur- 
ied in Woodland cemetery. 

S.\MUEL CRUMBAUGH, SR., 

A\'as a hatter by trade. He came to Xenia 
ni 1817. He purchased the lot now cov- 
ered by the wholesale house of Eavey & 
Co. and westward. He was a man that was 
highly respected/ in Xenia, and was the fa- 
ther of the late Samuel Crumbaugh, sheriff 



of Greene county, and other children who 
were well known and respected. After 
spending nearly sixty years of his life in 
Xenia. on September 6, 1876, word came 
that the old pioneer had entered into his 
rest. In the year 1833 he assisted in or- 
ganizing the Reformed church in this city, 
of which he was a faithful member. He 
was a native of Maryland, born .August 29, 
1 79 1, and was eighty-five years of age 
at the time of his death. He lies in Wood- 
land cemetery. 

ABRAHAM LAREW. 

Mr. Larew was one of the early settlers 
of Xenia, a carpenter by trade, having lo- 
cated here in the year 1806. About 1834 
he removed from Xenia tO' Logansport, In- 
diana, where he resided several years, but 
for some years previous to his death he re- 
sided near Cincinnati, with his son-in-law. 
Stephen Reeder (who was also a former 
resident oi Xenia), where he died April r. 
1858, aged eighty-three years. 

Some of the houses that he built are 
still standing in Xenia, notably one that is 
being used as a school house on West Mar- 
ket street. It is on Detroit street, about 
where the "famous cheap store" of A. G. 
Hiller now stands, and served as a grocery 
store of D. A. Dean & Bro., and the upstairs 
as the office for many years of the Xenia 
Torch Light. When the march of improve- 
ment took place it had to go, and was re- 
moved to its present location. 

]Mr. Larew was also a soldier in the war 
of 1812 from Greene county, and was like- 
wise a soldiet of the Revolution. Thus one 
by one are the old settlers being gathered 
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AX OLD LANDMARK REMOVED. 

In April, 1857, workmen were engaged 
in removing the old building that stood on 
what was called the Jonathan Wallace lot — - 
where now (1899) stands the Trebein mill. 
This was one of the oldest buildings in 
town, having been erected by INIr. Wallace 
in 181 1, as a residence. It was built of logs, 
and when first erected was but one story 
high. A few months later another story 
was added, and it was then looked upon as 
quite a stylish affair. Mr. Wallace occu- 
pieil it for more than thirty years. He was 
a hatter by trade. He removed from Xenia. 
and died at the house of Anthony Byers. 
Darke county, April 25, 1850, aged seventy 
years. 

EDWARD WATTS 

Died at his residence one mile east of Xenia 
June 23, 1859, aged seventy-five years. He 
was born in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1782, 
and came to Ohio in 1806. He was a soldier 
in the war of 1812, serving six months in a 
tour of duty, and was in the expedition to 
the Maumee Rapids under the command of 
General Tupper. He came to Greene coun- 
ty in 1806, and was married in 1821 to Mrs. 
Margaret (Snavley) Reece, and settled on 
his farm one mile east of Xenia, where lie 
continued to reside until his death. He 
was always true to his country and prin- 
ciples, and in politics an unwavering, zeal- 
ous Whig. His last sickness was of several 
months' duration. He lies buried in the 
Watt's family burial ground near the Xenia 
water works stand-pipe. 

MAJOR GEORGE GORDON. 

Mr. Gordon was born in Cumberland 



county, Peimsylvania, on the 7th of Sep- 
tember, 1786. His father decided to move 
west in 1790, and taking his family, came 
in a wagon from near Harrisburg, Penn- 
sylvania, across the mountain to the river 
some miles above where Pittsburg now 
stands. .\nd at that point they proceeded 
down the ri\-er in a ilat boat,^and landed at 
a place called Limestone, which has since 
de\-eloped into the extensi\-e town of Mays- 
ville, Kentucky. Going from there farther 
back into the state they settled near Lexing- 
ton. Fayette county, but leaving there in 
1802, they came to Ohio, which was then a 
part of the northwestern territory, crossing 
the Ohio river on a fiat boat at Cinciimati, 
making their live stock swim the stream. 
Mr. Gordon said he remembered crossing 
the Ohio five times in that way during the 
year. Proceeding then to Warren county, 
then a part of Hamilton county, they settled 
near Lebanon, where Mr. Gordon remained 
with his father until 1813. 

Previous tO' 1808 Major Gordon was 
afflicted with a severe attack of rheumatism, 
from which he suffered greatly for many 
years, though during his later years he was 
not harrassed with the accustomed pains of 
the disease. He said the disease was first 
brought on by sleeping in a "Dutchman's" 
feather bed. He one day took a load of 
grain to the niill to be ground, and was 
forced to remain at the mill over night while 
tile grinding was being done. The miller, 
a German, slept in the mill and had a bed 
on the ground floor of the building. This 
he invited Mr. Gordon to occupy for the 
night, while he would attend to the nwll aiV-l 
have the grist b}- morning. Being prevailed 
upon, Mr. Gordon accepted the offer and 
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Here he slept soundly, and in a thorough 
perspiration arose early in the morning and 
went out into the cold air, harnessed his 
horses, loaded his wagon and proceeded 
liome, but before he arrived there he was 
completely chilled, and not long after began 
to sutler excruciating pains of rheumatism. 
In 1808 he went with his mother and a 
neighbor, also a young man and an invalid, 
li) Yellow Springs, to test the efficacy of the 
water there as a cure for his disease. The 
ground around the springs at that time be- 
longed to Mr. Lewis Davis, and one 
of the buildings, a rude log cabin, the 
trio occupied. In this they lived, pro- 
viding and eating their own food, which 
Mrs. Gordon prq)ared. For the use of 
the cabin and the privilege of the water 
they paid Mr, Davis seventy-five cents 
per week. And Mr. Gordon said that 
life then was far more conductive to com- 
fort, happiness and health than it is now, 
with an immense three-story hotel and fash- 
ionable display, at an expense of ten or 
twelve dollars per week. He was iDcnefited 
1)\- the use of the water there, but it did not 
effect a permanent cure. After Hull's sur- 
render in 1S12 he went with a company of 
"Light Horse" cavalry from Franklin, 
Ohio, to Ft. Wayne to relieve the garrison 
there, who were expecting 'a strong attack 
from the Indians. No attack was made, 
however, during his stay, which was short, 
as sleeping on the ground soon caused a re- 
turn of the rheumatism, with all of its old 
force, and he was compelled to return home. 
Mr. Gordon first saw Xenia in 1805, 
when he came up from Warren county to 
help his brother, William Gordon, who' was 
an early settler in Xenia, to move from that 
-county to Xenia. William Gordon pur- 



chased lot Xo. 176, on the corner of Water 
and Whiieman streets, and there erected and 
run the first brewery in Xenia, a small log 
establishment. ^Ir. Gordon came again in 
1806 or 1807, when he came to assist his 
brother in hauling the timber for a two- 
story log house, forty by forty feet, which 
his brother William erected near the house 
known as the James Gowdy home, corner 
lot No. ^^. Some years ago, during the time 
M. D. Gatch, of this city, was a member of 
the state legislature, while reading the Ohio 
State Journal, to which he was a regular 
subscriber, he saw several communications 
which attempted to fix the date of the noted 
"cold Friday." each giving a different date. 
Soon after, when sending the subscription 
money for the paper, he accompanied it with 
a note to the editor, in which he referred to 
the communications he had read, and stated 
that the date of that day was Friday. Febru- 
arv 14, 1807. He was surprised to see hi.s 
communication in the following issue of the 
Journal, together with the editor's remark 
that Mr. Gordon must b.e correct, as the 
14th of February that year came on Friday, 
while all dates by others came on some other 
day of the week. Mr. Gordon said he re- 
membered that day distinctly : that the even- 
ing preceding he and his brother, antici- 
pating rough weather, had hunted up a 
young calf belonging to William and placed 
it in what they supposed very comfortable 
quarters, secure from the cold, but in the 
morning they found it frozen to death in 
spite of their care. Also, that on that cold 
day the men who had gathered at the huge 
log tavern, then near the southeast corner of 
Main and Detroit streets, kept by William 
.\. Beattv, better known as Major Beatty. 
growing impatient with the fire which was 



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made of green wood and wonld not burn to 
suit them, carried the contents of the whole 
large fireplace in the middle of the street, 
and there piled it up, declaring they would 
make a fire to suit themselves. He added in 
this connection that when William Kendall 
was building the old brick court house, some 
of the boarders at this tavern used to steal 
the wood that he had prepared for the brick 
kiln, carry it trj the tavern and burn it for 
pure mischief. 

In February, 1813. Mr. Gordon was 
married to Miss Agnes AlcDaniel, who was 
three years his junior, and who had come 
from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, 
with her parents and settled in Warren 
county, within a few miles of where IMr. 
Gordon and his parents then lived. In 
}ilarch of the same year the newly married 
couple came to Greene county, and settled 
in the woods in Sugarcreek township, about 
three miles west of Springvalley on the Cen- 
terville pike. Along the line of this road 
'six. Gordon and a few others interested tried 
to have a county road established in 1S14, 
but failed to succeed. Upon arriving at this 
place he constructed a rude log hut and with 
his wife continued for several years to fol- 
low the usual avocations and endure the 
hardships of pioneer life. 

While living there they attended the As- 
sociate church in Xenia, of which they were 
members until the union, when they united 
with the secontl church, of which Mrs. 
Gordon was a memljer until her death, 
which occurred May 11, i860, and to which 
Mr. Gordon was- a member until his death, 
which, occurred December 10, 1879, at the 
ripe old age of ninety-three years. 

We were informed by ]Mr. Gordon that 
the small l>rick Iniilding standing on the 



northeast corner of his place, facing east on 
Detroit street, and for many years past 
used as a residence, was the first Associate 
church ever built in Xenia. The congrega- 
tion was organized in 18 10 by Rev. John 
Steele, who preached occasionally for them, 
and afterward became their settled pastor. 
Xot long after the congregation was or- 
ganized the church was built, Rev. Adam 
Rankin conducting the first communion 
service in the summer of 1814. Rev. Por- 
ter, then of Preble county, was one of the 
supplies of this congregation, and here the 
well known Dr. Pressley, who was licensed 
to preach and was married before he was 
twenty-one years of age, preached some of 
his first sermons. The reporter must have 
misunderstood Mr. Gordon when he calls it 
the Associate church. What he has said 
would apply to the Associate Reform 
church, of which the Rev. John Steele was 
pastor, and which is now known as the First 
United Presbyterian church. Mr. John B. 
(X)wdy, yet living (1S99), says in regard 
to the building, that the brick of which the 
house was built were made and burnt where 
the building now stands in 1817, and the 
house was erected soon after. There was 
a log church stood near by previous to this 
one. 

After a few years earnest toil, clearing 
and improving the farm which he had set- 
tled in Sugarcreek township Mr. Gordon 
was able to possess a good horse team, and 
finding that he could make more money in 
that than in any other ^way, he followed 
teaming to and from Cincinnati for some 
vears. getting as high as one dollar and 
twentv-five cents per hundred pounds haul- 
ing goixls from Cincinnati to Xenia. 

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on Massies creek lately owned by Mr. 
James, and nnw the property of Henry 
Conklin, to which he renioved with liis fam- 
ily in the same year, and socn after erected 
new bnildings on the place. Having in 1851 
purchased the ground between Xorth De- 
troit and King streets, where he died, he 
raised two large crops of potatoes on it in 
185 1 and 1852. In the fall of 1852, Austin 
McDowcl. whom he had empl<yed to d<j the 
work, began the erection of his present resi- 
dence, and finished it in the spring of 1853. 
Mr. Gordon removed from his farm on Mas- 
tics creek to this residence in that year. 
Mrs. Gordon died in May, i860, in the sev- 
enty-first year of her age. Mr. Gordon at 
the time of liis death left behind him to 
mourn the loss of a kind and indulgent fa- 
ther three sons, George K.. William 1. and 
Andrew A., of Holton, Kansas, and one 
daughter, the wife of the Rev. D. McDill. 

UEV. JIOSES TU.VDEK. 

Rev. Moses Trader died April 9, 1854, 
age seventy years, in Lynn county, Mis- 
HJuri. At. the tinuc of his hirth, his father, 
who had teen a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war, and one of Morgan's celebrated rilie 
regiment, resided in Cumberland county, 
\'irginia, sixteen miles southeast of L'ninn- 
town, Pennsylvania. He emigrated to the 
Northwest territory in 1792, and landed it 
the mouth of the Little ]VIiami river on the 
19th day of December^ A settlement having 
been there commenced by Major Stitts in 
1789, three years previous, and only four 
years from the first settlement of Ohio at 
Marietta. His parents were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. There were 
no members of that church nor any regular 
Methodist preaching until the Rev. John 
Kobler came, who was the first Methodist 



Episcopal preacher that crcsseil the Ohio to 
preach the gospel to the few hardy pioneers 
who had pitched their camps in the wilder- 
ness. But this did not occur until the death 
of his father. Hostilities were kept up with 
the savages from the time of their landing 
at CoUmibia until the Indians were defeated 
by General Wayne August 20, 1794, 
the war being linally ended by treaty 
at Greenville the year following. The 
spirit stirring scenes and dangers through 
which he had passed in his youth seemed 
to have inspired him with a fondness for en- 
terprise and adventiu'e. He hunted with the 
Shawnee Indians, understcHDd their manners 
and customs, and spoke their language flu- 
ently. He was an iinerring marksman and 
a good hunter, to which was united un- 
llinching" courage and ability to endure fa- 
tigue. Such qualificatioins made him a 
great favorite with the Indians. 

It is not known when he first came to 
Greene county. It must have been at an 
early period, as he cleared the first field on 
made at Caesar's creek. A settlement had 
been made at Caersarsville ( near the pres- 
ent home of Pad Peterson) in 1800, so he 
must have been here previous tO' that. He 
was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac 
^IcDonald, on the 2nd day of September, 
1804, by the Rev. Bennet Maxey. It is 
said that being at one of those social gath- 
ering commonly called (piiltings, he was de- 
sirous O'f getting up a dance; suddenly a 
flash of conviction darted through his mind, 
his levity left him, and gave place to serious 
thoughtfulness, and from that time to the 
end of his earthly existence his life and man- 
ners were entirely changed. He attached 
himself to the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and was a zealous member from the first. 
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attempting to lead at prayer-meetings he 
could scarcely give out a hymn without spell- 
ing some of the words. But from that time 
on his progress in the path of knowledge 
was to be a matter of astonishment to all 
who knew him. Books were scarce in those 
days, and cost much money. He had an in- 
creasing famil}: to provide for by his own 
daily labors; yet such was his midnight in- 
dustry (reading from light famished by the 
scaly bark from hickory trees) and by the 
activity of his intellectual faculties that he 
soon mastered whatever he undertook. His 
mind seemed to grasp a situation as by in- 
tuition. He joined the Ohio conference in 
1812 and coi:tinued until 18 17, when bad 
health compelled him to relocate. 

Such were his attainments at that time 
that he ranked as one of the most intelligent 
and profound members of the Ohio confer- 
ence. He had made himself well acquainted 
with history, theolog>% and was deeply 
versed in Biblical lore, to which he soon after 
added knowledge of the Hebrew language. 
His grammar of that language was copied 
by his own hand, and was a curiosity for 
neatness and penmanshij). In 18 16 he re- 
moved to Chillicothe. where his popularity 
as a preacher was scxm establislied.' He,was 
also prospering in business when hemet with 
a stroke of adversity which swept away all 
that industry and economy had enabled him 
to acquire. A traveler stopped at Chilli- 
cothe and found one of his slaves that had 
run awav some years previous. Tlie negro, 
Tom, in the meantime had married, and had 
a wife and two children. His master had 
him arrested, and was going to tear him 
away from his family and return him to 
bondage. In this deplorable condition Tom 
-appealed to Mr. Trader and others to pur- 



chase his freedom, promising that he would 
refund the amount uf purchase money if he 
had to work night and day. It was finally 
agreed that one John English and Mr. 
Trader should join in giving their note for 
the required sum (eight hundred dollars, it is 
believed). In due time the payment of the 
note was demanded, when it appeared En- 
glish had signed the note not as a principal, 
as had been agreed upon', but as security-. 
He refused to pay any portion of the 
amount. The negro had been informed that 
a promise made by a slave was not binding, 
and he had the ingratitude to refuse to re- 
fund ;iny part of the sum. The whole debt 
fell on ilr. Trader, which, together with 
an expensive law suit, cost him fifteen or 
twenty hundred dollars. 

In 1819 ]\Ir. Trader mOved back to 
Greene county, and the same year he con- 
tracted with the government to furnish tim- 
ber to build the barracks at Baton Rouge, 
Louisiana. In 1820 he descended the river 
and went to the lower Mississippi. From 
this time he continued on the river for nine- 
teen years. In 1827 he commenced the mer- 
cantile business in Xenia. In 1839 ^e emi- 
grated to Missouri, settling in Lynn county 
and commenced farming. In a letter writ- 
ten in 1845 lie says: I have one hundred 
and ninety acres of good land with sixtv 
acres under fence. In 1849 the Methodist 
Episcopal church organized a conference in 
that state, which he joined. At the time of 
his death he was presiding elder of Grand 
River district. On March 5, 1854, he 
preached his last sermon in Davis county, 
Missouri, se\-enty miles from home. 

WILI.I.\M TR.XMMEL STARK. 

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185S, the wliole town was startled witli 
the information tliat William T. Stark, 
Esq., one of our oldest and most gen- 
erally known and respected citizens, had 
that nuirning' departed this life. He 
had attended to his business the day pre- 
vious in good health, and to a friend 
observing that he felt as well as he 
had for years. On Saturday morning he 
■rose at five o'clock to attend market, and 
while dressing he ci!mi)lained of a pain in 
the region of the heart, which induced liim 
to refrain from going out, and a plaster was 
applied lo his chest when he laid down, and 
in a very few moments without any e\'idence 
of pain he breathed his last. So unexpected 
was this event that his family was not aware 
of his C(-ndition>, and- his quiet apjiearance 
leading his widow, who was in the room 
with liim, to believe he was slee])ing. 

-Mr. Stark at the time of his death had 
been a resident of Xenia forty-two years, 
having settled here on the 22d of July. 
1S16. He was a descendant of General 
Stark, of the Revolution, and was born in 
Loudoun county, Virginia, on the 13th cf 
.\pril, -'/(JO. In 1799 his father moved to 
Maysville, Kentucky, and in 1800 to Lex- 
ington, Kentucky. Mr. Stark was a volun- 
teer of the treaty of Greenville in 1813. In 
June, 1S29, he received the appointment of 
postmaster for Xenia from General Andrew 
Jackson, and he held that oflice until 1841. 
He was a member of the Masonic order for 
forty years, and for about twenty-five years 
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. On the Sabbath following his death 
his remains were consigned to the tomb, in 
Woodland cemetery, Xenia, by his brother 
Masons, and the procession that formed the 
•escort was the largest that was ever seen 



in the town. He was known by all, respected 
by the whole community for his many vir- 
tues, and the entire community sympathized 
with the family in their sorrow. 

CAPTAIX JOIIX ITIXI.IXC. 

Colonel Hivling was among the last of 
the early settlers of Greene countw He was 
born near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on 
the 14th of July, 1779. and from that place 
he moved to Washington county, Maryland, 
and in the fall of 1809 removed to Greene 
county, Ohio. His first purchase was what 
was known as the "Paul Mill." now Tre-. 
beins, near Pinkney Pond, where he re- 
mained about two years. He then bought 
of Captain W. A. Beatty, in 181 1, the lot 
on the corner of Main and Detroit streets, 
now occupied by the Xenia Xational Bank, 
down to the south, side of the old Hivling 
house. Upon this lot there was then stand- 
ing a log building occupying the ground now 
occupied by the Leaman block, and there he 
kept a hotel for two. or three years. He then 
purchased a thousand-acre tract of land 
from John Paul, lying north and west of 
the town and including the land now owned 
by the Manor heirs, Lewis H. Bcall, Sam- 
uel Galloway, heirs, and otherj. Upon this 
tract he resided in a house that stood near 
the residence of the late Andrew Baughman 
until 1815, when he purcha.sed from a Mr. 
Davis his lot and building and a stock of 
g(X)ds and commenced his long- and success- 
ful career as a m.erchant. This lot was the 
one known as the "Forsman," Main street. 
In 1812 he succeeded the late James Collier 
as sheriff of Greene county, and held that 
office the constitutional term of four years. 

On the 30th of October, 18 12, as the rec- 



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orcls indicate, he, in pvirsuance of the onler 
of court, whipped the last man upon the 
sentence of \\;hipping was pronounced in 
this court. Whatever might ha\-e been the 
facts in the case, in this instance the de- 
grading punishment was well deserved, as 
the crime of which the rascal had been con- 
victed was of the vilest order, and we ha\e 
heard an old settler, !io\v cjuietly sleeping 
after a life well spent, and who saw the op- 
eration, say that tlie Colonel fairly carried 
out the sentence of the court in spirit and 
letter as the scamp hugged a small sugar 
tree on the public square. The ct¥ice of 
sheriff is the only one that the Colonel ever 
filled. 

Upon the organization of the old Xenia 
Bank he was elected as president of that in- 
stitution, which position he held until 1840, 
when the old State Bank of Ohio was estab- 
lished and the Xenia Bank became one of 
the branches. He was elected one of the 
members "i the State Board of Control, and 
served that body from 1845 until 1851. 
When the subject of building a railroad 
from Cinciimati to Springfield was agitated, 
and others were hesitating and doubting the 
feasibility of the undertaking, Colonel Hiv- 
ling was among the first to give it a fax'or- 
able consideration, and upon the organiza- 
tion of the Little Miami Company he was 
selected as one of the board of directors, 
which position he held until 1840, and, hav- 
ing temporaril}- removed to a farm which he 
had purchased east of Cedarvile. he declined 
further re-election. In this brief sketch it 
is impossible to glance at all the business 
relations with which he was connected, and 
all the facts of a business and social career, 
nor is it necessary for us to do so in this 
case. 



In all his business connections, in bank- 
ing, in railroad management and in mer- 
cantile matters, he was noted tV>r his clear, 
practical good sense. In private life no man 
in the community possessed more fully and 
perfectly the confidence of his fellow citi- 
zens. At the time of his death he was just 
eighty-one years, three months and twenty 
days old and had been a resident of Xenia 
and vicinity for fifty-one years. He was 
bnrnc t'l his last resting ])lace bv his Masonic 
brothers, being a prominent member of the 
order from the organization of the lodge in 
Xenia. He died X'^ovember 4, 1851, and his 
body lies Iniried in Woodland cemetery, 
Xenia, Ohio. In the w.ar of 1812 he served 
a tour of dutv as a soldier. 

WIIJ.I.\iI ELLSBERRV. 

In 1859 a local writer thus speaks of 
William Ellsberry : "He resides here at 
Xenia, in a ripe old age. the veneralile Will- 
iam Ellsberry. the honored patriot of the 
legal profession, now within two years of 
being an octogenarian. He settled in Xenia 
in 181 1, and his pioneer life and history are 
replete with romantic interest and instruc- 
tion. It was a repast, rich and greatly 
relished, to hear him in his primiti\-e, yet 
comfortable, mansion, luiilt by himself in 
18 1 5. rehearse the reminiscences of the days 
of the pioneers, fifty years ago. He had 
mingled in the stirring and adventurous 
scenes of the dark and bloody ground of 
Kentucky. He had personal interviews 
with the chief of the pioneers, Daniel Boone, 
and with great animation and accuracy nar- 
rated many e\entful incidents of Indian war- 
fare and of the early settlers of this coun- 
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rity, >ini[)licity and worth of Simon Kenton, 
whose pioneer exploits and iiomely and noble 
virtues are recognized in the archives of 
western annals. Mr. Ellsl)erry himself has 
borne a distinguished part in the history and 
progress of Ohio, and contributed largely to 
the character and prosperit}- of Xenia. which 
he has seen grow from the rude forest vil- 
lage to be quite a city, filled with an intelli- 
gent and cultured people and all the arts and 
elegancies of a refined civilization. 

"He has been a prominent legislator and 
a leading lawyer of the place, and is greatlv 
h.onored and esteemed l)y his fellow citizens 
and his brothers of the bar. .Vs a tribute of 
afifection they had completed by Mr. Mc- 
Clurg, an accomplished' artist of Pennsyl- 
vania, who spent two vears in the studies of 
the masters of the art in Italy, a beautiful 
and perfect portrait of their venerable 
friend and legal brother, which is to adorn 
the court roi.m where he displayed his legal 
learning and wit. and where in after ages it 
will s])eak of one who first in the county 
and place unfolded the mysteries and intri- 
cacies of the legal profession. That genial. 
life-like portrait will be a speaking memorial 
of pioneer days, and exert, we trust, a silent 
influence in mellowing the asperities coinci- 
dent with the conflicts of litigation. 

"Tliis patriot bids fair to linger years 
yet among the general generation grown up 
around him. and to unite in the scenes of 
actual life. He is now a live young old man. 
full of the sap and joyousness of youth, and 
ready to meet his competitors in the forum 
of Justice. He still prosecutes his profes- 
sion with all the artlor and energy of early 
manhood, and is genial and happy in his 
home and social circle. His erect form, 
elastic step, rapid movements, unimpaired 



intellect, sparkling vivacity and youthful en- 
ergy are remarkalile for one of his age. 
How beautiful and grand is age. found with 
intelligence, graced with virtue and cheer- 
fulness, beautified with a luster of piety. 
Their memories, like visions of enchantment 
and beaut}', e^'er linger aro^md our path- 
way." He died March 23,1863, aged eighty 
years, and was buried in Woodland ceme- 
tery, Xenia, Ohio. 

EBENEZER STEELE. 

Mr. Steele was one of the early settlers 
of Greene count}'. He was born in Uartley 
county, Mrginia, on the iSth of December, 
1 78 1, and in 181 5 he emigrated to Ohio, 
settling first on the land owned by Mr. Trc- 
bine, where his mill is located on the Little 
Miiuni river, upon which he resided five 
years, when he removed to the farm of E. 
Steele, Jr., where he resided forty-six years. 
Durinsf his Ion": life iii this countx' he en- 
joyed the respect of his neighbors and fel- 
low citizens, who showed their confidence in 
him by conferring uiwn him various offices 
of local nature and Ijy electiiig Inm in 1836 
to the office of county commissioner. 

One who knew him long and well writes 
us: Ebenezer Steele was always a man of 
strict integrity and obliging manners. He 
was not only father, faithful and true, tO' a 
large family of children', but was a friend 
and neighbor to all who- proved themselves 
worthx'. He was a member of the German 
Reform church, and a consistent Christian. 
He died at Alpha, Ohio, on the 17th of Feb- 
ruarv, 1862, at the age of eighty-two years. 

THE H.\MILLS OF GREENE COUNTY. 

The first of tb.e name, as shown bv the 



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ROBIXSO.X'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUXTY. 



records of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, 
&re associated witli Licking Creek and Fort 
Ligonier. Jolin Hamill and wife came from 
Ireland before the Revolution. They were 
the parents of the following sons: Robert, 
John, Hugh and Nathaniel, and all, with 
their father, weie soldiers in that war. 
Hugh Hamill enlisted at Fairfield in Au- 
gust. 1776, and served until INIay, 1777. as 
a private in Capt. Samuel IMiller's company, 
Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded 
by Colonel McCoy. He participated in the 
battles which resulted in the surrender of 
General Burgoyne, and passed the winter at 
Valley Forge, and received an honorable 
discharge. Nathaniel Hamill was a private 
soldier in Capt. Henry Dodge's company. 
His serxice during the time of the war was 
in New York mostly, and he was mustered 
out December 12, 1781. Robert Hamill en- 
iisted in December. 1776, as a private in 
Cajitain Pomroy's compaii}'. and serxed, off 
and on, two years of the war. He was born 
November 25, 1759. and was seventeen 
years old when he entered the army. In 
1785 with his parents he moved to Bedford 
county, where he remained until some time 
in December, same year, vidien he returned 
to Fort Ligonier on business for his father. 
John Hamill rccei\'ed pay for his services in 
the Penns}-l\ania Militia from January i, 
1781. 

Robert Hamill was born in 1732, and 
died in Pennsylvania, April 8, 1799. His 
wife, Jeannette, came with her sons. Hugh, 
Robert and Josepli, to Ohio in 1806. Hugh 
and his mother first settled in Preble countx', 
while Robert and Joseph canie to Nenia in 
1S06. In 1810 Hugh and his mother came 
and settled in Ncnia, the mother li\-in<^- until 



the year 1822, when she dieil and was 
buried in A\'oodland cemetery, .Xcnia. 

WILLI.\M OWENS, SR. 

\\'illiam Owens, the founder of the fam- 
ily in Greene county, was a settler in \'ir- 
ginia in colonial days. He was born in 
1 741, and emigrated from Brunswick coun- 
ty, A'irginia, with his family in 181 1. set- 
tling in what is known as the L^nioii neigh- 
borhood south of Nenia, where he continued 
to live until March 11, 1827, when the "Free 
Press, ■■ a paper published in Nenia at that 
date, makes the announcement of his death, 
at the age of eighty-six years, and from one 
of his friends the statement that his body 
had Ijeen laid to rest in the orchard of Philip 
Davis near what is known to-day (1900) as 
the Union church, two miles south of Nenia. 
"He is spoken of as one of the most exem- 
plary saints that age afforded. I-Ie li\-e(l and 
died without a known enemy. Notwith- 
standing his extreme age and de])ilitv, he re- 
tained his rational jwwers to the last." He 
was seventy years of age when lie first came 
to Greene county in 181 1 with the colony 
that left Virginia at that time. Although 
coming from dift'erent parts of Virginia they 
were related to each other, and consisted of 
Henry Hypes and family. Samuel A\'right 
(father of Thomas Coke Wright) anrl fam- 
ily, William Owens, Sr., and family. 
Among the latter was \A'illiam Owens, Jr., 
who was born in Brunswick county, Vir- 
ginia, March 9. 1779, who previous to leav- 
ing \ irginia was a farmer. He li:ul mar- 
ried Lucy Wright, who was born in the 
same county June 19, 1773 : she was aunt to 
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Samuel Tliomas and Geurge B. William 
Owens after coming to Greene county 
cleared u]) a farm of fifty acres, two and 
one-half miles south of Xenia. Here he re- 
mained until his deatli,. which occurred in 
his eighty-fourth year, December 26, 1862, 
at the residence of his son, Capt. Samuel T. 
Owens, of Xenia, Ohio, and was Ijuried at 
Woodland ceinetery, Xenia. He was a 
typical pioneer, a man of high character, and 
a meniber of the M. E. church, in which 
faith he brought up his sons. In politics he 
was in earl\- life an old-line W'hig, and later 
a Republican. Capt. Samuel T. Owens was 
born November 7, 1807, in Brunswick coun- 
ty, \^irginia. He served tlie public in 
Greene county fourteen years as county sur- 
ve_\'or, and auditor four years. He was cap- 
tain of Company C, Seventy-fourth Regi- 
ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the 
late Civil war, and was also a local preaclier 
in the M. E. church. In i8j8 he was united 
in marriage to Aliss X'ancy Ledbetter. Fif- 
teen children were born to them. He died 
in Xenia. January i, 1867. Rev. George B. 
Owens was burn July 14. 1809. in Bruns- 
wick county, \'irginia. He was a farmer 
and school teacher for many years, and later 
l>ecame a preacher in the 'SI. E. church. He 
died November 28, 1862, at the home of his 
son Ira, near Xenia. He was buried in 
Woodland cemetery. 

GEORGE WRIGHT, SR.. .\ SOLDIER OE THE 
REVOLUTION. 

George \\'right. the subject of this 
sketch, was born February 4, 175G. and 
grew to manhood in Brunswick ciamty, Vir- 
ginia. He married Sophia, the daughter of 
William and Marv Owens, and einigrated 



to Ohio in 1815. Fie was an elder brother 
of Samuel Wrig'ht, father of Thomas Coke 
Wright. He was a soldier in the war of the 
Revolution from the state of Virginia. 
They were the parents of twelve children, 
namely: Wesley, born October 10, 1785; 
iMary B., born February zy. 1787; Sarah 
X., who was wife to Josiah A\'right and 
later Henry Hypes', was born December 3, 
1788; George C. Wright, who was a soldier 
in the war of 1812, was born Octol>er 23, 
1790; Sophia Wright, who married John 
Loyd, was born December 21, 1792; Eliza- 
beth Ann was born January 13, 1794: Lewis 
Wright, born February 11, 1796; William 
T., born April 9, 1798; Nancy L. D., born 
May 30, 1800; Samuel W., born December 
14, 1802; Edward Owens, born June 5, 
1806; Richard W., bom June 22, 1808. 
Lewis W^right was also a soldier in the war 
of 18 12, under Capt. Berry Applewhite, of 
the Virginia troops. He was also a school 
teacher. Where the residence of Mr. Lester 
Arnold now is was the Wright Academy 
along about 1846. Some persons yet living 
in Xenia. were his scholars. Another son, 
Edward Owens Wright, was also teaching 
on the hillside near the residence of Homer 
Hudson, West Third street. Xenia. 

IIEXRY HYPES. 

Among the first settlers of the new city 
of Xenia was Henry Hypes', who was., the 
son of Xicholas and Abigail H\-pes. Nicho- 
las Hypes was born in Gennany, March 8, 
1728. Abigail, his wife, was also born in 
the same country March 22, 1740. Henry 
Hypes, the subject of this sketch, was born 
within five miles of the X'atural Bridge, 
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June, 1775. It was in tliat state when 
eigliteen years of age he was united in mar- 
riage witli Miss Patience Reynolds. He 
was engaged in farming in Virginia until 
181 1. He then came nverland to the Ohio 
river, and there took a ilatboat tO' Cincin- 
nati. In settling in this county he purchased 
one hundred and twenty-five acres of go\-- 
ernment land, hea\-ily timbered and unim- 
proved. The first work he did was the 
clearing of a place and building a log 
house, in which he and his family lived for 
a few years. In 1823 his wife died, leav- 
ing a family of si.x sons and two daughters, 
namely: Xancy, Joseph, Washington, 
Sarah, Benjamin, James Davidson, John 
Wesley and Francis Asbury. May 23, 1824, 
Mr.Hx'pcs w as united in marriage with Mrs. 
Sarah X. Wright, widow of Josiah Wright 
and daughter of George and Sophia Wright. 
Her father was a soldier of the Revolution, 
who came to Xenia in 181 5 from Brunswick 
county. Virginia. 'Sir. and ^Nlrs. Hypes be- 
came the ]>arents of four children, two still 
living, Susan Maria, widow of Tobias 
Drees, and Samuel Henrv Hypes, who is 
engaged in the fire insurance antl real estate 
business in Xenia. Rev. \\'illiam L. and 
Rev. Fletcher Hypes are dead. What was 
known as the Henry Hypes farm is now 
( 1900) the most of it in the corporation of 
Xenia, bounded on the south by Shawnee 
creek, between what is now known as the 
Cincinnati ];ike im the west and West street 
(11 the east, running south to the north line 
of the land of Samuel McConnell. The old 
brick house which was erected in 183 1 is 
still standing, also part of the old barn. 
Henry Hypes died at his home in Xenia, 
October 1. 1854. His good wife, Sarah X., 
survived him until April 25, 1862, when she 



died at the age of seventy-three. Henry 
Hypes and his two helpmeets. Patience and 
Sarah X.. are buried in our own beautiful 
Woodland. Xenia. 

GEORGE W. WRIGHT. 

Mr. Wright was born October 13, 1809, 
in Brunswick county. \'irginia, and died 
at liis hi me in Xenia, Ohio, October 4, 1873, 
aged sixty-four years. He was the son of 
Josiah and Sarah Xelson \\'right. Josiah 
Wright died in 18 14 and was buried on his 
farm two miles south of Xenia on the Bull- 
skin Road. His widow, ilay 25, 1824, was 
married to Henry Hy]>es. Mr. \\'right came 
with his parents to Xenia n 181 1. When a 
young man he went to Dayti.ni and learned 
the trade of a tailor, and in 1827 returned 
again to Xenia and took u]i his abode here 
permanentlv. In 1832 he was united in 
marriage with Miss Sarah Levey. They 
were blessed with a family of fourteen chil- 
dren, nine of wdiom at the time of his death 
were living, five l)oys and four girls. In 
i860 he united witli the First M. E. church 
of this city, under the pastorate of Rew 
William I. Fee. and lived the life of an up- 
right Christian to the last. He was mayor 
of the city of Xenia in i8(')3. and also filled 
the oiiice of justice of the peace for Xenia 
township for se\-eral terms. Air. ^^'right 
enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his 
neighbors through life, none more so. 

REV. D.\XIE!- R. BREWIXGTOX 

\\"as b.orn in Worcester cmmty. ]\[aryland, 
?*Iarch 2/. 1798. and died at the residence 
iif his son-in-law. Air. Charles Marks, six 
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seventy-two years and six montlis. He 
came to (ireene ccunty, Ohio, in the year 
1816 and removed to Indiana in^ 1838, 
wliere he (hed October 24, 1870. He was 
a man of firm integrity, social in his nature, 
a l<ind friend and a good neiglil)or, a mem- 
l>er of tlie !\I. E. churcli and a regularh- 
licensed exhorter in the same. His voice 
was ofttimes heard in most of the churches 
and school houses in the county in condem- 
nation of vice and immorality and in build- 
ing u]) the cause of the Redeemer in the 
world. He was a good friend of the itiner- 
ant minister, bis home being theirs. His 
finieral was attended by a large concourse 
'of friends and relatives. Sermon by Rev. 
closes Marks. "After life's long and fitful 
sleep he sleepeth v.ell." 

KKKDKirK r.OXNER, SR., 

A\'as born September 4, 1738, and died at 
his home two miles south of Xenia. Ohio, in 
1830, at die age of eighty-eight years. We 
ofttimes speak of Wendell Philips, Joshua 
R. Giddings, Charles Sumner, Ben W'ade 
and John P.rown and others, who, in their 
day and place, had the courage to back up 
by their lives, if need be, in their outspoken 
convictions of the system of human bondage 
which used to e.xist in our fair land, and we 
were proud of them and admired their cour- 
age and manliness in opjjosing and denoim- 
ci ng the great blot on our name as free- 
men. As a companion of these we would 
mention Fredrick Bonner, Sr., the subject 
of this sketch, who was a slave owner in a 
slave state, ^^'itness the following, by I\Ir. 
Bonner : 

•To All irhoiii These Presents Shall 
Come: Know ve that bv an act cf the 



general assembly of X'irginia, passed 
May 12. 1792, entitled an act to author- 
ize the manuniissicm of slaves, those per- 
sons who are disposed to emancipate their 
slaves are empowered so to do. And. where- 
as. Almighty Gi;d hath so ordered human 
events that liberty has become a general top- 
ic, I, Frederick Bonner, of Dinwiddee coun- 
ty, Virginia, being pos.ses.sed of slaves, and 
from clear conviction of the injustice and 
':nininality of depressing my fellow creat- 
ures of their natural rights, do hereby eman- 
cipate and set free, from a state of slavery, 
the following (seven in number) who are in 
the prime of life. Declaring the same ne- 
.groes entirely free from me, my heirs, to all 
intents and purposes, and entitled to all 
the privileges granted in the aforementioned 
act. I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
the 2 1 St of January, 1798. 

Fredrick Boxxer. Sr." 
We would add the following from his 
son, Fredrick Bonner, Jr. : "In the '/ear 
1802 father sold his land in Dinwiddee 
county. \'irginia. five hundred acrt>, iV-- 
two thousand dolars, and bought two sur- 
veys of one thousand acres each in what 
was then the Northwestern territory, at a 
cost of two thousantl dollars. Upon visit- 
ing it and finding it well situated he re- 
turned and began preparation for removing 
on it the following season. On Saturday, 
April I', 1803, we started and went as far 
as Petersburg, and remained until Monday. 
Two other families joined us, and our outfit 
was put into two covered wagons, includ- 
ing household goods, a chest of carpenter's 
tools and a turning lathe. To each of these 
wagons were attacheil fmir horses, with 
I^ells on the leaders. A one-horse wagon 
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when they became tired of walking. In ad- 
dition to 'these we had a canvass to sleep 
under at night. On ^Monday morning we 
resumed our long journey to the far west, 
pursuing a route through southern Virginia, 
which, in a few days, broug'ht us within 
view of the mountains, first the peaks of the 
Blue Ridge, then the Allegheny and Cum- 
berland. Crossing these in safety we reached 
Kentucky, passing along the Crab Orchard 
road. Arriving at Lexington we pushed on 
to Cincinnati (then a village of fifteen hun- 
dred), crossing the Oliio river at that place 
Mav lo, 1803, and cani'ped near the mouth 
of Deer creek, then some distance from the 
village. 

"Xe.\t morning we went up the river in- 
to the Little Miami valley, crossing the 
river a little above Cincinnati. Here we 
encountered our first serious difficulty. The 
water was high and running swiftly. Our 
four-horse wagon crossed without accident, 
but when the wagon containing the wife of a 
Mr. Day proceeded as far as the middle of 
the stream, or the swiftest part, one of .the 
horses fell and cnuld not rise. ^Ir. Day, in 
attempting to assist, was washed oft' down 
stream with the horses. Father went to his 
assistance and the water tripped him up and 
he \\ent also struggling down the ri\er, to 
the alarm of all. Fortunately he got out on 
the same side from which he entered. While 
Day was still struggling in the river near his 
horses they finally succeeded in fastening a 
chain to the end of the tongue, and hitching 
otir horses to it, we drew it out. All this 
time Day's wife and child were in the wagon 
in imminent danger of being capsized int) 
the river and washed away." 

Mr. Day and family located in the vi- 
cinil\- i.'f this accident and we followed up 



the ri\-er to the present site of Milford, 
where we found a vacant cabin, which was 
rented for a few months. Lito this we moved 
and remtiined until we could make arrange- 
ments to go to our land in Greene county. 
In June father and seme of the boys went 
to the land !and selected a spot to build a 
cabin near Glady Run, a branch of the Lit- 
tle Miami, which was to acconunodate us as 
our new home in the woods. He chose a 
building site in the southwest portion of the 
land near the present residence of Erastus 
Boiiner, two males south of Xenia. He pro- 
cured the services of some yotmg men to 
build a log house, and then returned to ^lil- 
lord. The cabin of one room, with its pun- 
cheon fioor and clapboard roof and ceiling 
being finished, the family and four of their 
\'irginia neighbors, who came west with 
them, thirteen persons in all, moved into it 
in the fall of that year. The canvas tent 
was now cut up to form partitions in the 
cabin. 

Four of the children were marrieel while 
the family livetl in this house. Xanc_\' Bon- 
ner was married in 1804 to Rev. John Sale, 
the first Methodist preacher in this section. 
David Bonner married a iliss Reynolds, of 
L'rbana, Ohio, in 1805. Chaiiel H. Bon- 
ner married a sister of Samuel Pelham, who 
married ALartha Bonner. Samuel Pelham 
was the father of \\'illiam F. Pelham, who 
used to keep the grange warehouse. He was 
also editor of the first newspaper published 
in Xenia, "The Vehicle." James E. Gallo- 
way, of Xenia, has now in his possession 
the files of that paper for the year 1815. 

Mr. Bonner and' his sons burned the first 
liine-kiln and built the first brick house in 
this county. It was occupied by the remain- 
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but was not hnishcd 011 the inside for some 
years later. It now forms part of the resi- 
dence cif I'Irastns Bonner and liis family. 
Stith Bonner, another son, was married to 
Miss Maria Mercer, the daughter of Ed- 
ward Mercer, a neighbor, in 1819. Eliza 
Bonner became the wife of Rev. John P. 
Taylor in 1820. He was a Methodist min- 
ister of some prominence and also a phy- 
'sician. They removed to Indiana some years 
ago, where they died. Mr. Fredrick Bon- 
ner, Sr., died in 1830, at the age of seventy- 
iwo years. His wdfe died in 1818 in the 
si.xl v-second year of her age. Of the si.x chil- 
dren t(j whose marriages we have referred, 
one, Mrs. Pelham, died at the age of sixty- 
two years ; the remaining five lived to be 
from eighty to eighty-eight years of age. 
One child, a daughter, died when about 
eigihteen years of age in Virginia before they 
left there. Fredrick Bonner, Jr.. the young- 
est child and the i>nlv survixing member of 
the family in 1879. was born near Peters- 
burg. Dinwiddie county, Virginia, Novem- 
ber 1 1. 1796, and died March 26, 1880, aged 
eighty-four years, and was buried in the 
Bonner graveyard. He was married to Miss 
Elizabeth ]\Iercer, the daughter of a neigh- 
bor, Edward Mercer, October 15. 1823. 
They had two children, Horace and Eras- 
tus. The former died in 1846 in tlie twenty- 
second year of his age. The latter is oiir 
well knnwn florist, proprietor of Maple 
Grove greenhouse, so much admired by its 
many visitors. ]\Irs. Bonner died in 1830 
at the earlv age of twenty-seven years. 

E.\RLV TIMES AS REMEMBERED BV FREDRICK 
BOXNER, JR. 

\Micn the familv moved into their new- 



cabin home in 1803 they were in the midst 
of forest, unbroken for miles around, 
through which not even a winding pathway 
took its course. About two miles south of 
their home there was a cabin owned and oc- 
cupied by a family b\' the name of Price. 
Two miles north of them, and aliout two 
liundred yards north of where the present 
Robert's Villa now stands, was the cabin of 
Remembrance Williams and his family. He 
was the father of John ^^"illiam.s, who was 
the father of Mrs. David Medsker, Mrs. 
Samuel Gano, Mrs. James AlcCarty, Mrs. 
William B. Fairchild and ]Mrs. McCann, 
who are well known in Xenia. From the Lit- 
tle Miami river on the west to a point w here 
the Wilmington and Xenia pike crosses Cae- 
sar's creek on the east, there was not a habi- 
tation of any kind except their humble home. 
Near Old Town Run and aljout a mile and a 
half from Mr. R. Williams' cabin home, 
there was a similar structure occupied by 
Mr. Leonard Stump and family, which was 
the only cabin this side of Massies creek set- 
tlement. On the east side of Caesar's creek 
at the crossing of the Wilmington pike and 
about where the residence of Mr. Paris Pe- 
terson's house now stands, there was a little 
village called Caesarsville. Scattered along 
the creek for some distance perhaps there 
were a dozen cabins occupied by as many 
families. These inhabitants of Caesarsville, 
those mentioned above and perhaps a lew 
others, not exceeding twenty or thirty m all, 
were the only families residing in Clreene 
county east of the Little Mian;i ri\-er in 
1803. The principal settlements were at 
that time on the west side of the river 011 
congress lands. He was of the opinion 
that there was not a family living at that 
tinie in that portion of the county now com- 



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ROBINSONS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



prising Jefferson. Silver creek. Riss and the 
eastern pi;>rtion of Ceclarville and Caesars- 
creek township-s. and that it was not settled 
at all until the Browilers and ]\Iendenhal!s 
settled some time afterward in the vicinity 
of Jamestown, and soon after laid the first 
grounds for that village. There was not a 
puhlic road at that time in the county, and 
one would travel for miles without seeing 
an acre of tillahle land. Game of all kinds 
was abundant, and it was the principal sub- 
sistence of the scattered inhabitants. Deer 
were said by Mr. Bonner to be as numerous 
m Greene county then as hogs are now, and 
wild turkys and pheasants were to be seen 
in large numbers on every hand. The depths 
of the extensive forests were the hiding- 
places of bears, panthers, catamounts and 
wild cats during the day and furnished them 
a vast territory o\-er which to roam at night 
in search of prey. The narrow \-alley through 
which the Little Miami railroad extends 
from Xenia toward Cincinnati, was literally 
a den of wolves. These ferocious beasts 
would roam the surrounding country at 
night, necessitating strong enclosures as a 
protection for the live stock of the early 
settlers against the ravishings of the mighty 
thieves which often had to be driven from 
their .determined attacks by the burning of 
torches, ringing of bells, blowing of horns 
and repeated banging of fire arms. Bands 
<)f Indians frequented the county in search 
of game in accordance with the right they 
had reserved in their treaty with \\'ayne. 
They had almost a perpetual camp for sev- 
eral years on the ridge a short distance wc-t 
of where the residence of Mr. Washington 
Stark now stands. They were always peace- 
able, and gave the settlers no cause for fear 
while thev remained in this vicinitv. 



Xot very long after their arrival in this 
countv Da\id. the oldest son, accompanied 
by his little brother "Freddie."' whom he 
kept with liim almost constantly on all occa- 
sions, started in the direction of the to-wn, 
Xenia, of which they had heard, but had not 
yet seen. They plodded diligently along, 
cutting away the underbrush and making a 
clear pathway as they proceeded, and at last 
came to the banks of Shawnee, where that 
stream is now covered by a stone arched 
bridge at the crossing of the Cincinnati pike 
and the Dayton railroad. Here they stopped 
to rest and "Freddie"" insisted that thev^ go 
into the town, as he wanted to see the place ; 
but when his brother explained to him that 
there no houses built yet. that nothing had 
been done l.nit the surveying- of the grounds, 
and staking off of some of the streets, and 
promised that he should return some time to 
see the town, he yielded the point, and they 
proceded homeward along the new-made 
pathway, which was the only road to Xenia 
for a long time. The first public road into 
Xenia from the south was the "Bullskin." 
now the Burlington pike. It extended from 
a village on the Ohio river called Bullskin. 
from which the road took its name, north to 
Urbana, Ohio. The records of the original 
survev of the road were l<:)st. and when the 
road was again surveyed, and afterward 
made a pike, it was called by its present 
name. 

In the first organization of the countv. 
it was thought best by some to make Cae- 
sarsville the county seat, but the present lo- 
catiim was finally selected and in 1803 the 
ground was laid out preparatory to build- 
ing the town of Xenia. The first h.ouse 
erected was a small log building on what is 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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( 1900) in the rear of the residence of Ru- 
(loph Hiistmire, on \\'est Third street, and 
at tliat time owned by John Marshall, who 
was the grandfather of William and James 
Marshall, who are at the present (1900) 
residents of Xenia. This cabin was razed 
April 27, 1804. 

The first school house was built in ifc!o5. 
Jt was by no means a large iiouse, and was 
Iniilt of small, round logs, without floor or 
ceiling. It was erected on Third street, a 
little west of the present residence of Mrs. 
Harvey Coo]3er. and the teacher was Ben- 
jamin Gr()\cr, a brother of JosialT, who 
was the successor to John Paul as clerk of 
courts. About seven years later the town 
could boast of "The Xenia Academy," in 
which the princijjal instructor was Profes- 
sor Espy, afterward renowned as the great 
"storm king." The academy building was a 
' iie-story brick structure that used to 1>e on 
the southeast corner of Market and West 
streets. Xenia improved very rapiilly un- 
til 1812. Whether it was the severe earth- 
(juake' shock felt so distinctly in this sec- 
tion and especially along the Mississippi \al- 
ley in the winter of i8ii-i2, and which ^Ir. 
iionner said shook his father's house until 
the windows rattled, caused the check to 
liie rapid growth of the town, he did not in- 
iurm us. 

John Marshall. wIki built the first house; 
John Paul, clerk of the first court held in the 
county, and the original pri/prietor of the 
town ; Josiah Grover, the second clerk of 
the court and at the same time county audit- 
or and recorder: William A. Beatty, tavern 
i<eeijer ; James Collier, tavern keeper and 
sheriff of Greene county and coroner ; John 



Alexander, law}er and wonderfully large 
man : James Towler, preacher and first post 
master of Xenia : Henry Barnes, carjjenter ; 
John Stull. tailor: Benjanfin Grover, teacher 
of the first school in Xenia: John Williams, 
blacksmith, a son of Remembrance Williams, 
and the father of Mrs. David Medsker: John 
Mitten, wheelwright and chair maker: old 
Mr. Wallace and Captain James Steele, tan- 
ners: Jonathan H. Wallace, hatter: Dr. An- 
drew W. Davidson, the first physician : 
James Gowdy, the first merchant, and Sam- 
uel Gowdry, engaged in the same business ; 
Robert Gowdy, tanner ; William Ellsberry, 
lawyer; Abraham La Rue, carpenter; and 
James Bunton, carpenter and joiner, and a 
very fine workman, are remembered by Mr. 
Bonner as among the earliest inhaljitants of 
Xenia. With the exception of James Gow- 
dy, a bachelor, they were all young married 
men seeking their fortunes in a new country, 
or with fannlics, large and small, striving 
to secure a heritage for their children. Of 
the first houses built in Xenia ]\Ir. Bonner 
says there are but two still (1879) standing 
upon their original foundations. They are 
both two-story log buildings. One was on 
the north side of Main street on the present 
site of H. H. Eavey's wholesale house, and 
was known as the Crumbaugh House, Mr. 
Bonner's father having it built for Rev. 
James Towler in 1805. The other one stood 
on the north side of West Second street, on 
the site now occupied by the two two-story 
buildings of David Hutchison. It was built 
by Mr. James Bunton, carpenter and joiner, 
in 1806. This house was known in later 
years as the McWhirk residence. He sold 
the property some time afterward and re- 



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moved to what is now known as Silvercreek 
tomiship, Greene county. Both houses were 
afterward weatlierlxsarded. 

REV. WILEV CURTIS 

Died Xovanber ist, 1869, in Crawford 
county, lUinois. He was born in Greene- 
ville county, Virginia, on the 6th of Febru- 
ar_\-, 1793. About tlie first day of Novem- 
ber, 1805, his stepfather and family arrived 
at Mr. Frederick Bonner's after a tedious 
and toilsome journey of seven weeks. There 
were but four families living in Xenia, Rev. 
James Towler, \\'illiam A. Beatty, James 
Collier and John Marshall. There was 
neither shop nor store in it. He served a 
tour of duly in the last war with Great 
Britain. He had two sons, one of whom 
died in the service. He left this county in 
1817, and was a ])ioneer in Indiana and Illi- 
nois, and went through many hardships, 
jjrivations and bodily afflictions in his re- 
moval farther west. He led a blameless and 
industrious life and was a devoted and' zeal- 
ous Christian. In August he lost the part- 
ner of his joys and sorrows, the mother of 
his twelve children, and his grief was in- 
consolable. He could neither eat nor sleep, 
and was .seized with a chill, which was fol- 
lowed by lung fever. His last prayer was 
for death to relie\-e him from suffering and 
sorrow. 

THE FIRST ASSOCI.\TE REFORMED CHURCH OF 
XEXIA, NOW THE FIRST UNITED 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

On Sabbath, October 31, 1858, Rev. R. 
D. Harper, then pastor of said church, gave 
the following account of its early history : 



"The first church edifice was erected in 
181 1, situated on the southeast corner of 
what is known as the George Gordon land, 
north King street. It is now being used as 
a dwelling house. The second edifice was 
erected in 181 7 upon the ground known as 
Milieu's pork house, on East Church street. 
The third, now occupied by the First United 
Presbyterian church, on East Market street, 
v^as erected in 1847. The first notice of the 
Xenia congregation which is to be found, is 
found from the minutes of the Kentucky 
Presbytery, from 1798 down to 181 7. It is 
the following: That at a meeting of this 
presbytery held in Cynthiana, Harrison 
county, Kentucky, Septeml>er 28, 1808, a 
petition was presented froin certain persons 
in Xenia, Ohio, desiring supplies of jKeach- 
ing from the presbytery. 

In accordance with this petition Rev. 
Abraham Craig was appointed to preach at 
Xenia on the first Sabbath of October, and 
first Sabbath of Xovember. 1808. which ap- 
pointment was filled as ordered. The same 
records show that Mr. Craig preached four 
Sabbaths in Xenia in 1809. In 18 10 Mr. 
John Steele was appointed to preach four 
Sabbaths in Xenia previous to the next 
meeting of presbytery. At the next meet- 
ing of presbytery held in Millersburg, Ken- 
tucky, April 24, 1 8 10. ]Mr. Steele was ap- 
pointed to preach in Xenia and preside 'it 
the election and ordination of elders in this 
congregation. Thus it can be seen that the 
regular organization of this congregation 
took place some time during the year 18 10. 

In 181 1 Rev. Adam Rankin and Rev. 
^^"illiam Baldridge were appointed to preach 
in Xenia. In 1812 Rev. McCord and Rev. 
Wallace were appointed to preach in Xenia. 
In 18 1 3 a petition was presented for the 



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moderation of a call. This was the first call 
lor a pastiir. It was made out lor tiie Rev. 
James McCord but it was never presenteil. 
Rev. McCord connected himself with the 
Presbyterian church and the call was re- 
turned to the congregation. During the 
year 1814 Revs. Rankin and Craig preached 
frequently in Xenia, and on the second Sab- 
bath of August of that year dispensed the 
Lord's Su])per, which is the first account on 
record of the observance of that holy ordi- 
nance ill this congregation. The presbytery 
of Kentucky, at this date, 1814, consisted of 
Revs. Rankin, Porter, Risque, McCord, 
Craig. Rainey, Bishop, Carrithers, McFar- 
land and Steele, all of whom have long 
iince gone to the grave, and as we humbly 
trust to the reward of their faithful labors 
in Heaven. In 1815 and 1816 Revs. 
Risque. McFariand and Steele were fre- 
quently apixjinted to preach in the vicinity 
of Xenia. In 1817 a call was made out by 
the congregation in Xenia for the Rev. John 
Steele, and by him accepted. He removed 
to Xenia in 1817 and took charge of the 
congregation. Here he continued to labor 
until 1836, a period of nineteen years. The 
lalxjrs of this eminent and faithful servant 
were crowned with success. Air. Steele re- 
signed his charge in 1836 and in 1837 ^n 
the nth day of January, this good and 
faithful minister of God was called home to 
his reward in Hea\-en. 

1)1 AUV OF REV. JOIIX STEELE. 



cothe from Romans 10:4: also Remans 
14:47. This was in all probability the first 
preaching to the Associate congregation of 
Chillicothe. On the 13th of May, he crossed 
the Little Miami in a canoe, making his 
horse swim by his side, and preached at the 
house of Air. (afterward Gov.) Alorrow. 
On the 17th he preached at the house of Mr. 
Bickett. On the 20th of May preached at 
the house of Mr. Shaw on Clear creek. On 
the 2 1 St of May preached at the house of 
Air. AIcKnight near Bellbrcxjk from Jer. 
31 :^;}. On the evening of the 22nd of Alay 
he tarried at the house of Air. James Gallo- 
way, Sr., near Old Chillicothe. Here we 
learn from his diary that about the 22nd of 
Alay, 1798, Air. Steele made his first visit to 
this county, and preached the gospel in this 
wilderness. After the resignation of Air. 
Steele in 1836 the congregation remained 
without a settled pastor for some two or 
three years. At the expiration of this period 
a call was made for Rev. James R. Bonner 
and by him accepted. Air. Bonner contin- 
ued his labors as pastor of the congregation 
for a period of about eight years. 

In October, 1845, Rev. R. D. Harper 
made his first visit to this congregation and 
the following year accepted a call that had 
been made, was ordained and installed as 
pastor. In 1870 he was succeeded by Dr. 
Wm. G. Aloorehead who served until 1875. 
\\heii Dr. Thomas PI. Hanna was called, 
who in turn gave place in 1880 to Rev. J. 
H. \\^right. 



On the iith of April', 1798. he set out 
for a point near Alaysville, Kentucky. After 
crossing the Ohio river he lay out in the 
woods all night, and reached' Chillicothe on 
the evening of the JOth. preached at Chilli- 



DAVID B. CLINE. 

David B. Cline was born near Buckles- 
town in Berkley county, Virginia, Febru- 
arv 2y. 1807, and remained there until 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREEXE COUXTV. 



twenty years cf age. Mr. Cline came to this 
state with liis mother, three sisters, a mar- 
ried lM-other and iiis wife, and Miss Fannie 
Mortimer, a neighbor girl. The journey 
was made in one month to a day in a large 
wagon, and the party settled at Milford, 
now Cedarville, in this county, April 28, 
1827. One beautiful Sabl)ath in ^lay fol- 
lowing he attended public worship for the 
first time in this county, going to an- old log 
church situated in the near Cedar- 

\ille. where a Baptist cungregation held di- 
vine services. He went in company with 
Christopher F( x. a resident of the town, and 
arriving at the cliurch before the hour of 
service they went to a spring near by toi get 
a drink, the weather being dry and warm 
for that season of the year. From that point 
]\Ir. Cline had a good view of the arriving 
worshipers and their diversity of dress pre- 
sented to him "just from old Virginia" a 
novel feature. One man came without coat 
or vest, boots or shoes, wore an immense 
straw hat and carried a large Inann book 
under his arm. Another, a pair of heavy 
boots and a thick overcoat, huge ca[>e and 
other clothing to correspond, walked up 
with an air of ease and comfort. While re- 
marking the great difference in dress of the 
two, Mr. Cline noticed another man who 
was just tying his horse to a sappling near 
by. who wore a pair of green leggings which 
extended just above his knees, and he asked 
his companion why these were worn when 
there was no mud, and Fox replied "Oh, he 
wears them to hide the holes in his pants." 
At this time ^^lilford was composed oi 
four log cabins and a small frame house 
which was owned and occupied by a miller 
whose mill, a small concern, stood near bv. 



Here the grinding was done by water power, 
)>ut the bolting apparatus was run by hand, 
and each customer had to turn the machine 
to bolt his own grist while he gave the same 
toll taken at other mills where the work was 
all done by water power, thus apparently 
pa}ing for the privilege of running the 
machine. Soon after his arrival at this place 
Mr. Cline was employed as a farm hand by 
^Ir. John Reid for whom he labored for 
some time at seven dollars per month. Ob- 
taining license from Judge Grover, then 
clerk of courts, he was married June 15, 
1827, to Miss Fannie Mortimer, and not 
long afterward. he removed with his wife to 
a farm near Grape Grove, and commenced 
farming for himself. After gathering his 
crop of corn the following year, 1828, he 
shelled what was then considered an im- 
mense load by hand, measured it. hitched up 
a four-horse team, hauled it to Clifton and 
sold it to a miller there. This man was a 
German, and kept two lialf bushel measures, 
the larger of which he used to measure grain 
in when he liought it. the uther when lie sold 
it. As measured by the Dutchman his load 
did not hold out according to Mr. Cline's 
measurement, wb.o, informing the miller that 
he himself had measured the grain with a 
scaled measure, and did not propose to be 
cheated in that way, succeeded in getting 
pay for the whole load, with the proceeds of 
which he went to a store near by and pur- 
chased two and one-half yards of Cassinet, 
made at Old Town, for a pair of pants, at 
a dollar per yard, fifty cents worth of coffee, 
and twenty-five cents worth of sugar at six 
and a fourth cents per pound, which con- 
sumed the amount received for his grain. 
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at tlie clianf;e in tlie bulk and weis^ht of his 
load, which in coming to the mill, was equal 
to the strength of his four horse team. 

It was in the fall of tliis same year Mr. 
Cline cast his first vote for President, which 
vote he cast for Adams, as against Jackson, 
who was elected. He made a visit to Xenia 
.soon after, making some purchases of Moses 
Trader and Samuel Xewcomb. In the 
spring of 1829 he removed to a small farm 
on Massies creek, near George Gordon, for 
whom he often worked. From this place 
he rem()\ed to Xenia in April, 1834, and 
did a great deal of work the first year 
grading and otherwise impro\ing the streets 
ar.d also worked as a brick mason for 
Luucll Kiler. For six years he drtive a hack 
to and from Cincinnati, and to Dayton and 
Springfield. In the fall of 1847 ^I''- Cline 
commenced his long termi as sexton of 
Woodland cemetery by assisting" the sur- 
veyor in his work in laying it out. He took 
charge of the same in 1848 and continued 
there for many years. Amid .ill the excite- 
ment on account of the cholera in 1849 Mr. 
Cline was ever true to- his trust, and while 
many sent to assist him failed for lack of 
courage, Mr. Cline was alwavs at his post 
pcrfonrang his duty as a brave man should. 
When the late Civil war, with all its sad 
features, was forced upon the people of the 
north, Mr. Cline, although southern born, 
t(;ok his place in the ranks as a defender 
of "the one country and the one flag" as a 
member o-f Company B, Seventy-fourth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He lies in the 
cemetery that he did so much to make Ijeau- 
tiful. Peace to his ashes. 

EDWARD WAMBLE, SOLDIER OF l8l2, 

Died at his residence in Xenia, March 31, 
10 



1852, aged se\-enty-thrce years, and is bur- 
ied in ^\'uodland cemetery. He was a nati\e 
of Virginia, came to Ohio in 1810 and set- 
tled near Xenia. In the last war of this 
country with England, when our frontier 
was inxaded and the inhabitants exposed to 
British depredations and their savage allies, 
he entered the army, served one year faith- 
fully -and received an honorable discharge. 
He was for more than fifty years a member 
of the M. E. church, and for a numiber of 
years was the faithful sexton of what is 
now called the First M. E. church of Xenia. 
His conduct was consistent as a professing 
Christian. Peace to his ashes. He rests 
from his labors and his works do follow 
him. He was the father of Mahlon Wam- 
ble, who was so well known in Xenia as an 
honest, hard-working man, respected by all 
who knew him. 

MICHAEL NUNXEMAKER 

Was born in the state of ^laryland on the 
3d day of August, 1790, where he spent 
his youth and early manhood. At the age 
of twenty-six years he left his home and 
emigrated to Ohio, settling" in Xenia in the 
year 18 16. Here he spent fifty years of his 
life. He "was for a number of years book- 
keeper and principal salesman in the dry 
goods store of the late Col. John Hivling. 
In the early marriage records of the county 
is the following: "Married, October 28, 
1 82 1, Air. Michael Xunnemaker to Miss 
Mary Hivling, by Rev. Thomas Winters. 
She was the daughter of his employer. Col. 
John Hivling." They li\-ed a happy mar- 
ried life for nearly half a century until his 
death, which occurred at his home in Xenia 
February 2/, 1866. The issue of this mar- 
riage was one daughter, Sarah A. For 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



many years he was one of the leading mer- 
chants of Xenia. Afterward and at the 
time of his death lie was a banker in part- 
nership with his son-in-law, the Hon. John 
B. Allen (deceased), who was born near 
Mt. Pleasant, Shenandoah county, Virginia, 
in 1816, and died at his home in Xenia 
December i, 1893. in his seventy-eighth 
year. 

December 10, 1839, Rev. Joseph Hill 
spoke the words that united the lives of 
John B. Allen and Miss Sarah A. X'unne- 
maker for iife as man and wife. Air. Allen 
]iad at first on corruing to Xenia, in 1836, 
accepted a position as salesman in the store 
'Of Canby & Walton, who were then con- 
ducting a store in the east room of Mer- 
rick's Hotel. Mr. \\'alton's wife was a sis- 
ter of Mr. Allen. At the .death of Mr. 
Allen, as given above, he left beside his 
widow, two daughters, Mrs. Col. Coates 
Kinney and Miss Clara Allen. 

Mr. Nunnemfeker was ever known as an 
enterprising, prudent and strictly honest 
business man. He was successful in the ac- 
cumulation of wealth. Perhaps no' one more 
fully observed the precept, "If riches in- 
crease, set not your heart on them." With 
.an open hand and warm heart he was ever 
ready to assist the worthy poor. For more 
than thirty-three years he was a worthy and 
active member of the First Methodist Epis- 
copal church of Xenia. His last illness was 
of four montlis" duration. Pie and his faith- 
ful wife. Mary, and their honored son-in- 
law arc buried in our beautiful Woodland 
cemetery. 

AARON HARLAN. 

Aaron Harlan, for many years a rep- 
resentative man of Greene county. Ohio, 
alied in San Francisco. California. January 



18, 1868, aged sixty-six years. Mr. Harlan 
was born in \\"arren county, September 8, 
1802. He was admatted to the bar in 1825, 
and immediately removed to this county, 
which he was chosen to represent in the 
state legislature in 1831, the people thus 
early appreciating his talents and wortli of 
character. In 1838, 1839 "^^d 1849 h^ ^^"''^ 
chosen to the state senate. He was a presi- 
dential elector, and also a member of the 
Ohio constitutional convention in 1850. In 
1852 he was elected to congress from this 
district, where he, in the critical period pre- 
vious to the war, served for several years, 
the approved, consistent, faithful and zeal- 
ous champion of the struggling principles 
of Republicanism. On the breaking out of 
the war Mr. Harlan was nominated for con- 
gress by the Republican convention' at Mor- 
row, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the 
appointment of Hon. Thomias Corwin min- 
ister to Mexico. It was at this convention 
that iVir. Harlan made his memorable 
speech, in which, referring" to the rebels, he 
urged to "whip them quick and whip them 
well," an expression which, placed as a 
miotto on the Republican ticket, became 
famous throughout the state. Owing to his 
boldness and radicalism, and to' the milk- 
and-water and weak-kneed character of a 
large number of Republicans, he was de- 
feated. 

As a citizen Mr. Harlan won the respect 
nf all parties. As a lawyer his pre-emi- 
nence stood confessed. A graceful as well 
as a forccable speaker, his words always had 
weight and influence rarely possessed. 

russell' rice, a soldier of the war of 
1812. 

Mr. Rice was one of the oldest and most 



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esteemed citizens of Xenia. He died De- 
cember 3, iSjg, at the residence of his 
daughter, Mrs. M. J. Sheley, in this city. 
He was a native of Connecticut and came 
to Ohio with his parents in 181 1. Tliey 
settled first in Dayton. He was not yet 
fourteen years old when he enlisted in the 
army in the war of 1812. He was noted 
for extraordinary expertness in playing the 
fife, as was also his brother Silas an expert 
with the drum. Both of them were mere 
boys and went out together and returned 
without a scratch. They served in the army 
as musicians two years upon the Canada 
frontier. At the close of the war he returned 
to Dayton, and in 1815 came to Xenia with 
his mother, his father having died in Day- 
ton. July 10, 1819, he was married to 
Elizabeth Sanders. He soon afterward en- 
gaged in business in Xenia as a manufac- 
turer of edged tools, in wliich business he 
continued until quite old. As a workman 
in that line it is said he had no superior. 
His shop once stood on the lot where now 
( 1900) stands the (irand Hotel of Xenia. 
^Ir. Rice was identified as an active meml>er 
of the Whig party, and in his early manhood 
took an active part in politics. In later years 
he became and cor.tinucd a stanch Republi- 
can. For many years the notes of his fife 
were kept step to by the tramp of the militia. 
During the timp of the musters in the "good 
nld times" long ago he organized and was 
captain of the first artillery company fonned 
in Greene count}-, and in his old age was 
able to relate many interesting military and 
political events which formed a prominent 
part in the early history of this city and 
county. His strict integrity and active life 
won for him the highest respect and esteem 
which was evinced by the many aged friends 
who assembled tO' pay the last tribute of re- 



spect to his memory the day he was buried 
in our own beautiful Woodlan4, west of 
Xenia, where he had spent so many useful 
days of his life. His life-long friends arid 
intimate associates, Brinton Baker, Aniel 
Rodgers, J. C. McAIillcn, Davis Fifer, John 
Moore and E. S. Xichols, were his pall- 
bearers. He was for many years an es- 
teemed member of the Reformed church of 
this city, and at the age of eighty-one years 
died as he had lived, a Christian, December 

HON. J.\MES J. WINANS. 

Mr. Winans was born in ]\Iaysville, 
Kentucky, June 7, 18 18, and died at his 
residence in Xenia, Ohio, April 28 1879, in 
the sixty-ninth year of his age. His father 
was Dr. Matthias Winans. James was the 
second son of a family of ten children. His 
early years were spent at home with his par- 
ents, and in February, 1837, he went to 
Winchester, Kentucky, and became a clerk 
in the store of Simpson & Miller. He re- 
mained .in Winchester about five years, and 
during this time, under the supervision of 
John R. Huston and Judge James Simpson, 
he studied law and was admitted to the bar 
by the Mt. Sterling circuit court and shortly 
afterward came to Jamestown, this county. 
In April or May, 1842, he removed to 
Noblesville, Indiana, where he engaged in 
the practice of law, but on account of the 
unhealthfulness of the locality he returned 
to Jamestown in February, 1843. He was 
admitted to the bar in Indiana, Mr. Howard, 
afterward minister to Texas, being chair- 
man of the examining committee. During 
the summer of 1843 he was admitted to the 
bar in Ohio at the supreme court in Clinton 
county, Judge George J. Smith being chair- 



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man of the examining committee. At this 
examination tliere were six apphcants for 
admission, four of whom were rejected. 
After admission to tlie bar lie began to 
practice law in Greene county, and on Sep- 
tember 26, 1843. he was married to Caro- 
line E. Morris, who with six children sur- 
vive him. Soon afterward he formed a law- 
partnership with William Ellsberry, with 
whom he continued until June, 1845, ^vhen 
he was app<jinted clerk of the court of com- 
mon pleas of Greene county. He continued 
in this olfice until the fall of 1851, when 
he returned to and continued in the prac- 
tice of law. In 1857 he was elected to the 
senate of Ohioi from the district comprising 
the counties of Greene, Fayette and Clinton. 
In 1863 he was elected to the house of rep- 
resentatives from Greene county to fill a 
vacancy occasioned by the death of John M. 
.Miller. In February, 1864, he was ap- 
])iiinted judge uf the court of common pleas 
for the third subdivision of the second dis- 
trict, composed of the counties of Clark, 
Greene, Warren and Madison, in place of 
Judge Wilham White, who was appointed 
to a vacancy on the supreme bench. In the 
fall of 1864 he was elected without nomi- 
nation and without opposition for the resi- 
due of the term, and in 1866 he was re- 
elected for the lull term of five years. In 
1868 he was elected as a representative to 
congress from the seventh congressional 
district, comprising the counties of Greene, 
Clark, Madison and Franklin, resigning his 
office as judge. At the expiration of his 
term he declined a second nomination, al- 
though tendered him, and resumed the prac- 
tice of law. In the campaign of 1872 he fell 
in with the Greeley or "Liberal" movement 
and ran against L. B. Gunkle for congress 
in the fourth district on the Liberal ticket 



and was defeated. Afterward he devoted 
his whole attenticm to the practice of law 
and continued within a few months of his 
death, when compelled lo' quit practicing on 
account of failing' health. As a citizen, as 
a practitioner, as an officer, as a represen- 
tati\-e and in all his Ijusiness relations 
Judge Winans was a man of sterling worth. 
As a judge he was universally popular, and 
as a congressional representative no man 
ever served his constituency more faithfully. 
He lies buried in oiu' own beautiful Wood- 
land cemeterv. 



M.XJOR D.\XIEL LEWIS 

Died at his residence in Xenia January 9. 
18(13. He was l»rn near Salisbury, Rowan 
county. North Carolina, on the 7th day of 
Alay, 1797. His family emigrated first to 
Kentucky, and st(_)pped awhile at Crab Or- 
chard. In 1803 they arrived in this county, 
and settled near the present site of Bell- 
brook. His mlilitary title was gained in the 
militia, in which he rose from the rank of 
captain to that of brigadier general, which 
office he held until 1838. In 1836 he en- 
tered upon the duties of cimnty commis- 
sioner and served until 1842. After Will- 
iam Coburn Robinson, sheriff, died in the 
last mentioned year. Major Lewis was the 
next sheriff of Greene county, and served 
until 1846. In 1849 he was appointed post- 
master for Xenia, and served until 1853. 
In 1854 he was again elected sheriff, and 
served four more years. In 1861 he was 
elected county treasurer, and was serving 
as such when he died. His father, Daniel 
Lewis, Sr.. was a soldier in the war of 1812, 
and is buried in the Old Associate, or Pio- 
neer, graveyard at Bellbrook, Ohio. 



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ABRAHAM BLANK. 

Perhaps many of the old "boys" wlio 
were Ixirn in Xcnia previous to' 1840 stiU 
rem,'emher "Old Blaiin." the jolly, good 
natured colnred man "auction bell rint^er ' 
and professional shoe black, and on "m/iis- 
ter days" always brought up the rear carry- 
ing his bucket and tin cup to supply the 
thirsty soldiers of that day. Almost every 
one knew him and never will forget the 
cross-eyed, eccentric, droll old negro, whose 
whims and oddities ha\e excited so much 
hearty laughter, the delight of the small 
boy and loved by all. He died of small- 
pox in Xenia, Saturday, February 17, 1849. 
He was a native of Nottoway county, 
Virginia. His inhuman "master" tore him 
away from liis wife and seven children, sent 
him l:>y sea to New Orleans and sold him t(5 
a sugar planter, in whose plantation he 
labored a number of years. While there, 
for some su]>])osed offense he was tied up 
and received a punishment almost as sex'ere 
as the "Russian knout." being whipped at 
intervals nearly all day. This confined him 
to the hosi)ital two months, and much atten- 
tion was necessary to i>rcvcnt nwrtification 
from! ensuing. His cruel master had paid 
the debt of nature and it was Blann's con- 
solation that 

"Dey dug a hulc right out on the lebel. 
Cause he actually believe he were gone tO' 

de debel ; 
Oh, goqdy! Old master used to lite on 

me so, 

Now he got to tote his own firewood be- 

1 - " 
low. 

His next master ran a steaniboat, 

trading at Mobile and Florida. On the last 

trip that Blann was with him he landed a 

quantity of freight and left Blann to watch 



it ; he soon found himself surrounded bv a 
band of hostile Seminoles. But among the 
merchandise there was some whiskey, with 
which he treated them liberally, and so 
anmised them that they got in a fine humor 
and left the freight untouched. For this act 
his master gave him to a relative in Cin- 
cinnati that he miight become a free man. 
He was for some years in the employ of 
(jo'V. Tom Corwin, coming from there tO' 
Xenia. 

WILLIAM BULL, SR., 

Was a native of Virginia, and came to 
Greene county, Ohio, and purchased land 
on Massies creek in 1803. He was a soldier 
of the Revolution. He was the father of 
six sons, namely : Asapli, John, James, 
Thomias, Richard and William. He was 
alsi) the father of two' daughters, Ann and 
Alary. Mr. Hugh Andrew gives, in the 
"History of Greene County," a very inter- 
esting account of the marriage oif James 
Bull to Ann, daughter of John Gowdy, Sr., 
of Sugarcreek township. This event oc- 
ciu-red November 8. 1804, Rev. Robert 
Armistrong officiating. This was marriage 
No. 25 as shown on the early records. 
AMlliam Bull's daughter, Ann, must have 
l:)een married to- Samuel Shaw previous to 
his coming to Ohio, as we find from the rec- 
ords that she was a widow' with two chil- 
dren, namely, Amos Shaw and sister Mary. 
Amos Shaw made his home with his uncle, 
Jamies Bull, until his twenty-first birthday. 
From the early records we also find that 
Septeml)er i, 1803, she was married to 
Jolni Marshall, the man who' erected the 
first cabin in the now city of Xenia, April 
27, 1804. And on the 4th day of Septem- 
ber, 1804, was born the first child in what 



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is now the city of Xenia, namely, Robert T. 
Alarshall. 

THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH, XEXIA. 

This churcli was organized hy tlie Rev. 
Benjamin Lakin, June 23, 1813, and was 
one of the regular appointments on Union 
circuit, Miami district, with Benjamin 
Lakin and Solomon Langdon, pastors. The 
following board of trustees was appointed : 
Frederick Bonner, John Beall, Chapel Bon- 
ner, Richard Conwell, John StuU, Samuel 
Pelham and James Towler, who at once re- 
solved to make arrangements for building 
a church, holding divine service during the 
time in private houses. A committee was 
duly appointed to secure a suitable lot of 
ground and report terms at the next meet- 
ing of the board. According to appoint- 
ment the board met, and the committee re- 
ported as follows: Lot Xo. 151 (being the 
ground on which this church now stands) 
could be purchased for thirty dollars of 
James Towler, une of the board of trustees. 
The report accepted lot secured, they pro- 
ceeded at once to make preparation to build 
the church. A committee was appointed 
and authorized t(j secure forty thousand 
brick for said building. The next meeting 
of the l)oard, we find recorded, was not until 
Alarch 12, 18 14, Rev. Samuel Parker, pre- 
siding elder, and Revs. Marcus Lindsey and 
Joseph Tatman, pastors. The preacher in 
charge found it necessary to appoint new 
trustees, two having resigned and one ex- 
pelled for non-attendance at class-meeting. 
It was decided that the number be seven : 
Xathaniel McClain (brother of Hon. John 
McClain ) was apjx>inted to fill the va- 
cancy. Towler and IMcClain were ap- 
pointed to superintend the building of 



the church; the size to be thirty by 
forty feet, twelve feet from floor to top 
of wall; foundation of stone; roofed in 
workman-like mianner; said committee h^ 
have the work carried on as they felt justi- 
fiable from amount subscribed, and use the 
same to the liest of their judgment. The 
work went slo'W. The ne.xt meeting re- 
corded was ]\Iay 18, 181 5, Rev. John Sale, 
presiding elder. Revs. Moses Crume and 
Jacob Miller, pastors. According to pre- 
vious notice trustees met. Two having re- 
signed Henry Hypes and Dr. Joseph John- 
son were appointed to fill the vacancy. Sam- 
uel Pelham was appointeil to assist Towler 
in superintending and carrying on the build" 
ing. August 28, 18 1 6, Rev. Abbott God- 
dard, pastor, we find recorded trustees ac- 
cepted the meeting house from builder. 
Mills Edwards, and find Ijalance due him, 
forty dollars and twenty-six cents. Trus- 
tees gave their due bill, to be paid in three, 
six and nine months. Resolved further that 
suit be brought against those who owe bal- 
ance on subscription who do not pay in 
thirty days from date, and Henry Hypes 
is hereby authorized to carry said resolution 
into effect. \\"e have no record of dedi- 
cate irv ser\ices having been held. October 
13, 1S17, Moses Crunije. presiding elder, 
f'iev. John Sale and Rev. John Brooks, pas- 
tors. Edward Wamble was em,])loyed to 
take care of the church for one year, at a 
salary of ten .dollars. He is authorized to 
call on each member for a contribution of 
si.x and one-fourth cents to buy candles for 
lighting the meeting house during di\-ine 
service. In 1818, \\'illiam Dixon and John 
Waterman, pastors; in 1819, Truman 
Bishop and Stephen Harber, pastors ; in 
1820, James B. Finley. presiding elder, 
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pastors. W. M. Faulkner offered his serv- 
ices to keep the cliurch in order gratis dur- 
ing his continuance in Xenia. Truly this 
was a day of small things. Yet faithful men 
of God served the church. Great and jxjw- 
erful revivals followed year after year, and 
many were added to the church. In 1821 
Revs. John Strange and W. T. Taylor, pas- 
tors; in 1822, J. Strange and Jcjhn Brooke; 
in 1823, Arthur W. Elliot and J. Brooke; 
in 1S24, Rev. John Collin, presiding elder, 
and .\. \V. Elliot and Burrous Westlake, 
])astors. ;\t this period the congregation 
had hccome so large that the trustees found 
it necessary to enlarge the church by build- 
ing an addition, fifty feet long and twenty- 
eight feet wide, taking out one end of the 
church, making the addition in the form of 
a T. Here we find recorded : Trustees em- 
ployed Reuben Hixon to keep the churcii 
for one year for ninety bushels of corn and 
si.K dollars and eighty-seven and a half cents 
in money. In 1823, Revs. Russell Bigelow 
and Burrous Westlake and Thomas Beach- 
am. pastors: in 1826, Charles Waddle, John 
Sale and William B. Christy, pastors; in 
1827, W. 11. Raper, G. W. Maley and G. W. 
Walker, pastors; in 1828, \\'. H. Raper, 
G. W. Maley and J. W. Clark, pastors; in 
1829. Augustus Eddy and Joshua Boucher, 
pastors; in 1830, I. F. Wright, of precious 
memory, was presiding elder, Augustus 
Eddy and W. P. Taylor, pastors; in 183 1, 
Francis Wilson and Ebenezer Owen, pas- 
tors; in 1832, Francis \\'ilson and Daniel 
D. Davidson, pastors. During this last year 
the tallow candle became a thing of the past. 
Trustees ordered that one and one-half gal- 
lons of sperm oil be purchased for the use of 
the church, and a committee be appointed 
for said purpose. We find also recorded, 
May 16, 1832: Trustees decided to build a 



l>elfry on the east end of the church, to be 
ten feet above the comb of the roof, eight 
feet in the clear, eight feet square, a dome 
and wooden ball of proportional size; the 
ball to be painted chrome yellow ; the roof 
of pine shingles painted brown; the body 
painted white; at a cost of one hundred and 
sixteen dollars. A bell was placed in this 
belfry that lias calle;d the people together 
for more than half a century. The old bell 
still rings, and may continue to ring for a 
century to come. In 1832 and 1833 James 
Law and Dr. Samuel Latta were pastors. 
During this year one of the most wonderful 
re\-ivals of religion that we have on record 
occurred. It commenced before the holi- 
days and continued until late in the spring. 
Between three and four hundretl were con- 
\'erted and united with the church. Feople 
came a distance of twenty and thirty miles 
to attend the meetings. During this won- 
derful outpouring of the Spirit many be- 
lievers received the blessing of sanctifica- 
tion. In 1834 and 1835 Alfred K. Lorain. 
Stephen Holland and Alexander ^bn-row 
were pastors. This year it was decided that 
the interest of the church demanded a 
change. As the ct)ngTegation had become 
sufficiently strong to support a preacher, the 
conference granted the change, and in 1836 
Rev. A. Brown' was appointed stationed 
preacher. Rev. W. li. Raper, presiding 
elder; in 1837, Rev. L. White, pastor. Rev. 
O. Spencer, presiding elder; in 1838, Solo- 
mon Howard, pastor; in 1839, W'illiam 
Young, pastor; in 1840 and 1841, J. J. 
Hill, pastor, and Rev. James B. Finley, pre- 
siding elder. During the last two> years 
there was a gracious outpouring of the 
Spirit upon the church, sinners were con- 
\erted, believers sanctified and many added 
to the church of such as shall be saved. In 



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1842 Rev. I. W. White was pastor; in 1844, 
\y. H. Tyffe. pastor, and the beloved \V. H. 
Raper again presiding elder. During the 
second year of Brother Tyffe's pastorate the 
old church was taken down to give place to 
a new one. The congregation worshiped 
during this time in the Methodist Protest- 
ant church un Church street. In 1845 K^^'- 
J. G. Dininiett was pastor; in 1846 and 
1847, Rev. William Herr, pastor. Rev. 
George \\ . Walker, presiding elder. In De- 
cember, soon after the arrival of Brother 
Herr, the new church was dedicated by 
Bishop Morris. Immediately following the 
dedication of the church was a great re- 
vival, and many united with the church, 
seme of whom are efficient members at this 
time. In 1848 Rev. W. H. Raper has again 
been appointed as pastor, having served this 
church four different times during a period 
of twenty-one years. In 1849 Rev. Charles 
Elliot was pastor. This was a year of great 
affliction. That fearful scourge, cholera, 
prc\-ailetl. Xo doubt many will remember 
that faithful servant of the church, Rev. 
Elliot, as he went from house to house 
caring for the sick and .dying. He, too, 
above all others, was ever keeping the in- 
terest of the missionary cause before his 
congregation, and was most ardent in his 
prayers that the gospel might be preached in 
the city of Rome. His prayers are an- 
swered; his son-in-law. Rev. L. M. Vernon, 
is at this time a missionary in that city. In 
1850, Augustus Eddy was pastor; in 1851, 
Asl)ury Lowry ; in 1853, Rev. Cyrus 
Brooks; in 1855. Granville Moody; Rev. 
William Simmons was presiding elder; in 
1857, Charles Adams; in 1858; Moses 
Smith: in i860, W. H. Sutherland; in 
18G2, W. I. l-~ee, pastor. These years were 
noted as a crisis in the historv of the church. 



First a great revival and large ingathering; 
more than two hundred joined the church. 
Xe.xt the division of the congregation and 
the ( rganization of Trinity church in 1864. 
The first pastor after the division was Rev. 
James L. Grover, followed by Rev. Thomas 
Collett, who rendered efficient service in re- 
modeling the audience room and building 
the valuable addition of lecture rooms and 
class rooms in the rear of the churcli. In 
1868 W. L. Hypes was pastor; in 1871, 
J. F. Marley: in 1874, ^l. A. Richards; in 
1877, Lucian Clark; in 1880, E. T. Wells; 
in 1882, Rev. William Runyan, who was 
successful in raising funds to refrescoe, 
paint and carpet the entire church, leaving 
it for his successor in perfect order. In 
1885. Dr. J. F. Marley, after an absence of 
eleven years, was returned, much to the 
gratification of old friends. 

In the seventy-three years past this 
church has been served Iiy more than si.xty 
miinisters, as pastors and presiding elders, 
the best talent in the conference, noble men 
of God. and eloquent. The annual confer- 
ence has been entertained in this church four 
times: In 1836. Bishop Roberts presiding; 
in 1853. Bi.shop James presiding; in 1864, 
Bishop Baker presiding, and in 1877, Bishop 
Ida\en presiding. 

TIEPOSITIOXS OF SOME OLD PIONEERS. 

.\mong the many old cases at law that 
are yet found in our court records are many 
that bring to light history that has been 
forgotten. One case we will recall, a chan- 
cery case, or suit of ejectment, brought by 
Peter and Jesse Vandolah against Major 
John Stevenson. It had been a long time 
in court and June 15. :8i8. notice had been 
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plaintiff, to Hon. John Alexander, for the de- 
fendant, and acknowledged liy him, that on 
the loth day of Jnne, 1818, they would 
meet at Old Chillicothe, or Oldtown, at the 
house of Abner Reid (house still standing in 
igoo), and prtx-eed to take depositions be- 
fi re the nitisier commissioner, Josiah 
CJrover, to be used in the case before the su- 
l)reme court, which was soon to meet. Court 
was called to order and they proceeded to 
take deposition of David Laughead and 
others. 

Ones. Mr, Laughead, Imw lung ha\e 
\o\\ been acquaintt^d with Old Chillicothe. 
Crcene county, Ohio, where you now are? 

.\ns. On an expedition from Kentucky 
I was attached to a troop of horse under 
the command of (ieneral Clarke and arrived 
at Old Chillic.ithe on the 5th day of Au- 
gust, 1780. 

Ones. Was this a place of notoriety at 
that time? 

Ans. ^'e^, 1 know it to be a strong In- 
dian town by the name of Chillicothe. and it 
was generally said to be such in Kentucky 
before' we left it. 

Ques. flow long ha\e you known John 
Jamison's entry and survey, which is said 
to ha\e been made at the lower point of an 
island, opposite Old Ch.illicothe on the Lit- 
tle Miami ri\er? 

Ans. 1 knew the officers met at the falls 
of the Ohio in the yeiy' 1784 or 1785 and 
appointetl Richard C. Anderson as their 
surveyor. In the year 1786 or 1787 I was 
informed that John Jamison had made his 
entry near Old Chillicnthe on the Little 
Miami river. 

Ones. How long Iia\e you known the 
island in the Little ^Miami river opposite 
Old Chillicothe? 



i\ns. I knew it to be there from in- 
formation as far back as the 7th day of 
August, 1780. 

Oucs. \\'as it generally talked of as an 
island at Old Chillicothe at that time? 

-Ans. I knew it to be an island from in- 
formatiaii gained at Old Chillicnihe at that 
time. The way that 1 was infcjrmed that 
it was an island was on the 7th ,day of 
August, 1780, on the return of the troops 
fnMii Mad river to Olil Chillicoilie: about 
tifty men were ordered out to cut down a 
lot of corn on the ojjposite side of the Little 
Miami rnid one of the men had a sore foot 
and his messmates took him across the river 
to the island, supposing he was across the 
river, and set him down ; and the lame man 
had to get them to come back and take him 
across the other part of the river, wdiich cir- 
cumstance was generally sjioken of by the 
troops on their retm'n from Old Chilli- 
cothe. 

Ones. How long is it since you tirst 
saw the island? 

Ans. I think it is about five years since 
1 first went to examine the island. 

CJues. Was it generally spoken of as 
an island as early as the year 1780? 

Ans. Yes, by part of the army. 

Ones. Did the army burn the town on 
the 7th day of August, 1780? 

Ans. They set fire to it Init we did not 
wait to see it all consumed. 

Ques. How long have you known 
George Gray's entry and survey No. 603? 

Ans. Fifteen or sixteen years this sum- 
mer. 

Ques. W'as that survey generally 
known in the neighborhood at that time? 

Ans. It was generally known at that 
time. ' 



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yues. Was John Fu\vler"s entry and 
survey generally known at that time? 
Ans. Yes. 

DEPOSITION OF JAMES GALLOWAY^ SR. 

At the same time and place James Gallo- 
way, Sn, was sworn and saith : 

Ques. Mr. Galloway, how long have 
you known Old Chillicothe on the Little 
?\liami river, where you now are? 

Ans. I have known it since the month 
of October or November, 1782. It was at 
that time and continued to be a place of pub- 
lic notoriety in the Miami country. 

Ques. How long have you known an 
island in the Little ]\Iiami river opposite the 
said Chillicothe at the point which it is said 
T'hn Jamiison's entry was made? 

Ans. J have kno-wn it from Xwvember, 
1782; it was at that time and continued to 
be generally known as an island in the 
neighborhood. 



Ones. How 



linu 



have \ou known 



George Gray's entry? 

Ans. Eighteen or twenty years, and it 
was generally known by those I conversed 
with. 

Ones. Were there any more islands in 
view with the island above mentioned from 
the place called Old Chillicothe where we 
now are? 

Ans. Xone as visible as that one; there 
is one small one below it, not more than one 
hundred poles below it. 

Ques. Is there anything to obstruct the 
view Iietween where you now sit and the 
island first mentioned and the last one men- 
tioned more than the distance to each island 
where you sit? 

Ans. Nothing liut the distance. 



Ques. What is the difference in the 
distance from where you now sit? 

Ans. .\bout eight rods. 

Ones. Are you now sitting at the place 
called Old Chillicothe? 

Ans. I am now sitting within the 
bounds \\here the pickets were. 

Ques. Is the island which you have last 
spoken of directly opposite the Old Chilli- 
cothe ? 

Ans. It is not. 

Ques. Which of the islands is the 
larger, and please describe the difference in 
their size? 

Ans. The island first spoken of is a 
great deal the larger, more than three times 
the size of the other. 

■ Ones. Is the ground you have described 
as the lower island encompassed by the 
waters of the Little Miami when the Miami 
is at its common height? 

Ans. At the time of low water it is 
not, but at the time of high water it is, from 
alx^ut the latter part of June till the fall 
the water does not run around it in com- 
mon, and that has been the situation ever 
since I knew the island, which has been 
twenty years. The island spoken of is 
alxjut ten (;r tweK'e rods long and from two 
to three rods in breadth at its widest place. 

Ques. If you were directed by the su- 
preme court to find a point directly opposite 
the Old Chillicothe what would be the point 
ynu would fix on? 

Ans. I would fix it between west and 
northwest. 

Ques. If vou were directed to go to the 
liiwer point of an island directly opposite 
the Old Chillicothe would you go to the 
island first spoken of or to the island last 
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Ans. I would go to the upper one first 
spoken of about sixt}' rods below the mouth 
of Massies creek. 

Ques. Is there not a very large, exten- 
sive prairie between the Old Chillicothe 
where we now sit and both the islands be- 
fore mentioned ? 

Ans. Yes, and tlie distance toi the upper 
island, the first spoken of, is, 1 suppose, 
eighty rods, and the Inwer island, the last 
spoken of, I supiKJse to be one hundred and 
flirty rods. 

J.\ME.S G.\LLOWAV. JR.'s, DEPOSITION. 

The deposition of James (ialloway, Jr., 
taken at the same time at the house of the 
Messrs. Reid at Chillicothe, who says : 

Some time in the winter of 1806, in a 
conversation witii Joseph Vandolah re- 
specting a survey oi one hundred acres of 
land which himself and brothers, James and 
Peter, claimed near the Old Chillicothe 
town on the Little Miami river, said de- 
ponent informed said Joseph of that date 
and manner in wiiich their said entry was 
made, and of the surveys whicli it interfered 
with, and he thinks, but is not certain, 
showetl him copies of the said entries and 
surveys. The said Vandolah appeared con- 
vinced that their claimi to the four hundred 
acres aforesaid was such that they must 
lose the land, and talked of petitioning con- 
gress for leave to withdraw their entry and 
have it located elsewhere, requesting his aid 
in endeavoring- to get their land secured to 
them and to miake inquiry and do some- 
thing for them, promising him a com- 
pensation if he could do anything to secure 
them their land, with their warrants that 
would be clear o^f dispute. On or about 
the 20th day of March, 1807, said deponent 



became acquainted with the law of the 
United States which authorized persons 
losing lands by interference with prior 
claims, although such claims might be pat- 
ented, to withdraw the part of the claim so 
lost and enter the same elsewhere. Said de- 
I)onent, upon asserting the proper method 
to proceed, did, on or alx)ut the 20th of 
Marcli, 1807, withdraw the said Vandolah 
entry of four hundred acres aforesaid, and 
entered the same elsewhere. Some time 
afterward this dejxinent, meeting with 
James Vandolah, informed him of what he 
had done with his said claim, who expressed 
himself satisfied therewith, and desired said 
deponent to give him notice when he would 
be going intO' the neighborhood of where his 
land had been entered, by said deponent, and 
he would accompany him and see it and 
have it surveyed. Said deponent did ac- 
cordingly send word to said Vandolah a 
short time before he set out on a tour to 
the woods but he ,did not attend. Some 
time after said deponent, returning from 
the woods, again met with said James 
V'andolah, who expressed some concern at 
his being disappointed. In going to see 
the land and upon inquiry finding that his 
land had not been surveyed, he wished again 
to have notice when it would be convenient 
f(jr said deponent to survey it and he woiild 
accompany him. Notice was given him the 
second time by said deponent that at such a 
time he might attend and accompany said 
deixment on another toiir, when the land 
might be surveyed, but said Vandolah did 
not attend. 

DEPOSITION OF GEN. BENJAMIN WHITEMAN. 

Benjamin \\'hiteman, sworn at the same 
time and place. 



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Ques. At what time did you become 
acquainted witli the Old Cliillicothe on the 
Little Miami river? 

Ans. In the month of October in the 
year 1790. 

Ones. Have vou heard of the contro- 
versy existing between the complainants 
and defendant in this case and how long? 
Ans. I have heard of the controversy 
existing between the complainants and de- 
fendant live or six years and have under- 
stood that one qtiestion in that controversy 
depended on the entry of John Jameson. 
l)ut tlie point where that entry begins I have 
no knowledge only from hearsay. I have 
understood that it is on an island near Old 
Chillicothe, and my impression was that 
that island was formed by a tongue of land 
between the Little Miami and Massies 
creek, which is a little above Old Chilli- 
cothe. The reason of my impression was 
that, from viewing the situation of the Lit- 
tle Miami from a point near the place where 
James Galloway now lives and from the 
direction that the river runs and the appear- 
ance of the ground at that place, my con- 
clusions, with others generally as far as I 
have heard it sicken of, were that it was 
an island. In the year 1792, I. together 
with the detachment of militia from Ken- 
tucky, encamped on this tongue of land. 
an,d it was spoken of as an island generalh' 
among us, and I always believed it to be an 
island until after I became a resident of the 
conntv. which was in the year 1799. and 
alx)ut one vear after I settled in this county 
I had occasion to go to the falls of the 
Little Miami, and on traveling up between 
the Little Miami and Massies creek I found 
them to be separate streams, and as to the 
island below the mouth of ]\Iassies creek, 
at which I have since understood Jameson's 



entry comnxenced, I have no kn<iwledge of 
nor ever heard of such an 1 me until several 
years after 1 settled in this county. I first 
settled on Beaver creek about six miles from 
Old Chillicothe. in what is now the bounds 
of Greene county, and there was no settle- 
ment alx)ve Davis's mill on Beaver creek 
except three families on the Little ]\Iiami, in 
the limits of what is now Greene count}-, 
and the settlement where I then li\-ed on 
Beaver creek did not exceed si.x or eight 
families. 

Ques. If you had been directed to make 
an entry at the lower point of an island op- 
posite Old Chillicothe on the Little Miami 
what point would you have made? 

Ans. I would have searched for an 
island lower down than the mouth of Mas- 
sies creek if I could have fouud one, and 
my reasons for so doing would have been 
Ijecau^c I did not believe the mouth of 
Massies creek to be directly opposite the Old 
Chillicothe. 

Ques. Do you believe thfe island where 
Jameson's entry is made directly opposite 
the Old Chillicothe? 
Ans. I think it is. 

Ques. BK' what rule would yon ascer- 
tain one point to be opposite another point ? 
Ans. Because it is neitlier above nor 
below, but imanediately opposite. 

Ques. Do you say that the island in 
the Little Miami river at the lower point of 
which it is said John Jameson's entrv- is 
made is directly opposite Old Chillicothe 
because it is neither lower ,down the river 
nor higher up the river than the extremities 
of Old Chillicothe? 
Ans. Yes. 

Ones. Did you in the year 1792, when 
vou. witli the detachments of militia from 
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tongue uf land l)efore described as Ijeing 
formed !:>>■ Massies creek and the Little 
Miami ii\er, undertake to ascertain from 
actual examination whether that tongue of 
lanil was an island or not.'' 

.\ns. I did nut. 

Ones. Was it the first time you dis- 
covered that that tongue of land was not 
an island when you left homie to go tO' the 
falls (if the Little Miamii before spoken of? 

Ans. It was. 

Ones. ■ How far is it frum Okl Chilli- 
cothe to the Little Miami river? 

.\ns. i suppiise the distance to be near 
hall a mile. 

wn.Li.\.\[ Stevenson's deposition. 

William Stevenson's deposition was 
taken at the same time and place. 

Ones. When did you jjecome acquainted 
with an island in the Little ^Nliami river, op- 
])' site Old Chillic.ithe. the lower end of 
which it is said Juhn Jameson's entry is 
made? 

Ans. In the latter end of November or 
the beginning of December in the year 1801 
we cut timber on both of the islands, the 
upper and lower one, as much as one horse 
could cleverly draw. They cut one tree on 
the upper island which took two men to lift 
the butt (if it (jn a fork. James Stevenson 
looked for marked trees on the island to 
ascertain the corner, Ijut found none. This 
island is opposite to Old ChillicDthe, the 
other island mav be two hundred yards be- 
low the upper island or may be more, and is 
below a direct line drawn from Old Chilli- 
cothe fr(Jin the river. The upper island 
was larger than the lower one. 

Ones. Would a direct line, as vou call 



it, from Old Chillicothe to the river strike 
the upper island? 

Ans. I think it would, because it lies 
directly opposite. 

JESSE V.\ND0L.\H AND PETER VANDOL.'XH VS. 
DA\ID LAUGH E.\D. 

A, similar case as that against Major 
John Stevenson. 

DEPOSITION OF BENJ.V.MIN WllITE.MAN. 

^Ir. Whiteman put on the stand, in an- 
swer to the questions, says : 

Ques. Have the beds of those rivers 
since the year 1790 changed their course 
from natural or artificial causes at any time 
since; if so, when and from what cause? 

Ans. 1 do not know that they have 
changed any at those points at which I then 
crossed. 

Ques. How far aljo\-e the junction of 
these creeks did you cross? 

Ans. That I could not ascertain with- 
out measurement. 

Ques. Had you at different times or in 
different years been through this country by 
Old Cliillicothe, above named, and how 
often, and what w-as the general report and 
belief as to the point of land formed by the 
junction of the Little Miami and Massies 
creek, whether it was called an island, and 
whcth.er any other island was then known 
in that neighborhood or near that place and 
what place? 

Ans. I passed through that point of 
land three times in three different years, be- 
tween the years 1790 and 1794, once under 
the comimjand of Colonel Edwards, with 
aljout four hundred volunteers, and twice 



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on small scouts. As far as I heard it spoken 
of it was called an island, and it was fre- 
quently spoken of, and I believed it to be 
an island until after I came to reside in this 
county. 

Ones. At the time above alluded to did 
not you believe that Massies creek put out 
from the Miami and that the island above 
alluded to included at least three hundred 
acres ? 

Ans. I did not know of Massies creek, 
but the branch since called Massies creek I 
believed to be part of the Little Miami 
■\vhich formed that island. 

DEPOSITION OF JAMES COLLIER. 

Ones. How long have you resided in 
this county and how long have you known 
and been acquainted with the situation of 
Old Chillicothe on the Little Miami river? 

Ans. I have resided in what is now 
the countv of Greene nineteen years last 
November. I have known Old Chillicothe 
nineteen years this month or next. 

Ques. If you had been directed to 
make a location of land beginning at the 
lower point of an island opposite Old Chilli- 
cothe on the Little Miamii what point of 
land would yon have selected for that be- 
ginning? 

Ans. Some time after that I discovered 
a small island below the mouth of Massies 
creek. I do not recollect the size of the 
island at that time, but to the best of my 
recollections it was small. It has increased 
since and I would not believe it had been 
formed more than four or five years from 
the size of the saplings that w-ere on it, 
which I think would not exceed tw'O inches 
in diameter. The last time I noticed them 
they had grown to tolerably large trees. 



some of them were at least forty feet high. 
mostly sycamores. There are now a good 
many willows, and when I first saw it I 
think there were none. I think the first time 
I saw the island it did not exceed six rods 
in length at low water mark, with a small 
streak of bushes on it. I thought it looked 
more like a sand bar than an island. So 
at that time I would have been compelled to 
take that island, knowing of no other oppo- 
site, or near Old Chillicothe, in making a 
selection. I. never heard of an island there 
until I saw that one that I have described, 
for I thought it too inconsiderable to attract 
notice. 

ABXER RE.\D, OF OLDTOWX. 

Abner Read died at his home near Old- 
town, Greene county, Decemljer 27, 1858. 
He was born in Xorthbridge, Worcester 
county. Massachusetts, September 11, 1783. 
His father was a soldier of the Revolution 
and his mother was a daughter of Capt. 
John Brown, who served with distinction in 
the old French war. was for many years a 
member of the general court of Massachu- 
setts, and with nine sons fought in the 
Revolution. Mr. Read came to Ohio first 
in 181 5 and remained about a year in Cin- 
cinnati, where he was engaged with an elder 
l)ri)ther, Ezra, now of Champaign county, 
and another brother, Amasa, now deceased, 
and Thomas Watson in the clock business. 
He then returned to his native state and in 
1816 married Cynthia Adams, of Worcester 
county, ^Massachusetts, and two weeks 
afterward moved with his wife to this 
county, arriving here in June of that year, 
being thirty-six days on the road. He and 
his 1)rothers Ezra and Amasa first bought 
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resided, which afterward Ijecanie his own 
entirely. He cumnienced liotisekeeping 
near the spot where tiie dwelhng house now 
stands. Mr. Read was in all the relations of 
life a must excellent n>an, of the strictest 
integrity, moral and upright in his life. He 
])ossessed great energy of character ami a 
resolute purpose. His industry was proverb- 
ial, his c(jnstitution was a vigorous one, and 
up til within a few days of his death he en- 
gaged in his usual avocation with the 
alacrity and vigor of a man twenty years 
younger in life. In his family he was the 
kindest of husljands and the best of fathers. 
He was devoted to his children, six of whom 
with their mother survive to mourn the loss 
of a kind husband and father. For many 
years he iiad been a member of the Metho^ 
dist Episco])al church, and Ijy his exemplary 
life illustrated the Christian virtues. His 
death was the result of injuries received on 
the 2 1 St of Octoljer, 1858, from a fall from 
a horse. His death was hastened, perhaps, 
by subsequent exposure. His remains were 
followed to the tnmb in Woodland cemetery 
in Xenia by a large procession of citizens 
and members of the Masonic fraternity, to 
which he belonged, lieing one of the charter 
members in Xenia, Ohio. 

YELLOW SPRINGS IN 1804. 

A writer in the "Post and Country 
Man," published at Cincinnati, gives an ac- 
count (if the appearance of Yellow Springs 
in the summer of 1804. At that time the 
village was not, and the springs were the 
resort of invalids rather than pleasure seek- 
ers. Lewis Davis was the keeper of the 
boarding house at that time. The accom- 
modations were few and simple. The 
writer savs : "At that time, as near as I 



can recollect, there were some dozen pa- 
tients seeking the healing" of those waters. 
With three of them I was personally ac- 
quainted ; one was a sad dyspeptic, one had 
an incontrollable eruption of the skin, which 
all the doctors had failed to cure, and one 
was a married woman who had been pros- 
trated with a strange disability for years. 
The water was an efifectual cure for the tirst 
two and a present relief for tlie last. The 
dyspeptic lived until near ninety years old, 
acti\-e to the last. The second reared a fam- 
ily of twelve or thirteen children. And the 
last after a few years again sank down and 
was bedridden during the twenty years or 
more of her life. As to the effect of these 
waters whether by bath or drinking, on the 
other patients there at that time 1 know 
nothing, as they were strangers to me. At 
' that time a Frenchman whose name 1 ha\'e 
lost kept a little store at the springs, prin- 
cipally, I think, to trade with the surround- 
ing Indians. He also kept a pack of hounds. 
the first and last I ever saw. At daylight 
each mprning I was there he loosed his 
hounds, and such a yelling as immediately 
followed can be imagined better than de- 
scribed. The master took them 1 m the morn- 
ing hunt, wdiich usually lasted until ten 
o'clock, when he returned with them wet 
and weaiy. By this time his Indian cus- 
tomers, I was told, came to trade at his 
store. But as I then staid but a single night 
and part of two days, I do not recollect hav- 
ing seen any Indians there, but I understood 
from visitors there at that time niany hu!i- 
dreds came to trade w^ith him, exchanging 
furs and skins for his articles of ornament 
and use." The compiler of this sketch can 
furnish the name of the storekeeper, which 
was Thomas Fream. General Benjamin 
Whiteman at that time undoubtedly owned 



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a large part uf what is calletl the Yelluw 
Springs, aiul frinn (-Id papers that belong to 
the county wliicii liave passed through tlie 
writer's hands can produce tlie evidence 
that such was a fact. And as General 
Whiteman had married for his wife a 
daughter of Owen Davis, who was the fa- 
ther of Lewis Davis, the founder of what is 
called Yellow Springs, the writer has proof 
tij' show that Thomas Fream had leased the 
land on which he was staying from General 
Whiteman. and in addition to his having 
the store, he was also the first postmaster 
of the aforesaid Yellow Springs. In a 
deposition taken at Old Town in the year 
1816, General \\'hiteman states that he first 
canie to Greene co^mty in the }ear 1799, and 
settled first in Beavercreek township. He 
says further that about one year after com- 
ing he had occasion to go to the falls of the 
Little Miami river and there were at that 
time ( 1800) but three settlements on the 
Little Miami river. Owen Davis, the pro- 
l,rietor of the first imiil in Greene county 
and the father-in-law of Mr. Whiteman. had 
sold his mill to Jacob Smith, and in 1805 
thev removed to ]Miami township. 

^\'e will close by giving a c<ipy of a 
petition to keep the tavern in Yellow 
Springs, the date of which is June 13. 1804: 
To the Honorable Court of Greene County, 
now sitting, and for said County: Your 
petitioners humbly showeth that a license 
may be issued to Thomas Fream, now liv- 
ing at Yellow or Medicinal Springs, to keep 
a tavern or public house, and your peti- 
tioners will ever pray, etc. Signed by J. P. 
Stewart, Lewis Davis, Jacob Smith. Joseph 
Lavton, John Paul, Robert Renick, Robert 
Layton, John Daughterty, Joseph. C. ^"ance, 
George Allen. Felix Hover, Joseph Reid, 



James Scott, Samuel G. Martin and Thomas 
Wright. 

JACOB MILLS, ESQ., 

Died at his residence in }ilianii township, 
July 29, 1850. He was a native of \"irginia, 
emigrated to this state in 1796 and settled 
near Waynesville. The same year the first 
log cabin for the residence of a white set- 
tler was raised in Greene county. In 1809 
he removed to this county, Miami township, 
where he continued to reside until his death. 
He was appointed majijr by Governor 
Tiftin on the first organization of the militia, 
and afterward for years he filled the oftice 
of justice of the peace for Miami township. 

REMIXISCEXCES OF OLD TOWN. 

Christmas morning Ijeing briglit and 
beautiful we made a pedestrian excursion 
to Old Town, three miles north of Xenia. 
It was formerly called Chillicoithe, that 
being the Indian name for town. This 
peaceful, cjuiet village is a jilace of miorc 
, historical interest than any other in this 
county. The landscape is of unrivaleil 
beauty. A lovely prairie stretches away to 
the west, the view being bounded by a range 
of wooded hills, skirting the horizon some 
seven miles distant, whose summits were 
rendered indistinct by a blue, hazy mist. 
On the north meanders the Little Miami, 
bounded by undulating highlands : paralleled 
hills on the south side ran.ge rounel the east 
end of the prairie tO' Massies creek, named 
after Gen. Nathaniel Massie, a brave pio- 
neer who surveyed many of the land entries 
in this county. The hills on either side of 
this beautiful vale are adorned with com- 
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til 111. iieighljui'ly kindness and welcome hos- 
pitality. Their elevated situatinns afford a 
pros])ect \arie(I. cxtensixe and deUghtfuI. 
over wliicli tlie eye may roam witli nnsated 
satisfaction. An air of quiet, dreamy re- 
pose seems to rest on the landscape, while 
evidences of good farming, thrift and in- 
dustry, and their legitimate consequences, 
the ciimforts of life, on all sides greet the 
cye>. What wnnderlul changes have taken 
place. The church in which divine pre- 
cepts of fraternal love are inculcated has 
taken the place of the council house, in 
which luinian l^eings were doomed to be 
roasted alive at the stake, in all of the pro- 
longed agony that diabolical ingenuity 
could suggest. The plowshare passes over 
the ground on which the gauntlet has been 
run and unmitigated torture inflicted. The 
school house in wliich knowletlge is im- 
[jarted to qualify the living generation to 
usefulness may occupy ground which has 
been tramped in the ferocious war dance. 
Hominy blocks have been superseded by 
one of the must elegant mills in the state, 
and the shrill whistle ci the iron ht)rse has 
taken the place of the fierce warwhoop and 
savage scalp yell. It seems strange and out 
of character that a place which nature has 
adorned as if to show a sample of her 
power should have been a theater of re- 
volting barbarity and moral agony. 

This was the chief town of that nomadic 
race, the Shawnees. This was the place of 
rendezvous for war parties from Piqua, 
Maumee. Sandusk)-. Mad River and other 
towns to carry murder and desolation to 
settlers on the "dark and bloody ground." 
Here they returned with their prisoners, 
jilunder and scalps before separating for 
their different villages. The dwellings 
were constructed with poles and roofed 
11 



with bark. There was a stockade enclosing 
several acres of ground, including the vil- 
lage and council house. The late Abner 
Read's orchard is on part of the ground. 

Tecumseh, the renowned warrior, was 
born here, near the spring a short distance 
west of where the church now is. in 1769. 
That Tecumseh was born here we have the 
statement of "Ben" Kelley, his adopted 
lirdtlier, who was a member of IJlacklish's 
family tive years at Old Town, and who so 
informed Thomas H. Hind at a treaty at 
Chillicothe in 1807. 

FIRST WHITE MAN KNOWN TO ENTER OLD 
TOWN. 

In the year 1773 Captain Cullet unex- 
pectedly entered this town with a flag of 
truce. It was a .daring but successful ad- 
venture. He was on his way down the Ohioi 
on a surveying expedition. In 1778 Daniel 
Boone was brought here a prisoner and had 
a shooting inatch with the Indians, whose 
vanity he humored by letting them beat him 
slightly. He ran away on the i6th of June 
and arrived at Boonsborough, a distance of 
one hundred and sixty miles in four days, 
eating but one meal during the whole time. 
What iron men those times produced ! 

In 1778 Simon Kenton was brought here 
a prisoner. He was stripped naked, and his 
hands tied to a stake above his head, his capn 
tors intending to burn him alive, but after 
torturing himj till past midnight they con- 
cluded tO' defer the pleasure of burning him 
until another time. Next day they made 
him run the gauntlet between ranks of In- 
dians extending nearly a quarter of a mile, 
commencing at the foot of the hill near 
where now stands the brick mill as you pass 
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and ending- at the d nnicil honse, near where 
the clunxh now stands. 

Tlie place is memorable as being the first 
point invaded front the Kentucky side of 
the ri\er in July. 1779. Colonel Bowman 
arri\ed liere with i.iue hundred and sixty 
men in the night under cover, but the attack 
next miorning was so badly managed that 
a retreat was ordered. The Indians becom- 
ing the aggressors, overtook and sur- 
rounded them near Glady, on what used to 
be called Churchill Jones" entry, and partly 
owned by Mrs. Lydia Stanfield. Their 
situation was critical, as Indian reinforce- 
ments were expected. The advice, general- 
ship and courage of Colonel Logan saved 
them. Mounting some of the bravest men 
on the baggage horses he made a success- 
ful charge and opened a way for the retreat. 
Bowmait lost nine men and a few wounded. 
In all the account? of this expedition it is 
stated that Blackfi.sh was killed here, but 
that was not true. 

That noted chief was killed in Ken- 
tucky. He had Ijroken into a cabin, and 
while engaged in a struggle on the floor 
with the owner, his daughter seized a 
butcher knife and stabbed him to the heart. 
(For particulars see sketch of James Collier 
in this book. ) 

GE.\ER.\L K0(;ER CL.XRK .\T OLD TOWN IX 
1780. 

In 1780 Roger Clarke, at the head of 
one thousand men. miade this place a point 
of invasion. The Indians fled precipitately, 
lea\-ing their camp, kettles with beans and 
hominy cooking over the fires, to' the grati- 
fication of the hungry soldiers. Xext day 
some of them were seen sitting on their 
])onies on the hills north of the Miami 



gazing at the irresistible invaders, but they 
took care not to come within gunshot. 
Clarke liurned the town and destroyed the 
crops. 

D.WID L.\UGHE.-\D AT OLD TOWN IX 1 780. 

What adds interest to this account of 
the invasion of Clarke's army in 1780 is that 
the story has been confirmed recently by the 
discovery of depositions taken at Old Town 
in the year 1818, which adds local interest 
to that successful campaign of General 
Clarke. 

David Laughead, who was the father of 
David M. Laughead, who was the father of 
David and Joseph K. Laughead. whom 
many of the old citizens of Xenia remem- 
ber, was with General Clarke in this cam- 
paign. David Laughead was born in 1757, 
emigrated from Penns}-l\-ania to Kentucky 
some time previous to 1780 and was at the 
time he was with Clarke's army twenty- 
three years old. In answer to the question, 
"How long have you been acquainted with 
Old Chillicothe. or Old Town ?" answered : 
"On an expedition from Kentucky I was at- 
tached to a troop of horse under the com- 
mand of General Clarke, and we crossed the 
Ohio river at the mouth of the Licking 
river on the morning of August 2, 1780, and 
arrived here at Old Chillicothe on the after- 
noon of August 5." Lie tells us that pre- 
vious to leaving Kentucky on this expedi- 
tion they had heard of Old Chillicothe on 
the Little Miami river, of its notorieiv as 
a strong Indian town: had heard it spoken 
of by his neighbors at his old home in Ken- 
tucky. He also says that on their approac'i 
the Indians l1ed. and that night Clarke's 
army camped on that portion of land that 
is between what is now called Massies 



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creek and tlie Little Alianii. A fact is 
l,ri/iigiit to light in these depositions that 
]3erha])s never has been known. Many of 
Clarke's men after their rctiu-n to Kentncky 
often spoke of their old camping groimd of 
that night as a beautiful island comprising 
al)out three hundred acres of land. Mr. 
Lau.ghead says what impressed it upon his 
miind was the fact that on their return from 
Old Piijua. where thc}- had been successful 
in destroying alsu that town, they camped 
ua the north side of the Little Miami near 
•Old Town, and they had left standing a por- 
tion of corn fur their use on returning. A 
detail of rifty men was made to cross o\er 
and finish the work, and one of the men thus 
detailed had a sore foot and his messmates 
took liim over and set him down. After a 
while he called to them to come and lake 
him over the other branch of the river, 
which circumstance .Mr. Laughead remem- 
l;ered. General Whiteman also stated that 
he was of the same opinion until he had be- 
come a resident of Greene county, which 
was in the vear 1799. when he first settled 
in Beavercreek township. In the year 1800 
he says he had occasion to go to the falls of 
the Little Miami, and coming up the valley 
when near Old Town he saw that the stream 
of water no-w called Massies creek was not 
.a branch of the Little Miami but a separate 
stream of water. 

•GE.NER.M. fLARKF.'s SECOND INVASION OF OLD 
TOWN. 

hi September. ijSj. General Clarke 
•again invaded Old Town. He marched wit'; 
celerity from the mouth of the Licking- ri\-er 
at the head of one thousand men. but the 
Indians </btained information of his ap- 
proach and fled, leaving the town to- its fate. 



Again it was reduced to ashes and the crops 
(Jestroyed. 

James Galloway, Sr., father of the late 
Major Galloway, was in that expedition, it 
is a singular fact that James Galloway. Sr., 
who was born May i, 1750, and was at the 
time of this invasion thirty-two years of age, 
should fifteen years later (1797) come to 
this, the Miami country, and settle, just 
across the Little Miami river from Old 
Chillicothe or Old Town. Xo doubt but the 
remembrance of that part of the Xcjrthwest 
Territory ever after the aforesaid event 
haunted him and he disposed of his proj)- 
erty in Kentucky and removed to the land 
that for fifteen years had been in his day 
dreams. And Greene comity was the gainer 
by his coming. He was the efficient treas- 
urer of the county from the organization of 
the county in 1803 until the middle of June, 
1819. He was the custodian of the new 
county's funds, the miainstay and pillar of 
the church of his choice, a good man, hating 
that which was wrong, encouraging all that 
which was good. He was one of the pio- 
neers of the county that was called to meet 
at Old Town to tell what he knew of the 
early history of the aforesaid place. Li an- 
swer to the question by the attorney, "Mr. 
Galloway, how long have you known Old 
Chillicothe on the Little Miami river, where 
you are now?" his. answer was, '"I have 
known it since the month of October or No- 
vember, 1782. It was at that time and has 
continued to be a place of public notoriety 
in the ]Miami country." Question: "Are 
vou now sitting at the place called Old 
Chillicothe?" Answer: "I am now sitting 
within the bounds of where the pickets 
were." Question: "Is there not a very 
large and extensive prairie between the Old 
Chillicothe where we now sit and the river?" 



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Answer: "Yes." Tliat short answer of 
Mr. Galloway's settles beyond cavil the 
statement that the beautiful valley on the 
south side of Glassies creek as it is to-day so 
it was in 1782. a prairie, the Indian's corn- 
field. 

COL. BE.V.I.VMIX LOG.VN's EXPEDITION IX 

■ I7S6. 

In tile summer of 1786 Col. Benjamin 
Logan crossed the Ohio river at Limestone, 
now Maysville, with four hundred men or 
more. Along with this expedition were 
Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Colonel Trot- 
ter, officers in this expedition. The result 
of this expedition was the Imrning of eight 
of their towns, also the destruction of much 
corn. Twenty warriors were aisoi killed, in- 
cluding a prcaninent chief of the nation, and 
alxait seventy-five prisoners were taken. 

DID TOWN ox THE LINE OF M.XRCH. 

While ihey were encamped on a creek 
near the site of Jacob Brown's sawmill, 
Greene county, a negro servant of one of the 
officers deserted and warned the Indians of 
approaching danger. The negro's name was 
"Caesar," from wihic'h the creek was naniied. 
The trail on which they marched went be- 
tween the house where Henry Conklin now 
lives and his bam. 

THE DE.\TH OF MULUXTH.V AT OLD TOWX. 

When they arri\ed at Old Town they 
fmmd l)ut one Indian, an old chief named 
Mulutha. He had dressed himself in the 
gayest Indian costume, wearing a cocked 
hat and carrying a tobacco pouch in one 
hand and a calumet in the cither. He boldlv 



appr< ached the men and proposed to smoke 
the pipe <: f peace w ith them. Some of them 
received him in a friendly manner and shook 
hands with him, but on approaching ]\Ic- 
Garey, whose rashness and folly caused the 
defeat at the "Blue Licks,'' the latter drew 
his tomahawk and clo\ed the skull of the 
Old man, swearing that he would kill every 
Indian he fotmd and would tomahawk any 
w hite man who shoiuld presume to censure 
him for doing so. 

GEXERAL HARMAR AT OLD TOWX IX 1 79O. 

In 1790, General Harmar. at the head 
of fourteen hundred and fifty-three men, at^ 
rived at this place early in October. While 
he was sitting on his horse on a knoll re- 
viewing his troops a stamjiede occurred 
among pack horses and bullocks, which 
caused a great uproar and confusion and an 
imimense deal of hard swearing. 

Harmar advanced on the French trading 
jxjst, now" Fort Wayne, sending on detach- 
ments to fight battles, and after losing one 
hundred and thirt\- men, returned, having 
effected nothing. 

On arriving" at Old Town on the return 
an order was issued that the men should 
cease firing off their guns. One of the Ken- 
tucky militia disobeyed the order. He was 
stripped antl tied to a wheel of a cannon 
carriage and ordered to l)e flogged. Tlie 
late General Benjamin Whiteman, who was 
present, says that the Kentuckians formed 
a senti-circle roitnd the cannon, leveled their 
guns and put a stop to the punishment. 
Harmar ordered the regulars to face them 
with fixed bayonets, and the dnminier to 
proceed, and to finish the flogging. Tliis 
was the last expedition to invade this noted 
village. 



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LOOKING BACKWARD. 

\\'e will conclude our sketches with 
some scenes froan pioneer life. A change 
has come over the spirit of the scene. The 
council fires of the red men liave gone out. 
Their rude cabins have been reduced to 
ashes, the pale face has triumphed and is in 
possession of the CDuntry. Scattered alx)ut 
are round lug" cabins with mud and stick 
chimneys. The adjoining cornfields abound 
in deadened trees. These primitive tene- 
ments were inhabited by pioneers, brave, en- 
terprising and thrifty. 

AMUSEMENTS OF THE PIONEERS. 

Wlieii young men were together the\- 
amused thaiiselves by ainning foot races, 
wrestling, over and under jumping witii or 
without' a pole and various other feats of 
strength and agility. Their habits invig- 
orated their systems, expanded their lungs, 
increased their muscular power and fitted 
them for bodily endurance. BcKlily strength 
and activity were highly appreciated. The 
man who coukl figlit severely, endure^ a 
great deal of punishment and come off vic- 
torious was a man of note and had much 
influence among his admn-ers. 

WHO WERE THE SOLDIERS IN THAT DAY." 

Every able-bodied nian between the ages 
of eighteen and forty-fi\e years was a 
soldier. There was a strictly enforced 
militia system, with company and battalion, 
and regimental musters, with conrt martials. 
courts of inquiry and courts of appeal. All 
the men bearing anus in those days in the 
count v formed one regiment. 



THE OLD-TIME MUSTER AT OLD TOWN, 
A. D. 1806. 

Xow we have a regimental muster at 
Old Town. A hardy, rough-l(X'>king set 
of men they are, comlnon dress, blue linsey 
hunting shirt, secured with a leather belt 
and buckle, buckskin pants antl tow linen 
shirt and wool hats. These mien have been 
marching and counter marching, wheeling 
by platoons, sections and coniii>anies, hand- 
ling, shouldering' and presenting their fire- 
locks and fixing and charging bayonets in 
a pickwickian sense. Xow the muster is 
o'er and the men are dismissecL They are 
employing themselves in various ways; 
soune of them are shooting at a mark, others 
are engaged in a wrestling match for a pint 
of wfliiskey. 

Observe that fine looking man. six feet 
two inches high. He is as well formed as 
Apollo, conibining strength and acti\ity in 
great perfection. He is fair skinned, blue 
eved. with light auburn hair and sanguine 
temperament. That is the noted fistic cham- 
pion. Ben Kizer. He is one of a family of 
twelve children, all boys. His brothers are 
stout, resolute men, but he is the stoutest of 
all. Xotice his firm step, confident look 
and manly bearing. He is as full of fight 
as a game cock. He engages in a fight just 
as eagerly as a hungry man eats his dinner. 
E\-er\- man he whips adds one more sprig 
to his pugilistic laurels. He estimates suc- 
cess as highly as a prize formerly won in 
Olvmpic games. He has had so many fights 
and come off \-ictorious that it is a hard 
miatter to find a customer. He has been 
known to pretend at a mere nothing, and 
knock down a man whoi would not fight, 
merely to keep his hand in practice. He was 



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like ^Itkc Fink, a boatman, who lamented 
while floating do'wn the Ohio that he had 
not had a tight in a munth, and it seemed 
like an eternity to him, and that if he did 
not ha\e one scx;n he would have to be 
"kivered" np in salt to keep him from 
spoiling. 

Kizer has heard of one Aaron Beall, a 
powerful man, a foemnn worthy of his fists, 
and has made up jiis mind to whip him at 
the first chance; and that is his principal 
business at Old Town to-day. Beall is of a 
hardy race, a long Ixxlied man, six feet 
high, straight as an Indian, round shoul- 
dered, with large limbs and muscles like 
w hi]) cord, weight two hundred and fifteen 
or two hundred and twenty pounds. His 
muscles are so indurated and his flesh so 
firm that ccanparatively he is insensible to 
pain. He has florid comple.xion, sanguine 
tanperament, built for ponderous strength 
more than activitt, with finnness and un- 
flinching coml)ati\-eness. When about to 
engage in a fig'ht he is calm and deliberate, 
with a smile on his countenance. Init notice 
those pale lips and gleaming eyes. That 
smile is more ominoiis than blustering 
wrath. The two champions are standing 
some ten yards apart. Kizer begins with 
a banter that he could outrun Beall. Tbe 
latter did not itm himiself. but he had a 
brother that could run. In those days it was 
a common boast for one to say tliat he had 
the fastest horse, the best rifle, the ugliest 
dog and the prettiest sister. The bantering 
in the [iresent case was ended by Kizer 
asserting that he could whip Beall. Tliere- 
ujxin they ran at each other and came in 
collision. In the shock Beall went down 
beneath the gallant "Ben." Xnw there is 
tremendous excitement, a wild uproar 
amor'ig the n'en and a tv.niultuous rush is 



made for the combatants, a ring is formed 
around them, the spirit of combativeness is 
poAverfully excited ; htmting shirts are 
throwni ufi\ and the shirt sleeves of many 
brawny arms hastily rolled up. Kizer ap- 
pears to* have the most friends. The)- cheer 
him boisterously : "HuiTah, Ben, that's 
rigbt, give it to him, whip him till his hide 
wor.'t hold shucks! Gouge him!" Col. 
James Collier was sitting on his horse out- 
side of the circle. Sherifit Maxwell rushed 
into the ring tO' part them, when he received 
a blow on the head from the butt of a loaded 
whip which made the blood spurt. He ran 
stooping across the arena, butted the ring 
and fed under Mr. Collier's horse, his heatl 
bleetling profusely. It was never known to 
a certainty who struck that blow, but there 
were good reasons for supposing that Amos 
Durnugh, who built the first jail in Xenia, 
was the man. In the meantime sullen 
sounds, thump, thump, thimip, could be dis- 
tinctly heard alx;ve the din and confusion. 
Tbese were made by Beall's fists playing 
like a trip-hammer against Kizer's sides. 
At length some of his frier.ds stopped to ex- 
amine more closely. Sure enough Kizer 
was not fighting any ; they tore him away ; 
he was exhausted and speechless. He was 
laid upon one o-f the temporary tables that 
haid been used for selling refreshments, and 
eflforts made to re.susitate him. which were 
.■successful after a quantity of blood had 
been discharged from his mouth and throat. 
In the meantime the combativeness of Beall 
had been excited to the highest pitch, his 
bl(3od thoroughly heated, his great jx>wer of 
wrath awful. He demanded in a loud voice: 
"Hns this man no friends oil the ground?" 
He was responded l<.> liy one of the Kizer 
family, who commenced a coj^nflict with him 
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l)r(istratecl l)y tlie iiuinciljle Beaver creek 
champion. Kizer was nearly killed; liad 
to be taken home in a wagon, and kept his 
bed a long time, siv it was reported. This 
was the most noted fight of the kind that 
ever came off in this county, and was talked 
of for years afterward. It ended tiie fight- 
ing career ni both men. Kizer after this 
fig'ht quit the practice. And no one would 
light r.eall. 

The account of this fight was obtained 
by Thomas C. Wright from Col. Jaimes Col- 
lier and Judge Jacol) Haines, who were pres- 
ent. Mr. Wright does not give the date of 
the abo\-e mentioned hght. for the reason, 
l)erhaps, that it was so long after it occurred 
that the parties who- tnid him could not re- 
niember the exact time. Recently, hoav- 
ever, among the old records O'f the county 
has been found the indictment, found Ijy the 
grand jur\-, and which makes that notorious 
fight worse than it has been pictured out. 

The deix>sitions of Gen. Benjamin 
Whitanan, William Taylor and William 
iMorgan, who were eye witnesses, are as fol- 
lows : 

"May 27, A. D. 1806, personally came 
before me William Taylor, Benjtunin 
\\"hiteman and William ^lorgan and made 
the following cath, to wit: Taylor testifies 
that he saw Aaron Beall and Benjamin 
Kizer violently assault and beat each other 
by fighting. Whiteman testified that he saw 
the said Aaroo Beall vio.lently assault and 
beat \\'illiam Kizer. William ^lorgan testi- 
fied that he saw the said Aaron Beall after 
he had assaulted and beaten \\'illiam Kizer 
rush through the crowd and pull the ab(.n'e 
named Benjamin Kizer off a table or bench 
and violently assault and beat hhn again. 
Sworn to befc:re me. John Smith, J. P." 

And not onlv has the above been fonnd. 



but al.soi in the original papers of the grand 
jury which met iour mionths later, Septem- 
ber, A. D. 1806, appear four indictments 
against Aaron Beall for fighting on that 
day. 

-WOTIIER .ACCOUNT OF OLD CHILLICOTHE. 

Three miles north of Xenia, the county 
seat of Greene county, Ohio, was the old In- 
dian town of Chillicothe on the Little Mi- 
ami. Of its history much lias been written 
and much has been lost of its early history. 
It was one oi the most noted towns, his- 
torically si>eaking, in the state; made soi by 
the many scenes of suft'ering by torture of 
the white race at the hands of savages; the 
birthplace of the noted chief of the Shawnee 
tribe of Indians, Tecumseh; the temporary 
l/rison of those grand old pioneers from 
Kentucky, Daniel Boone and Simon Ken- 
ton and many others less known in history, 
who were captured and carried there as pris- 
oners. We read of their suft'erings at the 
hands of their captors, of their courage and 
escapes and their heroism in behalf of this 
beautiful land that we call ours, and we 
ofttimes forget what it cost to reclaim it 
from a wilderness and the labo'r it took to 
make it blo«n and blossom as a rose, as we 
see it toi-day. 

It is said to^ have had a populatioai of 
eleven hundred Indians. About three hun- 
dred of these were fighting men. The vil- 
lage was about a quarter of a mile long, the 
huts being set out irregularly. The location 
of most of the huts was on the little emi- 
nence now! co'vered b}' the school house, 
frame house, barn and orchard on the left 
side of the road as we now gO' from Xenia 
to Old Town'. The comhioaiest Indians had 
their huts along the creek Ijank. The coun- 



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cil liouse was near where the school house 
now (1900) stands. It was a long, narrow 
building, roughly made and hardly water 
proof. When Girty and the renegade 
Scotcliman, Dixon, came to live with Chief 
Blackfish. they helped tu ci instruct a better 
ccnmcil house. Remains of the council 
house, such as rotten timbers, stood until 
1840. 

THE SHAWNEE INDIAN'S. 

Amoaig all the Indians, with but few 
exceptions, there were no Indians th;'.t 
caused as much trouble to the whites as those 
of the Shawnees. The main village of the 
Sha'wnees was at Cliillicothe on the Scioto ; 
their second village was our well kncnvn Old 
Cliillicothe. War parties were constantly 
passing froiu one village to the other, and 
though the distance was near one hundred 
miles, the Indians were all such good walk- 
ers and runners that they traveled the trail 
with incredible rapidity. 

THE ALLIES OF THE SHAWNEES. 

The Shawnees were assisted by tlie ]^Ii- 
amis. the Wyandots and the Delawares. 
Thus any army attacking would ha\e large 
numibers to contend with. When General 
Harmar with his army invaded Ohio. Chiet 
Blackfish. with his three hundred, was aided 
by the INIiamis and by the combined forces 
Hannar was defeated. Blackfish's band 
was present and ti-nk part in St. Clair's de- 
feat. These two victories gave the Indians 
great courage and they became very in- 
solent. The renegade, Simon Girty, and 
the Scotch devil, Dixon, diil all in their 
power to excite ihe hostility of the Old 
Cliillicothe Indians. When Old Chillicothe 



on the Scioto was destroyed and the corn 
burnt, w'hat few of the natives that were 
left made their way to Old Chillicothe ou 
the Little ]\Iiajni river, which became a 
regular rendezvous for villains,, both white 
and reil. In order to save the frontier from 
utter destruction. General Clarke was dis- 
patched from Fort \\"ashingtoni with a large 
body of men. He reached our Old Chilli- 
cothe at daybreak, posted his one cannon on 
the hill northwest of Old Town, and while 
the cannon knocked over the huts his men 
charged the natives. Old Chillicothe was 
entirely destroyed, the lodges burned, the 
C( rn cut down and most o^f the Indians 
killed. Seme say that Blackfish, the chief, 
fell in this fight, but this is a mistake. 

BLACKFISH. CHIEF OF THE SHAWNEES. 

James Collier, one of the early pioneers 
of Xenia and of Greene county, gives the 
following stoiy of Blackfish : 

In all histories of the predatory excur- 
sions of the Shawnees to Kentucky stands 
somewhat prominent the name and exploits 
of Blackfish, a noted chief of that tribe. 
The position that this chief held among the 
once powerful Shawnees has caused the 
cpiestion of the time and place of his death 
to' be discussed tO' some extent by western 
analysts. 

The fact tliat Old Town was the resi- 
dence of Blackfish gives this question a local 
interest. Several writers have asserted that 
he was killed in 1779 while resisting the at- 
tack of Colonel Bowman and a coinpany of 
Kentuckians upon Old Town, the first in- 
cursion of the settlers south of the Ohio 
upon the Shawnee towns in this region to 
punish the Indians for their murders and 
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killed then. Some years since the late Col. 
James C(;llier gave us the following par- 
ticulars relative to the death of Blackhsh : 

Tlie evidence uiion which Mr. Collier 
founded his statement he conceived to be 
such as to! place the truth of it lieyond dis- 
\mXti. in June. 1788, a party of Shawnee 
Indians under the command of Blacktish 
nvrde a marauding expedition to' Kentucky, 
and at the headwaters of Paint Lick creek, 
then in Madison county, they made an at- 
t;uck upoui the house of a man named Joseph 
Stinson. It was Sabbath morning and Stin- 
son"s 1)(>_\-. will* li\'ed ivou\ home, had re- 
turned about sunrise. W'lhen near the house 
he gave a shont to^ arouse the family that 
they might let him in, and as his sister 
opened the door for that purixjse the Indians 
rushed in after the boy and shot at Stinson 
and his wife, who were in bed, mortally 
wounding the latter and severely wounding 
the former in the thigh. Stinsoai jumped 
from the bed, grappled the leader of the 
party anil threw him, but his wound had so 
wieakened him) that the Indian turned on 
him. At this instant the boy grasped his 
father's gun, which frightened the party, 
some se\en or eig'ht in number, and they 
fled for the door, assisted in their exit by 
Polly, Stinson's daughter, who violently 
pushed the last ones upon those ahead and 
sent them pell mell out of the caliin and 
barred the entrance. 

Polly then turned and with a butcher 
knife stal>bed the Indian who was killing 
her father. At the first blow the Indian 
raised 'his arm and knocked her across the 
roomi, but she gathered again and gave him 
a stal.) that proved fatal. This Indian was 
Blackhsh himself. In the fright of the 
n:hment, Jane, another daughter ol Stin- 
son, about fourteen years of age, jumped 



throug*h the window and was caijtured by 
those on the outside. She remained a pris- 
oner among the Indians until 1797, when 
her liberation was affected at Detroit, and 
she returned to her friends in Kentucky. 

The testimony on which Mr. Collier 
made this statement was this: In 1796 he 
was in Kentucky in the region where this 
outrage took place, and previous to- his visit 
Charles, a son of Capt. Israel Hart, had re- 
turned from his captivity among the In- 
dians. He, together with a negro boy, bad 
been captured in 1787, and Charles said he 
wias adopted by Blackfisli as his son, who 
told him that his white father. Captain Hart, 
was killed. Charles told ]\Ir. Collier that he 
acc( ini)anied Blackfish in 1788 and was in 
the camp when Jane Stinson was brought 
in. jane immediately recognized him but 
he said he denied knoiwing her, and was vio- 
lently grieved at the death of his adopted 
father. Jane told bim that his own father 
was living, a fact he did not fully believe 
until alxxit the time of his return to Ken- 
tucky in. 1796. 

Mr. Collier the same year, but pre\io'US 
to his visit to Kentucky, while down on the 
iVuglaize searc^hing for horses, saw the 
negro laoy who had been captured at the 
same time as Charles Plart. ^Ir. Collier 
says he had a long talk with him, and he 
stated substantially in regard to Blackfish's 
death as was stated, by Charles Hart after- 
ward. 

The next year, 1797, while Air. Collier 
was (.11 the Little Miami in this county Jim 
Blue Jacket called upon him, and in the 
course of the conversation which took place 
between them! Jim told him that he was in 
the expedition to Kentucky in 1788, and 
\vas one oif those whi>m, Polly Stinson so 
viclenth' thrust cmt of the door, and he 



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reaffirmed wliat Charles Hart and the negro 
buy had stated, that it was Blackfish who 
had led the party and who was killed by 
Polly Stinson. This fact was not known in 
Kentucky until the return of Charles Hart, 
a period of some eig-'ht years, and was always 
suppressed by the Indians, for the reason, 
as ]^Ir. Collier supposed, that it was a deep 
disgrace among the Indians to be killed by 
a woman. There is another fact which we 
will notice. It has been asserted that Black- 
fish was the father of Tecumseh. ^Ir. Col- 
lier says that in 1812 he met in the army 
Stephen Riddle, a very intelligent man, who 
was taken prisoaier by the Indians at the de- 
struction of his father's (Riddle's) station 
in Kentucky. He told him that he was 
almost the constant companion of Tecum- 
seh while a prisoner and was then informed 
that Tecumseh's father was killed at the 
battle of Point Pleasant, at which time Te- 
cumseh was about two years did. Air. Col- 
lier said that Mr. Riddle would have been 
apt to have obtained correct infonnatiou 
upi'u the subject. 

tecumseh's birthpl.vce. 

Tecumseh, the great Shawnee and Ali- 
anii chief, v^as born, according to Benjamin 
Kelley. Tecurnseh's adopted brother, who 
was five years in Blackfish's family, near 
Xenia on Mr. Sexton's lot near a spring. 
]\Ir. Thomas Hind, who makes the state- 
ment that Tecumseh was born on the Sex- 
ton farm, states as proof that in the year 
182 1 he met the Rev. Ben Kelley, then a 
Baptist minister, and who was taken pris- 
c:ner the same time as Boone, and had it 
from his own lips that Kelley was five years 
in Blackfish's family. It is said of Tecum- 
seh that at the battle of Tippecanoe he had 



all the surviving Shawnees in the front 
ranks for he considered them the bra\est of 
all his men. 



THE REXEG.XDE WHITE .MEX. 

Of the renegade white nien who lived at 
Old Town it is known that Simon Girty anil 
Dixon died miserable deaths. They cer- 
tainly deserved them. Kenton and Boone, 
both C'f whoan had been captains at Old 
Chilliccthe, li\-ed to be \-ery old men, hon- 
ored by all. They are reckoned among the 
patriots of the countn,-. Simon Kenton's 
name appears on many of the records of 
Greene county, Ohio. When the county 
was first organized. r^Iay 10, 1803, he was 
then a resident of what was then called ^^lad 
River township, Greene county, now a part 
of Logan county, wliere he died at the ripe 
old age of eig"hty-one years. His remains 
were afterward taken up and removed to, 
Oakdale cemetery, Urbana, Ohio. Simon 
Kenton, had alsoi two brothers, who- were 
with him on the headwaters of Mad river, 
\\'illiam and Thomas Kenton. We have 
nt'W in Xenia a descendant of the old hero. 
Simon Kentin, descended from his brother, 
Thoanas Kenton — Air. John A. Xorth. Mr. 
Xcrth's grandfather, now deceased, wa.s 
l>ersonariy acquainted \\ith his honored old 
uncle, Simon Kenton, and learned the re- 
lationship from his own lips. 

The old Indian trail between the two 
Chillicc'thes was trod by thousands crt na- 
tives. It is said to have passed west of the 
Old Chilliccthe and traversed the plain to 
Alpha. Here it crossed the hills bordering 
the river and stretched away in almost a 
bee line for the Chillicothe on the Scioto. 
War parties coaning up the trail would give 
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tu let their squaws know of their coming 
and their success. 

A1)VEXTL"RES OK COL. DAXIKI, BOOXE. 

Tlie fulknving is taken from the Amer- 
ican Museum, or Repository, published in 
Philadelphia, October. 1797, and that part 
of his adventure whicli applies to Greene 
comity. Ohio, was written l>y Boone: 

"January i, 1778, I went with thirty men 
to the 'blue lick" on the Licking river to 
n:ake salt for the different garrisons. Feb- 
ruary 7, hunting by myself to procure meat 
for tlie company, I met a party of one hun- 
dred and two Indians and two Frenchmen 
marching against , Bconsborough. They 
pursueil and took me, and that day I capitu- 
lated for my men, knowing they could not 
escape, 'iliey were twenty-se\en in num- 
ber, three having gone with salt. The In- 
dians according to the capitulation used us 
generous!}-. They carried us to the Old 
Chilliccthe on the Little ]\liami river. On 
the iSth of February we arri\ed there, after 
an uncomfortable journey in very severe 
weather. On the lOth of March I and ten 
of my men were conducted to Detroit. On 
the 30th we arrived there, and were treated 
by Go\-ern('r Hamilton, the British con\- 
mander of the post, with great humanity. 
The Lulians had such a fondness for me 
that they refused one hundred pounds ster- 
ling offered them by the governor if they 
would leave me with the others, on purpose 
that he might send me home on my parole. 
Several English gentlemen there, sensible of 
m.y ad\-erse life and fortune, and touched 
with sympathy, generously offered to supply 
my wants, which I declined with many 
thanks, adding that I never expected it 
wcnild he in my p^wer to recompense such 



unmerited generosity. Tlie Lidians left my 
men in captivity with the British at Detroit. 
On the loth of April they brought me 
toward Old Chillicothe, where we arrived on 
the 2-,th day of the same month. This was 
a long and fatiguing march tliroug"h an ex- 
ceeding fertile country, remarkable for fine 
springs and streams of water. At Old 
Chilliccthe 1 spent my time as comfortably 
as 1 could expect: was adopted, according 
to their custom, intO' a family, where I be- 
came a son, and had a goixl share in the 
affection of my new parents, brothers, sis- 
ters and frieu'ds. I was exceedingly famil- 
iar and friendly with them, always appear- 
ing as cheerful and satisfied as possible, and 
they put great confidence in me. I often 
we'.it limiting with them, and frequently 
gained their applause for my activity at oiu" 
shooting matches. I was careful not tO' ex- 
ceed many of them in sliooting, for no peo- 
ple are more envious than they in this sport. 
1 could o-bsl-rve in their countenances and 
gestures the greatest expression of joy when 
they exceeded me, and when the reverse hap- 
pened, of en\'\'. The Shawnee king took 
great notice of me and treated me with pro- 
found respect and entire friendship, often 
trusting me to hunt at my liberty. I fre- 
quently returned with the spoils of the 
woods, and as oiten presented soane of what 
I had taken to him, expressi\-e of duty to my 
scT\-ereign. My food and lodging was in 
commion with them; not so good, indeed, as 
I could desire, but necessity made everything 
acceptable. 

"T now began to meditate an escape, but 
carefully avoided suspicion. Until the 3d 
da\" of June I continued at Old Chillicothe 
and was tl;en taken to the salt springs on 
the Scioto and kept there for ten days mak- 
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wiili tiieni and found for a great extent 
alxne this river to exceed tlie soil of Ken- 
tucky and remarkably well watered. On 
my retin-n to Old Chillicothe four hundred 
and tifty of the choicest Indian warriors 
were ready to march against Boonsborough, 
l>ainted and armed in a fearful manner. 
This alarmed me and I determined to 
escape. On the i6th of June, before sun- 
rise, 1 went off secretly, and reached 
Boonsborough oil the 20th day, a journe\- 
of one hundred and sixty miles, during 
which 1 only had one meal. I found our 
fortress in a bad state, but we immediately 
repaired our flanks, gates and posterns and 
formed a double bastoon, which we com- 
pletetl in ten days. One of my fellow pris- 
oners, escaping after me, brought advice 
that on account oif my flight the Indians had 
put off their expedition for three weeks. 

"In July, 1779. during my absence, 
Colonel Bowman, with one hundred and 
sixt\- men, went against the Shawnees of 
Old Chillicothe. He arrived undiscovered, 
a l);ittle ensued, which lasted until, ten in the 
morning, when Colonel Bowman retreated 
thirty miles. The Indians collected all their 
strength and pursued him, when another en- 
gagement ensued for two hours, not to 
Colonel Bowman's advantage. Colonel 
Harrod proposed to mount a number of 
horses and Ijreak the enemy's line, w'hich at 
this time fought with remarkable fury. 
This desperate measure had a happy eft'ect 
and the savages fled on all sides. In these 
twif b.'itllcs we had nine men killed and one 
wouniled ; enemy's loss uncertain, only two 
scalps taken. The hostile disposition of the 
savages caused General Clarke, the com- 
mandant at the falls of the Ohio, to march 
with his regiment, and the armed force of 
the coimtry, against Piqua, the principal 



town of the ShaAvnees, on a branch of the 
Great Miami, which he iinished with great 
success, took seventeen scalps and binnied 
the town to ashes, with the loss of seven- 
teen men." 

DAVID LAUGH E.\D, SR. 

In C(jnnection with what Cijlnuel Boone 
says in regard to this expedition it is of 
local interest to add the recollection of Da- 
vid Laughead, who at that time, 1780, was 
a soldier in the ranks under General Clarke, 
and was one of the band of Kentuckians 
who participated in that campaign. This 
David Laughead was the father oi David 
j\I. Laughead, who was the father of David 
and Joseph Laughead, wiioni many yet li\- 
ing in Xenia remember. He died January 
29, 1824, at the age of sixty-seven years, 
and is buried in the old ]\Iassies Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's). He says in an- 
swer to the question, "When did you tirsl 
see Old Chillicothe on the Little Miami 
river?" "I was attached to a troop of 
horses on an expedition from Kentucky un- 
der General Clarke. W'e crossed the Ohio 
river at the mouth of the Licking river Au- 
gust 2, 1780, and arrived at Old Chillicothe 
on the 5rh day of August, 1780. Previous 
to lea\-ing Kentucky the}- had heard of Old 
Chillicothe on the Little ]\lianii river, of its 
notoriety as a strong Indian tinvn. He had 
often heard it spoken of liy his neighbors 
and by his comrades in arms in Kentucky. 
And w'hat impressed it more lastingly upi.Mi 
his miixl was an incident that occurred on 
this expedition. The night after their ar- 
rival at Old Chillicothe. the Indians ha\-ing 
fled, they camped on that portion of land 
between the Little ^liami and what is now 
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return fn ni Old ricjua, where thev had 
been successful in tlcstrtying their town and 
defeating the Indians, they camped on tlie 
nurth bank of the Little Miami on the 7th 
day of August, 1780. About fift_\- men were 
detailed to cross the ri\-er and cut down a 
lot of corn that they had left standing 
fcr their dwn use on returning. One 
of the men of this detail had a sore 
font and his comrades took him) across 
the ri\-er and' set him down, and shurtly 
afterward the lame man had t(j get them 
to come back and take him across the 
t/ther part of the river, which circunistance 
was alsoi remembered, and after their return 
to' Kentucky they were wont to speak of 
their old camping groimd near the Old 
Chillicothe as an island of about three hun- 
dred acres. General W'hiteman also, -who 
had been up in this section oif the ccmntry as 
early as 1790, likewise says that he though.t 
it was an island and did not find oiit his mis- 
take until after he had Ijecome a resident of 
this county, when, he says, about the year 
1800. he was passing up between the two 
streams. Massies creek and the Little }vli- 
ami, and disco-vered that what is now called 
Rlassies creek was not a part oif the Little 
Miami but a separate stream. These facts 
of history, which are oi local interest in the 
life of our subject, David Laughead, were 
gathered from the old rec(;rds of Greene 
coimty, depositions being taken of the olv.l 
pi(.ueers in a case of ejectment where the 
parties in the case were Peter and Jesse 
Vandolah vs. ]\IajoT John Stevenson. David 
Laughead and others. The point in dispute 
was the location oi the beginning Oif John 
Jamison's survey. It is a fact in the history 
cA C'ur county that the first town in Greene 
county of which we have any knowledge 
(though inhabited by sawages and had a 



populatinn of ele\en liundred ) should be 
near the place where the first entry of land 
should be made by Johni Jamison, on the 
1st day of Augaist, 1787, on part of mili- 
tary warrant Xol 192, and surveyed for him 
by Nathaniel Massie on the 20th day of 
XoA'ember, 1794, the number of the siu'vey 
being 387. The starting point of this sur- 
vey was on the lower end of a small island 
in the middle of the Little Miami river op- 
posite the Old Chillicothe, about two hun- 
dred rods telow where Glassies creek 
empties into the Little Miami ; original 
amoimt, twelve Inmdred acres. That island 
can be seen there tohday (1900), although 
the water does not surround the island, yet 
the old channel is still to be seen, and from 
the directions given in this case Jamisoai's 
survey can be located. The island is about 
three rods wide and one hundred and fifty 
rods long. 

Later a family by the name of Vandolah 
entered four hundred acres of the same 
tract. The father soon after making his 
entry became uneasy as to his claim being 
gvRid. He discovered certain marks that 
soane one had been there before, and meet- 
ing Major James Galloway one day he told 
him of his suspicions and asked Mr. Gallo- 
wav's advice as what to do under the cir- 
cumstances. ;Mr. Galloway told him that he 
had recentiv discovered a law that any one 
making an entry where some one had pre- 
viously entered that the latter party could 
have his claim transferred to some other 
jilace. Mr. Vandolah thereupon' authorized 
'Ml-. Galloway to do so with his enti-y. In 
the meantime it appears the elder Vandolah 
knowing the uncertainty of life made a will, 
willing to his two sons, Peter and Jesse, 
the aforesaid four hundred acres. Li course 
of time Major Galloway made the asked 



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for entry of the \'a.aidolah claim, three and 
one-half miles northeast, and they immedi- 
ately removed to their land. Some years 
after the father died and it appears had 
failed in life to take his boys into his con- 
fidence as to his business relations. They 
remembered the claim where they first had 
lived, and the fatlier had failed to destroy 
the will which he had made, and from these 
facts grew the trouble and the number of 
suits of ejectments that followed. 

SIMOX KEXTOX. 

About the year 1777 Ci^li-nel Bowman 
sent Simo!i Kenton and two L-ther men. 
Montgomery and Clarke, on a scouting ex- 
peditioai to the old Shawanoes town (now 
Old Town) on the Miami. Stealthily ap- 
])ro>aching the town at night, they observed 
a number of horses in an inclosure. These 
at the time were inestimable prizes, and 
forgetting their mission, they each mounted 
a horse, and, to cripple all pursuit, tied the 
others together, and started toward the 
Ohio. Tlie Indians soon discovered their 
loss, and started in hot pursuit, and though 
at a distance, still followed the trail. When 
Kenton and his ])arty arrived at the banks 
of the Ohio, they found it so rough that 
their liorses would not venture in. A coun- 
cil was held, and in view of the great dis- 
tance between them and their pursuers, it 
was resolved to remain until sunset, and 
await the probal)Ie abatement of the wind. 
On the contrary, bowever, the gale in- 
creased, and by night the river was abso- 
lutely impassable. 

Jn the morning while Kenton was stand- 
ing sariK distance from his comrades, he ob- 
served three Indians and a white man ap- 
proaching him on horseback. His rifle was 



at once to his eye, and. aiming at the Ijreast 
of the foremost Indian he pulled the trigger ; 
but the gun missed fire. Kenton made good 
use of his legs, but was soon caught, bound, 
and brought back. The Indians were very 
angry at the loss of their horses, and niani- 
fested their displeasure in no gentle way, by 
seizing Kenton by the hair, and shaking him 
"till his teeth rattled;" scourging him over 
the head with their ramrods, at every blow- 
hissing through their teeth, "Steel Indian 
boss, hey!" At this juncture ]\[ontgomery 
came bravely to his assistance, when two 
savages emptied their rifles into his breast, 
and he fell on the six)t, and in a moment 
his blcwdy scalp was shaken in the captive's 
face, with threats of a similar fate. In the 
meantime Clarke, unobserved liy the In- 
dians, who were giving Kenton their sole 
attention, slipped away and escaped. 

Kenton \\'as tbnnvn upon his back, lus 
face to the sun, his neck fastened to a saj)- 
ling bv a halter, his arms stretched to their 
full extent and pinned to the groun<l by 
stakes, his legs forced apart and secured 
in the same way. A stick was placed across 
his l:reast and each end fastened to tlie 
ground, so that he could not mi>ve his body. 
This was done, too, in the most accom- 
plished style of savage cruelty — kicks, cuffs 
and Ldows, accompanied with imprecations 
of "a tief," "a boss steal," "a rascal." "a 
squaw," etc., prefixed always with "danm." 
In this uncomfortable condition Kenton re- 
mained all day and the next night. In the 
morning, the Indians having collected their 
scattered horses, selected one of the wildest 
and most vicious colts, placed Kenton upon 
it. tied his hands behind him. and his feel 
under its l)elly. and started him ahead of 
them, through the thick woods and bram- 
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and untying their priscMier. wlio was now 
bkxxly and scarred from tlie scratclies of 
the bnisli and branil)les, placed liim in the 
same uncomife-Ttable position as the night 
Ijefore. 

"Again tlie horse was Ijruught : 
"T'was l)nt a day he liad been caug^it ; 
And snorting, with erected mane. 
-And struggling fiercely, but in vain. 
In the full foam of wrath and dread, 
To me the desert b<)rn was led; 
They bound me on, that menial throng, 
Tben loosed hinT, with a sudden lash — 
A\\a\! Away! And on we dash." 

The following day they reached the In- 
dian \illage of Chillicothe — now Old Town, 
in this county — on the Little Miami. In the 
meantime a courier had preceded them and 
informetl the village of their arrival, every 
memiber of which came running tO' look at 
the illustriou.s captive. One of the chiefs, 
Blackiish. with a stout hickory in his hand 
approached Kenton and accosted him thus: 
"\'ou have been stealing our horses, have 
you?" "Yes," was Kenton's bold reph'. 
'"Did Colonel B(X>ne tell yoai to steal our 
horses?" "No" answered Kenton "I did 
it of my own accord." BlackHsh then ap- 
plic-.l the hickory so vig^orously over the 
bare head and shoiilders of the captive as 
to catise the rapid flow of blood accom- 
panied with the acutest pain. The whole 
motley crew, consisting of nearly two hun- 
dren mien, women and children, now sur- 
rounded him, yelling, hooting and scream- 
ing like the stygian offspring of the hadean 
gitaixl, stopping often to beat and kick him. 
and calling loitdly for his immediate ex- 
ecution at the stake, that their .savage eyes 
tright behold the pleasing , spectacle. A 



stake was dri\en in the ground and Kenton 
was tirmly lashed to it with rawhide thongs. 
Piece by piece the demoniac hags.strippefl 
his clothing off, and danced, yelling fiend- 
ishly around till midnight, when he was re- 
leased to run the gauntlet next morning. 
Nearly three hundred savages of all 
ages and of both sexes were assembled for 
the occasion. Stretching away in two par- 
allel lines about six feet apart the Indians 
stood, armed with axes, clubs, hickorys and 
all .scrts of weapons. Between these lines 
the unfortunate victim, naked and already 
bleeding, was compelled to run, with the 
glimmering prospect of safety in the council 
house. With his arms above his head he 
swiftly flies d(/wn' the line, receiving at each 
step, kicks, blows, stripes and wounds, until, 
at the lower extremity, he ol)ser\-es two 
warriors with knives to take his life. 
Breaking through the lines, he rushes for 
the council house, pursued by the howling 
redskins. Just as he had reached the town, 
and the council house was within his reach, 
he was confronted by an Indian with his 
blanket around him. walking leisurelv out 
of the sa.me. Flinging of? his covering he 
sprang upon Kenton who, exhaiisted. and 
wounded, could but feebly resist, and was 
soon surrc/imded Ij}- the enraged crowd, wlio 
kicked and scourged him until he was near- 
ly dead. When he had partially recovered, 
they bnxight him fciul and water and as 
soon as he was aljle they took him tO' the 
council house to- decide upon his fate. The 
warriors disposed themseh-es in a circle, 
with an old chief in the center. [Many 
speeches were made, some for burning, and 
some for merc^•, but Kenton soon learned 
fn m the ferocious glances cast upi;n him 
that his fate was sealed. After the tlelibera- 
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war ciulj to the nearest warrior, and with 
a knife and a stick prepared to register the 
votes. Those who were in favor of death 
struck the ground violently with the club, 
these to the contrary passed it on: a notch 
was cut en one side fur death, and on the 
opposite side for mercy. It was scon de- 
cided in favor cf death at which one pro- 
longed shout arose. 

The next question was, when and where 
should the executiim take place. Some were 
in fa\-er of immediate action, and some de- 
sired ti. make it a "solemn national sacri- 
fice." It was finally decided, however, that 
the place should be \\'aughcotomoco (now 
Zanesville, Logan county). 

On the way to this place Kenton de- 
termined to make an effort to escape, know- 
ing his fate could be no worse. At a favor- 
able C'pportunity he rushed intO' the woods 
with such desperate swiftness that had he 
not stumbled upc<n a party of redskins on 
horseback he would have escaped. All hope 
now left him. and he felt deserted by God 
and man. At Piqua he was miockingly tied 
to a stake. At \\"aughcotom<5co he ran the 
gauntlet again and was severely hurt. 

\\'hile sitting in gloom among his en- 
emies in the council house, the door \\as 
opened and Girty, with his prisoners and 
scalps, appeared. The anxious gaze of Ken- 
ton was met b_\' scowls of savage hatred. 
Previous to this it is relatetl that Kenton, 
after his attempted escape, had been given 
up to the boys and women, who rolled him 
in the mud and water until he was nearly 
suffecated. then he was taken out and his- 
face painted black signifying his fate. In 
this condition Girty. who had formerly been 
his besom companion, difl not recognize 
him. until in conversation he revealed his 
name; when the hardened' wretch, who had 



murdered men, women and children, threv.' 
himself in his anns, and with tears in his 
eyes promised to use every effort to sa\e 
his life. He immediately called a council, 
and earnestly pleaded fc-r the life of his 
friend. Speeches for and against were 
made and the scale hung doubtful, until the 
fiery eloquence of Girty prexailed, and Ken- 
ton was saved. 

He remained with his liljerator for some 
time, until the return of a disapix)inted war 
party, which took possession of him again, 
and despite the appeals of Girty, condemned 
him to the stake and compelled him again 
to run the gauntlet. Girty came to him 
and told hinn he must die. A halter was 
then placed around his neck and he was 
led tO'ward the place of execution. On the 
road they passed an Indian sitting and 
smoking on a log, directing his wife in her 
eft'i:rts in chopping, who en sight of Kenton 
seized the a.x and struck him a severe blow. 
He was sharply rebuked by the Indian 
guards for trying to destroy their material 
for torture. 

On their journey they stopped at the 
\illage of the humane Logan, who immedi- 
atelv sent runners to Sandusky (his in- 
tended place of execution), to intercede for 
his life, but on their return Logan informed 
him that he must go instantly to Sandusky. 
Thus was the ptxir soul harrowed with 
hope and fear. On his arrival an Indian 
agent named Druyer, at the instigation of 
Logan, purchased him from the Indians, and 
in a speech pursuaded them to let him go 
to Detroit, where he remained until the fol- 
lowing June, when he. with others escaped 
fr( m the British. In this perilous adven- 
ture, he was forced to nin the gauntlet eight 
time, tied to the stake three times, beaten 
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and wallowed in the nuid, and yet his pow- 
erful constitntioin resumed its wonted vigor 
when released, and he lived to the age of 



eighty-one. 



ANDREW GALLOWAY. 

My father, James (ialloway, Sr., emi- 
grated fnjim Hoairhcni cmmt)-, Kentucky, in 
company with two otlier families. .\dam 
McPherson and James M. Galloway (black- 
sniiith), early in the spring, March 20, 1798, 
and settled on the west side of the Little 
Miami river, five miles north of where 
Xenia now is, having formed an accjuaint- 
ance with Coloaiel Richard .Andersun in the 
army of the United States, during tlie Re\- 
oluticinary war, wlio^ was appointed by the 
state of \"irginia surveyor general of the 
niihtary land in this state lying l>etween the 
Scioto and Little Miami river, and who had 
established Lc;iin"s\ille. Kentucky, and ap- 
pointed a number of deputies to locate and 
survey lands in his district. My brother. 
James Galloway, being well versed in the 
science of sun-eying, wished to engage in 
the business as a regular deputy under Col- 
onel Anderson. L; the year 1802 or 1803 
m_\ father and brother James went to see 
Colonel Anderson at Louisville and on their 
way called for several days on my uncle. 
Samuel Galknvay, who. lived on McCon- 
nell's nm. r.ear where IVIr. Armstrong 
preached, and was about to dispense the 
Lord's Suyjper. The}- Ijecame acquainted, 
and united w-ith hini in communion of the 
Lord's Supper, after which they went on 
foi Louis\-!lle. and my lirother, through the 
influence of my father and uncle, George 
Pomeroy, .succeeded in getting the appoint- 
ment he sought. 

On their return they stay-ed a day or 
12 



two' with my uncle, Samuel Galloavay, and 
w^aited on the ministry of Mr. Armstrong, 
and invited and insisted on him to come 
to Ohio and preach in our neighbor- 
hood; George Galloway was urgent in this 
request, he agreed if they and the people 
wished it he would come. After their re- 
turn they consulted w-ith all the people 
around, for they were few in numbers, but 
were anxious for preaching and delegated 
n-iy brother James for himi to' go to Ken- 
tucky. 

lie went, and shortly afterward wrote 
to George Galloway to meet him in Dayton 
to pilot him to our settlement, there Ixing 
iKi roads but the one General Wayne had 
made from Cincinnati to> Hamilton, and a 
"trace" to where Dayton now is. His re- 
quest was fulfilled. Mr. Armstrong came 
and ]n-eached at my father's home to the 
following families: Mathew Ouinn, Alex- 
ander Forl:)es, William Junkin, Elias Brom- 
agen. Widow- Creswell, who united with his 
congregation ii-ii Kentucky and came toi Ohio 
in 1 80 1, Alexander McCoy and sons, James 
and Jobn Ste\enson, Thomas and John 
Tawnsley, brothers. George Galloway and 
James Galloway (blacksmith) and after- 
ward soon, Joseph Kyle, Sr., and his two 
sons. Joseph and Samuel, Colonel James 
Moirrow. David Laughead, Sr.. and his fam- 
ily, William and Robert Kendall and per- 
haps a few others. He also' preached at 
Sugarcreek. in t!ie House of James Clency, 
whoi resided where Bellbrook is iiow- situ- 
ated, to a number of families, of wlioan the 
follow-ing are recollected : John and Joseph 
McKnight, Joseph C. Vance, father of Gov- 
ernor Vance, and his brother John, Captain 
Nathan Lairimle and family, William Tan- 
ner, James and Jacob Snowden, three Snod- 
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Abraham \'an Eaton and perhaps a few 
others ; ncaie named were members of the 
ass<.)ciate church, but were members of the 
Assticiate Reform and Presljyterian 
cliurches. and were glad to hear Mr. Ann- 
stn.ng preach. 

At Dayton, at the time of Mr. Arm- 
strong's first coming, he was insisted upon 
by .Mr. James Lowry, who Hved some four 
miles west of where the town of Enon is 
now situated, to preach in his house, in a 
neighhorhocid west oif Mad ri\-er, and was 
pilt_.ted to Mr. Lowry's b}- James McCoy, 
Ge</rge Galloway and my father. During 
his stay among us a number solicited him 
to come and take the oversight of themi as 
their pastor. This he did not refuse or 
pnniise to do. but stated that he was dis- 
satisfied with Kentucky on account of slav- 
ery. He said that s]a\-e holders were buy- 
ing large tracts of land in branches oi his 
congregation, that there w as no chance nor 
probability of increasing. He said if he 
could get his congregation, or part of them 
to come to Ohio, he would agree to come, 
if called. The people took his statements 
as enciuragement and forthwith agreed to 
petitic n tii the presbytery for the modera- 
tion of a call. My brother James presented 
the petition to the presbytery as a delegate 
fn ni tlie congregation. They granted the 
j;et;tii n. and oppointed Rev. Andrew Ful- 
ton to moderate in the call. A sbort time 
after this appointmjent he preached in my 
fatlier's barn, and baptized my sister Ann 
and brcther .Anthony, it I>eing the first bap- 
tism ever administered in Greene county by 
the Associate church, and took place about 
the 1st ( f Septeml>er, 1804. The call was 
made cut in due form and John McKnight 
cf Sugarcreek and my father were appoint- 
ed commissioners by the people to meet witli 



tlie presbytery cf Kentucky and urge the 
acceptance o'f the call. This the_\- did ami 
yir. Amistrcjng- accepted it. 

MR. ARilSTROXC's SECOND COMING. 

In the same month ^h: Armstrong went 
to Tennessee and was married to iliss 
Xancy Andrew and in October left Tennes- 
see with his wife and her brother Hugh An- 
drew, who all arrived safely at my father's 
house and lived in his family all winter and 
spring, until he got a cabin built and a 
stone chimney in it. for he was afraid of a 
wooden cue. Mr. Hugh Andrew in later 
}"ears gives an account of that event as fol- 
lows : "Air. Armstrong had l)een niarried 
to my sister Xancy two years. Previous 10 
his coming to Xenia he and his wife set 
out on horseback to visit her father's people, 
who lived near Nashville, Tennessee. In 
October they again started for their old 
home in Kentucky and their new homie in 
Ohio, it being arrangeil to take Airs. Arm- 
strong's young brother Hugh with them, 
then a lad of some ten years of age. A 
small saddle was placed on the horse behind 
Air. Armstrong, on which young Hugh roda 
to Kentucky. On their arrival at Air. Arm- 
strong's home in Kentucky they were met 
by \\'illiam Gowdy— an uncle of Alexander 
Gowdy, yet (1899) living in Xenia, who 
lived at that time near what is now know n 
as Alpha, who had teen sent with a four- 
horse team to bring Air. Armstrong's house- 
hold goo<ls and' books. 

Air. Armstrong and wife made the jour- 
ney I 11 horseback, while yomig Hugh was 
assigned to the wagon. On their arrival at 
the end of their joan'ney they stopped at 
Air. Galloway's, as has been stated. On 
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exactly likiiij;: the looks of tilings, asked and 
obtained leave to return with Mr. Go^wdx- 
t(^ liis residence. Mr. GowxW was a young- 
married man at this time, anrl his father 
Hved near." 

My father entered and paid in the land 
office at Cincinnati, fractional section No. 
29. t<nvn 4, range 7, between the Great and 
Little .Miami rivers, containing f,.ur hun- 
dred and sixty-oiie acres, and sold to Air. 
Armstrong three lumdred and one acres for 
the sum of six hundred and twenty dollars, 
and deeded the same to him in 1812, which 
can be seen in the rec(jrder's office, (ireene 
county, in Ix»k C, volume 3, page 70, ex- 
ecuted !)>• tieorge Galloway Esquire. Mr. 
Arirjstrong lived on said section to the year 
1813, whcii/ he sold and deeded to Samuel 
Goe for the suiit of two lumdred and ninety 
dollars, and h<mght again on Clark's run 
forty-eight and three-fourths acres of land 
from John Hunter, of Ross count}-, for 
wliich he paid one hundred and seventy dol- 
lars, and tv\a hundred acres from James 
Galloway, Jr., for which he paid three hun- 
dred dollars. The deeds of these tracts of 
land can Ise seen on record, book C, page 
377, and lx>ok C, page 417. This sale and 
purchase left Mr. Anmstrong sixteen hun- 
dred and thirty dollars, no trifling sum in 
those days, and taking in his personal prop- 
erty and proceeds of his farm he might be 
considered a rich man. On this farm he 
li\ed until his death, which occurred Oc- 
tober 14, 1 82 1. 

It is true that his congregation in Ken- 
tucky sent a delegation to Ohio of sixteen 
or eighteen to view the lands in the neigli- 
lx>rhoi(xl wdiere Mr. Armstrong ^\•as to settle, 
and were well pleased with it and reported 
accordingly. In the spring and fall of 1804 
and 1805 all, or nearly all, of his congre- 



gation followed him to Ohio and settled un- 
der his ministrv. 

The first church edifice of the Associate 
congregati.j-n of Massiescreek \\-as built 011 
three acres of land donated by James Ste- 
venson for church and cemetery. It was 
built of round hicko^ry^ logs with the bark 
peeled ofif, thirty feet square, covered with 
clapboards, the spaces between the logs be- 
ing filled with clay. It was without t gal- 
lery or loft of any kind, and the floor was 
O'f earth. In it were neither stoves nor 
chimney, and tliere was but one door in the 
center oi one end of the house. There was 
an aisle running through the center. The 
pulpit was composed of clapboards on a 
wooden structure, with a window on each 
side. It was seated with two rows of 
puncheons split from, poplar, the upper side 
smoothed off, and in each end as an up- 
right; from two to three slabs were pinned 
and formed quite a comfortable back. This 
edifice was on the north side of Massies- 
creek, about three miles from where it 
emptied into the Litle iliami river. Men 
and women would ride or walk twelve or 
fifteen miles to this church and sit and listen 
to two sermons without seeing fire in the 
coldest weather. 

About the year 1812 or 1813 the second 
church at Massiescreek was built, of hewed 
logs, one hundred and fifty feet distant from> 
the first one. At this date the cmmtry had 
improved and several mills had been built. 
It was about fifty feet wide, was floored 
and ceiled over head with one-half-inch pop- 
lar boards. In it were placed four pews, 
the balance o-f the seats being those that had 
been in the first church. This church be- 
caauie too small for the congregation, and 
one side was taken out and its width in- 
creased about twel\-e feet. This buildin<^ 



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was used until the stone one was built and . 
occupied by Rev. James P. Smart, alxmt 
two miles north from the first site. The 
old site is now used as a cenijeterv ; in it 
are the remains of Air. Armstrong and a 
large majority of tlie congregation. Out of 
Massiescreek, Sugarcreek and Xenia con- 
gregations of the Associate church, and 
Xenia Ass(x:iate Reformed congregation has 
sprung the nucleus of all the congregations 
in the United Presbyterian church in the 
west. 

Mr. Armstrong became dissatisfied with 
his location west of the Miami, on accoimt 
of its frequent floods, that cut him off from 
his house wi worship and disappointed 
his congregation. He was a great walker 
and frecpiently walked from his home to 
Sugarcreek, a distance of thirteen miles, to 
preach toi that branch of his charge, and to 
Massiescreek, a distance of four miles. At 
the crossing of the Miami he had a pair of 
stilts some two feet high, upon which he 
would mcimt, and with great care and cir- 
cumspection cross the ri\-er, but wonid at 
times get a ducking. 

REV. ROBERT ARMSTRONG. 

The name of Robert Armstrong will 
long be held in honorable remembrance in 
that branch of the church to which he be- 
longed. If talents devoted tO' the service 
of relig-ion and a life of more than common 
usefulness constitutes a claiml to it lx)th con- 
S}>ire to place him in the front rank of those 
who have planted, watered and extended 
the Secession church in western America. 

Mr. Armstrong was a native of Scot- 
land, and but little is knoiwn of his parent- 
age. His mother was a widow at the time 
of his cc:aninig to America, and he was an 



only child. He is supposed tO' have been 
ab<;ut fifty-fi\-e years old at the time of his 
death. He received a classical education at 
the University of Edinburg and studied the- 
ol(_:g}- at Whitburn under the Re\-. Archi- 
bald Bruce, professor at that time uniler the 
General Associate Synod, the certificate ef 
his ordination to the ministry is dated I5tli 
of June, 1797. He had' been licensed to 
preach some time m the winter preceding by 
the presbytery of Kelso. He was one of 
till se students who make their professional 
life by dint of their own resc-airces, and the 
ardor and enterprise of character which it 
implies were prominent parts of his. His 
parents n(j't possessing much worldly afflu- 
ence were unable to' help him-. He taught 
a country school or acted as a pri\ate tutor 
in the families of gentlemen, and by that 
means, made himself master of very exten- 
sive acquirements, both as a scholar and di- 
vine. He was licen.sed and' ordained with a 
view to his coining to Amierica, the cause 
of which was as follows : Four members of 
the church having settled in the same neigh- 
borhood in the vicinity o'f Lexington, Ken- 
tuclc\-, namely: James Bain. Adam Good- 
lett. Thomas Roibinson and James Pringle, 
took council together in a prayer meeting, 
on the best means for obtaining a dispensa- 
tion of the Gospel aniicng thenu This was 
in the }'ear 1796, at which time the above 
named branch of the church in America was 
small. The Presbyteiy of New York and 
Pennsyl\-ania was the only church court, ex- 
cept sessions in the cnmnrv. Ami tliere was 
but one number of it settled west of the Al- 
legheny mountains, viz. : the Re\-. Mathew 
Hen<lersc;n, in the vicinity of Pittsburg. It 
was certain that it would lie a long timie be- 
f<vre this small fountain in the east woidd 
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west. The Ijrethren iherefore resolved to 
apply to the sjniad of Scotland for assist- 
ance. From prudential n-^otives, Svnod in 
complying with the ])etition ( in which ihev 
asked for but one) aiJiJMJnted two ministers 
to go to the country, Mr. Armstrong and 
the worthy Andrew Fultcm (who also about 
fdur N-ears since rested from his labors). 
"Vou might lie startled,"' says a memliei- ni' 
synod in a letter to, a friend in this country, 
some years afterward, "at the idea of two 
ministers coming at once, but we thought, 
as the synod defrayed all e.xpenses, if any 
disappointment as to success sliould fcilli>w. 
we, not you, would jjear the Ijlame. It was 
a \'enture in a nohle cause, and kind jirnxi- 
dence has crowned it with success." At the 
time of receiving the petition and synods 
mtiking choice of persons for the mission, 
Mr. Annstnnig had not yet left the ranks 
of the students, wdiich would imply that 
they thought him partictdarly qualified to 
undertake the appointment. In an address 
to the brethren in Kentucky accompanying 
the mission, they say: "Had you wit- 
nessed, dear brethren, rmr an.xious solici- 
tude to ha,ve vou provided with able and 
faithful laborers, had }'Ou beheld our en- 
tire unanimity, and had you heard the e.K- 
pressions of our unfeigned joy, when the 
twiii brethren appninted toi vou modestly sig'- 
nified their acquiescence in our choice, you 
would assuredly gather that you are very 
d'ear to the church here, and that these two 
servants of Christ are called by their Master 
to preach the Goispel to you." And in no 
instance has the discrimination and confi- 
dence of that svnod, in the appointment of 
foreigi^ missionaries, l>een more happily ex- 
ercised or better placed, as the subsequent 
character and conduct o'f these twO' minis- 
ters evinced, and in few" instances, we are 



willing to believe, has such extensive lib- 
erality been mpre gratefully received. At 
their appointment they were commissioned 
]:)y the synod to constitute themselves on 
their arrival, intoi a court, by the name of 
Associate Presbv'tery of Kentucky. They 
arrived in the suirjmer o^f 1798. anil after 
casting the net in new waters, in which they 
were not unsuccessful, mi the 2(Sth day of 
Xo\-ember, following, constituted the court. 
At this presbytery Mr. Armstrong received a 
unanimous call toi act as pastor toi the united 
congregation of the Dales Fork, Millars 
Run and Cane Run, and was installed in 
the charge April 23, 1799, and continued his 
labors in- it until the fall of the year 1804. 
This year the three congregationiS, with 
very fewi exceptions, emigrated to^ the state 
Oif Obio', on account of slavery in Kentucky. 
If Mr. Armstrong was not the projector of 
it he took an early interest. A few years 
observation of its horrors gave experimental 
fo'rce toi an opiniom, wbich he doubtless ad- 
mitted before in theory, namely : That slav- 
er}' is unfavorable to religioin. Its effects 
in America seem' to warrant the belief that 
it is incompatible with the existence of the 
churches of the reformation. They settled 
together in Greene county in the confi- 
dent expectation' of his being resettled 
ampng them as soon as it could be 
done in an orderl\- way. They were 
organized under the name oif the united 
congregation of INfassiescreek and Sugar- 
creek, and on the 2nd day of Septem- 
l;er, the same year, he was ordered by the 
])resbytery to rejoin his charge. Here he 
labored se\'enteen years and the handful of 
corn in the earth appeared with prosperous 
fruits. His charge was shortly afterward 
divided and another minister called to pre- 
side o'\'er one-half of it, from which time 



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his labors were confined to Massiescreek 
congregation until the 9th of January, 1821, 
ten mionths before his decease. 

Andrew Fulton and his congregation a 
few years before his death also moved to 
the free state Oif Indiana. Air. Armstrong 
was a man of ver)- low stature, but had 
naturally a stro-ng constitution. During 
the early part of his ministr)- liis labors 
were severe, antl lie had often to dispense 
the Supper three and four times a year 
withiut assistance. He had upwards of 
one hundred miles to go to tiie presbvterv 
and lietween six hundred and se\-en hundred 
to the synod. Ijoth of which he attended 
punctually witli few exceptions. 

In compliance with calls toi supply va- 
cancies and organize cliurclies lie had often 
to go joiirneys from fift_\- to two hundred 
miles through the wilderness, which afford- 
ed no other comf(;rts of hospitality than that 
which his saddieljag and the rorjt of a tree 
furnished. In the pulpit he had an air of 
authority which impressed his audience with 
a feeling of respect and confidence in his 
judgment, while his talents, though udt of 
the hriliiaiU kind, were abm-e what usual! v 
fall to the lot of men. 'i'he Rev. Pringle, 
of Perth, Scotland, speaking of the two mis- 
sionaries in a letter to a friend in this ccxni- 
try said: "Some are jjerhaps endowed with 
miore talents, but their qualifications are of 
the solid, pemmnent and useful kind; 
thotigh they don't flash so much at Ih-st, 
they improve on acquaintance." Air. Arm- 
strong had an aversion to controversy, both 
in pulpit and out of it, and it was his prac- 
tice to refute error as an error of the heart, 
whicii jDersons might l>e under the influence. 
of whatever their profession. And he fre- 
quently guarded his peoiile against suppos- 
ing themselves religious, because they coidd 



condenni nuich in the practice or principles 
of others. "Beware," was his admonition, 
"lest tliese very people rise in judgmient 
against you at last." So strong was his 
a\-ersion to railing at others that even the 
memorable tempest of religious fanaticism 
wliich in 180J burst forth in Kentucky with 
sucii fur}-, threatening to extend its sweep 
over the wIkjIc country and tn carry Ijeforc 
it the firmest pillars of the church, did not 
th'aw from him in his puljMt exercises a 
ccndenniatcry epithet. The means he em- 
phned to counteract its influence were in- 
direct. He took up those points of the word 
assailed by the delusion ai^d these Ijest cal- 
culated to ciiunteract its temper and en- 
forced them. That faith is the product of 
mere human power, was the fundamental 
err< r of the "new lights." His people will 
remcmi;er the earnestness with which he in- 
sisted, at the time, three days successively 
on the te.xt, "Do ye now believe?" The 
clearness and force -with which lie opened 
up the nature, origin and effects of faith, 
as he posed tlie consciences witli an answer 
to the interrogatory. He was a firm friend 
to the principles of the Reformation, and 
fully approved of the principles of the so- 
ciety to wliicli he belonged, on the subject 
of separation of corrupt churches. In his 
adherence tn these principles he was firm 
Imt not obstinate. On terms of comnmmion. 
(|uestions about church order, or other 
prints, when his Bible did n('t clearly de- 
cide, he was not rigid. 

In i)ri\ate life he was a social, cheerful 
and instructive companion. He was self- 
denied, humble and patient, not from 
a disposition naturally unambitious, meek 
and ]ilacid. but from a sense of dutv 
and the piwer of the gospel over his 
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In conversation he was particniaiiv loml 
oi anecclotes whicli contained some useful 
moral, and of these he had a large fund. 
From a conviction that religion often suf- 
fers both r.eglect and scandal from men's 
imprudence in the management of their 
worldly concerns he frequently took occa- 
sion in his familiar iniercourse to ileal nuich 
in maxims of good sense respecting these. 
It was known tO' a few that he \A-as rather 
partial' to the civil institutions of his native 
land, hut he never meddled with politics. 
\\'hen the news of General Hull's surrender 
was received, which was on a Sab]>ath day 
in the interval iSetween discourses, he im- 
mediately convened the congregation, and 
after a short admonitory address adapted to 
the occasion, dismissed them to make prep- 
arations for marching the next day, and 
went part of the day's ride with tliem. From 
the day of his arrival among his people in 
Kentucky till the last period of his ministry 
ill this place, his congregation continued to 
increase and flourish under his care, until 
the last year of his life peace, harmony and 
mutual good will prevailed between him and 
his flock. At that period, however, and in 
an evil hoar, when men slept, an enemy 
sowed tares, which sprung up' and had like 
to- have choked the wheat. This began by 
an alarm of fire, and some mischief was 
done and threatened to be done about the 
house. An old ca1>in was burned, and at- 
tempts made to set the barn on fire, suspicion 
arose, and the cpiestion was asked, who 
could do the mischief? The family sus- 
pected some persons in the neighborhood 
and others suspected some person in or 
about the house. No one kn'ew and mutual 
jealousies and criminations arose, and the 
brand of discord and contention kindled 
into a flame, and in this state of things and 



under very uneasy feelings, he began to sus" 
jiect that his usefulness in the congregation 
was at an end; that his labors would be no 
longer accepta1>le. This impression gained 
strength and on occasion O'f a congrega- 
tional meeting he sent in his resignation. 
The congregation were unwilling to part 
widi him, Imt lie continued firm in his reso- 
lution, and the presbytery granted the prayer 
of his petition. He brought no charge 
against the congregation. 

Shortly before his decease he went to 
15Iack Rock, Indiana, with a view to the 
removal of his family to that place, but when 
he returned, which was on the 27th day of 
Septemjber, he took sick that night, and 011 
the Sabbath following sent for Rev. Thom- 
as Beveridge, whoi visited him on Monday 
in conilpany with ^Ir. Bain. He looked 
forward to dying without fear. When 
speaking of his family he was o\-ercome by 
his feelings ; he felt for them whose only 
object had been to^ make him happy. He 
had no unbelief respecting themi, but could 
commit them to Him who is the judge of 
the widow and the fatherless. He had al- 
ways \-alued the Gospel, but more now than 
ever from the support it gave himi in his 
trving hour. To Mr. Adamis, a young 
minister, he said on his death-bed re\-iew 
oi the doctrines he had embraced and 
taught, he found nothing to fault ; they were 
the ground of his hopes for eternity. For 
vears he had noi doubt of his interest in the 
atoning blood of Christ, and his faith did 
not fail him now, and on Sabbath niorning, 
14th of October, 1821, between the hours 
of twelve and one o'clock, he died. After 
his decease on the backs of letters or stray 
slips of paper, it is said, were found notes 
of the ground work of some of his best ef- 
forts. 



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WILLIAM COOLEY S RECOLLECTIONS. 

The first settler in the nortliern central 
part of the county of \vhc<m we have an\" 
record or well authenticated account was 
James Galloway, Sr., who emigrated to tlrs 
place from Bourbon county, Kentucky, early 
in the spring of 1798, now very nearly 
eig"hty-three years since. About twenty 
years previous, towit, November 23, i//^. 
he married Miss Rebecca Junkin. in Cum- 
berland county. Pennsylvania. How long 
he sojourned in Kentucky we ha\e not been 
able to determine. Mr. Galloway possessed 
many of the traits of Daniel Bc»one. He was 
in the service of tlie United States eighteen 
months during the Revolutionar}- war. in 
the capacity of hunter, to procure game for 
the army. He was engaged in several con- 
flicts with the Indians, and on one occasion 
was brought face to face with Simon Girty. 
who, perceiving that Galloway was un- 
armed, accosted himi thus: "Now. Gallo- 
wav. d — n you, I have got you," and in- 
stantly tired. Galloway received a danger- 
ous wound, and' was supposed by Girty lo 
have been killed. He, howexer, wheeled his 
horse and made for camp, a mile distant, 
which he reacheil in safety, but in a fainting 
condition. The ball passed through his 
shoulder and lodged some place near the 
back of the neck. After carrying this bullet 
manv years, it was extracted, some say by 
a cobbler, others by Dr. Joshua ]\Iartin. 
However this mav have been it was a source 
of considerable annoyance, and the woinid 
was effected very much by the state of the 
weather, and served as a baromieter. On 
occasions, when something important was to 
be done, retpiiring fine weather, young 
Hugh would be dispatched to Mr. Gallo- 
way to learn the condition of the barometer. 



Mr. Galloway's family on coming to this 
county consisted of himself, wife, his sons, 
James, Samuel, William, Andrew, and one 
daughter. Rebecca. His family was after- 
ward enlarged l>y a son and daughter, An- 
thi ny and Ann. James Galloway (black- 
smith) and Adam McPherson acompanied 
^Ir. (ialloway from Kentucky and settled ni 
dift'erent neighjjorhoods. The same year 
Thomas Townsley settled near the falls of 
[Massies creek. These were the first settlers 
of this portion of Greene county, so far as 
we ha\e been able to discover. 

How Mr. Galloway succeeded in erect- 
ing his first cabin we are left to conjecture, 
as his boys were mere children, the eldest 
being a lad of sixteen : but as necessity is the 
mother of invention, we can have no doubt, 
therefore, but Mr. Galloway scxju had a 
place of hal)itation for himself and family. 
The matter of subsistence was a serious 
(piestion for a man of so large a fam- 
ily, as he wc'uld not lie able to bring 
any considerable amount of provisions, 
in his journey through an unbroken wil- 
derness, and it must necessarily have 
'been se\'eral months before he could de- 
rive any benefits from the fruits of 
the soil. Fortimately game was abundant, 
and Mr. Galloway, with his unerring mius- 
ket was able tO' sui>i>ly his family with all 
the delicacies of the season; yet there was 
not the means for the enjovment Oif that 
luxurious living of the present day. 

In the year 1799 or 1800 George Gallo- 
way, Esq., located on the fann now owned 
by Andrew Holland, lying on the Yellow 
Springs pike, imniiediately north and west 
of the river. The tract located by James 
Galloway, consisting of one hundred and 
si.\ty-one acres, lay still farther north to- 
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Galloway sold to Rev. Ro-ljert Armstrong- 
three iniiKlred and one acres, which is now 
mainly conTprised ni the farms oiwned bv 
James H. Dickey, John H. and Henry B. 
Jaccby. About this time, or at all events 
prior to ii^03, Matthew (Juinn settled on the 
farm now occupied by Mr. Mathias Rout- 
zong. Others coming in from time tO' time, 
the country gradually became settled. Mills 
were a necessity. Owen Davis had built 
one on lleaxer creek in i "yQ, wdiich was pat- 
ronized by the inhal)itants for forty miles 
around. Whisky, though perhaps not so 
essential a-- bread, was nevertheless used to 
a considerable extent as a medicine as well 
as a beverage. The country was new, chills 
and fe\er ])reva'led, and the system needed 
bracing. At all e\'ents supply and demand 
to a considerable extent regul.ated trade. 
To supply this seeming necessity, ]\lr. 
Galloway erected a distillery on the small 
stream that crosses the Yellow Springs 
jjike near the old stone htxise previously de- 
scribed. \\ hat was its capacity we know 
not. but presume it was sufiicient to meet 
the wants of the neiglibnrho<wl in the sur- 
rounding conimunit}'. Although we hav; 
been assured that the early settlers in this 
communit)- generally partcwDk of their whis- 
ky in moderation, and never to excess, yet 
at this time, and for many years afterward, 
it was the custom on all occasions tO' jiass 
around the bottle. 

That there was at this period mpre of a 
community of interest and social equality 
among the people than at the present day, 
does m t admit of a doubt. Log-rollings, 
raisings, wood-choppings, etc., brought the 
people frequently together from many miles 
around. There were nO' drones in the com- 
luunity, antl on these occasions things wen.t 
lively. At a raising the hands would di- 



vide, putting their best men on the corners 
to do the notching, and then a strife arose 
as to who would be first to get their log in 
place. And thus they would continue till 
the square part of the building was coui- 
pleted ; and then beveled logs thrown up 
at the ends, and poles thrown across length- 
wise, at inter\-als of from three tO' four feet, 
completed the loft part of the structure. For 
a co'vering, clapboards, of an inch in thick- 
ness and about six in breadth, and in length 
corresponding with the distances between 
the poles, were placed up and down in such 
a manner as to make a close roof. The 
weight poles are then placed in position, and 
the rooif is complete. 

Abotit the Ijeginning of the century Mr. 
SoilomiCMi McCuUy settled on the north 'jf 
the ri\-er. on the Fairfield pike, at present 
occupied by Owen Swadner. Further on 
Arthur Forbes, on the farm occupied by 
Robert A. Mitchell ; John James and David 
Andersoai on what used toi be called the 
Kershner farm, situated on the Yellow- 
Springs and Dayton pike: Ezekiel Hopping, 
on the tract now owned by William Confer 
and George Taylor, still further north. We 
cannot give the exact dates of the settlement 
of these parties, 1>ut they were at an early 
day. James Andrew settled on the fanu 
in-i|mediate!y west of Mr. Armstrong, and 
no)w occupied by \V. Coole}-. His eldest 
(laughter, Nancy, w-as the w-ife of Mr. Arni- 
stroug. His family consisted of Jane, Will- 
iam. James, Rebecca, John. Hugh, George, 
Ebenezer and Elizabeth. Mr. Andrew was 
a liandicraftsman, as well as farmer. He 
made spinning wheels, little and big. He 
also stocked plows \\-ith wooden mold- 
boards. If we go back to the davs of our 
grandn-iothers, we shall find abundant ma- 
terial for reflection. E\-erv article of cloth- 



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ing U-r tlie bcdy or the house was made at 
home. Toil. toil, incessant toil, fnHii one 
year's end to another, to procure the sim- 
plest comforts of life. Xow. w« get a liat 
or a coat, and dun't kncnv how it was made 
or whence it came. We have time to read, 
to think, to meditate how to make life en- 
jo)-able. Let us Ije thankful, and when dis 
posed to murmur at our hard lot, think of 
our grandfathers and grandmothers. 

^Ir. Andrew, having served his genera- 
tion, fell asleep in the year 1822, aged 
seventy-two years. Of his ten children, but 
two remain, Mr. Hugh Andrew of Xenia, 
and Ebenezer Andrew, of Sugarcreek 
township. James, Hugh and George car- 
ried on farming operations quite success- 
fully for miany years on the old homestead 
and lands adjoining, each owning fine farms 
of two or three hundred acres. Two of 
James' sons, AX'illiam and Harvey, are in 
the ministry r>f the United Presbyterian 
church: H. ]\I.. living in Xenia; and Sam- 
uel, George's son, near Frost's Station. 
Others are scattered through the west, and 
not a single one living within five miles of 
the eld homestead. Such radical changes 
dc-es time make, that the place that knows 
us now will soon know us no miore for- 
ever. 

Mr. Andrew, ef whom we formerly 
spcke, for years continued his occupation of 
wheelwright and stocking plows. Mr. 
George Junkins had established a blacksmiith 
shop near the Fairfiekl pike, south of R. A. 
Mitchell's jjresent residence. A culprit had 
stolen a set of plow irons of John Ellis 
(grandfather of Samiuel Ellis, who li\es 
near the railroad crossing en the Clifton 
pike), and taken them to Junkins' shop to 
Ije relayed. The irons were taken thence 
to Mr. Andrews to be stocked with wooden 



mold-boards, etc. The irons w ere stamped, 
and it was the design of the thief to have 
the marks obliterated in order to avoid de- 
tection ; but in this he failed, which fact led 
to his arrest and pimishment. At this time 
there was a sugar tree on the public square, 
Xenia, which served as a whipping post. 
His sentence was to receive eight lashes on 
his bare back. This occurred on the 8th 
of Octoiljer, 1808, and is said to have been 
the last public whipping for a crime in 
Greene coimty. 

The lands west of the Little Miami 
river were congress lands, and were dis- 
posed of very differently from' those on the 
other side of the river, and in the following 
manner : "James Madison, president of the 
United States of America. To all to whom 
these presents shall come, greeting: Kncv 
ye, that James Andrew, of Greene county, 
having deposited in the treasurv a certificate 
I if the register of the land office, at Cincin- 
nati, whereby it apiiears that he has made 
full payment for the northeast quarter of 
section 35, of township, number 4. in range 
number 7, of the land lying between the 
Great Miami river and the \'irginia Reser- 
vation, etc., etc. Dated Washington, Feb- 
ruarj^ 12, 1810. Signed by Janres ]^Iadi- 
son, president of the United States, and R. 
Sntith, secretary of State." A similar pat- 
ent was issued for the southeast quarter cf 
section 36, to the same, in the year 18 16. 
TOiey were printed and written on parch- 
ment, and are uni(|ue in appearance. 

In 1802 or 1803 James Galloway, Sr., 
and James fialloway. Jr.. started to Louis- 
ville, to see Colonel .\nderson in regard to 
the appointment of a surveyor, and on their 
way stopped several days with Samuel Gal- 
1< way. then living on ^IcConnell's Run, in 
Kentuckv. where Robert Armstrong 



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preached. While tliere they hecanie ac- 
quainted with him, and joined in tlie com- 
munion of the Lord's Supper, after which 
resuming their journey, tiiey reached Louis- 
ville, and throug-h the influence of his fa- 
ther and his uncle, George Pomro\-, James 
Galloway Jr., received the appointment. On 
their return they again tarried with Sanuicl 
(jailoway, and meeting Mr. .\rmstrong, 
they urgently invited him to come to Ohio 
and preach ; to which he agreed, on condi- 
tion that it was the desire of the peo])le 
there. When they reached home, thev con- 
sulted the jjeople, and the desire being 
unaninn Us. James Galloway, Jr., was sent 
to Kentucky to bring him here. Writing to 
his brother George to meet hini in Davton 
and pilot himi to the settlements, he started, 
in company with .Mr. Ai-mstrong, and trav- 
eled along the road cut by General Wayne 
from Cincinnati, arrived here in safety and 
soon began his labors preaching at the house 
of James Galloway, Sr., to the following 
families : Matthew Ouinn, Alexander 
l-"(irl>es, William Jenkins. Elias Bromagen, 
Widoiw Criswell (who had united with his 
church in Kentucky and came to Ohio in 
1801), Alexander McCoy and sons, John 
and James Stevenson, Thomas and John 
Townsley, George and James Galloway, and. 
perhaps a few others. He also preached 
at Sugarcreek, at the honse of James 
Clancy, on the present site of Bellbrock. 
.Vmong his congregation were John and Jo- 
seph C. McKnight, Josqih \'ance ( father of 
Governor \'ance) and his brother. Captain 
Lanil). Williami Tanner, the Snodgrasses, 
two Sncwdens, Van Eaton and several 
others. A few of these were members of 
the Associate Refcmied and Presbyterian 
churches, but all were glad tO' listen to ^Ir. 
Anustrcng. During his stav here he was 



urgently solicited toi remain as permanent 
pastor. This he neither agreed nor refused 
to do, but stated that he was dissatisfied 
with Kentucky on account of sla\-ery. He 
also stated that if he cotild persuade his 
congregation to emigrate with him, he 
would come, provided he recei\-ed a call. .\ 
petition was straightway presented to the 
-Vssociate Presbytery of Kentucky, by 
James Galloiway, Jr., which was granted, 
and Rev. Andrewt Fulton was appointed 
moderator in the call. Shortly after his 
ap{ji)intmjent he preached in James Gallo- 
way's barn, and baptized his son Anthony 
and daughter Ann, the first baptism by this 
church in the coa.uit}-, date September i, 
1804. 

In August, 1803. Colonel James Mor- 
ri>w, with (piite a number of others, mem- 
bers of Mr. Annstrong's congregation in 
Kentucky, came to this county to locate 
land. They miade their camp and passed the 
Sabbath near a spring on the edge of the 
prairie at Old ToAvn. There seems tO' have 
been a mutual feeling O'f discontent on the 
part oif ]\lr. Armstrong and his people, in 
reference to the workings of the slave sys- 
tem. The encroachments and domineering 
spirit of slavery and slaveholders were al- 
read)- being felt. Ohio', the first born oi 
the ordinance of 1787, was a free state. 
The movement of the people here, seconded 
bv the people there, mutually cjutributed to 
the accomplishment of the same end. Col- 
onel Morrow- and his associates succeeded 
in locating lands in the fertile region of 
i\Iassie"s creek and Sugar creek, and, with 
others, mpved to them in the spring of i8o|. 
The call for M'r. Armstrong was made in 
-due fi nui, and John McKnight. of Sugar- 
creek, and James Galloiway, Sr., were ap- 
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to lay it before the presbytery of Kentucky, 
and urge its acceptance. Tlie call was pre- 
sented and accepted, and Air. Armstrong 
in-umediatel}' set about making preparations 
for his new field of labor. He had been 
nKirried two years pre\iously to Miss Nancy 
Andrew. He and his wife set out on horse- 
back to visit her father's people, who >'\ed 
near Xasiu ille. Tennessee. In October 
thev again started for their old home in 
Kentucky and their new. one in Ohio. It 
was arranged to take Mrs. Armstrong's 
brother Hugh, with them, then a lad of 
some ten years of age. A small saddle was 
made and placed on the horse, behind Mr. 
Armstrong, on which young Hugh rode to 
Kentucky. On their arrival at Mr. Ami- 
strong's hom|e in Kentucky, they were met 
by William Gowdy. w'ho lived near Alpha, 
who had l:)een delegated with a four-horse 
team to bring Mr. Armstrong's household 
goods, books, etc, Mr. Annstrong and his 
Vvife made the journey on horseback, whde 
ycvim'g Hugh was assigned to the wagon 
with Gowdy. We may as well state right 
here, that the yoimg Hugh spoken of is the 
same Hugh we have with us, and who is 
perhaps with a single exceptioir the oldest 
citizen of the county, and to whom we are 
indelited for infonnation that otherwise 
would be inaccessible. Mr. Armstrong 
ami wife reached their destination sev- 
eral days in advance of the wagon. 
Thev stopped at Mr. James Galloway, 
Sr.'s. and were liis guests through the 
winter. On the arrival of the wagon, 
young Hugh, not exactly liking the looks 
of things, asked and obtained leave to 
return with Mr. Gowdy to his residence. 
Mr. Gowdy was a young miarried man nt 
this time, while his father's family lived 
near. In his father's familv were two 



daughters. Xancy and Ann. To the latter 
a yoimg man by the name of James Bull had 
been for some time paying his respects, and 
the happy couple were alxmt to unite their 
destinies in the bonds of matrimlony. Great 
preparations were made foi" the important 
event. Says Air. Andrew, everybody was 
there, fron^ Den to Beersheba, and he sup- 
poses that there were at least one hundred 
guests. Mr. Armstrong performed the 
ceremnny, which is supposed to have been 
the first marriage in the county. .\s the 
result oi this m|arriage we have Mr. Will- 
iam and John Bull; Mrs. Susanna, wife of 
Mr. James TurnbuU ; Mrs. Alargaret, wife 
of James Hopping, Esq. : James Law, Rob- 
ert Scott, Amos and Rankin Bull. The 
oldest is alx>ut seventy-two years of age, 
while the )Oungest is fifty-two. Re\'. James 
Law Bull is a L'nited Presbyterian minister 
in the west. The rest, except John, are, and 
always have been, citizens of the cotmty. 
All early in life made a public profession of 
religion and united with the Associate 
Presbyterian congregation of Massies- 
creek, and all are now members of the 
L'nited Presbyterian church except John, 
who passed from! earth in 1834. 

Mr. Bull was a c]uiet and good citizen, 
a member oi the Presbyterian church, and 
in the \anguard of refonn in his da\' 
and generation. As early as 1820 he re- 
solved to discontinue the use of whisky in 
his harvest field. In this he was joined by 
his neighbor, George Townsley, Esq. This 
put them ti> some incon\enience, as men 
would come and go again as soon as they 
found they were not to get any whisky. 
Har\'esting in that day was a slow process, 
as the grain was all cut with a hand-sickle. 
One-half acre, reaped and bonnd, was a 
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acre. Afterward cradles came into use. and 
now c\-erylx)dy knuiws how grain is cur. 
Mr. Bull was torn in 1776, and died in 
1872, lacking- only f<iur years of being a 
centenarian. His wife dieil in 1836. 

In the spring of 1805, Mr. Armstrong. 
iiaving c<;m])leted his log cal>in, with stone 
chinniey, <in the tract of land purcha.sed oi 
Mr. Galloway (as before stated), located 
in his new honiie. His duties were mani- 
fold and anhuxis. In addition to his regu- 
lar laboTS as pastor of a congregation, in 
preparing two- sermcjns for each Sal>l>ath, 
necessarily much time would have to be de- 
voted t(v secular matters. A new fann was 
to be opened up and improved ; family visi- 
tation and catechistical instructions must 
not ]>e neglected: meetings (if presbytery 
and synod nnist be attended, although often 
several hundred miles away — long and 
tedious journeys to be made on horselrack. 
All this wo^1ld seem' to require a pretty act- 
i\e life. With all his manifuld labors, we 
ha\e never heard that there was any com- 
]>laint oi dereliction in duty, but. on the con- 
trary, that his semiions were well prepared 
and forcibly delivered, and that his congre- 
gations, possessing" more than ordinary in- 
telligence, were edified and instructed. Mr. 
Armstrong had two< places of preaching, one 
on Massie's creek and tiie other on Caesar's 
creek. Massies creek, the nearest place of 
preaching, was some three or four niiles 
from his residence, which he usually 
walked. But as the river was between his 
home and place of preaching, high water 
sometimes presented an obstacle not so 
easily overcome. But in- this, as in other 
mtitters, he was enabled to' devise an ex- 
pedient which answered every purpose, ex- 
cept in extremely high water. He ha<l a 
pair of stilts on which he used to cross, it 



is said, with great circumspection. His 
other pilace oi preaching was some twelve 
niiles distant. As time passed his worldly 
circumstances improved. His farm was 
being opened up. Stock was accumulating 
around him. In his inexperience in farming 
operations, he frequently foimd the knowl- 
edge and services of his old friend and 
patron, James Gailloway, Sr., of great \alue. 
As they were neighbors. Mr. Galloway was 
frequently consulted. On one occasion he 
had a horse bitten by a rattlesnake, which 
Mr. Galloway readily cured by the applica- 
tion oif a weed that is said tO' exist where 
snakes abound. 

In the year 1805 another of those 
grand weddingSi appeared at the house of 
Squire George Galloway. The parties were 
James Stephenson and Anna Gallo^w-ay, 
half-sister to the Squire. Tilie guests were 
nnmerons, soi much so that accommodations 
could not be foimd within, and a large log 
heap was built without. Mr. Stephenson 
was the ]>arty who donated the ground for 
the church and cemetery. He. with his 
brother John, had settled in the Stephen- 
son neigh Ixirhood as early as the year 1797, 
the year preceding the settling of the Gallo- 
ways. 

January 6, 1806. James Galloway. Jr., 
or Major GalloA\ay as you please, and Mar- 
tha Townsley were married by Rev. Joshua 
Carman. In 1809 the Major built a fine 
brick residence a short distance west O'f the 
Fairfield pike, on the fann at present o-wned 
by Mr. Joseph Collins. Man}- will no douiat 
remember seeing this brick Iniilding stand- 
ing out in the field as they passed along the 
pike. In the followiing year James Gallo- 
w-av, Sr., luiilt the stone house (which is 
still stai-iding) on the Yellow Springs pike, 
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In the chimney of this building there was a 
date-stone marked 1810. This stune has 
been removed and inserted in the rear end 
of the Galloway building in Xenia, in their 
late im'pruA-ement. On the 27th nf June. 
I Si 2, a terrible tornado passed over this 
section if ctuntry. extending several miles 
in length and about half a mile in width, 
lea\ing scarcely a tree or shrul) in its track. 
A portion <;f the Major's brick ntansiou was 
blown d< iwn and the balance of the building 
left in a \'ery unsafe condition till rebuilt 
and repaired. In 1813, probably, George 
(jalloway (usually designated Pennsylvania 
George) and Rebecca Galloway, oldest 
daughter of James Galloway, Sr., w ere mar- 
ried, ^liss Galloway had had a fonner 
suitor, which she rejected, who was no less 
a personage than the distinguished Tecum- 
seh. He had been a frequent visitor in the 
family and took a wonderful liking to the 
white girl and, according tO' the Indian cus- 
tom, made his advances to the father, 
who referred the case to tlie daugliter. 
The undaunted chief appealed tO' the girl 
herself, cffering her lifty broaches of silver. 
She told him she didn't want to be a wild 
woman ar.d work like the Indian woniien. 
He told her she need not work. Notwith- 
standing the rejection of his suit, he ever 
after remained friendly with the family, 
though he was sometimes found to be rather 
a tough customer. On one occasion, when 
at the shop of blacksmith James Galloway, 
and being under the influence of whisky, 
he proved to be rather annoying, when 
Galloway took him. much to the disgust of 
the chieftain, and tied himi to a tree till he 
got more sober and quiet. 

In the year 1814 Rev. Armstromg sold 
his first i>urchase to Samuel Goe. and 
bought lands on the other side of the ri\er. 



in order to avoid the dilticulties so often ex- 
perienced by high waters. About the same 
time a new congregation was organized in 
Xenia, and !Mr. Armstrong having been re- 
leased from the Sugarcreek branch of his 
congregation, the two united in a call for 
the Rev. Francis Pringle, Jr., who was set- 
tled in the united charge of Xenia and 
Sugarcreek. This left ]\Ir. Armstrong in 
charge oif the Massiescreek congregation 
alone, and jjerhaps no pastor in the entire 
county has, at an_\- time, presided over a 
more intelligent congregation in the history 
of the county. Several of its members were 
at different times called to fultiU in^purtant 
positions of honor and public trust. Col. 
James ^lorrow served se\-eral years as 
county commissioner and as member of the 
lower house of the legislature. Joseph 
Kyle also served several terms in the legis- 
lature. Judge Samuel Kyle was an asso- 
ciate judge for thirty-five consecutive years. 
Robert ]\loody was one whose cool and clear 
judgiuent was surpassed by few ; David 
Jackson was a man of intellectual power ; 
Thomas Raugh had a clear and penetrating 
mind ; and the same can be said of the ^Ic- 
Coys, Laugheads, }iIcHattons, Andersons, 
Greggs. Browns, Bradfutes Collins, Kings, 
Turnbulls, Deans, Gibsons, Andrews, Jun- 
kins. Bulls. Galloways and Stnithers. 

THE OLD CABIX .\ND PIONEER CHURCH. 

The main portion of the house occupied 
by J\Ir. Andrew Holland, with two enor- 
mous stone chimneys, was built in the year 
1800 by George Galloway, Esq. It was 
built with logs and weather-boarded. In 
this ^Ir. Armstrong ministered through the 
winter of 1804 and 1805. 

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lot of three acres donated bv Mr. lames 
Stevenson for cliurcii and cemetery pur- 
poses." (For description of same see An- 
drew Gallo'way's sketch. ) Thus these good 
old seceders continued t(; worshi]) till about 
the year 1812 or 1813, when they built a 
larger, nobler and more comfortable house 
of hewed logs a short distance from the 
first. In the building of this lunise the la- 
bor was di\'ided up among the members of 
the congregation. Mr. Armstrong was to 
furnish a gallon of whisky and Sfpiire^ 
Cieorge Galloway was to haul the logs, 
which had to be done with oxen. For some 
reason the stpiire coiddn"t manage the oxen 
very well, and employed a wicked gentile to 
take his place, who attributed the Squire's 
want of success to the fact that he didn't 
swear. How'ever this may ha\c been in re- 
gard to the driving of us.en. profane swear- 
ing became a violation r.f law — hunmn and 
divine — and the Squire, from a double sense 
of dut_\-, faithfully inllicted its penalties on 
its perpetrators. On one cjccasion a vio- 
lator of this law was fined fifty cents, ami 
gave a dollar in payment of his line; but 
the Squire being unable to m'ake change, the 
perpetrator let O'ff with another oath. 
"There," said the Squire, "that makes the 
change." 

Through the above contributions we 
have been enabled to give the names of 
many settlers from 1800 to 1805. We shall 
start from this period with the name of 
John Todd, who' emigrated from Virginia 
m 1780, first tO' Xashville, Tennessee, then 
froni Nashville to Xenia in 1805, followed 
in September, 1806, l>v his son-in-law, 
Henry Philips, wife, and Rebecca, daughter 
of Mr. Todd. ^Ir. Todd and family li\-ed 
in a hewed-lijg hmise, on Main street a little 
east of the old To-wler cabin, in which 



Philifjs and others succeeding him kept a 
tavern as late as 1820. In June, 1807, Dr. 
Andrew W. Davisson and Rebecca Todd 
were married by William McFarland, jus- 
tice of the peace. Dr. Davisson was the first 
physician in Xenia. He also built the first 
brick house in Xenia, in 181 1, on Main 
street, near the site of B. Knox's saddler 
shop: and in 1814 the first stone house was 
built I)y him on Main street. Doctor and 
Mrs. Davisson were members of the old 
seceder congregation under Francis Pringle 
in i8ii. She died in Chicago in 1870, at 
the age of eighty. 

THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE. 

During the initial steps toward educa- 
tional advancement in this county the facili- 
ties for literary attainments were not so 
varied as are thrown around the youth of 
to-day. Following our cicerone along a 
blazed path through the woods to the old 
log school house; rapping, a voice froni the 
far interior says, "Come in;" we pull the 
latch string, enter, and, at the request of 
the "master," settle down upon a puncheon 
bench, the cynosure of all eyes. The first 
thing we observe is that nearly the whole 
end of the house is occupied by a fireplace, 
within whose cajxicious depths the crack- 
ling blaze sends forth light, heat and cheer- 
fulness. Our gaze being attracted to the 
outside, we look, not throiigh French plate, 
but a hole made by sawing out a log and re- 
placing it with paper greased with lard. 
Our attention is recalled by a shrill voice. 
"Master, mayn't I git a drink?" The urchin 
goes to the bivcket sitting on a bench near 
the door, takes the tin from the accustomed 
peg, dips it full, drinks a few sips, holding 
it over the bucket mleanwhile. pours the bal- 
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to liis seat, and. with his dog's-eared book 
close to Ills face, is soon lost in study. We 
observe tlie benches are made out of flat 
rails and puncheons, with wooden pins in 
tliem for legs ; backs, they ha\-e none. The 
"master" has a talkie, made by driving pins 
in the wall and placing hewed puncheons on 
top of them. Under each window a similar 
contri\ance accommpdate.S! the scholars. 

While examining these unique writing- 
desks we are again startled by a sharp cry, 
apparently in agony, of, "Master, please 
mayn't I go out?" Consent is given, and 
the boy hurriedly mpves toward the door. 
pausing to take down a crooked stick and 
carry- it out the door with himi. Our curi- 
osity is excited, and while the master's back 
is turned we ask a Ijig, white-headed boy 
near us what it is for, who, opening his 
mouth wide and staring at us in blank 
amazement, says, "No other boy don't darst 
go out while that stick is gone." 

As incentives to close application to 
studv. we observe a rule, of about a i)otmd 
in weight, and a formidable-looking beechen 
rod, whose acquaintance e\ery boy in school 
has long ago formed. Dihvorth's Arithme- 
tic. Webster's Spelling-book and the Testa- 
ment were the text-books. It seemed to be 
an expressly settled fact that during a reci- 
tation a boy could get up a better spirit of 
inspiration by stenatorian competition with 
his fellows ; and in the spelling class the boy 
could spell the loudest should stand head. 
It was interesting to see the toys at the end 
of the bench, standing on tiptoe' with every 
mluscle in a cpiiver, waiting for the master 
to say "noon." in order to get out first and 
raise the biggest yell. 

PIOXEER 1I.\BITS OF LIFE IN THE WEST. 

The historv of the mfinners and customs 



of our forefathers will appear like a collec- 
tion O'f "tales of O'lden times." It is a 
hooiely narrative, yet \-aluable on account of 
its being real history. 

"Tlien the wC'men did tlie offices of the 
household; milked' the cows, cooked the 
mess, prepared the flax, spun, wo\-e and 
made the garments of linen or linsey ; the 
men hunted, and brought in the meat ; they 
planted, phnighed ami gathered in the corn; 
grinding it into meal at the hand-mill or 
pounding it into hominy in the m 'rtar was 
occasionally the work O'f either or the joint 
lalxjr of both. 

"The men exjiosed themseh'es alone to 
danger; they fought the Indians, they 
cleared the land, they reared the hut or built 
the fort, in which the wom'en were placed 
for safety. ^luch use was made of skins 
of deer for dress, while the buft'alo and bear 
skins were consigned to the floor for beds 
and covering. There might incidentally be 
a few articles brought to the country for 
sale in a private way but there was no store 
for sui>i3ly. Wooden vessels either turned 
or coopered, were in common use as table 
furniture. 

"A tin' cup was an article of delicate 
luxur)-, almost as rare as an iron fork. 
E\-ery hunter carried his knife; it was no 
less the implement of a warrior; not infre- 
quentlv the rest of the family was left with, 
but one or two for the use of all. A like 
workmlanship coniposed the table and the 
stool: a slab hewed with the axe. and sticks 
of a similar manufacture, set in for legs, 
supported both. When the bed was, by 
chance or refinenxent, elevated alx>ve the 
floor and given' a fixed place, it was often 
laid on slabs placed across poles, supported 
on forks set in the earthen floor: or where 
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liewed i)ieces pinned un ujiriglit posts ur let 
into them by auger holes. Other utensils 
and furniture were of a curresponding de- 
scri]rtinai applicable to the time. 

■■ llie food was of the most wholesome 
and n'Utriti\e kind. The riciiest milk, the 
finest butter ant! liest meat that ever de- 
lightetl nian."s palate were here eaten with a 
relish which health and labor only know. 
Those were shared by friend and stranger 
in e\ery cabin witli profuse hospitality. 

"Hats were miade of the native fur, and 
tlic buffalo wool employed in the com[x>si- 
tio'U of cloth, as was also the bark of the 
wild nettle. 

"There was some i)a)jer money iu the 
country, which had not depreciated one-half 
o^r even a fumth as miuch as it had at the 
seat of go\-ernment. if there was any gold 
or silver, its circulation was suppressed. 
The price of a ljea\cr hat was fi\e hundred 
dollars. 

"The hunting shirt was usually worn. 
Tliis was a kind of loose frock reaching half 
way down the tiiighs, with large sleeves, 
open before, and so wide as to' lap over a 
foot or more when beltetl. The cape was 
large and sometmies handsomely fringed 
with a raveled piece of cloth of a different 
ccTt from that oi the hunting shirt itself. 
Tlie bosomi of his ilress served as a wallet 
to hold a chunk of bread, cakes, jerk, tow 
for wiping the barrel of the rifle, or any 
other necessary fiT the hunter or warricjr. 
Tlie belt which was always tied behind 
answered se\'eral purposes besides that of 
holding the dress together. In cold weather 
the mittens and sometimes the bullet-bag, 
occupied the front part of it. To the right 
side was suspended the tomahawk, and to 
the left the scalping knife in its leathern 
sheath. 

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"The hunting shirt was generally made 
of linsey, sometimes of coarse linen, and a 
few of dressed deer skins. These last were 
very cold and uncomfortalile in wet weathei'. 
The shirt and jacket were <.if the common 
fashioui. A pair of drawers, or breeches, 
and leggins, were the dress of the thighs 
and legs ; a pair of moccasins answered for 
the feet miuch better than shoes. These 
were made of dressed deer skin. They were 
mostly made of a single piece, with a 
gathering seam| along the top oi the foot 
and another from] the bottom o'f the heel, 
without gathers, as high as the ankle joint 
or a little higher. Flaps were left on eacii 
side to reach some 'distance up the legs. 
These were nicely adapted to the ankle and 
lower part of the leg by thongs of deer skin, 
so that noi dust, gravel or snow could get 
within the moccasin. 

"The moccasins in ordinary use cost but 
a few how's' lal>or toi make them. This was 
clone by an instrument deuominated a moc- 
casin awl, which was made of the back 
spring of an old clasp knife. This awl, with 
its Ijuck-horn handle, was an appendage of 
every shot pouch strap, together with a roll 
of buckskin for mending the moccasins. 
This was the labor of almost every evening. 
Thev were sewed together and patched with 
deer skiu thongs, or whangs, as they were 
con:(inonly called. 

"In cold weather the moccasins were 
well stuffed with deer's hair or dry leaves, 
so as to keep the feet contfortably warm ; 
but in wet weather it was usually said that 
wearing them was "a decent way of going- 
barefooted;" and such was the fact, owing 
to the spongy texture of the leather of 
which they were made. 

"Owing to this defective covering of the 
feet, more than to any other circumstance, 



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the greater number of our liunters and war- 
riors were afflicted witli tlie rheumatism in 
tlieir limbs. Of this disease they were all 
apprehensi\e in cold or wet weather, and 
therefore always slept with their feet to the 
fire, to prevent or cure it as well as they 
could. The practice unquestionably had a 
very salutary effect, and prevented many of 
thenij from beconiiing coniirmed cripples in 
early life. 

THE HOME OF THE PIONEER. 

"The fort consisted of caljins, block- 
houses and stockades. A range of cabins 
commonly formed one side at least of the 
fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, sepa- 
rated the cabins from each other. The 
walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet 
liigh the slope of the roof being turned 
wholly inward. A ver\- few of these cabins 
had puncheon floors, the greater part were 
earthen. 

"The block-houses were built at the 
angles of the fnrt. They projected about 
two feet be\ond the outer walls O'f the cabins 
and stockades. Their u]5per stories were 
abmit eighteen inches every way larger in 
dimension than tlie under one, leaving an 
opening at the commencement of the sec- 
ond story tO' prevent the enemy fromi mak- 
ing a lodgement under their walls. In some 
forts instead of block-houses the angles of 
the fort were finished with l>astions. A 
large folding gate, made of thick slabs, 
nearest the s])ring. cli sed the fort. The 
stockade, bastions, cabins and block-house 
walls were furnished with jwrt-holes at 
proper heights and distances. The whole 
of the oiitside was made completely bullet 
proof. It may be truly said that necessity 
is the m«>ther of invention, for the whole of 



this work was made without the aid of a 
single nail or spike of iron, and for this 
reason, sucli things were not to be had. In 
some places, less exposed, a single block- 
house, with a cabin or two, constituted the 
whole fort. 

"For a long time after the first settle- 
ment of this country the inhabitants in gen- 
eral niarried yoimg. There was no dis- 
tinction of rank, and very little of fortune. 
On these accounts the first impression of 
lo\e resulted in marriage: and a family 
establishment cost but a little labor and 
nothing else. In the first year of the settle- 
ment of this country a wedding engaged 
the attention of a whole neighborhood, and 
the frolic was anticipated by old and young 
with eager expectation. This is not to be 
wondered at when it is told that a wedding 
was almost the only gathering which was 
not accompanied with the labor of reaping, 
log-rt)lling, building a cabin or planning 
some scout o^r campaign. 

"In the mi;irning of the wedding-day 
the groom and" his attendants assembled at 
the house of his father, for the purpose of 
reaching the mansion of his bride by noon, 
which was the usual time for celebrating 
the nuptials, which for certain must take 
place before dinner. Let the reader imagine 
an assemblage of people, without a store. 
tailor or mantuamaker within a hundred 
miles ; and an asseiublage of horses, with- 
out a blacksmith or saddler within an equal 
distance. Tlie gentlemen dressed in shoe- 
packs, m'ticcasins, leather breeches, leggings, 
linsev hunting-shirts, and all home made. 
The ladies dressed in linsey petticoats and 
linsev or linen bedgowns, coarse shoes, 
stockings, handkerchiefs and buckskin 
gloves, if any. If there were any buckles, 
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of okl times, family pieces from parents or 
graiKlparents. The horses were caparisoned 
with okl saddles, old bridles, or halters, and 
pack-saddles, with a bag or blanket thrown 
over them; a roi>e or string as often con- 
stituted the girth as a piece of leather. 

"The march, in double tile was often in- 
terru[)ted by the narrowness and obstruc- 
tions of our horse-paths as they were called, 
for wc had no roads; and these difficulties 
were often increased, sometimes bv the 
good and sometimes by the ill will of 
neighlx>rs by falling trees and lying grape 
vines across the way. Sometimes an am- 
Iniscade was formed by the waxside, and an 
une.xiiected discharge of several guns took 
place, so as to ewer the wedding company 
with smoke. Let the reader im'agine the 
scene which followed this discharge: tiie 
sudden spring of the horses, the shrieks of 
the girls and the chivalric bustle of their 
partners to save them from falling. Some- 
times in spite of all that could be done to 
prevent it, sfjme were thrown to the gromid. 
If a wrist, ellxjw or ankle hai)pened to be 
sprained it was tied with a handkerchief 
and little more was thought or said alxnit it. 
■'.\noth.cr ceremony commonly to<,ik 
place before the party readied the house of 
the bride, after the practice of making 
whisky l>egan, which was at an early period. 
When the party were alxmt a mile from the 
place of the destination two young men 
would single out to run for the bottle. The 
worse the jKith. the more U>gs, brush and 
deep lio'llows, the ])ctter, as these obstacles 
afforded an oip])ortunity for the greater dis- 
play of intrepidity and horsemanship. The 
Englisli fox chase, in point of danger to the 
riders and their horses, is nothing to this 
race for the lx>ttle. Tlie start was an- 
nounced bv an Indian veil; logs, lirnsh. 



muddy liollows, hill and glen were speedily 
passed by the rival ponies. The bottle was 
always filled for the occasion, so that there 
was no use for judges ; for the first who 
reached the doer was presented with the 
prize, with which he returned in triumph 
to the company. 

"On approaching them he announced 
iiis victory over his rival by a shrill whoop. 
At the head of the troop he gave the IxJttle 
to the groom and his attendants, and then 
to each pair in succession to the rear of the 
line, giving each a dram, ami then putting 
the bottle in the bosom of his liunting-shirt, 
took his station in the company. 

"The ceremony of the marriage pre- 
ceded the dinner, which was a substantial 
backwoods feast of beef, pork, fowls, and 
sometimes venison and l>ear meat, roasted 
and boiled, with plenty of ]iotatoes, cabba.ge 
and other vegetables. During the dinner 
the greatest hilarity always prevailed, al- 
thoaigh the table might be a large slab of 
tiniiber, hewed out with a broadaxe, sup- 
l^orted l)y four sticks set in auger holes, and 
the furniture some old pewter dishes and 
plates, the rest wotxlen bo-wls and trenchers; 
a few pewter spoons, much battered about 
the edges, were to be seen at some tables. 
Tlie rest were made of horns. If knives 
were scarce the deficiency was made up by 
the scaljmig knives which were carried in 
sheaths suspended to the belt of the hunt- 
ing-shirt. 

"After dinner the dancing commenced, 
and generally lasted till the next morning. 
The figures of the dances were three and 
fcnir-handed reels, or square sets, and jigs. 
The comimencement was always a square 
four, which was followed by what is called 
jigging it off; that is. two of the four would 
sinale out for a jig, and were followed by 



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tlie remaining" couple. The jigs were often 
accompanied with wliat was called cutting 
out; that is, when either of the parties be- 
came lired of the dance, on intiniatimi. the 
pface was supplied by some one of the com- 
pany, without any interruption of the dance. 
In this way a daiKe was often continued 
till the musician was heartily tired of his sit- 
uation. Toward the latter part of the night, 
if any of the company, through weariness, 
attempted to conceal themselves, for the 
pur])ose of sleei>ing, they were hunted up, 
jjaraded lju the floor and the tiddler ordered 
to plav "Hang on till tomorrow morning." 

THE STE.VLING OF THE BKIDE. 

".Vbont nine or ten o'clock a deputation 
of the young- ladies stole off the bride and 
l)ut her to bed. In doing this, it frequently 
happened that they had tO' ascend a ladder 
instead of a pair of stairs, leading from 
the dining and' ball room) to the loft, the 
floor of which was mlade of clapboards, ly- 
ing loose and without nails. This ascent, 
one might think, would put the bride and 
her attendants to blush, but as the foot of 
the ladder was commonly behind the door, 
which was purposely opened for the occa- 
sion, and its ro>unds at the inner ends were 
well hung with hunting shirts, petticoats 
and other articles of clothing, the candles 
being on the opposite side of the house, the 
e.xit of the britle was noticed but by few. 

TIIR STEALING OF THE GROOM. 

"This done, a deputation of young men 
in like manner stole off the grcKim. and 
placed him snugly by the side of his bride. 
The dance still continued, and if seats hap- 
pened to be scarce, which was often the 



case, every young man, when not engaged 
in the dance, was obliged to offer his lap <;s 
a seat for one of the girls, and the offer was 
sure tO' be accepted. 

"In the midst oi this hilarity the bride 
and groom were not forgotten. Pretty late 
in the night some one womld remjind the 
company that the new couple must stand in 
need of some refreshment; black betty, 
which was the name of the bottle, was 
called for, and sent up the ladder, but some- 
times black betty did not go alone. I have 
many times seen as much bread, beef, pork 
and cabbage sent along with her, as would 
afford a good meal for half a dozen hungry 
nfen. The young couple were compelled to 
eat and drink, more or less, of whatever 
was offered them. It often happened that 
some neighbors or relatives, not being 
asked to^ the wedding", took offense, and 
the mode of revenge adapted by them' on 
such occasions was that of cutting off the 
mpnes, foretops and tails of the horses of 
the wedding company.. 

SETTLING THEM IX LIFE. 

"1 will proceed to state the usual man- 
ner of settling a young couple in the world. 
A spot was selected on a piece of land of one 
of the parents for their habitation. .\ day 
was appointed, shortly after their marriage, 
for commencing the work of building" their 
cabin. The fatigue party consisted of chop- 
pers, whose business it was to fell the trees 
and cut them off at proper lengths; a man 
with a team for hauling" them to the place 
and arranging them, properly assortcil. at 
the sides and' ends of the building; a car- 
penter, if such he might be called, whose 
business it was to search the woods for a 
])roi)er tree for making clapboards for the 



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roof. Tlie tree fur this i)uri)ose iiijglit be 
straight grained and from three to four 
feet in diameter. The boards were split 
four feet lung, with a large frow, and as 
wide as the timber would allow. They were 
used without planing or shaving. Another 
division was employed in getting punch- 
eons for the flour of the cal)in; this was 
done by splitting trees alxxit eighteen inches 
in dianieter and hewing the faces of them 
witli a broadaxe. They were half the 
length of the floor they were intended to 
make. 

THE Bfll.DI.Ni; OF Tl I li C.\BI\. 

"The materials for the cabin were niost- 
1\' prepared on the first day, and sometimes 
the foundation laid in the evening. The 
second day was allotted iur the raising. 
The first thing tO' be done was the election 
of four corner men, whose business it was to 
notch and ])lace the logs. The rest of the 
company furnished them with the timbers. 
In the nicantinie tiie boards and puncheons 
were collecting for the floor and roof, so 
that by the time the cabin was a few rounds 
high the sleepers and floor began to be laid. 
The door was made by sawing or cutting 
the logs in one side, so as to make an open- 
ing about three feet wide. This opening 
was secured by upright pieces of timber, 
about three inches thick, through which 
holes were bored into the ends of the logs, 
for the ])ur])Ose of pinning them fast. A 
similar opening, but wider, was made at the 
end for the chimney. This was built of 
logs, and made large to admit of a back 
and jamibs of stone. At the scpiare. two end 
logs projected a foot or eighteen inches be- 
yond the wall, to receive the bunting poles, 
as they were called, against which the ends 



of tlie first row of clapboards were sup- 
ported. The roof was formied by making 
the end logs shorter until a single log 
formed the comb of the roof ; on these logs 
the clapboards were placed, the ranges of 
them lapping some distance over those next 
below themi, and kept in their places by logs 
placed at proper distances upon them. 

"The roof, and sometimes the floor, were 
finished on the same day of the raising. 
A third day was commonly spent by a few 
carpenters in leveling ofif the floor, making 
a clai)board door and a table. This last was 
made of a split slab and supported by four 
round logs set in auger holes. Some three 
legged stools were made in the same man- 
ner. Some pins stuck in the logs at the 
back of the house supported some clap- 
boards, which served for shelves for the 
table furniture. A single fork, placed with 
its lower end in a hole ill the floor and the 
upper end fastened to a joist, served for a 
bedstead, liy ]3lacing a pole in the fork with 
one end through a crack between the logs 
of the wall. This front pole was crossed 
by a shorter one within the fork, with its 
outer end through another crack. From 
the front pole, through a crack between the 
logs of the end of the house, the boards were 
put on which formed tlie bottom of the 
bed. Sometimes other poles were pinned 
to the fork a little distance above these, 
for the purpose of supporting the front and 
foot of the bed, while the walls were the 
supports of its back and head. A few pegs 
around the wall for the display of the coats 
of the women and hunting shirts of the men, 
and two small forks or buckhorns to a joist 
for the rifle and slKj'tpoucli. completed the 
'carpenter work. 

"In the meantime masons were at work. 
\\'itli the hard pieces of timber of wliich 



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the ciaplioards were made, they matle bil- 
lets for chunking up the cracks between the 
logs of the cabin and chimney — a large bed 
of niurtar was made for daubing up those 
cracks : a few stones formed the back and 
jambs of the chimney. 

"The cabin being finished, the ceremony 
of house-warming took place, before the 
young people were permitted to move into 
it. The house-warming was a dance of a 
whole night's continuance made up of the; 
relations of the Ijride and groom, and their 
neiglibors. On the day following the young 
couple took possession of their new man- 
sion. 

".-\t house raisings, log rollings and har- 
vest parties every one was expected to do 
his duty faithfully. A person who did not 
perform a share of labor on these occasions 
was designated by the epithet of 'Law- 
rence,' or soniie other title still more op- 
probrious ; and when it came his turn to re- 
quire t!ie like aid from his neighbors, the 
idler soon felt his punishment in their re- 
fusat to attend to his calls. 

'".Mtliough there was ni> legal compul- 
sion to the performance of military duty, 
yet every man of full age and size was ex- 
pected to do his full share of public senice. 
If he did not do so he was 'hated out as a 
coward.' Even the want of any article of 
war e(|uipments. such as animiuiition, a 
sharp llint, a primiing wire, a scalping knife 
or a tomahawk, was thought highly dis- 
graceful. A man who without a reasonable 
cause failed to go on a scout or a cam[)aign 
when it came to his turn, met with an ex- 
pression of indignation in the countenances 
of all his neighbors, and epithets of dis- 
honor were fastened upon him without 
mercy. 

"JJebts. whicli make such an uproar in 



civili;;ed life, were but little known anient:^ 
oiu' forefathers at the early settlement of 
this country. After the depreciation of the 
continental paper they had no money of 
any kind : everythmg purchased was paiil 
for in prixluce or labor. .\ good cow and 
calf was often the price of a bushel of alum 
salt. If ihe contract was not punctually 
fulfilled the credit of the delinquent was at 
an end. 

"Any petty theft was ]junished witii 
all the infamy that could be heaped on the 
offender. A man on a campaign stole from 
his comrade a cake out of the ashes, in 
which it was baking: he was imanediately 
named "The bread rounds.' This epithet of 
reproach was bandied about in this way : 
When he came in sight of a group of men. 
one of them would call "NMro comes there:' 
Another would answer, 'The bread 
rounds.' If any one meant to be more seri- 
ous about the matter he would call out. 
'Who stole the cake oirt of the ashes?" An- 
other replied, by- giving the name of the 
man in full; toi this a third would give con- 
firmation by exclaimjng, 'That is true and 
no lie.' This kind of 'tongue-lashing' he 
was doomed to bear for the rest of the cam- 
paign, as well as for years after his return 
home. 

"If a theft was detected in any of the 
frontier settlements a sumntary mode of 
punislimenl was always resorted to. The 
first settlers, as far as I knew of them, had 
a kind of innate or hereditary detestation 
of the crime of theft, in any shape or de- 
gree, and their maxim was that 'a thief 
must be whip])ed." If the theft w-as some- 
thing of value, a kind of jury of the neigh- 
borhood, after hearing the testimony, would 
condemn the cul])rit to Moses' Law. that 
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was of some small article, the offeuder was 
doomed to carry on his back the flag of the 
United States, which then coaisisted of 
thirteen stripes. In either case, some able 
hands were selected to execute the sentence, 
so that the stripes were sure to be well laid 
on. This punishment was followed by a 
sentence of exile. He was then informed 
that he nnist ilecamp in so many days, and 
be seen no- mo^re on penalty of having the 
number of his stripes doubled. 

"If a woman was given to tattling and 
slandering her neigiibors, she was furnished 
by common consent with a kind of patent 
right to say whatever she pleased without 
being be!ie\etl. Her tongue was then said 
to be hannless or to be no scandal. 

"With all their rudeness these people 
were given toi hospitality, and freely divid- 
ed tlieir rough fare with a neighbor or 
stranger, and would have been offended at 
the offer of pay. In their settlements and 
forts they lived, they worked, they fought 
and feasted, or suffered together in cordial 
harmony. They w ere warm and constant in 
their friendships. On the other hand they 
were revengeful in their resentments ; the 
point <if honor sometimes led to personal 
combats. If one man called another a liar, 
he was considered as having given a chal- 
lenge which the person who received it 
must accept or be deemed a coward: the 
charge was generally answered on the spot 
with a blow. If the injured person was 
decidedly unable to fight the aggressor, he 
must get a friend to do it for him. The 
samie thing took place on a charge of cow- 
ardice, or any other dishonorable action, a 
battle must follow. an<l the person who 
made the charge nnist fight either the per- 
son against \\\vm he made the charge, or 
any champion who chose to espouse his 



cause. Thus circumstanced, our people in 
earl}- times were much more cautious of 
speaking evil of their neighbors than they 
are at present. 

"Scjraetimes pitched battles occurred, in 
which tinue, place and seconds were appoint- 
ed beforehand. I remember having seen 
one of those pitched battles in my father's 
fort, when a boy. One (_'f the young men 
knew veiy well beforehand that he should 
get the worst of the battle, and no dotibt 
repented the engagement to fight, but there 
was no getting over it. The [xy'mt of honor 
demanded the risk of Ijattle. He got his 
whipping; then they shook hands and were 
good friends afterward. The mode of 
single combats in those days was danger- 
ous in the extraue : althoiigh no weapoais 
were used, fists, teeth and feet were em- 
ploved at will : but above all. the detestable 
practice of gouging, by which eyes were 
sometimes put out, rendered this mjode of 
fighting frightful, indeed; it was not. how- 
ever, so destructive as the stiletto of an 
Italian, the knife of a Spaniard, the small 
sw'ord of a Frenchman, or the pistol oi an 
Aniierican or English duelist. 

THE KEY TO C:vn.IZ.\TION. 

"The ministry of the gospel has con- 
tributed, no doubt, immensely to the happy 
change which has been effected in the state 
of our western society. At an early period 
of our settlements, three Presbyterian cler- 
gymen commenced their clerical labors in 
our infant settlements. They were pious, 
patient, laborious men. who collected their 
people into regidar congregations, and did 
all for them that their circumstances would 
allow. It was no disparagement to them 
that their first churches were the shady 



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gio\e.s, and their tirst pulpits a kind of tent, 
constructed of a few rough slal)s. covered 
with cla])l3ijar(ls. "He who dwellctli not ex- 
clusively in temples made with hands." was 
propitious- to their de\'Otions. From the 
outset they prudently resolved tO' create a 
ministry in the country, and accordingly 
established little grammar schools at their 
own htnises or in their immediate neighbor- 
hoods. Ilie course of education which 
they gave their pujails was, indeed, not ex- 
tensive but the piety of those who entered 
into the ministry more than made up the 
deficiency." 

RF.COI.LIXTIOXS OF SYLVESTER STROXG. 

In the year 1807 I was two years old and 
came to Jamestown with my grandfather. 
We lived on the old Maysville and Urbana 
road, one-half mile from the present site 
of Jamiestown. On the south side of us. 
at Bowersville, li\ed a gentleman by the 
name of Hussey. His descendants are now- 
living in that neigh borbocxl. Harkness 
Turner settled one mnle from the town on 
General Posey's survey. Martin Menden- 
hall was prf)prietor of Jamestow-n; he 
owned the south side of th<: town, having 
one hundred and fifty acres of land. The 
north side of the tow-n was owned liy Thon-i- 
as Brow-der, who came from nld James- 
town, Virginia, which was the first white 
settlement in the United S'ates. James- 
t(.i\vn, Ohio, was named after this town. 
John Campljell came in the same year, and 
settled where Tcxi Sheley n .w- resides. Two 
miles north of Jamestown, the san-ie fall. 
Isaiah Sutton settled. Xorth of him settled 
"Granddaddy" Paullin. All of the Paullins 
of Ross township are descendants and live 
on the land be settled. These men were our 



neighl)ors, and when a house was raised 
people would come for miles around to help. 
John Sheley and fan-iily were neighbors 
and friends of Washington ; they came here 
from X'irginia in 1S07 and settled on land 
one-half mile below- town. The Shelev 
familv living here now are his descendants. 
Mr. Sheley and wife lived to be near one 
hundred years old. Xoah Strong, my 
grandfather, hauled the logs to build the 
first house that was Iniilt in Xenia. Son-ie 
of the logs were buckeye wood, and were 
hauled by old Buck and Brandy, the yoke 
of iixen brought fri im \'ernii;int. The bouse 
was afterward used as a tavern and kept 
by Major William A. Beatty. Tbe first 
person buried here was my little brother, 
Bushrotl. who lies in the present James- 
town cemetery. The second person buried 
was a colored woman brought from Y\v- 
ginia by Thomas Browder. In 18 14, on the 
14th and 15th days of March, niy grand- 
father and grandmother died of the "cold 
plague." which w^is then prevailing in the 
neighborhood. \\'ithin ten days, Uriah 
Paullin, Harkness Turner, Mr. Hussey and 
the Baptist minister's wife all died of the 
same dread disease. Reu1)en Strong was 
the first justice in Caesarscreek town- 
ship. I think Peter Price was the first in 
this townsliip. The tr^wn of Jamestown 
was surveyed in 1815, by Thomas P. Moor- 
man and Mr. Thomas, the Clinton county 
surveyor. The first house raised was the 
]5resent I'arker H(nel property, which was 
used as a tavern by Thomas Watson. The 
next house was built liy Dr. Matthias 
Winans, who used it as a store. He was 
the first ])hysician of the town, and was the 
father vi the late Judge Janies .-X. Winans. 
of Xenia. The next tavern keeper was 
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nuw living here. The first Foiirtli of July 
celebration was held at this ta\ern in 1830. 
Seven old soldiers of the Revolutionary war 
were present. Among them was a man 
named .Allen, a relative of Ethan Allen of 
Revolntionary fame. His descendants now- 
live at .-Mlentown, Fayette county. Others 
present were Robert Snodgrass, Asa Reeve.s 
and Samuel W'ebl) ; the last named was pres- 
ent at the surrender of Cornwallis and saw 
that general hand his sword to General 
Washington. The names of the other three 
I do not recollect. We got two mails a 
week : they were brought by a post boy, 
who carried the mails from Xenia tO' Wash- 
ington. When he got within a mile of 
town he wiiulil IjIow his horn, which brought 
the people idgether. A tan yard was start- 
ed l)v John Miller and William Sterritt in 
1810. Jn ]8i2, on the 8th of January, the 
battle of Lunday's Lane was fought in Can- 
a(hi over two hundred miles away. When 
the battle was fought old AInrtin Menden- 
hall, whii was lying on the ground, heard 
tiic cannon roar of the battle. He was a 
great hunter and killed more deer and fo-und 
mi re wild honey than any other man. In 
i8[_'-i8i3 and 1814 the Shawnees, a friend- 
ly tribe of Indians, camped around here. 
1 often visited their camp and traded corn 
dodgers for venison ham. We baked our 
l)read in an O'ven on the coals. An old chief 
named Chieske, who w'as too old to be a 
warrior, lived with us and fromi him I 
learned to talk Indian. The first meeting 
house was built at the forks of the road, 
two and one-half miles south of town. It 
was a Ba]-)trst church. The first pastor was 
William Sutton. The first hatter in to-wn 
was Culies. The first tailor was F.phram 
Alunthaw, a German. 



J.XMES SXODGRASS, .\ SOLDIER OF l8l2. 

Silvercreek lost an estimalile old citizen 
in the death of James Snodgrass. He was 
aiged eightv-seven years, seventy-nine of 
which were spent in Greene county. He 
served as a soldier in the war of 1812. He 
knew Springfield, Ohio, when three lo.g 
houses comprised what is now one of the 
most flourishing cities in Oliio. He served 
five years in the army in the war oif 181 2, 
was niiustered out of the service at Green 
Bav, Wisconsin, from which place he 
walked to his home in this place in 1819. He 
served under Captain Taylor, as he was wont 
to call him, who was the great soldier presi- 
dent, Zachary Taylor. He was in what is 
now known as the great city of Chicago 
when there was but one log ta\ern there and 
the garrison of the United States army, and 
was offered an acre of land anywhere he 
wished to select it for doing the work of 
erecting a house and for every house he 
would build. But he was an.xiotis to get 
home, wliere he had not been for years. 
He died in May, 1882, and is buried at 
Jamestown, Ohio. 

INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MILLS IN 1879, 

By John Cisco. 

j(jhn Mills was born in Mason, now 
Fleming county, Kentucky, in 1794. In 
April of the year 1796 his father, Jacob 
Mills, in comipatiy with Jolm Wilson and 
his three sons, Daniel, George and Amos, 
emigrated to- what w'as then the North- 
western Territory, settling in what is now 
the southwest corner of Greene, the north 
of \\'arren. and the southeast corner of 
Montgomerv ci:'unties. Air. John \\'ilson 



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having purcliased a half section of land in 
Greene county, his sons, George, and Amos, 
a quarter section each in the same, while 
Daniel had a quarter section in .Montgom- 
ery, and Mr. Mills had a quarter section in 
Warren county, all adjoining. Upon sur- 
veying Air. Alills was given all the surplus 
land in his section making his purchase 
two hundred acres instead of one hundred 
and si.xty. This party of sturdy pioneers 
came first to their purchase by themselves 
to set things in shape for living, leaving 
their families behind in old Kentucky. They 
did siMiie little clearing, but not much, as 
the lantl was densely timl>ered and stub- 
born to yield tu cultivation, planting sonic 
corn, beans, pumpkins, etc., built a small 
cabin on the lands of John Wilson, which 
was the lirst iAW buill 1.)y civilized men in 
Greene cuunty. They then returned for their 
families, crossing the Ohio river with them 
at I""(irt Washington, now Cincinnati, anJi 
moved out over the road made by General 
Anthony Wayne the year before (1795J. 
when he was in command of the soldiers of 
this section, engaged in the last Indian war 
tliat ever occurred here. Their families and 
effects were conveyed in one wagon drawn 
by. an ox team, and on arri\al all five fam- 
ilies ntO'ved into one little cabin, while other 
hcnises were built l^y the joint labor of the 
men. The Wilsons were the first settlers 
of Greene county, and Jacob Mills the first 
tills side of Leijanon, Warren county. At 
or near Lel.ianon, Ichabod Cor win, father of 
Tom Corwin, "The old man eloquent," had 
settled the year before. The part of the 
county where the Wilsons had settled was 
called the 'AVilson settlement" for many 
years. And John Wilson was one of the 
sturdy men of sense whci had framed Ohio's 
first constitution. The ^^'ilsons and Jacob 



Mills took hold of the difficulties that con- 
fronted thenii with strong hands and brave 
hearts. They were upon ground and near 
good water, but in the heart of a dense for- 
est, where giant timber resisted their effort 
toi an extent almost beyond endurance, and 
they must ha\e failed to conquer had thev 
been compelled to depend cm the soil alone 
for subsistence, so long was it before tliey 
made clearings enough to sustain them, but 
the conntry thereabouts was full of game of 
all kinds, such as deer, wild turkeys, etc., 
that could' Ije killed at their very doors, 
thus furnishing them their meat, and that 
of mjost ncHirishing character. And so they 
were enabled to clear up and establisli 
humble yet comfortable homes, where now 
are Ijeautiful farms under perfect cultiva- 
tion. In the following spring John \'ance, 
father of Joseph C. Vance, to whomi Mr. 
Mills went tO' school, settled where Bell- 
brook now is, and shortly afterward Owen 
Davis, (ieneral Benjamin Whitman and Col- 
onel Maxwell and John Paul settled on 
Beaver creek, where Harbine's Station now 
is, and where Owen Da\is built the first 
mill e\'er built in Greene county, near the 
site of the present one. Shortly after this 
another settlement was made a short dis- 
tance above Owen Davis' mill, on Little 
Beaver creek, by Jobn John. John Webb 
and John Kiser : John Webb being the 
grandfather of Air. Alills. In 1805 Owen 
Da\'is Sold his mill to Jacob Smith and 
moved to where Clifton now is and built 
the first mill there on the site east of the 
present one. In those days the mills only 
ran twoi or three days in the week, as there 
was not grain enough raised in the country 
to supply thenii. notwithstanding men came 
forty or fifty miles to the Clifton miills. 
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grists uii the Sabbatli day iV^r thuse vvhu 
came a lung distance. At one time his re- 
ligious neighljors protested and threatened 
Mr. Da\-is with prosecution, at which he 
tiild them that if they took any steps in 
that direction or mjade any miore such 
threats he would not grind annther grain 
for them. This settled the (piestion ; there 
was nothing more said. The absence of 
meal or Hour from their homes was a more 
jxrtent influence tlian their comi>unctions of 
conscience. 

In 1809 Mr. Mills moved his family 
from Warren to Greene comity, again set- 
tling in the woods, near the present site of 
Cliltnu. John Mills was at that time about 
fifteen years of age. Here the father and 
hi-- three sons, Jacob. Daniel and Thomas, 
again went to work and cleared a fann, en- 
during the hardships and exposure attend- 
ant on such a life with patience and cheer- 
fulness. 'I"'hey were often in company with 
the Indians who inhabited the county or 
came here on liuntmg excursions. Wolves, 
deer and other wild aniniials were plentiful 
in the vicinity, Init neighbors scarce. Jacob 
Mills was elected major of a militia regi- 
ment while he lived in Warren county, it 
being the first ever organized in the state. 
He was elected justice of the peace in Mi- 
ami township, and served in that capacity 
for nine years, during which time he mar- 
ried more people than ar.y justice in this 
part of the state. He lived to be eighty 
years of age and died in 1850. His wife, 
Mary :Mills. survived him nine years, being 
eighty-nine years of age when she passed 
away. In the fall of 1809 young Jobn ]\Iills 
came for the first time to Xenia to attend 
singing school taught by David Wilson, 
Daniel Wilson's oldest son, held in the court 
house, then bright and new, replaced by one 



wbich was torn down this year (1900). The 
young ladies in attendance were mostly at- 
tired in lunnespun dresses, but part of themi 
wore calico', which cost more per yard than 
sumimer silks do now. There were at that 
time not more than twenty-five or thirty 
houses in Xenia, all log but one frame dwell- 
ing and the court hcuise, which was brick. 
In front of wliere used to^ be the Secotid 
Xational Bank there was a pond, in which 
the geese and ducks were swimming and 
the 'hogs w^allowing. Opposite the court 
house Major Beatty w^as keeping tavern in 
a hewed-log house. Up Main street, where 
Trinity church now stands, Mr. Henry 
Barnes, grandfather oi the Barnes boys now 
living in Xenia, had' built him a log house 
in the woods. At a later period of the year 
Mr. Mills was in Xenia and saw a man 
.selling cider in front of the court house for 
twelve and one-half cents per quart. He 
had a fire built on one side oi a stump then 
standing in the street. As the cider was 
so cold that no one could drink it. he Would 
draw a quart and put a round, hot iron in 
it, which he kept heated for the purpose, so 
as to make the cider palatable. 

The first coin't held in Greene county 
was in a log cabin occupied by Peter 
Borders for a tavern, situated' near where 
Harbine's Station now is. The court was 
composed O'f Francis Dunlavey, president ; 
William Maxwell, Benjaniin Whitemau 
and James Barrett, associate judges. At 
the meeting of this court Peter Borders ob- 
tained license to keep tavern, as it jvas then 
called, but it meant to sell wiiiskey, which 
he did in the same room where the court was 
held. Tlius the first court room was the 
first whiskey saloon in Greene county. His- 
tory says this term oi court was in session 
three davs, the records showing that about 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



all the business transacted was the licenshig 
of Peter Borders, Archibald Lowry and 
Griffith Foose to keep tavern, Peter Borders 
paying f(mr dollars iuv the privilege. Mr. 
Mills remembers that the court and the 
whiskey got mixed up and that there was a 
general melee, in which all hands took part 
in the old fashioned way. This may explain 
why there were but three days' session, a 
point in which history is silent. There 
were l>ut two sessions of the court held at 
Peter ISorders". Afterward Xenia was 
made the county seat, having to contend for 
it with a little town called Pinkney. that 
had sjirung up near the present site of Trei- 
bine's Mills with the hope of being made 
the countv seat. There is not one tin;ber 
left upun another of this once pretentious 
little toAvn. Mr. Mills saw it when there 
were some three or four buildings standing, 
tliDugh they were then rootless, windowless 
anil < i course tenantless, the lonely and de- 
caying monument of disappointed ambition. 
Mr. ^lills was not in Xenia from 1810 
unt'l 1812. at which time there were some 
soldiers stationed here. He describes the 
town as having grown wonderfully during 
that time; frame houses had gone up, and 
nice stores started, among which was the 
store of James and Samuel Gowdy and 
everywhere moiiey was plenty. "It was 
such a time as we had during our late war : 
but. Oh, look out for the hard times that 
followed," said Mr. Mills. ]\Ien talk about 
hard times now, but they don't know any- 
thing alxiut it. Then the very highest price 
for labor was froni fifty to seventy-five 
cents per day, and coiild not be obtained at 
that by a great many, while everything you 
Ixjught was from ten to twenty times higher 
than now. The material of the shirt in 
Avhich Mr. Mills was married cost one dol- 



lar per yard and was not so fine as the one 
which lie had on v>hen we talked with him, 
the material of which cost him but nine 
cents per yard. Salt having to be hauled 
fromi Cincinnati, three or four barrels mak- 
ing as mmch as four horses- could pull over 
the new roads, was four dollars per barrel, 
calico from sixty-two cents to one dollar 
per yard, coft'ee fifty cents per pound, tea 
three dollars per pound, and sugar thirty- 
t\\<i cents per pound. Mr. Mills was mar- 
ried in Clifton, in 1816, to Mrs. Elizabeth 
Stevenson, the daughter of William Steven- 
son, a Kentuckian, who was a cousin to 
the father oi Colonel Robert Stevenson. 
Mr. Mills remained about his father's farm, 
wurking and duing what became necessary 
until 1820, when he moved tO' some land he 
had bought in Fayette county, just over the 
line from Greene. He first went there with 
two or three m/en to assist in building a 
cabin and getting things ready for his fam- 
ily. They went into- the woods two miles 
from any habitation and camped out, doing 
their own cooking and washing until the 
cabin was completed. In February, that 
^■ear, he took his family, co-nsisting of his 
wife and three children, to their new home. 
The\- mo\ed on sleds, the snow being atout 
two feet deep. The next day after their 
arrival, while at dinner, a large flock of 
wild turkeys walked up to their door and 
Mr. Mills took down his gun and killed a 
verv large gobbler. The woods aroiuid the 
cabin abounded with game of all kinds. An 
occasional bear made its way into the vicin- 
ity, and wolves cc;>ukl be heard howling at 
all hours of the night in the \Vinter season, 
and now and th.en a human-like scream of 
a panther wailing dismally through the for- 
ests. -Wolves sooietimes approached with- 
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ill daylight. Mr. Mills lived on this farm 
tifty-tive years. During this time he and 
his wife reared a family of nine children to 
be married, tiie youngest child being the 
wife uf T. J. Lucas. They had twelve chil- 
dreri. three uf whdm died in infancy. Mrs. 
Mills died in 1875 '^^ the age oi eighty-one 
years. After her death Mr. Mills sold the 
farm and moved near Jamestown, Ohio, 
making- his home with his son-in-law, Mr. 
A. W. Bryan. 

P.WTO.N MGOU.M.VN 

Died in Xenia, Ohio, March 5, 1861, aged 
eighty years. Buried in Woodland ceme- 
tery, .\enia, Ohin. 

Few persons perhaps are sO' peculiarly 
constituted as not tO' relish pleasing anec- 
dotes of those good old persons who have 
preceded us. In order to interest and 
amuse those of a later date, we would refer 
tliemi tO' a couple of very eccentric individ- 
uals, who' ini the early histo-ry oi Greene 
count}' were somewhat famous on account 
of their eccentricity. One of these gentle- 
men we will be pleased to> introduce to our 
readers is the venerable Payton Moorman, 
of whom perhaps it will be recollected by 
some now living that he died in the city of 
Xenia. A great many funny anecdotes 
have from tjme to. time been related of him. 
He had an old ox cart, "once upon a time," 
with a box bed of his own manufacture, 
which he called his buggy. He would at- 
tach his oxen to> his bugg}'. and he and his 
good old lady (who- was just as eccentric 
as himself) would mount in and ride to 
church, or toi a neighbor's house to pay a 
friendly visit. On one occasion they had 
Ijeen out on a friendly call, or visit, and 
were returning home when a '"ghost" arose 



immediately before the oxen in the ruad. 
They became terribly frightened and in 
spite of all that Payton (who was walking) 
coukl do the oxen ran away with "Becca," 
his good wife, in the buggy, sweeping- 
fences and everything that came in the way. 
Becca barely escaped with her life. The 
"ghost" which caused the stampede was 
some mischievous fellow wrapped in a 
sheet. Suffice toi say the "buggy" bed was 
somewhat defaced by the intervention of 
fence rails, and brush. On one occasion 
Air. Moorman was out paying a visit with 
"Ball}-," his old mare, and by some mean.< 
altogether unperceived by the old gentleman 
some evil mjinded felloiw had, while he was 
preparing to start, succeeded in adjusting a 
brick bat under the saddle. The old man 
mounted tO' go, but he had no time for the 
interchange of compliments, "Bally" start- 
ing off like a locomotive, rearing and pitch- 
ing, the old gentleman "whoa, whoa, at 
every bound." On another occasion still, 
some fellow came (it being nightfall) and 
attached "Bally's" tail to a log of the 
stable. The next morning when 'the okl 
gentleman gave "Bally" her breakfast in 
the trough she refused tO' approach it, 
^^■hereupon the ,old gentlenuan became 
angered at the jxjor old mare and fell to 
whipping her, remarking "Bally, I will 
make thee walk up to the trough and eat thy 
corn," and gave the old mare several licks 
l>efi ire he discovered his mistake. 

WILLIAM SANDERS. 

William Sanders was born in Xorth 
Carolina, and' married Elizabeth Lynders. 
They came to Greene county, Ohio, in 
1801, and located irrst in Sugarcreek town- 
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Mhen Ebenezer Thomas offered to trade a 
farm of sixty acres, situated in siglit of tlie 
present town of Jamestown, for a liorsc. 
Tile excliajige was made, and in 1803 he 
removed to the said farm, where he lived 
the remainder of his life, dying July 3, 186 1, 
at the ripe old age of eighty-five years, and 
is buried in the Baptist church yard sgutii- 
west of Jamestown. His youngest son, 
Moses, is still (1899) a resident o-i Silver 
Creek township, residing on part of the old 
farm, witli many acres more added to it. 

Some one writing for "The Torchlight"' 
November 26, 1873, giving pen pictures of 
some of the old pioneers of Silvercreek, 
relates the following of Uncle Billy San- 
ders : 

'"Mr. Sanders once purchased a clock 
(a wall sweeper) fronn Thomas Bryan, a 
clock peddler, and remarked at the time that 
he did not know much about clocks, but 
that 'Betty,' his wife, knew all about 
clocks. The clock was carried into the 
house and laid ujxju its jiack prior to put- 
ting it up, and while remaining in that po- 
sition 'Betty' came around and accosted 
her husband with 'Billy. Billy, is it going?' 
Mr. Bryan put the clock up, which being 
done, he next directed that in order to 
facilitate the running of the clock an ap- 
plication of tar be made to- the machinery 
thereof. Accordingly 'Billy' crdered his 
son. Jack, to take some tar and get up into 
the loft and ixnir it down into the clock: he 
did so and of course it ran. 

"The old gentleman was fond of imitat- 
ing the cnnduct of others. He had on a cer- 
tain occasion dined with one of his neigh- 
bors, and fried beans were served. Billy 
thoug-ht that this was the most delicious 
nuess he ever ate. On day he had a log 
rolling, and he told 'Bcttv' that she must 



have fried beans for dinner. Accordingly 
when dinner time came 'Betty" ser\ed up 
the beans, but they were so' hard that he 
could not niasticate them; whereupon the 
"old gentleman exclaimed, 'Betty, your beans 
are not done," to which she responded. 
'th.e more 1 fried them tlie harder they got." 
She had fried the, beans without previously 
boiling them. 

."The old gentleman was perhaps one of 
the most eccentric men of his time. His 
custom made him more so. He wore very 
plain clothes consisting of the old fashioned 
round-about and pantaloons the latter ex- 
tending dow nward to a point about midway 
between the knee and ankle, and his feet 
clad with shoes. Some few people in Greene 
count}' may still remember L'ncle Billy 
Sanders. Peace to his ashes." 

KDWAKl) WARREX. .V SOLDIER OF THE REVO- 
LUTION. 

His name appears first as a resident of 
Greene county. Ohio, in the enumeration 
that was taken of Silver Creek tnwnship f(.r 
the year 1813. On the 26th day of October. 
1820, personally appeared in open court 
(it being a court of record) Edward War- 
ren, aged seventy-one _\'ears being duly 
sworn, doth ij.n his oath declare, "I served 
as a private soldier in the C(OTipany com- 
manded by Captain John Holladay. in the 
First Regiment of fo(.t from the state of 
Pennsylvania, commanded by Colonel 
Janiies Chanil>ers in the service of the 
Cnited States, and 1 am the same Edward 
Warren, that in conformity with the law of 
the United States of the i8th of March. 
18 1 8, late a pri\ate in the army of the Rev- 
olution, and inscribed on the pension roll 
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(Ic-Ilars per mniiili. to commence on tlie 5th 
of October. 1819." He was at the time of 
making tliis application seventy-oiie years 
old. and was a cripple in the left hand by 
reason of a vvxnind received by a ball in the 
battle of White Plains, in the state of New 
York. He also says that he is debilitated 
in body by reason of old age, not able to> 
Work, in consecjuence of tlie wound in his 
left luuul and old age. His wife, Susanna, 
died, and he had two children living with 
him at this time, one son, Samuel, who was 
sixteen years of age. and his daughter. 
Lydia, aged nine years. His son, Samuel, 
was sickly and not able to do much work. 
Mr. Warren says that he served sixteen 
mMnths in the Rc\olutionary war, and was 
discharged in conseciuence of the wound in 
his left liand a^; nbo\i' stated. 

JOIIX GORDON. 

John (ionlon was born near Salem, 
X'irginia. on the 15th day of February. 
1S02. and died in Ross township, Greene 
county. Ohio, on the 15th of February, 
1880. and was buried in the cemetery east 
of Grapegrove, Ross township. His fa- 
ther. Richard Gordon, was born in Buck- 
ingham county, Virginia. December 12, 
1774. two years before the declaration of 
independence was declared. His grandfa- 
ther, Giles GoTdon, was a soldier in the war 
of the Revoilution and participated in one 
of the hardest fought battles of that war in 
\'irginia. 

About the close of the war, his wife 
(John's grandmother) stated that in her 
b:ick yard where slie was, standing she heard 
the booming of the cannon, when the battle 
was raging at the same time, knowing that 
lier husl^and was at that time engaged in 



that deadly combat. After the battle was 
over and his grandfather came home, h.e 
related that it was dreadful, the dead and 
dying were everywhere, and had they been 
gathered and scattered o\'er a ten-acre field 
he coidd have walked O'ver tlieni without 
touching the ground. His grandfather 
moved tO' Rockingham county, Virginia, 
when Jdhn's father was about ten years old, 
and was overseer foT his brother Robert 
for some time. From there he moved to 
Campbell county, where they resided until 
John's father was twenty-one years old. 
John's father, Richard, was a resident wben 
Salem, Virginia, was laid c>ut as a town, 
and built the first house in the place, tie 
was married to Aliss Anna Garst, near 
Salem. January 15, 1801. John was born 
two miles from this place on Harrison 
creek, his miother not yet seventeen years 
old when he was born; his brothers. James 
and William, were also born there. 

In the fall of 1805 John's father re- 
moved to Highland comity, Ohio, crossed 
the river where Mays\-nie. Kentucky, is now- 
located and settled on White Oak creek, ten 
miles from Hillsboro'. where he resided for 
two years, and there his brother Andrew 
was born in the fall of 1806. 

In the fall of 1807 John's father sold 
his land in Highland county. Ohio, anil 
started back to old Virginia, and after a 
long and tiresome journey they reached the 
home of John's grandfather in Botetourt 
county. There again J.jhn's father settled 
on Mason's creek, not far from Salem, 
John's birthplace, where they continued to 
reside for about nine years, or up to 1816. 
Octol)er 7, 1816. his father, after trying 
hard to make a living, became discouraged 
at the result of trying to raise his family 
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ROBINSOX'S HISTORY OF GREEXE COUNTY 



started hack tu Uliiu. and alter a Itiiig and 
tiresonie journey, arrived at the nimitli of 
Licking river, crossed over and again be- 
came a "Biickeje," from there to Hamilton 
and Dayton, and from there to a place two 
miles west of Springfield, Ohio where they 
arrived at the house ( f Creston Frantz, an 
uncle uf John's mother, on the 12th of Xo- 
vember, 1816. At this time there were 
twelve of the family, John and his wife and 
ten children, John being the eldest and in 
his fifteenth year. 

They rented a Inaise of Daniel Frantz 
for a year, and while living in this tem- 
porary home his father heard of a farm 
four miles from Springfield which after a 
good deal of traveling he secured, and Jan- 
uary 10, 18 1 7, commenced work on the 
same. Snow fell that winter fourteen inches 
deep. He continued to work, and in the 
fall of that year had erected a house of 
hewn logs two stories high, twenty-one by 
twenty-six feet, with one door and one 
window. John continued to live here with 
his father until about the year 182J, he 
then being twenty-one years old, he began 
to think of doing for himself. 

He had been having pretty good times 
socially and had been "smitten" with the 
charms of a pretty yoimg lass, the young- 
est daughter of Jacob \Vagoner, living in 
the neighborhood. She at the time was the 
'"belle" of that vicinity, and as both families 
were well pleased, so was ^lary, and John 
ctintinued to pay his respects to her for 
about two years, and finallv. April i, 1824, 
thev were married. 

They went tO' housekeeping on his fa- 
ther's farm, where he continued for two 
years, when an opi)ortunity was offered and 
he l;ecame the owner of forty acres of his 
own. He immediatelv went to work and 



put up his cabin and moved into it soon aft- 
erwards, irie added to it twenty acres more, 
so he had a farm of sixty acres, but in the 
winter of 1833 he began to think he must 
have more land. His brother Andrew was 
married and located in Ross township, 
Greene county, Ohio. In February, 1833. 
he went down to see his "bro'ther Andrew , 
and they went out to see a tract of land 
which was for sale, and each i>urchased 
one hundred aiul eighty-three acres. Fie 
then went back home, sold his sixty acres 
to his father and commenced work on his 
purchase in Greene county. 

In the nionth of October, having at that 
tinte five children, he removed to his farm, 
where he continued to' live until his death. 
Air. Gordon said tliat the first time he saw 
Springfield was in the fall of 1816, there 
being at that time but three brick buildings, 
small in size, in the place. It was then in 
Cbamjiaign count}-. Urbana being the coun- 
ty seat. In the fall of 1817 Clark county 
was organized, taken from the adjoining 
counties o'f Greene, Champaign and Madi- 
son, and Springfield became the county seat 
of Clark coimty. Saul Hinkle, a Meth- 
(xlist preacher, was the first clerk of the 
courts of Clark county, and held the office 
as long as he li\-ed. 

L.-\XCELOT JUXKIX 

Was born in Kentucky on the nth day of 
January, 1806, and was seventy-seven years 
old- at the time of his death. He took part 
in educating a great nuiniber of citizens in 
this county, and he should not be allowed 
to pass awav without some notice. His 
grandparents and uncles were of the col- 
ony that left Kentucky on account of slav- 
ery, and settled in this cotmty. thus estab- 



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lishing a center of religious intiuences that 
made a rallying point lor that class of emi- 
grants. Xo other incident did so much for 
Greene county. Tiie fc^llowing named are 
a few of these colonists: The Galloways, 
Andrews, McCoys, Townsleys, Kyles, Mor- 
roAvs, Laugheads. 

Lancelot was the son of James Junkin, 
and in early life ccniiiienced as a teacher, 
teaching in all parts of the county. When 
the law came in force requiring certificates 
of qualitications he was the first in the 
county to receive a certificate. It was about 
1848 that Mr. Junkin removed to Lima, 
Ohio, where he continued to teach until the 
infirmities of age nuade him stop and rest. 
Ho could not, however, remain idle in old 
age, and engaged in the sale of family med- 
icines, selling only those that he believed 
to he useful. A year or more later he re- 
turned to this county with his aged partner 
in life, who survives hinT. and was residing 
in Jamestown, until his final illness, with his 
son-in-law. William Junkin. but was re- 
mo\-ed by his wife to his home, where he 
died. .August 11. 1883. aged seventy-seven 
_\ears. 

THE OLD JL"XKI.\ SCHOOL HOUSE. 

Main street. Xenia and' Limestone 
street, Spring-field, cross each other two 
niiiles south O'f Cedarville. Ohio. La early 
days one was called Federal and the other 
Limestone road. In the northeastern cor- 
ner of the crossing was the "nigger field." 
From 1825 to 1833 its appearance was that 
of a dense thicket of bushes and small sap- 
ligs woven to-gether with briars and wild 
\'ines. The nigger cabin was a local land- 
mark, tumbled down and no- signs of a 
chimney being visible, \yhen the negro 

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cleared the field and when he died are dates 
that are not known. Across the Limestone 
road from the caljin the brick school house 
was built, in which Mr. Lancelot Junkin 
was the first teacher. A long open fireplace 
was at each end, while the door was in the 
middle of the s(Hith side, and tlie girls .sat 
at the left and the boys at the right. Mr. 
Junkin remembered having seen the colored 
man, but his recollection of him was faint. 
He was called Dave, and traditioai says he 
died in his cabin and was never buried. 

Southwest from, this school house was 
nearly three thousand acres of woodland 
and a few miles eastward was a still larger 
forest called the Rig Woods, wild deer be- 
ing found in both. The first day that school 
was held here seventeen deer walked leisure- 
ly across the road about one hundred yards 
from the cro.ss roads. Li 1825 wolves were 
not uncci-mmon in these wxkxIs. I can re- 
member seeing them by mo(jnlight prowling 
around my father's sheep house, and recall 
the gossip about Uncle James Cresswell. fa- 
ther of Samuel Cresswell shooting one on 
the Sabbdth day. Sheep were killed by 
them, and a wolf hunt was organized. 
More men than I supiiosed were in existence 
met at my father's house and arranged 
themselves along the road, thinking to: drive 
them out of the woods, then shoot them. 
No wolves were shot, and the woods were 
wild with the howling the following night. 
Hogs ran wild in these woods, and in the 
winter the people would kill them and divide 
them according to their ear marks, eacli 
farmer having had his hogs marked before 
going to the woods. Often they would 
find a litter of pigs, and the one finding 
themi would mark theim. if the mother hap- 
pened to be his ; but rascality took advantage 
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wandering in the wuuds finding a litter of 
young pigs wnuld mark them liis. when he 
liad ne\er owned them. A man of tiiis kind 
was called a "hog-or-an-narv." 

Tlie woodland adjacent to the brick 
school hcaise was traversed by an obscinx 
wagcn way called Kenton's trace. Tradi- 
tion says it had been opened by Simon Ken- 
ton as a passway from Limestone, Ken- 
tucky, now called Maysville, to Old Chilli- 
■cothe, on the Miami, or Old Town north of 
Xenia, which was the old Chillicothe of the 
Shawnee Indians. It was made when the 
Shawnee Indians were friendly with the 
white settlers of Kentucky. 

. Some horses l>eing stolen from the 
%v]iites afterward, they blamed the Indians 
and raised an army and came nnrtliward io 
destroy Old Chillict;the and kill the inhabi- 
tants. They rested for supper at a small 
creek close to the present residence of Ni.xon 
Brown, ha\Mng followed Kenton's trace thus 
far. Their plan was to wait until the moon 
■vvonld rise at midnight, then go and sur- 
prise and kill the Indians. One of the offi- 
cers had a slave with him named Caesar, 
who learned of the plan, and also the fact 
that Kenton's trace led to the Indian town. 
\\ hen the whites had cpiieted down he crept 
away, followed the trace, mjtified the In- 
dians and fled with them. The i)arty came 
on, destroyed the crops and burnt the town, 
hut found no one to kill. The creek was 
afterwards known as the creek where Caesar 
ran away. 

"Caesarcreek," taking its name from the 
first fugitive slave within the bounds of 
Greene county. These facts I got from 
Thomas Coke Wright, who claimed to have 
gitten them from Simon Kenton. 

The brick school house was built in 
1826 and <rlv'l began in it that fall with- 



out waiting to have it plastered. The di- 
rectors ordered the patrons of the school 
to lurnish one ccvd of w'ood fcmr feet long 
for each pupil. As my father had sub- 
scriljed for four scholars, my brothers pro- 
vided the four cords, which made the first 
fires of the schc-ol. Though four subscribed, 
nine of us attended the first day. Tlie 
room was very full the first few days, many 
of the pupils being aclults. One of the pu- 
pils. ]\Iiss Harriet Bower, afterwards be- 
came the wife of the teacher. This district 
was late in being organized, but to make 
up for lost time school was kept continu- 
ously for two years which was very un- 
commjon in that day. Lancelot Junkin was 
our teacher for these two' years. 

The vast amount of woodland unsettled 
within this district tended to keep it weak 
for many years. Over two thousand acres 
of these woods were bought by Jacob 
Brown, father of George and Xixon Brown, 
in 1832 or 1833. but they were only partial- 
ly opened for several years after. Boys 
were often Inst in the woods and sometimes 
men. Two of my sisters had quite an ad- 
venture in theniL Several miembers of a 
family living in a corner of this land were 
ill and inly sisters started to- help nurse 
them through the night. A dim pathway 
led across the corner of the woods, muclt 
shorter than the plainer road which they 
followed quite rapidly at first. Cattle had 
followed this path part of the way and then 
diverged to a spring, making a new path 
more distinct than the original one. In tiie 
dim twilight they followed this until reach- 
ing the spring, when they recognized their 
mistake, retraced their steps, but darkness 
overtoc)k them and thev could not see the 
pathway and so were lost, remaining in the 
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nuun the next day. Xnt returning when ex- 
pected, it was inferred that some of the 
sick were worse. One of my brothers was 
sent to ascertain the facts, and was surprised 
to find that they had not been with the sick 
at all. He rushed hmue, and the fog horn, 
once tlie proq^erty of one of our uncles wdio 
had been a boatni|an, was lilown every few- 
minutes, and thus they were guided home, 
although going, it is said, directly from 
home wheti they first heard the horn. Dur- 
ing the night they had heard the yelping of 
se\eral packs of hounds on the tracks of 
deer or raccoons. Xnt being able to find 
their way back they climbed upon a trunk 
of a big tree and sat there until morning. 

FIKST SCHOOL HOUSE. CEDARVILLE TOWX- 
SHir. 

The following account of the pioneer 
schi ol house located in wbat is now known 
as Cedarville township, was contributed to 
the Pioneer Association of Greene county, 
bv that veteran scliool teacher, Lancelot 
Junkin: "Come with me away back to 
1813, and let mie introduce you to that school 
house of early days, by a description of the 
first one which it was miy lot to attend as 
a pupil. Tbis house was built in 1812 in 
R(;ss township, now Cedarville township, 
abont two miles south of Cedarville and fi,\e 
miles north of Jamestown. It was con- 
structed in true log cabin style in a dense 
forest. The farmers and citizens within a 
circle of six or eight miles met on a day 
pre\iongly appointed and with axes they 
proceeded to cut down trees suitable to l)e 
used for the building. The logs were cut 
in length to make a house twenty-five by 
thirty feet and these were ])uilt to a height 
of twelve or thirteen feet. The roof was 
made of claplx;ards f^ur feet in length split 



from timber cut down the same day. These 
were laid in courses on slim logs called ribs, 
and these were held in position bv smaller 
logs called weight poles. The ceiling was 
also made of split clapboards laid on joists 
of round poles, the logs being left in nat- 
ural ronndness with the bark left on, ami 
the spaces between them were closed with 
clay morter. Its one wincljw was made by 
cutting out a log and fastening small pieces 
of timber perpendicularly about a foot 
apart, and on these paper was pasted, light 
coming through it. The floor was made of 
slabs split from large timbers and made 
smr>oth on one side by a large broadaxe and 
these were laid on joists or sleepers and 
fastened down by wooden pins. The door 
was made from the same material as was 
the floor, and hung in place by wooden 
hinges and fastened together b\- wooden 
pins. The fireplace was made b\ cutting 
out a section o-f logs some five or six feet 
in length and by building up short pieces of 
timber oiitside as high as the joists at the 
ixiint where the logs were cut, thus making 
a back wall and jambs, which were well 
lined with clay and mortar mingled witli 
straw to make it more cohesive. .\ chinmey 
was built up from the back wall by using 
short split sticks wbich were covered from 
within and without by mortar similar to that 
wihich lined the fire place. This honse was 
a t)-pe of those generally used in tbose days 
and as was common by a judicious division 
of labor was completed in a single day. It is 
probable that William Junkin was the first 
teacher in the house that 1 ha\-e described." 

PIONEERS OF GREENE COUNTY THAT DR. 
WATT REMEMBERED. 

Two very old men were familiar tO' 
me Robert W'codlnirn, whose grandson has 



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been for years a pruminent lawyer and poli- 
tician of .Marysville. Ohio, and Joseph Mc- 
Farland. always kindly and respectfully 
called "old Uncle Joe." 

Mr. \\'( iidl)nrn gradually sunk, luidy 
and mind, through softening of the brain.. 
and often would he get lost in the wide for- 
est referred to in previous articles. Uncle 
Joe was the delight of small boys, and at a 
Ijarn raising or log rolling he would gather 
the boys aroimd him and amuse them witii 
wr.nderful stories. One day he showed us 
his gun and told us bow he kept the fore- 
most sight smooth by looking along it. He 
-;iid when he was xoung that he looked so 
sharp that he would wear the sight out in 
a year, but now they lasted lots longer. 

The first that I ever heard of an elec- 
trical experiment was from one of his 
stiries. "1 seed a man set upon a stool and 
tilled so full of fire that to pint his finger 
at his nose he would spit the fire right after 
you. Xow, don't you tell that it was hell 
fire, for maybe it wasn't." He was the pic- 
Ticer of the McFarlands on Massies creek 
and vicinity, a granduncle of Professor Mc- 
I'arland of the State University, a man of 
conmianding appearance, a good neighbor 
and had the respect of all. 

On a farm adjoining him lived Uncle 
Ge. rge \\'ard. who had a beautiful meadow 
thickly set with herd grass, sometimes called 
retl ti p. He regretted that the grountl' was 
not adapted to timothy and clover, and 
when some one spoke of his nice hay he re- 
])lied, "Oh. burn the light stufT. I could, 
carrv a ton of it on my shoulder." and he 
threatened to thrash Colonel Stevenson for 
laughing at his expression. 

Xi t far I •ft was Judge Samuel Kyle, a 
n:a-i cf unbounded influence in the neioh- 



borhood, a pattern of propriety and ikj--- 
sessed of abundant means, his credit being 
good save in a single case. Qiarley iSIahan 
charged a business man with trying to cheat 
him. Said Charley : "You always was a 
rascal : _\-ou cculd not borrow one dollar with 
old Judge Kyle as security." He meant no 
reflection on the Judge, but intimiated that 
the other man's character was beyond re- 
demption. 

South of Judge Kyle on the Federal 
read lived John Mitchel. whose youngest 
son. R. P. Mitchel, has lately become a citi- 
zen of Xenia, and R. B. Davidson, of E. 
Miller & Company, is a son of his youngest 
daughter, the widow of the late Dr. David- 
sen, the only orator I ever heard speak. 

Soiitheastward from my starting point 
at the crossing of the Federal and Limestone 
roads lived a large collection of i>eople 
named Malians. Mathew Mahan was a 
local preacher, aufl after liis wife had died 
and his children had been provided with a 
home, he went at his own expense as a mi — 
sionary to an Indian tribe. I think the W'y- 
andots. He was a mechanical genius and 
taught them several trades, such as lirick 
ni/ason, harness making, carpentery, etc. It 
is unnecessary to say he died in peace, re- 
spected by all who knew him. 

Charles Mahan lived on the Limestone 
road tw'o miles south of Jamestown. Yearly 
camp-meetings were held on his farm. He 
was the grandfather of Mrs. Samuel Elwell. 
of Xenia. and his own mother and his wife's 
n;other lived with hinn. I know' of no one 
now that suggests extreme old age as they 
did. They sometimes walked to omr house, 
knitting and resting by the way.. The'r 
balls of varn would frequently get awa\- 
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it was my delight to race after them. And 
to add to my enjoyment they often ch-opped 
them voIuntariK-. 

William Mahan lived where Mathew 
Wilson now lives ( 1883), and, like the rest 
of theni', he had a large fan^ily. hut he was 
less prosperous than ihis brothers. His sec- 
ond son was a prodigy- of physical develop- 
ment, and once ten men undertook to catch 
iiimi in a ten-acre ticld in fnur Imurs and 
failed. 

James Malum, andher brother. li\cd 
near the camp ground; 1 think where 
George Shigley resided. He lost three sons 
by dnnvning. M(;st (.f tlie Mahans moved 
west. 

Malhew Malian, Jr.. a grandson of 
both Charles and Mathcw. Sr.. becaniK? an 
influential minister of the MetlKxlist church. 
James Clark, living amiong the Mahans, 
was niited fi r prudence and credibility. 

TI10M.\S TOW.N'SLEV, SR., .\ .SOLOIER OV TliK 
REN'OLITION. 

Thomas To'wnsley was born in Cum- 
lierland county. Pennsylvania, A. D. 1755. 
In 1782 he was united in marriage to Miss 
Sarah I'atterson oi the same county, and to 
them were born live children, as follows: 
Martha, William. George, Joanna and 
Nancy. Martha, January 16. 1806, became 
the wife of Major James Galloway, Jr. His 
son William died November 10, 1825, aged 
forty-two years, and is l)uried in the ceme- 
tery at Clifton. Ohio. His son. George 
Townsley, Esrp, was the father of onr re- 
spected townsman, Thomas P. Townsley 
(now deceased). He was a useful and re- 
spected man in his day, filling with honor 
the office of county auditor when that office 
was first made an elective one. He was 
born September 17, 1786, while his parents 



were journeying from Pennsylvania to Ken- 
tucky, and died October 12, 1857, ami is 
buiied in Woodland cemeter_\-. Xenia. Ohi' '. 
Joanna was born May 25, 1789, and was 
married to James Gowdy (first merchant ni 
Xenia) and lived a happy married life foir 
three years and six months, when, at tb.e 
age ui twenty-eight years, she died. .\ little 
daughter, their only one, died a few hours 
before, and thev were both buried in the 
Associate Reformed graveyard. East Third 
street. Nancy married Mr. Robert Neslaitt, 
one of Xenia's pioneer caqienters. In 1786 
Mr. Townsley and his younger brother, 
Jcvhn, with their families, bid adieu to their 
Pennsvlvania homes and emigrated to Ken.- 
tncky, where they resided till the year 1800, 
when they removed to what was to be 
Greene'county, Oliio, and located on survey 
No. 3746, two miiles east of the present 
town of Cedar\-ille. which survey was a part 
of the Virginia military land set apart fi>r 
those who took part in that war. Mr. 
Townsley enlisted first m the Uc\-o]utionary 
war at the age of twenty-one at Sherman's 
\'alley, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, 
December 6, 1776, as a private soldier in 
Capt. Thomas Clark's Company ( I ), Watt's 
Re,giment, and served two mimths. He 
after that, April i, 1778, enlisted as a 
wagoner in McCabe's Brigade, and ser\-ed 
two months. He ag-ain enlisted as a private 
soldier in Capt. John Nelson's Company, 

Regiment, for which he received a 

pension, having applied September 15, 
1832, from; Xenia. Ohio. He was wont to 
speak of the time that he was wagoner as 
having hauled in his wagon wounded 
Hessian soldiers. He died at the home of 
his son-in-law. ]\Iajor James Galloway, 
February 22, 1841, and was buried in the 
cemetery at Cliftc™, Ohio. 



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DANIEL DEXS, SR.. 

Was b( rii in llie \illage of Tubennore. 
County Lcnduiiderry, in tlie north of Ire- 
land, in tlie year 1766, and emigrated to 
this cc-untry in the year 1784. landing in 
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. when but 
eighteen years of age. He was a son of 
Roger and Mary Dean. He sojourned in 
Pennsylvania. Maryland and Virginia until 
about 178S. when he removed to Kentucky 
and ]3urchased some land. In 1790 he sent 
back to Ireland for his mother. In 1791 he 
was married to Miss Jeannette Steele. In 
1812, ha\-ing a large family of children and 
m.'t being willing to rear them under the in- 
fluence cf slavery, and having purchased 
a tract of eighteen hundred acres of land 
on the waters (jf Caesars creek, (jreene 
county. Ohio, he removed to it, and here he 
resided until his death, which occurred on 
the 24th of January, 1843, '" t'^e seventy- 
ei.ghth year cf his age. His mother died 
July 21. 1825. aged eighty-si.x years. 
These, with many of his lineal descendants, 
lie buried in the Dean "burial place," 
selected by himself on the tract of land al- 
ready alluded to on the banks of a small 
stream of water that flows on the west side 
of the same. Early in life he made a pub- 
lic profession of religion by joining the 
Associate Reformed church, in the congre- 
gation under the pastoral charge of Rev. 
Rankin. He and his wife remained mem- 
bers (,f this c< ngregation until their removal 
to Ohio. After their com;ing to Ohio, there 
not being an\- orgaiiization of that lx>dy in 
their neighborhood, they connected them- 
selves with the Associate congregation of 
Massiescreek. then under the pastoral care 
of Rev. Roljert Armstrong. He became a 
member of the Caesarscreek congregation 



( Associate) upon its organization, and S(j 
remained until the day of his death. His 
children consisting of five sons and six 
daughters, all married and settled on the 
land before alluded to. Some have nioved 
away and settled in different portions of 
Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Iowa and Kansas. 
His five so.ns were Robert, William, Dan- 
iel, Joseph and James. These five sons were 
the senior nxembers and heads of families 
of the large connection of that name in 
Greene county. Rotert Dean was a soldier 
in the war of 1812 and served a tour of duty 
to Fort \\'ayne under Capt. Roljert Mc- 
Clellan. He died May 8, 1856, aged sixty- 
three, and is buried in the Dean Graveyard. 

SAMUEL KYLE. 

Associate Judge Samuel Kyle was born 
near Harrisburg. Pennsylvania, in Novem- 
ber, 1777. His father, Joseph Kyle, Sr.. 
ser\ed as a soldier in Dunmore's war, and 
was present at Camp Charlotte, in what is 
now Pickaway county, when Logan, thc 
chief of the Z^Iingoes, sent in his fann)i.> 
speech. In 1790 the family emigrated to 
Kentucky and located in Fayette county. 
In 1804 they came to Ohio and settled in 
what is now Cedarville township, and he 
was appointed justice ai the i>eace some 
time afterward. On the 22d of May, 18 10, 
he took his seat on the bench as associate 
judge, Judges James Snowden and David 
Houston being his associates: the Hon. 
Francis Dunlavy, presiding judge, and 
James Collier, sheriff. He was on the 
bench when that renxarkable scene occurred 
when the presiding judge ordered James. 
Snowden to leave the bench because he had 
not taken an oath of office under the new 
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tiie slieriff to luck iiim up in jail, and when 
the sheriff refused to obey the order he 
sent Ijoth the judge and sheriff to jail and 
the court broke up. He held the office of 
associate judge for thirty-five years. He 
was also the appraiser of real estate. He 
did a great deal of surveying and located 
more lands in early times than any other 
man. He was a member of the Associate 
church when it was lirst organized by Rev. 
Robert Aniiistrong in iliis county, and his 
Christian life was blameless and exemplary. 
He was a man of practical good sense, and 
did well in whatever he undertook. He 
was tlignitied in deportment, mild in man- 
ner.-^. Ijland auti coiu'teous in all social inter- 
course. ]n the war of 1812 he took a i)art. 
He died at his residence near Cedarville, 
Ohio February 25. 1857, aged seventy-nine. 

D.WIU M. LAUGIIEAU, SR., 

Son <;f David, was born in Fayette county, 
Kentucky, in 1778. His father, David 
Laughead, Sr., had nuade a visit to this 
county previous to his settlement here with 
his family, lia\-ing served under General 
Clarke in his celebrated campaign against 
the hulians, resulting in the destruction of 
the village of Old Chillicothe, or Old Town, 
in the month of August, 1780, the site of 
the (lUl historic Indian town in Greene 
county. 

In 1804. the Laugheads, father and son, 
remioved fromi Kentucky to this count}-, set- 
tling near this city, upon the very land 
where the subject of this sketch died. At 
that time the present tlourishing city of 
Xenia consisted of two log houses in the 
center of town, one of them the well known 
Crumbaugh House, where now stands the 
Eavev & Steele building, and the other on 



the present site of the Xenia Xational 
Bank. 

In company with the Laugheads came 
the ancestors o'f a large number of the pres- 
ent i3on>ulation of Xenia and vicinity, among 
whom we might name William and Rob- 
ert Kendall, Joseph Kyle, Sr., and his fam- 
ily, amiong whom was his two sons, Joseph 
Kyle, Esq., and his brother, Judge Samuel 
Kyle: Alexander McCoy, John Bigger, 
Stephen White, James Clency and Major 
James Morrow. These composed a large 
portion of the Re\'. Robert Annstroiig's 
congregation, which transplanted itself al- 
nwst bodily tO' this state and county. In- 
spired by a strong hatred oi slavery, their 
paj^tor. Rev. Robert Armstrong, followed 
and organized the first Associate church in 
Greene county. 

David M. Laughead was united in mar- 
riage to Miss Elizabeth Kyle February 7, 
]8io, by Rev. Robert Armstrong. After 
the breaking out oi hostilities in 1812 the 
settlers were continually called upon for 
services, generally of a very difficult and 
dangerous nature. Mr. Laughead was 
found toi be an acti\e and willing volunteer 
in several important expeditions, principally 
among w'hich was the celebrated expedition 
to Ft. Mc Arthur (near the present town of 
Kenton), from there to Ft. Finley on the 
Auglaize and from thence to L'pper San- 
dusky. The company composing this ex- 
pedition were of a very singular element, 
most of the privates being men high in mili- 
tary title, embracing in its ranks such men 
as Major James Galloway, Capt. Thomas 
Constant. Capt. Robert Gowdy, Col. Will- 
iam Buckles, Capt. George Junkin, Adjt. 
William Rodgers. ^Nlr. Hugh Andrews and 
others. The company was placed under the 
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object of llie expedition was to guard a 
train of jjack horses from Ft. Arthur to Ft. 
Finley, a \ery dangerous enterprise it may 
well he supposed, considering the hostile na- 
ture of tlie country swarming with savage 
Indians. 

When near Ft. Arthur they were met by 
a messenger, who told them that the fort 
was surrc/unded by In'dians, and of course 
they w'<iul(l have to tight their way into it. 
Tlliis news served only tO' hasten their 
progress, but on arriving at the fort they 
found the report of the express e.xagger- 
ated : the Indians were in the \icinitv, it 
was true, but they experienced no- difficulty 
in miaking their way into the fort. 

.\t this time occurred tlie death of Mr. 
Cunning-ham, of Bellbrook, shot thmugh 
the IhkIv by an Indian bullet. The expedi- 
tion reached its destination without mis- 
hap and returned soon after. When near 
Urbana on their way home they were met 
by (jen. Benjamin Whiteman and Dr. 
Joshua Martin, who- informed them that the 
citizens of Xenia were e.xcited over a rumor 
that the whole company, e.xcept three, had 
been murdered by the Indians, and that they 
had been" chosen to advance into the enany's 
ci-'unlry and ascertain the truth of the re- 
port. The meeting under the circumstances 
was a joyous one, and the members of the 
company breaking ranks made their way to 
Xenia, arriving on Sabbath morning, as the 
citizens were wending their way to cinirch. 

Mr. Laughead lived to see the wonder- 
ful changes which have transformed the 
wilderness into a land, as it were, flowing 
with miilk and honey. He lived toi enjoy the 
fruits of the hardships of the pioneer life, 
and raised a large and respected family, and 
to become i>ossessed of all that which should 
attend ol<l asc. as li^ve, hi>nor. nbetlience, 



troops of friends and finally to' die with all 
the consolations of religion and a life well 
spent. 

ORIGIN OF THE X.\ME IXDI.\N, 

The name Indian was erroneously ap- 
plied to the original man of Amierica by its 
first discoverers. The attempt to arrive at 
the East Indies by sailing west caused the 
discovery of America. When they were first 
discovered, Columbus and many after him 
suppo-sed they had arrived at the eastern 
shore of the continent of India, and hence 
the people they found there were called In- 
dians^ The error was not discovered until 
the name had so^ obtained that it could not 
well be changed. It is true that it matters 
little to us bv what name the indigenous 
of a country are known, and especially those 
of -America, in as far as the name is seldom 
used among us but in application to' the 
alniriginal Americans: but with the people 
of Europe it was not so unimportant. Situ- 
ated between two countries, India and 
.\merica, the same name for the inhabitants 
of both must at first have produced con- 
siderable inconvenience, if not confusion, 
l)ecause in speaking of an Inidian no one 
would know whether an Anierican or 
Zealander was meant. Therefore, in a his- 
torical iK)int of view, the error at least is 
niuch to be deplored as tliat the name of the 
continent itself should have been derived 
fronr .\mericus instead of Columbus. 

ORG.\XIZ.-\TIOX OF THE C.\ES.\RSCREEK ASSO- 
CI.XTE CHURCH. BY DR. GEORGE W.\TT. 

.\biiut 1831 or 1832 an event occurred 
which resulted in almost a revolution of the 
I id neighliorhood. and this was the or- 



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ganization of tlie Caesarscreek congrega- 
tion of tlie Associate, often called the "Se- 
ceder" clnircli. It is the congregation now 
worsiiiping in Jamestown, with Rev. W. A. 
Robb as pastr.r. To' the left as yon gO' to 
Janiestnwn. nine miles from Xenia, is a 
conntry graveyard, which was the burial 
place i»f tliis cnngregation. Its first pastor 
was the \<q\ . Andrew Heron, who came 
froni K(ickl>ridge cotmty, Virginia. He 
was then m the prime of life, and his only 
st»n, Kev. John M. Heron, was ten years 
old. Dr. Heron was regarded as (juite an 
actjuisition ti> the ministerial talent of the 
countv. He was clerk of the Associate 
syniul for many years. His first wife was 
a McCampbell. a cousin i»f J( seiili McCamp- 
bcll. whi> resides between Xenia and 
Jamcstiiwn, au'd his second wife was Mrs. 
Irvin, ;(.■(■ Martha Creswell. 

When the congregation was organized, 
David Brown, grandfather of Xenia's e.x- 
postmaster. Thomas Brown: James Moore, 
father nf the late Dr. Daniel D. Moore; 
James Irvin and Col. John Duncan were 
elected ruling elders. A tide of emigration 
flowed into the congregation, many coming 
from N'irginia, some of whom had been 
micmbers of Dr. Heron's charge in that 
state and these were followed in some cases 
!iy hangers-on and dependents, and these 
tw'o distinct grades O'f society came in at 
once. Samuel Bromagen did the stone work 
of the h<vuse and also the brick work, and I 
think that John and William Bradfute did 
the carpenter work. Colonel John Dun- 
kin was wonderfully lively with a tinge of 
eccentricities in his character that made him 
more interesting. The first time I ever saw 
David Brown he was in search of a cow. 
As John Watt was township clerk and knew 
the earmarks, he called on him. John asked 



him the appearance of the cow. 'A\"e!l, 
John, she's na a black coo, but she's a w hite 
coo; but she's na a large coo, but she's na 
sma coo, and she's a pretty coo." As the 
Scotch dialect was music to me J enjoyed 
the description of the cow mucli better 
than I did the sermon. Some Scotch 
shepherds moved into the congregation, 
among them a married man and his wife 
and two bachelor brothers. Mr. Brown 
said he would go around with them 
and arrange work, as nearly e\er\- farmer 
would make rails in preference to shearing 
sheep and they could get all their rails 
made. "We will make our own rails." said 
the eldest cif the three. "But ye can na do 
it," said Mr. Brown. "Ycm lie, you dog: 
we mjade twa apiece yesterday." was the 
promipt reply. 

Dr. Heron gave a cmu'se of expository 
lectures o^n the propbecies of Isaiah, a para- 
phrase of a psalm, or part of it, and the 
lecture took up the forenoon. Next we hail 
a recess of fifteen minutes in winter and 
fortv-fi\-e in summer, in which we partook 
of the basket or, with the most of us. a 
pocket dinner. A sermon took up the after- 
noon, and most of us got home at sundown, 
even in winter. The service began the same 
hour the year round, and ele\-en did not 
mean twelve by Dr. Heron's watch. Once 
he began with mty brother Hugh and my- 
self present, and not many were late the next 
Sabbath. Dr. Heron, with his comrse of 
lectures, went through the book of the 
prophet Isaiah, and in reading this book in 
after vears when I came on a chapter I had 
lieard bim expound I seemed to have found 
a bright place. The last time I laughed 
aloud during religious service was in the 
old meeting house. The hoiuse was very 
full, when a big woods beau with his red 



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Iiair, freckles and very tall diilciner came 
late. By packing twu pews already full 
room was made for them by the usher, but 
not in the saniie pew. He sat to my right 
and she directly in front of him. Narrow 
lace collars were worn by ladies then, but 
slie had a broad lace cape that extended 
well down her back over a dress still whiter 
than her cape. One oif her long red hairs 
had strayed from its comrades and was 
resting m the cape. The contrast of color 
was loo' painful for Joshua, and he made 
several attempts to remove the hair with- 
out attracting attention. I came toi the con- 
clusion, as 1 knew he was near-sighted, that 
iie did not know that it still had its natural 
attachment, and felt that if he would snatch 
it <'i.nd she wnuld jump 1 would have to 
laugh. To enforce sobriety on myself I 
thought C'f death, fire and lJrin^stone, a re- 
proof ivoim the minister, a relnike from my 
parents, the teasing of my conn^ades, the 
embarrassment of the young lady. After I 
liad suspected the red hair had been aban- 
doned to its fate, and when the pastor was 
in the midst ui an eli:(|uent declamation, 
Joshua grabbed it. The red head shot u|) 
like a-rocket, a wild yell of alarm came from 
somewhere up there, and after an e.x'plosion 
of laughter I subsided and was too mis- 
erable to- remain fiir the afternoon service, 
and the v&\ hairs were carefully taken home 
as well. 

The ne.xt day I met Dr. Heron and 
asked him to scold me. "T'or what?" said 
he. "For laughing aloud in church yester- 
day," said I. "But scnjding is one of the 
exact sciences," said he, "and you miust tell 
me all aljout it, so that 1 can projierly adapt 
the penalty." After Iiearing me through he 
said, "Well. I am glad I did not see it. tV.r 
a laugh in the ])nl])it might have dune more 



harm than a laugh in the pews." 1 felt bet- 
ter, and had the kindest feelings for the 
Dcctor as long as he lived. 1 had the satis- 
faction cf hearing the last senncju he e\er 
preached. 

REV. .\XDREW HERON. 

Andrew Heron was born in Scotland, 
October ii, 1788. He first came to the 
United States ( as he says in his application 
toi become a citizen of this country in 1840) 
in the year 1807. He was nineteen years of 
age. He remained a while at Cambridge, 
Xew Y'lrk, where he studied theology and 
was licensed to preach by the Associate 
church. For a number of years he acted as 
missionary, tra\'eling on horseback through 
Pennsylvania, ^laryland, Virginia and the 
Carolinas, and preached to the congrega- 
tions in those states. In 181S he was set- 
tled in Rockbridge county, \'irginia, where 
he remained thirteen }-ears. During this 
time he acted for a while as professor of 
languages in Washington College at Lex- 
ington, the same o\-er which General Lee 
presiiled at the time of his death. In 1831 
lie removed with a consideralile part ^if his 
congregation, and formed what was known 
as the Caesarscreek congregatiori. near 
Jamestown, Greene county. Ohio. Here he 
remainetl until 1844, when he was displaced 
Ijy the disruption in the Associate church. 
His next charge was in Indiana, where he 
remained, however, only a few years. 
Yielding to the infirmities of age. he re- 
turnetl to this coinitv and Ijecame a resident 
of Cedarville. He received the degree of 
D. D. from Washington College, Virginia. 
In familiarity with the Scriptures he had 
few e(|ua!s, and his retentive memory en- 
alded him ti; (piote scripture while preach- 



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ing, with peculiar fitness. He was twice 
marrieil. By his lirst wife he had one son, 
Rev. John Heron, who^ is yet (1900) living 
in Jamestown, Ohio. Dr. Andrew Heron 
(hed August 30, 1873, in his eighty-fifth 
year, and is buried in Woodland cemetery, 
Xenia, (Jliio. 

FIR.ST ORG.\NIZ.\TIO.V OF THE REFORMED 
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

It appears that it dates its origin back to 
1S04. In that year James Miller and fam- 
ily frmn .Scotland, and David Mitchel and 
wife from Kentucky, settled on Clarkes 
run, and these two- families organized the 
first ijraying band of this congregation and 
were for some }-ears the only miembers. In 
the spring of 1808 James Reid and family 
came and settled in the same neightorhood 
ami to-ok an active interest in the society or- 
ganized. In the fall of r8o8 William More- 
land and family found a home here and 
identified themselves wdth the society. The 
first Refomied Presbyterian preaching in 
the hounds of this congregation, and per- 
haps in the state of Ohio, was in the fall of 
1809, bv Rev. Tbomas Donnelly and Mr. 
John Kell. then a licentiate. Mr. Kell 
])reached in the moniing and Mr. Donnelly 
in the afternoon. Soon after this Rev. John 
Black, of Pittsburg, visited the little so- 
ciety, constituted a session and received 
James Reid and wife as the first accessions 
to the church. At this time there were nine 
or ten members in the congregation. The 
ne.xt Sabbath Mr. Black preached in a log 
caljin on the farm on which ^Mr. Dallas for- 
merly lived. On that day the ordinance of 
baptism was administered for. the first time 
in the congregation. Tbc parties baptized 



were William and Joseph Reid. In the ne.\t 
few years some eight or ten families were 
added tu the congreg-ation. For a time the 
supplies were very limited. The congre- 
gation built its first church edifice in 1812, 
on James Miller's farm. The first church 
edifice was a rude structure, twenty-two 
feet sc^uare, built of round logs, the cracks 
closed with clay, the roof of clapboards 
four feet long, fastened down with weight 
poles. Tins was used for a place of wor- 
ship for twelve years. The first preacher 
the church ever engaged was Rev. John 
Kell. whot administered tO' them about one- 
fourth of his time, from 1810 to 1816. 
The first pastor was Rev. Jonathan Gill in 
1816 who remained until i8_'3, when at his 
own request the pastoral relations were dis- 
solved. From' 1823 to the spring of 1828 
Rev. Gavin McMillan preached about one- 
fourth of his time for the people. 

In 1824 a new house of worship was 
built on the bank of Massies creek six miles 
from Xenia, it being a stone building thirty- 
six by forty feet. The fall oi 1828 the Rev. 
Hugh :\Ic^Iillan assisted the Rev. Gavin 
^McMillan in the dispensation of the Lord's 
Supper. They were so well pleased with 
him that they gave liim a unanimons call to 
become their pastor. The call was accepted 
in April, 1829, and the Rev. Hugh Mc- 
]\Iillan returned from South Carolina and 
was s<X)n after installed their pastor, which 
relation he sustained until his death in 
i860. At the time the Rev. Meridian be- 
came pastor there were sixty-six members 
in the church. A large number of his mem- 
bers came with him from the south, so that 
in a few years they formed the larger part 
of the congregation. In the time of the di- 
vision in 1833 the congregation numbereil 



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one hundred and 5ixty-fi\e. Thirty-eiglit 
of this number going with tlie other synod 
reduced tlie ri»ll to one hundred and twenty- 
seven. 

In 1839 tlie congregation built a new 
church on a lot near the old one, of brick, 
forty-five by fifty-five feet. In 1848 the 
members living around Xenia and vicinity 
asked for a distinct organization which \vas 
granted. The Xenia congregation took ofif 
fifty members, and they made a call for the 
Rev. Hugh Mc^Iillan to become their pas- 
tor. l)Ut he declined and remioved to Cedar- 
ville. where he continued to work and labor 
till his work on earth was ended. In 1853 
the (Id brick church was pulled down and 
rebuilt in Cedarville. being a more central 
ix>int. In it is material from the old 
church of 1824 and also from that of 1839. 
Tlie congregaticni was without a pastor 
from October, i860, until May. 1863. 
There were in the congregation at this time 
about one hundred and sevent\- members. 
In the fall of 1862 a unanimous call was 
made for Rev. J. F. Morton, and by him 
accepted. In May, 1863, Rev. J. F. Morton 
was ordained and installed as pastor of the 
congregation and still (1899) sustains that 
relation. At that time there were nine 
members of the session, but five of that 
number have gone to their rewards, viz. : 
R. C. Reid. James McCnllum. William 
Harbison, John Orr and William Reid. At 
present there are eight, three having l^een 
added in 1871. During the last twenty 
years there lia\e been two hundred and 
twenty accessions, fort}-fi\e dismissed by 
certificates, one hundred and thirty bap- 
tized and one hundred deaths including 
adults and children. The jiresent member- 
ship is about two hundred. 



GREENE COUXTV OFFICI.\LS FROM 1803 TO 
1840. 

1803. Clerk uf court, John Paul; 
county recorder. John Paul : sheriff, Xathan 
Lamme, from May lo, 1803, to December 
7, 1803, when he resigned and ^^'illiam 
Maxwell was elected : county surveyor, 
James Galloway Jr. : prosecuting attorney, 
Daniel Symms; associate judges, Benjamin 
W'hiteman. James Barrett and William 
Maxwell. 

1804. Clerk I if the court. John Paul; 
county recorder, John Paul ; sheriff, \\"ill- 
iam Maxwell ; county commissioners. Jacob 
Smiith, James Snowden and John Sterritt : 
county surveyor, James Galloway : pr( ?se- 
cuting attorney, .\rthur St. Clair ; associate 
judges, Benjamin W'hiteman and James 
Barrett. 

1805. Clerk of court. John Paul; 
county recorder. John Paul ; sheriff. Will- 
iam ^laxwell : county comanissioners Jacob 
Smith, James Snowden and John McLane ; 
county sur\eyor. James Galloway : assc-ci- 
ate judges, Benjamin Whiteman and James 
Barrett; ccroaier. James Popeni»e. 

1806. Clerk of court. Ji»hn Paul; 
county recorder. John Paul ; sheriff. Will- 
iam Maxwell; county commissioners, James 
Snowden. Jolm McLane and \\'illiam A. 
Beatty ; county treasurer. James Galloway, 
Sr. ; county surveyor, James Galloway, Jr. : 
associate judges. David Huston. James Bar- v 
rett and Josiah Grover; coroner, James 
Popenoe. 

1S07. Clerk of court. John Paul; 
recorder, John Paul ; sheriff. James Collier : 
commissioners. James Snowden John . Mc- 
Lane and Andrew Read; treasurer. James 
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237 



Jr.: coruner, James Popenoe; associate 
judges, James Banett, Josiali Grover and 
Da\id Huston. V 

1S08. Clerk 1)4" court, John Paul: 
recorder, J. lin Paul: sheriff. James Collier; 
treasurer. James Galloway. Sr. ; commis- 
sioners, J(,hn McLane, Andrew Read and 
James Mcrrcw ; surveyor, James Galloway, 
Jr.: ])rosecuting- attorney, John Ale.xander. 
associate jutlges. vDavid Hustwi, James 
Barrett and Josiah r.rover; coroner, James 
Po-penoe. 

1809. Clerk of curt. Jisiah Grover; 
recorder, Josiah Grover; sheriff, James 
Collier; treasurer, James Galloway, Sr. ; 
C( nnnissioners, Andrew Read. James Mor- 
row and William Buckles; surveyor, James 
Galloway, Jr. ; prosecuting attorney, Joihn 
Ale.xander ; 'associate judges, David Hus- 
ton. James Barrett and James Snowden ; 
coroner, William Campbell. 

1810. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder, losiali Grover; sheriff. James 
Collier: treasurer, James Grdloway. Sr. : 
conmiissioners. James Morrow. William 
Buckles and John Haines ; surveyor, Sam- 
uel Kyle : prosecuting attorney, John Alex- 
ander; associate judges, ^^^ David Huston, 
James Snowden and Samuel Kyle : cori>ner, 
William Cam]jbell. 

181 1. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
reci rder. Josiah Grover: sheriff", James 
Collier; treasurer. James Galloway, Sr. ; 
commissioners, William Buckles, John 
Haines and Sanniel Gamble : surveyor. 
Samuel Kyle ; prosecuting attorney, John 
Alexander ; associate judges, John ^IcLane 
and Samuel Kyle; coroner, William! Camp- 
bell. 

i8rj. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover: 
rec<: rder. Jcxsiah Grover : treasurer, James 
Galli:.wav, .Sr. : commissioners, John Haines, 



Thomas Ifunter and Peter Pelliam; sur- 
veyor, Samuel Kyle; prosecuting attornev, 
Ji hn Alexander: associate judges, John 
McLane, Samuel Kyle; coroner, \Villiam 
Campbell ; sheriff, James Collier. 

1813. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder. Jcsia'h Grover; sheriff', Joihn Hiv- 
ling; treasurer, James Galloway, Sr. ; com- 
missicmers, Thomas Hunter, Peter Pelham 
and Benjamin Grover ; surveyor. Samuel 
Kyle; prosecuting attorney. John Alex- 
ander; associate judges. Jacob Haines. 
Samuel Kyle; coroner. William Toavnsley. 

1814. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder, Josiah Grover; sheriff, John Hiv- 
ling; commissioners, Benjamin Grover, 
Thcmas- Hunter and Peter Pelham; sur- 
veyor. Samuel Kyle: prosecuting attorney. 
\\"illiam Ellsberry; associate judges. Jacob 
Haines and Samuel Kyle: coroner. William 
Townsley. 

1815. Clerk of court. Josiah Grover: 
reci;rder. Josiah Grover; sheriff. James 
Po:peno.e: treasurer, James Galloway. Sr. ; 
cotmmissioners. Benjamin Grover, Thomas 
Hunter and Peter Pelham : surveyor. Sam- 
uel' Kyle: ])rosecuting attornev. William 
Ellsberry : associate jtidges. Jacob Haines, 

ijSamuel Kvle and David Huston : coroner, 
George Allen. 

1816. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder ; Josiah Grover : sheriff, James 
Popenoe ; treasurer, James Gallo^way, Sr. ; 
commissioners. Thomas Hunter, Samluel 
Gamble and John^ Haines : surveyor. Moses 
Collier; prosecuting attorney, Joshua Col- 
lett ; associate judges, Jacob Haines. Sam- 
uel Kyle and^avid Huston ; coTCiier. James 
Collier. 

181 7. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recccder. Josiah Grover; sheriff, James 
Popenoe: treasurer, James Galloway. Sr. ; 



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comniisioners, Tlionias Hunter. John 
Haines and David Conley : suneyer. Muses 
Collier; prosecuting attorney. Joshua Col- 
lett ; associate judges. Jacob Haines. Sam- 
uel Kyle and David Huston ; coroner. James 
Collier. 

1818. Clerk of court. Josiah Grover; 
recorder. Josiah Grover; sheriff. James 
Poj)enoe ; treasurer. James Galloway. Sr. ; 
commissioners, Thomas Hunter. Da\'id 
Conlev and Peter Pelham : siu'veyor. Moses 
Collier; prosecuting attorney. John Alex- 
ander; associate judges. Jacob Haines Sam- 
uel Kyle and .David Huston ; coroner. James 
Collier. 

1819. Clerk of court. Josiah Grover; 
recorder. Josiah Grover; sheriff'. John 
Smith; treasurer, Ryan Gowdy; commis- 
sioners. David Conley, Peter Pelham and 
John Sterritt; surveyor. Moses Collier; 
prosecuting attorney. John Alexander; as- 
stKiate judges. John Clark. Samuel Kyle 
and . David Huston ; coroner, James Col- 
lier. 

1820. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder, Josiah Grover; auditor. Peter Pel- 
ham; sheriff, John Smith: treasurer. Ryan 
Gowdy; commissioners. Da\i(l Conley. 
Peter Pelham and John Sterritt ; surveyor, 
Moses Collier; prosecuting attorney, John 
Alexander; associate judges, J(vhn Clark, 
Samuel Kyle and. David Huston ; coroner, 
David Conley. 

182 1. Clerk of court. Josiah Grover; 
recorder, Josiah Grover; auditor, George 
Townsley ; sheriff, John Smith ; treasurer, 
James Gowdy; commissioners. David Con- 
ley, John Sterritt and William Buckles : 
surveyor, Moses Collier; prosecuting at- 
torney, John Alexander; associate judges, 
John Clark, Samuel Kyle and David Hus- 
ton ; coroner. Tames Collier. 



1822. Clerk of court, Ji>siah Grover; 
reci'rder. Josiah Gri\er: auditor. George 
Townsley ; sheriff', John Smith ; treasurer, 
James Gowdy; commissioners, David Con- 
ley, John Sterritt and Stephen Bell ; sur- 
veyor, Moses Collier : prosecuting attorney. 
Jiihn Alexander; associate judges, John 
Clark, Samuel Kyle and --David Huston ; 
coroner, James Collier. 

1823. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover: 
recorder, Josiah Grover : auditor. George 
Townsley ; sheriff. John Smith : treasurer, 
James Gowdy: commissioners, John Ster- 
ritt. Stephen Bell and Samuel Shaw : sur- 
veyor. Moses Collier; prosecuting attorney. 
John Alexander; associate judges. John 
Clark. Samuel Kyle and -David Huston : 
coroner James Collier. 

1824. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover: 
recorder, Josiah Grover; auditor, George 
Townsley ; sheriff'. James Popenoe ; treas- 
urer. James Gowdy : commissioners. John 
Sterritt. Stephen Bell and Samuel Shaw ; 
surveyor. !Moses Collier; prosecuting attor- 
ney. John Alexander ; associate judges. 
John Clark. Sanniel Kyle and David Hus- 
ton : coroner. James Collier. 

1825. Clerk of cuurt, Josiah Grover: 
recorder. Josiah Grover; auditor. George 
Townsley; sheriff. James Pt>penoe; treas- 
urer. James Gowdy; commissioners. Sam- 
uel Shaw. Stephen Bell and William 
Buckles: surveyor. ]\Ioses Cullier; prose- 
cuting attorney. John Alexander ; associate 
judges. John Clark. Samuel Kyle and David 
Huston ; coroner, James Collier. 

1826. Clerk of court. Josiah Grover: 
recorder. Josiah Grover ; auditor. George 
Townsley; sheriff'. James Popenoe; treas- 
urer. James Gowdy; commissioners. Ste- 
phen Bell. IMathias \Vinans and William 
Buckles ; surveyor. Moses Collier : prose- 



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cutiiis' atti rney, J(phn Alexander; associate 
judges, Jolm Clark. Samuel K_\le and David 
Huston ; ccroner, James Collier. 

1827. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder. Josiah Grover: auditor. George 
Townsley : sheriff, James A. Scott; treas- 
urer, James Gowdy; commissioners. Will- 
iam Buckles, ]\Iathias Winans and Simeon 
Dunn: surve}'or, Moses Collier; prosecut- 
ing attorney, John Alexander; associate- 
judges, Joihn Clark, Samuel Kyle and Da\itl 
Huston, coroner, James CciUier. 

i8j8. Clerk of court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder, Josiah Gro\-er; auditor, \\"illiam 
Richards; treasurer, Samuel Newcomh; 
commissioners, William Buckles, Siinleon 
Dunn and Mathias \\'inans ; surveyor, 
Moses Collier; prosecuting attorney, John 
Alexander: associate judges, John Clark, 
Samuel Kyle and David Huston : inlirm- 
arv directors, George Townsley, William 
McKni.ght and Geor.ge Galloway ; coroner, 
JauTCS Collier; sheriff. James A. Scott. 

1829. Clerk (if court, Josiah Grover; 
recorder, Josiah Grover: auditor. William 
Richards: sheriff. James A. Scott; treas- 
urer. Sanuiel Newcomh: comtmissioners. 
Willianii P.uckles, Saniuel Gowdy and John 
Barber; survevor. Mouses Collier; coroner, 
lames Collier; infirmary directors, George 
Gallc'way, Samuel Gowdy and Abraham 
Larew ; prosecutin.g attorney, John Alex- 
ander: associate judges, John Clark, Sam- 
uel Kyle and David Huston. 

1830. Clerk oi court. James L. Grover: 
rec(>rder, John H. McPhersoat: auditor, 
William Richards.; sheriff. James A. Scott; 
treasurer, Sairuuel Xewcomb : commission- 
ers. William Buckles, Samuel Gowdy and 
Joihn Barber; surveyor, Robert Watson: 
coroner, James Collier ; infinnary directors, 
George GalloAvay, George Townsley and 



J. Davison; prosecuting attorney, John 
Alexander; associate judges, John Clark, 
Samuel Kyle and David Huston. 

1831. Clerk of court, James L. 
Grover; recorder, John H. ^IcPherson: 
auditor, William Richards ; sheriff", James 
A. Sccitt ; treasurer, Samuel Xewcomb ; 
commissioners, William Buckles, Samuel 
Gowdy and John Barber; survey(;.r, Robert 
\\'ats<)n: coroner, James Collier; infirmary 
directiirs, Geor.ge Galloway, George Towns- 
lev and J. Davison: pri.secuting attorney, 
John Alexander: associate judges, John 
Clark, Samuel Kyle and David Huston. 

1832. Clerk of court, James* L. 
Gnn-er; recorder, John A. Mcpherson; 
auditor, William Richards; sheriff", Ames 
Quinn ; treasurer, Samuel Xewcomb: cor- 
oner, James Collier ; commissioners, Will- 
iam Buckles, John Barber and John Fudge; 
surveyor, Robert Watson: infirmary di- 
rectors, George Galloway, George Towns- 
ley and Josiah Gro\-er : prosecuting attor- 
ney, C. Clark; assi.iciate judges, John 
Clark, Samuel Kyle and David Huston. 

1833. Clerk of court, James L. 
Grover; recorder. John H. McPherson; 
auditor, Williann Richards ; sheriff", Amos 
Quinn; coroner. James Collier: treasurer, 
Samuel X'ewcomb : commissioners, William 
B^uckles, John Fudge and Ryan Gowdy; 
surveyor, Robert Watson ; infirmary di- 
rectors, George Townsley, Samuel Gowdy 
and Josiah Grover; prosecuting attorney, 
C. Clark; associate judges, Sinneon Dunn, 
Samuel Kyle and David Huston. 

1834. Clerk of court, Janies _ L. 
Grover: recorder, John H. McPherson; 
auditor, Williani Richards : sheriff', Amos 
Quinn ; treasurer, Samuel Xewcomb : com- 
missioners, \\'illiam, Buckles, Jolm Fudge 
and R\-an Gowdy; coroner, John Schnelily: 



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biir\e}( r, Muses Lillier: inhrniai)- ilirec- 
turs, George Townsley, Samuel Gowcly and 
Jcsiah Grcver: prcsecuting attorney. Cor- 
nelius Clark; associate judges. Simeon 
Dunn. Samuel Kyle and David Huston. 

1835. Clerk of court. James L. 
Grover; recnrder. John H. McPherson ; 
auditi-r, Williami' Richards : sheriff. Amos 
Ouinn; treasurer. Samuel Xewcomb; cor- 
oner, John Schnebly: commissioners. John 
Fudge, Ryan Gowdy and Timothy G. 
Bates; surveyor. Moses Collier: infinnary 
directors, Samuel Gowdy, John Ankeney 
and Josiah Grover : prosecuting attorne\-. 
Cornelius Clark; associate judges. Simeon 
Dunn. Samuel Kyle and David Huston. 

1836. Clerk of court. James L. 
Grc.ver: recorder. John H. McPherson ; 
au|ditor, Williami Richards ; sheriff. Amos 
Ouinn; coroner. William Cobum Robinson; 
treasurer. Samuel Xewcomb; commission- 
ers. Juhn Fudge. Ryan Gowdy antl Tim- 
othy G. Bates; surveyor, Moses Collier: in- 
tirmary directors. Samuel Gowdy, John 
Ankeney and Sanmiel Cnnnbaugh ; prose- 
cuting attorney, William Ellsberry : asso- 
ciate judges. Simeon Dunn. Samuel Kyle 
and David Huston. 

T837. Clerk of court, Thornton Mar- 
shall ; recorder. John H. McPherson ; aud- 
itor. Thomas Cc^ke Wright: sheriff'. Amos 
Quinn ; coroner, W. C. Robinson ; treas- 
urer. Samuel Xewcomb; connnissioners. 
Ji hn Fudge. Daniel Lewis and Ebenezer 
Steele; infirmary directors, Samuel Gowdy, 
John Ankenev- and Samuel Crumljaugh ; 
prosecuting attorney, \\'illiam Ellsberry; 
associate judges, Simeon Dunn, SannieJ 
Kyle and .David Huston. 

1S38. Clerk of court, Thornton ^Mar- 
shall ; reccrder, John H. McPherson ; 



auditor, Thomas Coke Wright: sheriff'. 
James A. Scott ; coroner, Casper L. Mer- 
rick ; treasurer. Samuel Xewcomb ; commis- 
sioners. John Fudge, Daniel Lewis and 
Ebenezier Steele ; surveyor. Moses Collier ; 
infirmary directors. Samuel Gowdy, John 
Ankeney and Samnel Cnnnbaugh ; prose- 
cuting attorney, R. C. Poland: associate 
judges. Simeon Dunn. Sanuiel Kyle and 
David Huston. 

1839. Clerk of court, Thixnton Mar- 
shall ; recorder, John H. McPherson ; 
auditor. Thomas Coke ^\'right ; sheriff. 
James A. Scott; coroner. Casper L. Mer- 
rick; treasurer. Sanniel Xewcomb; com- 
missioners. John Fudge, Daniel Lewis and 
E. Steele; surveyor, Moses Collier; infirm- 
ary directors, Samuel Gowdy. John An- 
keney and Samuel Crumbaugh ; prosecut- 
ing attorney. R. C. Poland ; associate 
judges. Simeon Dunn, Samuel Kyle and 
David Huston. 

1840. Clerk of court. Thornton Mar- 
shall: recorder, John H. McPherson: 
auditi-r. Thomas Coke Wright ; sheriff'. 
William) Coburn Robinson ; coroner, Juhn 
Duncan; treasurer. Alfred Trader; com- 
missioners, John Fudge, Daniel Lewis and 
Bennet Lewis ; surveyor. Closes Collier : 
infirmary directors. Samuel Gowdy, Jolm 
Ankeney and Samuel Crumbaugh : prose- 
cuting attorney, R. C. P<.iland : associate 
judges. Simeon Dunn, Sanmiel Kyle and 
David Huston. 

GREEXE COi-XTV SOLDIERS IX THE WAR OF 
I812. 

As may l>e supposed the task of gather- 
ing this material has been no easy one, 
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count}- records, concerning the war with 
Great Britain. Tlie roster of the soldiers 
in that war has I)een taken from the booiks 
on file in tlie adjutant general's office in 
Columlxis, and by incjuiry and researches in 
different t(nvnshii)s in the county. And 
after the lapse o'f over three-fourths of a 
centiu'v if some names ha\'e been omitted, 
or if in putting ihe names in correct al[)ha- 
betical order, it has iwt been done accord- 
ing" to Webster. I am in hopes it will be 
overlooked. 

In June. 1S12, the United States de- 
clared war against Great Britain. In this 
war the west was a principal theater. De- 
feat, disaster and disgrace marked its open- 
ing scenes, but the latter extents O'f the con- 
test were a series of siilendid achievements. 
Crogan's gallant defense of Fort Steven- 
son; Perry's victory upon Lake Erie; the 
total defeat by Harrison, of the allied 
Britisb and savages under Proctor and Te- 
cumseh on the Thames ; and the great clos- 
ing triumph of Jackson at Xew Orleans, 
reflected the most brilliant luster upon the 
.-Vnierican arms. In every vicissitude of 
this contest the conduct of OhiO' was emi- 
nently patrii)tic and honorable. \\"Iien the 
necessities oif the national go\-ernment com- 
pelled congi'ess toi resort toi a direct tax, 
Ohio, for successive years cheerfully as- 
sumed and promptly paid her quota out of 
her state treasun,-. Her sons volunteered 
with alacrity their sen-ices in the iield, and 
no tnx)ips more patiently endured hardships 
or performed better service: hardly a bat- 
tle was fought in the northwest in which 
suiue of the brave citizen soldiers did not 
seal their devotion to their country with 
their blood. 

After the breaking out of hostilities, the 
settlers of Greene count}- were continually 

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called upon f(;r services, generally of a 
ver\- difficult and dangerous nature. The 
companies composing these expeditions at 
times were of a very singular elen^ent, most 
of the privates being men high in military 
title and rank embracing in its ranks such 
men as Alajor James Galloway, Captain 
Ct^nstant, Captain Robert Gowdy, Colonel 
Robert Buckles, Captain George Junkin, 
.\djutant \\'illiam Rogers, and others. One 
company so constituted was placed under the 
command' of Captain James ^lorrow ; an- 
other company under Captain Samuel Her- 
rod, of Ross township. The object of the lat- 
ter was to guard a train of pack-horses (no 
use for the aniiy wagon in those days) 
from Fort McArthurt to Fort Finley, a very 
dangerous enterprise it may well be sup- 
posed, considering the hostile nature of the 
country, swarming with savage Indians. 
On this expedition, wihen near Fort Mc- 
-\rtluu-, they were met by an express or 
messenger, who told them that the fort was 
surrounded by savages, and of course they 
would have to fight their way intO' it. The 
news served only to- hasten their progress, 
but on arriving at the fort they found the 
report of the express e.xaggerated. The In- 
dians were in the vicinity it was true, but 
they exi>erienced no difficulty in making 
their way into the fort. 

At this time occurred the death of a 
^Ir. Cunningham, of Bellbrook, who' was 
shot through the body by Indiau bullets. 
Captain Robert McClellan, of Sugarcreek 
township, Greene county, was then in com- 
niiand ol" Fort McArthur with his company 
from said township. Our old and respected 
friend Thonias Coke Wlright (deceased), 
gave the following account of this sad 
event : "Captain Robert ]\IcClelIan, w-ho re- 
centlv died in Greene countv, was brave 



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even t(> rashness. While lie Cdiiinianded at 
F(.)rt Art-Arthur (ine ol' his men went a 
short distance In mi the walls fnr the [mr- 
pose of ]ieeliiig bark. While he was en- 
gaged on a tree he was shot twice thnmgh 
the l)od_v by a couple of Indians in ambush, 
whose ritles went off so near together that 
their reports were barely distinguishable. 
Ik- uttered one piercing scream of agony 
and ran with alnmst superhuman speed, but 
fell before he readied the fort. An instant 
alarm was spread through the garrison, and 
the thought was no doubt entertained that 
this was the commencement of a general 
attack, which had long l>een e.xpected. In- 
stead ol shutting the gates to keep out 
danger, McClellan seized his ritle and call- 
ing on some of his men tO' folloAV (of which 
few obeyed ) lie hastened to the jjlace of 
ambush and made diligent search for the 
eiiemv, who liy an instant and ra])id retreat 
had effected their escajie : nor did he return 
until he had scoured the woods' all an.iund 
in the vicinity of the fort. The site of Fort 
Mc.\rtliur was about three miles southwest 
of Kenton. Hardin county." Two sons of 
the old hero. Cajitain Robert McClellan, 
namely: ])avi<l and William Mcriellan. are 
yet (1901) living west of .\enia, beside 
other descendants. 

But to resume the story r;f Captain Sam- 
uel Herrod's ccnnpany. a.v tnld l)y David M. 
Laughead. wlm was alnng with this expedi- 
tion. "The ciimpany reached its destination 
without mishap, and returned soon after. 
When near Crliana. on their returii, they 
were met liy (icneral I'enjamin Whiteman 
and Dr. Joshua Martin, wh(i informed them 
that the citizens of Xenia were excited over a 
runn r that the whc;le company except three 
had been murdered by the Indians and that 
thev had been clu'sen to' advance into the 



enemy's cnuntry and ascertain the truth of 
the report. The meeting-, under the circum- 
stances was a joyful one. and the members 
of the company breaking ranks made their 
way to Xenia, arriving on Sabbath morn- 
ing, when the citizens were wending their 
way to church." 

An act had been passed authorizing the 
president to detach one liuirdred thousand 
militia fur si.x months also fi.;r organizing 
the regular army. The same month a 
requisition was made by the president upon 
Ohio for twelve hundred militia, in obedi- 
ence to which Governor Meigs issued or- 
ders to the major generals of the middle 
and western cli\-ision of the state to' meet 
in Dayton with their respective (pii;tas 
April 2gth. With an ardor and lo\-e of 
country unsurpassed, many more than were 
wanted tendered their services, and the best 
citizens docked in from Greene, Montgom- 
ery, Warren and Miami literally contend- 
ing with each other as to who should go 
iirst. The officers for the three regiments 
formed were respectively, Duncan McAr- 
thur. colonel ; James Denney and William 
A. Trimble, majors of the First Regiment. 
James Findle\', ci'lonel: Thiimas Moore and 
Thomas B. VanHorn. majors of the Sec- 
ond Regiment. Lewis Cass, colonel : Rob- 
ert Morrison and J. R. ]\lunson, majors of 
the Third Regiment. 

On the 25th of May, 1812, they were 
formally put under the command of Gen- 
eral Hull, governor of the territory, and 
su];erintendent of Indian aft'airs. Speeches 
were made by Governor Meigs, Colonel 
Cass and (leneral Hull and the fire of patri- 
(.itism and military ardi.M" burned bright in 
every bosom, and all things looked Auspi- 
cious. June 1st the arniy marched up the 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



24; 



they halted until their baggage came up 
the river in boats, on the arrival of which 
they cuntinued their iniarch to L'rbana, 
about thirty miles east of Stanton, where 
on the Sth they were informed that thev 
would lie reviewed by the governor and 
some Indian chiefs. June 15th the armv 
broke camp and miarched for Detroit, on 
their \\a_\' wading through a swamp knee 
deep fi.r over f(.'rty miles. On Saturda}-. 
Septem'ber 22nd. news reached Dayton that 
Hull had surrendered at Detroit August 
16th. This created intense excitement and 
consternatii n along the frontier counties, 
and steps were taken at once to organize 
the militia. There were over forty thou- 
sand dollars' worth of stores at l'i(|ua, and 
the Indians who had assembled there at the 
grand co.uncil were still hanging aromnd. 
Hand bills were distributed calling upon 
all able Ijrdicd citizens to meet with arms 
at Dayton immediatey, to march to the re- 
lief of the frontiers. On Sabbath moming 
before seven o'clock a comjiany o^f seventy 
men was raised, and under marching orders 
for Piqua in a few hours, led by Captain 
James Steele, at that time a resident of 
Sugarcreek township, Greene county. Be- 
fore the morroiw seven other companies 
were raised from the surrounding coiun- 
try, with Captain Caldwell's troop O'f 
horse and Johnson's Rifle Company, from 
Warren county, which later, in company 
with Captain Davis' battalion, left on Mt)n- 
day. General Benjamin Whiteman. of Mi- 
ami count}-, marched with nearly a full 
brigade. 

The list that lias been prepared will 
further along show who many of these 
Iira\-e boys were and where they belonged, 
although for years they have been in their 



graves, yet after ahnost one hundred years 
their memory shall be kept green. 

The governor gave General Munger 
command at Picpia and had the stores re- 
mo\-ed to Dayton. The whole country was 
thoroughly aroused to a sense of the emi- 
nent danger that threatened, the frontiers. 
Troops were rapidly pushed forward toi re- 
sist the expected attack of the Englisih and 
Indians, led by tlie infamons Proctor and 
Tecmnseh, in the main, whose scattering 
bands were infesting the isolated settle- 
ments. The excitement was intense ; all 
men capable of bearing arms were scouting 
or in the army. The women and children 
were huddled together in lilock-houses. In 
this connection we submit the following 
from Hug"h Andrew, who is still rem'?m- 
bered Ijy manv persons living today. He 
says : 

"Idull, who surrendered at Detroit, was 
coniimander of all the northwestern arnuies, 
except a few companies of rangers quar- 
tered in block-houses. Prirr to his defeat 
he was encamped at Dax'tin, and I was 
then a private. 1 was on duty during a 
greater portion of the war, but did not en- 
gage in any active battle. My company 
was encamped some time on the Sandusky 
river. One night I was detailed for guard 
dnty : nothing unusual occurred until the 
dawning of the morning, when I heard the 
rustling of the thicket a short distance fror.i 
my post ; peering through the semi-dark- 
ness, I saw a dark object approaching, 
could not discern its features, but con- 
cluded naturally that they were those of an 
Indian. It came yet a- little closer and 
stopped. I brought my gun to my shoul- 
(der and took aim and fired. A loud re- 
port and all was silent, and when the sni'oke 



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hiid cleared a\\a_\- 1 jjerceixed the (hject liad 
vanished. Upmi I)eing relieved I went to 
the spot where 1 had seen the Indian (as 
I supposed), saw spots of blood, by which 
1 tracked him to^ the rear of the guard 
house, thence farther beyond the limits of 
the camp where I discovered the carcass of 
a hog. that had strayed from some settle- 
ment. Thus ended my experience in In- 
dian killing. 

"The announcement of Hull's surrender 
reached Xenia on the Sabbath day. while 
the people were attending worship. They 
were panic stricken as it was considered 
that we were on the frontier and liable t'.- 
be invaded Ijv the British armies without a 
moment's warning. Simultaneously with 
the news of the surrender an order was is- 
sued requesting the First Regiment, com- 
posed partly of Greene county men, to re- 
port at Yellow Springs on the following 
morning ( Monday) at ten o'clock. I was 
then in my eighteenth year, in the vigor of 
youth, and mounting my Iiorse, rode to 
Xenia. Here we equipped ourselves with 
the necessaries- of war, and were on the 
ground at the appointed time. \\'e did camp 
duty that night, and on the morrow 
marched to Urbana, where we remained 
several days. A large concoin-se of people 
had -been gathered here from all parts of 
this section. \vho were willing and anxious 
to answer the country's call. After several 
days' delay, and a protracted discussion, 
it was decided that a portion of the First 
Regiment would proceed northward, while 
all others should return to their homes and 
await further orders. In 1813 Fort ]\Ieigs 
was beseiged by the British and Indians. 
A call was made for a volunteer regiment 
of mounted militia. I volunteered with 
about seven hundred from this countv. \\"e 



were out a short time, and then (jrdered to 
go back to Xenia. On our return we were 
met by a call for vi^ilunteers to be stationed 
at Fort McArthur, until the arrival of a 
drafted company. I volunteered again, and 
at the expiratiiin of twenty days we were 
relieved by a company in clfarge of Captain 
Robert ^IcClellan. from Sugarcreek town- 
ship, Greene coimty. 

"In the miiuth of August, 1813, there 
was an urgent call for a company of \'olun • 
teers tOi guard a train of proA'isions which 
was being con\'eyed from Fort ]\Ic.\rthur 
to Fort Finley. Tiigether with fifty-one 
others I answeretl the call. The train con- 
sisted (f pack-horses loaded with bacon, 
to secure the safe deliverv <.)f which it was 
necessary to provide a strong guard. The 
service was performed successfully, and the 
companv' voted to join a detachment near 
Upper Sandusky. Upon our arri\'al it was 
whispered that the camp was surrounded 
by Indians. At night the fires were put o-ut, 
the sentry called in, and arrangements 
made to march to an open plain, where we 
cmild more successfully defend ourselves, 
which place was reached in safety. We 
waded the river and took possession of 
Fort Wall, then unoccupied. On the fol- 
lowing" day we marched to Upper San- 
dusky. 

"During the battle of Lower Sandusky 
(or Fort Stephenson) our forces were 
commanded by General Corwin. He took 
possession of the fort. Imt was ordered by 
General Harrison to evacuate the same. 
Harrison was well aware that the enemy 
far exceeded the American forces in point 
of numl>ers, and concluded that the latter 
must withdraw at once to avoid overwhelm- 
ing defeat. Corwin was loath to leave Ije- 
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and (lisol)eye(l orders. Under his direction 
a number of men were detailed to strengtli- 
en the tort, and dig a trencli around the 
same. On top of the wall was placed a 
huge cannon, charged with log chains. 
\\'hen the British began to storm the furt 
they descended to the ditch. Here they 
were charged upon and slain by the hun- 
dreds and ere long beat a hasty retreat, 
leaving behind a number of prisoners. 
Corwin was promoted on the spot, and re- 
mained in the regular service until the 
commencement of the Civil war, at which 
time he died in Xew Orleans."' 

.Sugarcreek township was well repre- 
sented in the war (^f 1812. ■ Captain Ammi 
Maltbie of that to\vnshi[) had the honor of 
erecting a block-house at what was called 
McPherson's Station. There were several 
stations in I.ogan county, namely: Man- 
arv'-, McPherson's, \'ance's and Isaac 
Zane's. .Manary's was built by Captain 
Tame> Manary. of Ross county, and was 
situated three miles north of Bellefontaine. 
' n the farm of John Laney. McPherson's, 
a-s has lieen stated, was built by Captain 
Ma'tbie and his men. and was situated 
three-fourths of a mile n<irth\vest of Belle- 
fontaine. X'ance's. built l)y Ex-Governor 
Aance. then captain of a Rifle Company, 
stood i.n a high Ijluff . m the margin of a 
prairie, about a mile east of Logansville. 
Zane's was at Zanesheld. This Isaac Zane 
deserves more than a passing notice. In 
tiie first organization of (jreene c< unity 
Isaac Zane's name appears upon the enu- 
meration list of Bea\-ercreek township, one 
of the four townships into which Greene 
county had been diyi'led. His name also 
appears among sundry court papers, where 
he had business with the courts of this coun- 
tv wliile he was a citizen of the countv. 



He was born about 1753, south of the 
Potomac in \'irginia. and at the age of nine 
years was taken prisoner by the W'yandots 
and carried to Detroit. He remained wit! 
his captors until the age of manhood, when 
like must prisoners taken in youth, he re- 
fused to return to his friends and home. 
He married a Wyandot woman front Can- 
ada, of half French blood, and took nO' part 
in the war of the Revolution. After the 
treaty of Greenville in 1795. he bought a 
tract of eighteen hundred acres on the site 
of Zanesfield. where he lived until his death 
in 18 iG. .\t the breaking out of the war 
many Inmdred friendl}- Indians were col- 
lected and stationed at Zane's and AlcPher- 
son's block-houses, under the protection of 
the governm-ent who for a short time kept 
a guard t^f soldiers over them. It was at 
first feared that they would take up arms 
against the Americans, but subsecpient 
e\-ents dissipating their apprehensions they 
were allowed to disperse. 

Major James Galloway was up in that 
part r;f the country in 1800, and there is no 
doubt but that he was well acquainted with 
Zane. McPherson and other noted pioneers 
of that section. Vears afterward he ga\-e 
from miemory his recollection of that pa-'t 
which had been formerly Greene countv. 
Major James Galloway was on the River 
Raisin under General Tupper in the de- 
fense of the frontier, being appointed to 
the position of major and in tiiat capacity 
he served during the campaign. Little can 
be found among the records of our county 
in reference to the war oi 18 12. Among 
Major Galloway's private papers can be 
found here and there indications rf his 
serx'ices as majcr in the First Regimeni. 
which was called into the ser\'ice of the 
United State-; during the war. Receipts 



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ROBIXSO.\^S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



had Ijeen given by ihe live captains \vh) 
were uniler Iiim iur tlie supplies that were 
needed in tiie service. The first one was 
for ten blankets for the company of Captain 
Samuel Black, date, November 6. 1812. 
place, Camp McArthur. Under the same 
date and place and for same supplies, 
signed Captain Jacob Shingledecker. Cap- 
tain Martin Armstn ng. John Owens and 
James Redding. Same place, date and sup- 
plies, and again later, January 30, 1813. 
received of Major Galloway one comniion 
tent, and ime.camp kettle. Signed J. Tay- 
lor. And again February 27, 1S13 to 
Major Galloway, one wall tent and camp 
kettle. Signed. C. S. ]\Iur : place, Miami 
Rapids. Fnim the above receipts we would 
infer that Captains Samuel Black. Jacob 
Siiingledecker. Martin Armstrong, James 
Redding and J. Taylor were the command- 
ers of companies under Major Galloway. 

Another instance brings to our recoil- 
lecticn that grand old ])ioineer preacher, the 
Rev. Robert .\rmstrong. wlio was the pas- 
tor of Massiescreek congregation! ( Steven- 
son's) for seventeen years. It is said of 
him that once during the war of 1812 word 
came on the Sabl)ath while they were con- 
gregated f(-r worship that the Indians were 
expected to show hostilities immediately. 
The people were dismissed in the midst of 
his sermon and the preacher and his duck 
returneil tn tlie nearest house and began 
molding bullets and otherwise preparing 
for war. and not far away was heard the 
sound of the hammer in a blacksmith's 
shop of parties engaged in making knives, 
tomahawks and other articles tliat could lie 
used in a hand-to-hand contest, but fortu- 
nately no violence was attempted amo.ng 
them. 

1 is r.:> wcni'-^r that in the late Civil 



war there were so many recruits raised in 
the neighborhorxl of Clark's Run. and the 
old church yard, for in it lie buried some 
twenty-fi\e or thirtv of those who partici- 
pated in the War of 181 2. And besides 
tliese there ''re also some nine or ten who 
were soldiers in the War of the Rexolution. 
the ancestors of the "Boys in Blue." 
"Blood is thicker than water, and will tell." 
a sa\ ing that was manifest in the recruits of 
the late war to a remarkable extent. 

That part of Xeuia township lying nortli 
and west of the Little Miami river, embrac- 
ing one school sub-district and a fractional 
part of another, contained, during the Civil 
war, i)etween twenty-five and thirty voter? : 
it.s enthusiasm was so great that it fur- 
nished thirty.-se\en recruits for the army, a 
matter perhaps unparalleled in the whole 
Union. About one-third were boys under 
twenty years of age. 

OREEXK COIXTV .SOLDIERS IX THE W.\R OF 
1812. 

In the following list we give the name 
of the so>ldier. with the tow nsliip from w hich 
he enlisted, followed h\ the name of the caj3- 
tain of the company, with remarks accom- 
panying where something was learned of the 
])erson : 

-Aiulerson. Daniel. Xenia : Roliert Gowdy. captain: 

married Jane Dinsmore. Scptcnil)er 4. 181 7: died 

September 24. i86i. aged 70 years, in the Union 

neighborhood. 
.-\nder?on. Robert. Ceasar's Creek; Joseph Luca5, 

captain : married Mary Campbell. September 5, 
1826. 
-Anderson, John 11.. Sugar Creek: Aninii Maltbie. 

captain. He was the son of John Anderson, Sr. ; 

married Hannah Painter. February 18. 1806. 
Anderson. David. Miami: James Galloway, captain: 

buried in Clifton cemetery. 
Anderson. James. Sugar Creek: Ammi Mahbie. 

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Anderson. Mason. Sugar Creek; .\nimi Maltbie. 
captain. 

Anderson. William, Xenia : James Morrow, captain; 
son-in-law of Joseph Kyle, Sr. ; died September, 
1853. aged seventy-eight; buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard. 

.Alexander. .Matthew. Xenia: Samuel Herrod. cap- 
tain ; buried in Jamestown cemetery, or else on 
his farm. 

Alexander. John. Xenia; Robert Gowdy. captain; 
died January 30. 1865. aged seventy years; buried 
an Woodland. Xenia. 

Adams. Eli. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain ; August 
2. 1810. married Elizabeth Seeks. 

.'\dams. Ephraim. Miami : Robert Gowdy. captain. 

.•\ndrew. Robert, Caesar's Creek ; Jbhn Watson, 
captain. 

.^ndrew. Samuel. Caesar's Creek : John Watson, cap- 
'tain : removed to Clinton county. Ohio. 

Andrew. Hugh. Xenia; James Morrow, captain; 
died March 15. 1881. buried in Woodland, Xenia, 
aged seventy-two years. 

.■\nilrew. James. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan. 
captain; died March 30. 1824; buried in Massie's 
Creek (Stevenson) churchyard. 

Allen. Benjamin. Sug-ir Creek; John Clark, captain; 
died .^pril 15. 1868. aged eighty-two years; buried 
in Woodland, Xenia. 

.Mien. Edward. Sugar Creek: John Clark, captain; 
buried in gravevard south of Xew Burlington, 
Ohio. 

Allen. Jackson. Sugar Creek; John Clark, captain; 
died September 15. 1857. near Topeka. Kansas. 

Aley. John, Beaver Creek ; Jacob Shingledecker, cap- 
tain ; soldier in War of 1812 ; buried in the .\ley 
graveyard. 

.'\nkency, Henry, Bath : Jacob Shingledecker. cap- 
tain ; buried in Union graveyard. Byron ; died 
May 18. 1850. 

.\rthur. Charles. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

.■\lsop. John. Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

.\llen. Joseph, Sugar Creek; John Clark, captain; 
grandfather of John C. Tanner : buried in Caes- 
ar's Creek graveyard, two miles southwest of 
North Burlington. 

Bowers. John. Xenia: unknown; buried in Wood- 
land. Xenia : the old drayman of Xenia ; died 
1867, 

Binkley. Philip. Xenia: John Davis, captain; buried 
in Woodland. Xenia; died December 17, 1857, 
aged eighty-five. 

Blessing, John. Xenia, from Virginia; buried in 
Woodland. Xenia ; died December 2. 1864. aged 
seventy-seven. 

Blessing, John. Sugar Creek; .-Xmnii Maltbie. cap- 
tain; died July 30. i8j8. aged fifty-eight; buried 
at Baptist graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Brewer, John G., Miami : from X'ew Jersey, born 
August, 1794. buried in Woodland. Xenia; died 
in Xenia. 1886. aged ninety-six. 



Barnes. Henry. Sr.. Xenia ; John Davis. L. D.. cap- 
tain ; from West Chester, Virginia, to Kentucky. 
1794. to Ohio. 1807; buried in Woodland: died 
.August 2. 1856. aged seventy-five. 

Butts. Samuel, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain ; buried in Beaver Creek cemetery, near .W- 
pha; died February. 1827, aged sixtv-one years. 

Burrous, William, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledecker. 
captain : buried in Union graveyard, near Byron. 

Burrous, Daniel, Beaver Creek: Samuel Herrod. 
captain; buried in Union graveyard, near Byron. 

Beall. George. Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain; born October 12, 1791, died May i. 1874. 
buried near Painterville. Xew Hope churclivard. 

Beall. Jonathan, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker. 
captain ; son of Isaac and Mary Beall. buried 
in Union graveyard (Byron). 

Beall .A.aron, Bath; J. Shingledecker. captain; died 
July, i860, aged seventy-seven years; buried in 
Union gravej^ard (Byron). 

Booker, Peter. Beaver (Zreek : J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain. 

Bosharp. John. Beaver Creek : J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain. 

Buckles, John, Sugar Creek : .\mmi Maltbie. cap- 
tain ; died 1870. as'ed eighty-one ; buried Middle 
Run churchyard (Bellbrook) ; son of William 
Buckles, Sr. 

Burrell. John D., Caesar's Creek; Ammi Maltbie, 
captain ; buried in Baptist graveyard, between 
Jamestown and Jasper ; died May 16. 1864. aged 
eighty-one years. 

Birt. Henry, Caesar's Creek; .\mnii Maltbie. captain : 
removed to Rush county. Indiana. 

Barrett. Philip. Sugar Creek; .\mmi Maltbie, cap- 
tain : died in Sugar Creek township in 1826. 

Byrd. Andrew. Sr.. Sugar Creek ; .Ammi Maltbie, 
captain; died in 1834. buried in Baptist grave- 
yard. Bellbrook. • 

Bell. David, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, captam ; 
moved to Jay county, Indiana ; died and is buried 
in that count)'. 

Beaks, William, Sugar Creek: Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain. 

Bain. James. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie. captain; 
died .\ugust 9, 1832, aged seventy-five, buried in 
Pioneer graveyard in Bellbrook. 

Bissell. Samuel. Sugar Creek : .\mmi Maltbie, cap- 
tain : removed from the state. 

Buckles. David, Sugar Creek; .Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain : removed west ; September 2. 1819, married 
Hulda Gerard. 

Burney, Thomas, Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan, 
captain, 

Ban-ett, James, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, 
captain : removed to Allen county. 

Bias, Isaac, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain, 

Bowcn. Ephraim, Sugar Creek : Robert McClellan, 
captain ; removed to Randolph county, Indiana. 

Benham, John, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, cap- 



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tain : removed to Montgomery countj, buried 
at Cetiterville. 
Bingamon. Thomai;. Sugar Creek : Robert McCIel- 

lan. captain : buried at Waynesville. Ohio. 
Bingamon. Lewis. Sugar Creek: Robert IMcClellan. 

captain : buried at Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Blue. Samuel. Miami ; James ^^orro\v. captain. 
Baldwin. David. Miami: James Morrow, captain: 
buried at Bloxsonis. near Sclma : died Decem- 
ber II. 1831. aged forty-two. 
Barnes. John. Miami : James Morrow, captain : bur- 
ied in Clark county. 
Bishop. Solomon. Miami : James Morrow, captain : 
died in 1839 : August 19. 1814. married Elizabeth 
Forbes. 
Bull, John. Xcnia ; Charles Wolverton. captain : sup- 
posed to have been murdered at New Orleans, 
in iS.?4. 
Bull. James. Xenia ; James Morrow, captain : died 
JS72. aged ninety-six, buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard. 
Bull. Richard. Xenia : James Morrow, captain ; died 
in 18,^4. aged fifty-two: buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard. 
Bull. Thomas. Xcnia : Charles Wolverton. captain ; 

removed to Owen county, Indiana. 
Beatty. William A.. Xcnia: James Morrow, cap- 
tain : kept first tavern in Xenia, died in Jack- 
son county. Indiana, in November. 1821. 
Buckles. William. Sugar Creek: Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain : died March 29. 1846. aged seventy-nine, bur- 
ied in Middle Run graveyard. 
Buckles. Robert. Sugar Creek : Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain : died December 25. 1850, aged eighty, buried 
in Middle Run graveyard. 
Bales. John. Caesar's Creek: Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain: died March 11. 1864. aged seventy-five, bur- 
ied in Taber churchyard. Jasper township. 
Barker. Joseph. Xenia : Robert Finley. captain, also 
Martin Shuey : 1812 substitute for Henry Hypes: 
buried in Woodland, Xenia. 
Bell. George. Xenia: Robert Buckles, captain; buried 

in the Bell graveyard, southeast of Xenia. 
Bildcrback. Gabriel, Xenia : James Galloway, cap- 
tain : died in Ross township in 1823. 
Berry, William. Xenia : James Galloway, captain. 
Brown. David. Ross : Samuel Herrod. captain : died 
March 8, 1866, aged seventy-five years, buried in 
Clifton cemetery. 
Blair. Thomas. Xenia : Samuel Herrod. captain : 
died in 1834, buried in Massie's Creek (Steven- 
son) graveyard. 
Bozarth, Thomas. Ross ; Samuel Herrod. captain : 
buried one mile west of Selma in Bloxsom grave- 
yard. 
Baker. Joshua. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain : 
died December 22. 1838. aged fifty: buried in Clif- 
ton cemetery. 
Baker. George. N'ancc : Samuel Stewart, captain : re- 
verted to Clark countv Ohio. 



Buffinbarger. Peter. Vance : Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain: reverted to Clark county. Ohio. 

Buflinbarger. George. Vance : Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain : reverted to Clark county. Ohio. 

Bloxsom. Charles. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain : 
buried near Selma. in the Bloxsom graveyard. 

Bloxsom. Gideon. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
buried in Bloxsom graveyard, near Selma. 

Brooks, William. Vance : Samuel Ste^vart, captain ; 
reverted to Clark county, Ohio. 

Bocock, John. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain : died 
1823, aged thirty years, buried in Bloxsom grave- 
yard. 

Bronson. Andrew. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
reverted to Clark county. Ohio. 

Bird. Mark. Sugar Creek: John McCullough. cap- 
tain : removed to Missouri. 

Browder. Harmon. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain : died in Ross township in 1835. 

Bone, George. Silver Creek : John Watson, captain ; 
son of Valentine : September 20. 1809. married 
Nancy MuUnex. 

Browder. James. Silver Creek : John Watson, cap- 
tain : died 1872. buried. Jamestown, Ohio. 

Bryan. Morrison. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain : died at Jamestown in 1822. 

Bryan. James. Silver Creek : John Watson, captain ; 
died April. 1874. 

Ballard. William, Ross : John Watson, captain ; bur- 
ied at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Borders. George. Beaver Creek : Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 

Brown. William. Beaver Creek: Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain : died November 15. 1864. buried at Hawk- 
er's churchyard : aged sixty-eight. 

Brelsford. James. Sugar Creek: John Clark, cap- 
tain: died near Bellbrook. Ohio, in 1866: pur- 
chased the Daniel Wilson farm. 

Benson. William. Sugar Creek: John Clark, cap- 
tain. 

Bond. Benjamin. Sugar Creek: John Clark, cap- 
tain. 

Bodkins. George. Beaver Creek; ^^'illiam Stevenson, 
captain. 

Bennet. Francis. Bath; ^\'illiam Stevenson, captain; 
buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Brake. George. Bath: William Stevenson, captain; 
died August 18. 1864. aged seventy-six years, 
buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Ball James. Bath ; Wm. Stevenson, captain. 

Babcock. Thomas. Bath : Wm Stevenson, captain : 
buried nor'h of O-born. Ohio. 

Bingham. William. C»sar's Creek: Joseph Lucas, 

captain. 
Bell, Joshua. Caesar's Creek : Joseph Lucas, cap- 
lain ; moved to Iowa, buried near Des Moines. 
Iowa: died July i. 1856. 
Black. William. Ciesar's Creek : Joseph Lucas cap- 
tain : died in 1815. 
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Bayliff. Joshua, C«sar'.s Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain : removed to Auglaize county. Ohio, in 1839. 

Babb, James \V., Caesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain : buried in the Babi) graveyard, Caesar's 
Creek township. 

Beatty, WiUiaiu B., Cxsar's, Creek; Joseph Lucas, 
captain: married N'an.y Birt. 

Brown. George. Beaver Creek : James Galloway, 
captain ; died, aged sixty-seven, buried at Mt, 
Zion cemetery. 

Butler. James, Xenia ■ Robert Gowdy, captain ; died 
in 183,3, buried at Woodland cemetery. Xenia. 

Bell, Daniel, Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain: school 
teacher ; removed to Jay county, Indiana. 

Boblett, George, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; 
died in 1872, age ninety-eight, buried at Maple 
Corner, Caesar's Creek. 

Bone, Sairiucl, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; died 
October 10. 1S55, age seventy-six years, 

Bonner. Chapel H.. Xenia: Robert Gowdy. captain; 
removed to Van Buren, Iowa, died November, 
1873. aged eighty-seven years. 

Berry, Thomas L., Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain"; 
died in Miami township, i860. 

Bell) Nathaniel, Xenia: Robert Gowdy, captain: 
died January ;. 1847. aged sixty-six, buried in 
the Bell graveyard, south of Xenia. 

Borders. Henry, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain ; 
December 4, 1818, married Jane Starr. 

Borders. James. Xenia : Robert Gowdy, captain. 

Burnsides, William, Xenia : John Davis. L. D., cap- 
tain : removed to Champaign county, Ohio. 

Browder. James, Xenia; John Davis, L. D.. cap- 
tain: July 4, 1816, married Betsey Hays: died at 
Columbus, Ohio, 1835. 

Black, Peter, Sugar Creek; John Davis, L. D.. cap- 
tain. 

Black. David, Sugar Creek: John Davis, L. D.. cap- 
tain: April 18. 1816. married Christiana Sanders. 

Beason. Richard, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; came from South Carolina to Tennes- 
see, thence to Ohio. 

Brinker, David. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. 
captain. 

Bonner. David S.. Xenia; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain : son of Frederick Bonner, Sr. 

Barnett. Arthur, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain. 

Bruce. Joshua. Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledecker, cap- 
tain ; buried. Baptist graveyard, southwest of 
Jamestown, Ohio. 

Beck. Henry, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain. 

Beck. Samuel, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain : lanuarv g, 1806, married Betsey True. 

Bell. Stephen, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain : removed to Springfield in 1839; died No- 
vember 14. 1852. One of the founders of Bell- 
brook. Ohio. 

Beason. William, Caesar's Creek: Robert McClel- 
lan. caotain: died June 18. 1853. aged sixty- 
six; buried in Bapti-i graveyard, east of 
Jasper. 



Beason. Thomas, Caesar's Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain: died December 26, 1856, aged sixty-six; 
buried in Baptist graveyard, 

Barnes, James, Sugar Creek: Jacob Fudge, cap- 
tain ; removed to Warren county, Ohio. 

Bateman. Jeremiah, Bath ; Martin Shuey, captain. 

Corry, Matthew. Miami ; born in Pennsylvania. Feb- 
ruary 16. 1793; died May .i, 1864, aged seventy- 
five, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 
Collins, Archibald, Xenia: came from Pennsylvania; 
died May 5, 1864, aged seventy-one, Duried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Cherry, James. Sr., Xenia; died. 1851, aged sixty- 
two years, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Collier, James, Xenia; Daniel Reeder, captain; died 
April 17, 1851, aged seventy-seven years; buried 
in Woodland, Xenia. 

Collier, Moses. Xenia ; Robert McClellan, captain : 
died November 28, 1861, aged seventy-eight years; 
buried in Woodland, Xenia, 

Campbell, William, Xenia : Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain : coroner of Greene* countv from 1809 till 
1812. 

Conwell, Stephen. Xenia; Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain ; died March 27, 1841. aged fifty-five years ; 
buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Clark. Captain John, Sugar Creek ; died August 2, 
1849, aged seventy-three years : buried in Wood- 
land, Xenia. 

Cottrell. Thomas, Beaver Creek: J. Sliingledecker, 
captain. 

Chambers. Adam. Bath; J. Shingledecker. captain: 
came to U. S, in 1800, buried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad river. 

Crawford. Oliver. Ba*h ; J. Shingledecker, captain. 

Chambers. William. Bath : J. Shingledecker, captain ; 
came to United States in 1800; died in 1848, 
aged sixty-six years; buried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad river. 

Carman, Rev. Joshua, Sr., Sugar Creek; Ammi 
Maltbie, captain; died December i. 1844, aged 
eighty-five, buried in Baptist graveyard, one mile 
southwest of Bellbrook. 

Carpras, Adams, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain. 

Clark, William, Sugar Creek ; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain ; buried in Sugar Creek township. 

Cain. Samuel. Sugar Creek : Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain. 

Cain, Joseph, Sugar Creek: Robert ^McClellan. cap- 
tain; kept tavern in Fairfield in iSiS, died in 
Xenia in 182 1. 

Cain, Robert, Sugar Creek ; John Clark, captain. 

Casbolt, Robert, Sugar Creek : Robert McClellan, 
captain : soldier of the Revolution, also of War 
of 1S12, built the Dr. Samuel Martin house in 
1S14. 

Casbolt. Thomas. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan, 
captain. 



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Conkleton. David. Xenia: Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain. 

Currie. Robert. Xenia; Robert McClellan. captain; 
buried in Carmel graveyard, near Hanover, In- 
diana. 

Ciirrie. William. Xenia; Robert McClellan. captain; 
buried in Ma^sie's Creek cliurchyard ( Steven- 
son's) ; died. 1840. 

Cannon, Anthoney. Xenia; Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain. 

Constant, Thomas. Xenia : Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain ; captain in War of 1812; removed to Spring- 
field, Illinois. 

Confer. George, Miami ; Robert McClellan. captain : 
died March 16, 1857. aged seventy, buried in 
Union cemetery, near Byron. Bath town.ship. 

Confer, John. Miami ; Robert McClellan. captain, 
also Martin Shuey; died in 1834. buried at Mud 
Run churchyard, Clark county, Ohio. 

Chambers. David, Xenia ; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain : died September 20. 1829, aged sixty-one, 
buried in Massie's Creek churchyard ( Steven- 
son's). 

Cohagan, John, Xenia ; Robert McClellan, captain ; 
died March 7, 1836. buried on Joseph Hutchison's 
farm, north of Xenia. 

Crowder, William. Xenia ; Charles Wolvcrton. cap- 
tain. 

Crumbaugh. Samuel, Sr., Xenia : born August jg, 
1 791. died September 6. 1876, aged eighty-five, 
buried in Woodland cemetery, Xenia. 

Cooper, Isaac. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
Clark county. 

Clinkingbeard. John. Vance; Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain ; Clark county. 

Calloway. John. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
Clark county. 

Cofiin. Aaron. Miami; James Galloway, captain. 

Cronk Andrew, Ross ; Samuel Herrod, captain. 

Casad. Samuel. Bath: John McCullough. captain; 
kept tavern in Fairfield in 1817. 

Carpenter. John. Bath ; John McCuHough. captain. 

Carpenter, 'Thomas. Bath; William Stephenson, cap- 
tain. 

Clayton, Maxon, Bath ; William Stephenson, captain. 

Clayton, John. Bath; William Stephenson, captain; 
March l, 1825. married Phebe Martin. 

Copeland, John, Caesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Chaney. Jesse. Caesar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Cline. Samuel. Caesar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Casad, Jacob. Bath ; John Davis, captain ; died .Au- 
gust 22. 1827. aged seventy-two years ; buried 
in Casad gravejard. 

Clifford. Thomas. Bath; John Davis, captain. 

Crum, John. Bath; James Galloway, captain. 

Cox. Stephen. Ross ; John Watson, captain. 

Chaney, Edward, Silver Creek; John Watson, cap- 



tain; buried in Palmer graveyard; brother of 
Thomas. 

Curry, John. Silver Creek; John Watson, captain; 
died October 15. 1855, aged seventy-three, buried 
in Sheley graveyard, Jamestown, Ohio. 

Cook. Jacob, Bath : Steele, captain. 

Copper. Solomon. Bath ; Steele, captain, 

Cottrell. William, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain ; died in Bath township in 1815. 

Coy. Henry. Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain ; died July 22. 1846. aged fifty-one. buried in 
Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Coy. John. Beaver Creek : Zach. Ferguson, captain ; 
died July 23. 1884. aged ninety-one. buried in 
Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Coy. Jacob, Beaver Creek : Zach. Ferguson, captain ; 
son of .•\dani. died in 1S84, aged eighty-one. 
buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Cosier. Jacob. Bath; Zach. Ferguson, captain: died 
June 5. 1846. aged fifty-six. buried in union 
graveyard, near Byron. 

Cosier. Abraham. Bath : Zach. Ferguson, captain ; 
buried in L'nion graveyard. 

Cyphers. John. Beaver Creek : Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain ; buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Compton. Amos, Sugar Creek : John Clark, captain ; 
died September 14. 1824. aged fifty-four, buried 
in Caesar's Creek graveyard, two miles south- 
west of New Burlington. 

Compton. Stephen, Sugar Creek ; John Clark, cap- 
tain ; died July 14, 1862, aged eighty-seven, bur- 
ied in Caesar's Creek graveyard. 

Compton. Joseph. Sugar Creek; John Clark, cap- 
tain. 

Compton, Samuel, Sugar Creek ; John Clark, cap- 
tain ; brother-in-law of John Sexton, died in 
1850. 

Commack. John. Sugar Creek : Rolicrt MsClellan. 
captain. 

Crumley. Stephen, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain : removed to Indiana. 

Cline. Adam ; married Barbara, daughter of Jacob 
Herring ; died February 2, 1854, aged sixty-four. 

Clemens. John. Sr., Silver Creek: died January 21. 
1866. aged eighty-one, native of \'irginia. 

Comer, David : Martin Shuey, captain. 

Davis, John, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain. 

Davis, Lewis. Miami; Samuel Stewartt. captain; 
son of Owen Davis, the "Old Miller," and 
brother-in-law of General Whiteman, buried near 
Bellefontaine. Ohio. 

Davis, David, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain; died May 17, 1842, aged sixty-four, buried 
in Jamestown cemetery. 

Davis. George. Bath ; Zach. Ferguson, captain ; De- 
cember 27. 1832. married Abigail Ryan. 

Davis. John. Xenia; Robert Gowdy. captain: re- 
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Davis, Ziba S.. Batli ; William Stephenson, captain. 

Davis Ananias, Bath : William Stephenson, captain. 

Davis, Samuel, Bath: William Stephenson, captain; 
(lied in 1S45, aged seventy, buried in Spangler 
graveyard, Clark count'- Ohio. 

Davis. Jonathan. Rath: William Stephenson, cap- 
tain : July 25, 1838. married Sarah Ann Darst. 

Downey. James. Beaver Creek : J. Shingledecker, 
captain : buried in Union graveyard, near Byron. 

Dickensheet, William. Sugar Creek: Robert Mc- 
Clellan. captain: died May 15. 1858, buried in 
Pioneer graveyard, north of Bellhrook. 

Dean Robert, Xenia : Robert McClellan, captain: 
died May 18, 1856, aged sixty-three, buried in 
Dean graveyard, near New Jasper. 

Dcwitt. Isaac. Xenia: Robert McClellan. captain. 

Devvitt, Elisha. Vance: Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Dorscy. Aquilla. Silver Creek : Arthur Thomas, cap- 
tain ; born December 5. 1787. died July 13, 1887, 
aged ninety-nine years. 

Dorsey, John, Xenia: Robert Gowdy, captain. 

Dorsey, Luke I., Sugar Creek : Robert McClellan, 
captain: born in 1780. died in 1849, buried in 
Pioneer graveyard, north of Bellbrook. 

Driscall, Elgin, Xenia: Samuel Herrod, captain. 

Douglass, .•\ndrew. Ross: Samuel Herrod. captain. 

Douglass. David. Xenia: Steele, captain; carpen- 
ter ; removed to Loganspgrt, Indiana. 

Drumtnond, George, Bath; John McCullough, cap- 
tain : buried in Knol) churchyard in Clark county, 
Ohio. 
Durnhaugh, John. Beaver Creek: Zach. Ferguson, 
captain : buried in Mt. Zion churchyard, in Beaver 
Creek township. 

Durnhaugh, Samuel. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain ; buried in Hawker's churchyard. 

Dmilap. James, Sugar Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain : died January 29, 1856, aged seventy-one ; 
buried in Woodland, Zenia. Ohio. 

Dmsmore. Matthew. Bath : William Stephenson, cap- 
tain. 

Dunn. Simeon. Bath: William Stephenson, captain; 
died May 18. 1848. aged sixty-three, buried in 
Fairfield cemetery. 

Dcvore. John. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain: buried in Xew Hope churchyard, riear 
Paiiitersville. Ohio. 

Dashield. Charles, Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. 
captain. 

Espy. Josiah, Xenia; Robert McClellan, captain: 
died September 22. 1843. aged 53, buried at Mas- 
sie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Espy. James P.. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Ellis. Jacob, Caesar's Creek ; Josepli Lucas, captain ; 
died in 1846. aged fifty-nine, buried in New 
Burlington cemetery. 

Elkin, William T.. Xenia: Robert Gowdy, captain; 
first banker in Xenia. in 1818, removed from the 
county. 

Elkin. Jarrett. Xenia. 



Elkin. Robert. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Embree. Elijah. Xenia : Samuel Herrod. captain. 

Edge. William. Miami : Samuel Herrod. captain ; 
buried on the banks of the Little Miami, on the 
John G. Brewer farm. 

Eyler, Benjamin. Xenia; died July 26. 1872, aged 
ninety-two ; buried in Woodland cemetery. Xenia. 

Eyler, Samuel, Xenia ; died August. 1840, aged fifty- 
three, buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Elani. John. Sugar Creek ; .\mmi Maltbie. captain : 
moved to Indiana. 

Ervin. William. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan. 
captain. 

Edgar. William, Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
Clark county. 

Engle. Isaac. Beaver Creek; soldier of 1812, from 
Maryland; buried at Mt. Zion. 

Ennis, Thompson, Sugar Creek; Jacob Fudge, cap- 
tain : died in 1832. 

Ennis. Jeremiah. Sugar Creek; Jacob Fudge, cap- 
tain; married to Dicey bunt; May 25, 1825. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Flowers. 

Engle. John. Beaver Creek : Zach. Ferguson, captain ; 
buried at Mt. Zion graveyard ; May 20, 1826, 
married Susanna Hivling. 

Flowers, Seth, Caesar's Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Falkner. Thomas, Ceasar's Creek: John Watson, 
captain ; died in 1823, buried in New Hope church- 
vard, Paintersville. 

Falkner, David, Cxsar's Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain : died June, 1853. agen sixty-three, buried 
in New Hope churchyard. 

Farmer, Upton, Ross: John Watson, captain: died 
in Ross township; March 23. 1832, married Har- 
riet Stewart. 

Forgey, James. Bath: William Stephenson, captain; 
Iniried in Mud Run graveyard, in Clark county. 

Freeman. William. Beaver Creek; William Stephen- 
son, captain ; buried at Mt. Zion. Beaver Creek 
township; died in 1844. 

Fair. Jacob. Beaver Creek : James Galloway, cap- 
tain. 

Forquire. Jonah. Bath : James Galloway, captain. 

Forequire. Mahlon, Bath; James Galloway, captain. 

Ferguson. Elijah. Beaver Creek: James Galloway, 
captain. 

Ferguson. Zachariah. captain. Beaver Creek. 

Fudge. John, Xenia ; from Warren county ; died 
September 15. 1S68. aged seventy-two, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Fudge. Jacob. Xenia : captain second regiment mount- 
ed volunteers from Warren county ; died De- 
cember 8, 1830, aged thirty-three, buried in Boots 
graveyard, near Jasper. 

Forbes, Alexander. Miami ; J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain : died October 20. 1840, aged forty-nine, bur- 
ied in Clifton cemetery. 

Folck. Jacob, Bath; J. Shingledecker. captain: from 
Pennsylvania, born January 27, 1798. died Sep- 
tember 24. 1866, buried in Folck graveyard. 



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Fogle. Peter. Beaver Creek : J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain : died July 17. 1876. aged >eventy-nine. buried 
in Union graveyard, near Byron. 

Falace. I?aac. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain: from Shenandoah. Virginia: died ^larch 9. 
1858. aged seventy-nine, buried at Falace grave- 
yard. Bellbrook. 

Fisher. Jonathan. Sugar Creek : John Clark, captain : 
born in North Carolina July 13. 1776. died April 
3. 1837, buried at Mt. Holly. 

Forbes. George, Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
Clark county. Ohio. 

Foster. Alexander, Vance : Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain : died November 21. 1828. aged fifty-nine, 
buried at Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) grave- ' 
yard. 

Fires, James. Xenia : Robert Gowdy. captain : an 
early settler near the Union church, south of 
Xenia. 

Flowers. John, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain : died 
in Xenia August i, 1826, aged thirty. 

Frakes, Nathan, Bath: Martin Shuey, captain. 

Greer, John, Xenia: Robert Gowdy, captain. 

Gordon, William, Xenia : Robert Gowdy. captain : re- 
moved to Madison. Indiana. 

Gordon. George, Xenia: served a tour of duty 
from Franklin to Fort Wayne; died December 
10, 1879, aged ninety-three, buried in Woodland. 
Xenia. 

Galloway. James, major: Xenia; died Septemlier 11. 
1S50. buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Galloway. George. Xenia ; James Galloway, captain ; 
died July 3. 1857. aged seventy-three, buried in 
Woodland. Xenia. 

Galloway. William. Xenia; James Galloway, cap- 
tain: born January 25. 1785. died November 16. 
1823. buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Galloway, James M., Beaver Creek : Samuel Herrod, 
captain : burned on his farm near Mud Run 
church, Clark county. Ohio. 

Galloway. Samuel, Xenia; James Morrow, captain; 
born .\pr\\ 8, 1787, died December 22. 1851, aged 
sixty, buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Galloway, John, Xenia ; James ilorrow. captain ; 
buried at Massie's Creek (Stevenson's") grave- 
yard. 

Gowdy, James, Xenia; Daniel Reeder, captain; died 
December 24 1853, aged seventy-six, buried at 
Associate Reformed graveyard. East Third street, 
Xenia. 

Gowdy, Robert, captain; died December 15. 1831, 
aged forty-eight, buried in Associate Reformed 
graveyard. East Third street. Xenia. 

Gowdy. John, sergeant. Sugar Creek ; .\nmii Malt- 
bie, captain ; removed to Franklin, Indiana. 

Gowdy. Samuel, Xenia : James Morrow, captain ; 
died March 18, 1851, buried at Associate church- 
vard. East Third street. Xenia. 



Gowdy. John. Rev.. Xenia; James Morrow, captain; 
died April 4. 1869. aged eighty, buried in Wood- 
land, Xenia. 

Gowdy. Alexander, Xenia ; Daniel Reeder, captain ; 
died April 14. 1872. aged eighty-one. buried in 
Woodland. Xenia. 

Garrison. David. Miami; James Galloway, captain; 
buried in Mud Run churchyard. Clark county, 
Ohio. 

Gamble. Samuel. Xenia; John Davis. L. D.. captain; 
removed to Shelby county. Ohio. 

Grimes. Bath ; John Davis, captain. 

GufFy. James, Caesar's Creek : Joseph Lucas, captain. 

Griffin. David. Bath; William Stephenson, captam ; 
school teacher in Bath township. 

Greene. Timothy, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain; January 5. 1801. married Hulda Webb. 

Greene. John. Beaver Creek: Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Griffin. Jo.seph. Caesar's Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Gillmore. William. Silver Creek: John Wat.^on. cap- 
tain. 

Gano, SaiTiuel, Xenia ; died in Xenia July 18. 1869, 
aged seventy-five, buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Gray. Henry. Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain ; died in 1840. buried on the farm of Samuel 
Andrew. Trebein's. 

Gray. Abraham. Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledecker, cap- 
tain : died in 1820, buried on the farm of Samuel 
Andrew. Trebein's 

Gilland. Jesse. Sugar Creek: .Ammi Mallbie. captain. 

Gilland, .\ndrew, Sugar Creek ; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain. 

Gibson. Matthew. Miami ; James Galloway, captain. 

Gibson, Robert, Beaver Creek : Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain ; April 17, 1832, married Christiana Symms. 

Gibson. Abel. Ross ; Samuel Herrod, captain. 

Gibson. John. Sugar Creek : James Morrow, cap- 
tain : removed to Warren county. Illinois. 

Gibson. Monteleon ; James Morrow, captain ; mar- 
ried a daughter of Thomas Enibree. 

Gibson, Andrew, Xenia; Charles Wolverton. cap- 
tain; September 18, 1806. married Jennie Steven- 
son; died July 13. 1851, aged seventy-three; bur- 
ied in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) graveyard. 

Gibson, William, Miami; Samuel Stewart, captain; 
buried in Caesar's Creek churchyard, near James- 
town, Ohio. 

Gibson. Volentine. Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Griffy. Daniel, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan. 
captain. 

Grant. Robert, Miami ; James Morrow, captain : died 
September 14, 1856, aged sixty-four, at Mon- 
mouth. Illinois. 

Goldsby. John, Miami ; James Morrow, captain. 

Goldsby, George, Miami ; James Morrow, captain. 

Goldsby. Briggs M., Miami; James Morrow, cap- 
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G(>l(l^l)y, William, Miami; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Gregory. Joshua. Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain; 
Clark county. 

Graham, John. Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
died in Miatui township in 1839. 

Garwood. Stacia, Sugar Creek ; John Clark, captain. 

Gerard. Henry, Beaver Creek ; died March 0. 1874 , 
aged eighty-nine, buried in Beaver Creek grave- 
yard. 

Hopping. David. Miami ; James Galloway, captain, 
died June 30. 1859. at Smiithfield, Delaware coun- 
ty, Indiana. 

Hopping. Gideon. Miami ; lohn McCulIough, cap- 
tain ; removed to Illinois 

Harrow. John. Ross; James Galloway, captain. 

Hatfield, Nathaniel, Sugar Creek ; James Galloway, 
captain. 

Hussey, John. Silver Creek; John Watson, captain; 
buried in Hussey graveyard, near Bowersville, 
Ohio. 

Huilinger, Christian. Miami ; John Watson, captain. 

lloladay, John, Caesar's Creek; James Gallow-ay, 
captain. 

Husted, Christian, Miami; James Galloway, captain; 

Hinkle. Thomas, Miami; James Gallow-ay, captain. 

Hulic, Samuel, Miami ; James Galloway, captain. 

Hoop, John A., Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain; born 
January 11, 1758, died' February I, 1841. aged 
eighty-three, buried on Harbison's lot. Wood- 
land, Xenia. 

Hubble. Jacob. Miami ; Robert Gowdy, captain. 

Harshman. John, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain; died July 4. 185-- aged eighty, buried 
in Aley churchyard. 

Harshman. Philip. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain ; died March 1845, buried in Aley church- 
yard. Beaver. 

Harshman. Henry. Beaver Creek; Martin Shuey, 
captain ; Tanuarv 2J. 1820. married Polly Fogle. 

Harshman, Jacob, Beaver Creek; Martin Shuey, 
tain ; died April 20. i860. 

Heaton, Joseph. Xenia; Martin Shuey, captam ; re- 
moved to Pennsylvania. 

Huffman. Aaron: died ]\Iarch 17, 1865, aged eighty, 
buried in Cedarville, Ohio. 

Heaton. Henrv, captain, Xenia ; from Pennsylvania 
in War of 1812; died October 5, 1865, aged sixty- 
seven, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Heaton. John, Major, Xenia; died June 21, 1859, 
aged seventy-eight, buried in Woodland, Xenia, 

Hawker, Andrew, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain; died in 1850, aged eighty-two, buried m 
Hawker churchyard. 

Hittle, George, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Hartsook. William. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain ; died in i860, aged seventy-six, buried 
in Mercer graveyard, south of Xenia, 

Harper. James, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 



Harper. Thomas. Xenia: Joseph Lucas, captain: 
died April ig. 1854. aged sixty-two. buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Hivling, John, Captain, Xenia: Robert Gowdy, cap- 
tain; died November 4. 1851. aged eighty-one 
years, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Hickson, Joel, Xenia : Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Hanes, David. Beaver Creek ; John Davis, captain : 
removed to Menard county, Illinois; died Octo- 
ber 15, 1855, aged seventy. 

Haines, Benjamin, Xenia: Ammi Maltbie, captain; 
moved to Pekin. Illinois. 

Hays, James, Miami ; John Davis, captain. 

Hanna. Robert. Xenia ; John Davis, captain. 

Hamill. Joseph. Xenia; John Davis, captain; born 
in McConnellstown, Pennsylvania, Deceiirber 10, 
!778. died in Xenia, March i, 1838, buried in 
Woodland. Xenia. 

Hamdl. Robert. Xenia; John Davis, captais ; died 
in Xenia. May 24. i860, aged eighty-seven, buried 
in Woodland. Xenia. 

Hamill. Hugh, Xenia ; Robert McClellan, captain ; 
died September 28, 1847. aged sixty^six, buried 
in Woodland, Xenia. 

Hobbs, Edinond. Xenia : Robert Gowdy, captain ; 
died in Casser's Creek township April 12, 1836. 
aged seventy. 

Hunt. Uriah, Caesar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Hunt, John, Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain. 

Huff, Joseph, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Hall. John. Sr., Bath ; William Stephenson, cap- 
tain ; buried near Fairfield. Ohio. 

Hall. Moses. Bath ; Jacob Fudge, captain ; died Jan- 
uary, 1880, aged eighty-six, buried in Casad 
graveyard. 

Hardman. Henry, Bath ; William Stephenson, cap- 
tain; November 29. 1821. married Mary Searl. 

Haddex, Nimrod. Bath : William Stephenson, cap- 
tain ; died in 1820, buried in Cox graveyard, near 
Osborn, Ohio. 

Haddex, John, Bath ; William Stephenson, captain : 
died March 29, 1888, aged ninety-seven, buried 
in Cox graveyard. 

Harris, Stewart, Caesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain ; died January 9. 1869, aged eighty^four, bur- 
ied at Bowersville. Ohio. 

Hook, James, Caesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain ; died October 12, 1844, aged seventy-one, 
buried in the Hook graveyard on the farm. 

Harry, Samuel, Xenia ; died March 2, 1867, aged 
seventy-five, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Hook, Lewis; died June 5, 1848, aged forty-five, 
buried in the Hook graveyard. 

Hoover, John, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker, cap- 
fain. 

Hyers. Anthoney, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledecker, 
captain ; removed to Clark county, Ohio. 

Haverstick. William. Beaver Creek ; J. Shingle- 
decker. captain : died October, 1853, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Hale. John. Sugar Creek : .Animi Maltbic. captain : 
moved to Indiana. 

Hawk. John. Sugar Creek: Amnii Maltbio. captain. 

Hozier. Jacob. Sugar Creek : Robert McClellan. 
captain; died in Sugar Creek township in 1855. 
buried at Beavertown. Ohio. 

Hamilton, William. Sugar Creek: Robert McClel- 
lan. captain : died December 12. 1842. aged .sev- 
enty-two. buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Holmes. John. Sugar Creek; Robert McCellan. cap- 
tain: buried at Bellbrook. Oliio : September 30. 
1824. married Patience Pugh. 

Holmes. Samuel. Bath. 

Hufford. John. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain : buried at Huffersville. west of Mad river. 

Hutchison. George. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain : removed to Shelby county. Ohio : buried 
at Sidney. Ohio. 

Harbison. Joseph. Xenia; Robert McClellan. captain: 
died October 29. 1876. aged eighty-one. buried in 
Woodland. Xenia. 

Howe. Joseph. Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Hays. James. Miami : Samuel Stewart, captain ; re- 
moved to Warren county. Indiana. 

Horney. William. Miami; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Howk. Devault. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. 
captain. 

Henderson, James, N'ance : Samuel Stewart, cap- 
lain ; Clark county. 

Harpole. William. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain : 
from Virginia; died in Ross township, 1853. 

Hicks. John. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Hartin. Edmond, Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Hunter. Daniel. Beaver Creek: Samuel Stewart, 
captain. 

Hatfield. Matthew. Beaxer Creek; Sanuul Stewart, 
captain. 

Hatfield. Leven, Sugar Creek; John Clark, captain. 

Harrison. William. Xenia; John McCullough. cap- 
tain. 

Hiett. Gideon. Sugar Creek; Jolm Clark, captain. 

Horner. Jacob, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; died in 1827, buried at Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Hincman. William. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClel- 
lan. caiitain. 

Inman. John. Sugar Creek: Ammi Maltbie. captain. 
Ivers, Richard, Vance : James Morrow, captain. 
Ingle. George, Vance ; James Atorrow. captain. 
Inlow. Abraham. Miami ; James Galloway, captain ; 
buried in Clifton cemetery. 

James, John. Sugar Creek: John Clark, captain: 
died September 18. 1841. aged sixty-seven, buried 
at Middle Run churchyard, southwest of Bell- 
brook. Ohio. 

Judy. Jacob. Beaver Creek: Zach. Ferguson, captain; 
died in Beaver Creek township in 1823. 

Jolin. Lemuel. Beaver Creek: Zach. Ferguson, cap- 



tain; died January 8. 1836. aged forty-four, bur- 
ied in Mt. Zion churchyard.. 

Johnson. Zachariah. Silver Creek; John Watson, 
captain. 

Johnson. Samuel. Silver Creek ; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Johnson. Christopher E.. Silver Creek; John Wat- 
son, captain. 

Johnson. David. Silver Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Johnson. Thomas. Silver Creek ; John Watson, 
captain; died September 26. 1851. aged seventy, 
buried in Bowersville cemetery. 

Johnson. Christopher. Silver Creek; John Watson, 
captain. 

Johnson, John W.. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain: died October 10, 1889. aged sevnty-six, bur- 
ied at Bower.sville, Oh'io. 

Johnson. James. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain; died January 19, 1S61. aged seventy-eight, 
buried in tlie Hussey graveyard. 

Johnson. James. Batli : William Stephenson, cap- 
tain : died X'ovember 22. 1857. aged eighty-four, 
buried in Muddv Run gravevard. Clark countv. 
Ohio. 

Jinkens. James, Caesar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Johnson. Charles. Miami ; James Galloway, captain ; 
died in 1848. aged eighty-two, buried in Muddy 
Run graveyard. 

Johnson. John. Xenia: Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Johnson. Arthur. Xenia; James Morrow, captain: 
died in 1870, was not naturalized until 1840. 

John;;on. Jeptha. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Jolinson. William. Miami; Sainuel Stewart, cap- 
tain. 

John. John. Beaver Creek; John Davis, captain; 
died November i. 1822. aged seventy-six. l)uried 
at New Burlington. Ohio. 

Jackson, John, Xenia; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Jacobs. James. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; re- 
moved to Indiana. 

Jobe. George, Xenia; in the war from Pennsylvania; 
died January 30. 1867. aged eiglity. buried in 
Woodland. Xenia. 

Jolly. John, Xenia; Ammi Maltbie, captain; died 
in Xenia May 19, 1852. aged seventy-one. buried 
in Woodland. 

Junkin. George. Xenia; James Morrow, captain; 
buried in Caesar's Creek churcliyard. near James- 
town. Ohio. 

Jones. John, Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Jones. Thomas. Vance: Sanuiel Stewart, captain. 

Jenkins. Daniel. Miami : John McCullough. captain. 

Kendall. William. Xenia : Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain ; died near Xenia August 6.. 1879. aged 
eighty-<even. Iniried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Kendall. John. Xenia: James Morrow, captain; born 
in Georgetown. Kentucky; dii'd February 21, 
1849. aged fifty-one. buried in Woodland. Xenia. 



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Kyle. Joseph. Sr.. Xenia : James Morrow, captain : 
died July 16. 1849. ;iged sixty-two. buried in 
Woodland. Xenia. 

Kyle. Samuel. Xenia: James Morrow, captain; died 
Fehrnary 25, 1857. aged seventy-nine, buried in 
Cedarville cemetery. 

Kirkpatrick. John. Sugar Creek: John Clark, cap- 
tain. 

Kirkpatrick. William. Beaver Creek; Zach. Fergu- 
son, captain : died December 10. 1825. aged sev- 
enty-six, buried in Beaver Creek cemetery. 

Kirkpatrick. George. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 

Kirkpatrick. Samuel D.. Beaver Creek; Zach. Fer- 
guson, captain ; buried in Beaver Creek church- 
yard. 

Kendrick. John. Xenia; from Virginia; died .August 
i.^. 1865. aged sixty-nine, buried in Woodland. 
Xenia. 

Kiser. Richard, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledccker, 
captain ; buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Kiser. John. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Kiser. Daniel. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Koogler. .'Kdam. Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledccker, 
captain ; buried in Union graveyard, near Byron, 
Ohio. 

Koogler. Jacob. Beaver Creek; J. Shingledccker. 
captain; died in 1871. aged eighty-six, buried 
in Union graveyard, near Byron, Ohio. 

Koogler. Samuel. Beaver Creek; J. Shingledccker. 
captain ; buried in Union graveyard, near Byron. 

Kirk>vood. William, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledccker, 
captain. 

Kennedy, James. Sugar Creek; .Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain. 

King. Peter. Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

King. William. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain. 

King, Jeremiah. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. 
captain. 

Knight. Samuel. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. 
captain ; died March 19, 1850, buried one mile 
southwest of Bellbrook. 

Kelso. John. Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Keenan. William, Xenia ; buried near Kenton ; fa- 
ther of Mrs. Samuel, Stevenson. 

Kelso. Hugh. Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Kelley. John, Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Kirkendale. George. Bath; William Stephenson, cap- 
tain; died July i, 1871, in Bath township. 

Kirkendale, Jacob. Bath ; William Stephenson, cap- 
tain. 

Keffer. Jacob. Bath; William Stephenson, captain; 
.April 21, 1836, married Elizabeth Miller. 

Low. Thoma-. Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 
Low. William. Beaver Creek; J. Shingledccker, cap- 



tain ; buried in Pioneer graveyard, near Bell- 
brook, Ohio. 

Loyd, James, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; died 
May 27. 1842, aged sixty-three, buried on the 
farm two miles south of Xenia. 

Loyd, John, Xenia ; Rol>ert Gowdy, captain ; died 
April 25, 1872, aged eighty-seven, buried on the 
farm two miles south of Xenia. 

Larew. AbrahaiTi. Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain; 
buried near Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Larew. Samuel, sergeant. Sugar Creek ; .Ammi 
Maltbie. captain; died in 1S58. aged eighty-three. 

Lambert, John, Bath ; William Stephenson, captain. 

Lambert. Aaron, Bath ; William Stephenson, captain ; 
died March 6, 1850, aged sixty-five ; buried at 
Jamestown, Ohio. 

Lendard. Thomas. Silver Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain ; died March 12, 1850, aged sixty-five, buried 
in the Jamestown ceinetery. 

Lenard. Zephaniah. Silver Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Lamme, Josiah, Sugar Creek; John Davis, captain; 
removed to Indiana., 

Lamme, James, Sugar Creek ; John Davis, captain ; 
February 2, 1837, married Hester Black ; re- 
moved to the west. 

Lamme, William, Sugar Creek ; .Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain ; removed to Iowa. 

Lamme. David. Sugar Creek ; Samuel Herrod. cap- 
tain ; died April. 1863. aged seventy-eight, buried 
at Bellbrook, Ohio, Pioneer graveyard. 

Lyle. James, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; died 
January 2$. 1868. aged eighty-five, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Linnville, John, Miami ; Charles Wolverton, captain ; 
buried in Massie's churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Longstreth, Arnett. Beaver Creek ; J. Shingle- 
decker, captain ; buried in Mittman graveyard, 
near Fairfield. 

Lee. John. Bath ; J. Shingledccker, captain ; died 
in 1864. Bath township. 

Livingston. .Andrew. Bath : J. Shingledccker. cap- 
tain. 

Lawrence. W'illiam. Sugar Creek; .Ammi Maltbie. 
captain ; buried in pioneer gravevard. north of 
Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Lawrence. Samuel. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClel- 
lan. captain ; buried in Pioneer graveyard, north 
of Bellbrook. 

Laird. Benjamin. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain; died in Sugar Creek township in 1814. 

Logan, George, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain. 

Law. Jesse, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain ; died in Xenia July 6. 1864, aged seventy-one, 
buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Laughead, David. Xenia ; Sainuel Herrod. captain ; 
buried in Massie"s Creek (Stevenson's) graveyard. 

Lyons. Peter, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. cap-- 
tain. 



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ROBINSONS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Lefong, George B.. Beaver Creek : from \'irginia ; 
(lied April i8. 1875. aged eighty-eight, buried in 
Hawker's churchyard. 

Larkin. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Lightt'oot. Christopher. Vance: Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain. 

Lewis. Joel. Sugar Creek'. John Clark, captain; died 
in Sugar Creek township. 

Lewis. Daniel. Sr.. Sugar Creek: Robert McClcIlan. 
captain: buried in Bclll)rook. Pioneer graveyard. 

McConncll. Robert. Sugar Creek: Robert McClel- 
lan. captain ; died June 28. 1822. buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek churchyard. 

McConnell. Samuel. Xenia : Robert Gowdy. captain; 
died December 31. 1845. aged fifty-two, buried 
in Woodland. Xenia. 

McDonald. John. Xenia: Robert Gowdy. captain: 
died August 29. 1831, aged eighty-five, buried in 
Associate Reformed churchyard. East Third 
street. Xenia. 

McDonald. Dempsey, Xenia; John Spencer, captain; 
buried in McDonald Graveyard, southeast of 
Xenia. 

Mclntire. John. Miami ; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

McCoy. Francis F.. Xenia ; Samuel Herrod, captain ; 
removed to Warren county. Illinois. 

McCoy. William. Xenia; James Morrow, captain; 
removed to Warren county, Illinois. 

McCoy. Alexander. Xenia: James Morrow, captain; 
removed to Warren county. Illinois. 

McCoy. James. Xenia; Charles Wolverton. captain; 
died April 2. 1863. aged eighty-six. buried in 
Cedarville grave)-ard. 

McLane. Xathaniel. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; 
his sawmill was one mile northwest of Xenia 
on Shawnee. 

McFarland. John. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; born in 1784 in Tennessee. 

McCormack. John. Bath: William Stephenson, cap- 
tain ; buried at Bath churchyard, west of Mad 
River. 

McCormack. William; Bath: John Davis, captain. 

McCormack. James. Beaver Creek: J. Shingle- 
decker, captain: died in 1828. buried west of Mad 
River, Bath churchyard. 

McDermot. Edward. Batli : Wm. Stephenson, captain. 

McCabe, Ankeney. Bath; John Davis, captain. 

McCabe, Armstrong. Sugar Creek ; John Clark, cap- 
tain : married a daughter of Judge James Bar- 
rett, and removed to Vigo county, Indiana. 

McCarhen, James, Bath ; James Galloway, captain ; 
removed to Shelby county, Ohio. 

McClellan, Robert, Captain, Sugar Creek; died in 
1846, aged sixty-eight, buried in Woodland, 
Xenia. 

McClellan. Joseph, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; moved to Princeton, Indiana. 

McKnight, Josiah, Xenia ; from Virginia ; his peo- 
ple removed to Illinois; he is buried in Woodland. 



McKnight. William. Sugar Creek; John Clark, cap- 
tain : died January 16, 1S53, aged seventy-six, 
buried in McKnight graveyard, near Spring Val- 
ley, Ohio. 

McKnight. Robert. Sugar Creek; John Clark, cap- 
tain : died February 27. 1856. aged seventy-six, 
buried in McKnight graveyard. 

McKnight. David. Sugar Creek ; John Clark, cap- 
lain ; died January 17. 1893. aged seventy-four, 
buried in McKnight graveyard. 

McKenzie. William. \'ance : Samuel Stewart, captain. 

McBride. William. Sugar Creek; John Clark, cap- 
tain. 

McBride. James. Sugar Creek; Lieutenant Robert 
McClellan : Justice of the Peace in Sugar Creek 
township at an early date. 

Mcintosh. William, Beaver Creek: Zach. Ferguson, 
captain : buried in Beaver Creek cemetery 

McFarland, Arthur, Xenia : James. Morrow, captain ; 
died Xovember 2y. 1834. aged forty-six. 

McFarland. Robert. Xenia; Lieutenant in War of 
1812; came to Greene county in 1806. died Au- 
gust 2Z, 1869. aged eighty-five, buried in Baptist 
graveyard near Cedarville. 

McCulley. Wm.. Xenia : James Morrow, captain ; 
died September, 1823, aged thirty-four, buried in 
Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) graveyard, 

McCulley, James, Xenia; James Morrow, captain: 
buried' in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) grave- 
yard. 

McCullough. John, captain- Miami: died September 
g, 1817, buried in Massie's Creek ( Stevenscm's) 
graveyard. 

Moore. Charles. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Moore. James, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Moore. Wm. M.. Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 

Moore. Wm. C, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellen, 
captain. 

Moore. James. Xenia; James Morrow, captain. 

Mendenhall, Joseph, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, cap- 
tain ; removed to Hamilton county, Indiana. (Son 
of John). 

Mendenhall. Benj.. Xenia; Robert Gowdy. captain; 
died February 10. 1891. buried at Spring \'alley. 

Mendenhall. Obadiah. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, cap- 
tain ; removed to Indiana. 

Mendenhall. Aaron, Silver Creek; John Watson, 
captain ; removed to Indiana. 

Mendenhall. Richard. Sugar Creek : Robert McClel- 
lan. captain ; removed to Hamilton county, In- 
diana. 

Martin, Jonah. Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain. 

Martin, Ezekiel. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain. 

Martin, Samuel. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, 
captain. 

Moorman. John. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain. 



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Moorman, James. Silver Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Moorman, Pleasant ; Martin Sluiey. captain ; died 
in Silver Creek township in i860. 

Moorman, Thomas, Silver Creek ; John Watson, 
captain : died October 26. 1845. buried at James- 
town. Ohio. 

Moorman. Macaji, C, Silver Creek: John Watson, 
captain ; buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Moorman, Samuel. Silver Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Mitchell, George. Silver Creek ; John Watson, cap- 
tain ; son-in-law of Patrick Killeen, Jamestown, 
Ohio. 

Mitchel. John. Bath ; Wm. Stephenson, captain. 

Mitchel. James. Xenia ; John Davis, captain; died 
November 28, 1848. aged eighty-three, buried at 
Massie's Creek graveyard (Stevenson's). 

Mitchel. Wm. M. Bath; John Davis, captain. 

Mitchel. David. Xenia; Chas. Wolverton, captain; 
buried in Massie's Creek graveyard (Steven- 
son's), 

Mitchel, Robert. Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captam. 

Myers, James. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Myers, George, Beaver Creek; Wm. Stephenson, 
captain. 

Morgan. Vansant. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 

Morgan. George. Sugar Creek; .\mmi Maltbie, cap- 
tain. 

Morgan, Jacob. Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captam. 

Morgan, Jonathan, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, 
captain. 

Morgan Samuel. Bath; Wm Stevenson, captain. 

Morgan. Thomas. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain; died in Ca;sar's Creeic township in 1824. 

Mercer. John, Ross; Samuel Herrod. captain; born 
September 14. 1/89. died June 28. 1880, aged 
ninety-one ; came from Frederick county, \ ir- 

Mefcen' Henry, Bath; J. Shingiedecker, captain; 
buried at Fairfield. Oliio. 

Mercer. Edward, Sugar Creek ; John Clark, captain ; 
died February 5. i8.^7 aged sixty-seven buned 
in Mercer graveyard, four miles .south ot Aenia. 

Mercer. Robert. Bath; Martin Shuey, captam ;died 
in Bath township. September 23. 1868. 

Murphy. John. Xenia; Samuel Herrod, captain. 

Murphy. John. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain. 

Murphy, David. Cssar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain; removed to Indianapolis. Indiana. 

Manier, Isaac. Bath; Wm. Stephenson, captain; 
buried west of Mad river. Bath tovvnship. 

Miller, Augustus. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain ; buried in Pioneer graveyard, north of Bell- 
brook. 

Miller, Isaac. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain; buried in Middle Run churchyard, Bell- 
lirook. 

Miller, George, Xenia; James Morrow, captam. 
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Miller, John, Miami ; James Morrow, captain. 

Miller, Daniel, Miami ; James Morrow, captain. 

Miller, William, Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
died September 25, 1873, aged seventy-nine, buried 
in Clifton cemetery, 

Mitman, Jacob, Bath ; from Pennsylvania, in the 
War of 1812, buried in Mitman graveyard, near 
Fairfield, Ohio. 

Mann, Charles, Cjesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain ; died December 24, 1865, aged eighty-three, 
buried in New Burlington cemetery, 

Mann, David, Caesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain : died July 29, 1856, aged seventy-two, buried 
in New Burlington cemetery. 

Moberly, John, Caesar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Ma.xon, Jesse, Bath ; Wm. Stephenson, captain ; 
buried in Mitman graveyard, near Osborn, Ohio. 

Maddux. William, Xenia; buried at Soldiers' Home 
in Dayton. 

Morningstar. Geo., Beaver Creek ; J. Shingiedecker, 
captain; lived on the Benjamin Stine farm. 

Mirmiars, Wm., Beaver Creek; J. Shingiedecker, 
captain. 

May. Geo., Beaver Creek ; J. Shingiedecker, captain ; 
buried in Rockfield graveyard, Bath township. 

Maltbie, .\mmi, captain; Sugar Creek; died June 
18, 1854, aged seventy-four, buried one mile south- 
west of Bellbrook in Baptist graveyard. 

Mock, Daniel, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, captain; 
moved to Fayette county, Ohio, 

Mock, John, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, captain; 
moved to Fayette county, Ohio, 

Marshall, John, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain; buried on the Marshall farm, overlooking 
the Little Miami River. 

Morrow. Jas., captain. Xenia- Charles Wolverton, 
captain; buried in Massie's Creek graveyard 
(Stephenson's). 

Moody, Robert, Miami; James Morrow, captain; 
died in Xenia, August 24, 1872, aged ninety-six, 
buried in Massie's Creek graveyard (Stephen- 
son's). 

Millman. Ephraim, Vance; Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain. 

Moreland, William, Miami; Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain; buried in Massie's Creek graveyard (Tar- 
box). 

Merriman, Joshua, Sugar Creek; John Clark, cap- 
tain, 

Newlin, Mark, Beaver Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; buried at Beaver Creek. 

Napp. Moses, Miami; James Galloway, captain. 

Noble, Joshua, Beaver Creek; Zach, Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Newport, William, Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain, 

Neeley, James, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain; died in 1826, in Sugar Creek township. 

Nelson, John, Beaver Creek; J. Shingiedecker. cap- 
tain. 



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Nave. Jacob. Beaver Creek: J. Shingledeckcr. cap- 
tain ; removed to Clark county. Ohio. 

Nagley. John. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain : re- 
verted to Clark county. Ohio. 

Nagley. George. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain : 
reverted to Clark county, Ohio. 

Nagley. Henry. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain : 
reverted to Clark county. Ohio. 

Owens. George. Sugar Creek : Anmii Maltbie. cap- 
tain ; died December 27, 1865. aged seventy-one. 
buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Owens. Jonathan. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain ; died June g. 1853. aged seventy, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Owens. James. Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain ; married Deborah Marshall .\ugust 5. 1805. 

Orr. John, Xenia ; Capt, Chestnut, S. C. ; buried at 
Cedarville. Ohio. 

Oliver. John. Silver Creek ; John Watson, captain. 

Oliver, Allen, Silver Creek; John Watson, captain. 

Pollock, Samuel, Ross; Jacob Fudge, captain. 

Pollock, John ; Samuel Herrod. captain ; buried in 
Massie's Creek graveyard (Stevenson's). 

Perry, .-Mien; Sugar Creek; Robert McClelland, cap- 
tain. 

Perry, Ebenczer. Silver Creek ; John Watson, cap- 
tain ; died June 4, 1855, aged seventy-five, buried 
two miles west of Bowersville, road to Painters- 
ville, 

Parmer. Thos.. Silver Creek : John Watson, captain. 

Palmer, Joseph, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
'tain : died December 14, 1864, aged seventy-four, 
buried in Woodland, Zenia. 

Palmer. Jacob, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. • 

Painter, Jesse, C>esar's Creek. John Watson, cap- 
tain ; died. 1867. Casar's Creek township, buried 
in >Jew Hope churchyard. 

Painter, Jacob, Cassar's Creek : John W'atson, cap- 
tain ; buried in New Hope churchyard. 

Peal, John, Cssar's Creek; John Watson, captain, 

Puterbaugh, Daniel, Beaver Creek ; J, Shingledeckcr, 
captain ; buried at Mt, Zion, Beaver Creek town- 
ship. 

Porter, James. Sugar Creek ; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain ; died in 1814. His discharge says there is 
yet seven months' pay due him. 

Poague, Jas.. Sugar Creek ; Robt. McClcllan. captain. 

Poague. William; Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; died October 25. 1S42, buried in Wood- 
land. Xenia. 

Pearson. John, Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Poague. Thomas. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. 
captain ; body removed from IMcrcer graveyard 
to Woodland. Xenia. 

Pringle. Robert. Miami: Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Provost, Joseph, Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
died August lO, 1835, 'aged si.xty, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 



Pedrick. William. Xenia ; James Morrow, captain. 

Popenoc. James. Xenia; Zach. Ferguson, captain: 
buried in Centerville, Ohio, died, 1848. 

Price, John, Xenia; Capt. Steele. 

Price, William, Caesar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Price, Thomas, Sugar Creek : John Clark, captain. 

Price, Peter, captain. Caesar's Creek ; buried at 
Jamestown. 

Pelham, Jesse, Xenia; Capt. Steele. 

Pelham. Samuel. Xenia; Capt. Steele; died in 1823; 
editor of first paper published in Xenia, "The 
\'ehicle." 

Powers, Wni. D.. Xenia ; Capt. Steele ; buried in 
Union graveyard, near Byron. 

Parks. James, Xenia ; Capt. Steele. 

Poland. Robert, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Powers. Daniel. Bath; William Stejilienson. captain: 
a bounty jumper, a much wanted man; see his- 
tory of Greene county. Bath township. 

Proctor. John, Bath ; William Stephenson, captain. 

Perkins. Thomas. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain ; 
buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Popenoe, James. Xenia ; Capt. Ankcney ; died in 
1848. aged seventv-three, buried at Centerville, 
Ohio. 

Quinn, Amos; James Morrow, captain; buried in 
Seceder graveyard, west Market street. Xenia, 
where the school house now stands. 

Quinn. James; James Gallowav. captain. 

Rodgers. William, adjutant. Sugar Creek; buried 
in Pioneer graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Rice. Russel. Xenia ; buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Rains. Simon, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain; died November 21, 1855, aged eighty-one, 
buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Rains. Jonathan, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 

Rains. William; Zach. Ferguson, captain; died 
March 25, 1875, aged ninety-four, buried in Mi- 
ami township. 

Retter. Jacob, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledeckcr. cap- 
tain. 

Retter. John. Beaver Creek; T. Shingledeckcr, cap- 
tain ; buried in Aley churchyard. 

Rue. Jacob, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledeckcr. cap- 
tain. 

Rupert. Enos, Beaver Creek : J. Shingledeckcr. cap- 
tain ; died May 11. 1828. aged fifty-si.x. buried in 
Beaver Creek churchyard. .Alpha. 

Rupert, Moses, Beaver Creek. 

Rnssel. Moses. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain; removed to Sidney. Ohio, died in 1851. 
aged seventy-five. 

Kusscl. .Me.xander. Miami ; James Galloway, captain. 

Rich. Jacob. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain ; buried on his farm two miles south on the 
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Ragan, Reason. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. 
captain : died in Indianapolis. January 5. 1864. 

Rowan. Alexander. Ross; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Rowan. Edward. Ross ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Reece. Daniel. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain ; died 
in Xenia township in 1817. 

Richards. William. Xenia; Robert Gowdy. captain; 
removed to Chicago. 

Roberts. Silas. Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain; from 
Pennsylvania, died in Xenia July 29. 1864, aged 
seventy-four, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Renolds. James, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Riley. John, Miami; James Galloway, captain. 

Ray, William, Beaver Creek; Samuel Herrod, cap- 
tain. 

Robinson. Edward. Sugar Creek; John Davis, L, 
D., captain; died October 17, 1845, aged seventy- 
three, buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook. 

Robinson. Joseph. Jr.. Sugar Creek; John Davis, 
captain ; died in Sugar Creek township in 1820, 
buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook. 

Ross. Alexander E.. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClel- 
lan. captain. 

Ross. John. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain ; died in Sugar Creek township in 182.3. 

Rockafield. Aaron. Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain; died in Bath township in 1836, buried in 
Rockafield graveyard. 

Ritenhouse, John, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 

Romain. Christopher. Bath. 

Read. Lieut. William, Bath ; William Stephenson, 
captain; born January 21, 1793, died December 
25, 1862, buried at Fairfield, Ohio. 

Smith, Samuel ; Jacob Fudge, captain. 

Smith, John, Xenia; died October 24. 1862, aged 
sixty-two, buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Smith. Hon. Jacob, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledecker, 
captain ; died in 1819. buried on the Harbine 
farm, near Alpha, reinterred in Woodland, Xenia. 

Smith. Thomas, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain. 

Smith, Jeremiah, Sugar Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain ; died in Sugar Creek township in 1848. 

Smith, Matthias, Esq.. Bath ; John McCullough. cap- 
tain ; died August 6. 1823. buried in Foick grave- 
yard ; his widow married Abram Hivling. Sr. 

Smith, David, Caesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 

Smith, Spencer, Miami; James Galloway, captain. 

Smith. Josiah B., Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain; second son of Jacob, Sr., the old miller. 

Smith. John. Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, captain ; 
son of Jacob. Sr. ; was sheriff of Greene county 
from i8ig to 1824; came to Beaver Creek town- 
ship in 1801. died at Springfield May 4- 1852, aged 
seventy-two, buried at Springfield, Ohio. 

Smith. Walter; born May 9. 1788. died February 
2. 1873. aged seventy-two. buried in Beaver 
churchyard. 



Sellars. John. Xenia ; Jacob Fudge, captain ; died 
December 17. 1884. aged seventy-eight, buried 
in Woodland, Xenia. 

Sanders, Hezekiah, Xenia ; John Davis, captain ; died 
August 4, 1883, aged eighty-four, buried in James- 
town cemetery. 

Sanders, Jesse. Sugar Creek ; John Clark, captain ; 
died May 21, 1880. aged eighty-eight, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Sanders, Isaac, Xenia; John Davis, captain; died 
August 4, 1863, aged eighty-four, buried in James- 
town cemetery. 

Sanders, Samuel, Xenia; Robert Gowdy. captain. 

Sanders. Forris, Sugar Creek ; Animi Maltbie, cap- 
tain ; moved to Lidiana. 

Stark. William T.. Xenia; died September i, 1858, 
aged sixty-eight, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Scott. James A., Xenia; Adam Tannyhill, captain; 
died August 12. 1881, aged eighty-seven, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Scott, William, Xenia ; James Morrow, captain ; died 
June, 1843, aged eighty, buried in Massie's Creek 
graveyard (Tarbox). 

Scott, John, Xenia; Robert McClellan. captain. 

Scott. Andrew. Xenia ; John Davis, captain ; son of 
William and Jane. 

Schebly. James, Sugar Creek; died July 15, 1879, 
aged eighty-seven, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Shingledecker, Jacob, Capt., Beaver Creek; died 
October 4. 1849. aged seventy-five, buried in 
L'uion gravevard. near Byron. 

Shingledecker. Abraham, Beaver Creek; J. Shingle- 
decker, captain. 

Shingledecker, John, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingle- 
decker, captain. 

Sype, William, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledecker, cap- 
tain. 

Stewart, Moses, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker, 
captain. 

Stew-art, Andrew, Beaver Creek ; J. Shingledecker, 
captain ; died in Beaver Creek township in 1815. 

Stewart, Robert, Silver Creek ; John Spencer, cap- 
tain ; buried in graveyard at Bowersville, Ohio. 

Stewart, John, Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captain ; 
buried in churchyard. Clifton, Ohio. 

Stewart. John T., Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain; 
died April i6. 1850, aged sixty-nine, buried in 
Clifton cemetery. 

Stewart, Edward. Silver Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Stewart. Samuel, Capt., Vance. 

Snodgrass, James. Sugar Creek ; Ammi Maltbie, 
captain ; died in Sugar Creek township in 1846. 

Snodgrass, Samuel. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; died in Sugar Creek township in 1823. 

Snodgrass, Robert. Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, 
captain. 

Snodgrass. William, Sugar Creek; Robert McClel- 
lan. captain; died in Sugar Creek township in 
1840. 

Sterritt. Robert E.. Xenia; .Ammi Maltbie, captain; 



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buried in Massie's Creek churchyard (Steven- 
son's). 

Sterritt, Joseph, Xenia : Ammi Maltbie. captain : 
buried in Massie's Creek churchyard (Steven- 
son's). 

Sutton. Robert, Sugar Creek : Annni Mahbie, cap- 
tain. 

Sutton. Jeremiah, Caesar's Creek: John Davis, cap- 
tain. 

Sutton. WilHam. Caesar's Creek: Robert McClellan. 
captain : died in 1818, buried in Caesar's Creek 
township. 

Sutton, .-Xniaziah, Caesar's Creek : Ro'oert McClellan, 
captain. 

Sutton, William G., Caesar's Creek ; Robert McClel- 
lan, captain; buried in Indiana; he went there 
on a visit, died, and is buried there. 

Sutton, Cornelius, B«h : William Stephenson, cap- 
tain. 

Sutton. Jesse, Xenia; John Spencer, captain. 

Sutton. .•\mos, Bath: John McCullough, captain. 

Stipes, Isaac, Sugar (reek; Ammi Maltbie, captain. 

Stevens, John, Sugar Creek ; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain. 

Stevens, Evan. Miami : Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Sparks, Thomas, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; buried in Pioneer graveyard, Belllirook. 

Soward. Reuben. Sugar Creek : Robert McClellan, 
captain ; buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 

Schrote, Christopher, Miami ; James Morrow, cap- 
tain. 

Schrofe. David ; James Morrow, captain. 

Schrofe. Lew'is : James Morrow, captain. 

Schrofe, Sebastian, Miami; John Spencer, captain; 
removed to Indiana. 

Stevenson. Robert. Xenia ; James Morrow, captain, 
also Samuel Herrod; buried in Massie's Creek 
graveyard (Stevenson's). 

Stevenson, John, Xenia; James Morrow, captain, 
also Samuel Herrod; buried in Massie's Creek 
graveyard. 

Stevenson. James, Xenia: James Morrow, captain; 
buried in Massie's Creek graveyard. 

Stephenson. William, Capt.. Bath; died November 
II, 18,^4, buried in the Mitman graveyard, near 
Osborn, Ohio. 

Sparks. Lenard, Xenia: James Morrow, captain. 

Street. John, Xenia; James Morrow, captain. 

Shanks. Thomas; Samuel Herrod, captain. 

Shover. Simon, Bath ; Zach. Ferguson, captain ; died 
in Bath township in 1813. 

Shoup, Moses, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain ; died May 7, 1880, aged eighty-seven, buried 
at Mt. Zion. 

Slaughter. Ezekiel. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Sulavan, John ; Vance ; James Galloway, captain. 

Spencer, Francis, Ross ; Samuel Herrod, captain ; 
son of Michael. 

Spencer. Michael, Ross; Samuel Herrod, captain; 
died in Ross township in 1828. 



Spencer, John. Capt.. Xenia: captain in War of 
1812. 

Stanfield. A\'illiam. Sugar Creek ; Robert McCellan, 
captain ; died May 22, 1842, aged seventy-two, 
buried on the Smith Stow farm, south of Xenia. 

Stanfield, John, Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan, 
captain ; died March i,\. 1842. brother of Will- 
iam. 

Saterfield, John. Sugar Creek: John Clark, cap- 
tain. 

Schooley. Israel. Sugar Creek: John Clark, cap- 
tain. 

Searls. Elisha. Bath: William Stephenson, captain; 
kept tavern in Fairfield in 1817. 

Sleeth. John, Bath : William Stephenson, captain. 

Sleeth, David, Bath : \\'illiam Stephenson, captain. 

Snipp. Jacob, Bath : William Stephenson, captain ; 
died August 27, 1877. aged eighty-seven, buried 
in Aley churchyard. 

Stanton, William, Caesar's Creek ; Joseph Lucas, 
captain. 

Shepherd. Jesse, Caesar's Creek : Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain ; buried in Caesar's Creek township. 

Steele. Samuel, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain. 

Sheigley. Adam. Xenia ; John Davis, captain. 

Simonton. Benjamin, Miami ; James Galloway, cap- 
tain. 

Silvey, James, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain. 

Snyder, Jacob, Xenia ; Rogert Gowdy, captain. 

Snyder, Henry, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Snyder. Jonathan. Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain ; died December. 1858. aged seventy-eight, 
buried in Beaver Creek cemetery, near Alpha ; 
came from Washington. Maryland. 

Shaw, Samuel, Xenia : Capt. Steele ; one of the 
first elders in first L'. P. church. Xenia. 

Stratton. Mahlon, Xenia ; John Watson, captain ; 
removed to Clinton county, Ohio. 

Stailey. Daniel, Beaver Creek: Zach Ferguson, cap- 
tain; born February. 1782, died April 16, 1829, 
aged forty-seven, buried in Marshall graveyard 
on the little Miami river. 

Stailey. Elias, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 

Swigart. John, Beaver Creek; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain; died October 7, 1847. aged fifty-six, buried 
in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Swigart. Jacob, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain. 

Swigart. Michael. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain ; died February 19. 1849, aged eighty- 
four, buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Saum, Jacob,'' Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, cap- 
tain : Irorn January 2. 1777. died September 5, 
J858, aged eighty-one, buried in Beaver Creek 
cemetery, near Alpha. 

Shellinger, Adam, Caesar's Creek; Joseph Lucas, 
captain ; died August 25, 1825. aged sixty-two, 
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Shellinger, George, Caesar'^ Creek: Josepli Lucas, 
captain ; died September 26. 1813. aged twenty- 
one, buried in Xevv burlington cemetery. 

Sheley, Benjamin. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain ; son of John and Margaret. 

Sharp. Aires. Silver Creek : John Watson, captain. 

Shaner. George. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain : buried in Shaner graveyard, one inile west 
of Jamestown. Ohio. 

Shaner Adam, Silver Creek ; John Watson, captain : 
buried in Shaner graveyard, one mile west of 
Jamestown, Ohio. 

Tififaney, John. Xenia; from Virginia: died July 
g. 1855. aged eighty, buried in W'oodland. Xenia. 

Townsley. George, ensign. Xenia : Robert McClel- 
Ian, captain ; died October i, 1857, aged seventy- 
two, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Townsley, Thomas, Xenia : James Morrow, captain ; 
buried at Clifton, Ohio; died February 2, 1841. 

Townsley, Samuel, Xenia ; Martin Shuey, captain ; 
died April 24, 1853, aged sixty-two, buried in 
Cedarville cemetery. 

Todd, John. Beaver Creek: J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain: removed to Madison, Indiana. 

Todd. John B., Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain : removed to Indiana. 

Todd, James, Xenia : James Morrow, captain ; re- 
moved to Indiana. 

Truby, Jacob, Beaver Creek : J. Shingledecker, cap- 
tain. 

Truby, John, Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker, cap- 
tain. 

Tingley. John A., Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker, 
captain : died January 10. 1830. aged fifty-five, 
buried at the Cost graveyard. 

Torrence. William. Sugar Creek; Amtni Maltbie. 
captain: buried in the Pioneer graveyard, near 
Bellbrook. 

Towell. John. Sugar Creek : .-Xmini Maltbie. captain ; 
came from Virginia: buried in Grape Grove cem- 
etery, near the village. 

Thoinpson, John, Vance: Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Thompson, William, Vance: Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain. 

Taylor. Benjamin, Miami; Satnuel Stewart, cap- 
tain. 

Taylor. Harry, Miami; James Galloway, captam ; 
buried in Folk graveyard. Bath township. 

Taylor. Peter, Miami: James Galloway, captain; 
buried at Pleasant Grove church, near Byron, 
Ohio. 

Taylor, David. Miami : John Davis, captam. 

Taylor. John A.. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. 
captain. 

Thornburg, Israel. Vance: Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain. . , . , 

Thornburg. Richard; Jo.seph Lucas, captam; buried 
in New Hope churchyard, near Pamtersville. 

Ohio. 
Towler, Joseph. Miami ; James Galloway, captam. 



Thorn. William. Xenia; Samuel Herrod. captain; 
died in 1853. buried near Selma, Clark county, 
Ohio. 

Tatman. Joseph, Bath ; John Davis, captain ; buried 
in the Mitman graveyard ; near Fairfield, Ohio. 

Talbert, Josiah, Xenia ; John Davis, captain ; re- 
moved to Champaign county, Ohio. 

Talkert. Richard C, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; 
removed to Madison, Indiana. 

True, Martin, Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain; bur- 
ied in old Methodist graveyard, East Third street, 
Xenia. 

Thomas, Jacob. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain ; died 
in Silver Creek township in 1837. 

Thomas, Daniel, Sugar Creek ; John Clark, captain ; 
buried in Middle Run graveyard, three miles 
south of Bellbrook. 

Turner, William, Silver Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain; born in 1797, died December, 1870, buried 
in Jamestown, Ohio. 

Turner, Henry, Silver Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain; buried in Baptist graveyard, near James- 
town, Ohio. 

VanEaton, Abraham, Sugar Creek; John Clark, cap- 
tain ; buried in Pioneer graveyard, north of Bell- 
brook, Ohio. 

VanEaton, John, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie. cap- 
tain ; died in 1858, aged si.xty-six, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

\'ance, John, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie. captain. 

Vance. Joseph, Sugar Creek ; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain. 

Vance, James, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClellan, cap- 
tain. 

Vaughn, William, Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 
captain. 

Vaughn. Thompson, Sugar Creek ; Robert McClel- 
lan, captain. 

Vogle, Peter, Beaver Creek ; J, Shingledecker, cap- 
tain. ' 

Vanmeter, Joel, Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Vance, Ephraim, Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Vance. Joseph, Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain. 

Williams, John. Xenia ; Atruni Maltbie. captain ; 
died April 6. 1826, aged forty-three, born in 
Kentucky .\pril 4. 1783. buried in Woodland, 
Xenia. 

Williams. Garret. Xenia; Ammi Maltbie. captain; 
buried near Madison, Indiana. 

Williams. Remembrance. Sr.. Xenia ; Ammi Malt- 
bie. captain ; moved to Madison, Indiana, in 1817, 
died February 2, 1843. 

Williams, Robert, Batrh : John McCullough, captain; 
buried in Middle Fork, Indiana. 

Williams. Stephen. Silver Creek ; Joseph Lucas, 
captain. 

Warman. William, Beaver Creek ; Zach. Ferguson, 
captain. 



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Wright. George C. Xenia ; Berry Applewhite, of 

Virginia, captain: buried in Woodland. Xenia. 
Wright. Merrit. Xenia; Berry Applewhite, of Vir- 
ginia ; buried in Woodland. Xenia. 
Wright. Lewis. Xenia; Berry Applewhite, of Vir- 
ginia, captain; buried in Woodland. Xenia. 
Wright. Jesse. Xenia; buried in Woodland. Xenia. 
Wamble. Edward. Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain; 

buried in Woodland. Xenia. 
Willand. John. Beaver Creek; J. Shingledecker. cap- 
tain ; buried in Hawker's churchyard. 
Wayland. Christian. Bath; James Galloway, captain. 
Wayland. John. Bath; J. Shingledecker. captain. 
Wilson. Michael. Bath ; J. Shingledecker. captain. 
Wilson. David. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan, 

captain. 
Wilson. Jeremiah. Bath ; J. Shingledecker. captain. 
Wilson. William. Bath; J. Shingledecker, captain. 
Wilson. John. Sugar Creek: Martin Shuey. captain. 
Wilson. Joseph. Caesar's Creek; Robert McClellan. 
captain ; died December 28. 1872. aged eighty- 
five, buried in Baptist graveyard, between Jasper 
and Jamestown. 
Wilson. George. Sugar Creek ; James Morrow, cap- 
tain. 
Wilson. John. Jr.. Miami: Samuel Stewart, captain. 
Wilson. Spencer. \'ance ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 
Wilson, John. Bath ; James Galloway-, captain. 
Wilson. Joseph. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain: died March 11, 1823. aged sixty-nine, bur- 
ied in Jamestown cemetery. 
Wilson. James. Bath: William Stephen.son, captain. 
Wilson. Jacob. Miami : buried in the Clifton ceme- 
tery. 
Westfall. Jonathan, Bath : J. Shingledecker, captain ; 

died in Bath township in 181.^. 
Webb, James, Sugar Creek; Ammi Maltbie, cap- 
tain. 
Webb. Henry. Sugar Creek: Robert McClellan. cap- 
tain. 
Whicken, Matthew, Sugar Creek, .\nimi Maltbie. 

captain ; buried in Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Whicken. John. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan. 

captain : buried in Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Walcutt. John H.. Sugar Creek: .^mmi Maltbie. 

captain. 
Ward Henry. Xenia ; James Morrow, captain. 
Woodward, Henry. Bath: James Morrow, captain. 
Wingct. Hugh. Bath; James Morrow, captain. 
Winget. James. Bath; James Galloway, captain. 
Walborn. Robert, Vance; Samuel Stewart, captain. 
Wells. Benedict, Miami ; Samuel Stewart, captain, 
Wheeler. Ebenezer, Miami : Samuel Stewart, cap- 
tain. 
Watson, Charles, Silver Creek; Samuel Stewart, 

captain. 
Weddlc, Peter M.. Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain, 
Watson, James, Silver Creek; John Watson, cap- 
tain. 
Wallace, Jonathan, Xenia; Robert Gowdy, captain; 



died at the house of .Anthony Byer, Clark county, 

April 25, 1850, aged seventy. 
Watson. James, Xenia ; Robert Gowdy, captain. 
Watson, John, Capt.. Silver Creek ; died August 

3. 1861. aged eighty, buried in the Moorman 

graveyard, near Jamestown. Ohio. 
Wolf. Adam. Miami; Samuel Stewart, captain ; died 

in 1857, aged sixty-seven, buried in Mud Run 

churchyard. Clark county, Ohio. 
Wead. Merida. Vance : Samuel Stewart, captain. 
Willets. Samuel. Vance ; Samuel Stewart, captain. 
Walton. Edward. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 

captain ; died in Spring Valley April 4. 1867, 

aged ninety, buried in Caesar's Creek graveyard, 

two miles southwest of New Burlington, Ohio. 
White. John. Xenia : Samuel Herrod. captain ; died 

June 22. 1866. buried at Cedarville. Ohio. 
White. Benjamin. Sugar Creek; Robert McClellan, 

captain ; removed to Ladoga. Indiana. 
Whiteman. Benjamin. General. Miami : died July 

3. 1852. aged eighty-three, at his home near Clif- 
ton. Ohio: buried in Clifton cemetery. 
Whiteman. Henry. Xenia : Samuel Herrod. captain. 
Whiteman. (ireenbury. Xenia; buried in Massie's 

Creek churchyard (^ Stevenson's). 
Whiteman. Jacob. Xenia ; buried in Massie's Creek 

churchyard (Stevenson's). 
Watts, Edward, Xenia : Capt. Steele : buried near 

the Stand Pipe. Xenia. 
Watts. William. Beaver Creek : Zach. Ferguson, 

captain ; buried in Union graveyard, near Byron. 
Williamson. William, Bath; William Stephenson, 

captain ; buried in Mitman graveyard, east of 
Osborn, Ohio. 
Worton. John. Caesar's Creek: Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain. 
Wikle. Philip. Silver Creek; Joseph Lucas, cap- 
tain ; died in 1888, aged eighty-five, buried at 
Port William, Ohio. 
Worrel, John, Caesar's Creek : Joseph Lucas, captain. 

Young. .-Xbraham. Silver Creek: John Watson, cap- 
tain. 

Yates. William. Beaver Creek: J. Shingledecker, 
captain. 

GREENE COUNTY PIONEERS FROM 1803 
TO 1840. 

Adams, Jesse, Xenia. 1826: married Martha Small, 

June 2. 1836. 
Abernathy. John, Silver Creek, 1830: married Nancy 

Moorman. November 27. 1837. 
Adams. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1806: from Virginia; 

died October 14. 1871. aged seventy-two; buried 

in Woodland, Xenia. 
Adams. Anglo, Xenia, 1806; December 24, 1823, 

married Eleanor Jones. 
Adams. Ephraim. Xenia. 1806; a soldier in the war 
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Adams. Eli. Xenia. 1809; a soldier in the War of 
1812: August 2. 1810. married Elizabeth Beeks. 

Adams. Martin. Xenia. 1817; son of Thomas; from 
Kentucky: died December 30, ,870. aged seventy- 
four, buried in Massie's Creek cemetery (Tar- 
box). 

Adams, Rev. Jas., Xenia. 1823 ; successor of Rev. 
Robert Armstrong, died near Hanover, Indiana. 

Adams. Thomas B., Xenia, 1833; from Virginia; 
died .-Xugust 13, 1877, aged seventy-sijc, buried 
in Woodland, Xenia. 

Adams, James G.. Miami 1830; born in Troy. Ohio, 
died January 2. 1898, aged seventy-seven, buried 
in Woodland. Xenia. 

Adams. Esbon. Xenia, 1818; December 31, 1818, 
married Martha, daughter of Major James Gal- 
loway. 

Adams, Thomas, Jr., Xenia, 1839; died in Xenia 
township in 1846; buried in Woodland cemetery. 

Adams, Harvey. Caesar's Creek, 1839; died; buried 
one mile north of Jamestown. Ohio. 

Adams. Nimrod, Caesar's Creek, 1839: died June 
2. 1864. aged sixty buried New Hope, Painters- 
ville, Ohio. 

Adams. James, Caesar's Creek, 1807; September 26, 
1826. married Margaret Sutton. 

Adams. Reuben. Silver Creek, 1825; July 12, 1825, 
married Matilda Ruth. 

Adatns. Zina. Silver Creek. 1824; father of the 
Adams boys, Morgan, Thomas and John. 

Adams. John. Silver Creek. 1837: from Virginia, 
blacksmith : brother-in-law to Dr. Dawson. Rock- 
bridge county. Virginia. 

Adams, Zina B., Silver Creek, 1839 

Adams. J. R., Silver Creek, 1839. 

Adams, Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1830; died Novem- 
ber 21, 1835, aged thirty-eight, buried in New 
Hope, Paintersville. Ohio. 

Adams. William. Sugar CreeK. 1840: from Virginia: 
died .August I. 1879. aged seventy-seven; buried 
in McKnight graveyard. 

Adams. Jackson. Xenia. 1840; from Virgmia ; died 
March 17, 1891, aged sixty- four, buried in Wood- 
land, Xenia. 

Adams. Jonathan. Xenia. 1840: from Virginia, died 
December 14. 1884. aged seventy-seven, buried 
in Woodland, Xenia. 

Adar. James. Silver Creek. 1840; July 6. 1820. mar- 
ried Ann Davis. 

Adar. David D.. Silver Creek. 1840: buried at 

Jamestown. Ohio. 
Adar. Andrew. Silver Creek. 1825; September 25. 

1825. married Margaret Stotler. 
Addison, John, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Adsit. Hiram. Caesar's Creek, 18.33; son of Elias; 
from New York ; born June 4. 1807. died Septem- 
ber 7. 1847. aged forty. 
Adsit. Elias, Sugar Creek, 18.30; from England, died 
November 30. 1859. aged eighty-two. buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 
Aken. James, Xenia, 1829; died September 6, 1855, 



aged sixty-eight, buried in Massie's Creek (Ste- 
venson). 

.■\ken. John. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

.•\ken. William. Beaver Creek. 1803; May 3. 1805. 
married Cathorine Shover. 

Aken, Adam. Beaver Creek. 1803; X'ovember ii, 
1823. married Jane Downey. 

Alexander, Samuel, 1806; buried in Clifton ceme- 
tery. 

-■Mexander. Matthew, Sr.. 1806; soldier of War of 
1812. died in 1821. buried on his farm near 
Jamestown. Ohio. 

Alexander. Matthew, Jr., 1810; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery. 

.Mexander, Francis, 1816; son of Matthew, Sr. : May 
2. 1820. married Elizabeth M. Gaff. 

Alexander, Cyrus ; son of John. 

Alexander, Hon. John. Xenia, 1804: from South 
Carolina, born April 16. 1777 ; first lawyer to 
practice in Xenia ; died June 28. 1848. aged sev- 
enty-two : buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Alexander. Wm., Jr.. Xenia. 1816; from South Car- 
olina, brother of Hon. John, born July 9. 1785, 
died June 3. 1824; buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Alexander, John, Xenia, i8o6; carpenter; son of 
Nathaniel: soldier of 1812; died January 30. 1865, 
aged seventy, buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Alexander. Robert. Xenia, 1810: son of Matthew Al- 
exander. 

.■\lexander. Joseph. Xenia, 1825. died July 15, 1845, 
aged forty-five, buried at Massie's Creek (Ste- 
venson's) cemetery. 

■Alexander, Joseph T,. Xenia. 1828: March 6. 1832, 
married Mary Pollock. 

.\Iexander. William, Bath, 1829; May 6, 1824, mar- 
ried Patsey Miller. 

Alexander. Wm. J., Jr., Sugar Creek, 1840: born 
June, 1827, died 1897, buried at Spring Valley, 
Ohio : lawyer of Xenia. 

.Alexander. Nathaniel. Sugar Creek. 1806; from Vir- 
ginia, died in 1846; his grandson, James, lives in 
Portland, Indiana. 

Alexander. Washington. Sugar Creek. 1841 ; son of 
Hon. John, born in 1801. died November 9, 
1867. aged sixty-seven, buried in Woodland. 

Alexander. Clement. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

.Alexander. George. Beaver Creek. 1803 

Alexander. John A., Miami. 1817: died in Miami, 
township in 1870: ex-sheriff of Clark county, 
Ohio. 
Alexander. Jacob. JNIiami. 1819: died March 27. 1837, 
aged seventy-five, buried in Massie's Creek (Ste- 
venson's) cemetery. 
Allen, Levi, Sr., Sugar Creek, 1819; buried in 
Caesar's Creek churchyard, two miles south of 
New Burlington. 
.Allen, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1812- buried two miles 

south of Burlin.gton. Ohio. 
Allen. Benjamin. Sugar Creek. 1812; soldier in War 
of 1812. died -April 15. 1868, aged eighty-three, 
buried in Woodland, Xenia. 



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Allen. Jackson. Sugar Creek. 1812; soldier of 1812. 
Allen. Edward. Sugar Creek. 1812; soldier of 1812; 

June 28. 1810. married Mary Beason. 
Allen, Levi. Jr., Sugar Creek. 1815; died Decem- 
ber 23, 1873. aged eighty-six. buried in Preble 
county. Ohio. 
Allen. John C. Sugar Creek. 1817: son of Benjamin; 
tanner : died July 4. 1800 aged seventy-five, 
buried at Woodland. Xenia. 
Allen, Joseph. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1827; April 28, 1815, 

married Elizabeth Caldwalder. 
Allen, Jeremiah. Sugar Creek. 1827: May 13. 1829. 
married to Hannah Bellsford ; buried at Center- 
ville, Ohio. 
Allen, Matthew. Beaver Creek. 1814. 
Allen. James. 1804; December 29, 1831. married 

Mary Marlow. 
Allen. Sylvania. 1816; July 2, 1S18, married Anna 

Moodie. 
Allen, Davis, Xenia, 1814: from Shenandoah coun- 
ty, Virginia, born October 25. 1765. died April 
13. 1818, aged fifty-two, buried on the old Allen 
farm, near John B. Lucas's farm. 
Allen, Reuben. Xenia, 1814; son of Davis: buried on 

the farm of Lydia Peneweight. 
Allen. Davis, Jr.. Xenia. 1814; from Virginia; Jan- 
uary I. 1818, married. 
Allen. John, Xenia, 1814 ; son of Davis, died August 
6. 1864, aged seventy-two, buried in Woodland, 
Xervia. 
Allen, ©bed. Xenia. 1814; son of Davis, moved to 
Rochester. Indiana. February 8, 1821, married Re- 
becca Byrd. 
Allen. Homer, Xenia, 1814; son of Davis; moved to 

Bellefontaine, Ohio. 
Allen, Milo, Xenia, 1814. 

Allen, Jackson, Xenia. 1814; son of Davis; died 
September 15. 1857. aged forty-five, near To- 
peka, Kansas. 
Allen, John. 1814; November 6. 1817, married Sus- 
anna Kirkpatrick. 
Allen. Wm., Sr., Beaver Creek. 1803; on the first 
grand jury held in Greene county in the house 
of Peter Borders. 
Allen. William. Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1803. 
Allen. Nathan. Beaver Creek, 1803. 
Allen. George. Beaver Creek. 1813; October 15. 1817, 

married Harriet Pruden. 
Allen. Wesley, Beaver Creek. 1815; died June 13. 
1869. aged sixty-six. buried in Bloxsom grave- 
yard, near Selma. Ohio. 
Allen. Smith. Beaver Creek. 1827. 
Allen, Robert, Beaver Creek, 1839. 
Allen, Lewis, Beaver Creek, 1839. 
Allen. Davison, Miami, 1820; buried in Clifton, 

Ohio. 
Allen. Elijah. Ross. 1820; removed to Clark county. 

Ohio; died October 7. 1855. aged seventy. 
Allen, A., Ross, 1839. 

Allen, Burgess, Silver Creek, 1839: removed to 
Fayette county ; soldier of the Revolution ; related 
to Ethan Allen. 



Allen, William, Vance township, 1820. 
Allen. Adam. Mad River. 1803. 
Allen, Adar, Mad River, 1803. 

Allen. Matthew, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Benja- 
min; died 1871, aged fifty: buried in Woodland, 
Xenia, Ohio. 
Allen, Levi. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1S40; son of Benja- 
min, buried in Woodland. Xenia. Ohio. 

Allen, John B.. Xenia. 1836; from Virgin'a; died 
December 21. 1893. aged seventy-eight, buried in 
Woodland, Xenia, 

Allen. Henry C. Xenia. 1809; died in Bath town- 
ship in i8og. 

Aley. John. Beaver Creek. 1810; from Frederick 
county. Maryland ; died October. 1865, aged fifty- 
five, buried in Aley churchyard. 

Aley. Jacob. 1810; born X'ovember 4, 1783, died 
November, 1853. 

Aley. Abraham. 1818; died in Miami City, Ohio, 
buried in Aley churchyard ; soldier of the Rev- 
olution. 

.\ley. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1827 ; aged fifty-five, 
buried in Aley churchvard. 

Aley. Isaac B.. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Allison, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1822; from Penn- 
sylvania; died in Shelby county in 1846. 

Allison, James, Beaver Creek, 1840; son of Samuel; 
died August 22, 1864, buried in Woodland, Xenia, 

Allison, Robert, Beaver Creek, 1840: removed to 
Kansas ; died May, 1899, aged eighty-one. 

Allison, Samuel, Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1840; son of 
Samuel ; died in Xenia in 1900, buried in Wood- 
land, Xenia, Ohio. 

Allison. William. Beaver Creek. 1840: son of Sam- 
uel, Sr. ; died December, 1900; buried in Wood- 
land, Xenia, Ohio. 

Allison, lames. Sr., Bath. 1804. 

Allison, Isaac, Ross, 1840. 

-Aldridge. John C. Silver Creek, 1840; February 
23. 1836. married Mary C. Birdsell. 

.-Vldridge. William. Silver Creek. 1830; died De- 
cemlier 22. 1886, aged seventy-two, buried at Bow- 
ersville. Ohio; married Abigail Cruzan. 

.■\ldridge. Samuel. Silver Creek. 1840: November 
6. 1828. married Sarah Bragg. 

Aldridge, James H.. Xenia. 1840: died in Xenia; Au- 
gust 20. 1833. married Mary Rumbaugh. 

Aldridge, Littleberry, 1817; July 19, 1817, married 
Rebecca Read. 

Alhaugh, John, Xenia, 1814: died September 18, 
1815. after a short illness. 

Alderman. James, Ross, 1840. 

Alberry. George. Xenia. 1S40. 

Ainsworth, G. C, Bath. 1826; died March 12. 1842, 
aged forty-two. buried in the Co.x graveyard. Os- 
born. Ohio. 

.\insworth, George. Bath. 1840 : October 14. 1832, 
married Matilda Cox. 

Ainsworth, J. C, Bath, 1S39: buried near Bath 
church, west of Mad River. 

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Aims. J.acob. Bath, 1803 : February 18, 1824, married 

Anny Truby. 
Ambler. John. Miami. 1809; removed to Clark 

county. 
Ambler. Thomas. Miami. 1819; removed to Clark 

county. 
Anderson. Mason. Sugar Creek, 1810; soldier in 

War of 1812. 
Anderson. Seth, Sugar Creek. 1803. 
Anderson, Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1803. 
Anderson, John, Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1807; died in 

1816. buried on the .Anderson farm, six miles 

south of Xenia. 
Anderson. John H.. Sugar Creek. 1807; son of John; 

soldier of 1812; February 19, 1806, married Han- 
nah Painter. 
Anderson. James. Sugar Creek, 1807; from South 

Carolina; son of John; born November 3, 1796, 

died September 25, 1858, near Spring Valley; 

soldier of 1812. 
Anderson, Preston, Sugar Creek, 1810; son of 

James ; died in Greene county, Iowa. 
Anderson. Elijah. Sugar Creek, 1811; removed to 

Greene county. Iowa. 
Anderson, T. Robert. Sugar Creek, 1829; soldier 

of the late Civil war ; born 1823. died. 
Anderson. William, Sugar Creek. 1839; died August 

12. 1862, aged sixty-two, buried in Woodland, 

Xenia. 
Anderson, Eli, Caesar's Creek, 1806; son of Daniel; 

w as married January, 1828 ; removed to Indiana. 
Anderson. Joseph. Caesar's Creek, 1839; son of 

James; born December 10. 1815. died September 

19. i88g. aged seventy-five ; buried in Woodland. 
Anderson. Joseph W.. Caesar's Creek, 1839; No- 
vember 28. 1833, married Mary Ann Faulkner. 
Anderson, John F.. Xenia. 1806: died May i, 1885, 

aged seventy-two. in Spring Valley, Ohio. 
Anderson. Daniel. Xenia. 1806 soldier of 1812; died 

September 24. 1861, aged seventy, in the Union 

neighborhood. 
Anderson. Barbary. Xenia, 1807. 
Anderson. George, Xenia, 1815. 
Anderson, David, Xenia, 1816. 
Anderson. Wm.. Jr.. Xenia. 1829; son of James; 

removed to Greene county. Iowa, October 6, 

1831. married Amelia Dinsmore. 
Anderson, David. Jr.. Xenia. 1819. 
Anderson. Wm. A.. Xenia, 1839; died August 12, 

1862. aged sixty-five, buried in Woodland. 
Anderson, Nelson. Xenia. 1839. 
Anderson. Alexander. Xenia. 1840; a drover; died 

September 28. 1885. aged sixty-five, buried in 

Woodland. 
Anderson, B. D.. Xenia. 1840; died June 30, 1883, 

aged seventy-two, buried in Woodland; a resi- 
dent of Xenia forty years. 
Anderson. Dr. J. N.. Xenia. 1840; died December 

17. 1849. aged thirty-two. buried in Woodland. 
Anderson. John A.. Miami. 1810: died at Yellow 

Spring December 24. 1871. aged eighty-three. 



Anderson, Samuel, Xenia, 1838 ; died August 25, 
1869, aged fifty-two, buried in Woodland. 

Anderson, Robert, Xenia, 1833 ; from Cumberland 
county, Virginia; died June 17, 1873, aged sev- 
enty-five, buried in Woodland. 

Anderson, William, Xenia. 1804; from Kentucky; 
son-in-law of Joseph Kyle, Sr. ; a soldier of 1812; 
died September, 1853. aged seventy-eight, buried 
in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) cemetery. 

Anderson'. James. Xenia. 1804; from Perthshire. Scot- 
land; died November 8, 1874, aged sixTy-nme, 
buried in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) cemetery. 

Anderson. John. Xenia, 1810; from Perthshire. Scot- 
land; died January 11, 1862. aged ninety-three, 
buried in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) ceme- 
tery. 

Anderson, Thomas, Bath, 1839; died December 21, 

1865, aged sixty-nine, buried at Yellow Springs' 

Ohio. 
Anderson, John, Miami. 1808; died in 1845, aged 

forty-five, buried in Clifton cemtery. 
Anderson. WilUam, Miami, 1808; died September 

4, 1888, aged seventy-seven, buried in Clifton 

cemetery; married Lydia Knott. 
Anderson. David, Miami, 1829; soldier of 1S12, bur- 
ied in Clifton cemetery. 
Anderson, Wm. A., Silver Creek, 1839; died August 

12, 1872, aged sixty-three, buried in Woodland; 

February 27, 1839. married Sarah Vandolah. 
Anderson, Elijah. Vance, 1817. 
Anderson, Isaac. Mad River. 1803. 
Anderson, Thomas. Mad River, 1805. 
Anderson, Nathaniel, Sugar Creek. 1806. 
Anderson. John, Sugar Creek, 1834; from Virginia; 

died .Jipril 6, 1885, aged seventy-two, buried in 

Woodland. 
Anderson. John. Xenia. 1834: born November 6, 

1813. died May 6. 1885, buried in Woodland. 
Andrew. William. Sugar Creek. 1815 ; died May 

19. 1850. aged seventy-three, buried near Eleazer 

church. 
Andrew. James. Sugar Creek. 1825: died February 

6. 1849. aged sixty-five, buried in Woodland. 
Andrew, John T.. Sugar Creek, 1828; October, 1828, 

married Nancy McCIellan. 
Andrew, Arthur. Sugar Creek. 1839. 
Andrew. Eli. Sugar Creek. 1839. 
Andrew. Robert. Caesar's Creek. 1806; soldier of 

1812, 
Andrew. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1806. 
Andrew. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1807: soldier of 

1812 ; removed to Clinton county. Ohio. 
Andrew. William. Caesar's Creek. 1840; soldier of 

late Civil War. Company D. Seventy-fourth In- 
fantry. 
Andrew, .\aron. Cieesar's Creek. 1840 ; June 4, 1835 ; 

married Frances Lucas. 
Andrew. Jesse. Caesar's Creek. 1833 : married to 

Catherine Driscall March 28. 1833. 
Andrew. James. Beaver Creek. 1S04 : from Nash- 



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ville, Tennessee: died ^^arcll 30. 1824. aged sev- 
enty-two, buried in Massie's Creek churchyard 
(Stevenson's) ; soldier of 1812. 
Andrew, James. Beaver Creek, 1807; son of James, 
Sr. ; died February 7. 1849, aged sixty-five, bur- 
ied in Woodland. 
Andrew, William, Beaver Creek, 181 1 ; son of James, 

Sr. 
Andrew, John. Beaver Creek, 1812 ; son of James, Sr. 
Andrew, Ebenezer, Beaver Creek, 1821 ; son of 
James, Sr. ; died in Bcllbrook. May, 1881, aged 
eighty-two, buried at Bellbrook. 
Andrew, George, Beaver Creek, i8i6: born March 
I, 1786, died April 24. 1868. aged seventy-two, 
buried in Woodland. 
Andrew, Thomas, Beaver Creek, 1835 : son of James, 

Sr. : died June 8, 1888, buried in Woodland. 
Andrew. Hugh A.. Beaver Creek. 1816; born in 
Orange county. North Carolina, died March 15, 
1881. aged eighty-six, buried in Woodland. 
Andrew, William P., Bath, 1819; died in Bath town- 
ship in 1832. 
Andrew. Hugh. Bath. 1810; died in Bath township 

in 1811. 
Andrew-. Samuel. Bath. 1826. 

Andrew. H. M.. Xenia. 1840; merchant tailor, of 
the firm of Moore & .\ndrew ; died at the Sol- 
diers' Home. Dayton. Ohio. August 31, 1899. 
Andrew. Harrison. Ross. 1840; died September 3, 
1884. aged sixty-six, buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, near Ccdarvillc. 
Ankeney. David. Beaver Creek. 18.50: died Novem- 
ber 2. 1830. buried in Woodland, aged forty-one. 
Ankeney. Henry. Sr., Beaver Creek. 1806; soldier 
of 1812. died May 18. 1850. buried in Union cem- 
etery. Byron. 
Ankeney, Theobold. Beaver Creek. 1818; born Jan- 
uary 29. 1797. died March 6, 1846. buried in 
Beaver Creek churchyard. 
Ankeney. John. Beaver Creek. 1818: died April 15, 

1872, aged seventy, buried in Woodland. 
Ankeney. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1839: died Decem- 
ber 20, 1867. aged sixty, buried in Beaver Creek 
cemetery. 
Ankeney. John. Beaver Creek. 18.39: died February 

10. 1847. aged fifty-four, buried in Woodland. 
Ankeney. Henry, Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1839; died 
March 7. T870. aged sixty-seven, buried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard. Alpha. 
Ankeney, Henry. Jr., Beaver Creek, 1830: born in 
Washington. Maryland. February 17, 1813. died 
March 7, 1880, aged si.xty-seven : son of Da- 
vid. 
Ankeney. John. Beaver Creek. 1840: died June 11, 
1869. aged fifty-nine, buried in Union grave- 
yard, near Byron. 
Appleton. William. Xenia. 1840. 

Armatrout. Philip. Xenia. 1820; removed to Mat- 
toon. Illinois: married Mary Greenwood. 
Armatrout. Peter. Xenia. 1820. 



Appelgate. Elias, Miami, 1839; buried in Glenn For- 
est, Yellow Springs, in 1884. 
.\rnett. Charles. Caesar's Creek, 1829: October 16, 

1828, married Susanna Graham. 
Arnett. Edward. Caesar's Creek, 1830. 
Arnett, Thomas, Caesar's Creek. 1830: minister of 
the Society of Friends at Jamestown and else- 
where ; died at the age of ninetv : married Mary 
A. Topett. 
Arnett, Alexander, Bath. 1821. 
Arnett, Seth. Mad River. 1803. 
Arnest, John. Beaver Creek, 1840: July 4. 1816, 

married Mary Mackay. 
Arnest. Jacob. Beaver Creek, 1840: removed to 

Miami county. Indiana. 
Arnest. Samuel. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Ary, Joel, Caesar's Creek, 1840 ; died July, 1880, 
buried in Woodland ; soldier of late Civil War, 
Capt. Company H. One Hundred and Fifty- 
fourth. 
Ary. John Csesar's Creek. 1810: died November 10, 
1869. aged seventy-five, buried west of Bowers- 
ville, Ohio. 
Ary, William, Silver Creek. 1818: died May 5, 1857, 
aged fifty-five, buried two and one-half miles 
west of Bowersville. 
Ary, Charles, Silver Creek, 1829: one of the heirs 

of John Harmer, he and his wife. Rosanna. 
Ary. Sinclair. Silver Creek, 1840 ; February 25, 1833, 

married Ruth Ogan. 
Archer. John. Bath. 1840; born .August. 1823. New 
Jersey, buried in Bellbrook: married Lydia Bald- 
win. 
Archer. Thomas E., Bath, 1820; buried at Center- 

ville, Ohio. 
Archer, Zachariah, Bath. 1807. 

Archer. Ebenezer. Xenia. 1828 : born August 13, 
1806. died, 1886. buried in Tarbox cemetery, aged 
eighty-six. 
Armstrong, Alexander. Sugar Creek. 1803; died 
June 4. 1828, aged sixty-four, buried north of 
Bellbrook. 
Armstrong. John. Sugar Creek. 1816; .May 12. 1825, 

married Elizal>eth Sampler. 
Armstrong. William. Sugar Creek. 1818: son of 
.■\lexander: died August. 1828, aged forty, bur- 
ied in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook. 
Armstrong. Rev. Robert, Sugar Creek. 1804; died 
in 1821. buried in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's) 
cemetery, aged fifty-five. 
Archer. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1840: died Febru- 
ary 6. 1891. aged seventy-five. 
Armstrong. James. Miami. 1840: died near Yellow 

Springs. 
Armstrong. Edward. Mad River. 1803. 
.Armstrong. George, Vance. 1816. 
.Arnold. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1804. 
-Arnold. John. Sugar Creek, 1836; November 9, 1837, 
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Arthur, Charles, Vance. 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Arthur, John, Vance. 1840. 

Arthur, William, Vance, 1840. 

Aspy, Laurance. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Aspy, William, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Asberry, Jefferson, Xenia. 1829. 

Asberry, Squire, Xenia, 1835. 

Ashey, Lawrance, Beaver Creek, 1812. 

Atkinson, Cephus. Caesar's Creek, 1818; died in 
Champaign county November 15, 1862, aged sev- 
enty, buried at Urbana. 

Atkinson. Thomas. Ross, 1840. 

Atkinson. Richard E.. Caesar's Creek. 1840; Sep- 
tember 16. 1841, married Susanna Baynard. 

Atkinson, Isaac, Ross, 1840; died January 9, 1888, 
aged seventy-two, buried in gravevard at Selma. 
Ohio. 

Atkinson, William, Ross. 1840. 

Atkinson, Isaac, Ross, 184a. 

Atkinson, Levi, Ross, 1840; died in 1881, aged sixty- 
two, buried at Selma. 

Atkinson. Robert. Ross. 1840: died April 4, 1863. 
aged sixty-seven, buried cast of Grape Grove ; 
married Mary Mercer. 

Ash. Adam. Ross, 181 1; Julv 3, 1806, married Jane 
McCully. 

Ash, William, Ross, 1840; died September 17, 1849, 
aged thirty. 

Ash, J. M.. Ross, 1840. 

Askew, Childress. Silver Creek. 1819. 

Aucle, John F.. Beaver Creek, 1825. 

Austin, James, Sugar Creek, 1818: born September 
13, 1798, died October 28, 1886. 

Austin. Abel, Sugar Creek, 1820; born in New Jer- 
sey June 30, 1760, died in Greene county March 
30, 1840. 

Austin, Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1830: born March 
19. 1805. died May 20, 1874, in Savannah, Mis- 
souri. 

Austin, Abraham, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Austin. Joseph, Sugar Creek. 1840: born December 
15. 1806. died January 5. 1891. in Salt Lake, Utah. 

Austin. Joshua. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Austin, Jonathan, Sugar Creek, 1840: born Decem- 
ber 15, 1799, died ,\pril 24. 1874: September 24, 
1826, married Rebecca Brelsford. 

Austin, James, Xenia, 1840, 

Austin, William, Bath. 1820: born June 22, 1816. 
died February 18. 1898. at Dayton, Ohio; removed 
to .\rcanum ; aged eighty-six. 

Abercoml)e, John, Sugar Creek, 1820, born March 2, 
1780, died December 10, 1830, buried in Pioneer 
graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Abercombe. William. Sugar Creek. 1825: born in 
1804. died in 1826. buried in Pioneer graveyard. 

Atchison, Joseph P., Miami, 1840; died October 29, 
1877 ; aged seventy-seven. 

Austin. Isaac, Sugar Creek, 1840; died May 20, 1896, 
aged eighty-six. 



Bain, James, Sugar Creek, 1804 ; first school teacher 
of Sugar Creek, soldier of 1812, died August 9, 
1832, aged seventy-five, buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard, Bellbrook; sold the land for that purpose 
to the association. 

Bain, James, Sugar Creek, 1815; son of James, died 
in Sugar Creek township. 

Bain, Ebenezer, Sugar Creek, 1815: son of James, 
Sr. ; October 9, 1828, married Matilda Laughead. 

Bain. Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1828 ; son of James, Sr. ; 
removed to Montgomery county. 

Bain, Robert L., Sugar Creek, 1840; son of James 
Sr. 

Bain, William. Sugar Creek. 1840; son of James. Sr. ; 
buried in Pioneer graveyard. Bellbrook; married 
Mary Kyle. 

Bain. Samuel E., Ross. 1827. 

Bain. Mary. Xenia. 1830: widow of James. Sr. 

Barnet. Arthur, Sugar Creek. 1811. soldier of 1812. 
under Capt. R. McCIellan. 

Barnet, Apendits. Sugar Creek. 1812. 

Barnet. John, Sugar Creek,, 1826; from Maryland: 
died September 21, 1883, aged eighty-one, buried 
in Woodland. 

Barnet, James, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Barnet, Henry, Silver Creek, 1840; died March 23, 
1843, aged sixty-six, buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Baker, Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1819. 

Baker, Peter, Sugar Creek. 1819. 

Baker, George. Caesar's Creek. 1827; soldier of 1812. 
died in 1825. buried at Clifton, administrator of 
Thomas Baker. 

Baker. Henry. Caesar's Creek. 1829. 

Baker, Barbary. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Baker, Stern. Caesar's Creek, 1840 : March 5. 1835, 
married Betsey Ann Babb. 

Baker. Francis. Xenia. 1816; kept tavern in Xenia 
in 1817, died in Bath township in 1823, 

Baker. Richard. Xenia. 1817; son of Thomas, re- 
moved to Madison county, Ohio. 

Baker, George. Xenia. 1813 ; from Chester county, 
Pennsylvania; died in 1817, aged si.\ty-two,, bur- 
ied at Clifton; father of Brinton Baker, of 
Xenia. 

Baker, Brinton, Xenia. 1829; son of Thomas; born 
in Chester county. Pennsylvania. July 5, 1807, 
died December i. igoo. aged nireety-three years. 

Baker, Stephen. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Baker. Simon. Beaver Creek. 1818. 

Baker. Frederick. Beaver Creek. 1818. 

Baker. Jeptha. Bath. 1818; December 31, 1812, mar- 
ried Rebecca Cox. 

Baker. Stephen M.. Bath. 1817. 

Baker. Stephen H.. Bath, 1819; January 22. 1818, 
married Effie Low. 

Baker. John. Miami. 1813 ; died in Miami township 
in 1830. buried in Clifton. Ohio. 

Baker. Thomas. Miami. 1813 ; son of Thomas, died 
September 22, 1827; buried at Clifton, Ohio. 



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Baker, Joshua. Miami. 1817; soldier of 1812; son of 
Thomas, buried in Clifton: died December 22, 
1838. aged fifty. 
Baker, Napoleon. Miami. 1817. 

Baker! Reuben. Miami. 1840: father of Barney; car- 
penter; died May 17, 1862. aged fifty-six, buried 
in Woodland. 
Baker, Nayl Miami. 1818; son-in-law of Jacob Mills, 
son of Thomas; born May 25. 1795, died in 1865. 
buried at Clifton. Ohio. January 6, 1825. married 
Hulda Mills. 
Baker. Phebe. Miami. 1819: daughter of Thomas, 
married Simon Kenton, nephew of Simon Kenton, 
Sr. 
Baker. Milton G.. 1840: from Mason county. Ken- 
tucky; died September 26. 1884. aged sixty-eight. 
Baker. Isaac. Miami. 1829; died March 7. 1882. aged 
seventy-three, buried at Yellow Springs, Ohio; 
son of George. 
Baker, Richard, Miami. 1820; son of Thomas; re- 
moved to Fayette county. 
Baker. Matthias' Silver Creek. 1829; from Bourbon 
county, Kentucky; died October 17. 1892, aged 
eighty-six. buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 
Baker. M. \V.. Silver Creek. 1830; son of William. 
Baker. William. Silver Creek, 1828; 'father of 
Matthias; born May 10. 1781. died May 26, 1838, 
aged fifty-six. 
Baker, Wm. G.. Silver Creek. 1831: from Kentucky; 

born May 28. 1814; son of William. 
Baker, Douglass. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Baker. Wm. H.. Silver Creek. 1840; son of Thomas; 
removed to Fayette county; died December 19, 
1891, aged seventv-eight. 
Baker. John W., Silver Creek. 1828; from Ken- 
tucky; son of William. Sr., and father of W. R. 
Baker, ex-auditor of Greene county. 
Baker, C. H.. Xenia. 1840. 
Bates Conrad. Miami. 1840; died aged seventy-five. 

buried at Rockafield graveyard. Fairfield. Ohio. 
Bates John. Bath. 1840: son of Conrad: died Aug- 
ust 8. 1854. aged sixty, buried at Union, near 
Byron, Ohio. 
Bates, Conrad. Jr.. Bath. 1833; son of Conrad, 

Sr. : November 12. 1816. married Sarah Cook. 
Bates. Jacob. Bath, 1813; died in Bath township in 

1834; son of Conrad Bates, Sr. 
Bates Jacob S.. Bath. 1820; son of Jacob; buried 
at Aley: March 31. 1825. married Margaret 
Shingledeckcr. 
Bates, Lewis G.. Bath. i8.:o. 
Bates, David. Bath, 1826; died in 1890. buried at 

Fairfield, Ohio. 
Bates, Thomas. Vance, 1826. 

Bates. Joshua. Vance. 1827; August 30. 1829, mar- 
ried Hannah A. Jones. 
Bates. William. Sugar Creek. 1830: removed to 

Urbana. 
Bates, Henry, Beaver Creek. 1819; son of John 



Bates; buried at Union; October 22, 1818, mar- 
ried Sarah Koogler. 
Bayliff. John. Beaver Creek. 1819; died in Caesar's 

Creek township in 1831. 
Bates, Timothy. Miami. 1821 ; son of Judge Bates, 
of West York ; died January 5. 1847. at St. 
Mary's; one of the original owners of Clifton, 
Ohio. 
Bayliflfj Tliomas. Caesar's Creek, 1821 ; from \'ir- 
ginia ; died in Caesar's Creek township in 1832. 
Bayliff. Joshua, Caesar's Creek, 1830; from Vir- 
ginia; soldier of 1812; removed to Auglaize 
county; died June, 1839. 
Bayliff. Daniel. Silver Creek, 1825 ; born May 22, 

1816, at Paintersville; son of John, Sr. 
Bayliff. Abel. i82g; October 16. 1830. married Lu- 

cretia Stull. 
Bales. Jonathan. Cssar's Creek. 1806. from Pennsyl- 
vania : died November 6. 1861. aged seventy-nine, 
buried in Woodland, Xenia; son of Elisha. 
Bales. Elisha. Sr., Caesar's Creek. 1806: a native of 
Pennsylvania; died in 1828; July 25, 1816. married 
Elizabeth Shook. 
Bales. John, fcaesar's Creek. 1806; son of Elisha; 
born March 6, 1789; soldier of 1812 ; married 
Sarah Lucas in 1813; died March 11, 1864, aged 
sixty-five, buried at Tabor churchyard. 
Bales. Elisha, Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1807; son of 
Elisha; born October 17. 1796, died May 12, 
1872, buried in Woodland. 
Bales. Jacob. Sr.. Caesar's Creek, 1810; son of 
Elisha ; died May 29. 1862, aged seventy-one, 
buried in Shook graveyard. 
Bales. Solomon, Caesar's Creek. 1819. 
Bales, Silas, Caesar's Creek, 1805 : son of John : born 
June II, 1814, died July 15, 1882. aged 68. buried 
at Tabor, near Jasper, Ohio ; married Elizabeth 
Smith. 
Bales. Moses. Caesar's Creek. 1827; September 6, 

1834. married Julia Ann Bales. 
Bales. James. Ross. 1840 ; November 10. 1842. mar- 
ried Malinda Shirk. 
Bales. Jacob. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1840; died in 

Caesar's Creek township, buried in Woodland. 
Bales. Daniel. Xenia. 1820. 

Baum. David C. Beaver Creek. 1830 ; died in Bea- 
ver Creek township in 1839. 
Baughman. Andrew. Beaver Creek. 1827; a native 
of Maryland, born in 1807. died Septem1)cr 7. 
1881. aged eighty-four, buried in Woodland; son 
of Andrew. Sr. 
Babb. James W.. Caesar's Creek. 1815; soldier of 
1812. buried in Babb graveyard. Caesar's Creek. 
Babb. "Thomas. Caesar's Creek. t8i6; son of Henry 
Mercer Babb. of Pennsylvania, died March 3, 
1858. aged ninety-two. buried in Babi) graveyard. 
Babb. Abner. Caesar's Creek. 1840: father of Wm. 
Babb, resided on Sander's farm : removed to 
Cass county. Indiana. 
Bal)b. James H.. Xenia. 1829; died at Burlington, 
Iowa. 1850. 



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Babb, Peter, Xenia. 1822 ; from Virginia, born Feb- 
ruary 13. 1796. died October 25. 1865, aged sixty- 
nine, buried in Woodland. 

Babb. Bowen. Xenia, 1827 ; removed to Crawfords- 
villc. Montgomery county, Indiana; married 
Elizabeth Horney. 

Babb, James M.. Xenia. 1840; from Frederick coun- 
ty. Virginia: born January 17. 181 1, died March 
27. 1876. aged sixty-four, buried in Woodland. 

Babb. Samuel. Ross. 1815. 

Balib. .\zel. Ross. 1820; October 8, 1826; married 
Hannah Hollingsworth. 

Babb. Robinson. Beaver Creek. 1840; brother of 
Peter Babb ; removed to Cass county. Indiana. 

Babb. J|ames S., Xenia. 1840; from Winchester, 
Virginia, son of Peter, born December 3, 1821. 

Babb, Thomas, Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1817: died June 
9. 1866, aged seventy-three, buried in Babb grave- 
yard. , 

Babb. Reece, Caesar's Creek, 1826; February 2, 
1832: married Elizabeth Allen; removed to In- 
diana. 

Bartlett. George. Caesar's Creek. 1817. 

Bartlett. John. Caesar's Creek. 1826. 

Bartlett. James, Caesar's Creek, 18.30. 

Ball. James. Bath. 1813: soldier of 1812. 

Ball, Daniel. Caesar's Creek, 1815. 

Ball, Ewlass. Miami, 1827; pioneer physician, Clif- 
ton, Ohio : removed to South Charleston. 

Barker, Joseph, Xenia, 1810: soldier of 1812, .served 
also as a substitute for Henry Hypes. 

Bahl, Jacob, Bath, 1840. 

Barker. Kill. Xenia, 1840: buried Woodland, died 

1849. 

Baney. Thotiias, Bath, 18 17. 

Baynard. Solomon, Caesar's Creek, 1827; June 25, 
1835, married Deborah Burrel. 

Baynard, Jobn, Caesar's Creek, 1827: died Septeip- 
ber 25, 1866, aged seventy-five, buried in Baptist 
graveyard four and one-half miles south of 
Xenia. 

Baynard. John. Jr.. Caesar's Creek, 1840; July 12, 
i8i6: married Elizabeth Dill. 

Baynard. Gideon. Caesar's Creek, 1840; died No- 
vember 15. 1870. aged fifty-three, buried at Maple 
Corners churchyard. 

Barlcv. John. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Bargdoll, George, Silver Creek, 1819: died July 7, 
1837, aged sixty-six, buried in Jamestown cem- 
etery. 

Bargdoll. George, Jr.. Silver Creek. 1819: died 
November 30, 1857. aged sixty-two, buried in 
Jamestow-n cemetery. 

Bargdoll, Daniel. Silver Creek. 1828; born Septem- 
ber 2;. 1788. died November 26, 1826, buried m 
Jamestown. . . 

Bargdoll Joel. Silver Creek. 1828: from Virginia, 
died September 2, 1838, aged thirty-eight, buried 
in Jamestown cemetery. 

Bargdoll. Evan, Silver Creek, 1830. 

Bargdoll. Marv, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Bargdoll. Phebe. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Bargdoll. John. Silver Creek. 1840; January lO, 
1840. married Mary Ann Boots. 

Bargdoll. Joab. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Bargdoll. Solomon. Silver Creek, 1820; removed to 
St. Joseph, Missouri. 



Baldwin. James, Silver Creek, 1828; natives of 
Hampshire, Virginia ; father of J. W. Baldwin, 
Seventy-fourth O. V. I. 

Baldwin, Henry, Xenia, 1807. 
^Baldwin, David. Xenia, 181 1: from Virginia; home 
was near Old Town, soldier of 1812. father of 
John, who was born August 23. 1823 : died De- 
cember II, 1821, aged forty-two. 

Baldwin. Reece. Xenia. i8io; from Winchester, Vir- 
ginia; died March 25, 1881, aged sixty-seven, 
buried in Woodland. 

Baldwin. Almond. Xenia. 1826. 

Baldwin, Elias, Xenia, 1826. 

Baldwin. Uriah, Yellow Springs. 1840; died Novem- 
ber II. 1878, aged sixty-nine. 

Baldwin, Lydia, Yellow Springs, 1810; wife of Reece 
Baldwin. 

Baldwin, David Price, Yellow Springs. 1840; buried 
at Woodland. 

Barton, James D.. Bath. 1804; September 15, 1831, 
married Nancy McCoy. 

Barton, Oden, Bath, 1807. 

Barton, John, Bath. 1807 ; died in Bath township in 
1813. 

Barton_; Thomas. Bath. 1807: administrator of John's 
estate. 

Barton, David. Bath. 1807. 

Barton, James G.. Xenia. 1829 : from X'ew York ; died 
May 29, 1876, aged fifty-one. buried in Woodland. 

Barton, Anna. Xenia. 1808. 

Barber. Stephen, Silver Creek, 1840; died June 19, 

, aged thirty-two. buried at Hussey graveyard, 

Bowersville. Ohio. 

Barber, John, Sr., Xenia, 1816; son of William, 
from Washington county, Pennsylvania ; father 
of John A., of Cedarville. died April 30. 1848, 
aged sixty, buried in Cedarville cemetery. Cedar- 
ville. 

Barber, David, Ross. 1819; Mrs. David Jackson died 
at 'his home in 1876; .\pril 6. 1820. married Sarah 
Duncan. 

Barber, William, Ross, 1819; died in Xenia town- 
ship, 1824. 

Barber. Turza. Ross. 1840: died November 6, 1863, 
aged fifty-three, buried at Cedarville. 

Bateman, Daniel. Ross. 1818: December 16, 1822, 
married Elizabeth Chalmers. 

Bateman, Owen, Miami, 1818. 

Bateman, Samuel. Ross. 1819; removed to Clark 
county, Ohio. 

Bateman. John. Ross. 1827 : removed to Clark 
county. 

Bateman, Beriah. Ross. 1828; removed to Clark 
county. 

Bateman, Daniel, Jr.. Ross. 1826; married • 

Serlott. removed to South Charleston, Ohio. 

Bateman. Jeremiah, Bath. 1821 ; soldier of 1812. 

Barlow, John, Bath, 1816. 

Barlow, Edmond W.. Bath, 1815. 

Barlow, Elisha, Bath, 1835. 

Barlow, Martin L., Xenia. 1830; from New Y'ork ; 
died February 13. 1867. aged fifty-seven, buried 
in Woodland. 

Barlow-. Moses, Xenia. 1840; from New York, died 
March 18. 1888. aged seventy, buried in Wood- 
land; Ex-Com. "P." Judge. 



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Barlow. Thomas, Xenia, 1840. 

Barlow. William M.. Xenia, 1840. 

Barlow. John. Jr.. Ross. i8ig. 

Barlow. Samuel. Xenia. 1840: died July 30, 1849. 

aged thirty-five, buried in Woodland. 
Bayless. John. Miami. 1813. 
Bayless. Nathaniel. Xenia. 1826: died Mav 9. 1892, 

aged eighty-nine, buried in Woodland. July. 1824. 

married Clarasa Rice. 
Bark-man. Peter. Bath. 1830 : son of David : born in 

this county October 6. 1822. died in 1831. 
Bagford. James. Xenia. 1830; died November 4. 

1868. aged eiglity-two. buried in Woodland. 
Ballnian. Samuel. Xenia. 1830. 
Barrett. James. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1803: soldier of 

1812; one of the first .Associate Judges of Greene 

county : died in 1822. buried on his farm. 
Barrett. James. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1803 ; removed to 

Allen county; his wife. Nancy, buried on the 

old farm. 
Barrett. Philip. Sugar Creek. 1804; soldier of 1812. 

died in 1826. 
Barrett. John. Sugar Creek. 1828; son of Philip and 

Elizabeth Barrett. 
Barrett. Elizabeth. Sugar Creek. 1829: Widow of 

Philip Barrett. 
Barrett, .\bner. ;Mad River, 1803. 
Barrett. George. Sugar Creek. 1840: from \'ermont ; 

born in 1796. died August. 1875. aged seventy- 
eight, buried in Spring Valley. 
Barnes. James. Sugar Creek. 1803 ; soldier of 1812. 
Barnes, .\lexander. Sugar Creek. 1803 
Barnes. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1805; died in Miami 

township in 1817. 
Barnes. David. Sugar Creek. 1806. 
Barnes. John. Sugar Creek. 1810; June 21. 1840. 

married Margaret McGuffy. 
Barnes. Henry. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1807: native of 

Virginia; came from West Chester to Kentucky 

in 1799: came to Ohio in 1807; died .\ugust 2. 

1856 ; aged seventy-five ; buried in Woodland : 

soldier of 1812. 
Barnes. Henry. Jr.. Xenia. 1830; born in Xenia 

November 30. 1814; died December 6. 1872; aged 

seventy-three ; buried in Woodland. 
Barnes. John. Jr.. Xenia. i8.p; removed from Xenia 

in 1845 : brother of Henry. Jr. 
Barnes, James. Miami. 181 1. 
Barnes. John, Miami, 1820; soldier of 1812. 
Barnes. John, Miami, 1820. 
Barnes. .Andrew. Xenia. 1835 ; brother of Henrv. 

Jr. 
Barnes. George W.. Xenia. 1830; died September 11. 

1841 ; buried in M. E. graveyard. Xenia; January 

II. 1837. married Susan McClellan. 
Bannon. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1820. 
Bazel. Jacob. Xenia City 1835 ; buried in the old 

M. E. churchyard. East Third street. Xenia. 
Barr. John. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; died October 5, 

1886, aged eighty-eight ; buried in Hawker's 

churciliyard. 
Barr, James S.. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Barr, John, Bath, 1840 ; died in Bath township No- 
vember 13. 1843; buried in Folk graveyard. 
Barr, John D., Bath, 1840; died in Greenfield, Indi- 
ana, March, 1881 ; buried in Woodland. 



Barr. Samuel. Ross. 1818; kept tavern at his house 
in Ross township in 1818. 

Barr. John W.. Ross. 1840: died in Cedarville, Sep- 
tember 16, 1882; buried at Cedarville, Ohio. 

Barr. Samuel. Jr.. Ross. 1840. 

Ban;. James. Ross. 1840; died October 7. 1879, aged 
sixty-four; buried at Cedarville, Ohio. 

Barr. David, Xenia. 1840; died April 2},. 1865; aged 
sixty-two; buried at Woodland; April 19. i8v> 
married Nancy Duncan. 

Bashart. Michael. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Bancroft. John. Beaver Creek. i8jo. 

Batdorft. Peter. Bath. 1834: born 'in Berks county, 
Pennsylvania; died April 10, 1880; aged seventy- 
five; il)uried in Mitman gravevard, Fairfield, 
Ohio. 

Batdorft. John. Bath. 1840. 

Babcock. thomas. Bath. i'8og ; soldier of 1812. 

Babcock. Samuel. Bath. 1810. 

Babcock. William. Bath, 1810. 

Bartles. William, Bath, 1813; buried in Batli church- 
yard, west of Mad river in Bath township. 

Bartles. Frederick. Bath. 1827; February 26. 1829, 
married Margaret Wolf. 

Bacon. Allen. Bath. 1818; died in Bath township in 
1856: l)uried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Bacon. Ezra. Bath. 1818. 

Baggs. James. Bath. 1840; died February 7. 1858; 
aged eighty-eight ; buried in Rockafield grave- 
yard. 

Baggs. John, Bath, 1840. 

Sahaw. John, Bath, 18..10. 

Batchelor. Robert. Xenia, 1840: born December 25, 
1815: died Deceiuber 10, 1861 ; buried in Cedar- 
ville cemetery. 

Batchelor. George. Bath. 1813; a soldier of the 
Revolution; died in Miami township May 15, 
1827; buried at Cedarville. 

Ballard, William, Caesar's Creek, 1813; soldier of 
1812 ; Capt. John Watson. 

Ballard. Rev. Lyman. Ross. 1823; from Penn.syl- 
vania ; died June. 1873. near Jamestown; aged 
ninety-one. 

Balard. Joseph. Ross. 1827 ; died in Ross township 
in 1865; March 27. 1831. married Poily Shigley. 

Ballard. Josiah. Ross. 1826; died October 10, 1875; 
aged ninety; buried east of Grape Grove. 

Ballard. Joseph. Jr.. Ross. 1840; died at Morrow, 
Ohio. January i. 1873; was captain of Company 
H. 74th ; buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Ballard. William. Jr.. Ross. 1840: died October 18, 
1894. aged eighty-three, at Jasper ; born in Adams 
county. Ohio. 

Ballard. John. Ross. 1840; died February 10. 1892, 
aged seventy-seven ; buried at Massie's Creek 
( Tarbox ) 

Ballard. Nathan. Ross 1840; January 2. 1834. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Shigley. 

Bard. Samuel. M'ami. 1813. 

Baird. James. Miami, 181?; died in Miami township 
in !8i.;. 

Barney, John, Miami, 1813. 

Barney. William. Miami. 1813. 

Brady. John. Miami. 1826. 
Bartle.son, Peter, Miami, 1828. 
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Banks. Dr. Wni, Y.. Miami, 1840: from South Car- 
olina; died November 17. 1854, aged forty-five; 
1)iiricd in Woodland. 
Baynian. Charles. Ros-s. 1812. 
Haienrove. Charles. Ross. 1818. 
Kadgley. Moses. Ross. 1819; died in Ross township 

in 1822. 
Badglcy. Ephraim. Ross. 1830; .April ly, i8ji. mar- 
ried Sally Clemons. 
Badglcy, Hugh. Ross. 1830; .April 3. 1826. married 

Elizabeth Martin. 
Badglcy, George, Silver Creek, 1835; died at the 

infirmary .April 26. 18.SI ; aged thirty-eight. 
Bailey, Daniel, Silver Creek, 18.10; May 2. i8,?Q, 

married Emeline .Adset. 
Bailey. J. W.. Ross. 1840; January 11. 1838. mar- 
ried Mehitable Pratt. 
Banaham. Humphrey. Ross. 1828. 
Barkin. James. Silver Creek. 1826. 
Ba.xla. Julius. Silver Creek. 1826. 
Barkcll. John. Silver Creek. 1828. 
Barkcll, John. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1828. 
Kaskin. John. Silver Creek. 1830. 
Baber. Zenos. Bath. 1830; died August 16. 1843; 
buried in old graveyard, cast of Fairfield, Ohio. 
Back. Samuel. Sugar Creek. i8od ; soldier of 1812; 

June 9, 1806, married Betsey True. 
Beck, John, Sugar Creek, 1805; removed to Cen- 

terville, Montgomery county, Ohio. 
Beck, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1812; died in Sugar 

Creek township in 1857. 
Beck. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1810; soldier of 1812. 
Beck, William. Sugar Creek. 1840; married Sarah, 
sister of William Snodgrass. of Sugar Creek 
town.sihip. 
Beck. James. Bath, 1807. 

Season. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1803; soldier of 
1812: died December 26. 1856, aged si.\ty-six ; 
buried at Baptist graveyard. 
Beason. .Ainaziah. Sugar Creek. 1806; buried in 
Hicksite graveyard, near Selma. Clark county, in 
1821. 
Beason. Isaac. Sugar Creek. 1806 ; December 26, 

1806, married Jane Sanders. 
Beason. Richard. Sugar Creek. 1S08; soldier of 

1812; Captain Robert McGellan. 
Beason. William. Xenia. 1811 ; emigrated from South 
Carolina to Tennessee, thence to Kentucky, thence 
to Ohio; soldier of 1812; died January 18. 1853. 
aged' si-xty-six ; buried in Baptist graveyard, near 
Jasper. Ohio. 
Beasom, Mercer. Sugar Creek. 1803 ; came front 
Uniontowm, Pennsylvania; grandfather of David 
Turner. 
Beasom. Messer. Caesar's Creek. 1813 ; died in 

Caesar's Creek tovvu'ship in 1823. 
Beason. Margaret. Caesar's Creek. 1813. 
Beason, Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1817; died Novem- 
ber 30. 1839. aged fifty-eight ; buried in Zoar 
chuiLhyard; son-in-law of Balentine Bone. 
Beason. Mercer. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1819. 
Beason. Henry. Silver Creek. 1820; son of Mercer. 
Beason. John' Silver Creek. 1820; son of fiercer; 
Septentber 18. 1828. married Elizabeth Lee. 



Beason. Amassa, Silver Creek, 1840; December 27, 
1821, married Margaret Price. 

Beason. Nathan. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Beason. Susanna. Silver Creek. 1R40. 

Beason. Jacob, Silver Creek. 1840 ; December 27, 
1839 married Eliza Blalock. 

Beason. James. Miami, 1840. 

Beason. William. Jr.. Silver Creek, 1S40; July 13, 
1826. married Catherine Kyle. 

Beason. Lewis. Silver Creek. 1840; December 11, 
1840, married Betsey Hadley. 

Beason. Silas, Silver Creek. 1840: died May 25. 
1859. aged forty-three; buried at Tabor church- 
yard, near Jasper. Ohio. 

Beason. Fudge. Xenia. 1840 ; from Virginia ; died 
September 28, 1898. aged ninety-six, 

Benson, James, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Benson. William. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of i8t2. 

Benson. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1809. 

Benson. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Benson. Jonathan. Sugar Creek. 181 5. 

Benson. James. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Benson. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Benson. Clark. Sugar Creek, 1830; November 11, 
1824, married Elizabeth Ann Wilson. 

Benson. John. Sugar Creek, 18.30. 

Benson. Elijah. Sugar Creek. 1840; September 22. 
1835, married Ann Sanders. 

Benson. John. Miami. 1812. 

Beamer. Frederick, Xenia. 181J • removed to Mun- 
cie, Indiana, from Cedarville, Ohio; December 
17, 1823, married Elizabeth Hanes. 

Beamer. James. Sugar Creek. 1840; died July. 1880. 
at Cedarville ; buried in Baptist graveyard, Cedar- 
ville. 

Benham, John, Sugar Creek, 1809; soldier of 18:2; 
buried in Centerville, Montgomery county, Ohio ; 
came from New Jersey. 

Benham, Peter, Sugar Creek, 1S14; horn near Cin- 
cinnati, 1797; brother of John; buried at Mt. 
Zion ; aged eighty-seven. 
Berryhill. William T.. Sugar Creek, 1814; died 
.April 27. 1874, aeed eighty-four; buried at Bell- 
brook, Ohio; second son of Alexander. 
Berryhill. Alexander. Sugar Creek. 1815; a resident 
of Virginia; born in 1748; died, 1823; aged fifty- 
nine : buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio; soldier of Revolution. 
Berryhill. James. Sugar Creek. 1818; eldest son of 
Alexander, and son-in-law of William Turner, 
who married Esther, his daughter. 
Beryhill, John. Sugar Creek. 1818; third son of 
.Alexander; soldier of 1812; married Rachel 
James. 
Berryhill, Alexander, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1820; fourth 
son of Alexander ; removed to Miami county, 
Ohio. 
Berryhill. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1820; fifth son of 
Alexander; died in 1840; buried in Bellbrook. 
Ohio. 
Berryhill, .Archibald, Sugar Creek, 1826; si.xth son 
of Alexander; died July 7, 1877; aged seventy- 
five; buried at Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Berryhill, Matthew. Sugar Creek. 1828; seventh 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



son of Alexander: born in Angusta county. Vir- 
ginia, January 7. 1807: (lied September 25. 1898; 
aged ninety-two: buried at Bellbrook. 
Berryhill. Franklin. Sugar Creek, 1832; eighth son 

of Alexander: liorn March i, 1811. 
Berryhill. .A. M.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Berryhill. Wni. B.. Sugar Creek, 1840; .son of Sam- 
uel. 
Beard, John. Xenia. 1809. 

Beard. William. Miami. i8ig; son of Thomas. Sr. 
Beard. Joseph, Miami, 1819: son of Thomas, Sr. ; 

February 9. 1822. married Advanna Nevius. 
Beard. Benjamin. Miami. 1819: son of Thomas. Sr. ; 

December 16. 1824. married Mary Ann Knott. 
Beard. Thomas, Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1820 ; removed 

to Indiana: son-in-law of James Currie, Sr. 
Bell. Stephen. Sugar Creek. 1812; soldier of 1812; 
one of the founders of Bellbrook. Ohio: died 
November 14. 1852; buried at Springfield. Ohio: 
Hannah, his wife, died May 2.?. 18.3Q. aged 
sixty-three : buried in Pioneer graveyard. 
Bell. John S.. Sugar Creek. 1818: son of Stephen: 
carding mill at Bellbrook. Ohio ; firm name. Bell 
& Saver. 
Bell. William. Dr.. Sugar Creek. 1820; son of 
Stephen: married a daug'hter of Wm. Tanner; 
buried in Woodland. 
Bell, Charles, Sugar Creek. 1824: son of Stephen. 
Bell. Aaron. Sugar Creek, 1826: son of Stephen. 
Bell, Samuel. Miami, 1840: died in Miami township 

in 1862. 
Bell, Benjamin, Sugar Creek, 1828 ; son of Stephen ; 

removed to Indiana. 
Bell, Franklin J.. Sugar Creek, T830: son of Stephen; 

February 27. 1840, married Lydia Peneweight. 
Bell. Joshua. Xenia. 1807: frotn Harford county, 
Maryland: kept the first public house at Caesars- 
ville : soldier of 1812 : removed to Henry county, 
Iowa : died July I. i8.^6. 
Bell. John. Xenia. 1807: died in 1809. near White 

Chapel : buried on his farm. 
Bell. Nathaniel J. D.. Xenia. 1807: died June 6. 
1830. aged eighty-one: buried on the old home- 
place, southeast of Xenia. 
Bell. David. Xenia 1807: pioneer school teacher of 

New Jasper : removed to Jay county. Indiana. 
Bell. Bobert. Bath, 1807 : born in Nelson county, 
Kentucky. May i. 1793; died August 2, 1849; 
buried in Yellow Springs. Ohio. 
Bell. George. Xenia. 1807: from Baltimore county. 
Maryland: soldier of 1812: born in 1779. died 
April 18. 1840: aged sixty-one: buried on the 
old homcplace. 
Bell. Elisha Bales. Xenia, 1810: born in Caesars- 
ville, March 26, 1808: removed to Tippecanoe 
county, Indiana: died in 1864 at Lewis, Cass 
county, Iowa. 
Bell. Daniel. Xenia. t8ii : soldier of 1812. 
Bell. Nathaniel. Xenia. 1812: soldier of 1812: died 
January .s, 1847. aged sixty-six, buried in Bell 
gravevard. south of Xenia. 
Bell. Joseph. Xenia. 1819: died .Jiugust 25. 1824. aged 
fiftv-six: buried at Massie's Creek (Stevenson's.) 
Bell. William. Silver Creek. 1820: from Kentucky; 
died .Mav II. i860, in Miami township. 



Bell. Marion. Xenia. 1840: buried in Woodland; died 

in Kansas ; body sent home. 
Bell. Freeborn. Xenia. 1840: grandson of Nathaniel; 
died in Indiana in 1875. aged fifty-eight; buried in 
Woodland. 
Bell. Franklin George. Xenia. 1840: borrl March 
3. 1824: died in Xenia. February 23, 1899; aged 
seventy-five : buried in Woodland. 
Beer. David. Miami, 1813. 
Beer, Hudson. Miami, i8ig. 
Bctchell. Daniel, Miami. 1818: died in Sugar Creek 

in 1834: buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Betchell. Jacob. Sugar Creek. 1820: died November 
27. 1855. aged seventv buried in Bellbrook cem- 
etery; married Elizabeth Klontz. 
Betchell, Samuel. Sugar Creek, 1840. 
Betchel. James. Sugar Creek, 1840. 
Betchell. William. Sugar Creek. 1840: died in 185 1 ; 
buried at Bellbrook, Ohio; July 4, 1839, mar- 
ried Catharine Byrd. 
Beall. John B., Caesar's Creek, 1813 : buried in 
Woodland; September 7, 1822, married Sarah 
Mercer. 
Beall, George, Caesar's. Creek, i8n : soldier of 1812; 
born October 12. 1791 : died May I. 1874; buried 
at New Hope church. Paintersville. Ohio; son 
of Israel. 
Beall. James, Xenia, 1810. 

Beall. \\'illiam T.. Xenia, 1820: from .-Mlegheny 
countv, Maryland; son of John: born in 1798; 
died in 1886. 
Beall, George B., Xenia, 1821; died December, 1825; 

buried in Woodland ; son of John B. 
Beall. Lewis H.. Xenia, 1813: son of John B, ; from 
Maryland: died March 12, 1863: aged sixty; 
buried in Woodland. 
Beall. John S.. Xenia, 1828. 
Beall. Frederick, Xenia, 1830. 
Beall. William P.. Xenia. 1830; died January 19, 

1886. aged eighty-eight : buried in \\"oodland. 
Beall. John J.. Xenia. 1830: from Virginia; died 
April 9, 1862; buried in Woodland; son of 
John B. 
Beall. George T., Xenia, 1840. 

Beall, Alexander B.. Xenia, 1840: son of John B. ; 
died December 14. 1871, aged sixty-two; buried 
in Woodland: saddler by trade. 
Beall, Charles P., Xenia, 1840: died in Cincinnati 
December 17. 1841, aged twenty-seven; son of 
John. 
Beall. Eli R.. Xenia. 1840: son of John B. ; died 

April 18. 1843. aged twenty-five. 
Beall. George W.. Xenia. 1835: died April 27, 1829, 

in Bath township, buried in Folck graveyard. 
Beall. Isaac. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1806: father of Isaac, 
Jacob. Lena, .\aron. Jonathan. George and Polly 
Beall : his wife. Mary, died in 1819. 
Beall. Rev. Isaac J.. Beaver Creek, 1840: son of 
Isaac : died .-Xugust 27. i860, aged thirty-seven ; 
buried in Fairfield cemetery. 
Beall, Aaron, Beaver Creek, 1806 : son of Isaac, Sr. ; 
settled in Greene county in iSoi ; he it was who 
whipped the dhampion of Green county, Ben 
Kiser. in 1806; died July, i860, aged seventy- 
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Bcall. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1806 ; son of Isaac, Sr. ; 
died in 1815. in Bath township; November. 1821, 
married Margaret ilclntosh. 

Bcall. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1840; January 28. 1841, 
married Delilah Licklider. 

Bcall. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1840; died in 
Beaver Creek township December 26. 1855, aged 
thirty-eight: buried in Union graveyard. 

Bcall. William. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Bcall. Jonathan. Beaver Creek. i8n ; soldier of 1812; 
son of Isaac and Mary. 

Beatty. William A.. Xenia. 1801: from Georgetown, 
Kentucky; soldier of 1812; kept the first hotel 
in Xenia in 1804; died in Jackson county, Indi- 
ana. November. 1821. 

Beatty. Henry G.. Xenia, 1828; born March 23, 1802, 
died November t,. 1845 ; Imried in Woodland. 

Beatty. Isaac. Xenia. 1840; saddler; learned his 
trade with B. Baker; August 28, 1838. married 
Eliza .Ann Crowl. 

Beatty. William E.. Caesar's Creek. 1813 ; soldier of 
1812; married Nancy Birt. 

Beatty. Ann. Caesar's Creek, 1813. 

Beaver. Christian. Caesar's Creek. 1806. 

Beach. Benjamin. Xenia. 1840; fell from a bridge 
near New Jasper April. 1880, and was killed. 

Beam. Daniel. Caesar's Creek. 1^30; died Novem- 
ber 2. 1846. aged forty-two ; buried in Zoar 
churchyard. 

Beam, John. Bath. 1820. 

Beam. Sanniel. Silver Creek, 1S40. 

Best, Isaac, Silver Creek. 1820. 

Best, Solomon. Silver Creek. 182". 

Best. Ezekiel. Silver Creek. 1827: February 13. 1817. 
married Elizabeth Hite. 

Best. George. Silver Creek. 1827. ' 

Best. Hezekiah, Silver Creek, 1828. 

Best. Elias. Ross. 1840: October 3, 1826, married 
Elizabeth Campbell. 

Bedinger. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1830. 

Beaven. Abel. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Beaven. John. Caesar's Creek. 1840: died March 26, 
1850. aged fifty-eight; buried at New Hope, 
Paintersville. Ohio. 

Beaven. Lydia. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Bender. John , Beaver Creek, 18.30 ; from Berks 
county. Pennsylvania; born September 13. 1794; 
died October 20. 1849; buried in Aley church- 
yard. 

Berry. Bartholomew-. Beaver Creek, 1807 ; a soldier 
of the Revolution. 

Berry. David. Bath. 1820. 

Berry, Luster, Bath. 1827. 

Eerry. William. Miami. 1809; soldier of 1812; Capt. 
James Galloway. 

Berry. John. Miami. 1809; brother of Thomas; died 
in Miami township in 1814. 

Berry. Moses. Ross. 1840. 

Berry, Thomas L,. Xenia. 1811 ; soldier of 1812 ; 
died in Miami township in i860. 

Berry. James H.. Bath. 1840; died in Bath town- 
ship in 1864. 

Beeks. William, Xenia. 181 1; soldier of 1812. 

Beeks, Ohristopher. Xenia. 181 1, 

Bear, Michael. Miami. 1840. 

Beachem, Rev. Thomas, Xenia. 1828 ; a local 
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preacher of the M. E. Church, also a plasterer; 
buried in Woodland. 

Beachem. William. Xenia, 1828; a shoemaker; died 
April 9, 1861, aged sixty; buried in Woodland; 
brother of Thomas. 

Benton, J., Xenia, 1840. 

Benton. Edward, 1836; March i, 1838, married Eliz- 
abeth McDill. 

Bennett. D., Xenia. 1840. 

Bennett. Ezra. Xenia. 1840. 

Bennett, Edward. Xenia. 1840. 

Bennett. Reese. Xenia. 1807 ; died in 1855. 

Bennett, Richard, Bath, 1807. 

Bennett, Francis, Bath. 1810; soldier of 1812. 

Bennett. Solomon E.. Bath. 1832; from Maryland; 
died June 2. 1868; buried at Fairfield; married 
Mary .'^nn Ackelson. 

Benifield. James. Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Berryman. William. Beaver Creek, 1807. 

Beavardly, Trustan, Beaver Creek, 1827; April 23, 
1826, married Elizabeth Low. 

Beverly. John. Bath. 1840. 

Betts, Enoch. Bath. 1807. 

Beeth. James. Bath. 1813; buried in Mitman grave- 
vard. Fairfield. 

Bee'th. Thomas. Bath. 1816. 

Beeth. William. Bath. 1826; December 27, 1827, mar- 
ried Winfred McDonald. 

Beetdi. James. Jr.. Bath. 1840; born October, 1817, 
died March 2, 1873 ; buried in Mitman grave- 
yard, Fairfield. Ohio. 

Bairingler. Jackson Bath. 1840; February 8, 1838, 
married Harriet Dryden. 

Bergen. John. Ross. 1812; a friend of Thomas 
Townsley. Sr. ; willed him his farm. 

Bentley. John. Silver Creek. 1826; October 19, 1826, 
married Alice Studivan. 

Bentley. Joseph B,. Silver Creek. 1828; died in Silver 
Creek townshio ; kept store in Jamestown. 

Bentley. Joseph. Silver Creek. 1829. 

Bendurc. Henry. Silver Creek. 1829. 

Bendure. Stephen, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Bernard. Francis. Xenia. 1840 ; died September 23, 
1853 ; buried in Woodland. 

Bedinger, Henry, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Bedinger, Adam. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Beveridge. Rev. Thos.. Xenia. 1820; from Pennsyl- 
vania; professor in Xenia V. P. Theological Sem- 
inary ; died May 30. 1878 ; buried in Woodland. 

Birt, Zimri. Ross, 1820. 

Birt, Jeremiah. Caesar's Creek, 1824. 

Birt. Andrew D.. Caesar's Creek, 1828; March 15, 
1825, married Elizabeth Shook. 

Birt. William. Sr.. Caesar's Creek. 1806; removed 
to Rush county. Indiana. 

Birt. William. Jr.. Caesar's Creek; son of William, 
Sr. ; removed to Indiana. 

Birt, David. Caesar's Creek. 1828; son of William. 

Birt, Seaborn, Caesar's Creek, 1806. 

Birt. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1811 ; son of William, 
Sr. ; soldier of 1S12; removed to Rush county, 
Indiana. 

Birt. Leavan. Sugar Creek. 1827; removed to Ko- 
komo. Indiana. 

Birt, John, Sugar Creek. 1826 ; removed to Perry 
county, Illinois; died in 1865. 



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Birt. Thomas, Xenia. 1826: son of William. Sr. ; re- 
moved to Perry county. Illinois, at Perry Sta- 
tion. 

Birt. Peter. Ross, 1S13 ; December 24. 1841, married 
Mary Frazier. 

Birt, Aaron. Silver Creek. i8.?o. 

Bingamin. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1806; soldier of 
i8r2: buried at Waynesville, Ohio. 

Bingamin. John. Sugar Creek. 1809; died in 1814; 
Iniried in Waynesville cemetery. 

Bingamin. Lewis. Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 1812; 
buried at Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Bingamin. .Allen. Sugar Creek. 1821 ; removed to 
Blue River. Indiana; December 9, 1819, married 
Bethany Birt. 

"Bingamin. Jacob, Sugar Creek, 1840: buried at Bell- 
lirook. Ohio. 

Bingamin. Henry, Caesar's Creek, 1840: died May 
12. 1882, aged sixty-four; buried in Baptist ceme- 
tery. Jamestown, Ohio. 

Bigger. John, Sugar Creek, 1808; died December 
,?o, 18,31; buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook; 
Mary, his wife, lx)rn in 176.3, died in 1844. 

Bigger. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1826; removed to 
Guernsey county. Ohio, thence to Washington, 
Iowa : married Margaret McConnell. 

Bigger. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1826; from Kentucky; 
died September 10. 1881. aged eighty-seven; 
March 16. 1816. married Hannah Snowden. 

Biddle, Lewis, Sugar Creek, 1808. 

Biddle. John, Sugar Creek, 1808. 

Biddle, Henry, Sugar Creek, i8og. 

Biddle. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1821. 

Bias. Isaac. Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 1812. 

Bingham. William. Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Bingham. John. Miami. 1815. 

Bilderback, Gabriel, Xenia, 1806: soldier of 1812. 

Bilderback, Ephraim. Ross, 1816; died in Ross town- 
ship in 1823. 

Binkley. William. Xenia. 1840; moved to Hagers- 
town, Indiana; died June, 1882; aged seventy- 
five. 

Binkley, Philip, Xenia, 1811 ; soldier of 1812; died 
December 17. 1867, aged eighty-five; buried at 
Woodland. 

Binkley. Samuel. Xenia, 1829; chairmaker in Xenia. 

Binkley. William H., Xenia, 1840; removed to Hag- 
erstown, Indiana; died at the age of seventy-five. 

Binkley, .-Mexander, Xenia, 1840; drowned near Co- 
loma, California, in 1852. 

Binkley. Washington. Xenia, 1840: drowned near 
Coloma, California, in 1852. 

Bickett. John. Xenia. 1818; brother of W. R. ; died 
March 8. 1859, aged sixty-two; buried in Dean 
graveyard. 

Bickett. Wni. R.. Xenia. 1818; from Pennsylvania; 
l)orn in 1796; died April 23. 1865; aged sixty- 
seven : buried in Woodland. 

Bickett. Daniel. Xenia. 1819; son of John Bickett, 
and grandson of Daniel Dean. 

Bickett. John. Jr., Xenia. 1820; son of Daniel. 

Biggsby. Cephus. Zenia, 1829. 

Birmingham. Thomas. Xenia, 1803. 

Billctt. Robert. Sugar Creek. 1840: from England; 
died December 23. 1881 ; aged eighty-four. 



Bishop, Elias, Xenia, 1828; died in Xenia township 
in 1822. 

Bishop, Joseph. Xenia, 1828. 

Bishop. Reason. Xenia, 1830; died 1867; aged sev- 
enty-one; buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Bishop, Josephus, Xenia, 18,30. 

Bishop. Solomon B.. Ross, 1819; soldier of 1812; 
died in 1839; married Elizabeth Forbes. 

Bishop. Greenbury. Ross, 1819 ; January 4, 1838. 
married Spahr. 

Bishop. George. Ross. 1840; born October 7. 1809; 
died May 10. 1883 ; buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Bishop, Nimrod, Ross, i8<io; died in 1868. 

Biniger, James, Ross, 1840; born November 25. 
1802; March 11, 18.30, married Betsey Farmer. 

Bigalow. Samuel. Sugar Creek, 1827; July 4. 1831. 
married Mahala Brown. 

Black. Tilgman. Xenia, 1830; died December, 1836. 

Black. John. Sugar Creek. 1806; from Virginia; fa- 
ther of Winston Black ; removed to Piqua. Ohio. 

Black. Peter. Sugar Creek. i8og; soldier of 1812. 

Black. Moses. Sugar Creek. iSio. 

Black. David. Suarar Creek, 1810; soldier of 1812; 
.\prii 18, 1816. married Christiana Sanders. 

Black. Christiana. Sugar Creek. 1820: widow of 
David Black. 

Black. William. Caesar's Creek, 1812 : soldier of 
1812; died in 1815. 

Black, S. J., Xenia, 1840. 

Black. William H.. Xenia. 1833; bill painter; died 
December 12, 1859: buried in Woodland. 

Black. Robert. Xenia, 1816; married Mary Koogler 
June 6, 1826; died January. 1869. aged si.xty-five ; 
buried in Hawker's churchyard. 

Black. Robert M.. Xenia, 1816: son of William. Sr. ; 
January 29, 1822, married Rebecca Pierce. 

Black. Henry. Xenia, 1820; August 29, 1829, mar- 
ried Mary Rice. 

Black. Thomas. Xenia, 1840; son of James; died 
January 18, 1843, aged twenty-two ; father of 
Gramson, who died in 1859. 

Black, James, Xenia, 1821 ; February 6, 1840, mar- 
ried Jane Greive. 

Black. John, Bath, 1807. 

Black. James M., Bath, 181Q. 

Black. James R., Bath. 1820. 

Black. Joseph. Bath. 1826. 

Black. Matthew. Bath. 1822; father-in-law of George 
Koogler ; October 14, 1823, married Barbary 
Wolf. 

Black, Charles, Ross, 1840. 

Black, Winston. Xenia, 1840: from Pennsylvania; 
worked for years with Brinton Baker ; died Oc- 
tober 30, 1892, aged seventy-six; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Blair. Joseph. Sugar Creek. i8i.s: November 11. 1825. 
m^.rried Catharine O. Nedyke. 

Blair. Thomas. Xenia. 1820: a resident of Clark's 
Run ; died in the snring of 1824 ; March 23, 1820, 
married Betsey Chalmers. 

Blair. Elizabeth. Xenia. 1830; wife of Thomas: died 
February 16. 1861. aged eighty-five; buried in 
Massie's Creek (Stevenson's.) 

Blair, Lot, Ross, 1840; died in 1842; had one son, 
Josephus; his wife's name was Mary Ann. 



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Blessing. John. Sugar Creek. 1812; from Virginia; 
soldier of 1812; died July 30, 1828. aged fifty- 
eight ; buried in Baptist graveyard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 
Blessing. Reuben, Sugar Creek, 1826 ; removed to 
Indiana: December i, 1825, married Elizabeth 
Coffield. 
Blessing. Marcus. Sugar Creek. 1828; died October 
9. 1863. aged fifty-five; buried in Woodland; Sep- 
tember 15. i82g. married Maria Crumley. 
Blessing, .\braham. Sugar Creek, 1830 ; removed 
to Fayette county in 1847; June 17, 1824, married 
Phebe Mock. 
Blessing. Nancy. Beaver Creek. 1830 ; died April 
6. 1879. aged eighty-nine; buried in Mt. Zion 
churchyard. 
Blessing. Elizabeth, Beaver Creek, 18.30; daughter of 
Lewis; died December, 1900; buried in Wood- 
land. 
Blessing, Josiah. Sugar Creek, 1840; October 15, 

1840, married Lucy Lannne. 
Blessing. .A.mos. Sugar Creek. 1840 ; from Virginia ; 
died July 12, 1872, aged fifty-five; buried; in 
Woodland. 
Blessing, John. Xenia. 1821 ; son of Lewis; soldier 
of 1812; died Decen>ber 2, 1864, aged seventy- 
one ; buried in Woodland. 
Blessing, Lsaac, Xenia, 1840 ; removed to the south. 
Blessing, Mark, Xenia, 1840 ; buried in Woodland 

cemetery. Xenia. 
Blessing. .\l)salom, Beaver Creek, i8.?o ; from Vir- 
ginia ; died November 28, 1881, aged seventy- 
four ; buried at Mt. Zion. 
Blessing, Lewis, Sr.. Beaver Creek, 1821 ; born in 
1765; died in Beaver Creek township in 1825; 
buried in Woodland ; aged si.xty years. 
Blessing, Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1821 ; son of Lewis ; 
died in Beaver Creek township in 1825, June 13; 
aged thirty-three years. 
Blalock. George. Caesar's Creek, 1807 ; November i, 

1808, married Elizabeth McKenney. 
Blalock, Benson. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 
Blalock. George W., 1840; April i. 1841, married 

Elizabeth Cultice. 
Blalock. Jeremiah, Caesar's Creek. 1830, 
Blakeley, Thomas, Caesar's Creek. 1819; removed 

to Indiana. 
Blakeley, John, Xenia. 18.30. 
Blakeley, James, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Blue. David. Beaver Creek, 1806. 
Blue. Robert. Bath. 1807. 
Blue. John. Sr.. Bath. 1S07. 
Blue. John, Jr.. Bath. 1807. 
Blue. Samuel, Miami, 1813; soldier of 1812; Capt. 

James Morrow's Company. 
Blue. James. Ross, 1828, 
Blaney. William, Sr., Beaver Creek. i8ig. 
Blaney. William, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1819. 
Blain, James. Bath, i8og 

Blain, William, Sr.. Silver Creek. 1819; died Decem- 
ber 21. i86r. aged eightv-six ; buried at James- 
town. Ohio. 
Blain. William. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1840; born Sep- 
tember 25. 1808; died December 21, 185 1 ; buried 
at Jamestown, Ohio. 
Blizzard. George W,. Bath, 1840; April 18, 1839, 
married Rebecca Flatter. 



Blizzard. John, Bath, 1840. 

Blake, Nathaniel, Bath, 1813; July 25. 1814. married 

Mary Templeton. 
Bloomer. Benjamin, Ross. 181 1. 
Bloomer. Nehemiah. Ross. 1811. 
Bloomer. John, Ross, 1812. 

Bowen. Ephraim. Sugar Creek, 1803 ; from Ken- 
tucky; soldier of 1812; removed to Randolph 
county, Indiana, in 1814. 
Bowen, Solomon. Sugar Creek, 1808. 
Bowen, David, Sr., Sugar Creek. 1810; died July 
17, 1846, aged eighty-three; buried in Sugar 
Creek township. 
Bowen. Lott, Beaver Creek, 1813; from Franklin 
county, Pennsylvania ; married to Anna Wallings- 
ford May 2r, i8oi, by Rev. Carman. 
Bowen. David. Jr.. Beaver Creek, 1815; son of 
David; died June 10, 1879; buried in Mt. Zion 
churchj-ard. 
Bowen. Samuel J.. Beaver Creek, 1819; son of 
David; soldier of 1812; born in 1773; died Sep- 
tember 26. 1864; buried at Mt. Zion church- 
yard. 
Bowen, David, Jr., Beaver Creek. 1828. 
Borders, Peter, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; kept the first 
public house, and the first courts of Greene 
county were held in tliis house; removed to Man- 
ard county. Illinois, near Irish Grove; in 1852 
was still living, then eighty-four years old. 
Borders, George, Beaver Creek, 1806; soldier of 1812, 

under Capt. Zachariah Ferguson. 
Borders, George. Jr.. Beaver Creek, 181 1. 
Borders. Jacob. Sugar Creek. 1813. 
Borders. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1820; soldier of 1812; 

December 4. 1818. married Jane Starr. 
Borders. Christopher, Xenia. 1813. 
Borders, Christopher, Jr., Xenia, 1817. 
Borders, James, Xenia, 1818; soldier of 1812, under 

Capt. Robert Gowdv. 
Borders. Peter, Jr., Xenia, 1828; April r, 1829, 
married Nancy Richards ; removed to Logan 
county, Ohio. 
Boston. Jacob, Sugar Creek, i8t6. 
Bonner, James. Caesar's Creek. 1803. 
Bonner. Isaac. Caesar's Creek. 1803. 
Bonner, Frederick, Sr., Xenia, 1803; from Din- 
widdle county, Virginia ; born September 4, 
1738; died in 1830, aged seventy-one; buried in 
the Bonner Graveyard. 
Bonner. David. Xenia 1805. 
Bonner. David S.. Xenia, 1805; son of Fredrick, Sr. ; 

soldier of 1812. 
Bonner, David J.. Sugar Creek, 1812. 
Boimer, Fredrick. Jr.. Xenia. i8i6' died March 26, 
i860, aged eighty-four; buried in the Bonner 
graveyard; married Elizabeth Mercer. 
Bonner. Chapel H.. Xenia. 1808; son of Fredrick, 
Sr. ; soldier of 1812; died in Van Buren, Iowa, 
November, 1873. aged eighty-seven. 
Bonner. Stith. Xenia. 1812; son of Fredrick, Sr. ; 
died September 5, 1873, aged eighty-three ; buried 
in Bonner graveyard. 
Bonner. Chapel. Xenia. 1817; October 12, 1809, mar- 
ried Polly Davis. 
Bonner. Philip D.. Xenia, 1840; died September 15, 
1850. aged forty; November 21, 1832, married 
Mary Frances Heath. 



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Bonner. Rev. James R.. Xenia 1840: pastor of the 
Associate Reformed (now ist U. P.) church. 
Xenia. in 1840: died at Sydney. March 8, 1870, 
aged sixty-three. 

Bond. Benjamin. Sugar Creek. 1813; soldier of 
1812: Capt. John Clark. 

Bond. Israel. Sugar Creek. 1821. 

Bond. Edward Ross. 1830. 

Bone. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1803 : son of Valentine ; 
wife was Martha: he died in 1806; administrators 
of his estate were John Lucas and Joseph Turner. 

Bone. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1803 ; born in Phil- 
adelphia. Pennsylvania ; moved to Maryland, 
thence in 1795 to Columbia, and in 1803. to 
Ohio: died October 10. 18=5. aged seventy-seven; 
buried in McDonald graveyard. 

Bone. A'alentine. Sr.. Caesar's Creek, 1804: died in 
1818: buried in Zoar churchyard: his wife was 
Christenia Bone. 

Bone. Henry. Caesar's Creek. 1807 : son of Valen- 
tine : died November 25. 1877. aged eighty-seven ; 
buried in Zoar Churchyard. 

Bone. Martha. Caesar's Creek. 1813: widow of Val- 
entine Bone. 

Bone, Stephen. Caesar's Creek, 1827 : from Mary- 
land : November 30. 1822, married Rebecca Neil. 

Bone. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1827 : from Mary- 
land : son of Valentine; born in 1792; died April 
22, 1876: aged eighty-three. 

Bone. Samuel. Jr.. Xenia. 1833: died in Xenia De- 
cember. 1825: aged twenty-seven. 

Bone. Isaac. Caesar's Creek. 1807: January 10. 1837, 
married Eliza Hardsook. 

Bone. James. Xenia, 1813. 

Bone, George. Silver Creek. 1813 ; soldier of 1812: 
son of Valentine ; September 20. 1809. married 
Nancy Mullnex. 

Bone. John R.. Silver Creek. 1820; was married to 
Sarah B. Jones May 13, 1827. 

Bone. George. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Bone. John. Silver Creek. 1840; son of Valentine: 
removed to Indiana; October I, 1830, married 
Elizabeth Ricliardson. 

Boggers. Robert. Miami. 1803 : first Methodist to 
have settled in Clifton. Greene county, in 1799. 

Boggers. Benjamin. Miami, i8.'?o. 

Boots. .\dam. Xenia. 1817: born July 19. 1767; died 
March 7. 1839. aged seventy-one : buried in Boots' 
graveyard ; his wives were Hannah and Eliza- 
beth. 

Boots, Jacob, Xenia. 1818 ; son of Adam. 

Boots. Jacob. Jr.. Xenia. 1819. 

Boots, ^lartin, Xenia, 1829: son of Adam; Decem- 
ber 21, 1826. married Rhoda Dill. 

Boots. Jesse. Xenia, i8to: from Virginia; son of 
Adam: died May 30. 1883, aged seventy-four; 
buried in Woodland. 

Boots, Joel. Xenia. 1837 ; son of .'\dam ; died No- 
vember 18. 1837. aged thirty-nine ; buried in 
Boots' graveyard. 

Boots. Edmond. Xenia. 1840; October 3. 1839. mar- 
ried Elizabeth C. Haines. 

Boots. Elizabeth. Xenia. 1840; first wife of .Adam 
Boots. 

Boots. Hannah, Xenia, 1840; second wife of Adam 
Boots. 



Boots. Levi. Xenia. 1840: Adam's youngest son; 
November 7. 1833. married Marj- Jane Campbell. 

Boots. Joseph, Xenia. 1829; brother-in-law of Sam- 
uel Peterson : died December 24. 1863. 

Boblett. George. Xenia. 1807: soldier of 1812; died 
in 1872. aged ninety-eight ; buried at Maple Cor- 
ners, south of Xenia. 

Bolan, Isaac. Caesar's Creek. 1S19. 

Bolan, Daniel. Caesar's Creek. 1830. 

Bolan. Daniel, Jr.. Caesar's Creek, 1840: September 
II, 1839, married Lucinda Conrad. 

Bolan. Jesse. Caesar's Creek. 1830 : November 22, 
1834. married Margaret S. Shank. 

Borton. Jacob. Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Borton, Josiah, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Borton, Henry. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Borton, Thomas, Ross. 1840. 

Borton, Aaron, Ross, 1840. 

Borton, Francis. Ross, 1840. 

Borden. Anthony. Sugar Creek. 1803 : from X"ew J -r- 
sev : removed to Martinsburg. Favette county, 
Ohio. 

Borden.' Joshua. Xenia. i8i5:'died July 5. 1851 ; aged 
fifty-one. 

Borden. Enoch. Xenia. 1840: a tailor. 

Bowers. John, Xenia, 1840; soldier of 1812; died 
March 13, 1867, aged eighty; buried in Woodland. 

Boyd. John. Sr.. Xenia. 1807: died October 31. 1809: 
aged forty-two; buried in Massie's Creek (Steven- 
son's.) 

Boyd, James. Xenia. 1812 : died November 22, 1851 ; 
aged sixty-two ; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery. 

Boyd. John, Xenia, 1840. 

Boyd. William. Xenia. 1840: died in 1866. 

Boyles. Henry, Xenia, 1830: died November 6, 1874; 
buried at Cedar\'ille cemetery. 

Boyles, Wesley, Xenia, 1830: died .\pril i. 1823; 
buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Boyles, James, Xenia. 1807: died July 16. 1859: aged 
seventy-two; buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Boyles. Daniel, Xenia, 1807; November, 1831, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Creswell. 

Boyles, Margaret, Xenia, 1807. 

Boyles, John, Xenia, 1829. 

Boyles. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1829 : September 30, 
1829. married Elizabeth Jones. 

Boyles. Solomon. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Boyles, .-Xbel, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Bowmaster, Peter, Silver Creek. 1810: from West- 
moreland county, Pennsvlvania : died November 
3, 1859, aged seventv-two : buried in Bowersville 
cemetery: soldier of 1812. 

BozartK John. Ross. 1807: soldier of 1812: died 
June 17. 1858: buried in Bloxsom graveyard, in 
Clark county. 

Bozarth, Joshua, Ross, 1806: soldier of 1812; died 
in 1869 : buried in Bloxsom graveyard. 

Bozarth. David. Ross. 1819. 

Bozarth^ Lott. Ross. 1815. 

Bozarth. Prestley, Ross. 1807: January 3. married 
Emeline S. Smith. 

Bosher, John, Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Bosher. Joshua. Beaver Creek. 1S07. 

Bosher. Peter. Beaver Creek. iSii. 



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Booker, William. Bath. 1813. 

Booker^ Peter, Beaver Creek, 1840: soldier of 1812: 
Capt. Shingledecker. 

Booker, White, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Booker, Elias, Beaver Creek, 1840; died July 21, 
1857, aged thirty-five : buried in Pefro graveyard, 
near Fairfield, Ohio. 

Booth. Caleb. Xenia. 1826: died January 20, 1852, 
aged seventy-six ; buried in Cedarville ceme- 
tery. 

Booth. Thomas, Xenia. 1828; July 31, 1821, marr- 
ried Lorcna Davis. 

Booth. John. Xenia^ 1828. 

Booth, .-Mfrcd. Ross, 1840: born May 7, 1815; died 
May 23, 1879; buried in Baptist graveyard, Cedar- 
ville, Ohio; married Elizabeth Wilson. 

Booth, David. Xenia. 1840; died May 22, 1856, aged 
forty-five; buried Cedarville cemetery. 

Bovey. Samuel, Xenia. 1840: a native of Maryland. 

Bovey. Daniel. Beaver Creek, 1840: died March 11, 
1855; aged sixty-eight; buried in Hawker's 
churchyard. 

Bovey, Simon. Beaver Creek. 1840; from Washing- 
ton county, Maryland: born May 28, 1802; died 
in 1883: buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Bolx), Gardner. Beaver Creek, 1803; witness for the 
state — Aaron Beall vs. Benjamin Kiser. A. D. 
1806. 

Bowman. Joseph. Beaver Creek, 181 T. 

Bowman. Jacob. Beaver Creek, 181 1. 

Borrofif. Daniel. Beaver Creek, 1830: from Virginia: 
died December, 1874, aged seventy-seven ; buried 
at Mt. Zion. 

Bodkin, John. Beaver Creek, 1811. 

Bodkin. George, Beaver Creek. 1810; soldier of 
1812. 

Boler, John, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Boice. Charles. Bafh. 1817. 

Box. Martin. Bath. 1821. 

Bozell. Raphel. Bath, 1840. 

Boolman. Samuel. Miami. 1840. 

Bowser, Michael D., Xenia, 1840; torn in Warren 
county. Ohio; died June i, 1896, aged seventy- 
eight, buried in Woodland. 

Bool, Tames, Ross, 1811. 

Bool. Margaret, Ross, 1812. 

Bool, John. Ross, 1816. 

Brewster. Lewis, Ross, 1803; died November 9. 
1836, aged sixty-four, buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, Bellbrook. 

Brewster. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1803 : died in Su- 
gar Creek township in 1824; January 3. 1822, 
married Mary Dunwiddie. 

Brewster, John, Sugar Creek, 1816; died in Sugar 
Creek township in 1830. 

Brewster, Francis. Sugar Creek. 1817: died March 
6, 1875, aged eighty, buried in Bellbrook ceme- 
tery. 

Brewster. Nathaniel. Sugar Creek, 1819: died in 
1864. aged sixty-seven, buried at Bellbrook. 

Brewster. David, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Brewster, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Brewster, Samuel. Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Brewster. Zadock. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Bruce, Charles P., Sugar Creek, 1840; removed to 



Montgomery county, Indiana ; died October, 
1850, aged 'fifty-two : married Angeline Wright. 

Bruce. James, Sugar Creek, 1803; born in 1782; 
soldier of 1812; buried in Baptist chiirchyard, 
Patterson Corner, near Jamestown, Ohio. 

Bruce, Henry, Caesa/s Creek, 18/c 

Bruce. Joshua, Beaver's Creek, iS.; .uldier of 1812; 
buried in Baptist graveyard ; southwest of James- 
town. Ohio. 

Bridge, William. Sugar Creek, 1810. 

Broadrick. Patrick. Sugar Creek, 1804. 

Broadrick. David S., Sugar Creek, 1809; first elec- 
tion held in his house at the organization of 
township of Miami. 

Broadrick, George, Miami, 1819. 

Broadrick. Isaiah, Miami, 1830. 

Bright. Goodwin, Sugar Creek, 1806; died in 1806, 
buried in Middle Run churchyard, south of Bell- 
brook, Ohio. 

Bright, Jacob, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Brown, Rev. Anza. Xenia, 1835; first M. E. 
pastor stationed in Xenia. 

Brown. Hiram C, Xenia, 1842; from New York 
died February 22, 1882, aged eighty-seven; buried 
in Woodland. 

Brown, Nathaniel, Xenia, 1842; father of Hiram C. 
Brown, buried in Woodland cemetery, Xenia, 
Ohio. 

Brown. David, Ross, 1812; soldier of 1812; died 
March 8, 1868, aged .seventy-five; buried in 
Clifton cemetery. 

Brown. Jacob, Xenia, 1835: born December 17, 
'775. died January 22. i860, aged eighty-four; 
f-om I^xidoun county. \^irginia. 

Brown. George W., Xenia. 1835: son of Jacob; died 
at his residence near Jamestown, May ig, 1883, 
aged eighty-five. 

Brown. Nixon. Xenia, 1840; born February 2, 1827; 
son of Jacob, and brother of George. 

Brown, Jonathan, Xenia. 1807; January I. 1807, 
married Delilah Spencer. 

Brown. Samuel. Xenia. 181 1; November 26. 1830, 
married Eliza Harrison. 

Brown. John H., Xenia, 1819, removed to Warren 
county, Illinois; died in 183S ; January 30, 183S 
married Jane Struthers. 

Brown. James M., Xenia, 1820; died in 1853, 
aged seventy-one, buried in Massie's Creek 
(Stevenson's). 

Brown, David, Xenia, 1840 ; buried in Caesar's 
Creek churchyard ; from Scotland ; father of 
Robert. 

Brown. Robert, Xenia. 1840; died February 7. 1887. 
aged seventy-one. buried in Caesar's Creeek 
churchyard. 

Brown, William. Sr.. Xenia. 1830; a native of Alyth, 
Perthshire. Scotland; brother of James, and fa- 
ther of John. Revs. James and Thomas Brown ; 
was married to Margaret Hain ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Brown. Rev. Thomas, Xenia, 1835 ; born in Alyth, 
Perthshire, Scotland. September 6. 1814; married 
Elizabeth Hamill. February 20. 18.^8. at Xenia; 
died January 18. 1892. at Welda, Kansas. 

Brown. Rev. Zachariah, Xenia, 1827; May 26, 1825, 
married Mary Dorsey. 



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Brown, James. Xenia, 1830; killed in gravel pit 
June 4. 1849, aged seventy-three, buried in Wood- 
land. 
Brown. James, Caesar's Creek, 1830: June 2, 1842, 

married Rachel Powers. 
Brown, Abijah, Xenia. 1830; from Washington 
county, Maryland: died January 27, 1861, aeed 
eighty, buried in Woodland. 
Brown, John, Xenia, 1830: a Scotchman, brother of 
James; removed to Monmouth. Illinois; natural- 
ized in 1832, 
Brown, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1806; March 15. 

1821. married Margaret Snip. 
Brown. William. Beaver Creek, 1820; died November 
15. 1864. aged sixty-eight, buried at Hawker's 
church. Beaver. 
Brown. PhiliD. Beaver Creek. i82g; born May 11, 
1798. died January 13. 1877, aged seventy-eight, 
buried at Mt. Zion churchyard. 
Brown. William. Sugar Creek. 1809; from Augusta 
county. Virginia; son of John; soldier of 1812; 
died February i. 1816. aged forty-six, buried in 
McKnight cemetery. 
Brown. .\!exander. Sugar Creek. 1813. 
Brown. David, Xenia, 1840; died April 27. 1873. 

aged eighty. 
Brown, James. Sugar Creek. 1815; died February 
5, 1892. aged seventy, buried in Bellbrook cem- 
etery. 
Brown. Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1820; plasterer in 
Xenia in 1827; removed to Dayton; died past 
the age of ninety. 
Brown. Jacob, Sugar Creek. 1826; from Loudoun 
county. Virginia ; died at .-Mpha. April 6. 1885. 
buried in Beaver Creek cemetery. 
Brown. Mahlon. Sugar Creek, 1827; died in Xenia 

in 1848. 
Brown. George. Sugar Creek. 1824- son-m-law of 
Arthur Johnson ; died December 3. aged sixty- 
seven, buried in Mt. Zion. 
Brown. David W.. Sugar Creek. 1824; died No- 
vember 3. 1848. aged forty-nine, buried in Bell- 
brook cemetery. 
Brown. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1824; son of George; 

born Novetnber 17, 1816. 
Brown. Clayton. Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Mahloi' 

Brown. 
Brown, Godfrey, Caesar's Creek, 1830; a Baptist 
preacher; died January 3, 1843, aged ninety, July 
17, 1828, married Keziah Smith. 
Brown. Richard, Caesar's Creek, 1830; died Decem- 
ber 2Q, 1878, aged seventy-nine; February 6, 
i8.?4. married Sidney Hamton. 
Brown. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1830; died in Cae- 
sar's Creek township in 1869: January 6. 1840, 
married Eliza Lucas. 
Brown. .Mien W.. Caesar's Creek. 1830; buried in 

Salem graveyard, south of Paintersville. Ohio. 
Brelsford. James. Sugar Creek. i8n ; soldier of 1812; 
died near Bellbrook in 1886; February 17. 1825. 
married Nancy Bigelow.' 
Brelsford. William. Sugar Creek, 1826; died in 

Sugar Creek township in 1849. 
Brelsford. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1823; October 2, 

1823. married Sarah Buckles. 
Brelsford. John. Sugar Creek. 1829; son of William. 



Brelsford. Daniel. Sugar Creek. 1816: his daughter, 

Hannah, married Jeremiah .Allen. 
Brazelton. Samuel. Caesar's Creek, 1805. 
Breakfield, Elias, Silver Creek. 1840; born in Berke- 
ley county. West Virginia. August 31. 1806. 
Browder, Thomas, Sr., Silver Creek. 1807; one of 

the first settlers of Jamestown. 
Browder. Thomas. Jr., Silver Creek, 1807 ; died in 

Ross township in 1830. 
Browder. William. Silver Creek, 1807, 
Browder, Jesse F.. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Browder. James. Silver Creek, 1821 ;died at Colum- 
bus. Ohio, in 1835; July 4, 1816, married Betsey 
Hays. 
Browder, James, Sr., Silver Creek, 1809; soldier of 
1812; died February 12, 1872; buried at James- 
town. Ohio. 
Browder. James, Bath. iSog. 
Browder. William. Bath, 1810. 
Browder. William. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1814. 
Browder. Fletcher. Silver Creek, 1840: died April 

18, 1887 ; aged seventy-two. 
Browder, Daniel, Ross, 1815; died in Ross township 

in 1818, 
Browder, Joseph, Ross, 1840. 
Browder, J. S.. Ross. 1840. 

Browder. Thomas T.. Ross. 1840; died ]\Iarch 7, 

187;. aged sixty-five; buried at Bowersville. Ohio. 

Browder, James. A., Ross. 1840: died February 25, 

1877. aged seventy; buried at North Star, Darke 

county, Ohio. 

Browder, Harman, Silver Creek, 1813; soldier of 

1812; died in Ross township in 1835. 
Browder. Jonathan. Silver Creek. 1813. 
Browder. Wesley. Silver Creek. 1817. 
Browder. Hector S.. Silver Creek. 1840: died Sep- 
tember 19. 1856. aged forty-two ; buried in the 
Jamestown cemetery, married Catharine Hixon. 
Browder, Parks S.. Silver Creek, 1840. 
Bryan. James. Silver Creek. 181 1; soldier of 1812; 
died .April, 1874; May 2, 1813, married Polly 
Johnson. 
Bryan. Morrison. Silver Creek. i8ii ; soldier of 1812; 
died in 1822; buried at Jamestown. Ohio; August 
23. 1837. married Catherine Turner. 
Bryan. Alonzo. Jr., Silver Creek, 1840. 
Bryan. Nero. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Bryan. Lycha A.. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Bryan. William. Silver Creek. 1S40; May 21. 1840, 

married Sarah Mendenhall. 
Bryan. .Alonzo. Silver Creek. 1829. 
Bryan. Andrew M., Silver Creek, 1815; died in Sil- 
ver Creek township in 1S21. 
Bryan. David. Silver Creek. 1815; son of Andrew M. 
Bryan, Thomas, Caesar's Creek, 1816: died Octo- 
ber 6, 1853, aged sixty-two ; buried in Friend's 
graveyard, Jamestown. Ohio. 
Bryan. Jacob. Caesar's Creek, 1837. 
Bryan. Reece. Ross. 1840; April 5. 1838, married 

Nancy Sheeley. 
Bruin. Martin. Caesar's Creek. 1827. 
Bromagem. Elias, Xenia, 1803; his wife was Mar- 
tha ; he died in 1828. 
Bromagem. Simon. Xenia. 1810; son of Elias; died 
September 26. 1823. aged thirty-four; buried iii 
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Bromagem. Samuel. Xenia. 1820: son of Elias; died 
September 21. 1846. aged forty-eight; buried in 
Baptist graveyard. Cedarville. 

Bromagem. Sarah. Xciiia. 1830: daughter of Elias 
and Martha. 

Bromagem. John. Xenia, 1840; died in 1845, aged 
twenty-four: buried in Massie's Creek cem- 
etery. 

Bromagem. James. Xenia. 1840; died May 19. 1841, 
aged twenty-two; buried in Massie"s Creek ceme- 
tery ; married Margaret Townsley. 

Bromagem. Moses, Ross. 1840. 

Bromagem, William, 1835; March 30, 1837, married 
Martha Gibson. 

Bramlett. Elkanah L.. Xenia, 1807; grandson of 
Joseph Lambert. 

Bray. Henry. Xenia, 1807. 

Bray. Joseph. Caesar's Creek, 181 1; soldier of 1812; 
under Capt. John Lucas. 

Briggs. John. Xenia. 1808 ; .■\ugust 8. 1820, married 
Margaret CofFell. 

Briggs, Matthew, Xenia, iSii. 

Briggs. Beniamin, Xenia, 1816. 

Briggs. Levi. Xenia, '1814; February 21, 1817, mar- 
ried Catherine Haddin. 

Briggs, Levi L., Xenia. 1817. 

Brotherton, John, Xenia, 1835; lived near Oldtovvn ; 
removed to Delaware county, Indiana ; died Octo- 
ber 12, 1863; aged seventy-three. 

Brewington, Klias, Xenia, 1808. 

Brewington. Eliiah. Xenia, 1817. 

Brewington, Daniel R., Xenia. 1826; born in Wor- 
cester county. Maryland. March 27, 1798; re- 
moved to Delaware county, Indiana, in 1835: 
(lied October 24, 1870, aged seventy-three. 

Brewington, Xoah, Xenia. 1828; December 25, 1824, 
married Margaret Smith. 

Brewington. John, Xenia, 1829; December 10. 1833, 
married Emogene Snahr. 

Bratton, James, Xenia. 1816; from South Carolina; 
died January 22. 1867 aged seventy-five ; buried 
in Woodland. 

Bratton. James. Xenia. 1828; from Ireland; died 
May 7. 1861, aged eighty-one; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Bratton. David, Xenia, 1840; son of James, second; 
died January 16, 1846, aged forty-eight; buried at 
Woodland. 

Bratton, Robert. Xenia, 1840. 

Bratton, Edward. Xenia, 1840; son of James, second: 
died April 11, 1865; aged forty-eight: buried in 
Woodland. 

Brisbane, Samuel, Xenia. 1821. 

Brouse. Canaan. Xenia. 1829; February 11. 1830, 
married Nancy Towrell. 

Brinkerhoff. Abraham. Xenia. 1840; removed to 
California. 

Brinkerhoff. Harman, Beaver Creek, 1828. 

Brinkerhoff. John. Xenia. 1840: married a sister of 
Abraham Hivling; .April 27, 1835. Catherine M. 
Smith. 

Bradley, John, Bath, 1807. 

Bradley. William. Bath, 1826; January I, 1823, mar- 
ried Harriet Drake. 

Bradley, Jacob, Bath. 1826. 



Bradley. James F.. Xenia, 1828. 

Bradley. Milton. Xenia. 1840: died January 15, 1878. 
aged seventy-five: buried in Woodland; Novem- 
ber 4, 1841, married Winney Dixon. 

Branson. Andrew. Miami, 1819. 

Branson. Thomas. Xenia. 1830. 

Bressel, Jacob. Xenia. 1840: born in 1815; died Feb- 
ruary 20, 1884. aged sixty-nine; buried at Fair- 
field, Ohio. 

Bressel. John. Beaver Creek. 1840; died at the age 
of seventy-three; buried at Fairfield, Ohio. 

Bracken, Jesse, Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Brackhill. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1818; September 31, 
1819. married Catherine Morningstar. 

Brackhill. Henry. Beaver Creek. 1818. 

Brackhill, Peter, Beaver Creek, 1826; July 24. 1828. 
married Sally Harvey. 

Bryson. Patrick. Beaver Creek, 1826; died in 1828. 
aged fiftv-seven : buried in Pioneer graveyard, 
Bcllbrook, Ohio. 

Bryson, Robert. Xenia, 1834; native of Scotland; 
removed to Cumberland county, Pennsylvania : 
thence to Ohio: died December 15. 1876; buried 
in Massie's Creek cemetery. Cedarville. 

Bryson. James. Xenia. 1836; son of Robert; born 
March i, 1815. 

Bryson. Andrew. Xenia. 1840; June 14. 1835. mar- 
ried Sarah Baker. 

Bryson, George, Xenia, 1840. 

Browson, Timothy. Beaver Creek. 1840: July ir. 
1840, tnarried Elizabeth .Ann Fleshcr. 

Brake, George, Bath, 1810: died August 18, 1864, 
aged seventy-six ; buried in Fairfield cemetery. 

Brake. John, Bath. 1813. 

Bryson, Samuel. Bath. 1830. 

Brosler. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1840; born in 1815: 
died at Fairfield. Ohio. February 10. 1885 : form- 
erly of Xenia. 

Bresler. John, Bath, 1840: died near Fairfield, March 
6, 1841, aged seventy-three; buried at Fairfield, 
Ohio. 

Bryant. Levi. Bath. i8og. 

Branum. Thomas. Bath. 1817. 

Branum. William. Bath. 1840: soldier Company E, 
Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, buried 
in Casad graveyard, near Fairfield, Ohio. 

Branum. James. Bath, 1840 ; buried in Casad grave- 
yard. 

Brewer. Charles, Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Brewer, Jacob A.. Beaver Creek, 1840: died Octo- 
ber 29, 1839, aged forty-six ; buried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard. 

Brewer. Aaron. Ross. 1819. 

Brewer, William, Ross, 1840; February 28. 1839. 
married Haines. 

Brewer. Peter J.. Xenia. 1835: born in 1818; died in 
Xenia, April 6. 1900. aged eighty-two ; from Mary- 
land. 

Brewer. John G., Miami, 1817; soldier of 1812; from 
New Jersey; born August, 1794; died in 1886, 
aged ninety-six; buried in Woodland; March, 
1823, married Sarah Miller. 

Brewer, Jacob. Beaver Creek 1840 ; died in 1839, 
aged forty-six ; buried in Beaver Creek church- 
yard. 



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Bradford. Robert. Xenia. 1818: son of Thomas A. ; a 

resident of ■Montgomery county. 
Bradford. Thomas, Xenia. 1818; from Ireland; re- 
moved to Pittshnrg. Pennsylvania. 

Bradford. William. Xenia. 1826: son of Thomas; re- 
moved to Terre Haute. Indiana. 

Bradford. David. Xenia. 1818; son of Thomas; died 
June 16, 1875, aged eighty-two; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Bradford. John. Xenia, 1840; from Pennsylvania; 
died September 17. 1881. aged ninety; buried in 
Sugar Creek township. 

Bradfute, Widow. Xenia. 1809; born November 3. 
1796; Margaret died in 1813; from Scotland. 

Bradfute. John. Miami. 1806; from Virginia; died 
February 14, 1870, aged seventy-three; buried at 
Massie's Creek. 

Bradfute, John, Miami. 1821 ; died January 19. 1872, 
aged si.xty-nine ; buried in Clifton cemetery. 

Bradfute. •William, Miami. 1824; died January 19. 
1872. aged seventy ; buried at Massie's Creek. 
Cedarville, Ohio. 

Bringham. Samuel, Bath. 1821. 

Bringham. Martin, Bath, 1821. 

Bringham. William. Caesar's Creek, 1811 ; soldier of 
1812. 

Broadstone, Michael, Bath. 1830; September 17, 1826, 
married .Abigail Williamson. 

Brinson, Samuel, Bath, 1840. 

Brinson, Timothy, Bath, 1S40. 

Brinson, Timothy, Jr., Bath, 1S40. 

Bresh, John, Xenia. 1840: from Kentucky; died 
December i, 1869, aged eighty; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Branner. Michael. Miami, 1819; died in Miami town- 
ship in 1854. 

Brady. John, Miami, 1826. 

Brubaker. Joseph, Miami. 1840. 

Brnbaker. Henry. Miami. 1840. 

Brock. Francis, Ross, 1828 ; from North Carolina ; 
died October 10, 1857, at his home in Ross 
township, aged sixty-eight. 

Brock. Evan. Ross, 18:8. 

Brock, William. Ross, 1840; son of Francis; born 
January 8. 1S18. 

Braley. Charles. Miami. 1840; died in Miami town- 
ship in 1862. 

Braley. Samuel. Miami. 1840: born January 21. 1769: 
died October 11, 1841, aged seventy-two; buried 
in Clifton; February 12, 1818, married Caroline 
Knot. 

Braley. Lewis. Miami. 1816; died November i. 1861. 
aged si.\ty-four: buried in Clifton. 

Brandt. John, Beaver Creek, 1840; from Germany; 
died December 28. 1896. aged seventy-nine. 

Brock. John H.. Ross. 1840; son of Francis. Sr. 

Brock. Richard. Ross. 1840; April 16, 1822, mar- 
ried Margaret Sheild. 

Brinker. Riley. Ross. 1840; died at Spring Valley 
October 5. 1872. 

Brinker. David, Suear Creek. 181 1; soldier of 1812: 
Capt. Robert McClellan. 

Bragg. William, Sugar Creek, 1817; a celebrated 
hunter ; died in 1854 of cholera ; buried at Bo- 
wersville, Ohio. 

Bragg, John A., Silver Creek. 1840. 



Bragg. Geo. .A.. Silver Creek. 1840; September 10, 

1835. married Sarah .A.. Stevens. 
Brackney. Reuben, Silver Creek, 1828. 
Brackncy, William. Silver Creek. 1828; July 26. 1835, 

married Mary Mullen. 
Brooks. John. Silver Creek. 1826. 
Broz. -Alexander. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Brickie. John, Sr., Silver Creek, 1840; died July 
25. 1854, aged sixtv-four ; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery. 
Brickie. Jacob. Silver Creek. 1838; from Pennsyl- 
vania; born February 25, 1815, in Dauphin county, 
Pennsylvania. 
Brockow, Isaac, Silver Creek. 1840. 
Bride. John M.. Xenia. 1830; married Mary, daugh- 
ter of Samuel Gowdy ; died and is buried on 
East Third street, Xenia. 
Bunnel. Daniel. Xenia. 1811 ; died in Warren coun- 
ty. Missouri. September 10. 1876. aged eighty ; 
had resided in Xenia seventy-one years or more. 
Bunnel, Samuel, Xenia, 1840; September 24, 1839. 

married Eliza Conwell. 
Bunnel. George. Xenia. 181 1. 
Bunnel, Daniel, Jr.. Xenia. 1840; January 2t. 1833, 

married Alma Larew. 
Bunnel. Clayton. Xenia. 1840. 

Bunnel, Thomas. Xenia. 1840; removed to Cham- 
paign county, Ohio. 
Buckles. Robert. Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1803; came from 
Virginia in 1797; soldier of 1812; born August 
6, 1770; died December 25, 1850, aged eighty; 
buried in Middle Run churchvard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 
Buckles, William, Suear Creek, 1803 ; soldier of 
1812; born March 25. 1766: died March 29, 1846, 
aged seventy-nine; buried in Middle Run, Bell- 
brook, 
Buckles, James. Sugar Creek, 1803 ; son of William, 

Sr. ; (October 13, 1818. married Sarah Perkins. 
Buckles. John. Sugar Creek, 1803; son of William; 
soldier of 1812; died in 1870, aged eighty-one; 
buried in Middle Run, Bellbrook. 
Buckles. David. Sugar Creek. 1810; soldier of 1812; 

September 2. 1819. married Hulda Gerard. 
Buckles. Henry. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1812; son of Will- 
iam, Sr. ; April 2$. 1816. married Elizabeth Hea- 
ton. 
Buckles. Robert. Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1812; son of 
Robert ; died in 1829. aged thirty-four ; buried in 
Middle Run. Bellbrook. 
Buckles. Evan. Sugar Creek. 1816; a single 
man ; born at Columbia, near Cincinnati, July 7, 
1797; died July 10, 1880, aged eighty-three; buried 
in Middle Run ; when one year old was brought to 
Sugar Creek by his parents. 
Buckles, Jacob, Sugar Creek, 1819; died March 31, 

1892, aged seventy-seven. 
Buckles, Simon, Sugar Creek, 1821 : son of William, 

Sr. 
Buckles. George W.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Buckles. .Abner. Sugar Creek. 1840; buried in Mid- 
dle Run churchyard. 
Buckles. Girard. Sugar Creek. 1840: September 30. 
1830. married Rebecca Hawkins; .son of William, 
Sr. ; died .August 20. 1889. aged seventy-nine; 
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Buckles. Simon, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of William, 
Sr. 

Buckles, William S., Xenia. 1828; died April 22, 
1S5.?, aged fifty; buried in Woodland; April 3, 
1823, married Hannah Barnes. 

Buckles, William. Xenia, 1818; July 25, 1833, mar- 
ried Caroline Wakelcy. 

Buckles, Isaac P.. Sugar Creek, 1826; nephew of 
Dr. I. S. Perkins. 

Buckles. Jonah, Xenia. 1840; born in 1827, died in 
l8go, aged sixty-three ; buried in Middle Run ; 
son of Henry, Sr. 

Buckles. Al)raham. Xenia. 1818; son of William. Sr. ; 
November 8. 1803. married Jennie Carman. "^ 

Buckles. Henry S.. Xenia, 1835; born in 1815. died 
in 1897, aged eightj--one; buried in Woodland; 
Noveniber 4, 1854, married Eleanor Thomas. 

Bull. William. Sr.. Xenia, 1803 : from Virginia; .sol- 
dier of the Revolution; died October 31, 1811, 
aged seventy-one: buried in Massie's Creek (Ste- 
venson's.) 

Bull. Asaph, Xenia, 1803; eldest son of William, Sr. ; 
died in 1813. 

Bull, James. Xenia. 1803 : son of William, Sr. ; soldier 
of 1812; died in 1872. aged ninety-six; buried in 
Massie's Creek (Stcvcn.son's). 

Bull. Richard. Xenia. 1S03. son of Williani, Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 1812. died October 31. 1834. aged fifty-two; 
buried in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's). 

Bull. John. Xenia. 1803; soldier of 1812 ; son of 
William. Sr. ; died in 1834. 

Bull. Thomas, Xenia. 1803: son of William. Sr. ; 
soldier of 1812; removed to Owen county, In- 
diana. 

Bull. William. Xenia. 1820; son of William, Sr. ; 
Sepleml)er 16. 1825. married Nancy R. Jackson. 

Bull, William, Jr., Xenia, 1827; son of Richard; re- 
moved to Owen county. Indiana; died February 2, 
1887. aged eighty. 

Bull. Benjamin. Xenia. 1820. 

Bull, William H.. Xenia. 1827; December 22. 1836, 
married -Abigail R. Kyle ; son of James ; born in 
1805: died February i, 1867; buried in Massie's 
Creek. 

Bull. James R.. Xenia. 1833; son of Richard; died 
April 5. 1884; buried in Woodland; aged sev- 
enty-two. 

Bull, .\rthur. Xenia. 1828. 

Bull. Bentley. Xenia. 1837; born in 1816; died in 
1889: buried in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's). 

Bull. Amos, Xenia, 1840; son of James. 

Bull. Robert Scott. Xenia, 1840: born in Greene 
county February 22. 1817; son of James. 

Bull. J. L.. Xenia, 1840; a resident of Xenia in 
1840 ; a son of James. 

Bull, Robert, Sugar Creek, 181 1; died in 1832, aged 
twenty-one ; buried in Middle Run, Bellbrook. 

Bull. Francis. Sugar Creek. 1820; died in 1842, aged 
si.xty-five ; buried in Middle Run, Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Bull. Nathan. Sugar Creek, 1820; drowned June 
12, 1823, aged forty-seven ; buried in Middle Run. 

Bull. Hiram. Sugar Creek. 1840; born near Bell- 
brook ; removed to Sidney. Ohio ; May. 1899. was 
still living, aged eighty-two. 

Buchalter, .Abraham. Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Burk, Henry, Sugar Creek, 1820. 



Burk, .lames, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Rurk. William. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Burk. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1811. 

Bulard. Joseph. Xenia. 1818; died at Oldtown in 

1840; Februar)- 24. 1820. married Bethsheba Allen- 
Bush, Richard, Beaver Creek. 1807. 
Bush, William, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 
Bush. Henry, Sugar Creek, 1813. 
Bussel; Samuel, Beaver Creek. 1808; removed to the 

East; soldier of 1812. 
Bussel. John. Sugar Creek. t8ii. 
Bussel, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Burgan, John. Xenia. 1806; left his estate to his 

friend, Thomas Townslev, Sr. ; died June. i8r8. 
Burnsides, William. Xenia, 1807; soldier of 1812, of 

the Light Dragoons. 
Burnsides. .Andrew Sugar Creek, 1813 ; removed to 

Champaign county, Ohio. 
Burnsides. Nicholas, Caesar''s Creek, 1840; June 

I. 1838, married Sarah .Ann McCoy; removed 

to Champaign county, Ohio. 
Burrell, John D., Caesar's Creek, 181 1; soldier of 

1812; died May 16. 1864. aged eighty-one; Oc- 
tober 29, 1807, married Eleanor Marshall. 
Burrell. George. Caesar's Creek, 1811: removed west; 

buried in Baptist graveyard, south of Jamestown. 
Burrell. Marshall. Caesar's Crisek, 1840; yet living in 

1899; son of John D. 
Bullock. Ephraim. Sugar Creek. 1812; died in 1837; 

his wife was Abigail; sons, Morgan L.. Elias, 

Rowland E.. and daughters, Eliza Morton and 

Emiline Golden. 
Burney, James, Sugar Creek, 1812. 
Burney. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1812; soldier of 

1812; Capt. Robert McClellan. 
Burney. Ezekiel. Sugar Creek. 1826; merchant tailor 

at Bellbrook at an early date. 
Burney. Thomas. Bath. 1814. 
Burney. James. Bath. 1814; died in Miami township 

in 1815. 
Burney. Robert. Bath, 1818. 
Buckley. Joshua. Sugar Creek. 1816: died .August 

1, 1830; drowned in the forabay of his own mill; 

buried near Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Buckley, Joshua, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1826; son of 

Joshua, Sr. 
Burkenhouser, Henry, Xenia, 1835; known as Dutch 

Henry ; a baker ; had his bakeshop near where 

Charles Trader's grocery now stands. 
Buchanan. David. Xenia, 1817; removed to Shelby 

county. Ohio. 
Buchanan. William, Xenia, 1818: removed to Shelby 

county, Ohio. 
Buchanan, John, Sr., Beaver Creek. 1803; a brother- 
in-law of Andrew Stewart. 
Buchanan. James. Beaver Creek. 180?; son of John, 

Sr. 
Buchanan. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1818. 
Buchanan. Andrew, Beaver Creek, 1838; born in 

York, Pennsylvania, August i. 1766; died July 6, 

1838, aged seventy-two: buried at Cedarville, 

Ohio. 
Buchanan, George, Xenia, 1840 ; born December 26, 

1813; died June 29, 1838; buried at Cedarville, 

Ohio. 
Buinett, Griffin, Caesar's Creek, 1819. 



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Bullock. Elias A.. Xenia, 1840; son of Ephraim and 
Abigail. 

Buchanan, Stephen, Xenia, 1840 ; son of Andrew ; 
died April 15, 1844; aged forty-three; buried at 
Cedarville cemetery. 

Butler, William, 1836; March 28, 1838, married Je- 
mima Cain. 

Butler. James, Xenia. 1806: soldier of 1812; buried 
at Woodland; his wife. Nancy, died in 1833. 

Butler, Baker, Xenia, 1826; married Levin, a daugh- 
ter of Wm. Maxwell ; removed to Indiana. 

Butler, Smith, Xenia. 1830; December 17, 1828, mar- 
ried Sarah S. Sale. 

Butler, Rev. Frederick, Xenia, 1830 ; born July 22, 
1803; died March 10, 1839, aged thirty-six; buried 
in Woodland ; son of James. 

Butler, Thomas, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 

Butler, Ogle, Beaver Creek, 1829; December 17, 
1833, married Eliza Gray. 

Butler. Edward. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Butler, Van, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; March 13, 1839, 
married Elizabeth Ann Jones ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Butler. Samuel, Bath, 1807. 

Butler, Margaret, Bath, 1813. 

Butler, Joshua, Xenia, 1822 ; son of James ; from 
Virginia ; lx)rn in 1801 ; died May 28, 1842. aged 
forty-two ; buried in Woodland. 

Budd, Casper, Miami, 1827. 

Butterfield. Isaac, Miami, 1830. 

Burch, William, Ross, 1830. 

Burr, John. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Burr. David. Silver Creek. 1840; died March 29, 
1868, aged sixty-three : buried in Bowersville 
cemetery. 

Buck. Henry, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; a native of Shep- 
herdstown, Virginia, born October 20, 1791 ; died 
October 10, 1864, aged seventy-two; buried in 
Hawker's churchyard. 

Buck. Samuel. Xenia. 1840; soldier of 1812; from 
Clinton county; died October. 1852: buried at 
Cedarville. 

Burden. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Butclier, Joseph. Ross. 1806; from Virginia; sol- 
dier of 1812: died October 28, 1865, aged eighty- 
four; buried in Bloxsom graveyard, Selma. Ohio. 

Burnham, William A.. Ross 1825; at the June term 
of court. 1825. petitioned for divorce from his 
wife. Cynthia Burnham. 

Butts. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1818; soldier of 1812; 
buried in Beaver Creek cemetery. 

Butts. William H., Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Butts. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Butts. William. Beaver Creek, 1S40. 

Burley. William. Bath, 1813. 

Burley. John H.. Beaver Creek. 1828; January 12, 
1837, married Levina .■Xnn Huns. 

Burley. Daniel. Bath. 1829; died March 28, 1877, 
aged sixty-eight. 

Burley. David. Ross, 1826; a pioneer school teacher 
of Ross township. 

Burdell R.. Xenia, 1840. 

Buick. William. Xenia. 1822; died January, i860, 
aged twenty-four; buried in Massie's Creek 
( Stevenson's), 

Buick, James, Miami, 1822; died in 1857; buried in 
Woodland. 



Burgess, John, Bath, 1801. 

Burgess. Thomas S.. Ross, 1817. 

Burgess, Bode. Silver Creek, 1826; January 4, 1821, 
married Cynthia Bryan. 

Burrous, Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1810; soldier of 
1812 ; buried in Union graveyard, Byron. 

Burrous. Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1810; son of Will- 
iam. 

Burrous, William, Beaver Creek. 1810 ; soldier of 
1812; died February 7, 1827, aged sixty-one; 
buried in Union graveyard, Byron. 

Burrous, James, Beaver Creek, 1810; son of Will- 
iam ; from Washington county, Maryland ; re- 
moved to Fulton county, Iowa ; died October 28, 
1851, aged fifty-three. 

Burrous, William A.. Beaver Creek. 1818; son of 
William, Sr. ; died in 1834; buried in Union 
graveyard, Byron. 

Burrous. Richard, Beaver Creek, 1818 ; son of Will- 
iam ; died February, 1882, aged seventy-nine ; bur- 
ied in Union graveyard, Byron. 

Burrous, John. Beaver Creek. 1826; son of William; 
from Maryland; born in 1800. died December, 

1875. aged seventy-five ; Iiuried in Beaver Creek 
cemetery. 

Burrous. X'athan, Xenia, 1827. 

Burrous, Benjamin, Beaver Creek, 1829; brother 
of William and Richard ; August 13, 1829, mar- 
ried Mary Stotter. 

Burrous, William H., Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Burrous, Joseph A.. Bath, 1840; died May 3, 1885, 
aged seventy-four. 

Busier. John. Xenia, 1829; father of Mrs, Ben Par- 
ker. 

Bunton. James. Xenia. 1806; built the McQuirk house 
on Second street in 1806. 

Bunton. Moses, Silver Creek. 1820. 

Byrd, Andrew, Sr., Sugar Creek, 1810; soldier of 
1812; died in 1834; buried in New Hope, Baptist 
churchyard, Bellbrook. Ohio ; born in \'irginia. 

Byrd. Mark. Sugar Creek. 1813 ; brother of .\ndrew; 
soldier of 1812; removed to Missouri. 

Byrd, Andrew, Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1816; born August 
10, 1813; son of Andrew, Sr. 

Byrd, Adam, Sugar Creek. 1819; son of Andrew. Sr. ; 
removed to Missouri ; died in Oregon. 

Byrd. John, Sugar Creek, 1822; son of Andrew, Sr. ; 
buried in Baptist graveyard. Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Byrd. George. Su^ar Creek. 1830; son of Andrew, 
Sr. ; removed to Missouri. 

Byrd, Abraham, Sugar Creek, 1830 ; son of Andrew, 
Sr. ; died March 6. 1876. aged seventy-two ; buried 
one mile south of Bellbrook. 

Byrd. Amos, Sugar Creek, 1840; died October 11, 

1876, aged fifty-four ; buried in Woodland ; Oc- 
tober 6, 1844, married Susan Barns. 

Byrd. William, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Andrew, 

Sr. ; removed to Marion. Indiana. 
Byrnes. John, Xenia, 1836. 

Campbell, Jo'^eph, Sugar Creek, 1803. 

Campbell, Henry, Sugar Creek, 1804; died October 

13, 1838, aged thirtv-nine ; buried in Mount 

Holley. 
Campbell. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1804; died in Sugar 

Creek township in 1828 : his wife's name was 

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Campbell, Jonathan, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Campbell, Robert, Sugar Creek. i8og. 

Campbell, Peggy, Sugar Creek, 1830; widow of Sam- 
uel Campbell. 

Campbell, John. Caesar's Creek, 1803; settled where 
Todd Sbeley used to live, near Jamestown, in 
1803. 

Campbell, John, Jr., Caesar's Creek. 1805 ; October 
9, 1809, married Polly Cason. 

Campbell. William. Xenia, 1807; soldier of war of 
1812: March 24, 1834, married Elizabeth IlifF. 

Campbell, Hugh. Xenia. 1818. 

Campbell. Samuel, Xenia, 1818; died November, 

1834. 

Campbell, James. Xenia. 1820; removed to Dela- 
ware county, Indiana ; son-in-law of Daniel Dean, 
Sr, 

Campbell, Hugh. Xenia. 1827 ; died September 28, 
1877, aged eighty-four; buried in Woodland; son- 
in-law of Daniel Dean. 

Campbell, Thomas, Caesar's Creek. 1827; died Oc- 
tober 14. 1843, aged seventy-two; buried in Salem 
churchyard, south of Paintersville. Ohio. 

Carman, Jfishua. Sugar Creek, 1803 ; pioneer preach- 
er ; soldier of 1812; died December i. 1844. aged 
eighty-five; buried one mile south of Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 

Carman, Josiah, Jr., Sugar Creek. 182 1 ; son of 
Joshua. Sr. ; died November 7. 18.SQ, aged sixty- 
si. x ; buried at Middle Run churchyard. Billbrook, 
Ohio. 

Carman, James, Sugar Creek, 1826; son of Joshua, 
Sr. 

Carman. William, Sugar Creek, 1826; son of Joshua, 
Sr. 

Campbell. Charles, Bath. 1820. 

Campliell. Joseph. Bath. 1840; died of cholera in 
1843 ; father-in-law of Sol. Swigart. 

Campbell, William, Bath. 1840. 

Campbell. John. Bath. 181 1 ; buried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad River, in Bath township. 

Campbell, William, Bath, 1812. 

Camiibell, John M., Ross, 1811 ; brother of David, 
of Ross township; January i, 1835, married Mar- 
garet Tate. 

Campbell. David H.. Ross. 1812: son of James, and 
husband of Minerva Campbell ; died in Ross 
township in 1840. 

Campbell. Michael, Xenia, 18.30; from Pennsylvania; 
died December i. 1836: buried in Woodland. 

Cavendar, Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1805; died in 1835; 
buried in Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Cavendar, Benjamin, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Cavender, Levi. 1840; September 2. 1840, married 
Precella Freeman. 

Cashold. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1810; from Ken- 
tucky; soldier of 1812. 

Cashold. Robert. Sugar Creek, 1806 ; from Kentucky ; 
soldier of 1812; built the Dr. Samuel Martin 
house in 1814. 

Cason, Elijah. Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Cason, William, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Cason, Thomas. Xenia. 1808. 

Cason, Thomas. Jr.. Beaver Creek, 1813. 

Carey, John, Sr., Xenia, 1840; from Ireland; died 



August 19, 1888, aged eighty-seven ; buried in 

Woodland. 
Carr. John, Beaver Creek, 1827; died in Gibson coun- 
ty. Iowa, in 1840. 
Cassel. Samuel. Xenia, 1810 ; buried at Massie's 

Creek cemetery. 
Cassel, Alexander, Xenia, 1809; died in 1838. 
Cane. Robert, Suear Creek, 1809; soldier of 1812, 

under Capt. John Clark. 
Cane. Daniel, Sugar Creek, 1810; buried on the .-Mien 

farm. 
Cane, Joseph. Xenia. 1812; soldier of 1812; kept 

tavern in Fairfield, Ohio, in 1818; died in Xenia 

town>hip in i88t ; married Susanna Bolden. 
Cane. Wesley. Xenia, 1828; June 28, 183S. married 

Louisa Thompson, 1820. 
Cane, Abner, Ross, died in Miami township in 

1836; September 3, 1818, married Elizabeth Paul- 

lin. 
Cane. Jacob, Miami, 1840. 
Cane, Harvey, Silver Creek, 1826. 
Carpass, Adam, Sugar Creek, 1818; soldier of 181^. 
Carpass, Devault, Sugar Creek, 1817; October 4, 

1818. married Sarah Horney. 
Carpass, Zachariah, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 
Carpass. Adam. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 
Chambliss. .\nthony. Sugar Creek. 1807. 
Casey, John, Caesar's Creek, 1813. 
Casey. Jacob. Bath. 1804. 
Cavault. Abraham, Xenia. 1813; November 7, 1821, 

married Catherine Starr. 
Cavault. .Abraham R.. Silver Creek. 1826. 
Carkept, Benjamin, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 
Carroll. James, Beaver Creek. 1830. 
Carroll. John, Beaver Creek, 1803. 
Carroll, James, Caesar's Creek, 1804. 
Carroll, William. Caesar's Creek, 1840; died May 

31, 1865, aged fifty-four; buried at Salem, south 

of Paintersville, Ohio. 
Carter. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1840 ; December 9, 

1816, married Elsie Mendenhall. 
Carter, Joe, Xenia, 1840. 
Carter, John, Bath, 18.30. 
Carter, Thomas, Bath, 1840. 
Carter, Samuel, Ross, 1820. 
Carter, Samuel E., Silver Creek, 1820. 
Carson. Josiah, Bath, 1807. 
Carson, William, 1807; June 3, 1818, married Mary 

Johnson. 
Carson, Abraham, Beaver Creek, 1807. 
Carson, Abraham D., Beaver Creek. 1812. 
Caldwell. James. Xenia. 1840; from South Carolina; 

died December 7. 1837. aged twenty-eight ; buried 

in Massie's Creek cemetery ; married Margaret 

McLean. 
Caldwell. John. Xenia. 1817; buried in Massie's Creek 

cemetery; November 5, 1840, married Mary A. 
Nichols. 
Camion. Anthony. Xenia. 1810. 
Carson. James. Cedarville, 1840; died October 21, 

i888,aged ninety-three ; from Ireland. 
Cannon. Samuel. Xenia, 1813 ; soldier of 1812; wheel- 
wright. 
Cannon. Thomas, Xenia, 1828. 
Cassel, James, Xenia, 1830; January 3, 18.33, mar- 



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ried Emilv Laughead ; removed to Logan county, 
Ohio. 

Cassel. Samuel. Xenia, iSio: died IMarcli 30. 1837, 
aged twenty-three; buried in Massie's Creek. 

Carl. Conrad. Xenia, 1833 ; a German ; died April 
12, 1880. aged ninety-one; buried in Woodland. 

Calloway, John. Bath, 1807; soldier of 1812; Vance 
township. 

Calloway. George H., Xenia, 1828. 

Casad. John. Bath, 1806; died March 15, 1854, aged 
.sixty-seven : buried at Cost graveyard, near Fair- 
field, Ohio. 

Casad, John. Jr., Bath, 1807. 

Casad. Abner S.. Bath. 1817. 

Casad. Aaron. Sr.. Bath. 1806: died May 9, 1832, 
aged sixty-two ; buried in Fairfield cemetery. 

Casad, Jacob. Bath, 1806; soldier of 1812 ; died Aug- 
ust 22, 1827, aged seventy-two ; buried in Casad 
graveyard. 

Casad. Samuel. Bath. 1806; soldier of 1812; kept 
tavern in Fairfield in 1817; January. 1806; mar- 
ried Mary Mercer. 

Casad. Benjamin, Bath, iSio. 

Casad. William, Bath, 1810; died in Bath township 
in 1853. 

Casad, .Anthony, Bath, i8ti. 

Casad, Anthony W., Bath, 1816. 

Casad, Paul, Bath, 1818. 

Casad, Aaron. Jr., Bath, 1820; died in Bath town- 
ship in 18^9: October 26, 1818, married Mary 
Hall. 

Casad. William X.. Bath. 1820. 

Casad. John P.. Bath. 1826; died at Cleveland, Ohio, 
May 27, 1855. 

Ca.sad. Isaac F., Bath, 1826; died in Bath township 
in 1855 : buried in Fairfield, Ohio ; married Caro- 
line Townsley. 

Casad, Reuben. Bath. 1826; died in Bath township 
in 1846; brother of Aaron; married Mary Rocka- 
field. July 20, 1826. 

Casad, Aaron, Esq., Bath, 1827; March i. 1832, 
- married Mary Demint. 

Casad. William. 'jr.. Bath, 1827. 

Casad, Dennis, Bath, 182S; July 20, 1826, married 
Margaret Ogg. 

Casad, Benjamin, Jr., Bath, 1828. 

Casad, Rev. John, Bath, 1829. 

Casad. Thomas. 1824: October 3. 1824, married Mar- 
garet Baker. 

Casad. Mercy, Bath. 18.30; wife of Jacob; died in 
1835. aged seventy-nine; buried in Casad grave- 
yard. Fairfield. 

Casad, Martin R., Bath, 1840: son of Reuben. 

Casad, Woodward, Bath, 1840; March 13, 1836, 
married Mercy Hall. 

Casad, Bailey, Bath, 1840; August 17, 1837, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Pharis. 

Casad, Samuel. Jr., Bath, 1840: June 2, 1838, mar- 
ried Marv .\rts. 

Casad, Abel, Bath, 1840. 

Casad, Rhoda, Bath, 1840. 

Casad. J. F., Bath. 1840; November 2, 1841, mar- 
ried Rhoda J. Ca.sad. 

Canada. David M.. Xenia. 1829; February 8. 1836, 
married Margaret Madden. 

Canada, James, Ross, 1818. 



Canada, John, Xenia, 1S18. 

Canada. John C. Silver Creek. 1826. 

Carpenter, Joseph. Bath. 1807. 

Carpenter, James. Bath. 1807; died May 12. 1852, 
near St. Joseph. Missouri ; overland to California. 

Carpenter, Christopher, Bath, 1807. 

Carpenter, John. Bath. 1807; a soldier of 1812. 

Carpenter, Thomas, Bath, 181 1; a soldier of 1812. 

Carpenter. ElJas. Bath. 1818: died in 1857. aged 
forty-five; buried at Bowersville, Ohio; June 27, 
1823. married Elizabeth Hogle. 

Carpenter, David. Bath. 1818. 

Carpenter, David B.. Bath. :8io. 

Carpenter. George, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Carruthers, John. Xenia, 1840; a Scotchman; died 
March 15, 1870. aged eighty-four; buried in 
Woodland. 

Carruthers, James. Xenia. 1840; buried in Wood- 
land; born in Scotland March. 1821; killed by 
the cars in 1899. 

Carruthers. Patrick, Xenia, 1S40. 

Canby. Samuel T.. Xenia, 1836; firm of Canby & 
Walton, merchants, Xenia: removed to Bellefon- 
taine. Ohio. 

Carper, Nicholas, Xenia, 1840; one of Xenia's lead- 
ing physicians in 1840; mayor of Xenia in 1839. 

Caho, Charles H., Xenia, 1840; died April 10, 1874, 
aged sixty-three ; buried in Fairfield. Ohio. 

Case. Elijah. Sr.. Xenia. 1840; a soldier of the Rev- 
olution; died January 14. 1842. aged eighty-eight; 
buried in Woodland. 

Case, Elijah E.. Xenia. 1840; died January 6, 1879, 
aged sixty-six ; buried in Woodland. 

Case, E.. Jr.. Xenia. 1840: buried in Woodland; April 
4, 1840, married Caroline Vigus. 

Casada. Michael. Ross. 181 1. 

Cahill. Elijah, Beaver Creek, 1826; born July, 1797; 
died December 23, 1858 ; buried at Mt. Zion. 

Cahill. Charles. Beaver Creek. 1826. 

Carney. Shem, Beaver Creek. 1813 ; May 8, 1814. mar- 
ried Anna Allason. 

Carney. Joseph. Miami. 1840. 

Caterell. William. Miami. 1809. 

Calhoon. William. Miami, 1830. 

Cady. Daniel. Miami, 1826; member of the Owen- 
ites. Yellow' Springs. 

Cady. Daniel G.. Miami. 1828; member of the Owen- 
ites. Yellow Springs. 

Cantrill. Zebulum. Miami. 1840; removed to Fair- 
view. Jay county, Indiana ; September 20, 1832, 
married Elizabeth Borders. 

Cantrill, Christopher, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Cantrill, William, Silver Creek. 1840; April 26. 1837, 
married Betsey Sutton. 

Charters. John. Sr.. Xenia. 1818; a native of North 
Brittain ; died February. 1821. aged seventy-seven; 
buried at Massie's Creek (Stevenson's). 

Charters. George. Xenia. 1829; born April 7. 1775; 
died March i. 1846; buried in Woodland. 

Charters. John. Jr.. Xenia. 1835; died January 6, 
1870. aged sixty-eight; buried at Woodland; .April 
15. 1829. married Margaret Monroe. 

Chalk. Alexander. Caesar's Creek. 1819. 

Christy. Jesse M.. Sugar Creek. 1819. 

Christy. Samuel. Ross. 1819; August 29. 1820, mar- 
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Chalk, John. Caesar's Creek, 1826 ; married Dorothy 

Bartlett, September 28, 1826. 
Chinowith, William. Beaver Creek, 1803; from Ken- 
tucky ; a blacksmith by trade ; came to Mont- 

gomery countv in 1876. 
Chinowith. Abraham. Sugar Creek. 1820 ; died in 

1872. aged eighty-six: buried at Middle Run 

churchyard, south of Bellbrook. 
Chinowith. Joseph. Sugar Creek, 1820 : died August 

29, 1827, aged forty-two; buried at Middle Run 

churchyard. 
Chandler, Simon, Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Chamliliss. .-Vnthony. Sugar Creek. 1813. 
Chancy, Rev. Laban, Xenia, 18.30; died at Kenton, 

Ohio, April 14, 1864, aged fifty-six; buried in 

Woodland. 
Qianey, Samuel, Bath, 1840; June 30, 1836, married 

Abigail Casad. 
Chaney, Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1813; soldier of 1812. 
Chaney. David. Xenia. 1840; died Mfirch. 1888, aged 

sixty-four; buried in Woodland; born October 

17. 1803. 
Chaney. Thomas, Silver Creek, 1808; died August 

22, 1869, aged eighty-four; buried at Bowers- 

ville, Ohio. 
Chaney. John. Xenia. 1840 ; died February 2, 1850, 

aged eighty-nine ; buried in Woodland. 
Chaney, Edward, Silver Creek, 1808; from Mary- 
land; soldier of 1812; brother of Thomas; buried 

in Parmer graveyard. 
Chaney, Thomas F., Silver Creek, 1829; son of Ed- 
ward ; removed west. 
Chaney, Jonatlian. 1830; October 7. 1814; married 

Matilda f-Iarpole. 
Chaney, John, Silver Creek, 1830; September 8, 

1831. married Eliza Grear, by Christopher Hus- 

scy. justice of peace. 
Chaney. David, Silver Creek, 1840; son of Edward; 

died in Silver Creek township in 1868; married 

Ann Greer. 
Chaney, Girdel, Silver Creek, 1840; died November 

10, 1884, aged seventy-three; buried at Bowers- 
ville, Ohio. 

Chalmers. W. D.. Silver Creek, 1835 ; died October 

11, 1886, aged seventy-two; buried in Woodland; 
from South Carolina. 

Chalmers. John. Xenia. 1806; from South Carolina; 
September 27. 1825. married Isabella Turnbull. 

Chalmers. David. Xenia. 1816; native of North Brit- 
ain ; soldier of 1812 ; died September 20. 1829, 
aged sixty-one; buried at Massie's Creek (Steven- 
son's). 

Chalmers, James C, Xenia. 1840; son of David; from 
South Carolina ; died March 4, 1880, aged seventy- 
five ; buried in Woodland. 

Chambers, Elijah. Beaver Creek, i8ir. 

Chalmers. Adam, Bath. 1820: from Ireland; came 
to United States in 1800; .son of William; sol- 
dier of 1812; buried in Bath Churchyard, west 
of Mad River. 

Chalmers. James. Bath. 1807 ; died in i8ig. aged 
eighty-four: buried in Bath churchyard. 

Chalmers, William. Bath. 1816; from Ireland; came 
to the United States in 1800; soldier of 1812 ; 
died in 1848. aged si.xty-six ; buried in Bath 
churchyard; son of William; married Elizabeth 
Kirk wood. 



Chalmers, John, Xenia, 1819; died January 20, 1873, 

aged seventy-three ; buried in Caesar's Creek 

churchyard, Jamestown, Ohio. 
Chalmers. William. Xenia, 1819; son of David. 
Chalmers. David, Xenia, 1840; died December 3, 

1849, aged seventy-two; buried in Massie's Creek 

cemetery, Cedarville. 
Chalmers, Thomas, Xenia, 1840: son of David. 
Chalmers. Elizabeth, Miami. 1810. 
Chalmers. Dr. Musto. Silver Creek, 1840. 
Chalmers. David. Xenia, 1816; died December 3, 

1849, aged seventy ; buried in Massie's Creek 

churchyard, Cedarville. Ohio. 
Chase. .Abraham. Xenia, 1808; kept tavern in Xenia 

in 1808. 
Chapman. John. Ross. 1840; died June 24. 1855: bur- 
ied east of Grape Grove. 
Charlton, Robert, -vcnia, 1812; died July 9, 1850, 

aged seventy-two ; buried in Associate Reformed 

churchyard, "Xenia. 
Charlton. Robert, Jr., Xenia. 1840; died August, 

1870. aged seventy ; buried in Woodland. 
Charlton. Samuel. Xenia. 1830; died September 21, 

1883: buried in Woodland. 
Chew. Samuel M., Xenia, 1820. 
Chew. Joseph. Xenia 1830. 
Charlton. George, Miami, 1840; died August) 14, 

1875, aged sixty-one. 
Childs. John M., Ross, 1808; died in Ross township 

in 18.38. 
Churchill, James, Beaver Creek, 1808. 
Churchill. James C. Beaver Creek, 1808. 
Chancelor, Jesse, Beaver Creek, 1818. 
Chatton. Tames, Bath, 1820. 
Charles. George W.. 1826; April i, 1832, married 

Julia Ann Harner. 
Charles. John. Bath. 1826. 
Charles, .\ndrew. 1830; September 5. 1833. married 

Catharine Wolf. 
Chesteen. Thomas. Bath. 1840: buried in Bath 

churchyard, west of Mad River. 
Chevious. James, Bath. 1826. 
Cherry, Phenius, 1836; March 9, 1837, married Jane 

Berry. 
Cherry, James, Xenia, 1840; soldier of 1812; died in 

1851, aged si.xty-two: buried in Woodland, 
Cherry, William, Ross, 1840: born February, 1816; 

removed to Washington county, Iowa, in i860; 

married Martha Small. 
Cherry. Robert. Xenia. 1840 ; removed to Iowa. 
Chamberlin, Thomas. Ross. 1840. 
Chance, Lewis, Silver Creek, 1813. 
Chance, George, Silver Creek, 1840. 
Christopher. Gideon. Silver Creek. 1840 ; from Fay- 
ette county. Pennsylvania ; died November 5, 

1851 ; aged seventy-six; buried at Jamestown, 

Ohio. 
Cisco, John, Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1820; died December 

7. 1877 ; buried at Bellbrook. 
Clancey. James, Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1803 ; in 1820 

removed to Little Fork ; 1822 removed to Flat 

Rock. Indiana, where he died. 
Clancey, James, Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1816; died Sep- 
tember 14. 1849. aged fifty-four; buried in Pioneer 

graveyard. Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Clancey. Stephen. Xenia. 1812; August 12, i8ig, 

married Sarah Frazier. 



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Clanccy, George, Sugar Creek, 1826; removed to 
Sidney, Shelby county, Ohio; October 28, 1824, 
married Mary Steele. 

t:iancey. William, Sugar Creek, 1827; April 18, 1833, 
married Rachel S. Steele; November 13, 1842, 
married Margaret McClure. 

Clipinger, Joseph, Xenia, 1840; born January, 1776; 
died August 2. 1849 : aged seventy-three. 

Clark, Capt. John, Sugar Creek, 1805; captain in 
War of 1812; buried in Woodland. 

Clark. William, Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 1812; 
born January i, 1776: died August 2, 1849. 

Clark, Jesse, Sugar Creek, 1826; son of John; died 
at the age of eighty-three ; buried in Woodland. 

Clark, Judge John. Sugar Creek, 1829; buried in 
Pioneer graveyard, 1835, near Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Clark. George C, Sugar Creek, 1825 : a native of 
Augusta county, Virginia; died at Spring Valley. 
March 8. 1873. aged sixty-four; father-in-law of 
William Luce. 

Clark. Adam, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Clark, Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1828. 

Clark. Samuel. Caesar's Creek, 1840; died April 30, 
1876, aged .sixty-six : buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Clark. George H.. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Clark, John. Xenia, 1819; July 24, 1838, married 
Elizabeth Little. 

Clark. Cornelius. Esq.. Xenia, 1828; died in Xenia 
September .'. iSjS- 

<riark, James, Esq., Xenia, 1840 : removed to South 
Charleston, Ohio. 

Clark, Ezra, Bath, 1807. 

Clark, David, Ross. 1826: February 11, 1827, mar- 
ried Rachel Dolby. 

Clark. James. Bath, 1826: November 6, 1833, mar- 
ried Martha A.nn Hays. 

Clark, John C, Bath. 1826; died September 23, 1875, 
in Bates county, Missouri, aged sixty-nine ; mar- 
ried Christina Tingley March 20, 1828. 

Clyed, Peter, Xenia, 1830 ; had a son, George ; re- 
moved to Miami county in 1832 or 1833; sold to 
Rev. Samuel Wilson lot No. 94, where now is 
located the first U. P. church, Xenia. 

Clark, Charles. Bath, 1826. 

Clark. James L.. Bath, 1830. 

Clark, Edmond. Bath. 1829; March 13. 1828. mar- 
ried Malinda Bradley. 

Clark. Russell, Miami, 1840. 

Clark, Henry, Beaver Creek, 1811 ; died May 25, 
1849, in Missouri ; buried in Mt. Zion churchyard ; 
soldier of 1812. 

Cline, Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Cline, William, Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Cline, Jacob, Caesar's Creek, 1830 : from Virginia : 
died May 16, 186=;. aged .seventy-three: buried in 
old Baptist churchyard, west of Bow-ersville, Ohio. 

Cline, Caleb. Xenia, 1828 ; removed to Jay county, 
Indiana; March 12, 1829, married Elizabeth Hutz- 
ler. 

Cline, Lemuel, Xenia. 1840; buried in old Meth- 
odist graveyard. East Third street. Xenia ; mar- 
ried Xancy Ireland. 

Cline, Hiram, Xenia. 1840; from Berkeley county, 
West Virginia; died March 10. 1864. aged seventy- 
three; buried in Ccdarville cemetery. 



Cline. Jonathan. Beaver Creek. 1817; December 20, 

1829, married Susan A. C. Stewart ; died at 

Cedarville, Ohio, January, 1901. 
Cline, David, Xenia, 1829; from Berkeley county, 

West Virginia: soldier in Civil War in Co, B, 

74th O. \'. I. ; buried in Woodland. 
Cline. Abraham. Beaver Creek, 1826; June 23, 1829, 

married Lydia Shoup. 
Cline. Peter. Beaver Creek, 1815: born June 12. 1758; 

died in 1830, aged seventy-two ; buried in Beaver 

Creek cemetery. 
Cline. Adam. Beaver Creek. 1817: from Washington 

county, Maryland : married Barbary, daughter ot 

Jacob Herring, Sr. : soldier of 1812; died Feb- 
ruary 2. 1854, aged sixty-four; father-in-law of 

John Sidel. 
Cline, Oiristian, Beaver Creek, 1817: buried in 

Beaver Creek churchyard, near Alpha, Ohio. 
Cline. Christopher, Ross, 1840; was a soldier in 

Civil War in Co. H, 74th: died in 1898; buried 

at Jamestown, Ohio. 
Cline. David. Silver Creek. 1826; October 30. 1827, 

married Ann Shepherd. 
Cline, Samuel, Xenia. 1840. 
Clifford. Thomas. Xenia. 181 1: soldier of 1812. under 

Capt. John Davis. Light Dragoons. 
Clay, Edward, Bath 1835; died November 11, 1838, 

aged forty-four; buried in Cost graveyard, near 

Fairfield, Ohio, 
Clay, Martin, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 
Clay, Isaac, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Clay. Tolbert, Silver Creek. iSjo. 
Climer. David. Beaver Creek, 1817. 
Climer. Benjamin, Beaver Creek, 1830. 
Climer, William, Bath, 1840; March 20, 1826, mar- 
ried Martha McKaig. 
Clemens. John G.. Silver Creek. 1840: born near 

Xenia January 21, 1820. 
Clemens. John D., Xenia, i8ig; soldier of 1812; from 

Augusta, Virginia; died January 21, 1866, aged 

eighty-one. 
Clemens. James D.. Xenia. 1819; died in Xenia; 

buried near the Standpipe, East Main street, 

Xenia. 
Clemens, Christopher, Xenia. 1817; died in Xenia; 

buried near the Standpipe, East Main street, 
Xenia. 
Clemens, Casper, Xenia, 1827 ; son of Christopher ; 

died July 21, 1849, aged forty-five; buried in 
Woodland. 
Clemens, Job. Xenia, 1807. 
Clemens, Isaac. Bath. 1817. 
Clemens, Joshua, 1830: April 13, 1834, married Rachel 

Roberts. 
Clemens, Rev. Hezekiah, Bath. 1820 ; died in James- 
town, Ohio, at the age of ninety-two. 
Clemens, John, Ross, 1828; son of Hezekiah, 
Clemens. John. Jr.. Ross. 1830. 

Clemens. William. Ross 1840: died November 10, 
1877. aged seventy-one : buried in Woodland ; 
December 7. 1827, married Jane Barnes. 
Clemens. Hamilton. Ross. 1840; son of Hezekiah; 

died at Cedarville. 
Clemens, Thomas. l8.?o ; April 13, 1834. married 
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CIciiien<, George. Silver Creek. 1827; brother of 
John G. ; died in 1898; buried at Jamestown, 
Ohio. 
Clevenger. Joseph. Miami. 1809. 
Clevenger. Elias, Ross, 1810. 
Clevenger. .\mos. Bath. 1828; September i. 1805. 

married Susanna Martin. 
Clevenger. John, Xenia. 1820. 
Clevenger. Titus. Ross. 1830. 

Clevenger. Thomas. Sugar Creek. i8,^o; died No- 
vember 5. 1858, aged seventy-six : buried at Mt. 
Holly, Ohio. 
Clawson, Josiah, Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1806. 
Clawson. Thomas. Beaver Creek, 1806. 
Clawson. Frederick. Bath. 1810. 
Clawson. Thomas, Jr. Bath, 1810. 
Clawson, Joseph, Bath, 1826. 
Clawson. Josiah. Jr., Bath, 1826. 

Climpson. James. Beaver Creek. 1827; died March 
3. i8q2, aged eighty-six: buried in Woodland; 
February 18. 1827, married Harriet Staley. 
Clapin. Henry. Xenia. 1827. 
Clcnester. Daniel. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Classmire, Abraham. Bath. 1S07. 
Clayton. Thomas, Bath, 1811: died January i, 1813, 
aged sixty-five; buried in Cost graveyard, near 
Fairfield, Ohio. 
Clayton, Jonathan, Bath, 181 1: died October 18, 

1848. aged sixty-five ; buried in Cost graveyard. 
Clayton. William. Bath, 181 1; died in 1816. 
Clryton. Maxon. Bath, 181 1: soldier of 1812, tnider 

Capt. Wm. Stephenson. 
Clayton, Reuben, Bath. 1820: .•\ugust i;. i8ig. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Low. 
Clayton. John. Bath. 1826; soldier of 1812; March 

I. 1825. married Phebe Martin. 
Clayton. Nathaniel. Bath, 1840: February lo. 1842. 

married Elizabeth Taylor. 
Clayton, David, 1840. 
Cloddy. Joseph, Bath, 1840. 
Clinkingbeard. John. Miami. 1813; soldier of 1812; 

kept tavern on the site of Clifton in 1814. 
Clopes. Frederick, Miami, 1840. 
Clearwater. Reuben, Ross, 181 1. 
Clnrd. Richard. Ross, 1840. 
Clonts, Jacob, Ross, 1840. 

Collier, James, Xenia, 1803: from Rockbridge county. 
Virginia; soldier of 1812: died .\pril 17. iS.st. 
aged seventy-seven ; buried in Woodland. 
Collier. Moses. Xenia. 1805: from Virginia; soldier 
of 1812; died November 28. 1861 ; buried in 
Woodland, aged seventy-eight. 
Collier, Thomas, Miami, 1813; son of Moses. 
Collier, Franklin, Miami, 1840; son of Moses; .^pril 

24, 1839, married Mary Flood. 
Collier. David. Miami. 1840; son of Moses; died at 

Yellow Springs. 
Collier, Theodore, Miami, 1840: son of Moses; sol- 
dier in the Third New York Cavalry, Civil War. 
Compton. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1804 ; son of Stephen ; 
born in 1798, in North Carolina, died November 
20. 1880. aged eighty-two. 
Compton. William. Sugar Creek, 1804 ; removed to 
Montana. 



Compton, Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1804 ; soldier of 
1812; brother-in-law of John Sexton, died 1850, 
aged eighty-two, 
Compton, Joseph, Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 

1812. 
Compton, Stephen. Sugar Creek, 1804; brother of 
Amos, soldier of 1812, under Capt. John Clark, 
died July 14, 1862, aged eighty-seven, buried in 
Friends churchyard, south of New Burlington, 
Ohio. 
Compton. Amos. Sugar Creek. 1809; from South 
Carolina; his w-ife was Rebecca; soldier of 1812, 
died September 14, 1824, aged fifty-four, buried 
in Friends churchyard. 
Compton. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1826 ; son of .^mos. 
Compton, Samuel, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1830; died in 

Spring Valley Township in 1861. 
Compton, Seth, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Samuel, 
died January 24, 1887, aged seventy-two, buried 
in Friends churchyard near New Burlington, 
Ohio. 
Compton, Matthew, Sugar Creek, 1803; September 

I, 1803, married Rachel Campbell. 
Compton. John, Caesar's Creek, 184a; son of Amos, 
died March 26, 1870, aged eighty-six, buried in 
Friends churchyard. 
Compton, Aaron, Bath, 1805; from Somerset 
county. New Jersey, died January 6, 1834, aged 
forty, buried in Fairfield cemetery. 
Commack, James, Sugar Creek, 1806. 
Commack. John, 1813; soldier of 1812. buried in 

Rath churchyard, west of Mad river. 
CoflSn, Aaron, Miami. i8n ; soldier of 1812. under 

Captain Galloway. 
Coffin. Nathaniel. Sugar Creek. 1806. 
Collett. Moses. Sugar Creek, 1808; his will record-d 

in 1823. 
Collett. Jonathan. Sugar Creek, 1S13: brother of 

Moses. 
Collett, .^aron. Sugar Creek, 1813. 
Collett. Merit, 1820; .-\.pril 2;^. 1822, married Anna 

Sackett. 
Collett, Adam, Sugar Creek, 1813. 
Collett. Daniel. Sugar Creek, 1830; November 11, 

1830, married Sarah Kyle. 
Collett, David, Sugar Creek, 1813. 
Collett, Rebecca. Sugar Creek, 1830. 
Cottrell, Daniel. Xenia, 1806. ' 
Collett. Nathaniel, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1840. 
Collett. Isaac. Caesar's Creek. 1840; March 26. 1840, 

married Sarah A. Vanmcter. 
Cottrell, Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1820 : soldier of 

1812 ; June 9, 1828. married Susanna Ogan. 
Cottrell, Lemuel, Sugar Creek, 1820. 
Cottrell, Lorenza D., Sugar Creek, 1829; married 
Mary, daughter of Jacob Darst, removed to Day- 
ton, Ohio. 
Cottrell, John, Beaver Creek. 1803. 
Cottrell, Wm.. Sr., Bath. 1806; died in Bath town- 
ship in 1815. 
Cottrell. Wm.. Jr., Bath, 1807. 
Cottrell, Thomas, Bath, 1806; .soldier in war of 

1812, Captain Shingledecker, 
Cottrell, M, D„ Bath, 1840. 



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Cottrell. Lemuel. Silver Creek. 1813: removed to 

South Bend. Indiana ; August 16, 1827, married 

Fanny Ogan. 
Cottrell. Hiram, Silver Creek. 1813 : died of cholera 

July 20. 1854, buried in Bowersville, Ohio, aged 

seventy-one. 
Cottrell. John C. Silver Creek. 1827. died June g, 

1894. aged sixty-nine, buried at Bovversville, 

Ohio : married Phebe Wharton. 
Cottrell. George B.. Silver Creek, 1827; removed to 

Michigan ; September 24, 1828, married Elizabeth 

Noggle. 
Cottrell. Lemuel. Jr.. Silver Creek, 1827: removed to 

Hardin county. Ohio. 
Cottrell. Asher B.. Silver Creek, 1840: removed to 

Darke county. Ohio ; married to Sarah Shaner, 

October 4. 1832, by Christopher Hussey, Justice 

of the Peace. 
Cottrell. Obediah. Silver Creek, 1840; removed to 

Hardin county. Ohio ; December 2, 1838, married 

Minerva Kenney. 
Coffelt, Jacob. Sugar Creek, 1817 ; born February 

10. 1762. died June 22, 1824, buried at Mt. 

Holly. Ohio. 
Coffelt. Jacob. Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1819; son of Jacob 

and Barbary. 
Coffelt. Michael, Sugar Creek, 1828; son of Jacob 

and Barbary. 
Coffelt. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1830; born in 1802, 

died in 1867, buried at Mt. Holly, Ohio; son of 

Jacob. Sr. 
Coffelt, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1830 ; son of Jacob 

and Barbary. 
Coffield. Robert, Bath, 1820; February 3, 1825, mar- 
ried Sarah Lewis. 
Coffelt. Jesse, 1826; February 23, 1826, married 

Anna Jorden. 
Coffelt. James. Caesar's Creek, 1826. 
Coffelt. James, Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1826. 
Coffelt. David. Caesar's Creek, 1826; August 5, 

1820. married Nancy Jorden. 
Coffelt. Peter. Caesar's Creek, 1828. 
Coffelt, Moses, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Jacob, 

died June 2, 1895. aged seventy-nine, buried in 

Spring Valley, Ohio. 
Coulter. William, Sugar Creek, 1826. 
Coulter. John, Xenia, 1840 ; from Virginia ; died 

April 16. 1868, aged seventy-nine, buried in 

Woodland. 
Collins. Henry. Sugar Creek, 1820. 
Collins. James, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 
Collins. Cornelius. Xenia. 1807. 
Collins, Archibald, Xenia, 1826; from Pennsylvania; 

soldier of 1812; died January 19, 1882, aged 

eighty-six, buried in Woodland. 
Collins. William, Xenia, 1826; from Pennsylvania; 

died July 18, 1876, aged seventy-eight, buried 

in Woodland. 
Collins. John, Xenia, 1826 ; from Pennsylvania ; born 

February 12. 1792. died June 5. 1861. aged sixty- 
nine, buried in Woodland; married Isabella Cur- 

rie. June. 1835. 
Collins. William, Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1812 ; died in 

1822. aged sixty, buried in Woodland. 
Collins. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1812 ; born January 

28. 1804. died February 19, 1836, aged fifty-three, 

buried in Woodland. 



Collins. Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1812; died June 18, 
1885. aged eighty-three, buried in Woodland. 

Collins, John H.. Beaver Creek. 1828; died March 
12. 1849, aged forty-one, buried in Woodland. 

Collins, James C. Beaver Creek. 1816; son of Will- 
iam ; born in York countv. Pennsvlvania, in 
1812. 

Collins. Charles L.. Bath ; 1820. 

Collins. George. Bath. 1819; September 23, 1819, 
married Elizabeth Cruzen. 

Collins. Samuel. Bath. 1840. 

Collins. Joseph, Jr., Bath. 1840. 

Collins. John, Ross, 1828; died at his home in Ross 
township. 

Collins. Patrick, Ross. 1840. 

Collins. Nelson. Silver Creek, 1830. 

Cochrine. William. Sugar Creek, 1809. 

Cochrine, James, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Cochrine, Elisha, Xenia. 1840; May 11, 1832, married 
Sarah Steene. 

Cochrine. Neil, Xenia. 1840. 

Covington. Stephen. Sugar Creek. 1809. 

Combs. Micajah. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Combs. Wooly, Miami. 1840; died May 4, 1873, aged 
sixty-one ; November 4. 1834. married Ellen Jen- 
nison. 

Combs, William M.. Silver Creek, 1827; died July 
20, 1867, aged fifty-eight. 

Cox. James M., Bath. 1804; found dead April 20, 
1835. 

Cox. Thomas, Caesar's Creek. 1804. 

Cox. Henry, Sugar Creek, 1840 ; born Bridgewater, 
Somerset county. New Jersey, June 6. 1774; 
married Elizabeth Howard. 

Cox. John. Sr., Bath, 1801 ; from Virginia; died 
April 24, 1821, aged forty-eight, buried in Cox 
graveyard near Osborn, Ohio. 

Cox. John. Jr.. Bath, 1821 ; born September 16, 
1800. died April 9, 1882, aged eighty-two, buried 
in Cox graveyard. 

Cox. Abner. Sr., Bath. 1804; founder of Osborn, 
Ohio ; married Harriet Cook. 

Cox, Abner, Jr., Bath, 1804. 

Cox. Samuel W., Sr., Bath, iSri ; born in Bucks 
county. Pennsylvania. July 7. 1797, died May 22, 
1873, aged, seventy-five, at Yellow Springs. 

Cox, Theopholus, Bath. 1810; February 5. 1818, 
married Nancy S. Tingley. 

Cox. James M.. 1830; January 20. 1833. married 
Jane Woodward. 

Cox. David S., Bath, 1S16; son of John, Jr.; re- 
moved near Warsaw, Indiana; May 4, 1828, mar- 
ried Mary Hand. 

Cox. Isaac. Bath. 1820. 

Cox, Bcniamin. Bath, 1816. 

Cox. David. Bath. 1820; born in Pennsylvania; came 
to Ohio in t8oi. to Greene county in 1807, settled 
in northwestern corner of Greene county; died 
July 22. 1876. aged eighty-three. 

Cox, William. Bath. 1807; died July 22, 1876, aged 
eighty-two. 

Cox. John M., Bath. 1840; grandson of Samuel Fin- 
ley, 

Cox, Samuel, Jr.. Miami, 1830. 

Cox. Stephen. Ross. 1812; soldier of 1812. 

Cox. William. Ross. 1818. 

Cox, Charles, Ross, 1840 : died June 19, 1872. 



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Cook. Jacoli. Xenia. 1807; soldier of 1812. under Cap- 
tain James Steele. 

Cook. Joshua. Silver Creek. 1817: January 16, 1823, 
married Aima Turner. 

Cook, .Abraham. Esq.. Bath, 182 1 ; from New Jersey; 
falhcr-in-lavv of John Co.x. Jr; removed to Bethel 
township. Clark county. Ohio. 

Cook. Jason. Sugar Creek. 1840; November 19, 1839, 
married Eleanor Buckles. 

Cook. Henry S.. Sugar Creek. 1819; August 19, 
1819. married Lydia Ramsey. 

Collinson, Daniel. Bath. 1840. 

Collinson. Samuel. Bath. 1840. 

Coursey. Samuel L.. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Coursey, Samuel, Sugar Creek. 1826. 

Conner. William. Sugar Creek, 1829; born in Reid 
county. Delaware. January 19. 1779. died in 
Greene county. Ohio. May 6. 1886. 

Conner. Jimmet. Sugar Creek, 1829: born February 
23. 1805. died November 19. 1881, in Warren 
county. Ohio. 

Conner. John. Sugar Creek, 1840: born October 6. 
1809, removed to Missouri, died October 16. 1879, 
in Rochester. Missouri. 

Conner. Vincent. Sugar Creek. 1840; born .-Xpril 10, 
180?. removed to Missouri, where he died in 
1880. 

Conner, Thomas. Xenia. 1827. 

Conner. Alexander. Xenia. 1816; from Ireland; died 
March 20. 1874, aged eighty-four, buried in Wood- 
land. 

Conner. John W.. Miami. 182Q. 

Conner. James, Ross. 1820; died Novend)er 2^,, 1870, 
aged eighty-one, buried in graveyard east of 
(Irapegrijve. 

Cooper. William, Sugar Creek. 1819. 

Cooper. Samuel, New Jasper, 1840; died March 13, 
1890, aged si.xty-one. 

Cooper, John. Sugar Creek. 1818; from Virginia; 
soldier in 1812: died August 9. 1876. aged eighty- 
five, buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 

Cooper. James. Silver Creek. 1830: died March 26, 
1885. aged sixty, buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Cooper. Joseph. Caeser's Creek. 1819. 

Cooper. James. Xenia, 1826; djed December 19, 
1868. aged eighty-fouri, buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Cooper. Robert. Xenia, 1830: died in Xenia town- 
ship in 1859. 

Cooper. John A.. Xenia, 1840; died February 18, 
1854, aged sixty-four, buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Cooper. John. Xenia. 1838 ; from Hardy county. Vir- 
ginia ; father of Samuel. 

Cooper. Rev. Ebenezer. Xenia, 1840; from South 
Carolina; father of J. H. Cooper; born in 1792, 
died November 12, 1858. aged sixty-three ; 
buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Cooper. John C. Beaver Creek, 1806. 

Cooper, Frederick. Bath. 181 r. 

Cooper. James H.. Miami. 1830; December 25, 
1838, married Phebe L. Bailey. 

Cooper, Joseph, Miami. 1840. 

Cooper, Joseph H.. Miami. 1840. 

Cooper, Wm. K.. Xenia. 1840: born in 1819. died in 



1891, aged seventy-two. buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Corry. James K.. Caesar's Creek. 1803; the first 
attorney to locate in Xenia township in 1803; 
died in Columbus. Ohio, in 1827. 

Corry. William. Caesar's Creek, 1803; an attorney; 
brother of Jaines K. 

Corry. Matthew. Xenia, 1830; from Northumber- 
land, Pennsylvania; born February 16, 1793; 
soldier of 1812 ; died May s, 1864, aged seventy- 
one, buried in Woodland. 

Conkelon. David, Caesar's Creek, 1810; soldier of 
1812. 

Conkelon. William, Caesar's Creek, 1803. 

Conkelon, Harvey, Caesar's Creek, 1804 ; father of 
H. H. ; died in 1852 at Lumberton, Ohio; son-in- 
law of Lazarus Noland. 

Conkelon. Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1804; married 
Rachel Casey March 14. 1815. 

Conkelon, Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Conkelon. Tunis, Caesar's Creek, 1829; June 4, 
1829, married Margaret McConnell. 

Coleman, Joel, Caesar's Creek, 1803. 

Coleman, Joseph, Bath, i8.?o; March 20, 183 1, mar- 
ried Milley Casad. 

Coleman, E., Bath, 1840 ; buried in Bath churchyard 
west of Mad river. 

Copeland. John. Silver Creek, 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Copcland, Joseph. 1813 ; December 24, 1818, married 
rClizabeth Wical. 

Copeland. William, Silver Creek. 1813; married 
Sarah Haughey. March 27, 1830. 

Copeland. Abner, Silver Creek. 1820; Justice of 
Peace in Silver Creek township in 1826. 

Constant. Isaac, Caesar's Creek, 1813. 

Constant. Capt. Thos.. Xenia. 1813; soldier of 1812; 
died December 15. 1840. in Sangamon county, 
Illinois. 

Constant. John. Xenia. 1818; March 28. 1816. mar- 
ried Margaret Killis. 

Constant. William. Miami. 1813. 

Conwell. Nathan E.. Xenia. i8.'o; son of Abraham; 
born .-\pril 16. 1822; died .\ugust 30, 1848; buried 
in Woodland. 

Conwell, Stephen, Xenia. 1809; brother of Abra- 
ham: soldier of 1812 : died March 27, 1881 aged 
fifty-five; buried in Woodland; married Martha 
Mills May 30, 1816. 

Conwell. Elizabeth, Xenia. 1807; from Winchester, 
Virginia; widow of William. Sr. ; died in Xenia 
December 28, 1838 ; aged ninety-two years and 
eleven months. 

Conwell, Richard, Xenia. 1809; died January ig, 
1845. aged fifty-seven; buried in Woodland; 
married Eliza Beatty December 30, 1830. 

Conwell. Abraham. Xenia. i8og; died August, iS.^o, 
aged sixty-four ; buried in Woodland ; June 10, 
i8ii. married Sarah Bell. 

Conwell. Samuel B., Xenia. 1838; born July 27, 
1822. 

Conwell, Abraham D.. Xenia. 1838; removed to 
Kansas ; son of Richard ; died in 1864 in Leav- 
enworth. 

Conwell, George W.. -venia. 1838; son of Abraham; 
in 1840 was a clerk in Hivling's store. 



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Conwell. Ben.iamin G.. Xenia, 1838: son of Rich- 
ard : died Xnvember 2g, 1866, aged fifty-four : 
buried in Woodland. 

Conwell. A. D.. Xenia, 1840: died August 16, 1850, 
aged sixty-eight: buried in Woodland; March 
I, 1832. married Susan Wech. 

Coates. John. Caesar's Creek, 1840; buried in Mount 
Holly. 

Coates. Joseph. Caesar's Creek, 1840; buried in 
Mount Holly. 

Coates, Hiram. Ceasar's Creek, 1S40 ; buried in 
Mount Holly. 

Coates. George. Xenia. 1S40. 

Colston. Abraham. Xenia. 1809; died in 1836. 

Cohagan. William. Xenia. 181 1: removed to Day- 
ton: son of John: his sons were Isaac, John, 
Robert and Sylvester. 

Cohagan. John. Xonia. 1811: soldier of 1812: died 
in Xenia March 7. 1836; buried on Joseph Hutch- 
ison's farm. 

Cole, William R.. Xenia. 1811 ; married a daughter 
of Josiah Elam : represented Greene county in 
legislature. 

Cole. Eliiah. Xenia. 1821 : millwright for Forsman 
& Ankeney on Massie's Creek and falls of the 
Little Miami. 

Cole. Joshua, Xenia. 1827. 

Cole, David, Xenia. 1827. 

Cole. Jesse. 1838 : July 4, 1839. married Elizabeth 
Pratt. 

Cowen, James. Xenia. 181 1. 

Cowen. Henry. Bath. 1840. 

Cowen. Joseph. Bath, iSjo: March 22, 1838, mar- 
ried Isabella Knox. 

Connellv. Robert. Xenia. 1830: a schoolmate of 
Da\id Hawkins: died in the South; son of 
David. 

Connelly. David W.. Xenia. 1830; a noted surveyor; 
son of David. 

Connelly. David. Xenia, 1815: died January 2, 1827: 
once owned the principal part of the Roberts' 
estate. 

Connelly. John, Xenia, 1818; from Augusta, 'Virginia; 
born March 5. 1770: died October 8. 1830; aged 
sixty ; buried in East Third street .\. R. grave- 
yard. 

Connelly. Arthur. Xenia. 1820: son of David and 
Nancy Connelly. 

Connelly. Samuel. Xenia. 1825 ; son of David ; bur- 
ied in A. R. graveyard. East Third street, 
Xenia : married Ruth Haines. 

Connelly. Capt. James. Xenia. 1827: removed to 
Broo'kville. Indiana: died July 9. 1848: March 6, 
1823. married Xancy Whiteman. 

Connelly. Arthur. Xenia. 1829: son of David. 

Conley. Levi, Beaver Creek. 1803; November i, 
1832, married Harriet Wright. 

Conley, Fountain. Bath, 1828. 
Copsey. John, Xenia. 1826. 

Conna'ble. Joseph. Xenia. 1837: from Massachusetts; 
died October 11. 1849. aged sixty-seven; buried 
in Woodland. 
Connable, E, J., Xenia. 18.^0: eldest son of Joseph: 

January 12, 1842, married Cordelia Xcwkirk. 
Connable. Matthew. Xenia. 1840: died January 16, 
1894, aged seventy: buried in Woodland. 



Cooley. William. Xenia. 1840: from New York; 
died August 30. 1884. aged sixty-four; buried in 
Woodland. 

Cooley. David. Xenia, 1840. 

Coy. Jacob. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1807; from Frederick 
county. Maryland: soldier of 1812: died Decem- 
ber I. 1832. aged ninety-three; buried in Coy 
graveyard. 

Coy. Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1807: from Maryland: 
soldier of 1812 ; died in 1862: buried in Mt. 
Zion : son of Jacob, Sr. ; born in 1792. 

Coy, Adam, Beaver Creek, 1800: soldier of 1812; 
born X'ovember 20. 1783: died December 5. 1862, 
aged seventy-eight: buried at Mt. Zion; father 
of Abraham. 

Coy. John. Beaver Creek. 1807; soldier of 1812: 
died July 2^. 1884. aged ninety-one; buried at 
Mt. Zion; married Mary Snyder. 

Coy. Henry, Beaver Creek, 181 1: soldier of 1812; 
died July 22. 1846, aged fifty-one; buried at 
Mt. Zion. 

Coy, Peter S., Beaver Creek. 181 1: son of Adam; 
committed suicide: died Julv 9. 1845. aged fifty- 
eight : buried in Aley churchyard : married Mary 
Tingley. 

Coy, Jacob, Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1817: son of Adam; 
died July 28. 1884. aged eighty-one: buried at 
Mt. Zion: married Marv .Shank. 

Coy. Leonard, Beaver Creek. 1840: son of Jacob 
Coy: March 31. 1842. married Sarah Benham. 

Coy. William. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Coy. Peter. Jr.. Beaver Creek, 1840; Feliruary 10. 
1842. married Sarah Brown. 

Coy. Abraham. 1840; born November 7. 1820; son 
of .'\dam. 

Cosier. Lewis. Beaver Creek. 1S07; buried in Haw- 
ker churchyard in 1817; August 19. 1822. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Turbaugh. 

Cosier. Lewis M.. Beaver Creek. 1808: died Febru- 
ary 28. 1844. aged twenty-si.x ; buried in L'nion 
graveyard. 

Cosier. Abraham, Beaver Creek, 1808: soldier of 
1812. 

Cosier. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1800: born in 1819; 
died in 1896 : buried in L'nion graveyard. 

Cosier. David. Beaver Creek. 1830: died February 
23. 1870. aged seventy-one ; buried in Aley 
churchyard ; married Mary .\ley in 1820. 

Cosier. Jacob. Miami. 1814; soldier of 1812: died 
June 5. 1846. aged fifty-six ; buried in Union 
graveyard. 

Cosier. Abraham. Bath. 1817. 

Cosier, David, Bath. 1820. 

Cosier. Rev. John M.. Miami. 1840; died February 
4. 1870. aged fifty-three: buried in Yellow 
Springs. 

Cover. Beniamin, Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Cover. Valentine. Beaver Creek. 1840: buried in 

Aley churchvard. 
Cover. John. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Cost. Joseph. Bath. 1840; removed to Indiana. 
Cost. John, Sr.. Bath. .1817: buried in Cost grave- 
yard ; died March 28. i8sO. aged sixty-nine. 
Cost. Peter. Bath. 1820: son of John. Sr. 
Cost. Anthony. 1840; October i, 1840, married 
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Cost, John. Bath, 1830; son of John, Sr. ; died in 
Fairfiehl. Ohio, March 28. 1840, aged sixty- 
nint : buried in Fairfield, Ohio. 

Cost. George. Bath. i8,to; son of John, Sr. ; Octolier 
3. 1824. married Dnisella Clayton. 

Cost. Jonathan H., Bath, 1840; removed to Qiiincy. 
( Ohio ; January 3. 1839. married Sarah Ann 

Cosier. 

•Cost, Philip P.. Bath, 1817: son of John ; from Frcd- 
ericU. Maryland ; born October 10. 1809 ; father of 
George T. ; died February 11, igoo, aged ninety. 

Cosgrove. Joseph. Bath, 1820. 

Confar, John. Bath, 1820; January 3. 1819, married 
Martha Wolf. 

Colson. Patrick. Bath. 1840. 

Colson, Joseph G., Bath. 1840. 

Cool, Elisha. Bath. 1840. 

Confer. William G.. Bath. 1834; son of George; 
born December 29, 1823. 

Confer. George. Miami, 181 1: soldier of 1812; died 
March 26. 1857, aged seventy; buried in Union 
graveyard. 

Confer. ^lichael. Miami, 1811 ; died in Miami town- 
ship in 1829; buried in Folek graveyard; mar- 
ried Susan Jane Grow. 

Confer. Jacob. Miami, 1817: removed to Indiana; 
October 24. 1816. married Martha Graham. 

Confer, John. Miami. 1817; soldier of 1812; died in 
1S34; buried in Mud Run churchyard. 

Confer. Michael. Jr.. Miami. 1820; removed to Peru, 
Indiana. 

Confer, Solomon, Miami, 1830; removed to Rock 
Island. 

Confer, James, Miami. 1840 ; died January 4, 1888, 
aged seventy-four; buried at Selma. 

Confer. Samuel, Miami, 1840; died December 23, 
1870. aged eighty; buried in Glen Forest, Yellow 
Springs. 

Council. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1840; died May 
22. 185 1, aged fifty-one; buried in Mt. Zion 
churchyard. 

Cotren, William, Mi;'.mi. i8og. 

Codington. Thomas. Miami, 1821. 

Comer. Daniel, Xenia, 1813. 

Cornelius, Samuel, Ross. 1818. 

Cobler, John. Ross, 1830. 

Creamer. John. Sugar Creek, 1806; from Maryland; 
died November 22. 1845. aged seventy-five: bur- 
ied in Baptist graveyard, one mile south of Bell- 
brook, Ohio. 

Creamer, Solomon. Sugar Creek. 1813; brother of 
John : removed to Urbana. Illinois. 

Creamer, Thomas, Sugar Creek. 1826; son of John; 
born in Kentucky in 1805 : died September. 1871, 
aged sixty-six; buried in Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Creamer, Hugh, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Creatner, John, Jr., Sugar Creek. 1840; son of 
Solomon; removed to Illinois; March 12. 1835, 
married Anna Haines. 

Creamer. Josiah. Sugar Creek, 1840 ; removed to 
Indiana. 

Creamer. Isaac, Sugar Creek, i8jo; son of John; 
died August 2,^. 1876, aged sixty-three; buried 
at Bellbrook. Ohio ; married Jane Daugherty. 

Creamer. David. Sugar Creek, 1813; removed to 
Fayette county, Ohio. 



Croft, .Allen, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Crowl. William H.. Sugar Creek, 1840; from Penn- 
.sylvania; born .\ugust 16. 1817. in Oxford, Pa.; 
died September i^ i860; buried in Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 

Crowl, Adam. Xenia, iSii. 

Crowi, John, Xenia. 1816. 

Crowl, Henry. Xenia. 1816; from Washington coun- 
ty, Maryland; in 1870 he paid a visit to his old 
home in Xenia ; at that time he was eighty-one 
years old. 

Crowl, Conrad, Xenia, 1816 ; died in Xenia May 
15. 1827; buried in old Methodist graveyard; 
married Nancy Harper. 

Crowl, Micliael, Xenia, 1819, 

Crowl, Leonard, Xenia, 1819. 

Crumlev, .Aaron, Sugar Creek, 1812; son of Aaron 
M. 

Crumley, .Aaron M.. Sugar Creek, 1812; died Aug- 
ust 18. 1835, aged sixty-three ; buried in Mt. Holly. 

Crumley, Stephen, Sugar Greek, 1813 ; soldier of 
1812; removed to Indiana; May 13, 1813, mar- 
ried Jane Stanfield. 

Crumley. William. Sugar Creek, 1819; died Febru- 
ary 4. 1889. aged sixty-nine; buried at Xenia; 
son of .>\aron M. ; married Minerva Stanfield. 

Crumley. Henry, Sugar Creek, 1820; removed to 
Indiana. 

Crumley. Edward. Sugar Creek, 1827 ; son of Aaron 
M. ; removed to Maine. 

Crumley, James, Sugar Creek, 1820; removed to 
Indiana. 

Critchfield, John. Sugar Creek. 1813; born May 
20, 1771, died .August 20, 1836, aged sixty-five; 
buried one mile south of Bellbrook, Ohio; wife, 
Catherine : son. .Andrew. 

Critchfield. Philip F. Sugar Creek, 1819. 

Critchfield, -Arthur. 1820; March 25, 1825, married 
Maria Neal. 

Craig. Isaac. Sugar Creek, 1807; son-in-law of 
Isaac Pedrick. 

Craig, John. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Craig. Addison. Caesar's Creek. 1840; from Vir- 
ginia : died March 6. 1888, aged seventy ; buried 
at Spring Valley, Ohio. 

Crawford. James, Xenia. 1812; died November 20, 

1854, aged seventy-three ; buried in Dean grave- 
yard, near Jasper, Ohio. 

Grain. Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1840; buried in 

Beaver Creek churchyard. 
Crawford. .Abel. Xenia. 1830. 
Crawford. John, Caesar's Creek. 1827; died in Cedar- 

ville township .August 5. 1863; aged sixty-one; 

married .Arsly Carter. 
Crawford. James, Xenia, 1807; died August 26, 

1855, aged eighty-two ; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, Cedarville, Ohio. 

Crawford, Robert. Xenia. 181 1 ; son of James; died 

November 8, 1851, aged eighty-eight; buried in 

Woodland. 
Crawford. William. Xenia. 1819: .son of James; 

died .August 12. 1877, aged eighty-two; buried in 

Woodland. 
Crawford. John. Xenia, 1832; son of James; died 

.April 12, 1848, aged thirty-three ; buried in Dean 

graveyard. 



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Crawford, William D., Xenia, 1820; August 13, 
1816. married Elizabeth Andrew. 

Crawford. David. Xenia. i8jo: November, 12, 
1812. married Ann Sterritt. 

Crawford. M. A.. Xenia, 1840; Janua.-y 2. 1818, 
married Eliza Erwin. 

Crawford. Oliver, Batb. i8n : soldier of 1812. 

Crawford. J. D., Rath, 1840. 

Crawford, Robert, Jr.. Bath. 1840; died January 31. 
i8g2. aged seventy; buried in Woodland. 

Crawford. John. Ross. 1828; January 20. 1820. mar- 
ried Agnes Miller': died in Cedarville township 
in i8()3; has a son. James, of Monmouth. Illinois. 

Crawford. James, Ross, 1828: from Virginia; born 
in I7b8: died in 1829; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, Cedarville, Ohio. 

Crawford. Eli, Ross, 1828. 

Crawford. Patsey. Ross. 1830. 

Crawford. John, Jr.. Ross, 1840; August 26, 1842, 
married Jane Nevius. 

Crawford. Elizabeth. Xenia. 1807; died October 27. 
1870. aged one hundred and five; buried in 
Baptist graveyard. Cedarville. 

Crites, Job, Caesar's Creek, 1840; died April tg, 
1870, aged fifty-nine; buried at New Burlington, 
Ohio; married Christiana Moore. 

Crites, John, Bath, 1840. 

Creswell. Samuel, Jr.. Xenia. 1841; son of James; 
died February 2^. 1850. aged seventy-eight; bur- 
ied in Baptist graveyard. Cedarville. Ohio. 

Creswell, Samuel, Sr., Xenia, 1806; from Kentucky; 
died in Cedarville township in 1856. 

Creswell. Walter. Xenia. 1S07. 

Creswell. Catharine. Xenia, 1807. 

Creswell. James, Xenia. i8to; from Pennsylvania, 
thence to Kentucky, thence to Of io ; died Aug- 
ust 21. 1866, aged seventy-seven; buried two 
miles west of Jamestown. 

Creswell, Lancelot, Ross, 1836; son of James; died 
July ag, 1885, aged sixty-six; served two years 
in Civil war; removed to Barnesville, Indiana. 

Cropper. Solomon. Bath. 181 1; soldier of 1812. 

Cronk. .Andrew. Ross 1807; soldier of 1812. under 
Capt. Samuel C. Herod. 

Crandle, Nicholas. Xenia, 1842; from Connecticut; 
born December 20, 1809; died June 24, 1855; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Crow. Samuel. Xenia. 181 1. 

Crow. Abraham, Beaver Creek. 1807 ; died in Beaver 
Creek township in 1817; (see Gray). 

Crow, Matthias, Beaver Creek, 1807 ; died in 1833 ; 
(see Gray). 

Crow. Henry. Beaver Creek, 181 1. 

Crisman. Frank. Ross, 1820; one of the early school 
teachers of Ross township: January 25. 1821, 
married Francis Gains. 

Crisman. Felix. Xenia, 1820. 

Crumbaugh. Samuel, Sr.. Xen.ia. 1817; born Aug- 
ust 29. 1 791 ; died September 6. 1876, aged eighty- 
five; soldier of 1812: helped to organize the Re- 
formed Church in 1833 ; buried in Woodland. 

Crumbaugh. Lewis. Xenia. 1826; October 18. 1825. 
married Barbary Fulinger. 

Crumbaugh. Alfred. Xenia. 1830; died in Australia. 

Crumbaugh, John B., Xenia, 1830; born in 1818; 



died May 20, 1861, aged forty-three; married in 
Woodland. 

Crumbaugh. Henry. Xenia. 1840: died March 25, 
1870: buried in Woodland, 

Crumbaugh. Samuel. Xenia. 1840: from Maryland: 
died March 16. i89g. aged seventy-seven: sheriff 
of Greene countv from 1858 to 1862; buried in 
Woodland. 

Crumbaugh. Dr. Fredrick. Xenia. 1840; born De- 
cember I. i8r6; died in Chicago. Illinois, March 
16, 1879. aged sixty-two: son of Samuel, Sr. 

Cruzen. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1816 ; died in Silver 
Creek township in 1835: buried in Sheeley grave- 
yard. 

Cruzen, Cornelius, Silver Creek, 1813; son of Rich- 
ard ; buried in Sheelev graveyard, Jamestown, 
Ohio. 

Cruzen. James. Silver Creek. 1830; removed to 
Walnut Hills, Illinois: December 28. 1828, married 
Nancy Glass, 

Cruzen, John, Silver Creek. 1S40; removed to Illi- 
nois in 1842; buried at Atlanta August. 1844. 

Cruzen, Harvey, Silver Creek, 1840; removed to 
Iowa in 1853. 

Croy, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1817. 

Crippen. Joseph, Beaver Creek. 1830: March 13, 
i.'<34. married Elizahpth Menare. 

Crane. Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Cromwell. John. Bath. 1807. 

Cromwell. Joseph, Xenia, 1832: son of Richard; 
born in Washington countv, Maryland, March, 
1814. 

Crum, John, Bath, 1807: soldier of 1812. 

Crocket, Andrew, 1818: March 7, 1S19, married 
Margaret Freeman. 

Crum, John C, Bath, 1812. 

Cross. Hamilton, Cedarville, 1840: died March 5, 
1879, aged sixty-eight. 

Cross, Solomon, Cedarville, 1817. 

Cross. Israel, Cedarville. 1820: February 22, 1827, 
married Sarah Townsley, widow. 

Cross. Samuel. Cedarville, 1826; February 12, 1825, 
married Caroline Browder. 

Crowder. William, Xenia. 1811 ; soldier of 1812, 
under Capt. Chas. WoJverton. 

Cretors,- George P.. Xenia. 1830: January 4. 1834, 
married Hannah Baker. 

Cretors. Samuel B., 1840; born February 15. 1S15; 
died August 30, 1879: buried in Woodland. 

Cunningham, James, Sr. Sugar Creek, 1803; died 
April 12. 1814, aged forty-seven ; buried in Pi- 
oneer graveyard. Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Cunningham. John. Sugar Creek. 1813: killed by In- 
dians at Fort McArthur in 1814: buried in Pi- 
oneer graveyard. 

Cunningham. Richard. Sugar Creek. 1820; soldier of 
the Revolution; removed to Sidney. Ohio. 

Cunningham. Frank A.. Sugar Creek. 1826; .secre- 
tary of Bellbrook Colonization Society in- 1826. 

Cunningham, Jas.. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1840; died Jan- 
uary 24. 1884, aged sixty-six; buried at Bell- 
brook. Ohio. 

Cunningham. .Andrew. Xenia. 1817; son of James, 
Sr., and Elizabeth ; March 2. 1820. married Jane 
Stephenson. 



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Cunningliam. Ciirrv, Xenia. i8i(): son of Jame*. 
Sr. 

Cunningliam, Isaiah, Xenia. 1S40. 

Cunninhani, Hugh. Xenia, 1840. 

Cunningham, Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1806. 

Cunningham. Joshua E.. Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Cumiingliam. John. Miami, 1830. 

Cunningham, James. Ross. 1828: horn in 1800: bur- 
ied in Baptist graveyard. Cedarville. Ohio. 

Cunningham, Roliert C, Xenia, 1840; son of James 
and Ehzabeth. 

Currie, David. Sugar Creek. 1803. 

Currie. Widow. Miami. i8og; mother of James and 
Walter Currie. Sr. 

Currie. Daniel. Miami. 1808: eldest son of James. 
Sr. 

Currie. Elizabeth, Miami, 1808; widow of Walter 
Currie, 

Currie, James (son of Walter) 1808; April 19, 1832, 
married Maria Mitchell: removed to Laporte, 
Indiana. 

Currie, James, Sr.. Miami. 1808; from Virginia; 
born in 1773. died November i. 1843: buried 
in Massie"s Creek cemetery (Stevenson's); .set- 
tled on the present site of Anti(K;h College, Yel- 
low Sqrings. 

Currie. Walter. Miami. 1808: died July 22. 1808, 
aged thirtv-two; buried in Massic's Creek ceme- 
tery. 

Currie. Robert. Miami. 1808; soldier of 1812; re- 
moved to Hanover, Ind. ; buried in Carmel 
churchyard. 

Currie. William, Esq., Miami. 1810; soldier of 1812; 
died May. 1840; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery (Stevenson's). 

Currie, George, Miami, 1810; died in 1886, aged 
eighty-three ; buried in Cedarville cemetery ; son 
of James. 

Currie. George. Miami. 1826; son of Walter; re- 
moved to Laporte. Indiana; April 17. 1827. mar- 
ried Mary Chalmers. 

Currie. James C Miami. 1826; son of James; died 
.'\pril 14. 1S78. aged si.xty-eight ; buried in Wood- 
land ; in 1840 married A. E. Torrence. 

Currie, David. Miami. 1827; son of James. Sr. ; born 
May 14. 1807; died January 7. 1863. aged fifty- 
.six ; buried at Yellow Springs: May 12. 1842. 
married Allison Hume. 

Currie. Samuel. Xenia, 1828; entered the Boyd 
Hopping farm, west of Xenia. 

Currie. Ebenezer, Xenia. 1817. 

Currie. Mary, Xenia, 1830. 

Culey. Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1830. 
Curl, James. Caesar's Creek, 1809; died April 3, 
1859, aged 'fifty-seven; buried in New Hope 
churchyard, near Paintersville. Ohio. 
Curl, Joseph, Sr.. Caesar's Creek. 1828; his wife 
was Sarah; father of Thomas; died in 1836; 
buried in New Hope churchyard: his sons were 
John. Charles. Samuel. Joseph. Elias. James. 
Jacob and Benjamin. 

Curl. Joel. Caesar's Creek. 1828; died November 
7. 1867, aged sixty-one ; buried in New Hope 
churchyard. Paintersville. Ohio. 
Curl. Benjamin. Caesar's Creek. 1840; October 22. 
1829, married Mary Ogesbee. 



Curl. Benjamin, Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Curl. Daniel, Xenia. 1840: from Virginia: brother 
of James; removed to Wilmington. Ohio. 

Curl. James. Xenia. 1840; from Virginia; died .Aug- 
ust 16. 1858; buried in Woodland. 

Curl. David, Xenia, 1840; son of James. 

Curl. John, Xenia, 1840: son of James; killed on 
railroad. 

Curry. Robert. Xenia, 1808; died November 7. 1853, 
aged seventy ; buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Curry. Jolin, Caesar's Creek, 1808; son-in-law of 
John Sheley. Sr. ; soldier of 1812; died October 
I5- '855. aged seventy-three; Iniried in Sheley 
graveyard. Jamestown. Ohio. 

Cummings. Thomas B.. Caesar's Creek, 1836; born 
February 6, 1814, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania; 
father of Hon. Joseph Cummings: buried in 
Woodland. 

Cummings. Dr. James, Xenia. 1840: in active prac- 
tice as a physician in Xenia in 1841 ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Cunnnings. Casper. Beaver Creek, 1840; soldier of 
1812; buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Cummings. Robert. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; May 28, 

1840. married Marv Coy. 
Cummings. Charles. Bath. 1840. 
Ctuiimings. Dr., Bath, 1840. 

Cummings. William. Beaver Creek. 1840; born in 
1815. died in 1849: buried in Mt. Zion church- 
yard. 

Cutler. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1804. 

Cutler. Jacob. Ross. 1806. 

Cutler. Benjamin. Jr., Ross, 1806. 

Cutler. John. Ross. 1806. 

Culberson. Robert. Ross, 1816: September ,^0. 1818, 
married Rhoda Sampson. 

Culberson. Joseph. Xenia, 1816; buried in Cedar- 
ville cemetery. 

Culberson. Joseph. Jr.. Xenia, 1816. 

Culberson. John. Xenia. 1817; died in 1836: willed 
his possessions to Ennis Townsley. 

Cultice. Gabriel. Xenia. 1810. 

Cushman. Thomas. Xenia. l8r6: cabinetmaker; ran 
a factory at Oldtown in 1820: firm. West & 
Cushman. 

Curby. James, Xenia. 1816. 

Culson. Simon, Xenia. 1829. 

Curran. J., Xenia, 18.30. 

Custenbarger. Matthias. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; born 
in 1801 ; died at Alpha. October 16. 1880. aged 
eighty: buried at Mt. Zion. 

Cutton, Elijah. Bath, 1820. 

Cullun. John. Ross, 1820. 

Cyphers, John. Beaver Creek. 1840; soldier of 1812; 
buried in Mt. Zion churchyard : September 30, 

1841. married Devilpiss. 

Cyphers. Philip, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; March 23, 

1842. married Margaret Hale. 
Cassil. John. Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Cassil. Alexander. Xenia. 1816. 
Cassil. David. Xenia, 1813. 
Cassil. Vincent. Silver Creek. 181 1. 
Cassil, Leaman, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Cassil. Samuel. Xenia 1829; buried in Massie's 

Creek cemetery. 
Curtis, James, Miami, 1810. 



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Curtis, Wesley, Xenia. 1816. 

Curtis, Daniel. Xenia, 1816. 

Curtis, Conrad, Bath, 1826. 

Curtis, John. Miami, 1829; died in Miami township 

in 1859. February 4: buried in Yellow Springs. 
Cretors, Samuel B.. Xenia. 1840: died August 13, 

1879; buried in Woodland. 

David, Jacob. Sugar Creek. 184a ; a carpenter ; re- 
moved to Des Moines. Iowa. 

Davis. Hannah. Sugar Creek, 1804. 

Davis, Rev. William. Sugar Creek. 1817: from 
Berkeley county. West Virginia : born October 
15. 1770; died January 22. 1868. aged seventy- 
seven ; buried in Woodland. 

Davis. Wm. F. R.. Sr., Sugar Creek, 1826; soldier 
of the Revolution. 

Davis, Wm. F. R.. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1829. 

Davis, Dr. Jonathan Sugar Creek. 1829 : died July 
29, 1849, aged twenty-eight ; buried in Bonner 
graveyard. 

Davis. Chas. W.. Sugar Creek. 1829. 

Davis, Andrew. Sugar Creek. 1830; May 5. 1819, 
married Zillah Grant. 

Davis. Bazil. Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Davis. Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1830; removed to 
Jamestown in 1830; February ig, 1829, married 
Mary Bigelow. 

Davis. William, Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1840; son of 
P.ev. William. 

Davis, Thomas, Sugar Creek 1840. 

Davis, Jonathan, Sugar Creek, 1830 ; son of Will- 
iam; died September 3, 1875; aged sixty-seven; 
buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 

Davis. Nathan L.. Sugar Creek. 1840; from Win- 
chester Virginia; son of Josiah ; died December 6. 
1881. aged sixty-five; buried in Woodland. 

Davis. James. Sugar Creek. 1840; son of Rev. Will- 
iam; died August ?i, 1850, aged thirty-seven; 
buried in Woodland. 

Davis. David, Sr., Sugar Creek, 1807: died in 
1835 ; buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Davis, David. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1807; died May 
17, 1842, aged sixty-four; buried at Jamestown, 
Ohio; married Sarah Baley, July 12, 1824. 

Davis, Anthony, Caesar's Creek. 1819; son of Da- 
vid; died November i. 1863. aged seventy-three; 
buried in New Houe graveyard. 

Davis. Obediah. Caesar's Creek. 1827; February 3. 
1825. married Mary Peterson. 

Davis. William. Caesar's Creek, 1814; born in York, 
Pennsylvania; April 16, 1775. married Deborah 
Bacon; died March 5. 1877. aged eighty-two; 
l)uricd in Woodland' father-in-law of Henry 
Conklin. 

Davis, John. Caesar's Creek, 1830; son of David; 

November 5, 1823, married Elizabeth Barnes. 
Davis. Bryson, Caesar's Creek. 1830. 
Davis, Robert, Xenia, 1806; June 8. 1842, married 

Barbary E. Jones. 
Davis, Owen. Xenia, 1807; nephew of the old mil- 
ler on Beaver Creek ; removed to Illinois. 
Davis. Thomas, Xenia. i8og; son of Philip; born in 
South Hampton county. Virginia, October 20, 
1785; died Seutcmber 25, 1863. aged seventy- 
eight; buried in Woodland. 



Davis, Philip. Xenia. 1809; father of Melville, of the 
Seventy-fourth O. V. I.; born in 1753; died .\u- 
gust 8. 1831, aged seventy-eight; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Davis, John, Xenia. 1810; father-in-law of Brice 
Knox ; removed to Missouri. 

Davis. John. Xenia, 1810; an old time merchant of 
Xenia. 

Davis. Jeptha. Xenia. 1816; November 13, 1817, mar- 
ried Polly Troxel. 

Davis, Josiah, Xenia, 1807; son of Philip; died Oc- 
tober 30. 1838. aged forty-one : buried in Wood- 
land; married Elizabeth Scarf. 

Davis. James. Xenia. 1819; September 9. 1824. mar- 
ried Barsheba Burnet. 

Davis, Chambers, Xenia. 1829. 

Davis, Freeman, Xenia, 1829. 

Davis, David W.. Xenia, 1830. 

Davis. Milton G.. Xenia. 1840; son of Thomas; died 
at the Soldier's Home in Dayton. Ohio; buried 
in Woodland. 

Davis. Owen, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; owner of the 
house of Peter Borders, first place of holding 
court in Greene county; died in 1818; buried 
in Clifton, Ohio. 

Davis. Lewis. Beaver Creek. 1803; son of Owen and 
Luticia Davis ; first owner of what is known as the 
Yellow Springs ; buried six miles west of Belle- 
fontaine. 

Davis. David, Beaver Creek, 181 1; buried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard. 

Davis. Owen. Jr.. Miami, 1803 ; nephew of the old 
miller on Beaver Creek; died at Terre Haute,. 
Indiana in 1874. 

Davis. Thomas M. Beaver Creek. 181 1; from Eng- 
land ; first school teacher in Beaver Creek town- 
ship. 

Davis. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1819; a carpenter; re- 
moved to Iowa about iSso or 1857. 

Davis. Noah. Beaver Creek. 1826. 

Davis. David W.. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Davis. Sarah, Beaver Creek. 1830. 

Davis. Daniel. Beaver Creek. 1840; married Saralv 
Kirkpatrick, ."Kpril 25, 1833 ; died September I2^ 
1877, aged sixty-seven; buried in Beaver Creek 
cemetery. Alpha. 

Davis. Robert. Bath, 1801. 

Davis. Daniel H.. Bath. 1807; August 28, 1823, 
married Minerva Sirlott. 

Davis. Jacob. Bath. 1809; died in Beaver Creek 
township in 1829. 

Davis. Samuel, Bath, 1810; soldier of 1812; died in 
1845. aged seventy; buried in Spanger graveyard, 
Clark county. 

Davis. Zibee. Bath, 1810; soldier of 1812; Capt. Wm. 
Stephenson. 

Davis. William S.. Bath. 1812; died November 16,. 
1834; buried in Mitman graveyard. Fairfield. Ohio. 

Davis, Jonathan, Bath. 1810; soldier of 1812; July 
25, 1838, married Sarah Ann Darst. 

Davis, Ananias. Bath, 181 1; soldier of 1812. 

Davis. Joseph. Bath. 181 1; July 27. 1817. married 
Catharine Lippencott. 

Davis. John. Bath. 181 1; .soldier of 1812; Capt. 
Zach. Ferguson. 

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four: l)uric<l in Bath graveyard, west of Mad 
River. 

Davis, George, Bath. 1813; soldier of 1813; Dccem- 
her 27. 1832. married Abigail Ryan. 

Davis. Solomon. Bath. i8ig. 

Davis. Silas. Bath. 1S20: a soldier of the Revolution. 

Davis, Thomas, Sr., Bath, 1821. 

Davis, Thomas. Jr.. Bath. 1826. 

Davis, Richard Bath, 1826. 

Davis. .Absalom. Bath. 1826: died in Bath township 
in i8.i7; December 2, 1819. married Alvira Searl. 

Davis. .Abraham. Bath. 1827; August 7, 1823, mar- 
ried Mary Smuck. 

Davis, Robert. Miami. i8og. 

Davis, John. Miami. 1810. 

Davis. Lewis. Miami. iSii. 

Davis. Owen. Jr.. Miainj, 1817. 

Davis. David S.. Miami. 1840: February 18, 1840, 
married Lydia Ball. 

Davis. David. Ross, 1828. 

Davis. William. Ross. 1828; August ig, 1828. mar- 
ried Deborah Bacon. 

Davis, Alfred, Silver Creek, 1826; from Pennsyl- 
vania to Kentucky, thence to Ohio ; died May 
17, 1842, aged sixty-four; buried in Jamestown' 
cemetery; soldier of 1812. 

Davis. Noah, Silver Creek, 181 1. 

Davis, John J., Silver Creek. 1830; born April 13, 
1809; died November 2, 1877; buried at James- 
town, Ohio. 

Davis. John R.. Silver Creek, 1830; died at James- 
town November 22, 187' aged sixty-eight. 

Darlington. Samuel. Silver Creek. 1804; March 18. 
1801. married Nancy McDonald. 

Darst, Jacob. Sugar Creek. 1809; born in Franklin 
county, Virgin-a. October .30. 178.S: died in Beaver 
Creek townsliip March 28. 1852, buried in Beav- 
ertown cemetery. 

Darst. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 181 1 ; son of Jacob: bur- 
ied at Beavertown. 

Darst, John. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; son of Jacob ; re- 
moved to Eureka. Illinois; May 8, 1834, married 
Mary Stransbarger. 

Darst. Abraham. Bath, ]8ii; son of Jacob; Sep- 
tember 21, 1809. married Polly Wolf. 

Darst, Henry C. Bath. 1807: son of Jacob. 

Davidson, John, Sugar Creek. 1807. 

Davidson, James. Sugar Creek. 1827: removed to 
Indiana ; brother of Joseph, late of Xenia ; mar- 
ried Mary Ann Torrence. 

Davidson, William, Sugar Creek. 1S28: removed to 
Indiana; November 9. 18.33, married Eliza .An- 
drew. 

Davidson. Richard. Caesar's Creek. 1829. 

Davidson. James. Caesar's Creek. 1826; September 
II, 1822, married Sarah Harness. 

Davidson. Dr. .Andrew W.. Xenia. 1806; his wife 
was Rebecca Todd, daughter of James Todd : the 
first physician to settle in Xenia : died at Mad- 
ison. Indiana, in 1825. 

Davidson, Andrew, Xenia, 1807. 

Davidson, Josiah, Xenia, 1816; son of Andrew W. ; 
removed to Indiana; May 11. 1819, married Sarah 
Todd. 

Davidson. Joseph. Xenia. 1826 ; from Georgetown. 
Kentucky ; died September 16, 1879, aged seventy- 



four : buried in Woodland; married. .April, 1827, 

Margaret McClellan. 
Davidson, .Fonah, Xenia, iSig. 
Davidson, Richard, Xenia, 1830. 
Davidson. Robert. Xenia. 1819; brother of Joseph; 

removed to Oregon; Julv i, 1821. married Mar- 
garet Hamilton. 
Davidson, Samuel. Xenia, 1830. 
Davidson, Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1807. 
Davidson. John. Beaver Creek. 1826; .August 24, 

1842. married Amelia Wright. 
David.son. James. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Davidson. James. Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840; .August 

5. 1827. married Nancy Browder. 
Davidson. Elizabeth. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Dashield. Charles. Sugar Creek, i8li; soldier of 

1812. 
Daugherty, Michael, Sugar Creek. 1829; born in 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1801 ; of Irish 

parents; died February g, 1882, aged eighty; 

buried in Woodland. 
Daugherty. Elizabeth. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 
Daugherty. William. Xenia. 1827. 
Daugherty. John W.. Xenia. 1829; December 3, 

18,38. married Catharine Medsker. 
Daugherty. James. Bath. 1840; September 9. 1830, 

married Mary A. Cremer. 
Daugherty. W. A.., Ross 1840. 
Daugherty. Matthias. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Daugherty. James. Silver Creek. 1840; September 

g. 1830. married Jemima Shirk. 
Daugherty. Jesse. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Daugherty. David. Silver Creek. 1840; died Sep- 
tember 5, 1841, aged twenty-five. 
Day. Peter. Xenia. 181 1. 
Day. Joseph Xenia. 1826; soldier of Civil War. Co. 

D. One Hundred and Tentli. O. V. T. ; died .Au- 
gust 13. 1892. buried at Spring Valley. 
Davisson. Clarandon, Xenia. 1836; editor of the 

Greene Cx)unty Gazette, published in Xenia in 

18.36. 
Day. Dudley. Xenia. 1836 ; soldier in Civil War. 

member of Co. H. Seventy-fourth O. V. I. ; buried 

in Woodland. 
Dallas, James, Xenia, 1828. 
Dallas. Samuel. X&nia, 1840; died May 14. 1888, 

aged seventy-seven ; February 28, 1837, married 

Martha McMillan. 
Dallas, Wilson, Bath, 1840: died December 24, 1891, 

aged seventy-eight. 
Darrow, Amos, Bath, 1806: July 2. 1804. built the 

first jail on the public square in Xenia. 
Darrow, J. A.. Bath. 1840; born in 1819; died in 

i860; buried in Woodland. 
Danner. Henry. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Danner. John. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Davill. Samuel. Bath, 1840. 
Davill. Absalom. Bath. 1840. 
Dawson. John, Bath, i8.'.o. 
Dawson. Richard. Xenia. 1840; died in 1838. 
Dawson. David. Bath, i8.<o. 
Dawson. John. Sr., Silver Creek, 1830; died March 

28, 1871, aged eighty-seven; buried at Jamestown, 

Ohio. • 
Dawson. John, Jr., Silver Creek, 1840; September 

5. 1832, married Adelia Winans. 



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Dawson. James; R,. Sugar Creek. 1840: died July 

29. iE(,2. aged seventy-four' Decemlier 26. 1840, 

iiiarried Elizabeth Barnet. 
Darling. John. Silver Creek. 1840; October 7, 1832. 

married Amanda Bozart. 
Daniels. Reuben. Silver Creek. 1829. 
Dangerfield. Stephen, 1833: August II. 1833. mar- 
ried Ity Thomas. 
Dangerfield. Roger T.. Silver Creek. 1840; February 

8. 1835. married Isabella Ellsberry. 
Dcvoe. James. Sugar Creek. 1808. 
Devoe, John. Sugar Creek. 1812; soldier of 1812: 

buried in New Hope churchyard, Paintersville. 

Ohio. 
Devoe. D. L.. Sugar Creek. 1830; Novemlier 15. 

1827. married Ann Perkins. 
Devoe. Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1819; died July 5, 

i860, aged sixty-four; buried at Salem, south 

of Paintersville, Ohio. 
Devoe. William. Caesar's Creek, 1828. 
Devoe, Seth, Caesar's Creek, 1808: died March 5, 

1893, aged eighty-seven. 
Dewitt. Jacob, Sugar Creek, 1808. 
Dewitt, Robert, Bath, 1807. 
Dewitt, Widow, Bath, 1809. 
Dewitt, Peter, Bath, 1807 ; his wife, Mercy ; sons, 

Peter, Isaac, Elisha, Daniel: daughters, Pris- 

cilla, Nancy, Rachel and Elizabeth, 
Deshler, Chas., Sugar Creek, 1816. 
Devere, William H., Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Devere, Abraham, Sugar Creek, 1819. 
Devere. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1803: died in 

Beaver Creek township in 1814. 
Devere. Hester. Beaver Creek. 1813. 
Devere. Daniel. Bath. 1840. 
Debnr. Thomas J.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Deai-duff. Henry. Caesar's Creek. 1813; died in Sil- 
ver Creek township in 18=2; buried in Dearduff 

graveyard. 
Dearduff, John M., Xenia, 1820; died July 19, 1859, 

aged seventy-three : buried in Beaver Creek 

churchyard. Alpha. 
Dearduff, Jacob, Silver Creek. 1820: killed by a 

black man at Jamestown in 1834, while making an 

arrest as constable. 
Dearduff, .Sally, Silver Creek, 1840; widow of Jacob 

Dearduff. 
Deeds. George. Caesar's Creek 1819; his wife was 

Mary, and the- had seven daughters; soldier of 

the Revolution ; died October 8. 1846. aged eighty 

four ; buried in Zoar churchyard, Caesar's Creek 

township. 
Deani. John .\.. Xen!a. 1840; died in Caesar's Creek 

township in 1862. 
Deam. George W., Xenia. 1840. 
Deter, William, Xenia, 1840. 
Deter, Isaac, Bath, 1840. 

Dean, Daniel, Jr.. Xenia, 1830; married Jane Camp- 
bell; died May, 18.38; buried in Dean cemetery, 

near Jasper, Ohio. 
Dean. Jennette. Xenia. 181 1; born in Augusta 

county. Virginia, in 1763; widow of Daniel Dean. 

Sr. ; buried in Dean cemetery. 
Dean. Mary. Xenia. 181 1: mother of Daniel. Sr. ; 

born in 1739. died July 21. 1825. aged eighty- 



si.x ; buried in Dean cemetery ; widow of Roger 
Dean. 

Dean. Daniel. Sr.. Xenia. 181 1; born in Londonderry, 
Ireland, in 1766; died January 24, 1845, aged 
seventy-one ; buried in Dean cemetery. 

Dean. Robert. Xenia. 181 1; son of Daniel. Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 181 2; died May 18. 1856. aged sixty-three; 
buried in Dean cemetery. 

Dean. James. Xenia. 1826; son of Daniel. Sr. ; re- 
moved to Delaware county. Indiana ; married 
Elizabeth Pendry : died. 

Dean. William. Xenia, 1826; son of Daniel, Sr. ; 
married Catherine Shook : died in 1856. 

Dean. Joseph. Xenia, 1825; son of Daniel, Sr. ; born 
in 1804 ; died in 1883, aged seventy-nine ; buried 
in Dean cemetery. 

Dean, Benjamin, Xenia, 1840. 

Dean, Thomas, Ross, 1830. 

Dean, Samuel, Xenia, 1840 ; son of Robert ; died July 
4, 1847, aged twenty-six ; buried in Dean ceme- 
tery. 

Dean. Adam. Xenia. 1840 : father of Daniel A., who 
died in Chicago. 

Dean. Daniel A.. 1840; December 11. 1840. married 
Sarah Stewart. 

Denton. John, Xenia, 1816. 

Denton. Benjamin. Xenia. 1819. 

Denton, John J., Xenia, 1826. 

Denton, William A., Xenia. 1827. 

Deacon, John. Xenia. 1840; October 10. 1838. mar- 
ried Catharine Larew. 

DeHaven. John. Xenia. 1840; died July 13. 1851, 
aged forty years ; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's); March 27. 1836. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Forman. 

Dernbaugh. Abraham. Beaver Creek. 1807; died 
December 5. .1867. aged forty ; buried in Hawk- 
er's churchyard. 

Dernbaugh. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1807. 

Dernbaugh John. Beaver Creek. 1807 ; soldier of 
1812; died June 9. 1846. aged sixtv-two ; buried at 
Mt. Zion. 

Dernbaugh. Samuel, Beaver Creek, 181 1 ; soldier of 
1812; died in 1835; buried at Hawker's church- 
yard. 

Decker, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 181 7. 

Deckor, John S., Beaver Creek, 1817. 

Deckor. Isaac S., Beaver Creek. 1819. 

Devilbiss, Casper, Beaver Creek, 1819; died in 
Beaver Creek township in 1829. 

Devilbiss, Mary, Beaver Creek, 1830; widow of Cas- 
per, 

Devilbiss, John, Beaver Creek, 1840; son of Casper 
and Mary. 

Deal. Henry, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Die, William, Bath, 1826. 

Deer, William, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Demint. Beniamin. Bath. 1829. 

Demint. James. Jr.. Ross. 1840. 

Dedrick. Jacob. Bath. 1840. 

Dcdrick. John. Miami. 1836; September 7. 1837. mar- 
ried Marian Hickman. 

Deaming. lohn G.. Miami. 1827. 

DeHart. Gilbert. Miami. 1840. 

Dentler. William. Miami. 1830. 



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Degrott, James. Silver Creek. 1840; buried in 
Jamestown cemetery ; March 16, 1837. married 
Emily McjorniLn. 
Dice. Henry, Bath, i8jo. 

Dice, Jacob. Bath. 18,30; buried in Batli church- 
yard, west of Mad River. 
IMckcnshcct. John. Sugar Creek. iSog. 
Dickcnshcct. William. Sugar Creek. 1818; soldier 
of 1812; died May 1,5. 1858. aged fifty-five; buried 
in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook. 
Dickensheet, Jacob. Bath. 1840. 
Dickcnshect. Frederick. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

Dice. William. Beaver Creek. 1840; born December. 
i/Sg. died May 12. 1859, aged sixty-nine; buried 
in Alpha churchyard. 

Dickensheet. David, Sugar Creek. 1830; removed to 
Missouri. 

Dines. Chambers. .Sugar Creek. 1809. 

Dines. Bennett. Xenia, 1826. 

Dill. Salathial. Xenia. 1830; died December 26, 1862. 
aged seventy-five ; buried in Cedarville ceme- 
tery. 

Dill, George. Xenia. 1813. 

Dill. William. Sugar Creek. 18.30; died October 6, 
1891, aged sixty-eight. 

Dill, John. Sugar Creek. 1840; died November 3, 
1897. aged eighty-five ; buried in Bellbrook cem- 
etery. 

Dill. Andrew. Sugar Creek, 1840; born in 1812; 
died at the State Hospital in 1896 ; buried in 
Bellbrook cemetery; aged eighty-four. 

Dill. James. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Dill. lames. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Dill. John W.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Dill. Daniel, Sugar Creek, 1840; December' 26, 
1841. married Hannah X'ecdles. 

Dill, Barton, Sugar Creek, 18.10. 

Dill, Lovel, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Dill. Solomon. Sugar Creek. 1816; December 31, 
1823. married Rhoda Strong. 

Dill, Solomon, Jr., Caesar's Creek. 1819; died Jan- 
uary 9. 1835. aged seventy-five. 

Dill. Shadrack. Caesar's Creek. 

Dill. Gideon. Xenia. 1816; May 13. i8ig. married 
Jane Lyon; died May 31. 1866. aged 72; buried in 
Maple Corner churchyard'. 

Dill. John. Xenia. 1840; died January 2. 1893, aged 
seventy-one ; buried in Fairfield cemetery. 

Dill. Samuel. Xenia. 1840. 

Dill. Henry. Beaver Creek. 1826. 

Dill. Fredrick. Beaver Creek,- 1828. 

Dill. Ebenezer. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Dill. Robert. Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Dingess. Fredrick, Silver Creek, 1830: died in Sil- 
ver Creek township in 1837 ; buried near James- 
town, Ohio. 

Dinsmore, Amos, Sugar Creek, 1826; died in Sugar 
Creek township in 1830. 

Dinsmore, James, Xenia. 1826; died in Xenia in 
1821 ; buried in old Methodist graveyard, Xenia. 

Dinsmore. John, Sugar Creek, 1830: son of James; 
June 21, 1819, married Elizabeth Anderson. 

Dinsmore, Matthew, Bath. 1807; soldier of 1812. 

Dispenett, John. Bath. 1840; July c 1840. married 
Delilah Stevenson. 



Dickinan. Joseph, Miami, 1840 ; died at Yellow 
Springs November 12, 1877, aged sixty-nine. 

Di.xon. William. Xenia. iSao; died December 3, 
1874. at Dayton Insane Hospital. 

Dixon. Samuel. Xenia. 1818. 

Dixon, John, Xenia, 1819. 

Dixon, Nathaniel, Xenia, 1819; from Maryland; 
died October 31, 1870. aged seventy-nine; buried 
in Woodland. 

Dixon, John P., Xenia. 1819. 

Dixon. Enoch. Xenia. 1828. 

Dixon, Nathan, Xenia, 18.30. 

Dixon, Samuel. Jr.. Xenia, 1830. 

Dillon. John, Ross, 1830. 

Dorsey, Luke T., Sugar Creek, 1812; born in 1780; 
died in 1849; buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bell- 
brook, Ohio; soldier of 1812. 

Dorsey, John. Xenia, 1816. 

Dorsey. Aquilla. Silver Creek. 1824; from Mary- 
land; soldier of 1812; born December 5, 1789; 
died July 13, 1887, aged ninety-seven. 

Dobbins, Rev. Roliert. Ross, 1819; represented 
(Ireene county in Legislature in 1826-7. 

Dobbins. Wtilliam. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Dowcll. John. Caesar's Creek. 1826. 

Dowcll. George. Caesar's Creek. 1840; died in Caes- 
ar's Creek township in 1857. 

Dowell. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1840; brother of 
George; November 2, 1841, married Lucy Ann 
Conklin. 

Dowell, Ann, Caesar's Creek, 1840; died December 
26, 1868, aged seventy-one ; buried at X'ew Burl- 
ington, Ohio. 

Dowell, lohn, Xenia, 1840. 

Dowell. Casper. Xenia, 1840. 

Donavant. Riley. Caesar's Creek, 1840 ; buried at 
Mt. Holly. Ohio. 

Dolby. Joel. Sr.. Ross. 1804; from Virginia; Prot- 
estant Methodist preacher ; one of the first set- 
tlers of Ross township. 

Dolby. Joel, Jr.. Ross. 1804; .Vugust 8. 1834. mar- 
ried Nancy Curry. 

Dolby. Nathan. Ross. 1840; born October 3, 1815; 
died October i, 1845. 

Dolby, Jacob, Ross, 18.10. 

Dolby. Jesse, Silver Creek. 1840; wife, Elizabeth. 

Downey, Andrew. Silver Creek, 1809; son of John; 
died in 1826; Chandler Tuttles, administrator. 

Downey. William. Silver Creek. 1819; died .August 
22, 1877, aged si.xty-nine ; buried in Woodland. 

Downey, Elijah, Silver Creek, 1827; October S, 
1820. married Elizabeth Best. 

Downey, James, Xenia. 1840: son of John: .\ugust 
II. 1836. married Elizabeth Ferguson. 

Downey. William. Silver Creek. 1803; son of John; 
February 16. 1832. married Elizabeth Fletcher. 

Downey. John. Silver Creek. 1803 ; his will was re- 
corded in 1820, in B?th township. 

Downey, Andrew. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1816; died in 
1847. aged forty-nine ; January 2, 1814 married 
Elizabeth Wyland. 

Downey, Levi, Silver Creek, 1840; died in 1858. 

Downey, James, Bath 1806 ■ soldier of 1812; died 
in 1847; buried in Lhiion graveyard, near Byron, 
Ohio ; sons, Jeremiah and Levi. 



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Downey. Samuel, Bath, 1807: February 5. 1834, mar- 
ried Jane Silvey. 

Downey. Jacob. Bath. 181 1: born in 1808. died in 
1893 ; buried in Bath graveyard, west of Mad 
River. 

Dooley, Michael. Xenia, 1829; died in Xenia town- 
ship in 1838. 

Dooley, Wesley. Silver Creek, 1829. 

Donaldson, Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1828 ; died 
March 19. 1831, aged sixty-nine; buried in Zoar 
churchyard. 

Donaldson. James M.. Xenia. 1840: March 18, 1841, 
married Eliza J. Thornas; half brother of Mrs. 
Noland ; died May 12, 1874. aged sixty-five; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Douglass. J. C, Xenia. 1833; editor of "Xenia 
Atheneum." paper published in Xenia in 1833. 

Downs, Cornelius H., Xenia. 1840 ; from New York ; 
died July 2ji,. 1849. aged forty-eight ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Drury. Jonas, Beaver Creek, 1830; died December, 

1877. aged severtty- seven ; buried in Beaver Creek 
cemetery. 

Donnelly. John. Xenia. 1807. 

Donnelly, William. Xenia. 1816. 

Douglass. James C. Xenia. 1833 : published "Xenia 

Transcript ;" Thomas Coke Wright, editor. 
Douglass. John. Beaver Creek, 1807. 
Douglass. David, Xenia. 1810; a carpenter; soldier 

of 1812; removed to Logansport, Indiana. 
Douglass, Andrew, Ross, 1812; soldier of 1812, 

under Samuel Herod. 
Downs. Washington, Xenia. 1840: died March 2, 

1878. aged seventy-six. buried in Woodland; mar- 
ried Susanna Haverstick. March. 1836. 

Dodd. John. Xenia. 1819: the first proprietor of what 
is now the "Florence Hotel ;" died July 7, 1844, 
aged fifty-two. 

Dodd. Timothy. Xenia, 1830; from Ireland; died 
June 30. 1864. aged eighty-one. buried in Wood- 
land. 

Dodd. John. Xenia, 1840: "Honest John, the Gro- 
ccryman." son of Timothy; born in 1810, died 
in 1887. aged seventy-seven, buried in Woodland. 

Dodd. Samuel. Xenia, 1813 ; soldier Company D, 
Seventy-fourth O. V. I. ; born in 1820, died in 
1886. buried at Beavertown. 

Donalds. William. Bath. 1813. 

Doggett. Daniel, Bath. 1828. 

Doggett. Reuben E.. Bath, 1840. 

Dowler. Jerry, Ross, 1829; built the second saw-mill 
in Ross township on the Gordon faru'. 

Dowler, Francis, Ros^;, 1830. 

Drummond. George. Sr.. Bath. 1807; soldier of 1S12. 
under Capt. McCullough. buried in Knob 
churchyard. Clark county. 

Drummond. William. Bath. 1817: eldest son of 
George : buried at Enon. Clark county, Ohio. 

Drumiuond, James. Bath. 1817; second son of 
George: removed to "Clay county, Illinois; mar- 
ried Jane Beath. 

Drummond, Samuel. Bath. 1826; fourth son of 
George; father of William T.. of Yellow Springs, 
buried at Enon. 

Drummond. John. Bath. 1828; third son of George; 
buried at Enon. Ohio. 



Druzan, Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Drain, .Andrew, Xenia. 1827. 

Drake, Leonard. Xenia, 1840; died in 1867. aged 
ninety, buried east of Grape Grove Ohio. 

Drake. Elias F.. Xenia, 1840; buried in Woodland; 
September 15. 1841. married Frances Mary Gal- 
loway. 

Drake. Dr. I. S.. Xenia. 1840; buried in Woodland. 

Drake, Dr. H. E.. Xenia, 1840; died January 17, 
1873, aged thirty-five. 

Driscal. Elgin, Xenia. 1807; soldier of 1812. under 
Captain Herod. 

Driscal, Ephraim, Xenia. 1820; January 3. 1S22. mar- 
ried Mary Hughs. 

Drees, Tobias, Xenia. 1842; from Bremen. Clermany ; 
died at his home in Xenia, April ig. i88q. 

Driscal. John, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; son-in-law of 
John Downey. 

Dinwiddle, Samuel. Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Dinwiddle. John. Sugar Creek. 1806; died .-Xpril 16. 
1829. aged forty-nine, buried one mile south of 
Bellbrook, Ohio; married Jane Gowdy. 

Dinwiddle, Ruth, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Dinwiddle. John R.. Sugar Creek, 1840; died in 
Sugar Creek township in 1861. 

Dinwiddle, James. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Dinwiddle. Peter. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Dunham, Lewis, Sugar Creek, 1827. 

Dunham, Jonas, Sugar Creek, 1828 ; father of Mrs. 
Isaac Kritz ; died in 1870, buried in Bellbrook 
cemetery. 

Dunham, James, Sugar Creek, 183a ; removed to 
Iowa. 

Ducker, William. Sugar Creek. 1829. 

Dunlap, James. Sugar Creek. 1813; soldier of 1812 
tuider Captain Zach. Ferguson. 

Dunlap. Robert. Sugar Creek. 1826; died January 
29, 1856. aged seventy-one. buried in Woodland. 

Dunlap. Ephraim. Xenia, 1829. 

Dunlap. Nelson. Xenia. 1840; from County Antrim. 
Ireland ; died January 20. 1856, aged seventy-one. 
buried in Woodland. 

Dunlap. James. Xenia. 1840; died April 7, 1S97. 
aged twenty-five, buried in Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Duck. John. Sugar Creek. 1821 ; died .August 5, 
1853. aged seventy-six, buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Duck. Jacob. Sr., Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Duck. Jacob, Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Duck. John. Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1840: died .\pril 27. 
1897. aged eighty-five. 

Dunn. William. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Dunn. Mark. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Dunn. Mark K.. Sugar Creek. 1840; November 20, 
18.^8. married Mary Parker. 

Dunn, Thoma'=. Sugar Creek. 1840; March 19. 1829, 
married He-ter Beason. 

Dunn. John. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Dunn. Thomas J.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Dunn. Seth. Sugar Creek. 1840; died at Oldtown. 
July 8, 1856. aged sixty-five, buried in Wood- 
land. 

Dunn. William. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Dunn C. Sugar Creek. 1840: son of Simeon Dunn. 

Dunn. Elnathan, Sugar Creek, 1840; died at Fair- 
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Dunn, Dr. Dennis, Bath, 1807. 

Dunn. Simon. Bath. 181 1: from Trenton. New Jer- 
,sey : soldier of 1812; died by hanging. May 18, 

1848. aged sixty-three, buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 
Dunn, John. Bath. 1810; died in Bath township in 

1811. 

Dunn. Dr. Thomas. Miami, 1840. 

Dunn, Isaac, Ross, 1840. 

Dunn, Reuben, Bath, 1809; son of Simeon: died 
April 2, 1824, aged seventy-four, buried in Cost 
graveyard. 

Dunn, Reynolds, Bath, 1819; tavern-keeper in Fair- 
field in 1820. 

Duncan, Thomas, 1838; July 17, 1839, married Sarah 
McSherry. 

Duncan, Jesse, Xenia, 1806. 

Duncan, Adam, 1840: August i,?. 1840, married- Mar- 
garet Earnest. 

Duncan, Colonel John. Xenia, 1817: died August 15. 

1849, aged sixty-five, buried in Woodland. 
Duncan. George, Xenia, 1840, 

Duncan, Josiah. Xenia, 18.10 ; buried on the John 

Casad farm, Beaver Cree!<. 
Duncan, Aaron, Beaver Creek, 1840; died February 

9, 1878, aged sixty-nine, buried in Beaver Creek 

churchyard ; married Rebecca Chalmers. 
Dunkcr, Andrew. Xenia. 1840. 
Duke. Michael. Xenia, 1829: buried in old Methodist 

graveyard. East Third Street. Xenia. 
Duke. Eli, Xenia, 1840' son of Michael; born Janu- 
ary 16, 1816, died November 17. 1865, buried in 

Woodland. 
Duke. Harlin, Xenia, 1840; son of Michael: buried 

in Woodland. 
Durran. John, Beaver Creek, 181 r. 
Duffy, Rachel, Miami, 1809. 
Dull. John, Miami, 1817: removed to Indiana. 
Dudley, Nathan, Ross, 1829 : December 29, 1839, 

married Mahala Rose. 
Dunderdale. X'athaniel. Xenia, 1840: from Leeds, 

England: died March 17, 1862, aged sixty, buried 

in Woodland. 
Donald, John E.. Xenia, 1820; died in Xenia in 

1835 ; sons, John, Jacob, Thomas and George. 

Ennis, John, Sugar Creek, 1803: from Pennsylvania: 
died in Sugar Creek township in 1820. 

Ennis. Thompson, Sugar Creek, 1803: soldier of 
1812, under Cantain Jacob Fudge, of Warren 
county, Ohio : died in 1832. 

Ennis. Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1803: * >n of Thomp- 
son, Sr. : February 7, 1809, married Polly Dun- 
widdie. 

Ennis. Jeremiah. Sugar Creek, 1803: soldier of 1812: 
married Elizabeth Flowers. March 25, 1825. 

Ennis, Margaret, Sugar Creek. 1804. 

Ennis. Jesse. Sugar Creek, 1S08: March 31. 183.1. 
married Isabella Mosicr. 

Ennis, Lemuel, Sugar Creek, i8ig: died May 30, 
1890, aged sixty-eight, buried at Spring Valley, 
Ohio: married Elizabeth Elanson in 1818. 

Ennis, Vincent, Sugar Creek, 1828 : son of Thomp- 
son. 

Ennis, James, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Ennis, George, Sugar Creek. 1840 : November 12, 



1837; married Sarah A. Bates. 

Ennis, Mitchell, J.. Sugar Creek. 1834: born April 
30. 1818. died September 11, 1887, aged sixty- 
eight, buried at Spring V^alley, Ohio. 

Ennis. John M., Sugar Creek, 1810: died October 
2=;, 1866, aged sixtv, buried at Spring Valley, 
Ohio. 

Engle. Isaac. Beaver Creek, 1813 : from Maryland; 
soldier of 1812 ; born in 1773, died September 26, 
1864, aged eighty-one, buried at Mt. Zion. 

Engle. John, Beaver Creek, 1840: son of Isaac: .sol- 
dier of 1812: buried at Mt. Zion; April 20, 1826, 
married Susanna Hivling. 

Engle. Peter, Beaver Creek 1840; born in 1801, 
died October 6, 1880, aged seventy-nine, buried 
in Aley churchyard. 

Engle, Bayles, Miami, 1840. 

Engle. Joshua. Sr., Miami, 1840. 

Engle. Joshua, Jr., Miami, 1840. 

Engle, Nathan, Miami, 1840. 

Engle. Jeremiah. Xenia. 1840: died July 30. 1S80. aged 
si.\ty-four. buried in Woodlan<I : cooper by trade. 

Engle. John, Beaver Creek, 1835 ; born Beaver Creek 
township in 1812. 

Entzminger. Andrew, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Entaminger, Philip, Caesar's Creek, 1818. 

Enlow, Abraham, Bath, 1807. 

Enlow. Jonathan. Xenia, 1806. 

English. Stacey. Bath. 1840. 

English, Abel B., 1820; Bath; August 15, i8ig, 
married Mary Bates. 

Earnest, John, Beaver Creek, 1811: died March 31, 
1876, aged ninety, buried in Beaver Creek cem- 
etery. 

Eaglesby, John A., Xenia, 1824. 

Easter. Joel R.. Miami, 1840. 

Eagleston. Joseph. 1826; April i, T827, married 
Sarah Moore. 

Eagleston. John A.. Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Enoch, Thomas. Ross. 1835; December i, 1836, mar- 
ried Eliza .-Xnn Ross. 

Eckman. David. Beaver Creek. 1820: died January 
10. 1844, aged fifty, buried in Hawker's church- 
yard. 

Eckman, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1820: died July 6. 
1852, aged fifty-seven, buried in Aley churchyard. 

Eckman. Jacob. Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1820 : died in 
Beaver Creek townslnp in 1831 : May 18, 1823, 
married Polly Kershner. 

Eckman, Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1826: died June, 
1857, aged fifty-seven, buried in Hawker's church- 
yard ; married Anna Fryparger. 

Eckman. Henry. Beaver Creek. 1826: September 18, 
1832, married Mary Bates. 

Eckman, John, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Echos, David, Xenia, 1840. 

Edgar, William, 1817: August 27, 1817, married Re- 
becca Travis. 

Edwards, Mills, Xenia, 1811 : cabinet maker on West 
Main St. in the long ago ; inventor of verticle 
.springs. 

Edwards, Emanuel. Xenia. 1819: December 24, 1818, 
married Sarah Lowe. 

Edwards, Jantes. Xenia, 1816. 

Edwards. John. Xenia. 1819. 



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Edwards. William. Sugar Creek. 1819; from South 
Carolina: born May 7. 1788: in 1826. kept tavern 
at Bellbrook. the sign, cross keys. 

Edwards. Samuel. Bath, 1S21 ; in 1832 removed to 
Fayette county, Ohio ; in 1807 married Priscilla 
Jackson. 

Edwards. Samuel, Jr.. Bath, 1827. 

Edwards. Henry, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Edwards. Elias \V., 18.55: December 22, 1836, mar- 
ried Maria Derrshire. 

Edge. William. Xenia. 1S06; soldier of 1812: buried 
on the old John G. Brewer farm. 

Edge, George D.. Xenia. 1807 : died in Miami town- 
ship in 1814: April 7. 1833. married Sophia Wood- 
ward. 

Edge. William D.. Xenia. 1808. 

Edge. Obediah. 1830: December 10, 1831. married 
Margaret Hardman. 

Edsel. John H.. Xenia, 1827: died .-Xpril 25, 1885, 
aged seventy : buried in Woodland : .April 6, 1826, 
married .Almira Rice. 

Eddy, Rev. .\ugustus. Xenia. 1828 : pastor in charge 
of first M. E. church at this time. 

Elam. Josiali. Sugar Creek, 180:: • soldier of the Rev- 
olution : died February 28, 1821, aged si.xty-nine ; 
buried on his farm. 

Elam, John. Sugar Creek. 1812: son of Josiah ; sol- 
dier of t8i2: removed to Indiana. 

Elarn, Isaac B.. Sugar Creek, 1827 : son of Josiah : 
died September 28. 1864. aged fifty-eight : buried 
in Woodland: married Mary McKnight. 

Elam, James. Sugar Creek, 1826: son of Josiah; 
February 20. 1827. married Mary Dimn. 

Elam. Sarah. Sugar Creek. 18.50: wife of Josiah. 

Elam, Ambrose. Sugar Creek. 1S35: son of Josiah; 
died July 14, 1878: buried in Woodland: married 
Susan R. Babb. 

Elam. John B.. Sugar Creek. 1840: son of .-Xmbrose; 
removed to Indianapolis. 

Elexson. Matthew. Sugar Creek, 1827. 

Elexson. William. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

Ellis. Morris. Sugar Creek, 1829: died March 5. 
1836. 

Ellis, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1804; son of John: died 
March 31. 1836. 

Ellis. Reese. Sugar Creek. 1807. 

Ellis. William. Caesar's Creek, 1808. 

Ellis, Abraham, Caesar's Creek, 1807: died No- 
vember 17, 1866, aged seventy-six : buried in 
Salem graveyard, south of Paintersville. 

Ellis. Henry, Caesar's Creek 1803: died at the 
home of his son-in-law, William H. Reed. Moult- 
rie county, Illinois, October 25, 1851, aged sev- 
enty-five. 

Ellis, lacob, Caesar's Creek, 1820: soldier of 1812: 
died in 1846. aged fifty-nine ; buried in X'ew 
Burlington cemetery. 

Ellis. Joel. Caesar's Creek. 18.50: died in Caesar's 
Creek township in 1865. 

Ellis. William .\.. Caesar's Creek, 1840: October 24, 
1833, married Elizabeth A. Boots. 

Ellis. James. Caesar's Creek. 1840 ■ died at Bow- 
ersville. Ohio, June 6, 1880; buried in Bowers- 
ville cemetery. 

Ellis. .Adam S.. Caesar's Creek. 1807: born in 1817; 
died in 1898; buried in Bowersville cemetery. 



Ellis. William H.. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Ellis. John. Xenia. 1803 : from X'irginia : died Oc- 
tober 23. 1878. aged eighty-one: buried in Friends 
graveyard. Oldtown, Ohio. 

Ellis. William J., Xenia, 1828. 

Ellis, William, Xenia, 1840. 

Ellis. Samuel. Xenia. 1813: died December ir. 1880, 
aged eighty : buried in Salem graveyard ; mar- 
ried Elizabeth Oglesbee in 1833. 

Ellis. Elijah, Xenia. 1826: son of John and Tamer; 
died June 20. 1859. aged seventy-eight; buried at 
Oldtown. Ohio. 

Ellis. Christopher. Silver Creek. 1826; son of John: 
died January 14. 1836. aged seventy-five: buried 
in Salem graveyard. 

Ellis. James. Silver Creek. 1829: died July 26. 1865. 
aged fifty-five: buried at Yellow Springs: married 
Malinda Stoupe. 

Ellis, Isaac, Sr., Silver Creek, 18.50: died February 
4, 1848; buried in Hussey graveyard, Bowersville, 
Ohio; married .\manda .\ldridge. 

Ellis, Jacob. Silver Creek. 1830 ; October 2. 1828, 
married Sarah Sutton. 

Ellis. .Abraham. Silver Creek. 1830. 

Ellis, SaiTiuel, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Ellis. Isaac. Jr., Silver Creek. 1830: died March 18. 
1885. 'aged seventy-three: married Elizabeth 
Vanerman in 1827. 

Ellis. .Aaron .A., Silver Creek, 1840; died March 19. 
1885, aged seventy-two ; buried at Port Will- 
iam, Clinton county. Ohio. 

Ellis. John. Silver Creek. 1810: died March 3. 1836. 
aged seventy-three ; October 9, 1823, married Re- 
becca Richardson. 

Ellison. Jacob. Ross, 1840. 

Ellison, William, Silver Creek, 1826. 

Ellison. .Arthur, Xenia. 1840: July 7. 1838. married 
Drucella Hite. 

Elliott. Jane. Sugar Creek. 1827; died in 1886. aged 
eighty-three; buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 

Elliott. Daniel, .Xenia. 1826. 

Elliott. James, Sugar Creek, 1827 ; from Greene 
county, Pennsylvania ; born May 4, 1803 ; son of 
Peter Elliott. 

Elliott, Samuel, Xenia, 1828; May 26, 1825, married 
Nancy Bay. 

Elliott, Ebenezer, 1824. 

Elliott. Barclay. Miatni. 1840: died .July 28, 1874. 
aged si.xty-six ; buried at Clifton. Ohio. 

Ellcook. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1831 ; from York 
county. Pennsylvania: died February 7. 1886: 
buried in Bellbrook cemetery, aged seventy-eight. 

Ellsberry. William. Esq.. Xenia. 1818; died March 
22, 1863, aged eighty-two; buried in Woodland. 

Ellsberry. John, Xenia. 1820. 

Ellsberry, Benjamin. Xenia. 1840: attorney-at-law in 
Xenia in 1840 : died .August 10, 1843 : buried at 
Bethel, Clermont county. Ohio : married Harriet 
Newcome in 1842. 

Ellkin. Robert. Xenia. 1811 ; soldier of 1812; De- 
cember 5, 1813, married Elizabeth Constant. 

Ellkin, Wm. F.. Xenia. 1816; soldier of 1812; cashier 
of first hank in Xenia. which was in 1818. 

EUkins. Garrett. Xenia. 1819; soldier of 1812. 

Ellsworth. Rev. J. I.. Xenia, 1840: died in .Spring- 
field in 1871. 



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Ellsworth. David, Beaver Creek. 1840; .\pril 17. 
1817. married Sarah Hardmaii. 

Ellwell. Joel. Bath. 1821. 

ElKvcli. Timothy H.. 1840; -April 2. 1840. married 
Catharine McCormack. 

Ellwell. Isaac. Miami. 1817. 

Elmore, Providence. 1817; Novcinber 6. 1817. mar- 
ried Lydia Sandshcrry. 

Everhart. B., Bath. 1840. 

Emery. John. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

Emery, James, Ross, 1828. 

Emliree. Elijah. Xenia, 1807 : soldier of 1812; son 
of Thomas. 

Emhrce. Thomas. Xenia. 1S07 : from East Tennes- 
see ; married Esther Colston; father-in-law of 
Win. Thorn. Sr. : died in 1833 ; burie<l in church- 
yard at Selma. Ohio. 

Eml)rce, Fredrick, Xenia, 182 1. 

Epard. Samuel, Bath. 1840. 

Emniit, William. Bath, 1807. 

Erow, Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1820: April 2, 1835, 
married Elizalieth Suadener. 

Erow. Joseph. Jr., Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Erexson. Morris, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Estell. William. Miami. 1818. 

Esley. William. Bath. 1821. 

Espy. Eawrance. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Espy. James P.. Xenia. 1816; soldier of 1812. 

Espy. Josiah. Ross. 1828: soldier of 1812; died 
September Z2. 1843, aged fifty-three ; buried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery (Stevenson's'). 

Espy. Thomas P.. Ross. 1840; June 10. 1840, mar- 
ried Sarah E. Knox. 

Espy. James. Ross. 1840. 

Espy. James M.. Ross. 1840 ; died September 12, 
i860, aged fortv-three ; buried in Caesar's 
Creek cemetery, west of Jamestown, Ohio. 

Evans, Robert. Sugar Creek. 1830; from South 
Carolina: liorn November 9. 1797; died No- 
vember q. 1868. aged seventy-one: buried in 
Woodland. 

Evan.s, Robert, Sugar Creek. 1840: son of Moses; 
died in i86g ; buried in Woodland. 

Evans. Moses. 1840; died October 21, 1868, aged 
fortv-seven ; March 24, 1842, married Sarah Hus- 
ton ; buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Evans, Thomas, Rath. 1820; son of Moses. 

Evans. George. Silver Creek. 1816: buried in Moor- 
man graveyard. Jamestown. 

Evans. Wilson. Col.. 1832; December 25. 1834. mar- 
ried Lucy Pearson. 

Evans, William L., Silver Creek, 1840; Marcli 19, 
1835, married Dolly Glass. 

Evans. Wesley. 1836 ; August 10, 1837. married 
Dosha Johnson. 

Evans, Isaac B.. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Everhart. B., Bath. 

Everhart. Henry. Sugar Creek, 1840: born in 1811 ; 
died in 1831 ; buried at Mt. Holly. 

Eversole, Peter, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; October 29, 
1S39, married Sarah Gatrell. 

Eyman. George. Caesar's Creek. 1827 : from Hardy 
county. Virginia: removed to Delaware county. 
Indiana; died April 7. 1841 ; buried at Albany. 
Indiana. 

Eyler. Benjamin. Xenia. 1812; from Frederick coun- 



ty. Maryland; soldier of 1812; died July 26. 1872, 
aged ninety-two; buried in Woodland. 

Eyler. Samuel. Xenia. 1818: from Frederick county, 
Maryland: soldier of 1812; died August 15, 1840, 
aged fifty-three; buried in Woodland. 

Eyler. Jonas. Xenia. 1830; died in Xenia February, 
1846; buried in Woodland: February 7, 1833, 
married Lydia Haverstick. 

Eyler, Brutus, Xenia, 1830; died in Xenia in 1849; 
November 21, 1S33, married Mary Wolf. 

Eyler. Abraham, Xenia, 1840 ; removed to Cali- 
fornia. 

Eyler. John F.. Xenia, 1840; died June 5, 1894, aged 
seventy-six; buried in Woodland. 

Ewing, Joseph, Su^ar Creek, 1820. 

Ewing. Samuel, Xenia. 1811 • from Virginia; came 
to Xenia in 1808: father of Grandmother Towel!, 
of Ross township. 

Ewing. Jacob, Xenia, 1820. 

Ewing. John. Xenia, 1816; from York county, Penn- 
sylvania; born June 6, 1800; died April 8, 1893; 
aged ninety-three; buried in Woodland: Decem- 
ber 12, 1833. married Prudence Roberts. 

Ewing, Enos, Xenia, 1828. 

Ewing, James. Xenia. 1828; from South Carolina; 
a cabinetmaker; owned the first turning lathe in 
Xenia; died October 15. 1836. aged tlnirty-two; 
buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. Cedarville. 

Ervin. David. Ross, 1840: died in 1855, aged forty- 
one ; buried in Bethel graveyard, near Grape 
Grove. Ohio. 

Eavey, John S., Xenia. 1842; from Boonsborough, 
Maryland; son of Jacob, born January 14. 1814; 
died September 30. 1879, aged sixty-five ; buried 
in Woodland. 

Emmens. William. Xenia. 1840; from Pennsylvania; 
died at the Infirmary December 9. 1850. aged 
si.xty-two. 

Farley, Daniel, Xenia, 1840: born in 1827: died in 
1882; buried at Bowersville. 

Fallace. Isaac. Sugar Creek. 1813; from Shenan- 
doah Valley, Virginia, to Kentucky; thence to 
Ohio; soldier of 1812: died March 9, 1858, aged 
seventy-nine; buried at Bellbrook. 

Fallace. Williatn. Sugar Creek. 1820: September 20, 
1822, married Margaret Babb. 

Fallace. Jacob. Sugar Creek. 1820: .April 13. 1826, 
married Deborah Lenard. 

Fallace. Isaac. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1829: .August 4, 
1820. married Nancy Vaughn. 

Fallace. Jonathan. Miami. 18 -o: in the 'forties was 
the owner of a mil! near Clifton, Ohio. 

Fallace, Elkin, Miami, 1840. 

Fallace. Jacob. Ross. 1813. 

Fauber. Abraham, Beaver Creek, 1818; died May 
27, 1870. aged seventy-eight ; buried in Beaver 
Creek cemetery. 

Fauber. David. Beaver Creek. \Sjo. 

Fauber. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1830. 

Faulkner. Robert, Caesar's Creek, 1806 ; from Vir- 
ginia : his wife was Judith; April 3, 1816, mar- 
ried Phebe Scott. 

Faulkner. David. Sr., Caesar's Creek, 1807: soldier 
of 1812; died June, 1853, aged sixty-three; buried 
at New Hope cemetery. 



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Faulkner, Jesse, Caesar's Creek. 1807: a brother of 

Uavid : died in 1839. 
Faulkner. Levi. Caesar's Creek, 1838 : July 2, 1839, 

married Mary Forbes. 
Faulkner. Thomas, Sr.. Caesar's Creek. 1807: brother 

of David, Sr. ; soldier of 1S12 : died April 18. 

1871 : buried at New Hope cemetery. 
Faulkner. Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1813. 
Faulkner. William. Caesar's Creek. 1811; son of 

Jesse: sexton of first M. E. church, Xenia. in 

the year 1818. 
Faulkner, Thomas, Caesar's Creek, 1813 ; died in 

1823. 
Faulkner, David, Jr., Caesar's Creek. 1813: son of 

David: August 2. 1830, married Eliza Engle. 
Faulkner, Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1820: son of Da- 
vid, Sr. 
Faulkner, Solomon, Caesar's Creek, 1820; .son of 

David : daughters of David. Sr,, were Rachel, 

Martha. Phebe. Mary and Judith. 
Faulkner. Elizabeth, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 
Faulkner, Jonatlian. Caesar's Creek, 1840; his wife 

was Eliza; he was buried in Mercer graveyard, 

January 11. 1S74, aged sixty-six. 
Faulkner, John, Caesar's Creek. 1840; December 31, 

1835, married Mary Ann Powers. 
Faulkner, Joel, Caesar's Creek, 1840; born April 

13, 1816; died March 10, 1872: buried in New 

Hope churchyard. 
Fawcett, John, Caesar's Creek. 1840 : died March i, 

1859. aged fifty-eight ; buried in New Hope 

churchyard; August 15. 1842, married Lucy Hyde. 
Fawcett Joshua. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 
Fawcett. Robert. Caesar's Creek. 1840; died July 

I. 1874. a.ged eighty-one; buried in New Hope 

churchyard. 
Fawcett, Mahlon, Caesar's Creek, 1840: died January 
. 16, 1853, aged twenty-seven ; buried in New Hope 

churchyard. 
Farquer, Allen. Bath. 1807. 
Farquer. William. Bath, 1807. 
Farquer. LIriah, Bath, 1816. 

Farquer. John. Xenia, 1817: died in Xenia in 1865. 
Farquer, Thomas, Xenia. 1817. 
Farquer. Janah. Bath, 1817. 
Fagan. William. Xenia. 1818: died in Champaign 

county. Illinois. August 17. 1868. aged eighty ; 

native of Frederick county. Maryland. 
Fagan. Benjamin. Xenia. 1820; removed to Cham- 
paign county. Illinois. 
Fagan, John, Xenia, 1840; a saddler; died at Wat- 

seka, Illinois, February. 1900. 
Farber, Ephraim, Xenia, 1840; buried in Woodland: 

April 26, i8jo, married Eliza E. Hatch. 
Farber. Ben.ianiin, Xenia. 1828. 
Fairchild. Wm. B.. Xenia, 1840; ex-editor of "Xenia 

Torchli.ght" ; .\Dril 15, 1841, married Elizabeth 

P, Williams. 
Frakes. Robert. Beaver Creek. 1803; May 2. 1805. 

married Margaret Orr. 
Frakes, John, Bath, 1804. 
Frakes, Nathan, Bath, 1816; soldier of 1812; kept 

tavern in Fairfield in 1815; married Susanna 

Rush .-Xugust 12, 1817. 
Fair, Jacob. Beaver Creek, 1807; soldier of 1812. 



Fair. Thomas. Ross, 1819: May 16, 1814. married 
Elizabeth Moreland. 

Favorite, George, Bath. 1840; died in 1842, aged 
sixty-seven ; buried in Bath churchyard. 

Fannon, John, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Farmer. Nelson, Silver Creek. 1840; murdered his 
father-in-law. John Stinson, April. 1849; (files 
of ■■Torchlight" March, 1849.) 

Farmer. Upton. Ross, 1813; died in Ross township 
in 1831 : his wife was Elizabeth. 

Farmer. William, Ross, 1813; died February 12, 1871, 
aged eighty. 

Farmer. S;ngfeton. Ross. 1819; first miller in Silver 
Creek township. 

Farmer. Loyd. Beaver Creek. 1826: March 6. 1825, 
married Elizabeth Barnes. 

Farmer. Isaac. Ross. 1828; son of Upton and Eliz- 
abeth. 

Farmer. Irvin. Ross, 1840: son of L'pton and Eliza- 
beth. 

Farmer, .^rmstreth. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Flatter. Ludwig, Miami. i8i8: soldier of 1812; bur- 
ied in Union graveyard, near Byron. 

Flatter. Jacob. Miami. 1820. 

Flatter, Henry, Miami, 1830; born in 1811 : died 
July 25. 1879; buried at Pleasant Grove, near 
Byron. Ohio. 

Farnsworth. Oliver, Miami, 1829. 

Fay. Fredrick. Ross, i8i)0. 

Flack, Robert, Bath, 1807. 

Ferguson, David, Caesar's Creek, 180S. 

Ferguson. Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1832 ; from Vir- 
ginia : his wife was Mildred; born June 7, 1776; 
died March 3, 1841, aged sixty-four; buried at 
Maple Corner. 

Ferguson. Edward. Caesar's Creek, 1840 : son of 
Samuel: died April 19. 1881. aged eighty-six; 
buried at Maple Corner; married .Ann Medsker 
in 1835. 

Ferguson, .\lfred K.. Caesar's Creek. 1840; son of 
Samuel ; April 24, 1834. married Sidney Peterson. 

Ferguson, Robert, Xenia. 1840 ; son of Samuel ; born 
in 1819; died in 1883; buried at Spring Valley 
cemetery. 

Ferguson. Mitchell. Xenia. 1826. 

Ferguson, James M., Xenia, 1840. 

Ferguson, Henry. Xenia, 1840 ; died in Xenia Oc- 
tober 3, 1831. 

Ferguson, Levi. Xenia, 1840; son of Clark: died 
February 12. 1S86; buried in. Friend's churchyard, 
Oldtown. 

Ferguson, Benjamin, Silver Creek, 1830. 

Ferguson, Chas., Xenia, 1835 ; son of Clark ; born 
May 25. 1814: died September 7. 187 1 ; buried 
in Friends chrrchvard. Oldtown. 

Ferguson, (i. D., Xenia. 1S40: March ig. 1833. mar- 
ried Julia Boss. 

Ferguson. Zach.. Beaver Creek. 1803; captain in 
war of 1812 of a company raised in Beaver Creek 
township. 

Ferguson. Elijah. Xenia, 1811: soldier of 1812; De- 
cember 13, 1804, married Mary Price. 

Ferguson. Elijah. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Ferguson. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1S05. 

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Ferguson, Francis. Beaver Creek, 1812; died \(i- 
vember 3, 1864, aged seventy-eight. 

Ferguson, Clark, Beaver Creek, 1830: father of 
Aaron, tlic drayman; buried at Oldtown, Ohio. 

Ferguson. -Alexander. Miami. 1840. 

Ferguson. William. Miami. 1840; from South Caro- 
lina: died August 1. 1884. aged seventy-seven; 
buried :n Woodland. 

Ferguson, Thomas, Miami, 1840; died February 21, 
1876. aged seventy; buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Ferguson. John M.. Miami. 1840; from North Caro- 
lina; died February 6. 1881. aged seventy; buried 
in Woodland. 

Ferguson. John, Ross, 1813; died in Beaver Creek 
township in 1861. 

Ferguson, William, Ross, 1813; October J2, 1839, 
married \ancy Lackey. 

Ferguson. Robert, Ross, 1820. 

Ferguson. Anderson, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Fenton. James. Xenia, 1840: from Scotland; lived 
on the Rcid farm, one mile south of Xenia ; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Fesscnrider. Benjamin. Silver Creek, 1830; lived in 
Jamestown. Ohio. 

Fcllars. Lindsey. Miami, 18.^0. 

Fell, Cornalius M., Ross, 1827. 

Fetty, Vincent, Silver Creek, i8,'.o. 

Fcland. Fredrick, Bath. 1826. 

Fisher, Jonathan, Sugar Creek, 1806; soldier of 1812; 
born in Guilford county. North Carolina, July 
'3. 1776; died April 3, 1837: buried at Mt. llollv, 
Ohio. 

Fisher, .'Mfred, Sugar Creek, i8.?o; .August 31. 1824. 
married Elizabeth Campbell. 

Fisher. .\mos. Sugar Creek. 1850; son of Elnathan : 
buried at Mt. Holly. 

Fisher. Ithiniar. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Fisher, Samuel. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Fisher, Leonard. Beaver Creek. 1840: buried in Mit- 
man graveyard, Fairfield, Ohio; March 10, 1833, 
married Maria Miller. 

Fisher. George W.. Bath, 1840; born August 6. 1788; 
died June 4, 1873, 

Fisher, William. Bath. 1840; removed to Liberal. 
Kansas, in 1889; son of Jonathan. 

Fislier, Ebenezer, Bath, 1809. 

Fisher. Thomas, Miami, 1828. 

Fisher, Peter, Xenia, 1826; tailor by trade; shop 
was on Main street, opposite James Gowdy's 
store, in 1826. 

Fitzgerald, James. Sugar Creek, 1817. 

Fitzgerald. John. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Fitz, Philip, Sugar Creek, 1818; d-ed in 1826. 

Fitz, Christian, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Fitz, Michael, Xenia, i8.;o. 
ried lonanna Dunn. 

Fitz, Nicholas, Xenia, 1840. 

Fifthen. William, Bath, 1840; August 28, 1828. mar- 
married Joanna Dunn. 

Fifthen. Israel. Sugar Creek. 1818; November 29, 
1832. married Hannah Coons. 

Fifthen. Samuel, Miami, 1828. 

Fifer. John. Xenia. 1811 ; from Virginia; father of 
Davis: died December 12. 1818, aged twenty- 
seven ; buried on 'the Allen farm. 



Fifer. Joseph. Xenia, 1820; December 2^^. 1819, mar- 
ried Charity Christfield. 

Fifer, Deborah. Xenia. 1820; July 26. 1820. married 

William H. Lenard, of Sugar Creek township. 

Fifer, Davis, Xenia, 1838; from Virginia; died Sep- 
tember 26, 1885, aged seventy ; buried in Wood- 
land ; December 31, 1840, married Mary Jane 
Jones. 

Fifer. John. Sugar Creek, i8ig. 

Fields. John. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Fields, Thomas, Xenia, 1816: November i, 1818, 
married Jane Morgan. 

Fields, William R., Beaver Creek, 1819: died April 
12, 1887, aged ninety; l)uried in Woodland; Sep- 
tember 28, 1826, married Elizabeth Rader, 

Fields, John, Beaver Creek, 1830; removed to Darke 
county, Ohio. 

Fields, -Allison, Silver Creek, 1816: died September 
2,3. 1857, aged si.xly-nine: buried in Shaner grave- 
yard, Jamestown, Ohio; married Marv Clinc in 
1815. 

Fields. John, Silver Creek. T817; from Virginia; 
died May 17, 1868, aecd seventy-four; .buried 
in Baptist graveyard, near Jamestown, Ohio. 

Fields, Alfred, Silver Creek, 1817: died July 14. 
1874, aged fifty-five; buried in Baptist graveyard, 
Jamestown, Ohio. 

Fichthorn. John. Caesar's Creek, 1819; died in 1826; 
Susanna was his widow. 

Fichthorn, Su.sanna. Ceasar's Creek. 1830; Susanna, 
widow of John Fichthorn. 

Fichthorn, Lsaac H.. Caesar's Creek. 1830; April 
20. 1837. married Elizabeth Hardy. 

Fichthorn. Susan. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Fichthorn. Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Fink. Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1840; buried in Beaver 
Creek cemetery. 

Fishborn. David. Cae«ar's Creek. 18:0. 

Finley, Robert, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Finley, John P.. Xenia. 1810; married May 22, 1826, 
to Rachel Knott, in Miami township, by Rev. 
J. W. Poague. 

Finley. Andrew. Miami. 1826. 

Fink. William. Caesar's Creek, 1840; November 12, 
1840, married Jane Toops. 

Fink. John. Xenia, 1840. 

Friddle, Moses, Xenia, 1840. 

Fires, John, Sr., Xenia, 1807; formerly lived near 
Union Church, south of Xenia. 

Fires. James, Xenia, 181 1; soldier of 1812; son of 
John, Sr. : had two sisters. Frances and Elizabeth- 
Fires. Thomas. Xenia. 1819; January 5, 1822. married 
Ann Lewis. 

Fires. Francis, Xenia, 1820: widow of John Fires, 

Files, William, Caesar's Creek, 1817. 

Files, Samuel, Xenia, 1826. 

Files, Robert, Ross, 1826- 

Finney, John, Xenia, 1816; died October iq, 1862, 
aged eighty-two: buried in .A. R. churchyard. 
East Third street. Xenia. 

Fitzpatrick. John. Xenia, i8.''.o. 

Fina frock, George, Beaver Creek, 1840; died April 
23. 1803. aged eighty-two; buried at Fairfield, 
Ohio, 

Fiste, John, Beaver Creek, 1840; died July, 1849, 
aged forty-five ; buried in Fairfield cemetery. 



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Fiste, Charles. Beaver Creek. 1840: died November 
24. 1868. aged seventy : Imricd in Fairfield ceme- 
tery. 

Foreman. John. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1813: died 
May 12. 1824; buried in Pioneer graveyard. 

Foreman. John. Sugar Creek. 1813: born Novem- 
ber 2,^. 1770: died October 28. 1854: buried in 
Pioneer graveyard. Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Foreman. Daniel. Sugar Creek. 1818. 

Foreman. Charles. Sugar Creek. 1821 ; April 27, 
1831. married Margaret Steele. 

Foreman. David. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Foreman. William, Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Foreman. James. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Foreman. I)avid. Xenia. 1840; removed to Spring- 
field. Ohio. 

Foreman. Charles. Xenia. 1840. 

Ford. John. Xenia. 1840; died in Xenia December 
23. 1871. aged fifty-si.x. 

Ford, .\aron. Sugar Creek. 1826; October 15, 1844. 
married Patience Turner. 

Ford. William. Sugar Creek. 1826. 

Ford. David M.. Sugar Creek. 1840; died February 
2. 1863. aged fifty : buried in McDonald grave- 
yard. 

Fulumn. Michael. Xenia. 1806. 

Foster. .-Mexandcr. Xenia. 181 1; soldier of 1812: 
died Noveml)er 21. 1838 aged fifty-nine: buried 
in Massic's Creek (Stevenson's). 

Foster, .\rchibald. Xenia. 181 1: son of Alexander. 

Foster, William. Xenia. 1840; son of .Alexander. 

Foster, Samuel. Xenia. 1830 ; son of .Mexander. 

Foster. Thomas, Miami. 1830. 

Foster, James. Ross, 1840. 

Foster. Bazel. Silver Creek. 1813. 

Forsman. Joseph. Xenia. 1815: born in 1757. died in 
1835. aged seventy-seven : buried in Forsman 
graveyard. 

Forsman. Hugh. Xenia. 1815; June 11. 1816. married 
Flizabeth Jacoby. 

Forsman. Robert D.. Xenia. 1815; born July 25. 
1790. died August 14. 1845: buried in Forsman 
graveyard; married Olive Haines in 1815. 

Forsman. Philip. Xenia, 1820: died November 20, 
i860, aged si.xty-two; buried in Woodland. 

Foutz. Fredrick. Xenia. 1826; .April 27. 1826, mar- 
ried Catharine Croul. 

Foutz. Benjamin, .Xenia. 1830. 

Fox. David. Ross, 1840; .\pril 21, 1826. married 
Catharine Townsley. 

Fox. William, Xenia, 1826; .April 11. 1826. married 
Hannah Davidson. 

Fox. John. Beaver Creek. 1812; died in Bath 'town- 
ship in 1839: December 11, 1816, married Fanny 
Kirkendale. 

Fox, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1826 : born in 1803 : died 
January 9. 1854: buried in Woodland. 

Fo.x. Christopher. Xenia. 1829; February 5, 1829, 
married Rachael Davidson. 

Fox. Adam. Miami. 1828. 

Fordle. Moses, Xenia. 1840. 

FoUet, I., Xenia. iS.^o. 

Folkerth. Edward. Xenia. 1840; died near Zimmer- 
manville January 6. 1879. aged sevent}-. 

Foote, Samuel, Xenia 1840: the little shoemaker 



who whipped the Dayton bully: died March 15, 
1855, aged ninety-four. 

Falkerth. Christouher. Miami. 1840: died September 
23. 1889. aged eighty-nine. 

Fowler. Chas. T.. Xenia. 1820: died December 2, 
1854. aged eighty-nine; buried at Pleasant Grove, 
near Byron. Ohio. 

Fowler. Samuel. Xenia. i8^<o. 

Fogg. .Andrew. Xenia. 1830 ; from Scabrook. New 
Hampshire ; one of the original owners of the 
land of Grape Grove (Fogg & Lewis); died 
January 5. 1891. aged seventy-eight; first post- 
master of Grape Grove. 

Forbes. Morgan. Xenia. 1830. 

Forbes. John. Xenia. 1840: died January 28. 1856, 
aged fifty-seven : buried in Woodland. 

Forbes. James. Xenia. 1840: from Virginia: died 
March 22. 1868. aged sixty-five: buried in Wood- 
land: married Martha Ledbetter in 1832. 

Forbes Martin. Xenia. 1833 : married June, 1833, to 
Miss Eveline Noland. of Xenia. by Rev. J. Laws; 
died in 1840. March 25. 

Forbes. .Arthur. Miami. 1807: entered what is now 
the Neredith farm: buried at Clifton. Ohio; mar- 
ried Elizabeth Ireland in 1832. 

Forbes. Alexander. Miami, 1807; soldier of 1812 ; 
died October 10, 1840, aged forty-nine ; buried 
at Clifton, Ohio. 

Forgery, John, Beaver Creek, 1803: May 30, 1838, 
married Mary -Ann Brown. 

Forgey. James. Bath. 1807: soldier of 1812; buried 
at Mud Run. Clark county. Ohio. 

Forgey. Stewart. Bath, 1810. 

Fogle, Michael, Beaver Creek, 1806 ; from Bavaria, 
Germany: soldier of 1812 ; buried in Union grave- 
yard, near Byron ; his will was recorded in 1813. 

Fogle. Peter. Bath. 181 1 : son of Michael: soldier of 
1812: died July 17. 1876. aged seventy-nine; bur- 
ied in Union graveyard. 

Fogle. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 18I9; son of Michael 
and Mary: died July 17. 1876. aged eighty; bur- 
ied in Union graveyard. 

Fogle. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1840; October 26, 
1842. married Parmelia Gray. 

Fogle. John. Beaver Creek. 1820: son of Michael and 
Mary Fogle. 

Fogle. Mary. Beaver Creek. 1820: widow of Mich- 
ael Fogle : buried in Union graveyard. 

Folck. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1807 ; from Pennsyl- 
vania: came with the Wolfs; soldier of 1812; son 
of John George: born January 17. 1798: died in 
Bath township. September 24. 1866. 

Folck. John George. Bath. 1807 : from Pennsylvania ; 
born in Lancaster. Pennsylvania, in 1761 : died 
November 14. 18.^9: buried on the old farm. 

Folck. George. Jr.. Bath. 1807; eldest son of 
George: died Tuly 27. 1844. aged fifty-nine :1)uried 
in Folck graveyard, one mile north of Byron. 

Folck. John. Bath. 1819: third son of George: re- 
moved to Iowa in 1853. 

Folck. John D.. Bath. 1820; removed to Indiana. 

Folck. I)aniel. Bath. 1821 : married Mary Moreland 
June 13. 1820; fourth .son of George: born in 
Pennsvlvania. September 5. 1800; died June 10, 
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Folck. Casper. Batli, 1840; died in Miami township 

m 1823. 
Folck, George. Bath. 1840; died April 10. 1875, aged 

fifty-two. 
Folck, Susan, Bath. 1840; sister of Daniel; died 

at her home in Bath township February ig, 1841). 

aged sixty-one ; buried on the farm. 
Folck, Abraham, Bath, 1840 : son of George. 
Fogwell, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1840; May 7, 1832, 

married Matilda Davis. 
Fogwell, John A.. Bc.;iver Creek, 1840; married 

Rebecca Harner; died December 12, 1882, aged 

seventy. 
Fordward, George, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Frost. George, Sugar Creek, 1806; father-in-law of 

Henry Sidensticker : removed to Clark county. 
Prost, Jacob. Beaver Creek, 1813; born in Greene 

county in 1806; removed to Clark county, Ohio. 
Frost, John, Beaver Creek, 1820; January 11, 1824, 

married Mary Devers ; removed to Clark county, 

Ohio. 
Frost, George, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1821 ; August, 

1820. married Rachael Tingley ; removed to 

Clark county. 
France, Levi, Caesar's Creek, 1809. 
France, William, Sugar Creek, 1828; November 11, 

1830, married Precilla Forman. 
French, Benjamin, Xenia, 1806; one of the first brick- 
masons in Xenia: built the Hypes and Nunemaker 

houses. 
French, John, Xenia, 1820. 
French. James W., 1838: September 4, 1839, married 

Hannah Baker. 
French, Thomas B., Bath, 1826. 
Fream. Thomas, Miami. 1799: first postmaster at 

Yellow Springs : sold his land to Whiteman. 
Frazier. Dr. William H.. Xenia. 1809; father-in-law 

of David Lamme; died in 181 5. 
Frazier. William, Ross. 181 1: October 8. 1829, mar- 
ried Lucinda Lord. 
Frazier, Cyrus. Ross. 1813; died in Sugar Creek 

township in 1823. 
Frazier. James, Ross. 1813 : died in 1822 : Septem- 
ber 9, 1817, married Christiana Hare. 
Frazier, John, Sugar Creek, 1830. 
Frazier, Lemuel P., Xenia. 1827; a relative of C. 

L. Merrick; removed to Greencastle. Indiana; 

married Louisa Merrick. 
Frazier. Walter, Xenia. 1840. 
Frazier. Jolin. Xenia. 1840; born February 18, 1813 : 

died August 12, 1890: buried in Cedarville ceme- 
tery. 
Frick, Jacob B., Bath. 1840; born in 1802; buried in 

Fairfield cemetery. 
Frankbcrry, William, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 
I'rauklierry, John, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 
Frybarger. Nancy, Xenia. 1830; widow of Martin 

Frybarger. 
Frothingham. Stephen, Xenia, 1826; came to Old- 
town from Worthington Woolen Mill; in 1827 
returned to his old home. 
I-'rceman, John, Beaver Creek, 1803; from New- 
Jersey; son of William. 
Freeman, William, Beaver Creek, 1803; came to 
Cincinnati in 1795: soldier of 1812; died in 1844: 
buried at Mt. Zion. 
IG 



Freeman, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; came from 
Cincinnati at an early date ; father of William 
and Samuel. 

Freeman, Samuel, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1826 ; born 
May 29, 1803, in Beaver township ; removed to 
Montgomery county, Ohio. 

Freybarger, Martin, Beaver Creek, 1827 ; Septem- 
ber to, 1827, married Nancy Vesbit. 

Freybarger, Valentine, Beaver Creek, 1827; died July 
22, 1873, ag-d sixty-seven: buried in Hawker's 
churchvard. 

Freele, William, Miami, 1808 

Fragrant, Christian, Miami, 1840. 

Fry, Michael, Beaver Creek. 1840; father of Riley; 
born May 14, 1800; died February 10, 1879, aged 
seventy-nine ; buried in Woodland. 

Flowers, Seth, Beaver Creek, 1812; soldier of 1812, 

Flowers. Aaron, Sugar Creek, 1813. 

Flowers, Elizabeth, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Flowers, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1828. 

Flowers, John, Xenia. 1816; died August i, 1826, 
aged thirty. 

Flowers. Conrad, Xenia, 1840. 

Fleming, Robert, Bath, 1810. 

Fleming, Samuel, Bath, 1840. 

Fleming, Thomas, Bath. 1840; died in 1853. 

Fleming, John, Bath, 1840. 

Fleming, Isaac N., Sugar Creek, 1840; September 
21. 1840, married Elizabeth Cox. 

Fleming, Orin, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Flood, Edward, Ross, 1803 ; -July 4, 1834, married 
Martha Harrison. 

Flood, Jonathan, Ross, 1803: removed to Randolph 
county, Indiana ; pioneer preacher of M. P. 
church. 

Flood, Francis, Ross, 1826; a carpenter; died Octo- 
ber 20, 1834. from the result of a fall. 

Flack, Robert, Bath, 1807. 

Flatter, Ludwig, Bath, 1818; died January 28, 1836, 
aged fifty ; buried in Union graveyard ; soldier 
of t8l2. 

Flatter, Jacob, Bath, 1818; brother of Ludwig; re- 
moved to Darke county, Ohio. 

Flatter, Henry, Bath, 1818; son of Ludwig; buried 
in Pleasant Grove churchyard. 

Fletcher, William, Ross, 1830; September 26, 1833,. 
married Sophia Sheeley. 

Fletcher. Robinson, Ross, 1808; from Virginia. 

Fletcher, John, Ross, 1819; February 11, 1841, mar- 
ried Sarah Ann Righsel. 

Fletcher, James, Ross, 1819; January 15, i8r8, mar- 
ried Isabella Blue. 

Fletcher, Daniel, Rath, i8jo. 

Fletcher, Henry, Bath, 1840. 

Fletcher, George, Bath, 184a. 

Fletcher, George Jr.. Bath, 1840. 

Florence, Leroy, Miami, 1840. 

Fuller, Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Fuller. James, Beaver Creek, 1818; .\pril 26, 1816, 
married Margaret Weeks. 

Fulkerson. Richard. Sugar Creek. 1819. 
F'ulkcrson, Richard, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1827; died 
March 15, 1847, aged eighty-one; buried one mile 
south of Bellbrook. 
Fulkerson, Morgan, Sugar Creek, 1828; April 16, 
1832, married Rosianna Petty. 



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Fulkerson, John, Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Fulkerson. Amos, Sugar Creek, 1840: from Virginia' 
died August 14. 189&, aged eighty-five, in Spring 
Valley township. 

Fulkerson. William Supar Creek. 1840: November 
30. 1837. married Eliza Jane Moffit. 

Funk. Jacob. Bath, i8jo: buried in Rockafield grave- 
yard, near Fairfield. Ohio- Xovember 18, 1828. 
married Sarah Harner. 

Funk. Baylas. Sugar Creek. 1840: from Virginia: 
died August 5. 1884. aged sixty-eight: buried in 
Woodland. 

Funk. Reece, Bath. 1840; from Virginia; died at 
Kenton. Ohio, December. 1867. aged fifty: buried 
in Woodland. 

Frizell. .\Ilen. Xcnia. 1840: removed to Indianapo- 
lis. Indiana ; an old time carpenter of Xcnia. 

Friees. Jacob Caesar's Creek. 1830: from Frederick. 
Virginia: died September 26, 1831. aged thirty- 
five: buried in Woodland: father of Da-vid A. 

Furnace. John, Caesar's Creek. 1828: died in 1830. 

Furnace. Joshua, Caesar's Creek, 1828. 

Furnace. Jonah, Silver Creek. 1828. 

Furnace. Samuel. Silver Creek. 1840: died March 22, 
1S52. aged thirty-seven : buried in the Hussey 
graveyard. 

Fudge. John, Xenia. 1824: from Virginia; son of 
Christian; born April 13. 1796: died September 
15. 1808. aged seventy-two: soldier of 1812 ; 
served six years in the legislature. 

Fudge. Jacob. Xenia, 1824; son of Christian; died 
December 8, 1835, aged thirty-three; buried in 
Boots graveyard. 

Fudge, George. Xenia. 1824; son of Christian; died 
June 20. 1852. aged fifty-two; buried in Boots 
graveyard. 

Fudge. Peter, Xenia. 1824: son of Christian. 

Fudge. David, 1834: August 18. 1835. married Mary 
Smith. 

Funderburg. Samuel. Miami. 181 1 : brother of Daniel, 
Sr. : walked from Yellow Springs to Dayton 
when ninety-one years old: buried in Funder- 
burg graveyard. 

Funderburg. Daniel. Sr.. Bath. 1811 ; from Mary- 
land; died in 1814; his wife, Catherine. 

Funderljurg. Daniel, Bath. 181 1; from Maryland; 
born November 12. 1818; son of Daniel and 
Catherine. 

Funderburg, John. Bath. i8r6: from Maryland; son 
of Daniel, Sr. ; father of Daniel : died at Yellow 
Springs in 1879, aged eighty-four. 
Fundcrlnirg, David, Bath, 1816: brother of Daniel, 
Sr. : son of Daniel and Catherine ; buried in 
Funderburg graveyard, Enon, Ohio. 

Funderburg, (ieorge, Bath. 1821 ; son of Daniel and 
Catherine ; buried in Union graveyard ; married 
Nancy Clark June 3- 1824. 

Funderburg. Jacob, Bath. 1826: brother of Daniel; 

son of Daniel and Catherine. 
FuUon. Rev. Andrew, Xenia. 1804: buried at Car- 
mel, near Madison. Indiana: classmate of Rev. 
Robert .Armstrong. 
Fulton. James. Bath. i8.l6; born in Bath township in 

1815: died in 1838: son of William. 
Fulton. Dr. Andrew, Bath. 1840 : removed to Kan- 
sas City, Missouri, in 1815: died July, 1850. 
Fulton. William, Bath, 1816; from Rockingham, Vir- 



ginia : born November 3, 1773 : died in 1830 ; bur- 
ied in Bath churchyard. 

Fulton. John. Bath. 1829: buried in Bath graveyard, 
west of Mad River. 

Fulton. William F.. Bath. 1840. 

Fulton. Samuel. Bath. 1840: January 7. 1810. mar- 
ried Catherine Woodward. 

P'unston. Thomas. Miami. 1840: born March 2. 1815; 
d;ed January 22. 1889. aged seventy-five ; buried 
at Clifton. 

Furray. Christian. Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Cause. William. Sugar Creek. 1820; son of Abraham. 

Cause. Abraham. Sugar Creek. 1820; died in 1843; 
buried in Bellbrook cemetery: wife of Jan<'. 

Cause. Solomon. Sugar Creek. 1820; died in Sugar 
Creek township in 1822; wife's name was Rutli. 

Gaskill. Bazel. Sugar Creek, 1840, 

Gaskill. .■\dam. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Gaskill. Nehemiah. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Gary. Gray. Xenia. 1806: lived in the Union neigh- 
borhood ; sold his farm to Josiah Davis in 1808. 

Gano. George. Caesar's Creek, 1830; died in 1831 in 
Caesar's Creek township. 

Gano. Samuel. Xenia. 1819: born in Morgan county. 
Virginia. January 19. 1794: died in July. 1869. 
aged seventy-five: buried in Woodland: soldier 
of 1812: married Mary Williams in 1824. 

Gano. Amos, Xenia. i8j.o. 

Gano. Stephen. Xenia. 1840. 

Gano, Daniel, Xenia, 1840. 

Gamble. Samuel, Xenia, 1807; removed to Shelby 
county. Ohio: ex-commissioner of Greene coun- 
ty ; once lived near the present site of the Rob- 
erts' villa. 

Gamble, Thomas, Xenia. 1816: buried on the Jtlei'.th 
farm, south of Xenia. 

Gamble. William. Miami. 1816. 

Gamble. John. Ross. 1840. 

Garrwood. Stacey. Caesar's Creek. 1805 : soldier of 
1812. 

Garrwood. Jgshua. Caesar's Creek, 1829. 

Garrwood. John, Caesar's Creek. 1820. 

Gaddis. John. Xenia, 1807. 

Galloway. James. Sr., Beaver Creek, 1797: born 
May I. 1750: died August 6, 1838, aged eighty- 
eight : buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Galloway. James. Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1809: born Oc- 
tober 28. 1782; died September 11. 1850; buried 
in Woodland ; soldier of 1812. 

Galloway. Samuel. Xenia. 1800: born .April 8, 1787; 
died December 22. 1851. aged sixty; buried in 
Woodland ; soldier of 1812. 

Galloway. William. Xenia. 1809; born January 25, 
1785; died November 16. 1823. aged thirty-eight; 
buried in Woodland. 

Galloway, .\ndrew. Xenia. 1818; died March 26. 
1864. aged sixty-eieht : buried in Woodland: 
March 21. 1820. married Mary Collins. 

Galloway, .\nthony, Xenia, 1826: died in Henry 
county. Indiana. September 19. 1856. aged fifty- 
three ; March 22. 1823. married Catharine Junkin. 

Galloway. Washington, Xenia. 1840: son of .Andrew;, 
died July 8. 1887. aged sixty-six: buried in 
Woodland. 

Galloway. John. Xenia. 1807: June 28. 1816. married 
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Galliiway. James E.. Xenia. 1840: born January 3, 
1825. in Xenia, Ohio ; son of James, Jr. 

Galloway. Georee. Beaver Creek, 1800: from Penn- 
sylvania; died July 3. 1857. aged seventy-five: bur- 
ied in Woodland ; soldier of 1812. 

(jalloway. George. lis(|.. Beaver Creek, 1800: died 
November 8. 1865, aged ninety-six ; buried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery (Stevensons). 

Galloway, James M., Xenia, 1804: a blacksmith: sol- 
dier of 1812: buried on his farm near Mud Run 
churchyard. Clark county, Ohio. 

Galloway, John. Jr., "Xenia, 1817; soldier of 1812; 
buried in Massie's Creek churchyard (Steven- 
son's). 

Galloway. Thomas, Xenia, 1829: removed to Blooni- 
ington. Indiana; April !■'. 1832, married Mary 
Jane W'ilkison. 

Galloway. Henry P.. Xenia. 1830; died July 30, 
1S74. aged sixty-four: buried in Woodland; sol- 
dier in Civil VVar' son of James. Jr. 

Galloway. David. Xenia, 1830- October 4, 1834, mar- 
ried Jcracia Forsman, 

Galloway. William W.. 1840: son of John and Isa- 
belle: November 28, 1840, married Margaret 
Pierce. 

Galloway, James S., Xenia, 1840. 

Galloway. James C Xenia, 1840: born near Xenia, 
June .?o. 1817: died November 28, i8gg: buried 
in Woodland: married Mary Ann Kendall in 
1840. 

tlalloway. .•\lbert. Xenia, 1840; born in 1815: died 
Mav 15. 1876. aged sixty-five; buried in Wood- 
land : son of James, Jr. 

(jalloway. Joseph. Miami. 1807: father of Mexico 
James: born January 8. 1757: married Isabelle 
Orr : died .August ig. 1833. 

Galloway, James, Miami, 1807: Mexico James; son 
of Joseph : August •?, 1824, married Hannah Tav- 
lor. 

Garman, Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1840: died August 
4. i8;g. aged sixty-seven : buried in Eleazer 
churcliyard. Caesar's Creek township. 

Gartrell. Chas,. Xenia. 181 1 : buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery (Stevenson's); February 9, 1837, 
married Elizabeth Kyle. 

Gartrell. Richard. Xenia, 1817: buried in Massie's 
Creek (Stevenson's): September ig, 1816, mar- 
ried Arpha Logan Kyle. 

(iartrell. Mark. Xenia, i8ig: lived one-half mile 
west of Massie's Creek cliurch (.Stevenson's). 

(iartrell. Charles. Xenia. 1828. 

Gartrell. James. Xenia, 1828: Mav 8, 1830, married 
Charity Sanders. 

Gartrell. Robert. Xenia. 1840: son of Charles: died 
April 8. 1875. aged fifty : buried in Woodland. 

Gaff, John. Xenia, 1813: from Lexington. Kentucky; 
removed to Adams county. Ohio ; died in i84g. 

Gaff. John S.. Xenia. 1817: a blacksmith: son of 
John: buried in the A. R. churchyard, East Third 
street, Xenia. 

Gaff. John D.. Xenia. 1827; son of John S. ; removed 
to Iowa: died in 1851. 

Gaff. David M.. Xenia. 1830 : married Hannah Mock : 
killed in 1831 by a tree falling on him: buried 
in A. R. church'-ard. East Third street, Xenia. 

Gardner, James B., Xenia, 1826; editor of Xenia 
Free Press. 



Gardner, Henry. Xenia. 1817; died in Xenia in 1837. 

Gardner, Thomas, Xenia, 1817. 

Gardner, Matthew. Silver Creek. 1835 ; organized 
the New Light church at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Gardner, John, Miami, 1829. 

Gardner, Waller, Ross, 1826; September 4, 1823, 
married Mary McAnnel, 

Ciarrison. Jacob. Miami. i8og: soldier of 1812; bur- 
ied in. Mud Run churchyard. Clark county, Ohio. 

Garrison, (iamalia. Miami, i8ig; from Petersburg, 
Virginia: died Mav 20, 1893, aged ninety-three. 

Garrison, Richard. Miami, 1819; died at the house 
of F. G. Bell, Septetnber 7, 1863, aged sev- 
enty-one. 

Garrison. James M., Xenia, 1827: merchant tailor 
in Xenia ; married Mary Sloane. 

Garner, Daniel, Xenia, 1840. 

Galligher, Francis, Xenia, 1830; a printer; died at 
Springfield February 22. 1836; November 12, 
1832, married Sarah Madden. 

Galligher, William D., Xenia. 1830: editor of the 
"Backwoodsman." published in Xenia in 1830; 
(see Howe's History of Ohio, Greene county). 

(Jarrett, Anna, Xenia, 1820. 

Garrett, Wells, 1825; died August 26, i86g, aged 
sixty-one. 

Garrett. John. 1816: August i, 1816, married Laticia 
Quinn. 

Garrett, David, Miami. 1828. 

(iabiar. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1828. 

Gerlaugh, John, Miami. i8og : in i8og removed to 
what was to be Greene township, Clark county. 

Gerlaugh, Adam, Sr., Beaver Creek, 1807; from 
VVashington county. Maryland: lK)rn in 1786; 
died in 1856. aged seventy; married the mother 
of S. Puterbaugh. 

Gerlaugh. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 181 1. 

Gerlaugh, Madaline, Beaver Creek, 1827; widow of 
Adam, Sr. 

Gerlaugh, Henry, Beaver Creek, i8,?o : from Wash- 
ington county. Maryland : died February 16, 1858, 
aged seventy-five ; buried in Hawker's churchyard. 

Gerlaugh, David, Beaver Creek, 1830; son of Adam; 
died November 4, 1850. aged seventy-seven ; bur- 
ied in Hawker's churchyard. 

Gerlaugh, Robert, Beaver Creek, 1830: removed to 
Warren county. Illinois. 

Gerlaugh, Arthur, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; son of Adam ; 
born in 181 g. 

Gerlaugh, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1832 : died Febru- 
ary 7. i8g4, aged eisbty-three ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Gerlaugh, Henry. Bath, 1832: January 27. 1831, mar- 
ried Letitia Mills. 

(jerlaugh, Robert. Bath, :8ig. 

Gerlaugh, Peter. Bath. 1840. 

Gerlaugh. .-Xdani'. Jr., Bath, 1835 ; son of Adam ; 
born in 1814: died August 27, 1883: buried at 
Mt. Zion. 

Gerlaugh. John, Jr., Miami. 1810. 

Garst, Henry, Beaver Creek, 1835: died April 15, 
1887, aged eighf-five: buried in Hawker's 
churchyard. 

Gaskin, Andrew, Bath, 181 1. 

Gaines. Alexander. Ross. 1826: from Virginia; died 
September, i860 ; 'buried at Bethel, Ross town- 
ship. Ohio. 



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Gaines. Edward P.. Ross. 1827; removed to Grant 
county. Indiana; January 4. 1821, married Mary 
Bone. 

Gerard. Isaac, Sugar Creek. 180.^: died January. 
1851. aged seventy-five: buried in Tabor church- 
yard. Jasper. Ohio. 

Gerard. Milton, Sugar Creek. 1829; March, 1S30. 
tnarried Peruna Blair. 

Gerard. Isaac. Ir.. Caesar's Creek. 1826; son of 
Isaac. Sr. ; removed to Iowa ; October 14. 1820, 
married Mary Wical. 

Gerard. John. Caesar's Creek. 1830: son of Isaac; 
buried at Port William. Ohio. 

Gerard. George, Caesar's Creek, 1840; son of Isaac, 
Jr. ; buried at Port William, in igoo. 

Gerard. Samuel, Xenia, 1826. 

Gest. Nathan, Sugar Creek. 1819 : November 20. 
1820. married Martha \'ance. 

Gest. Jeremiah. Sugar Creek. 1819; died at Bell- 
brook. March. 1879. aged seventv-si.\ ; buried at 
Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Gest, James. Xenia. 1830; died October 7. 1859. aged 
eighty-five; buried at Middle Run churchyard, 
Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Gest, Joseph G.. Xenia. 1840; died at Spring Valley 
December 5, 1862. aged fifty-five ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Gest. Truman, B., Xenia, 1840. 

Gest, Joseph, Jr.. Xenia. 1840. 

George, James, Xenia, 1828; February 29, 1821, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Deardoff. 

George. Martia H.. Xenia. 1840 ; removed to Rock- 
port. Illinois; November 28. 1842, married Mary 
Ann Black. 

Getard, Henry, Beaver Creek. !84o; died March 9. 
1874. aged eighty-nine : buried in Beaver Creek 
cemetery. 

Gearhan, Razil, Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Gearhan. William. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Gillham. .-Xndrew. Sugar Creek. 1809. 

Gillham. Jesse. Sugar Creek. 1810. 

Gibson. John. Xenia. 1822; removed to Warren coun- 
ty, Illinois. 

Gibson. William. Sr.. Xenia. 1806: died August 8, 
1845. aged si.xty-eight ; buried two miles west of 
Jamestown. Ohio. 

Gibson. William, Xenia, l8o6; son of John, Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 1812; buried in Caesar's Creek church- 
yard, near Jamestown, Ohio. 

Gibson. .Andrew, Xenia. 1806; September 18. 1806. 
married Jennie Stevenson; son of John; soldier 
of 1812; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery (Ste- 
venson's ). 

Gibson. John. Sr,, Xenia, 1807 ; died May 13. 1830, 
aged seventy; his wife, Martha, died May 15, 
1828. aged .seventy-five; both buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek cemetery (Stevenson's) ; July 4, 1816, 
married Martha Campbell. 

Gibson. Thomas. Xenia 1808; son of John. Sr. ; died 
Julv 28. 1861. aged si.xty-nine; buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek cemeterv. 

Gib'on. John. Xenia. 1808; son of Thomas; married 
Martha Campbell ; removed to Warren countv. 
Illino's. 

Gibson. Montileon. Xenia, 181 1; .soldier of 1812; 
married a daughter of Thomas Embree. 



Gibson, Abel, Ross, 1813; soldier of 1812, under 
Capt. Herrod. 

Gibson, John, Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Gibson. William. Miami. 1810. 

Gibson. John, Miami, 1810. 

Gibson. Isaac. Xenia. 1816. 

Gibson. Robert. Beaver Creek. 1817; soldier of 
1812; April 17, 1832, married Christena Symms. 

Gibson. James C, Silver Creek, 1817; son of 
Thomas; married, February 25, 1826, Sarah Ken- 
dall; removed to Warren county, Illinois, in 
1831. 

Gibson, Matthew, Miami, 1813; soldier of i8i2j under 
Cant. Galloway. 

Gibson. Valentine. Miami. 1820; soldier of 1812, 
under Capt. Stewart. 

Gibson, Prudence, Ross, 1820. 

Gibson, Garrett, Ross, 1820: married to Elizabeth 
Rhodes, September 20. 1822. by Rev. Thomas 
Mtaley. 

Gibson, Thomas, Jr., Xenia. 182"; son of Thomas, 
Sr. ; removed to Monmouth. Illinois; died in 
i860, buried at Sugar Tree Grove. 

Gibson. Samuel. Xenia. 1827; son of Thomas. Sr. ; 
-August. 1826. was married to Elizabeth Pearce 
by Rev. James Adams. 

Gibson, James. Xenia. 1826 ; son of John. Sr. ; mar- 
ried by Rev. James .Adams, February 21, 1826, 
to Sarah Kendall ; died August 4, 1849, buried in 
Massie's Creek cemeicry. 

Gibson. John. Jr.. Xenia. 1828 ; from F'redrick 
county, Virginia; boin April ig, 1802. died in 
1885, aged eighty-three, buried in Woodland; 
ex-superintendent of Greene County Infirmary. 

Gibson. John. Ross, 1822; removed to Warren 
county. Illinois. 

Gibson. Robert. Xenia, 1840; died in Xenia, Febru- 
ary, 1859; buried in Woodland; September 9, 
1841. married Elizabeth Duke. 

Gibson. John. Ross, 1840; soldier of 1812; buried 
in Woodland. 

Gibson. William. Silver Creek. iSjo; died in Silver 
Creek township in 1845; December 2, 1842, mar- 
ried Lucinda Strong. 

Gibson, Joseph. Silver Creek. 1840; son of William 
and Margaret Gibson ; married Eliza Greive, 
-August 15. 1838. 

Gibson, Francis, Ross. 1840. 

Gibson, Michael, Miami. 1840; -August 13. 1829. mar- 
ried Mary Owens. 

Gillespie, Joseph, Sugar Creek ; 1816. 

Gillespie. Henry T.. Sugar Creek. 1817; son of 
James and Esther; Xovemlier 11. 1817. married 
Eleanor Laughead. 

Gillespie. James. Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1817; his wife 
was Esther; he died in 1824. 

Gillespie. .Allen. Silver Creek, 1S40; Mav 21. 1840. 
married .Ann Roben.son. 

Gillespie, Robert, Xenia, 1816. 

Gillespie, Thomas, Xenia, 1816; son of James; in 
1814 he kept tavern in brick building west of 
George Charters' store. 

Gillespie. James. Xenia. 1829: ^^n of James, Sr., 
and Esther. 

Gillespie. John. Beaver Creek. 1817; son of James 
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Ginn. Benjamin. Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Ginn. Thomas. Xcnia. 1804 ; came to the United 
States in 1804 : died .\ugust 24. 186,5, aged eighty- 
two, bnried in Woodland. 

Ginn. George. Xenia. 1816; son of Thomas: died 
in Sugar Creek in 1819. 

Ginn. John. Xenia. 1817: l)orn in 1797, died in 1844, 
buried in Caesar's Creek churchyard ; February 
27. 1821. married Elizabeth Long. 

Ginn, X'icholas, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Ginn. Robert. Xcnia. 1830: son of Thomas; March 
6, i8.?4, married Elizabeth McClellan. 

Ginn, William, Xenia, 1840: removed to Crawfords- 
villc, Iowa; died January 31, 1873, aged sixty- 
two. 

Ginn, John, Xenia, 1840; died February i.s, 1885, 
aged sixty-eight, buried in Woodland ; September 
20, 1838, married Jane Hamilton. 

Ginn. Benjamin F., Ross, 1840; removed to Iowa. 

Ginn. John. Silver Creek. 1840; died in Silver Creek 
township in 1844 ; had three sons. James, Thomas, 
and . 

Gilchrist. William. Silver Creek. 1830; died Novem- 
ber 27. 1850, aged eighty-one. buried in N^ew 
Hope churchyard. Paintersville. Ohio. 

Gillchrist, George, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Gill. James, Xenia. 1813; from Ireland: cntcret] the 
land that is now owned by Richard Galloway; 
died in 1822, 

Gill, John, Xenia, 1815; son of James: February 
27, 1817, married Elizabeth Carson. 

Gill. Hugh. Xenia. 1815; son of James; May 6. 
1818. married Malinda Forest. 

Gill. Thomas, Xenia, 1819; son of James. 

Gill, Jane, Xenia, 1820: daughter of James. 

Gill. Enos. Xenia, 1835: died Septemlier 3, 1835. 
aged twenty-five, buried in Baptist graveyard, 
Jamestown. 

Galbreath, Robert, Xenia, 1828: died March 29, 
1892, aged eighty-four,, buried in Massie"s Creek 
cemetery; March 6, 1832, married Eliza Towns- 
ley. 

Gilbert. Herman J.. Xenia. 1818; died May i. 1885. 
aged si.xty. buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Givens. James. Beaver Creek, 1813, died September, 
1814: his wife was Mary: had a son Edward. 

Givens. Thomas. Beaver Creek. 1812; son-in-law of 
.■\brahani Xeal ; married Rachel Neal. 

Gibbs. Jesse. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Gibbs. Daniel. 1824; December 23. 1824. married 
Mary Bcall. 

Gillnad. .'\ndrew. Sugar Creek. 1809; soldier of 
1812: Capt. .\m\ Maltbie. 

Gillnad. John. Bath. 1817; died July 18, 1818, aged 
fortv-five. buried in Rockaficld gravevard, Fair- 
field, Ohio. 

Gillnad. Jesse. Sugar Creek. i8ig. 

Gillmore. John. Ross, 1S12; soldier of 1812. under 
Capt. Watson. 

Gillmore. Asam, 1830; May 4. 1820. married Mary 
Jackson. 

Gillmore. .^ngeline. Ross. 1813. 

Gillmore. William. Silver Creek. 1813: soldier of 
1812. under Capt. Watson. 

Gillmore. Samuel T.. Silver Creek. 1826; died at 
Yellow Si)rings. aged fifty: January 7, 1841, mar- 
ried Judith Faulkner. 



Glass. William, Jr., Silver Creek, 1828: from Vir- 
ginia; married Levina Ross; died August 6, 1861, 
aged fifty. 

Glass, Preston, Silver Creek, 1840; from Campbell 
county, Virginia: born January 4, 182 1 ; March 
II, 1841, married Susannah Sheeley. 

Glass. James, Silver Creek, 1840; blacksmith; shop 
was on the farm of Lyman Ballard ; died .\ugust 
6, 1868, aged fifty, buried in Jamestown cemc- 

Glass. Vincent. Silver Creek 1840; from Campbell 
county. Virginia: born June 3. 1815. 

Glass, William, Sr.. Silver Creek, 1840: father of 
/ William; died April 8. 1867, aged eighty-five. 

Glenn. James. Xenia, 1810; died in Xenia township 
in 1813. 

(ilenny. John. 1836; March 30, 1837, luarricd Jane 
Murphy. 

Glap. Christopher. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Gladvvur, G. W.. Caesar's Creek. 1830. 

Glotfelter. Adam, Beaver Creek. 1818; born in Sum- 
merset county. Pennsylvania : died December 21, 
i860, buried in Mt. Zion ; age ninety. 

Glotfelter, John .\.. Beaver Creek. 1850; from Lan- 
caster county. Penn.sylvania ; died December 22, 
1863. aged ninety, buried at Mt. Zion. 

Glotfelter. Solomon, Beaver Creek, 1827: son of John 
.A, : died .August 7. 1880. aged seventy-five, buried 
in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Glotfelter. Geo. A.. Beaver Creek. 18.^0: son of John 
.A. ; died September 14. 1866, buried in Mt. Zion 
churchyard. 

Glotfelter. Solomon. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1840; son of 
.\dam ; died .August. 1887, buried in V' Z'um 
churchyard. 

Glassford, George, Bath, 1819. 

Glassford. Geo. F,, Bath, 1820: tavern keeper in 
Fairfield in 1820. 

Glassford. William. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Gowdy. John, Sr., Sugar Creek, 1803: died Novem- 
ber 15, 1807. aged seventy-one. buried in Pioneer 
graveyard. Bellbrook. Ohio: wife. .A.nn. 

Gowdy. John, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1805; son of John, 
Sr. ; removed to Franklin. Indiana. 

Gowdy, .Andrew, Sugar Creek, 1807; son of John, 
Sr. ; born .April 2. 1777. died September 25. 1818, 
buried in Pioneer graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Gowdy. William. Sugar Creek, 1808: son of John, 
Sr. : removed to Miami township, Greene county. 

Gowdy, Mary, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Gowdy, Alexander, Sugar Creek, 1840 ; son of .An- 
drew : born May 10, 1812. 

Gowdy, Fleming, Miami, 18.50. 

Gowdy. John. Sr.. Xenia. 1805: from Connecticut; 
born in 1742. died November 7. 181J. buried in 
-A. R. churchyard. East Third St.. Xenia. 

Gowdy. James. Xenia. 1805: son of John, Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 1812 ; first merchant in Xenia ; died De- 
cember 24. 1853. aged seventy-six. buried in .A. 
R. churchyard. Xenia. 

Gowdy. Samuel. Xenia. 1806 ; son of John, Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 1812; born January g, 1780, died March 
15, 1851, buried in -A. R. churchyard. Xenia. 

Gowdy, Robert. Xenia. i8o,s : son of John. Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 1812; born .April 4. 1782. died December 
15. 1821. aged forty-eight, bnried m A. R. church- 
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Gowdy, John. Xenia. 1809 : son of John. Sr. : soldier 
of 1812; born in Mercer county. Kentucky. Xo- 
vember 3. 1789. died .April 4. 1869, aged eighty, 
buried in Woodland. 

Gowdy. -Mexander. Xenia, 1805 ; son of John. Sr. ; 
soldier of 1812; Ixirn .\pril 2, 1792. died .\pril 
14, 1872, aged eighty-one, buried in Woodland. 

Gowdy, Ryan, Xenia, 1805 ; son of John, Sr. ; died 
June. t86,^ aged si.xty-eight, buried in Francona, 
Illinois. 

Gowdy, Boyd. Xenia. 1819: from Pennsylvania: died 
June 5. 1878. aged eighty-five, buried in Wood- 
land. 

Gowdy. Jolin R.. Xenia. 1829; son of Samuel: died 
July 29, i8j4. aged twenty-seven, buried in .\. R. 
churcliyard. Xenia. 

Gowdy. John A., Xenia. 1830: son of Robert. Sr. ; 
in 1836. removed to Illinois. 

Gowdy, Samuel, Jr., Xenia, 1840: son of Samuel, 
Sr. ; died November 17. 1873. aged fifty-six, 
buried in Woodland. 

Gowdy, John Brown. Xenia. i8-^o ; son of James ; 
born in Xenia. September 2. 1820, at one o'clock 
p. m. ; died .'\pril 9 1900. aged seventy-nine 
years seven months. 

Gowdy. Robert, Jr.. Xenia, 1840: son of Robert. Sr. ; 
died October 23. 1884. aged seventy-five, buried 
in Woodland. 

Gowdy. John Sheeley, Xenia, 1840: son of Robert, 
Sr. ; removed to the west. 

Gowdy, James, Xenia, i8.;o; son of Samuel; died 
January 6, 1896. aged seventy-si.x, buried in 
Woodland. 

Gowdy, John. Sugar Creek. 1809: son of John. 

Gowdy, Fleming. Miami. 1830; .\pril 18, 1833, mar- 
ried Eliza Jane Sterritt. 

Gowdy. William. Miami. 1830: son of John, of 
Sugar Creek ; married November 6. i8,y. Mary 
Brown. 

Gowdy. Samuel. Xenia. 1840 : son of James : died 
January 20, 1853. 

Gordon. George. Sugar Creek. 1813: born in Cum- 
berland county. Pennsylvania: died December 10. 
1879. aged ninety-lhree : buried in Woodland; 
soldier of 1812. 

Gordon. Robert, Caesar's Creek. 1807 ; died March 
16. 1852, aged si.xty-seven ; buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery. 

Gordon. William. Xenia, 1806; soldier of 1812: 
brotlicr of George ; removed to Madison. Indiana, 

Gordon. George R.. Xenia. 1835. 

Gordon. William T.. Xenia, 1840: son of George; 
died May 12. 1897, aged seventy-nine: buried in 
Woodland. 

Gordon, Andrew. Xenia. 1840; aon of George; re- 
moved to Holton, Kansas. 

Gordon, J. G.. Miami. 1840 ; died near Spring Val- 
ley July 30. 1849. aged sixty-nine. 

Gordon. Andrew, Ross 1832 : from \'irginia ; son 
of Richard; July 23. 1829, married Sarah Bo- 
zarth. 

Gordon. Richard. Jr.. Ross., 1S40; died September 
24. 1878. aged sixty-two. 

Gorcjon, N. Smith. 1840; .August 13, 1833. married 
Elizabeth Armstrong. 



Gordon. John, Ross, 1833 : son of Richard ; died 
February 15. 1880, aged seventy-eight; buried 
east of Grape Grove. 

Gordon. Robert. Ross. 1840; son of John; died in 
Ross township in 1859; Mav, 1837, married Sarah 
Logan. 

Gordon. Charles. Ross. 1840; son of John; died in 
1878, aged sixty-two ; buried east of Grape 
Grove. 

Golding, Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1804. 

Golding. John. Caesar's Creek. 1840: born February 
9. 1810: died March. 1890; buried in Jamestown, 
Ohio. 

Gorham. Isaac. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Gorham. John. Silver Creek, 1840. 

Gorham. David. Silver Creek. 1840: born in 181 1 ; 
died in 1893: buried at Port William. 

Gorham. Joshua. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Good. John. Xenia, 1806; lieutenant in 1812; re- 
moved to Sidney, Ohio. 

Good, William, Silver Creek. 1840; -April 22, 1840, 
married .\bby Steen. 

Good. Philip. Xenia. 1816: built the north addition 
to the old Collier House: died in 1824. 

Good. Dr. Samuel M.. Xenia, 1816: born in Char- 
lotte county, Virginia. September 2. 1785 ; died 
June 29. 1820. .at Madison, Indiana. 

Good. Dr. Henry. Xenia. 1817; from \'irginia. 

Good. Dr. Henry Jones. Xenia, 1818: son of Samuel 
and Mary Collier Good; born .April 6, 1793; 
died July 10. 1879: soldier of 1812. 

Good, Patrick, James, Xenia, 1820; removed to Sid- 
ney, Ohio; born Mav 10. 1798; died October 17, 
1862 ; buried at Sidney, Ohio ; July 3. 1822, mar- 
ried Mary Whiteman. 

Good. Samuel. Xenia, 1830. 

Good. Samuel. Jr.. Xenia. 1840 ; died July 21, 1873, 
aged fifty-eight: February 18, 1836. married Bar- 
bary Myers. 

Good. John. Xenia. 1840: July 12. 1839. married 
Matilda Cantrell. 

Goodnight. Jacob. Xenia. 1S40. 

Goodfellow. Wm.. Bath, 1830; March iS, 1830, 
married Catharine Casad. 

Godfrev. Thomas, Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Goodwin, Daniel, Sugar Creek, 1822: .August 29, 
1822, married Mary Biddle. 

Goe, -Alice. Xenia. iSii; died February 14. 1849. 
aged eighty-three; buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Goe. Samuel. Xenia. 181 1; from Kentucky; died 
October 14. 1814. aged forty-seven; buried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Goe. James, Xenia, 1816. 

Goe. Thomas. Xenia. 1818; died August 16, 1865; 
buried in Woodland. 

Goe. Thomas. Jr., Xenia. 1819; died at Cairo, Illi- 
nois, March 15, 1873, aged seventy- eight; buried 
in Woodland. 

Goe, John, Xenia, 1819; .April 27, 1824, tnarried 
Catharine Crawford. 

Golden. John. Jasper. 1840; died at New Jasper, 
March 8. 1880, aged seventy. 

Golden. James, Bath, 1829. 

Gott, John, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 



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Goldsljy. John. Sr.. Bath. 1807. 

Goldsby. John. Batli. 1807; soldier of 1812, under 
Capt. Morrow. 

Goldsby, Edward. Bath. 1807. 

Goldsby. William. Bath. 1807; soldier of 1812. un- 
der Capt. Stewart. 

Goldsby, Bridge M.. Bath. 1807; soldier of 1812, 
under Capt. Morrow. 

Goldsby. Widow. Miami. i8oQ. 

Goldsby, Sarah. Miami. 1809. 

Golds!)'- John. Miami. i8og. 

Gtildsby. George. Miami. i8og: soldier of 1812, under 
Capt. Stewart. 

(ioldsby. Minta B.. Miami. i8og. 

Goldsby. Edward P.. Miami. 1808. 

Gotton. Aaron, Bath. 1840. 

(jotton. Abraham, Bath, 1840. 

Goodrich. JJenry. Rots, 1820; May 10. 1821. mar- 
ried Anna Pharis. 

Go<idhart. Fredrick. Ross. 1813. 

Crollier. Nathaniel. Bath. 1840. 

Gray. Philip. Silver Creek; died October 12, 1870, 
aged seventy-nine. 

Gray. William. Sugar Creek. 1806: June 25, 1834, 
married Mary White. 

Gray, Jesse. 1830: July 9, 1833. married Mary Gray. 

Gray. Samuel. Xenia. 181 1; tanner in Xenia in 
1815; yard on Third street. No. 173. 

Gray. Matthias, Beaver Creek, 1808; son of Abra- 
ham; Ira Hunt was his grandson, and was a 
resident of Butler county. Ohio. 

Gray. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1810; a tanner; had an 
apprentice by the naine of Clem Shockley ; mar- 
ried Sarah Wallace. 

Gray. Henry. Beaver Creek, 1810; soldier of 1812, 
under Capt. Shingledccker ; died in 1840; buried 
on the fariri of Samuel Andrew. 

Gray, John. Beaver Creek. 181 1; son of Abraham 
and Jane Gray. 

Gray. .Abraham. iBeavcr Creek. 1813: soldier of 
1812 under Capt. Shingledeckcr ; died in 1820; 
buried on .Samuel .Xndrcw's farm. 

Gray, Jane. Beaver Creek. 1820; wife of .Mirahani ; 
buried on Samuel Andrew's fariu ; died in 1824. 

Gray. Daniel, Beaver Creek. 1840; son of .\bra- 

* ham and Jane Grav; December 26, 1841, mar- 
ried Catharine White. 

Gray. Lewis, Bath, 181 1. 

Gray, Amos, Bath. iSii. 

Gray. Thomas. Bath. 1811 ; March 12. 1841. mar- 
ried Martha W'hite. 

Geant. Isaac. Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Grant. James. Sugar Creek. 181 1. 

Grant, Robert. Caesar's Creek. 1813; soldier of 1812; 
died September 14. 1856. at Monmouth. Illinois, 
aged sixty-four; May 19, 1814. married Jane 
Barnet. 

Grant, Henry, Miaiui. i8.;o. 

Grant. William, iRoss, 1840; died December 10, 
1885, aged seventy; buried at Yellow Springs. 

Grant. John. Cae.sar's Creek. 1840 ; died October, 
1875; February 11. 1830, married Eliza Mann. 

Grewell. Jacob, Sugar Creek, 181 3. 

Griffith. William. Sugar Creek. 1830; died in 1849, 
aged fifty-three ; buried in Mercer graveyard, 
south of Xenia, on the Burlington p'.ke. 



Griffith. George. Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Griffith. George W., Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Sam- 
uel ; from Loudoun county, Virginia ; torn in 
1813: died October 13, 1881. aged seventy-three; 
a miller; buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Griffith Daniel. Sugar Creek. 1813 ; soldier of 1812; 
Capt. Robert .McClellan. 

Griffith. Beniamin. Caesar's Creek. 1827; April 17, 

1825. married Susanna Faulkner. 

Griffith. Laac. Silver Creek. 1830; July 17. 1834, 

married Paulcna Johnson. 
Griffith. William. Caesar's Creek, 1828. 
Griffith. James, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 
Griffithe, Beniamin, Silver Creek, 1830. 
Griffithe N. J., Silver Creek. iS.io. 
Gross. John, Bath. 1840; buried in Cost graveyard, 

near Fairfield; Decetnber 5. 1833. married Slar- 

garet Cost. 
Gross. T., Sugar Creek, 1840. 
Greene. John. Sugar Creek 1819; August 10, 1837, 

married .'\nn Mercer. 
Greene. Israel. Sugar Creek, 1826; September 5, 

1826, married Tabitha Harris. 
Greene. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Greene. Nathan, Caesar's Creek, 1828 ; died in 1867 ; 
June 10, 1822. married Rebecca Wright. 

Greene. James W.. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Greene. Timothy. Beaver Creek. 1806; soldier of 
1812. under Capt. Fergu.son ; January 15, 1804, 
iriarried Hulda Webb. 

Greene. John. Beaver Creek, 1813; soldier of 1812, 
under Capt. Ferguson. 

Greene. Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1840; buried at Fair- 
field, Ohio. 

(jreene, Joshua. Bath, 1821. 

Greene, Dr. Randolph R.. Bath. 1826: son of 
George; born in Pennsylvania in 1787; died in 
1812; father of Dr. John Greene, born in 1825; 
January 2i. 1840. married Harriett Gatrell. 

Greene, William. Silver Creek, 1828. 

Greene. Thomas D.. Silver Creek, 1828; died No- 
vember 6, 1867, aged seventy-six; buried in Union 
churchvard, Byron, Ohio. 

Grimes. James. Bath, 1807. 

Grimes, Samuel, Bath. 1807; soldier of 1812. un- 
der Capt. Davis. 

Grimes. John. Bath, 1807 ; was an uncle of Samuel. 

Grimes, Arthur, Bath. 1807. 

Grimes. Thomas. Beaver Creek. 1S17; died in 1870, 
aged eighty; buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Grimes. Dr. \Vm. H.. Sugar Creek. 1840; removed 
to Kansas in i8s4; 'lied at Atchision in February, 
1871. 

Grimes. John. Jr., Bath. 1840. 

(irover. Josiah. Xenia, 1804 ; .succeeded his brother- 
in-law, John Paul, as clerk of courts of Greene 
county, Ohio, in 1809; removed to Madison, 
Indiana, in 1829. 

(jrover Benjamin. Xenia. 1804; brother of Josiah; 
taught school in Xenia in 1805, next lot to 
Mrs. Judge Cooper's residence. 

Grover, Abraham, Xenia. 1826; eldest son of Josiah 
Grover; removed to Madison. Indiana. 

Grover. John P.. Xenia. 1826 • removed to Madison, 
Indiana; August 27. 1835. married Juliet Beall. 

Grover, James L., Xenia, 1829 ; for seven years 



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clerk of courts of Greene county : removefl to 

Colunib-s. Oliio: October 13. 1830. married Xan- 

cv A. Alexander. 
Griffin. Joseph, Silver Creek. 181 1: soldier of 1812, 

under Capt. John Watson. 
Griffin, Henry, Caesar"s Creek, 1817. 
Griffin. Allen, Caesar's (Creek. jS^o: January 2. 

1839. married Hester Cain. 
Griffin. William, Caesar's Creek. 1820. 
Griffin, Peter, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Griffin. David. Bath, iSog: soldier of 1812; school 

teacher in Bath township. 
Graham. Edward. Caesar's Creek, 1807; October 18. 

1842. married Eliza Lucas. 
Graham. William. Caesar's Creek. 1826; February 

2. 1820, married Elstee Stewart. 
Graham. Thomas, Caesar's Creek, i82g: April 29, 

1828. married Mary Stafford. 

Graham, John, Xenia. 1807: soldier of 1812. under 
Capt. Stevenaon. 

Graham, Joseph. Xenia. 1807. 

Graham, Edward. Jr.. Xenia, 1816. 

Graham. John. Miami. i8oq: from Virginia; died 
in Miami township in 1839. 

Greives. Archibald. Xenia. 1816; from Scotland : born 
in 1775; died Xovember 25, 1852. aged seventy- 
seven : buried in Caesar's Creek cemetery. 

Graves. Moses R., Xenia. 1840: died March 22. 
1868, aged eighty : buried in Woodland. 

Gregg. John, Sr.. Xenia. 1806; from Pennsylvania: 
lieutenant in war of Revolution: died June 15, 
1834, aged eighty-seven : buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard (Stevenson's'), 

Gregg. David. Xenia, 1835: died in 183.^: buried in 
Massie's Creek. 

Gregg. John. Jr.. Xenia. 1835; died September 13. 
1881. aged ^ixty-nine : buried in Woodland: Aug- 
ust 5. 1835. married Isabel Brown. 

Gregg, Wesley, Xenia. 1840: grandson of Philip 
Davis ; January 5. 1836. married Martha Hook : 
buried on Heath farm. 

Gregg. Smith, Xenia, 1813. 

Gregg, .'^bner. Miatni. iSjo. 

Griner, George, Xenia, t8i2. 

Griner, John, Beaver Creek, 1813: December 2, 

1829, married Maria Woodward. 

Griner. Jacob. Bath. 1827; died at Dayton. Ohio, 
January 11, 18^2: buried at Fairfield, Ohio. 

Griner. Daniel. Bath. 1827. 

Griner. J<ihn. Jr.. Bath. 1840. 

Gregory, Joshua, Ross. 181 5: soldier lof 1812. 

Gregory. Daniel. Ross. 1821. 

Gre'gory. William, Bath. 1806. 

Gregory, Henry. Miami. 1830. 

Gregory, Ben.iamin. Xenia. iS.'.o. 

Gregory, Jesse D.. Xenia, 1840: died February, 1859. 
aged sixty-three; buried in Woodland, Xenia 
Ohio. 

Greenwood. Robert, Xenia. i8ig: died June ;2. 
1879. aged ciehty-one" buried in Woodland. 

Greenleaf, W. K.. Xenia, 1828. 

Grow, .\braham. Xenia. 1827. 

Grow. Samuel. Xenia, 1840. 

Grow, Jacob, Miami, 1840; March 20. 1825, mar- 
ried Susanna Long. 

Grove^. James. Bath, 1840. 



Grummond. Daniel. Bath. 1807. 

Greer. John J.. Caesar's Creek, 1828: October 22, 
1829, married Jane Lucas. 

Grummond, James. Bath. 1807. 

Grindle, lobn, Miami, 1813 : removed to Indiana. 

Grindle, Henry, Miami, 1817; died December 30, 
1875. aged eighty-four: buried in Cedarville cem- 
etery: married Elizabeth McMichael. 

Grindle. Jacob. Miami. 1817; buried in Folck grave- 
yard. Bath township. 

Grindle. Jacob. Jr., Miami. 1819: buried in Folck 
graveyard. 

Grindle. Jonathan, Miami. 1821 ; died at aiunly in- 
firmary. 

Grindle, Ben.iamin. Miami, 1830: removed to Terre 
Haute, Indiana: February 13, 1823, married Cath- 
arine Miller. 

Grindle. Conrad, Bath, 1827; removed to Marion. 
Indiana: August 21. 1822, married Susanna Kir- 
endale. 

Grindle. Daniel. Bath. 1828: buried at Clifton, Ohio; 
November 16, 1830, married Sarah Griffin. 

Grindle. Samuel. Bath, 1840; in 1899 yet living in 
Yellow Springs ; Januarv 2, 1842, married Marv 
Miller. 

Grouer, Dr. John. Bath, 1840. 

Grisinger, George, Bath, 1840. 

Guthridge, Rev. John, Bath. 1828: from Pennsyl- 
vania: father-in-law of Dr. John Greene; born 
in 1782, died in 1858; buried in Fairfield. Ohio. 

Guthridge, John. Bath, 1828; died in Bath township 
in 1829. 

Guthridge. .\lfred. Bath. 1829: Marcli 16. 1830. 
married Kesiah Sutton. 
zXiuthrie. William. Xenia, 1840. 

(juthrie, Cephus. Xenia. 1829; .\ugust 19. 1830, mar- 
ried Rachel Babb. 

Guthrie. James. Bath. 1840: died in i860: buried at 
Fairfield. Ohio. 

Guffey. James. Miami. 1810: .\pril 20, 1S13, married 
Elizalieth .Andrew. 

Guffey. .Mexander. Miami. iSio. 

Guffey. James, Caesar's Creek, 1813; .soldier of 
1812; will recorded in 1823: February 22. 1820, 
married Mary Coleman. 

Gurley. Moses. Beaver Creek. 1812: died March 25, 
1818. aged seventy: buried in Beaver cemetery. 

Gurley. James, Beaver Creek, 1840 : died November 
14. r88i : buried in Beaver Creek cemetery. 

Gibney. .-Mexander, Xenia, 1840: died June 17, 1870, 
aged sixty-eight: buried in Woodland. 

Gibney, John. Sr., 1840; Xenia. from England: died 
December 7, 1871, aged seventy-five: buried in 
Woodland. 

Gibney. John. Xenia, 1840; a tailor; died November 
I, 1894. aged seventy-four: buried in Woodland; 
.soldier in Civil War. 

Hail, John, Bath. 1805; December 28. 1824. married 
.Asenath Searl. 

Hail. Milton. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Hale. .Manson. Ross. i8.?4: December 31. 1835. mar- 
ried Tliaresa Whitley. 

Hale. George. Beaver Creek ■ born September i.i, 
1788: died July I. 1844; buried in Beaver Creek 
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Hale. Joseph. Sugar Creek. 180,;: born in Maryland 
in 1770; came from Maryland to Kentucky.- 
thence to Greene county: died in Miami county, 
Indiana, in 1848; married Jennie Bowen. 
Hale. John. Sugar Creek, 1803: M)ldiicr of 1812, 
under Capt. Maltbie: removed to Indiana in 
1838: born November 25. 1775; died September 
25, 1845; aged sixty-nine. 
Hale. Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1805; removed to Clin- 
ton county, Todd's Fork ; a stonemason ; drowned 
near the falls of the Ohio. 
Hale. Josiah. Sugar Creek, 1805: Xovcmbcr 13, 
1807, married Eva Devoe, by John McKnight. 
Justice of Peace. 
Hale, James, Sugar Creek, 1805: aon of James and 
Catherine; removed to Indiana: Noveniljer 6, 
1806. married .Sarah Garrison; March 20, 1827, 
married Clarasa Onedykc. 

Hale. Silas. Sugar Creek. i8o6: son of James and 
Catherine: born in 1781 : died near Laportc. In- 
diana, in 1844. 

Hale. Bowen. Sugar Creek. 1822: son of John: re- 
moved to Bluffton. Indiana: born July 4. 1801 ; 
died July 28. 1888. 

Hale. James. Sugar Creek. 1826: son of John: born 
June 26. : died April 5, 1880. 

Hale. Sila.s. Jr., Sugar Creek, 1824; son of John: 
horn August 26. 1803: died June 20. l88g. aged 
eightv-fivc: buried in Bellbnxik cemetery; July 
20. 1830. married Marion Opdyke. 

Hatfield. Matthew, Beaver Creek. 181 1 : soldier of 
1812. 

Hatfield. William, Sugar Creek, I'8o6. 

Halficld. Ivan. Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Hatfield, Leaven, Sugar Creek, 1806: soldier of 
1812, under Capt. Clark. 

Hatfield. Morgan. Sugar Creek, 1840: removed to 
Clark county, Ohio, 

Hatfield, John. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Hatfield. Ge/jrge A., Bath. 1834: Decemlier 2g. 1835, 
married Mary A. Licklider. 

Hatfield. Nathaniel. Beaver Creek. 1806: soldier of 
1812. under Capt. Galloway: removed to Clark 
county. Ohio. 

Hargrave. Fredrick, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Hargrave, Burr. Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Haro'rave. Nerbert. Sugar Creek. 1840: from North 
Carolina: born in 1805: died November 8. i86g. 
aged sixty-five: buried in Bowersville cemetery; 
hme 22. 1835. married Mitty Oliver. 

Hardvvick. Charles, Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Hardwick. Thfimas. Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Hardwick. William. Sugar Creek. 1806: November 
15. tSo6. married Elizabeth Parmer. 

Hardacre. Benjamin. Sugar Creek. 1840: died in 
187J. aged fiftv-two; buried in Mercer grave- 
yard, south of Xenia ; married Elizabeth Burrell. 

Hardacre. Acnuilla. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Hardsook. George. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1815: die<l 
July 7. 1852. aged eighty-one: buried in Bellbrook 
cemetery. 

Hardsook. George. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1828: died in 
i860: buried in Mercer graveyard. 

Hardsook. William. Sugar Creek. 1815: soldier of 
1812: di«d in i860, aged seventy-six. buried in 
Mercer graveyard. 



Hardsook. David. Sugar Creek. 1840; died in Spring 
Valley township June 11. 1885. 

Hardsook, Elijah, Sugar Creek, 1840: son of 
George, Sr. ; died September 7. 1877, aged eighty ; 
buried at Mt. Holly. 

Hardso<:)k. John. Caesar's Creek. 1840: February 6, 
1834. married Elizabeth Brown. 

Hardsook, Elijah B.. Sugar Creek. 1830: born in 
Maryland February 28, 1798: died .April n, 
1863. aged sixty-five ; buried in Elcazer church- 
yard. 

Hardsook. Elias. Sugar Creek, 1815: born June g. 
1808; died June 12, 1838, aged thirty: buried 
near Bellbr/iok. 

Hamilton. William. Sugar Creek, 1806; died De- 
cember 12. 1842. aged seventy-two; buried in 
Woodland; soldier of 1812. 

Hamilton, James. Sugar Creek, 1826 ; died Scptcm- 
lier 14, 1879, aged seventy-eight ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Hamilton. Frank. Sugar Creek. 1840 ; from Mary- 
land: died October 20. 1875, aged sixty-six: bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Hamilton. Adam. Sugar Creek. 1S26. 

Hamilton. Joseph. Sugar Creek. 1826. 

Hamilton. John. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Hamilton. .Abraham. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

Hamilton. W'm.. Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Hamilton. John B.. Xenia. 1826. 

Hamilton. Samuel. Xenia, 1827; died in Xenia in 
i83.> 

Hamilton. Robert. Xenia. 1828; January 4. 1821, 
married Elizabeth Beckett. 

Hamilton. John. Beaver Creek. 1817; September 17. 
1840. married Anna Mallow. 

Hamilton. Robert. Beaver Creek. 181S; January 5. 
1825. married Haddesa Gilespie. 

Hamilton. Henry A.. Xenia. 1834: born in Frede- 
rick county. Maryland. January 20. 1801 ; died 
.April 5. 1S61. aged sixty; buried in Woodland. 

Hamilton. Beniamin. Miami. 1820. 

Hanrilton. Lewis. Miami. iS.io. 

Hamilton. John W.. Miami. 1840: died March 19. 
i8gi. aged sevenlv : buried in Yellow Springs. 
Ohio. 

Havvke. John, Sugar Creek, 181 1; soldier of 1812. 
under Capt. Maltbie. 

Havvke. Devaulr. Sugar Creek. 1817: soldier of 
1812. under Cant. McClellan: February 14. 1822, 
married Mary Hawkins. 

Hawke. Felix. Sugar Creek, 1826; March 15. 1827, 
married Mary Byrd. 

Hawke. Daniel. Xenia. 1826' August 9. 1827. mar- 
ried Mary Bull. 

Haines. Jonathan. Sugar Creek. 1812: from Wash- 
ington coimty. Maryland: son of Jacob: died 
May 16. 1884; buried at Mt. Zion. 
Haines. Daniel. Sugar Creek. 1810. 
Haines. Wesley. Beaver Creek. 1828; September 3. 

1829. married Susan Engle. 
Haines. Ezra, Sugar Creek, 1840: from New Jer- 
sey; the father of Mrs. Rolla Davis; died in 

1884. December 3; buried at Bellbrook. Ohio; 
February 26. 1833. married Susan Dunwiddie. 

Haines. John W.. Beaver Creek. 1840; died May t, 

1885. aged seventy; buried at Beaver churchyard. 



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Haines. Samuel. Sugar Creek. :840. 

Haines, Ira. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Haines. Benjamin. Xenia. 1804: soldier of 1812; re- 
moved to Pekin. Illinois: entered the Henry 
Conklin farm. 

Haines. Henry. Xenia, 1804; father of Benjamin; 
died in 1807; September 2. 1813. married Nancy 
West. 

Haines. Jeremiah. Xenia, 1819. 

Haines. Aaron, Xenia. 1826. 

Haines. William J.. Xenia. 1840: November 25. 1841. 
married Elizabeth Lipencott. 

Haines. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1840: son of Zimri : 
born October 24. 1818; March 17. 1842, married 
Mary Bales. 

Haines, Noah. Caesar's Creek, 1804. 

Haines, Nathan, Caesar's Creek. 1816: died Septem- 
ber 18. 1861. aged fifty-nine; buried at Lumber- 
ton. Ohio. 

Haines, Stacey, Caesar's Creek. 1816; son of John, 
whose will was reoorded in 1823. 

Haines. Zimri. Caesar's Creek. 1810; from New Jer- 
sey; born July II. 178Q: died August 27, 1868, 
aged seventy-nine : buried in New Hope, near 
Paintersville, Ohio. 

Haines. Clayton. Caesar's Creek. 1840; buried in 
New Hope cemetery. 

Haines. David F.. Xenia. 1820; son of John, Sr. ; 
died at Muncie. Indiana. February. 1900; buried 
at Beach Grove. 

Haines. Israel. Xenia. 1820; son of John; died in 
1825; Stacey Haines appointed the administrator 
of his estate. 

Haines. Thomas H.. Xenia. 1826; died August 17. 
1876. aged fifty-five : buried in Hawker's church- 
yard ; January .30. 1824. married Esther Rush. 

Haines. Jonathan. Caesar's Creek ; died in 1823. 

Haines. Reuben. Xenia. 182^: April 21, 1825, mar- 
ried Nancy Connelly. 

Haines. Elizabeth. Xenia, 1830. 

Haines. John. Xenia. 1840; died April 6. 1873. aged 
sixty-seven. 

Haines, .Abraham. Xenia, 1S13. 

Haines Daniel. Xenia. 1817: November 7, 1819. 
married Elizabeth Hathaway. 

Hanes. David. Beaver Creek. 1805; born in Mary- 
land: removed to Illinois. Menard county, in 
1842: died October 15, 1855. aged seventy; sol- 
dier of 1812. 

Hanes. Judge Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1807; associate 
judge from 1813 to 1818; died September 29. 
1S44. aged si.\ty-s!x ; buried in Beaver Creek 
cemetery. .Alpha. Ohio; soldier of 1812. 

Hanes. John, Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1808; died in Xenia 
township in 1S23. 

Hanes. John. Beaver Creek. 1808; died July 16. 
1894. aged seventy. 

Hanes. Noah. Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Hanes. Robert. Beaver Creek. 1809. 

Hanes. Adam. Beaver Creek. 1S13; from Wash- 
ington countv. Maryland ; died June 5. 1865, aged 
seventy-three • buried in Beaver Creek cemetery, 
Alpha; soldier of 1812. 

Hanes. Samuel B.. Beaver Creek. 1840; father of 
Luther, who was born October '6, 1828; son of 
.\dani. 



Hanes. Michael, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Hanes. Jacpb. Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1840; son of 
Jacob; died at his home near Alpha. March, 
1882. aged seventy-three ; buried at Mt. Zion. 

Hanes. Levi, Ross. 1807; killed by falling from a 
barn ; a carpenter : from Kentucky. 

Hanes. Nathan. Ross. 1819; from Frederick county, 
Maryland ; brother of Samuel ; removed to In- 
diana, where he died. 

Hanes. Samuel. Ross. 1820 : died May 8. 1858. aged 
seventy-two; buried in Cedarville cemetery; mar- 
ried Rebecca McClellan. 

Hanes. David. Beaver Creek. 1840; died December 
II. 1848. aged twenty-nine: buried in Beaver 
Creek churchvard. 

Hawkins. William. Sugar Creek. 1813 ; brother of 
Mounce Hawkins : removed to Palmira. Missouri. 

Hawkins. John. Sugar Creek. 1813; brother of 
Mounce and William; died in Sugar -Creek town- 
ship. 

Hawkins. James. Sugar Creek. 1824. 

Hawkins. Abraham. Sugar Creek. 1826; .August, 
1826. married Marv Bechtell. 

Hawkins. George. Sugar Creek. 1826. 

Hawkins. Philip. Sugar Creek. 1829: May 18. 1826, 
married Elizabeth Martin. 

Hawkins. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1840; September 27, 
1838. married Mary Andrews. 

Hawkins. Robert. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Hawkins. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1813. 

Hawkins. Mounce. Xenia. 1814; from Shenandoah, 
Virginia; born in 1797; died in 1834; buried in 
Woodland. 

Hawkins. Reuben. Xenia. 1840 ; son of Mounce ; died 
September 15. 1870. aged sixty; buried in Wood- 
land : married Lydia G. Fallis. 

Hawkins. Joseph. Xenia. 1830; son of Mounce; died 
at Paris. Illinois. March 17, 1872. aged sixty; 
buried in Woodland. 

Hawkins. Davis. Xenia. 1834; son of Mounce; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Hawkins. James. Xenia. 1840; son of Mounce; born 
in 1813; died in 1890; buried in Woodland. 

Hawkins. William. Xenia. 1840; son of Mounce; 
born in 1821 ; died in 1894; buried in Wixjdland. 

Hawkins. Samuel. Xenia. 1820; came from Guilford 
county. Tennessee, in 1800 : father of Mrs. J. F. 
Wichersham ; died in Columbus. December, 1S75. 

Hawkins. Milo. Xenia, 1840. 

Hawker. -Andrew. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1803 ; soldier 
of 1812: died .August 10. 1850. aged eighty-two; 
buried in Hawker churchyard. 

Hawker. Rev. Adam. Sugar Creek. 1813 ; son of 
.Andrew: born in 1813: died February 27. 1895, 
aged eighty-nne : buried in Hawker churchyard; 
November 12, 1836. married Hannah Westfall. 

Hawker. Samuel. Xenia. i8ig. 

Hawker. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1826; son of .Andrew, 
Sr. ; died near Lafayette. Indiana. 

Hawker. Fredrick. Beaver Creek. 1826: son of 
.Andrew: died March 18. 1874. aged si.xty-nine; 
buried in Hawker churchyard: married Sarah 
Ritter. 

Hawker. David. Beaver Creek. 1826; died Novem- 
ber 12. 1864. agecV sixty-four; buried at Mt. 
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Hawker. Abraham. Bath. 1820: son of Andrew. Sr. : 
died in 185J; hitried in Hawker churchyard; 
January g. 1840, married Clemon.s. 

Hawker. Otto. Beaver Creek. 1808; son of Andrew. 

Harrison. Jolm F.. 1840; died in Selma, Ohio, in 
187s, aged seventy-one. 

Harrison. William. Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Harrison. James P.. Xenia, 1840; died in Cedarville 
township in 186,^. 

Harrison. George H.. Xenia. 1834; from V'irginia ; 
born February. i8og ; removed to Floyd county. In- 
diana, in i8.?9: married Sarah Paul Grover ; died 
ait New Albany in 1854. 

Harrison. William. Sugar Creek, 7817. 

Harrison. Peter, Caesar's Creek. 1840; born in 1814; 
died in 1879; buried at New Burlington, Ohio. 

Hand. William. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1817; died in 
1819: Pliebe. his wife. 

Hand. Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1817: son of William 
and Phebe. 

Hand. Benjamin. Sugar Creek. i8ig; son of William 
and Phebe. 

Hand. Phebe. Sugar Creek, 1820: widow of William 
Hand. 

Hand. Samuel, Miami, 1826: son of William and 
Phebe. 

Hand. John. Miami. 18,30; died in Miami township 
in 1837; son of William and Phebe. 

Harman. George, Miami. 1826: from Augusta coun- 
ty. Virginia. 

Harman. William. Miarrvi, 1824. 

Harman. Henry. Miami. 1824: born September 10, 
180.V. died June 2. 1885, aged eighty-two; buried 
at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Harman, James, Miami, 1840. 

Harman. David, Miami. 1840. 

Haughn, Isaac. Sugar Creek. 1829. 

Haywood. Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Hare. Philip. Xenia, 1830. 

Harr. Beniamin. Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Harr, Phebe, Siigar Creek, 1830. 

Harr, Jacob. Sugar Creek. 1840: from Maryland; 
died at Mantou. Portage countv. Ohio. Mav, 
1877. 

Harr, Joseph, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Harr, David, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Hanlev. .Alexander. Xenia. 1840 ; removed to Pax- 
ton. Illinois. 

Hanley. .\braham. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Hanlcy. William. Xenia. 1813; died at Paxton. Illi- 
nois. 

Hanley. John M., Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Hanley. William. Xenia, 1840. 

Hanley. Clement. Xenia. 1840. 

Hanley. John. Silver Creek 1840. 

Harper. Robert W.. Xenia. 1832; from Virginia; 
died June 10, 1881, aged seventy-one; buried in 
Woodland. 

Harper. James. Beaver Creek. 1811 : soldier of 1812; 
Capl. Ferguson. 

Harper. Hugh. i8jo: died May 31, 1864. aged eighty. 

Harper. Hugh. Caesar's Creek. 1840; brother of 
James W. ; died September 13, i8.i4. aged fifty- 
three ; buried in Caesar's Creek churchyard, west 
of Jarnestown, Ohio ; married Mary Currie. 



Harper, .\ndrew. Caesar's Creek. 1830; removed to 
Brandon, Mississippi, in 1834: twin brother of 
William C. Harper; died in Xenia. May 5, 1852, 
aged si.xty-four. 

Harper. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1840: died April 
19. 1854. aged sixty-two; buried in Woodland; 
soldier of 1812. 

Harper. Richard. Xenia, i8ig. 

Harper. James F., Xenia, 1840; June 29. 1837. mar- 
ried Mary Greave. 

Harper. John, Sr., Ross. 1804; from Harper's 
Ferry. Virginia: grandfather of George W. Har- 
per; died in Ross township in 1820; soldier of 
the Revolution. 

Harper. John M., Ross. 1819; died September, 1875; 
buried in Jamestown, Ohio. 

Harper. Thomas. Ross. 1812; died January 8. 1875, 
aged eighty-two: father of George W. Harper; 
.May 24. 1818. married Mary Sirlott. 

Harper. Robert M.. Ross, 1820; died June 10. i88r, 
aged seventy; buried in Woodland. 

Harper. Elijah, Ross. 1821 ; buried in Bloxsome 
graveyard, near Selma, Clark county. Ohio ; Aug- 
ust 12. 1822. married Rebecca Branson. 

Harper. Joseph. Ross. 1826: .-^pril 11, 182;. married 
Patsey Fallis. 

Harper. Wm. C, Ross, 1828; removed to Brandon, 
Mississippi. 

Harper. George, Ross. 1820; died January 6. i8;8, 
aged seventy-two; buried at Clifton, Ohio. 

Harper. Joseph. Jr.. Ross. 1828; April 13. 1826, mar- 
ried Xaomi Bilderback. 

Harper, Parker B.. 1830: December i. 1836. mar- 
ried Nancy Greave. 

Harper. .\nn, Ross, 1830. 

Harper. George C. Ross. i8jo; brother of James 
VV. ; died August 13. 1854, aged fifty-si.x: buried 
in Caesar's Creek churchyard : Mav 30, 1830, mar- 
ried Mary Morrow. 

Harper. James W.. Xenia. 1834: from Rockbridge 
county. Virginia; Ixjrii August 4. 1809; died 
December 25. 1893. aged eighty-five ; buried in 
Woodland: probate judge in Greene county, 
1852-1862; March 29. 18.39. married Jane Sheilds. 

Hall. Peter. Sugar Creek, 1819. 

Hall. John. Sugar Creek. 1819; May 9. 1823. married 
Su.san White. 

Hall. James, Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Hall. Jacob. Beaver Creek, 1805; March 26. 1805, 
luarried .Ann McGuire; May ij. 1828. married 
Susanna Coy. 1 

Hall. Henry. Beaver Creek. 1806. 

Hall John. Beaver Creek. 1806: soldier of 1812. 

Hall. David. Beaver Creek. 1806; died November 
8. 1866; buried in Pleasant Grove churchyard, 
Byron. Ohio. 

Hall. Moses. Beaver Creek, 1806; soldier of 1812; 
(lied January. 1880. aged eighty-si.x ; buried in 
Ca-ad graveyard. Fairfield. 

Hall. Richard. Bath. 1807: the great hunter of Batli 
township; said to have killed six deer a day. 

Hall. Saiuuel. Bath. 181 1; from New Jersey; died 
F"ebruary 10. 1890. aged eightv-niiie ; buried at 
Clifton. Ohio. 

Hall. Reuben. Bath. 1813. 



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Hall, Alfred. Bath, 1813. 

Hall. Moses, Bath, 1840: June 18. 18.37. married 
iMary Casad. 

Hall. Rev, George W.. Xen's 1840: December 22, 
18.36. married Caitharine Kyle. 

Hall. Isaac. Sugar Creek. 1840: October 28. 1831, 
married^ Sarah Dunn. 

Haws. Edmond. Sugar Creek. 1822 ; from Connecti- 
' cut; died June 13. 1849. aged forty-eight: buried 
in Middle Run churchyard, south of Bellbronk : 
father of Judge James Haws, of Xenia. 

Harbison, John. Caesar's Creek. 1818: died at Leav- 
enworth. Kansas, .August 10, 1873, aged eighty- 
three. 

Harbison. William, Xenia. i82g_: from Chester coun- 
ty. South Carolina; died March 14. 1874. aged 
seventy-two; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Harbison. Robert, Xenia. 1826; from South Caro- 
lina; father of John and Joseph; removed to 
North'wood, Logan county : buried near North- 
wood : soldier of the Revolution. 

Harbison. Matthew, Xenia, 1840. 

Harbison. Joseph H.. Xenia. 1840; soldier of 1812: 
died October 29. 1876. aged eighty-o*ne ; buried 
in Woodland ; married Margaret Hoop October 
10. 1S22. 

Harbison. John H.. Beaver Creek. 1819; September 

16. 1819, married Elizabeth Perkins. 
Harbison. John. Miami. 1827; born in South Caro- 
lina May I.?. 17S2: died March 28. 1862. 

Harbison. James. Miami. 1826: from Chester Dis- 
trict. South Carolina; died August 1. i8go. aged 
seventy-si.x ; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery, 
Cedarville. 

Harbison. .Alexander. Miami. 1821 ; died September 

17. 1849, aged forty-nine. 

Harris. Joel, Caesar's Creek. 1840; died in Xenia. 
September 17, 184CJ. aged forty-nine; .August 9, 
18.35. married Charlotte Compton. 

Harris, Stewart. Caesar's Creek. 1807 ; died January 
9. 1869, aged eighty-four; buried at Bowcrsvillc, 
Ohio: soldier of 1812. 

Harris, Stephen, Caesar's Creek, 1820. 

Harris. Herbert. Caesar's Creek. 1826. 

Harris. Leonard. Caesar's Creek. 1826. 

Harris, Asa, Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Harris. .Asa B.. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Harris, Evan. Caesar's Creek, 1821 ; school teacher 
at Bowersville. 1824-1825; died January 21, 1861, 
aged sixty-one. 

Harris. Francis. Esq.. Xenia. 1840; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Harton. Edward. Caesar's Creek, 1817; a native 
of Ireland ; a member of Rev. John Steele's 
church; died at the infirmarv. aged ninetv. Mav. 
1869. 

Harness. Philip. Caesar's Creek. 1826; died Sep- 
tember 11. 1845. aged forty-five; buried in Shook 
graveyard; May i. 1828. married Lydia Kyle. 

Harness. John. Caesar's Creek. 1827; from V'irginia; 
died in 1862. 

Harness. Asa. Caesar's Creek, j&'o; born October 
26, 1825; died November 3. 1900. aged seventy- 
five. 

Harness. Michael. Caesar's Creek. 1828: June 18. 
1S29. married Frances Bason. 



Harnes.s. Anthony. Caesar's Creek. 18.30: Septem- 
ber 15, 1836, married Sally Straight. 

Harness. Jesse. Miami. 1840. 

Harness, Peter. Silver Creek. 1830; died March 21, 
1873. aged seventy-one : buried at Jamestown, 
Ohio; .Aiiril 19. 1824. married Susanna Shook. 

Harness. John. Sdver Creek. 1830. 

Harness. Fredrick. Silver Creek. 1830; July 27, 1835, 
married Rosanna McDill. 

Hanby. Elisha. Caesar's Creek, 1815. 

Hagler. Eva. Caesar's Creek. 1816; born Septem- 
ber 29. 1742; died November 2. 1842; buried at 
Tabor : widow of Boston Hagler. 

Hagler. Boston. Caesar's Creek. 1816. 

Hagler. Leonard. Caesar's Creek. 1819: died January 
18. 1831, aged sixty-six; buried in Shook grave- 
yard. 

Hagler. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1820: from \'ir- 
. ginia : died .August 7. 1880. aged eighty-tive ; 
married .Anna, daughter of Jacob Fudge, of War- 
ren county, Ohio. 

Hagler. Leonard. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1825; from 
Virginia ; eldest son of Leonard, Sr. 

Hagler, George. Caesar's Creek. 1825. 

Hagler, Eli, Caesar's Creek, 1825; .son of Leon- 
ard ; died March 28. 1855. aged forty-six : buried 
in Shook graveyard. 

Hagler. .Abraham. Caesar's Creek. 1S15: eldest son 
of Jacob. Sr. 

Hagler, Jacob, Sr,, Xenia, 1816; died in Caesar's 
Creek township in 1829: October 8, 1829, mar- 
ried Malinda Paullin. 

Hagler, Jacob D.. Xenia. 1827; son of Jacoli, Sr. ; 
December 10. 18.39. married Julia .A. Richards 

Hagler. Joseph. Bath. 1840. 

Hagler, Isaac, Caesar's Creek, 1829; second son of 
Jacob. Sr. 

Hagler, Henry C, 1840: died in Caesar's Creek 
township in 1865. 

Harry. Samuel. Xenia, 1822: son of James, who 
died in Marvland ; died March 22. 1867. aged 
seventy-five: buried in Woodland; .soldier of 
1812; ex-sheriff of Greene county. 

Harry. David. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Hamill. Robert. Xenia. 1824: born in Bedford coun- 
ty. Pennsylvania. December 25. 1776: died May 
24. i860, aged eighty-four; buried in Woodland. 

Hamill. Joseph. Sr.. Xenia. 1807; born at McCon- 
nelstown. Pennsylvania. December 10, 1778: 
died March i. 1838: buried in Woodland; soldier 
of 1812: wife. Margaret. 

Hamill. Hugh. Xenia. 1810: l>orn July 16. 1781 ; died 
September 26. 1847; buried in Woodland; soldier 
of 1812. 

Hamill. .Adam B.. Xenia. 1840; removed to Hen- 
derson county. Illinois: son of Robert. 

Hamill. Robert. Jr.. Xenia. 1840: died May 4. i860, 
aged eighty-seven ; buried in V\'t>odland. 

Hamill. James. Xenia. 1840: .August .30. 1842. mar- 
ried Mary \'an Eaton ; son of Joseph. Sr.. born 
in 1816: died in 1840: buried in Woodland. 

Hamill. Joseph. Jr., Xenia. i8jo; soldier in late 
Civil War. Seventy-fourth Reg. Co. I): buried 
in .Savannah. Georgia. 

Hamill. John, Xenia, 1840: son of Joseph, Sr. 

Hamill. Robert C, Xenia. 1840; son of Joseph. Sr. 



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Haiiiill. John. Xcnia. 1840; >on of Hugli, died Aug- 
ust 8, 1874, aged fifty-three: buried in \V(i<idland. 

Hamill, Robert, Xcnia. 1840, 

Hamill. Joseph. Xenia, 1807: son of Robert. Sr. ; 
died December 26, 1886; buried in Woodland; 
aged sixty-three. 

Hays. Hanes. Xenia. 1807: son of Jonathan; re- 
moved to Warren county. Indiana ; soldier of 
1812. 

Hays. John. Xenia. i8io. 

Hays. Daniel B.. Xenia. 1820. 

Hankey. Samuel. Xenia. 1818. 

Hanna. Robert. Xenia. 1808; soldier of 1S12. under 
Capt. Davis. 

Hanna. Thomas. Xenia. 1829. 

Harrow. John. Ross. 1809; soldier of 1812. under 
Capt. Galloway. 

Harrow. Eleanor. Ros.s. 1810. 

Halstead. James. Xen;a. 1818. 

Hanncl. John. Xenia. 1810. 

Hawton. James. Xenia. i8ig. 

Hawton. Henry, Xenia. i8ig; kept tavern in Xenia 
in 1819. 

Hawton, Reuben. Bath. 1840. 

Haughey, .'Mexandcr. Xenia. 180J. 

Haughey, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1819. 

Haugliey. Thomas, Silver Creek, 1818; soldier of 
the Revolution; from Virginia: died .April 17. 
1847. aged eighty-seven; buried in Husscy grave- 
yard. 

Haugltey. John, Silver Creek. 1818; from Virginia; 
son of Thomas ; died December 6, 1876, aged 
eighty-seven ; buried in Hussey graveyard. 

Haughey. Bernard. Silver Creek. 1826. 

Haughey. Andrew M., Silver Creek. 1827; January 
10. 1828, married Ann January: died February 
14, 1875. aged seventy: buried in ]hissey grave- 
yard. Bowersville. 

Haugh'cy, John. Jr.. Silver Creek, 1840; died in 
1S76: buried in Hussey graveyard: aged eighty- 
seven years. 

Haughey, M. Churchill. Silver Creek. 1840; born 
February 8. 1818: buried at Bowersville, Ohio; 
son of John. 

Haughey. Laban. .Silver Creek. :8jo: removed to 
Charleston, Clark county, Ohio; born October 
1,^ 1811; married November 17, 1841. Cyntha 
Larkin. 

Haughey, Joseph. Silver Creek. 1840: removed to 
Galena, Illinois : Feliruary 7, 1830. married Esther 
White. 

Harkness. Samuel. Xenia. 1820: died in Miami town- 
ship in 1822. 

Hatton. William. Xenia. 181 5. 

Hatton. Catharine. Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Harlan. Hon. Aaron, Xenia. 1826; died in San 
Francisco, California, January 8. 1863; born Sep- 
tember 8, 1802 ; attorney at law. 

Harlau. Moses. Xcnia. 1826: July 2, 1827. married 
Mary Ann Bnllcr. 

Harlan. Eli. Xenia, i8tj; November .=;, 1816. mar- 
ried Maria Wallace ; one of the signers to pe- 
tition for the incorporation of Xenia in 1817. 

Hathoway, Chas., Xenia, 1826. 

Hainland. George, Bath, 1840. 



Harrington, Erastus, Xenia. 1826: December 20, 
1827, married Jane Jacoby. 

Harrington. Christopher. Xenia. 1840. 

Haddin, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1806. 

Haddin, .Samuel, Xenia, 1828. 

Hadden. Jesse. Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Hatch. Brazilia. Ross, 1826; December 12. 1837, 
married Margaret Smith. 

Hatch. Stephen. 1840: September 3. 1840. married 
Phebe Lavalley. 

Hatch. Ebenezer, Sr., Silver Creek, 1823: from New 
York ; soldier of 1812 ; died January 2. 1874, 
aged eighty-nine : buried in Jamestown. Ohio ; 
son of John. 

Hatch. Ebenezer. Ir., Silver Creek, 1840; died March 
27, i860, aged seventy^wo ; buried in Woodland. 

Hadley. Levi F.. Silver Creek, 1817; June 13, 1822, 
married Sally Reaves. 

Hadley. Sanuiel P.. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Hadley. Jeremiah, Silver Creek. 1840: died in Rich- 
mond. Indiana. January 3. 1879: formerly of 
Greene county. Ohio. 

Haslctt. Thomas K.. Ross, 1840: died near James- 
town, Ohio. .Aueust 8. i86g. aged seventy. 

Hancock, James B., Beaver Creek, 18.^6. 

Hare. Leonard. Miami. 1810. 

Hare, Philip. Ross, 1817. 

Hare, Daniel, Ros.s, 1817: September 18. 1817. mar- 
ried Phebe Hower. 

Hare. Philip, Jr., Ross, 1821. 

Hare, Thomas. Ross, 1826; father of Mrs. Samuel 
Elwell : December 7. i8ig. married Polly Mahan. 

Hare, Michael. Ross. 1829. 

Hare. Jacob, Ross, 1829. 

liarner, Jacob. Beaver Creek, 1803; born in Ger- 
many: died in 1846; buried in Union graveyard, 
Byron, Ohio. 

Harner, John. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1803: born May 
24. 1770; died Inly 7. 1840. aged seventy; buried 
in I^'nion graveyard. 

Harner, George, Beaver Creek. 1803; son of John; 
born in 1796; died August 18. 1874, aged seventy- 
eight, buried in Union graveyard. 

Harner. George, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1805 ; died De- 
cember 10, 1852, aged thirty-two : buried in 
Beaver Creek churchyard. Alpha, Ohio. 

Harner. John. Jr., Beaver Creek. 1827 : died April 
6. 1873. aged sixty-seven; buried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard ; married Magdalena Hanes. 

Harner. Charles, Beaver Creek. 1840; sou of Jacob, 
Sr. ; born July 10. 1S17; March 19. 1840. mar- 
ried Mary .Ann Morgan. 

Harner, Abraham, Beaver Creek. 1840: brother of 
Charles; buried in L'nion graveyard: December 
26. 1839; married Nancy Jones. 

Harner. Simon, Beaver Creek, 1831 : son of John ; 
born July 19, 1810; died October 26, 1896, aged 
eighty-six ; buried in Union graveyard ; March 
29. 1838. married Sarah Wolf. 

Harner. Samuel W. Beaver Creek:^i840: died April 
3, 1889. aged seventy-one ; buried in Union grave- 
yard, Byron, Ohio ; married Nancy Watts. 

Harner. Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1835; died January 
9. 1893. aged eighty-one ; September to. 1837, 
married Elizabeth Snvder. 



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Harner. Samuel. Bath: died' April 9. 1871. aged 
sixty-two: buried in Union graveyard. 

Harner. Daniel. Beaver Creek. 1840 : son of George ; 
soldier in Civil War. Co. E. Seventy-fourth ; born 
in 1825 : died at Soldiers' Home at Dayton in 
1898 : buried in Union graveyard. 

Harner. John. Xenia. 1820: June 4. 1840. married 
Susanna Sipe. 

Harner. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1830: son of John: 
Augu.-r 23. i8.l2, married Lydia Kcrsliner. 

Harner. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Harner. J. C.. Miami. 1840. 

Hammond. Enoch. Xenia, 182S. 

Hansel. Michael. Xenia. 1830. 

Hardie. Wni.. Sr., Xenia. 1820: from Scotland: died 
Noveinber 24. i860, aged seventy-three; buried 
in Caesar's Creek churchyard; father of Wni. B.. 
who was born Mav 17. 1825. 

Hardpence. R.. Bath, 1828. 

Hardpence. John, Bath, 1840. 

Hanby. William, Ross. 1816. 

Harpole. William. Ross. i8o6: from Virginia; sol- 
dier of 1812: died in Februarv. 1853; born May 
8. 1-86. 

Harpole. John. Ross. 1840: son of William: found 
dead March 28, i849- 

Harpole. Joseph. Ross, 1840. 

Hammaker. Daniel. Miami. 1830. 

Haskill. Lazarus H., Miami, 1829. 

Hart, Silas, Xenia. 1830: died January 3, 1892, aged 
eighty-four: buried in Woodland. 

Haun, Capt. Jacob. Miami. 1820: born in 1799: died 
aged seventy-three; buried at Clifton, Ohio. 

Haverstick. William. Beaver Creek. 1813 ; soldier of 
.1812. 

Haverstick. Daniel. Beaver Creek, 1840; from Lan- 
caster county, Pennsylvania: died April 10, 1858, 
aged seventy-five ; buried in Woodland. 

Haverstick, Daniel, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840 : died 
June 8, 1883. aged sixty-four: buried in Wood- 
land. 

Haverstick. John. Xenia. 1840; died October, 1853; 
buried in Woodland. 

Hagcnbaugh. C. H.. Xenia. 1840. 

Hagenbaugh. Stephen. Bath. 1835: died in 1873. aged 
seventy-six : buried in Fairfield cemetery. 

Hagenbaugh. Christian. Bath, 1840 : died in Bath 
township in 1849. 

Hagenbaugh. William. Bath. 1840; removed to Clin- 
ton. Indiana, ^h-lrch 15, 1873. 

Hagenbaugh, John, Bath, 1840; April 8. 1841. mar- 
ried Minerva Williamson. 

HagenlKuigh. Jacob. Bath. 1840; born in 1803: died 
in 188$: buried in Fairfield cemetery. 

Hawthorn. David. Bath. 1840; September 8. 1842, 
married Mercy Williamson. 

Hawthorn. Jacob. Bath, 1840. 

Hart. J. N.. Xenia. 1840; November 15. 1842. mar- 
ried Catharine Shoup. 

Hart, Wm. C, Bath, 1840; born August 17, 1784; 
died Julv 8, i8s8; buried in Fairfield cemetery. 

Hart, William S..'Bath, 1840. 

Hart. Philip. Bath, 1840. 

Harbine. Jacob, Bath, 1807. 

Harbine. John. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1828: son of 
Daniel ; born in Washington county. Maryland. 



January 17. 1804; died June 8, 1873. aged sixty- 
nine : buried in Woodland. , 

Haddox. Ximrod. Sr.. Bath. 1803: from Virginia; 
fell from a load of hay and was killed about 1820. 

Haddox. Nimrod, Bath, 1804. 

Haddox, John, Bath. 1807: son of Nimrod: soldier 
of 1812: born in 1791 : buried in Cox graveyard, 
Osborn. Ohio; died March 29. 1884. aged ninety- 
seven. 

Haddox. William. Bath, 1813: October 22. 1837, 
married Stineback. 

Haddox. Samuel. Bath. 1817. 

Haddox. David. Bath. 1820: December 14. 1820, 
married Sarah Tingley. 

Harshman, John, Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1807: soldier 
of 1812; died July 4. 1852. aged eighty; buried 
in .\ley churchyard. 

Harshman. Philip. Beaver Creek. 1807; liorn in 
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania ; died March 18, 
1845, aged sixty-eight; buried in Zimmerman 
graveyard : soldier of 1812. 

Harshman, Peter. Beaver Creek. 1813. 

Harshman. Henry. Beaver Creek. 1819: soldier of 
1812; June 22. 1820. married Molly Fogle. 

Harshman. James. Bath. 1816. 

Harshman. George. Beaver Creek. 1826; died in 
Beaver Creek township in 1855 ; buried in Aley 
churchyard: married Nancy Monahan, 

Harshman. John C.. Beaver Creek, 1826; born in 
1807; died June 27, i88o, aged seventy-three; bur- 
ied in Aley churchyard. 

Harshman. David. Beaver Creek. 1840; died near 
Zinmierman January 21, 1879, aged sixty-eight; 
the hermit of Beaver Creek for forty-five years. 

Harshman. Jonathan, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; died 
.March 15, 1874. 

Harshman. John, Beaver Creek, 1840: of Zimmer- 
nianville; died June 3, 1883, aged seventy. 

Harshman. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1840; died .^pril 
20. i860, aged forty-three: buried in .-Xley church- 
yard. 

Harshman. Daniel. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; born in 
1S14: died in 1879: buried in .Mey churchyard; 
the hermit of Beaver Creek. 

Harshman. John. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; from Mary- 
land; son of Philip: born in 1801 ; died in 1893, 
aged ninety-two ; buried in Aley churchyard ; 
married Mary Miller. 

Harvey. Nicholas. Beaver Creek. 1819. 

Harvey, Stephen, Beaver Creek, 1826. 

Harvey. Sanmcl. Ross. 1826; an old time school 
teacher in Ross township. 

Hagerman. Barnet B.. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Hanshaw. Francis, Xenia. 1824; December. 1825, 
hi- wife was "ranted a divorce by supreme court, 
William Elslierry, judge. 

Holcomb. Alonzo. Beaver Creek. 1828. 

Holcomb. James. Beaver Creek. 1829. 

Hadder. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1829. 

Hardin. Peter. Xenia. 1840: died May 17. 1876, aged 
sixtv-one: buried in Woodland. 

Hardin. Taylor. Beaver Creek. 1840; May 3. 1838, 
married .\nn Peterson. 

Hardman. Henry. Bath. 1809: from Hardy county. 
X'irginia : soldier of 1812; a German; November 
29. 1821. married Mary Searl. 



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Hardnian. Peter. Batli. uSio: died July 30. 1859. 

aged ciglity-tlirec ; buried in Mitiiian graveyard. 

Fairfield. Ohio: Hardy county. \'irginia. 
Hardtnaii. Jacob. Batb, i8j6; .April 26. .i8.v. married 

Sarah Woodward. 
Hartcr. John, Batli, 1811: May 12, 1818. mairied 

Susanna Creyel. 
Hartcr. John, Rath, i8-:o. 
Handy, John, Batb, 1813. 
Handy. Thomas Bath 181 3. 
Hampton. George. Bath, 1840. 
Haven. Elisha. Bath. 1820: l)orn July. 1798, died in 

1884, buried at Yellow Springs, Ohio. 
Havner, John, Bath. 1832; died in Miami township 

in 1836. 
Hanniia, David, Miami. 1840: born July. 1798, died 

May II. 1864, buried at Yellow Springs, Ohio. 
Hanby. Elisha. Caesar's Creek. 1815. 
Hefiford. Jacfib. Sugar Creek. i8oy. 
HclYord. John. Sugar Creek. 1812; died .Xpril 10, 

1894. 
Heflford. .Adam. Sugar Creek. 1813. 
HelTord, Cornelius. Sugar Creek, 1828. 
Hcfford. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Hefiford. J. \V., Sugar Creek. 1840; from Pennsyl- 
vania ; died April 10. 1894. aged eighty-one, 

buried in Woodland. 
Helm, William, Sugar Creek, 1819. 
llcaton, John, Sugar Creek, 1803: his wife was 

Sarah. They were the parenils of Maior John 

Beaton, Sr. ; died in 1823. buried in Mercer 

graveyard. 
Heaton. Major John. Caesar's Creek. 1807: soldier 
of 1812: died June 21. 1859. aged seventy-eight, 

buried in Woodland, 
Heaton, Joseph, Xenia. 1809; soldier of 1812: son 

of John and Sarah. 
Heaton, Jonah, Xenia. 1809; Xovember 20. 1808. 

married to Lida Heaton. 
Heaton, William J., Xenia. 1810. 
Heaton. Ebenezer, Xenia, 1826; son of John and 

Sarah 
Heaton, Wm. S.. Xenia. 1826: September 26. 1827. 

married Margaret Beason. 
Heation. Daniel. Xenia. 1829; ■^on of John. Jr.: re- 
moved to Cincinnati, where he d-icd. 
Heaton. Morgan, Xenia. 1S16: son of John. Jr., 

died April 8, 1847. aged thirty-four: buried in 

Woodland. 
Heaton. Chas., Xenia, 1840. 
Heaton, Isaac, Bath. 1816. 
Heaton. Franklin, Xenia, 1840. 

Heaton. Capt. Henry. Xenia, 1840: father of Cole- 
man: from Pennsylvania; captain in War of 

1812: died in 1865. aged sixty-seven; buried in 

Woodland. 
Heaton. Simeon, Xenia, 1807; died .-Xugust i. 1854. 

aged seventy-four : buried in Woodland. 
Heaton. Hiram. Xenia. i8.'o; soldier in Civil War. 

Co. E, Twelfth Regiment: buried in Woodland; 

died September 7, 1895, aged seventy-si.x. 
Heath, Tinsley, Xenia, 1807: removed to Hardin 

county; buried at Kenton. Ohio. 
Heath. "Thos. M., Xenia. 1828; removed to Kenton, 

Ohio: March 26, 1829. married Anna Hook. 



Heath. Rev. Uriah. Xenia. i8?o: died at Zanesville, 
Ohio. 

Heath, William. Xenia. 1840. 

Heath. Thomas. Xenia, 1840. 

Heath. Addison F.. Xenia, 1840; removed to Ken- 
ton. Ohio : son of Tinsley. 

Heath. Fletcher, Xenia. 1840: removed to Kenton. 
Ohio : son of Tinsley. 

Hendrickson. Daniel, Miami, 1821. 

Hedges. William. Xenia. 1817. 

Hedges. Evan. Xenia. iS.'O. 

Hedges. Joseph. Xenia. 1840. 

Hedges. James R., Xenia. 1840: from Virginia: died 
.\ugust 23. 1881. aged seventy-three; buried in 
Woodland ; married Kesiah Scarf. 

Hebble. Henry E., Bath. 1841 ; from Lancaster coun- 
ty. Pennsylvania: born March 12. 180S: died 
March .s. 1884; father of Joseph Hebble. Xenia. 

Habble. John. Miami, 1803: died January 28, 1884, 
age<I ninety-six. 

Hendricks, Michael, Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Hendricks. William. Xenia, 1830. 

Herrod. Capt. Samuel. Ross, 1812; captain in War 
, of 1812: lived five miles east of Cedarville, Ohio. 

Herrod, John, Batli. 1812. 

Herrod. Robert. Bath, 1827. 

Hendis, William, Xenia, 1827. 

Herron. Rev. Andrew, Rbss, 183 1 ; from Scotland; 
came to the United States in 1807: born October 
II, 1788; died .Xugust 30, 1873; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Hcmblcman, George. Miami. 1810; October 13, 1826, 
married Sarah Bilberback, by Rev. Robert Dob- 
bins. 

Hamblcnian. Daniel. M'ami. i8.!0; January 3. 18,^9. 
married Sarah Fletcher. 

Hemphill. John. Xenia. 1840; died November. 1872, 
aged sixty-one ; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery : married Jane McMillan. 

Herring. David. Beaver Creek, 1806. 

Herring. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1806; native of Switz- 
erland: born in 1763; died June 2, 1836, aged 
seventy-two; father of Jacob. Sr. 

Herring, Jacob, Jr.. Bath. 1829: born June 9. 1808; 
died in Xenia, Kbvember 5, i8gi, aged eighty- 
three: buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Heffley. Chas,. Bath. 1807; died .April 8, 1837, aged 
seventy-four; buried in Union churchyard, Byron, 
Ohio. 

Heffley, Henry. Bath. 1809: October 6, 1820. mar- 
ried N'ancy Quinn. 

Heffley. Chas.. Jr.. Bath. 1812. 

Heffley, Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1814. 

Hedsal. Jacob. Beaver Creek, 1828. 

Helmer. Philip. Bath, 1840; died December 4. 1854, 

aged sixty-one; buried in Aley churchyard. 
Henley. John. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Helmer. John. Beaver Creek, 1819. 
Helmer. Philip. Beaver Creek. 1819; died in 1855, 

aged sixty : buried in Aley churchyard. 
Helmer. William. Bath. 1826; died Tune 25, 1859, 
aged fifty-nine ; forty-five years a resident of 
Bath township. 
Helmer. .Abraham, Beaver Creek. 1826: removed to 
.Auglaize county. Ohio. Wapuckanetta. 



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Helnier. Henry. Beaver Creek. 1827 ; brother of 
Squire Win., of Zimmerman. Ohio. 

Helmer. Stephen O.. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Helmer. David B.. Beaver Creek. 1840; died Sep- 
tember 17. 1880; buried in Fairfield; September 
12, 1832, married Rhoda Stites. 

Heddleson. John. Beaver Creek. 1823 ; from Mary- 
land ; died September 10. 1855. aged seventy-two; 
buried at Mt. Zion ; married Eve Smeltzier. 

Heward. Josepli. Baih. 1840. 

Helmick. Jacol). Xenia. 1807; removed to Indiana. 

Helmick. David. Silver Creek, 1820; October 12, 
1820. married Kitty Johnson. 

Hill. Cason. Sugar Creek. 1804. 

Hill. Elijah, Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Hill. John. Sugar Creek. 1813; October i. 1825. fnar- 
ried Margaret Jones. 

Hill. Nathaniel. Bath, i8og. 

Hill, Martin B.. Bath. 1821; a tailor; died in Xenia 
.\ugust 6. 1833. 

Hill. Jeremiah, Caesar's Creek. 1823. 

Hill, Ahin, Ross, 1818. 

Hill. Joseph. Ross, 1815: brother of Cornelius; died 
in 1855, in Randolph county. Indiana. 

Hill. Cornelius. Ross. 1819; died in Ross township 
in 1851 ; buried in Selma, Ohio. 

Hill. Chas., Ross, 1840. 

Hiett. Gideon. Sugar Creek, 1811; soldier of 1812. 
under Capa. Clark. 

Hiett. John, Sugar Creek, 1813. 

Hittle, Isaac, Sugar Creek, 1819. 

Hittle. Michael. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Hittle. George. Beaver Creek. 1840; soldier of 1812; 
April I, 1824, married Mary Morgan. 

Hinds. Jacob. Xenia. 1813. 

Hindman. William, Sugar Creek, 1811; soldier of 
1812. under Capt. McClellan. 

Hindman. James. Sugar Creek. 1816. 

Hiney. Henry. Xenia. 1820; from Maryland: died 
Sepl-ember 24. i86g. aged eighty; buried in Mil- 
ler graveyard. Lumberman. Ohio; March 2, 1824, 
married .^nna Mallow. 

Hiney, George, Sugar Creek. 1820; soldier of the 
Revolution; died May 21. 1849, aged ninety-five; 
buried at Lumberton. Ohio. 

Hiney, Andrew, Sugar Creek, 1840; removed to In- 
diana, where he died. 

Hiney. Michael. Sugar Creek. 1840; died October 
II. 1893. aged eighty-six; buried in Woodland. 

Hiney. Jonas. Sugar Creek. 1840: died near Osborn. 
Ohio, in 1895 : buried in Woodland. 

Hiney. Elijah. Sugar Creek. 1840; died in 1897; 
buried in Woodland. Dayton. 

Hight, John, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Hight. Jesse, Bath, 1828. 

Hight. Robert. Bath 1828; member of the Owenite 
Community at Yellow Springs. Ohio. 

Hightower. Edward, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Hightower. .'\ndcrson, Caesar's Creek, 1830; Octo- 
ber 12, 1841. married Mary Stew-art. 

Hightower. London, Xenia, 1826; from Kentucky; 
died in Xenia, .'\ugust j, 1856. aged seventy-tive. 

Hickman. James. Caesar's Creek, 1829. 

Hickman. William. Caesar's Creek, 1819. 

Hickman. Riky. Xenia. 1840; Septembers. 18,34, mar- 
ried Sally F<ird; died .-\pril 5. 1879. aped -ixty- 



six ; buried in McDonald graveyard, south of 
Xenia. 

Hickman. James. Xenia. 1807; father of Riley; died 
April 19. 1841, aged seventy-five; buried in Mc- 
Donald graveyard. 

Hickman. Michael, Beaver Creek, 1818. 

Hickman. Laban. Caesar's Creek. 1828; December 14, 
1826. married Catharine Price. 

Hickman. Peter. Bath, 1840. 

Hilliard, Warner M., Caesar's Creek. 1840; died Jan- 
uary 13. 1844. aged forty-six; buried in Mc- 
Donald graveyard ; married Susan Reynolds. 

Hilliard. Davis. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Higgins. Thomas. Silver Creek. 1826. 

Hicks. James. R-oss, 1828; March 4, 1830. married 
Sarah Bond. 

Hicks. John D.. Xenia. 1839: a shoemaker; from 
Pennsylvania to Springfield; in 1839 came to 
Xenia; died February 10. 1894. aged eighty-six; 
buried in Woodland. 

Hillis. Samson, Xenia, 1806. 

Hicks. William. Xenia. 1840; grandson of David 
Bowen. 

Hillis. Dennis, Xenia, 1828. 

Hillis. David, Xenia, 1806. 

Hillis. Wm. R.. Xenia, 1806; July i, 1822. married 
Mary Koogler. 

Hillis, John, Xenia, 1806; bought forty acres of 
land of James Galloway May i, 1813. 

Hillis, Matthew, Xenia, 1807. 

Hillis. James, Xenia, 1807. 

Hixon, Noah, Silver Creek, 1821 ; died July 16. 1838, 
aged thirty-nine ; buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

HiHoxn. Reuben. Xenia. l8n ; April, 29, 1817; mar- 
ried Catharine Borders. 

Hixon. Joel. Xenia. 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Hixon. Enoch. Xenia, 1816; the old sexton of the 
first M. E. church. Xenia ; removed to Lebanon, 
Ohio; a brickmakcr; March 6, 1816, married 
Phebe Edwards. 

Hixon, Robert. Xenia, 1821. 

Hixon. Garland. Xenia, 1826. 

Hixon. Oliver T.. Silver Creek, 1830; first pastor of 
Campbellite church at Jamestown. Ohio; married 
Elizabeth Dawson. March 25. 1833. 

Hixon. Celia. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Hixon, Stephen. Silver Creek. 1811; died August 
.?i. 1837. aged fortv-nine; buried at Jamestown, 
Ohio. 

Higginbottom. Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1808. 

Higginbottom, James, Silver Creek, 1830; buried 
in Baptist graveyard, Bellbrook. 

Higginbottom. John. Silver Creek. 1840; June 22, 
i8,S9. married Jane January. 

Higginbottom. Peter. Xenia. 1840; an old resident 
of Xenia; died Januarv 4. 1879; soldier in the 
Twelfth Ohio. 

Hite. Andrew. Silver Creek. 1S20; removed to Oak- 
land. Illinois; May 18. i8,?6, married Polly Myers. 

Hite. Georee. Silver Creek. 1820; from Virginia; 
died in Silver Creek township in 1833 ; l>uried in 
Baptist graveyard; March I, 1831, married Eliz- 
abeth Baird. 

Hite. .\sa. Beaver Creek. 1826. 

Hildreth. Nathaniel. Xenia. 1840; died February 16, 
1844. aged seventy-three; buried in Xenia. 



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Hilrlrcth. Mo^cs, Xciiia, iS.io. 

Hivling. Abraham. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1808: April 

9, 1826, married Barbary. widow of Mathias 
Smith ; from Hagerstown. Maryland : died March 

10, 1839, aged seventy-four; Iniricd in Woodland. 
Hivling. John. Xcnia, 1808: died Xovcmber 4. 1851. 

aged eighty-on<; ; buried in Woodland : soldier of 
1812; ex-sheriff. 

Hivling. Abraham, Jr.. Xenia, 1^25: died March 26, 
1877. aged seventy-three; buried in Woodland. 

Hivling, John A.. Xenia. 1840; died June 6, 187a. aged 
forty-seven ; buried in \\'oodland. 

Hivling. Margaret. Beaver Creek. 1803; wife of 
.■\braham. Sr. ; born March 6. 1770; died March 
7. 1824, aged sixty-four; buried in Beaver Creek 
churcliyard. 

Hibbcn, ilargaret. Silver Creek, 1813; died Feb- 
ruary 7, 1854, aged ninety-one ; buried in Shelcy 
graveyard. 

Hibben. William. Silver Creek. 1813 : son-in-law of 
John Sheley. Sr. ; died June 3. 1846, aged .seventy- 
eieht; buried in Sheley graveyard. 

Hibben. James. Silver Creek, 1840; died .-Vugust 2;^. 
1871. aged seventy-seven. 

Hibben, Wm., Jr., Silver Creek. 1840; died Octo- 
ber 16, 1889, aged sixty-five. 

Hindershot. John. Xenia. 1820. 

Hillsmith. Nathaniel, Xenia, 1840. 

Hilderl)rand, Ji.'lin. Beaver Creek. 1827; March 7, 
1833, married Sarah Hitrick. 

Hitch. David, Bath. 1840. 

Horner. Geo. W.. Miami, 1840; born in 1818; died 
in 1889; buried in Union graveyard. Byron. 

Horner, Nathan, Xenia, 1815; September 16, 1877, 
was married to Nancy Hypes. 

Horner, Jacob. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1803; died in 
1827; soldier of 1S12; wife was Lydia ; daugh- 
ters, Fannie and Sallie; buried in Belllirook cem- 
etery. 

Horner, Benjamin, Sugar Creek. 1803; brother of 
Jacob Horner. 

Horner. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1827; died in 1847. 
aged forty-eight: buried in Bellbrook cemetery; 
married Edith Miller October. 1821. 

Horner, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Jacob 
and Lydia Horner. 

HoriK'r. James. Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Jacob 
and Lydia Horner. 

Horner. James. Sugar Creek. 1840: son of Jacob 
and Lydia. 

Horner. David. Sugar Creek. 1828 ; son of Jacob and 
Lydia. 

Horner, Lsham, Xenia. 1828. 

Horner, Harrison, Xenia, i8.<o. 

Hower. John. Beaver Creek, 1833 ; from Fredrick. 
Maryland ; son of Jacob ; died May 18. 1868 : bur- 
ied in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Hower, Daniel. Beaver Creek, 1840 ; November 10, 
1813. married .\nna Robinson. 

Hower. David. Beaver Creek. 1833 ; born May 29, 
1812; died January 30. 1884. 

Hower. David. Beaver Creek. 1840; still living in 
i8gg, aged eighty-four. 

Hosier. Jacob, Sugar Creek, 1803; died in 1855; 
buried at Beavertown. Ohio, aged seventy-seven : 
soldier of 1812. 
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Hosier, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1806; son of Jacob 
and Lydia Hosier. 

Hosier. William. Xenia, 1829. 

Hosier, Robert, Beaver Creek, 1803; November 21, 
1806. married Nancy Compton : buried at Beaver- 
ton. Montgomery county. Ohio. 

Hosier. Felix. Beaver Creek, 1804. 

Hosier. Fredrick, Beaver Creek, 1807; native of 
Pennsylvania; removed to Shenandoah countj , 
Virginia; left Virginia in 1797. arrived in Bath 
township in 1803 ; died in 1823. 

Hosier. Peter, Beaver Creek, 1807 ; son of Fred- 
rick. 

Hosier, .Andrew. Beaver Creek, iSio; son of Fred- 
rick. 

Hosier. Pliilip, Beaver Creek, 1810; son of Fred- 
rick. 

Hosier, Isaac, Beaver Creek, 1810; son of Fredrick. 

Hosier. John. Beaver Creek, 1810; son of Fredrick: 
born in 1789; died December 24, 1869, aged eighty- 
one; buried in Fairfield. 

Hosier. Abraham. Beaver Creek. 1813; son of Fred- 
rick; died December 30. 1852. aged seventy-nine; 
buried at Beavertown. Ohio. 

Hosier. Thomas. Miami. 1830; June 28. 1821. mar- 
ried Mary Cain. 

Hoblet, James, Silver Creek, 1830; March 15. 1832, 
married Mary Husscy. 

Hoblet. Boston, Sugar Creek, 1804; died March 
3. 1859. aged eighty-five ; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard. Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Hoblet. John, Sugar Creek, 1S12; removed to Logan 
county, Illinois; April 15, 1819, married Polly 
Poague. 

Hoblet. Merritt. Sugar Creek, 1819; died August. 
1877. aged seventy-seven; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard. Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Hoblet. William. Sugar Creek. 1826; died Decem- 
ber, 1874, aged sixty-si.x ; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard; married Leticia Vandolah. 

Hoblet, Benjamin, Sugar Creek, 1829. 

Hoblet, Orin. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Hoblet, Samuel, Silver Creek, 1840; January 4. 
1827, married Abigal Downey. 

Hoblet, Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1840 ; September 30. 
1841, married Mary Ann Schrack. 

Hornev, James. Sugar Creek. 18 6; son of Wni., 
Sr.' 

Hornev. John, Sugar Creek, 1806; February 19, 
1806, married Hannah Painter. 

Horney. David. Sugar Creek, 1808. 

Hornev. Wm.. Jr., Sugar Creek. 1809: died in 1829. 

Horney, William, Sugar Creek. 1804: soldier of 
1812; father of William. 

Horney. William, Caesar's Creek, 1805; February 

20, 1806, married Rhoda .Anderson, 
Horney, James, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Hotnp. William, Beaver Creek. 1S30; died .\ugust 

12. 1877, aged eighty. 
Horney. Daniel. Caesar's Creek. 1807; from Nortli 
Carolina ; removed to Fayette county. Ohio, 
where he died in 1865. 
Horney. Paris. Xenia, 1806; wife was Lydia; had one 
son, Paris ; daughters, Deborah, Rhoda and Es- 
ther ; died in 1808. 
Horney, Wm., Xenia, 1807. 



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Horney. Anderson, Xenia. 1824 ; died of cholera in 
1849 : son-in-law of Reece and Lydia Baldwin. 

Horney. Andrew, Xenia, iS2g. 

Hopping, Ezekiel, Sngar Creek, 1803: died February, 
1849, aged eighty. 

Hopping, David, Xenia. 1803: soldier of 1812: died 
June 30, 1859, at Smithfield, Delaware county. 
Indiana. 

Hopping, Wm., Xenia. 1840: son of David; resided 
east, of Xenia : died January 25, 1879. aged sev- 
enty-one. 

Hopping, James, Xenia, 1S40 : son of David ; born 
in 1809: died in 1884; buried in Dean graveyard; 
son-in-law of Daniel Dean. 

Hopping, David, Jr., Xenia, 1840; died July 18, i8Sg, 
aged seventy-five ; buried in Woodland ; April 8, 
1840. married Abagal Gowdy. 

Hopping, Jeremiah, Rath, 1807: son of Moses; died 
in 1822; May 3, 1818, married Jane Stewart. 

Hopping, Moses, Bath, 1807; brother of Jeremiah; 
died Julv 10, 1849. aged eighty-one; buried at 
Yellow Springs, Ohio; September 14, 1826, mar- 
ried Sarah Warner. 

Hopping, David, Bath, 1807. 

Hopping, George, Miami, 1810; son of Moses. 

Hopping. John, Miami, 181 1 : son of Jeremiah; died 
in 1826; June 25. 1824, married Rachael Fisher. 

Hopping, Joseph, Miami, 1826; son of Moses; .\pril 
18, 1833, married Mary Ann Madden. 

Hopping, Samuel. Miami. 1829; son of Ezekiel; 
died February 6, 1864, aged sixty; buried in 
Woodland; married Eliza Maser. 

Hopping, Jane, Miami, 1840. 

Hopping, Gideon, Miami. 1813; soldier of 1S12; re- 
moved to Illinois. 

Hopping. Alexander, Miami, 1840; died June 13. 
1862, aged fifty-five; buried in Woodland. 

Hoover, Adam. Xenia. 1809 ; born February 28, 1783 ; 
died May 27, 1854, aged seventy-one; buried at 
Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Hoover. John, Sugar Creek. 1812; soldier of 1812. 

Hoover. George, Silver Creek, 1840; April 29, 1840, 
married Mary Taylor. 

Hoover, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1840; died December 
7, 1840, aged forty-two; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, lamestown, Ohio. 

Holmes, Samuel, Silver Creek, 1806; soldier of 1812. 

Holmes. Samuel M.. Beaver Creek, 1828; from Penn- 
sylvania; died October 17. 1887, aged eighty; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Holmes, Hugh, Sugar Creek, 1812; from Cumber- 
land county, Pennsylvania; wife. Mary; died in 
1833, afed eighty-four; buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Holmes. Jonathan, Sugar Creek, 1812; died in 1833. 

Holmes, John, Sugar Creek, 1817; son of Hugh; sol- 
dier of 1812: buried at Bellbrook, Ohio; Septem- 
ber 30, 1824, married Patience Pugh. 

Holmes, Daniel, Sugar Creek. 1819; son of Hugh; 
born in 1794; died March 18. 1881. aged eighty- 
six; buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Holmes. William. Sugar Creek, 1818; son of Hugh; 
died Ma.y, 187s. aged seventy-nine; buried at 
Bellbrook, Ohio'. 

Holmes, John, Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1819; son of Jona- 
than. 



Holmes. Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1820: died in 1840; 
was an inmate of the jail in Xenia; a lunatic. 

Holmes, William, Sugar Creek, 1826; son of Hugh. 

Holmes. Daniel. Jr., Beaver Creek, 1830; sOn of 
Hugh ; June 2i._ 1842, married Mary Lewis. 

Holman, Eliphalet, Ross. 1826. 

Holman. Joseph. Ross, 1826; July 5, 1833, married 
■ Lois Branson. 

Holman. David. Beaver Creek, 1S40; from Penn- 
sylvania; died March 8, 1870, aged seventy-seven. 

Hopkins, Alexander, Sugar Creek, 1828; native of 
\'irginia ; from there to Kentucky; then to Ohio; 
died March. 1874; buried in Bellbrook. 

Hopkins. Henry H.. Sugar Creek, 1840; died Oc- 
tober 20, i8q2, aged eighty. 

Hopkins, Samuel H.. Sugar Creek, 1828 : died Feb- 
ruary 15. 1895, aged eighty-nine: buried in Bell- 
brook cemetery. 

Hopkins, William L, Sugar Creek, 1830; died July 
2. 1892. aged eighty-seven; buried in Woodland. 

Howels. Daniel. Sugar Creek, 1834; April 4. 1830, 
married .\lice Cavender. 

Howels, Samuel, Sugar Creek. 1834; died in Cedar- 
ville township August 13, 1858, aged ninety. 

Holland. Enos, Xenia, 1807. 

Holland. Samuel F., Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Holland, Jesse. Beaver Creek, 1840; died February 
8. 1886. aged seventy-four; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 

Hollingsworth, James. Xenia, 1S26. 

Hollingsworth, Joshua, Xenia, 1826; kept the Phenix 
Inn, Xenia, Ohio; died October 23, 1841, at Leb- 
anon, Ohio ; June 23, 1823, married Nancy Wat- 
son. 

Hollingsworth, David, Xenia, 1840; died in Spring 
Valley township in 1859. 

Hollingsworth, H. W., Xenia, 1840. 

Hollingsworth, Jas. W., Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Hollingsworth. Jams, Silver Creek, 1840; from 
Pennsylvania; born in 1804; died October 9, 1883. 
agecf eighty ; buried in Woodland. 

Hollenbeck, Jacob, Caesar's Creek, 1804 ; died June 
.W. 1847, a.ged thirty-two; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, Bellbrook, Ohio; son-in-law of Samuel Mc- 
Knight. 

Hollenbeck. Matthias. Beaver Creek. T803. 

Hollenberry, Jacob, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Hoop. John A.. Xenia, 1803; soldier of 1812 : died 
February i, 1840, aged eighty-three; buried in 
Woodland. 

Hoop, .Andrew, Xenia. 1816; son of John .\. ; buried 
in Woodland. 

Holstcn. William, Sugar Creek. 1811. 

Hoggate. Stevannu-s. Caesar's Creek. 1803. 

Hoggate. Moses. Xenia. 1806. 

Hough. Joseph. Xenia. 181 1. 

H'lugh. John. Ross. 1840; born in Silver Creek town- 
ship .-Xnril 22, 1822. 

Hogue. John. Miami. 1826. 

Hogue. Ximrod G.. Silver Creek, 1826. 

Hogue. Jaiues. Caesar's Creek, 1826; April 21, 1840, 
married Elizabeth Bonner. 

Hogue. Lindsey, Xenia, 1840; from Virginia; died 
Xovembcr 13. 1865 ; buried in Woodland. 

Hogue. George. Miami. 1S40. 

Hovson. Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1806. 



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Holloway, Benjamin. Caesar's Creek. 1807; brother- 
in-law to Dr. Horace Lawrence; buried in 
Friend's churchyard. Selma, Ohio. 

Holloway. William. Caesar's Creek. 1807: buried in 
Friend's churchyard, Selma, Ohio. 

Hook. James, Sr.. Caesar's Creek. 1812; soldier of 
1812: died October 12. 1844. aged seventy-one; 
buried in Hook graveyard. 

Ili'ok. Hugh. Xenia. 1812; buried in Hook graveyard. 

Hook. William. Xenia, 182 1 ; son of James; born 
in 1798; died December 12, 1851 ; buried in Hook 
graveyard. 

Hook. Robert. Xenia. 1826: son of James; removed 
to Van Wert county. Ohio; died .\ugust 29. 1848. 
aged forty-three; in 1832 married Nancy Martin. 

Hook. Lewis. Xenia. 1829; son of James; died June 
3. 1848. aged forty-three; buried in Hook grave- 
yard ; married Manerva Loyd. 

Hiiok. James. Xenia, 1S21. 

Hook, Chas., Xenia, 1840: son of James; from \"ir- 
ginia ; born .'\ugust 27, 1814; died .-\ugust ij, 
1896. aged twenty-two; buried in Woodland. 

Hook. J. C.. Xenia, 1824; son of James; born .-Xpril 
18, 180.5; died October 14. 1870; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Hook. J. C.. Jr., Xenia. 1840; October 21, 1841. 
married .'Vnn Maria Bell. 

Holadav. John. Caesar's Creek. 1807; soldier of 
1812. 

Holadav. .\nn, Xenia, 18,50; related to Judge C. C. 
Shearer; buried in Woodland. 

Hobbs. Edniond. Xenia. 1817; died in Caesar's Creek 
townsliip April. 1836, aged seventy. 

Hobbs. Littleton, Xenia. 1817. 

Hobbs, William. Caesar's Creek. 1817; December 
22. 182s, married Sarah Chalk. 

Hobbs. John. Caesar's Creek, 1S28. 

Hobbs. Henry. Caestir's Creek, 1828; a prisoner for 
debt; (sec History of Greene County, page 326). 

Holibs. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1840: December 5, 
1840. married Sarah E. Wright. 

Howett, Daniel, Bath, 1830 ; died .\pril 3, 1856. aP'ed 
fortv-nine; buried in Mitman gravevard, Fair- 
field. Ohio. 

Hobley. John. Caesar's Creek. 1829. 

Howard. John. Xenia. 1816; Januarv 2i. 1817. mar- 
ried Hannah Welch. 

Howard. Stephen. Xenia, 1817. 

H'liward. Samuel. Xenia, 1840. 

Howard. Rosswell F., Xenia, 1837; born July 20. 
1814; died June 28. 1892. aged seventy-eight; bur- 
ied in Wc<odland ; from Virginia; son of Cyrus. 

Howard. Susan. Beaver Creek. 1813. 

Howard. John. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Howard. William. Silver Creek, 1840. 

Howard. Silas. Bath. 1840 ; buried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad River. 

Hollingshead, Richard, Xenia, 1827; from Frederick 
county, Virginia ; died February 5, 1863. aged 
eighty-si-x ; buried in Woodland. 

Hollingshead. Jas.. Xenia. 1827; born October. 1817; 
died June 5, 1896. aged seventy-eight ; buried at 
Spring Vallev. Ohio; married Mary Allen. 

Hollingshead. William, Xenia, 1830; born January 
3. iSci : died March 3, 1873. aged seventy-five; 
Iniried in Woodland. 

Hollingshead. Samuel, Xenia, 1840. 



Hollingshead, Daniel, Xenia, iS.io. 

Hollingshead Bowen. 1822 ; .August 20. 1822. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Persinger. 

Hollingshead. John, Xenia. 1827; died .August 28, 
1838, aged twenty-two ; buried in Woodland. 

Hockey. John, Xenia. 1827. 

Holt. William, Sugar Creek. 18.30; died July 30, 
1877. aged eighty ; buried at Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Hostetter. .\dam. Xenia. 1826 ; died .August 3. 1887, , 
aged eighty-eight. 

Hodges, Nathaniel, Silver Creek, 1840; from Frede- 
rick county, Virginia; soldier of 1812; father- 
in-law of E. W. Steele; died June 5. 1859; bur- 
ied at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Horn. John S.. Xenia. 1827; born August 14. 1780; 
died July 24. 1841. aged sixty-one; buried in 
Woodland. 

Horn. Daniel H.. Xenia. 1840 ; son of Rev. John S. 
Horn; removed to Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Horn. Fredrick. Xenia. 1840; went to California in 
1849. 

Horn. John R., Xenia, 1840; a tinner; son of John 
S. : died September 24, 1884, aged sixty-four ; 
buried in Woodland. 

Hum. William T.. Xenia. 1841 ; drowned at Colomo, 
California, in 1852. 

Holverstott, Michael. Beaver Creek. 1807; July 26, 
1821, married Dorothy M. Shoup. 

Holverstott, Nicholis, Beaver Creek. 1814. 

Holverstott, John. Beaver Creek. 1817; October 31, 
1816, married Elizabeth Crowl. 

Holverstott, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1826; from Mary- 
land; died February 18, 1870. aged sixty-six: bur- 
ied in Woodland; married Elizabeth Olewine. 

Holver.stott. David. Beaver Creek. 1827; died May 
31. 1877; buried in Beaver Creek township; mar- 
ried Mary Taylor September 18, 1S28. 

Holverstott. James, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Holley, Thomas. Xenia, 1840; died .April 13. 1849, 
aged eighty-three; buried in Woodland. 

Hoyle. James, Xenia, 1840 ; from Virginia ; died No- 
vember 2,'^. 1896, aged seventy-eight ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Hoy. .Adam, Beaver Creek, 1827. 

Houtch, Benjamin. Beaver Creek, 1828. 

Hogan, John, Bath, 1828. 

Hogan, James. Bath, 1828. 

Howe, Joseph, Miami, 1810; soldier of 1812. 

Hol-man. Elephalet. 1824; December 8, 1825. mar- 
ried Sally Bell. 

Holsman, Fredrick, Xenia, 1S40; died August 15, 
1873. aged sixty; liuried in Woodland. 

Holoway. David, Miami, 1840. 

House, David B.. Miami. 1840. 

House, John B., Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Hutchison. Reuben. Silver Creek, 1820 ; December 
II, 1823, married Mary Hatton. 

Hutchison. John. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1806; from Scott 
county, Kentucky; died at the age of fifty-eight; 
buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Hutchison, George. Sugar Creek. 1816 ; son of John ; 
removed to Shelby county. Ohio; soldier of 1812; 
married Martha Clancey. March 19. 1818. 

Hutchison. John, Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1818; removed to 
Shelby county. Ohio, where he died in 1835. aged 
thirty-si.x; married Ella Clancey April i. 1824. 

Hutchison. Andrew, Sugar Creek, 1820; born De- 



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cember 19. 1796: died July 11. 1865; buried in 

Woodland: married Mijs E. J. Gordon March 25, 

1826. 
Hutchison. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1820: removed to 

Shelby county. Ohio : December 29. 1836. married 

Jane Stewart, by Rev. A. Heron. 
Hutchison. William. Sugar Creek. 1830: born July 

19. 1S09; died August 6. 1834. aged twenty-five; 

buried in A. R. churchyard, Xenia. 
Hutchison. Joseph B.. Sugar Creek. 1826; father of 

Andrew, of Co. L. Third New York Cavalry. 

died October 30, 1877. aged seventy-six: buried 

in Woodland. 
Hurley, Leaven. Sugar Creek. 1810. 
Hurley. Zadock, Sugar Creek, 1813. 
Hurley. William, Sugar Creek, 1840. 
Hurley. Fredrick. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 
Hurley. Lent.. Caesar's Creek, 1807. 
Hurley, Zadock. Jr.. Caesar's Creek, 1810. 
Hurley. Harrison. Caesar's Creek. 1840: died March 

15, 1889. aged seventy; January 29, 1839. mar- 
ried Margaret Whalen. 
Hurley, John, Xenia, 1819; January 7. 1819. married 

Susannah Borders. 
Hurlev. Henry, 1840: June 3. 1841, married Sarah 

Ma'lTet. 
Hurley. Isaac. Xenia, i8.>.o. 
Hunter. Julius, Beaver Creek, 1835: taught school 

in 1835 on what was known as the Joshua Mar- 
tin farm. 
Hunter, Thomas. Beaver Creek, 1804: commissioner 

of Greene county from 1812 to 1818. 
Hunter. David. Xenia, 18.10. 
Hunter. John. Miami, 1826: native of Halifax county. 

Nova Scotia ; died in 1824 ; Gavin and Robert H. 

Johnson, administrators of his estate. 
Hughs, Joseph. 1830; removed to Shelby county; 

died in 1896. aged eighty-one: February 4. 1830. 

married Susanna Dorsey^ 
Hughs. William. Sugar Creek, 1819. 
Hughs. Henry. Xenia. 1810. 
Hughs. Jesse. 1S38: October i. 1839. married Mary 

Perkins. 
Hughs. William. Beaver Creek. 1808. 
Hughs. David, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Hughs, Samuel, Silver Creek, 1820. 
Hughs, Smiley, Xenia, 1840 ; killed on the C. H. & 

D. R. R.. south of Xenia. June. 1870; buried in 

Woodland. 
Hufif. Josenh. Sugar Creek, 1S12. 
Huff, Jacob, Xenia. 1S13. 
Huff. Jacob J.. Xenia. 1816. 
Huff. Noah. Ross, 1830; school teacher: buried near 

Grape Grove; October II, 1832, married Jane 

Clemmons. 
Huff. Nancy. Silver Creek. 1820. 
Huston, Robert, Sugar Creek. 1814: from Bucks 

county. Tennessee: born January 1. 1778; died 

September 24. 1829. 
Huston. William. Sugar Creek, 1840; born in 1803: 

died in 1894. aged eighty-six; buried in Mt. Zion 

churchyard ; October 14. 1830. married Elizabeth 

Swigart. 
Huston. O.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Huston, Hanna, Sugar Creek, 1830. 
Huston, Archibald, Sugar Creek. 1840;. died October 



II. 1875. aged fifty-nine; buried in Beaver Creek 
township. 

Huston, Pbenix. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Huston. John. Caesar's Creek. 1807; died in 1833. 

Huston. Robert. Caesar's Creek. 1815: from West- 
moreland county. Pennsylvania : died April 25. 
1857. aged sixty-four ; buried in Dean graveyard. 

Huston. Amos. Caesar's Creek, 1S21. 

Huston. Judge David. Beaver Creek. 1803 ; from 
Pennsylvania ; died in 1843 ; buried in Beaver- 
town cemetery August 27. 1843. aged sixty-nine ; 
wife was Sarah. 

Huston. Abraham. Beaver Creek, 1805 : son of Da- 
vid ; buried in Bcavertown cemetery. 

Huston, David, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840; son of 
David : married Susan, daughter of Jacob Darst ; 
removed to Paris, Illinois. 

Huston, Luther B.. Beaver Creek, 1840; .son of David. 

Huston. Joseph. Miami. 1808. 

Huston. Joseph M.. Miami, 1810. 

Huston, Hiram, Xenia, 1S40. 

Huston. Israel. Beaver Creek, 1826; son of David: 
born in 1805 ; died in 1846 ; married a daughter of 
Jonathan Harshman. 

Hummer. Peter. Caesar's Creek, 1807; died April 8, 
1836, aged sixty-six; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, near Jamestown. 

Hummer. John. Silver Creek. 1818; died in 1823: 
fir.st wife's name. Christiana; March i. 1827. mar- 
ried Loty Lucas. 

Hummer, Amos, Sugar Creek, 1829 ; December 23. 
1830, married Sarah Shoemaker. 

Huffman. John. Sugar Creek. 1829. 

Huffman, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1829: l>orn Octo- 
ber m, 1806; died Februarv 5, 1830; buried at 
Mt. Holly. Ohio. 

Huffman. Jolm. Bath. 1826; July 22. 182 1. married 
Mary Lacher. 

Huffman. Valentine. 1818 ; October 28. 1820. married 
Elizabeth Trollinger. 

Huffman. Peter. Ross. 1805 ; from Hardy county. 
Virginia: died in 1862. • 

Huffman. Amos. Ros.s, 1840; March 9. 1842, mar- 
ried Nancy Thomas. 

Huffman. Fredrick. Spring Valley. 1840; died May 
22, 1878. aged ninety-two. 

Huffman. Samuel. Ross. 1840; born in 1814; died 
in 1888; buried in M. E. graveyard, Selma, Ohio. 

Huffman. Aaron. Xenia. 181 1; soldier of 1812; died 
March 17, 1865, aged eighty; buried in Cedarville 
cemetery. 

Hussey. Christopher. Sr.. Silver Creek, 1807 ; from 
Tennessee; died June, 1812 ; wife's name was 
Mary. 

Hussey, Christxapher. Jr., Silver Creek. 1807: born 
June 12. 1794; died March 8. 1873. aged seventy- 
nine: buried in Hussey graveyard: January 13. 
1820. married Margaret Haughey; December 20. 
1838. married Catharine Lockhart. 

Hussey. Elijah. Silver Creek, 1807. 

Hussey. Nathan. Silver Creek, 1807; son of Chris- 
topher, Sr. ; September 30, 1830, married Mary 
Hussey. 

Hussey. Stephen. Silver Creek. 1807: son of Chris- 
topher. Sr. ; died July. 1818. aged thirty-one: 
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Hussey. Ivan. Silver Creek, 1828. 

Hiissey. Mary. Silver Creek, 1813: widow of Chris- 
topher, Sr. 

Hussey, Jacob, Silver Creek, 1817: son of Chris- 
topher, Sr. : died July 2. 1867. aged seventy; bur- 
ied in Hussey graveyard, 

Hussey, John, Silver Creek, 1812; soldier of 1812. 

Hussey. Elijah. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Hussey. Francis. J., Silver Creek, 18.^5; died No- 
vember I q, 1868, aged fifty-five; buried in James- 
town cemetery. 

Hussey. Stenhen. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1840; died Feb- 
ruary I. 1855. aged thirty-five; l)uricd in Hussey 
graveyard, 

Huett. Nathaniel. Caesar's Creek, 1819, 

Hitett. Lewis. Caesar's Creek. 1828, 

Huett, Nathan. Caesar's Creek. 1830, 

Huett. Jesse. Bath. 1827, 

Huett. .^aron, Bath, 1827. 

Huett, Robert. Bath. 1S27. 

Hunt Josiah. Caesar's Creek, 1802; the great hun- 
ter; (see History of Greene County); removed 
to Indiana, 

Hunt. John. Caesar's Creek. 1806; soldier of 1812. 

Hunt. Benson. Ross. 1819, 

Hunt, Uriah, Silver Creek, 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Hunt, Joel, Silver Creek, 1840, 

Hunt, Edward, Silver Creek. 1814. 

Huddelston. John. Beaver Creek, iSig; June 26, 1821, 
married Eve Smcltzier, 

Huddleston, David, Sr,, Caesar's Creek, 1828, 

Huddleston, David Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Hultzer, Jacob, Xcnia, 1820. 

Hume, Robert. Miami. 1840. 

Hume. James A.^ 1820; November 20, 1834, married 
Mary N'evins, 

Hume, George, Miami. 1840; came from Scotland 
to the United States in 1795; died September 24, 
1862, aged seventy-two; buried in Clifton ceme- 
tery, 

Hume, John, Miami, 1840; died .August 22. 1857, 
aged eighty-three; buried in Clifton cemetery. 

Husong. Isaac. Silver Creek. 1840; died February 
27. i86r. aged forty-two; buried at Yellow- 
Springs. Ohio ; married Sarah .-\nn Sharp. 

Hulible. Jacob, Miami. 1808; soldier of 1812. 

Hubble. Francis. Xenia, 1828, 

Hubanks, James. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Hutton, John, Ross; died November 14, 1850, aged 
seventv-threc ■ buried in Hixite cemeterv, Selma, 
Ohio. " 

Huckwell, Francis. Miami. 1820; died in 1868; buried 
at Cedarville. Ohio. 

Huckwell. William. Miami. 1821. 

Huckwell. Clementine. Xcnia. 1820; died March 25. 
1854. aged sixty-five; buried in Cedarville ceme- 
tery. 

Humphreys. Francis, Miami. i8i6; died November 
10. 1851, aged one hundred; came from Ireland 
in 1791 ; to Greene county in 1816; buried in Mud 
Run graveyard. 

Humphreys, Christopher, Bath, 1817; removed to 
Indiana. 

Humphreys. Thomas, Miami. 1828; brother of Ed- 
ward; removed to Iowa; died in 1832. 



Humphreys. Jpseph, Miami. 1840; buried in Wood- 
land; May 6, 1837. married Mary Casada. 

Humphreys, David, Bath, 1807. 

Humphreys. Harvey H.. Bath. 1828; March 3. 1829, 
married Harriet Rush. 

Humphreys. Andrew. Ross. 1S40. 

Himiphreys. Edward. Miami. 1807; came to the 
United States fr(nii Ireland in 1807; died in 
1856; buried in Mud Run graveyard. Clark coun- 
ty. Ohio. 

Hushaw. Fredrick. Beaver Creek. 1S06. 

Hushaw. -Andrew. Beaver Creek. 1S06. 

Hurl. John. Miami, 1840. 

Hulick, Samuel, Bath, 1S07; soldier of 1812. 

Humbart. John. Beaver Creek, 1S17. 

Humbart, Emanuel. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Huey. William. Balh, 1817. 

Hufford, Jacob, Bath, 1828; removed to Sandusky, 
Ohio ; /Vugust 19, 1830, married Rebecca CofVclt, 

Huffer, Daniel, Bath, 1840; son of .\braham ; buried 
in Hath churchyard, west of Mad River; born 
in 1819, 

Huffer, Abraham, Bath. 1815; from Lancaster 
county. Penn.sylvania; died .\ugust 29. 1843, 
aged sixty-six ; buried at Huffcrville. Ohio. 

Huffer. John. Bath, 1821 ; son of Abraham; buried 
in Hufferville, west of Mad River ;" married Cath- 
arine Srodes. 

Huft'er. Simon S.. Bath, 1840; son of .\brahain ; born 
May 2^. 1813; died March 14. 1894. aged eighty; 
buried at Hufferville. Ohio. 

Huffer. Joseph. Bath. 1840; son of Abraham; died 
in 1861 ■. buried at Hufferville. Ohio. 

Hulinger. Christopher, Miami, 1808. 

Hulinger. Valentine, Miami, 1810. 

Hulinger, Daniel, Miami, 1810. 

Hulinger Jacob, Miami, 1810. 

Hulinger. Adam, 1830 ; April 4, 1S34, married Esther 
H. Lewis. 

Hulinger. Christian. Miami. 1810; soldier of 1812. 

HulbeVt, Homer, Miami. 1840. 

Hulbcrt. John, 1834; June 4. 1835. married Eliza 
Humphreys. 

Hyers, Andrew. Beaver Creek. 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Hyers, Anthoney. Xenia, 1810, 

Hypes, Henry, Xenia, 181 1; from Virginia; born 
June II, 1775; died October i, 1854, aged seventy- 
nine; buried in Woodland, 

Hypes, Joseph, Xenia. 1819; born March 24. 1798; 
removed to Illinois. 

Hypes. Thomas .Asbury. 1834; November 10. 1835, 
married Caroline Howard. 

Hypes. Benjamin, Xenia, 1S26; born February 10, 
1805; removed to Illinois. 

Hyslop. George, Xenia. 1815; January 25. 1820, 
married Margaret Greenwood, by Rev. Arm- 
strong ; native of Scotland ; was not naturalized 
until 1840; Hugh .Andrew and Wm. C. Robinson 
vouch for him. 

Hyslop. Robert. Xenia. 1840; died August 29, 1896, 
aged seventv-five ; buried in Woodland. 

Hyde, Robert, 'Miami, 1840; died August 18, 1866, 
aged seventy-two ; buried at Yellow Springs, Ohio, 

Humpston. S.G.. Caesar's Creek. 1840; buried at 
Maple Corners; died, aged seventy-four. 



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Hunipston. Edward. Caesar's Creek. 1840 ; killed on 
the railroad December 10. 1859. 

Hyland. Hugh H.. Beaver Creek. 1832: from Wash- 
ington county, Maryland. 

Inman. Aliab, Xenia. 1S07. 

Inman. Jehu. Xenia, 1807: soldier of 1812. imder 
Captain Maltbie; June 27. 1809. married Lucy 
Fires. 

Indicut. Jesse. Caesar's Creek. 1828. 

Innskeep. Henry. Xenia. 1840; September 28. 1840. 
married Casandra Roberts. 

Insley. Zara Ross. 1804; died January 18. 1859, 
aged seventy-five; buried east of Grape Grove; 
married Jane Ash in 1817. 

Insley. Mitchell. Ross. 1S15. 

Insley, Isaiah. Ross, 1820. 

Insley. Zarah. Ross. 1826; died__Xovember 3, 18.SI, 
aged seventy-two; buried in Bethel graveyard, 
Grape Grove. 

Insley. John H.. Ross. 1840: died March 7, 1879. aged 
seventy ; buried in Bethel graveyard. 

Insley, Harrison, Ross. 184a 

Insley. Thomas. Ross. 1840. 

Insley. David, Ross. 1821. 

Insley. James. Ross. 1815; died in 1846. aged fifty- 
two ; buried in Bethel Grane Grove. 

Irwin. John Sugar Creek. 1803. 

Irw-in. WilHani. Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Irwin. David, Xenia, 1828. 

Irwin, Stephen M., 1834; April 4, 1835, married Eliz- 
abeth Burrows. 

Irwin. John. Miami, 1810; died at Blaintown of chol- 
era, in 1854. 

Irwin. John C.. Miami. 1827; January i, 1837, mar- 
ried Margaret Mercer. 

Irwin. John. Sugar Creek. 1804: soldier of 1812; 
died July 14. 1854; buried in Hussey graveyard. 

Irwin. William. Sugar Creek. 1809; soldier of 1812, 

Irwin. Samuel. Xenia, 1812, 

Irwin, James, Ross, 1821 : died September 2, 1839, 
aged thirty-nine; buried in Caesar's Creek ceme- 
tery, two miles west of Jamestown, Ohio; October 
10. 1832. married Martha Creswell. 

Irvin. Ricliard. Ross. 181 1. 

Irvin. .-Mexander. Ross. 1S13. 

Irvin. Robert. Ross, 1840: died at Cedarville, Ohio, 
in 1881 ; sermon preached by Rev. Shannon. 

Ireland, Thomas S.. Ross. 1820. 

Ireland, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1826, 

Ireland, James, Caesar's Creek, 1828 ; died in 1870, 
aged seventy-twoj buried in Hussey graveyard. 

Ireland. John. Xenia. 1817: December 4. 1826. mar- 
ried Margaret Campbell. 

Ireland. William. 1830; September 6. i8,?o. married 
Lucinda Hanna. 

Ireland. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1840; October u, 
1837. married Catharine Parrott. 

Ireland. .Mexander, Caesar's Creek. 1808: died March 
2, 1881, aged seventy-eight; married X'ovember 
24, 1831. Eliza Ellis.' 

Ireland. Seth. Xenia. 1826; died January ig. 1859, 

buried in Cedarville cemetery. 
Ireland. John L., Ross, 1827; died in 1835. July 
I.;; aged thirty-five; March 17, 1831, married 
Khza Loblctt. 



Isham. George. Caesar's Creek, 1803. 

Isham. George. Caesar's Creek, 1827. 

Isham. Caesar's Creek. 1S30. 

Islcy. Daniel. Beaver Crecw. 1820; buried in Bap- 
tist graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Isley. Henry. Caesar's Creek. 1820. 

liley. Jesse. Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Iiigraham. Alexander. Sugar Creek. 1S40; died July 
21. 1876. aged seventy. 

Ivers. Richard, Ross. 1815; soldier of 1812. 

Iliff. Wesley. Sr.. Ross, 1816; son of James and 
Bessie Hill Iliff, of Pennsylvania; died in 1852; 
buried at Cedarville, Ohio, 

Iliff, John, Ross. 1826; died at Springfield. Ohio: 
buried in Fern Cliff cemetery ; married Hester 
Myers in 1832. 

Ilift'. James. Ross. 1819; died in Springfield. Ohio; 
buried in Fern Cliff cemetery ; .August 16. 1829, 
married Mary Humble. 

Iliff. Jesse. Ross, 1827; died in 1849; buried in Cedar- 
ville cemetery; June 14. 1827. married Maria 
Cline. 

Iliff. James. Jr.. Ross. 1830. 

Iliff, Thomas, Ross, 1840; son of Wesley, Sr. ; died 
in 1888. 

Iliff. William. 1840; January i. 1840. married Mary 
Ann Spahr. 

Iliff. David. Ross, 1840. 

Ilift'. Wesley. Jr.. Ross. 1840; married a daughter of 
Joseph Ballard; buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Inlow, Abraham. Miami. i8jo; soldier of 1812; 
March 24. 1813. married Margaret Foley, 

Inlow. Henry. Miami. 1840; buried in Clifton ceme- 
tery. 

Iscnbarger. Elias. Beaver Creek. 1840; died in 1897. 
aged seventy-eight ; buried in Hawker churchyard. 

James. William. Sugar Creek, 1832; son of Jona- 
than : removed to Indiana. 

James. Joshua C. Xenia. 1840 ; son of John. Sr. ; 
died April 28, 1867, aged fifty-seven ; buried in 
Woodland. 

James, Joseph. Sugar Creek. 1803; born November 

II. I773- 

James. John. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1808; from \ irginia ; 
d'ed September 18. 1841. aged sixty-seven; buried 
in Middle Run cemeterv ; wife. Marv ; son of 
William. 

James. Jonathan. Sugar Creek. 1820 ; son of Will- 
iam ; born March 17. 1782; died January 24, i860; 
buried at Middle Run. 

James. John. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1826; son of David: 
removed to Wa^-hington state. 

James. Evan B.. Sugar Creek. 1826; son of John. 
Sr., died January 2, 1831, aged twenty-eight; bur- 
ied in Middle Run cemetery. 

James. David W.. Sugar Creek. 1828; son of John; 
died July 9. 1875; buried in Bellbrook cemetery; 
aged sixty-nine. 

James. Banes. Sugar- Creek. 1S28; son of Jonathan; 
died December 17. 1856. aged fifty; buried in 
Middle Run cemetery. 

James. David W., Sugar Creek, 1840: son of 
John, Sr. : died July 9. 1875 ; buried at Bellbrook. 

James. Jonathan. Jr., Sugar Creek. 1840; son of 
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James. John C. Esq.. Sugar Creek. 1837 ; son of 
John: twin to Catherine: born March 9. 1816: 
still living in iSgg. 

James, Perry, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Jonathan, 
Sr. : removed to Indiana. 

James, Thomas, Beaver Creek. 1840, 

Jackson, David. Xenia. 1840: born June 18, 1795; 
died in Xenia May 15. i860, aged sixty-five: bur- 
ied in Massic's Creek cemetery (Stevenson's). 

Jackson. John. Caesar's Creek. 1811: soldier of 1812. 

J.ickson. Philip, Caesar's Creek, 1804; son-in-law of 
Joint Downey. 

Jackson, Samuel, Caesar's Creek, l8ig; November 
26, 1812, married Susanna Best. 

Jackson, David, Xenia, 1820: son of Robert: born 
March 3, 1794: died July 17. 1863. aged sixty- 
nine : buried in Massie's Creek : a farmer. 

Jackson, David, Xenia, l8,?o: died in 1876, aged sev- 
enty-.seven ; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery : 
a teacher. 

Jackson. Robert. Xenia. 1814: from County Derry. 
Ireland; died September 26. 1828; buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek C.Stevenson's): aged seventy; soldier 
of the Revolution. 

Jackson. Gen. Robert, Xenia, 1840; from West- 
moreland. Pennsylvania; died June to. 1877, aged 
eighty ; -buried in Woodland, 

Jackson, .\nn. Xenia. 1830: widow of Archibald 
Jackson. 

Jackson. Edward. Bath. i8og. 

Jackson. William. Ross. i8ig; died November i. 
1826. aged si.xty : buried in Massie's Creek ( Ste- 
venson's) ; May 4, 1820, married Rebecca Pear- 
son, 

Jackson, .'\rchibald, Ross, iSig; born January 8, 
1791: died January 4. 1833; buried in Massie's 
Creek (Stevenson's); wife was Ann. 

Jackson. Amos. Ross. 1820; died in 1848. 

Jackson, Phebe, Ross, 1820. 

Jackson. William. Ross. 1840; died in 1875, aged 
fifty-four; buried at Bowersville, Ohio; June 24, 
1830. married Martha Clemons. 

Jackson.. Uriah. Silver Creek. 1840; died January 
5. 1875, aged fiftv-four; buried at Bowersville. 
Ohio. 

Jacobs. James. Xenia, 1812; soldier of 1812; re- 
moved to Indiana. 

Jacobs. Alexander. Xenia. 1826; died in 1S3S. 

Jacobs. Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Jay. John. Sugar Creek. 1830 : died January 27. 18S4. 
aged eighty-five ; buried in Caesar's Creek church- 
yard, south of New Burlington. Ohio. 

Jay. George. Sugar Creek. 1840 ; May 28, 1840, mar- 
ried Polly BaylifY. 

Jay, .\braham, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Jarrol. James, Xenia, 1811. 

Jacoby. James, Xenia, 1814. 

Jacoby. John. Sr., Xenia. 1814; grandfather of John 
H. : from Northumberland county. Pennsylvania; 
died November .^o. 1836. aged seventy-three, 

Jacoby, Henry, Xenia, 1814; father of John H. ; died 
December 31, 1859, aged seventy-two: buried in 
Woodland. 

Jacoby, John H., Xenia, l8ig; died August 13. 1S94. 
aged eighty-une ; buried in Woodland. 



Jacoby. Matthew C. Xenia. 1840; brother of John 
H. : May 10. 1840. luarried Phebe Ann Jackson. 

Jacoby. Henry. Jr.. Xenia. 1840: buried in Woodland. 

Jacoby. Peter Xenia. 1822 : died July 9, 1870, aged 
sixty-nine ; buried in Woodland ; April 13, 1826, 
married Sarah Gowdy. 

Jameson. John. Jr.: son of George: born .\ugust 8, 
1815: married Elizabeth McCoy. 

James.on. James. Beaver Creek. 1806. 

Jameson. John, Xenia. 1808. 

Jameson. Alexander. Xenia. 1816. 

Jameson. Alexander R.. Xenia, 1817. 

Jameson, Rebecca, Xenia, 1820; wife of George. 

Jameson. George. Ross. 1829: from Washington 
county. Pennsylvania ; died February 2, 1893, 
aged eighty-one; .August 22, 1857. married Sarah 
McClellan, 

January, James, Sr., Silver Creek, 1817; died .'\ugust 
21, 1824. aged sixty-one: buried two and one-half 
miles west of Bowersville: was in battle of 
Blue Licks. Kentucky. 

January. Robert. Silver Creek. 1820: son of James; 
soldier of 1812; born December 12. 1786: died 
December 11. 1842; buried in Jamestown ceme- 
tery. 

January. Sanniel. Silver Creek. 1820: married Sep- 
tember 27. 1832, to Julia Ann Blain, by William 
M. Irvin. 

January. James. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1820; son of James 
and Susanna ; January 22. 1822. married Cath- 
erine Haws. 

Januarv. George. Silver Creek. 1820; born June 13, 
1810. 

January. William, Xenia^ 1840; was a resident of 
Xenia in iS.io. 

Jenkins. Daniel. Sugar Creek. tSog. 

Jenkins. Baldwin. Caesar's Creek. 1807; son of 
.Aaron. 

Jenkins, .\aron. Caesar's Creek. 1804; from Ten- 
nessee: w'ife. Charity; died March 4. 185 1. aged 
seventy-si.x ; buried in Salem graveyard, south of 
Paintersville. Ohio. 

Jenkins. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1S07. 

Jacobs. Levi, Miami, 1840;, died July 15. 1875. aged 
seventy. 

Jenkins. Jonathan. Silver Creek. 1827; died October 
to. 1888. aged eighty-one. buried at Jamestown. 
Ohio. 

Jenkins. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1827; son of Aaron. 
Sr. 

Jenkins. Malachi. Caesar's Creek. 1830. 

Jenkins. Jaines. Caesar's Creek. 1840: soldier of 1812. 

Jenkins. Bedford, Caesar's Creek: 1840. 

Jenkins. Zealia. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Jenkins. John. Xenia.. 1S30. 

Jenkins. Daniel. Miami. 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Jenkins. Daniel. Jr.. Miami. 1813. 

Jenkins. George. Ross : 1830. 

Jenkins. Marshall. Silver Creek. 1830. 

Jenkins. Jonathan. Silver Creek. 1833 ; born Oc- 
tober 9. 1808. died October 16. 1883. buried in 
Jamestown cemetery ; married .\nn Dawson. 

Jewett. Or. John. Xenia. 1840: died May 11, 1856, 
aged sixty, buried in Woodland., 

Jennings, James, Sugar Creek. 1820. 



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Jeffries. Uriah. Xenia, 1830; from Nortli Carolina; 

established a cabinet factory in Cedarville in 1834. 

died in 1870. buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 
Jeffries. Wyath. Xenia. 1830; removed to Indiana; 

February 16. 1832. married Eliza Jones. 
Jeffries, Sarah, Xenia, 1830. 
Jeffries, Macklin, Xenia, 1830; removed to Rush 

county. Indiana. 
Jeffries. Walker. Xenia. 1830; removed to Rush coun- 
ty. Indiana. 
Jeffries. James. Xenia. 1840; buried in Baptist grave- 

vard, Jamestown. 
Jeff'ries. John P.. Xenia. 1838; April 23. 1839. married 

Nancy Day. 
Jeffries. Dillison, Xenia. 1840. 
Jeffries. Peninah. Xenia. 1840. 
Jeffries. \Vm.. Caesar's Creek. 1840; died September. 

1873- 

Jeffries. Silas, Xenia. 1832; buried in Cedarville 
cemetery. 

Jessup. Samuel. Bath. 1826. 

Jenie. Jonas. Xenia. 1840. 

Jenie. .\hcl. Xenia. 1840. 

Jickell. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Joab. Abraham. Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Jones. Moab. Caesar's Creek. 1804; died November 
5. 1870. aged eighty-seven, buried in Tabor church 
yard. Jasner township. 

Jones. Joseph. Sugar Creek, 1804; August 16. 1804, 
married Rebecca Mooney. 

Jones. Wiu.. Sugar Creek. 1805. 

Jones, Ann. Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Jones. Jonathan. Sugar Creek. 1810; inarried January 
12, 1S26. Hannah Harbison, by Rev. John Steele. 

Jones, David. Sugar Creek, 1813; May 15. 1813, mar- 
ried Ann Hester. 

Jones, John, Caesar's Creek, 1804; died in 1852. aged 
sixty-three, huried near New Burlington. Ohio. 

Jones. Nathaniel B.. Caesar's Creek. 1830; died in 
1838. 

Jones. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1812. 

Jones. James. Caesar's Creek. 1813 ; died Decemlicr 
26. 1872. buried in Spring Valley. 

Jones. Lewis. Caesar's Creek. 1829; died May 22. 
1857. aged 65. liuried in Baptist graveyard. James- 
town. Ohio. 

Jones. Geo. \V., Caesar's Creek. 1S33 ; son of Erastus; 
from Virginia. 

Jones. Matthew. Caesar's Creek. 1840; January 24, 
1833. married Nancy Ellis. 

Jones, Benjamin. Xenia, 1811. 

Jones, Fleming. Xenia. 1816. 

Jones, Moab. Xenia. 1820; died in 1870. aged sixty- 
seven, buried in Tabor churchyard. New Jasper. 

Jones. James A.. Miami. 1840; died at Yellow 
Springs. October 22. 1882. aged seventy-six. buried 
in Glen Forest cemetery. 

Jones. Dennis. Miami. 1830; died May 3. 1859. aged 
seventy-five, liuried at Yellow Springs. Ohio. 

Jones, Joshua, Xenia, 1841 ; filom Maryland; died 
November 2. 1885. aged sixty-five, buried in 
Woodland ; soldier in Civil war, Company E, 
Fortieth Ohio ; married Elizabeth Painter. 

Jones. Wm., Xenia, 1830. 

Jones. Tilbury, Xenia. 1840; from Delaware; born 



June 30. 1783. died April 10. 1868. aged eighty- 
five, buried in Woodland. 

Jones. Thomas L., Xenia, 1S40; born March 2. 1811, 
died May 7, 1874. aged sixty-three, buried in 
Woodland. 

Jones. Washington. Xenia. 1840; died September 24, 
1854. aged forty-two. buried in Woodland. 

Jones. John. Beaver Creek. 1806; soldier of 1812. 

Jones. Nancy. Beaver Creek. 1813. 

Jones. Thomas. Bath. 1813; soldier of 1812; May 2, 
1822. married Sarah Low. 

Jones. Ezekiel. Bath. 1819. 
■Jones, Levi, Bath. 1826. 

Jones. Thomas. Bath. 1813 ; died in 1S21. 

Jones. Peter. Bath. iSio; January 24. 18.^9. married 
Ann Probasco. 

Jones. Stephen. Miami. 18.30; born in Cincinnati in 
1802. died in Dayton. Ohio, in 1881. 

Jones. Samuel. Miami. 1840; married Rachel, daugh- 
ter of Thomas Baker, Sr. 

Jones. Erasmus. Ross. 1818; died March i. 1850, 
aged eighty-three, buried in Bloxsom graveyard. 

Jones. Erasmus. Jr.. Ross. 1840; son of Erasmus, 
Sr. ; died in 1849. 

Jones. Abraham. Silver Creek. 1826. 

Jones. Alanson. Silver Creek, 1840: son of Ambrose 
Jones. 

Jones. Rev. Ambrose. Silver Creek. 1832 ; from New 
York; died January 17. 1847. aged seventy-one, 
buried at Port William. Ohio. 

Jones. Ambrose. Jr., Silver Creek. 1832; son of Rev. 
Aiuljrose ; born June 12. 1S17; January 6. 1839, 
married Eliza Jones. 

Jones. Eber. Silver Creek. 1840; son of Ambrose. 

Jones. Burl. Silver Creek. 1828; died September 22, 
1856. aged sixty-five, buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Jolly. John. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 1812; 
died May m. 1852. aged seventy. buri'.?d in Wood- 
land. 

Jolly. James G.. Sugar Creek. 1840 ; son of John ; born 
in Xenia. September 2^. 181 1. died at Lumbcrton. 
February 21. 1899. aged eighty-seven; carpenter 
by trade. 

John. John. Beaver Creek. 1803; died November I, 
1822. aged seventy-six. buried at New Burlington, 
Ohio: soldier of 1812. 

John. David. Beaver Creek. 1806; son of Wm. ; 
buried in Falacc graveyard; .April 20. 1807, mar- 
ried Jennie McFarland. 

John, Elizabeth. Beaver Creek. 1813; widow of John 
John. 

John. Daniels. Xenia. 1S40; born March 13. i8v2. 
died January 5. 1857. buried in Woodland. 

John. Wm.. Beaver Creek. 1813; sou of John; died 
in 1S33. liuried in Coy graveyard; married Catha- 
rine Coy. 1827. 

John. Lemuel. Beaver Creek. 1813; son of John ; died 
January 8. 1835. aged forty-four; soldier of t8i2. 

Jolm. josepli P. B.. Sugar Creek. ]840; born Novem- 
ber 16. 182- ; married Sarah Bowen. 

John. Bowen. Sugar Creek. iS27;son of David; re- 
moved to Iowa ; March 10. i8.-S, married Martha 
Lambert. 

Jones. James. Sugar Creek. 1840; son of J. John; 
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Jobe. Wm. H., Xenia. 1S16: his brothur \v:is 
George F. 

Jobe. George. Xenia. 1816; from Pennsylvania: a 
wagon maker: died January 20. 1867. aged eighty, 
buried in Woodland: soldier of 1812; married 
Mary A. Hutchison. 

Jobe. Daniel. Miami. 1840: died August 6. 1888, aged 
sixty-six buried at Yellow Springs. Ohio. 

Johnson, Je.sse, Sugar Creek. 1808. 

Johnson. Robert. Sugar Creek. 1840; buried in Pio- 
neer graveyard, Bellbrook. 

Jllh^^on. John. Caesar's Creek.- 1S07: died in 1810: 
Septcmlier 4. 1834. married Malinda Davis. 

Johnson. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1812; soldier of 
1812: died September 26. 1851, aged seventy, 
buried at Bowersville. Ohio. 

Johnson. John M.. Caesar's Creek. 1827; February i, 
1827. married Susan Moorman. 

Johnson. John W.. Silver Creek. 1812: soldier of 
1812; died October 10. 1889. aged seventy-six. 
buried at Bowersville. Ohio. 

Johnson. James L., Silver Creek, 1812: died January 
10. 1861. aged seventy-eight, buried in Hussey 
graveyard. 

Johnson, Macajah M.. Silver Creek. 1813: died Oc- 
tober 15. 1869. aged si.xty-two. buried in Moor- 
man graveyard. Jamestown. Ohio. 

Johnson. John' S.. Silver Creek. 1813. 

Johnson. Moorman. Silver Creek. 1813. January 22. 
1818. married Mary K. Burgess. 

Johnson. James, Silver Creek, 1808: from X'irginia: 
died January 17, 187;: soldier of 1812. 

Johnson. Wm,, Silver Creek. 1808: son of Thomas; 
died (X'tober 16. 1830. aged forty-eight, buried in 
Massie's Creek cemeterv. Cederville ; soldier of 
1812. 

Johnson. John. Silver Creek. 1810: October 24. 1822, 
married Martha F^lane. 

Johnson. Gavin. Sr.. Silver Creek. 1811 : died July 
5. 18.^8. aged eighty-four, buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Johnson. Joseph. Silver Creek. 1812; son of Thomas; 
kept a store in Jamestown in i8ig; May 2, 1813, 
married Polly Moorman. 

Johnson. Christopher. Silver Creek. 181 3; soldier 
of 1812. 

Johnson. Thomas M,. Silver Creek. 1812: born Sep- 
tember 5. 1781. in Maryland. 

Johnson. James C, Silver Creek. 1817: died June 
24, 187.S. aged seventy-nine; September 17, 1829. 
married Jane Greenwood. 

Johnson. Jo^^eph. Silver Creek. 1818: black man. 

Johnson. .Alexander. Silver Creek. 1820. 

Johnson. Robert. Silver Creek. 1820: son of Thomas. 

Johnson. Joseph H.. Silver Creek, 1813. 

Johnson. J. B.. Silver Creek. 1827; native of Prince 
Edward countv. Virginia; Mav 21. i8?6. married 
.Ann Bell. 

Johnson. Pleasant. Silver Creek. 1818; from \'ir- 
ginia. 

Johnson, Edwin. Silver Creek. 1820; son of Pleas- 
ant. 

Johnson. Christopher E.. Silver Creek. 1820: Febru- 
ary iS. 1827. married Lydia Johnson. 

Johnson. Charles, Silver Creek. 1820: soldier of 



1812: married Margaret, daughter of John Mar- 
shall. 

Johnson. Simon. Silver Creek. 1820; November 21, 
1833, married Rachel Cruzen. 

Johnson, Ashley. Silver Creek. 1820. 

Johnson, Moorman, Silver Creek. 1820. 

Johnson, John H., Silver Creek, 1820 ; from Camp- 
bell county, Virginia: January 24, 1831, mar- 
ried Lydia Faulkner. 

Johnson. Thomas P.. Silver Creek, 1826 ; died .Aug- 
ust II, 1887, aged seventy-four; son of James. 

Johnson. George W,. Silver Creek. 1826; May 11, 
1837. married Jane Merryfield, 

Johnson, Christopher G.. Silver Creek. 1S26. 

Johnson. Jacob. Silver Creek. 1826. 

Johnson, Virgil H.. Silver Creek. 1840; .April 27. 
iSji. married Mary Wilson, 

Johnson. Thornton, Silver Creek. 1840; died July 
30. 1861, aged fiftv-two; buried at Bowersville. 
Ohio. 

Johnson, Zachariah. Silver Creek, 181 1; soldier of 
1812. 

Johnson. Clark T.. Silver Creek. 1820: born in 
Highland county January 4. 181 1; died .Aprd 

22. [888. aged seventy-seven ; buried at Bowers- 
ville; came to Xenia in 1820, 

Johnson. Elijah O.. Silver Creek. 1840; died De- 
cember 17. 1893. aged eighty-two. 

Johnson. William B,, Silver Creek. 1840; died Jan- 
uary 6, 1874: buried in Jamestown cemetery; 
aged sixty-six. 

Johnson, John D.. Silver Creek. 1840: born in 
Campbell county, Virginia, in 1800: died in 18C2. 
aged sixty-two. 

Johnson, Christopher O., Silver Creek, 1840, 

Johnson, Dr, Joseph, Xenia, 1814; from Campbell 
county, Virginia; removed to Salem. Illinois: 
died June 5. 1847, aged sixty-four; in 1820 be 
represented Greene county in the legislature. 

Johnston. James, Bath. 1807 ; from Kentucky ; son of 
Arthur; was not naturalized till 1840; Amos 
Quinn and James Galloway vouch for him : died 
February 2t,. 1878; in 1S08 married Margaret 
Johnston, 

Johnston, Arthur, Bath. 1807: was not naturalized 
till 1840; James and .Andrew Galloway vouch 
for him : died in 1S70, 

Johnston. Fredrick. Bath. 1807; son of Artliur ; 
came from Ireland and in 1807 entered lands in 
Bath townshin. 

Johnston. Samuel. Bath. 1809. 

Johnston. .Artliur, Bath. 1810; died May 6, 1870. 
aged eighty-six ; buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Johnston, Charles. Bath., iSio; a soldier of 1812; 
buried at Muddy Run graveyard, Clark county, 
Ohio; married Rebecca Stephen.'on. 

Johnston. .Andrew. Bath. 1817: .April 5. 1838. mar- 
ried Mary Ann Thompson. 

Johnston, William D.. Miami. 1828: born July 10. 
1808: died June 3, 1875; from Mason county, 
Kentucky. 

Johnston. William M,. Ba'h. 1836: liorn October 

23. 1815: died November iS. 1S65 ; buried in 
Cox graveyard, Osborn. Ohio, 

Johnston, Jephtha. Miami. iSii; soldier of 1812. 



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Johnston. Zcbulon. Miami, 1S27: died in 1849. 

Johnston. Stephen. Miami. 182Q. 

Johnston, Oliver. Miami. 1830: September 12. 1833. 
married Sophia Galloway. 

Johnston. Oliver. Jr.. Miami. 1830. 

Johnston, George. Miami, iSjO. 

Johnston. Dr. Thomas B.. Xenia. 1829: born August 
9. 1806; died Xovcmbcr 5. 1868. aged sixty; 
buried in Woodland. 

Johnson. David. Ross. 1807: soldier of 1812. 

Johnson. Benjamin. Ross. 1807. 

Johnson. ."Xrllnir. Ross. 1807. 

Johnson. Reuben. Ross, 1807. 

Johnson. Isaac. Ross. 1813. 

Johnson. Samuel. Ross. 1816; soldier of 1812. 

Johnson. Thornton. Miami. 1840: died May 21. 1885. 
aged eighty-four. 

Johnson^ James M.. Miami. 1S40; died January 2. 
1891. aged seventy-eight. 

Johnson. James, Ross, 1808: soldier of 1812: died 
in 18^7; buried in Muddy Run churchyard, Clark 
county, Ohio. 

Johnson, Jas. C, Ross, 1828. 

Johnson, George W., Ross, 1828; died November 
22, 1857, aged eighty-four. 

Johnson, James E., Ross, 1828. 

Johnson, Gaivin, Ross, 181 1. 

Johnson. Seth, Ross, 1830. 

Johnson, Rev. Wni. M., Xenia. 1840; died June 20. 
1850, aged seventy-two ; buried in Woodland. 

Jordon, George. Caesars Creek. 1827: from Mary- 
land ; buried in Eury graveyard. Beaver Creek : 
December 26. 1816. married Elizabeth Koffman. 

Jordon. William, Caesar's Creek, i8,w ; from Mary- 
land; died in 1885, aged eighty-four: buried at 
Beavertown, Ohio. 

Jordon, Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1840; from Mary- 
land; removed to Tiffin, Ohio. 

Junkin, James, Ross, 1807 : first school teacher in 
what is now Cedarville townshio ; school house 
was two miles south of Cedarville. 

Junkin. William. Ross, 1807. 

Junkin. Gcoree. Ross. 1808; built a sawmill in Ross 
township in 1820; died in 1858; buried in Caes- 
ar's Creek churchyard. 

Junkin. Lancelot. Sr.. Ross. iSio; soldier of Rev- 
olution; buried in Ma-sie's Creek cemetery; 
died in 1833. 

Junkin. Lancelot. Jr., Ross, 1815; died August 11, 
1883, aged seventy-seven ; buried near James- 
town, Ohio. 

Junkin. Wm.. Jr.. Ross. 1818; born June i, 1818; 
died August 5, 1898, aged eighty ; buried in Caes- 
ar's Creek churchyard. 

Judy. Tohn. Beaver Creek. 1803 ; born in Switzer- 
land in 1790; August 9. 1819, married Catharine 
Hittle ; removed to Clark county, Ohio. 

Judy. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1803 ; soldier of 1812 ; 
died in 1823. 

Judy. Martin. Beaver Creek. 1805 ; December 8. 
1803. married Sally Petro. 

Judy. David. Beaver Creek, 1806; August 31, 1826, 
married Mary Devore. 

Judy. .Miraham. Beaver Creek. 1840; August 8. 1S33. 
married Martha Ford. 

Judv. Samuel. 1824; .August 9. 1824. married Sarah 
Wright. 



Kennode. Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Kcnnode. James S., Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Kay. John E.. Caesar's Creek. 1840; died August 
31. 1882. aged seventy-eight; buried at New 
Burlington. Ohio. 

Karsal. Robert. Xenia. 1810; from Scotland; died 
at the home of his' son in Indiana Januarv 10, 
1887. 

Kavender. Matthias. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Kauffman, James M.. Bath. 1836; September 25, 
1838. married Elizabeth Roberts. 

Kaylor, Abraham, Beaver Creek, 1830, 

Kable, Tames, Bath, 1834. 

Kable. Francis, Bath, 1840, 

Kable, Dr. Wm. R.. Bath, 1831 ; killed by accident 
X'ovember. 1859. with a runaway horse, near 
Glotfelter. 

Kable. Samuel. Bath. 183 1 ; from Virginia; died 
X'ovember 25. 1S64. aged sixty-three ; buried in 
Hawker's churchyard. 

Kable. Wm. H.. Bath. 1840. 

Kable. Beniamin, Bath. 1840. 

Kelley. Joshua. 1832; January 26, 1832, married 
Elizabeth Merryfield. 

Kelley, Ezekiel, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Kelley. Samuel. Caesar's Creek, 1807; died De- 
cember 27. 1875, aged eighty-five ; buried at Ce- 
darville, 

Kelley, Benjamin, Xenia, 1819. 

Kelley, David, Xenia, 1829; from Virginia; died 
June 8, 1878, aged seventy-six ; buried in Wood- 
land ; married Mary Musgrove. 

Kelley, Solomon, Bath, 1807. 

Kelley. John. Bath. 1806; .soldier of 1812, under 
Captain Stewart; May 15, 1806, married Charity 
McKennev. 

Kelley. Isaac. Bath. 1826. 

Kelley. James. Miami. 1840. 

Kennedy. John. Ross. 1813; March i8. 1814. mar- 
ried Nancy Campbell. 

Kennedy. James. Sugar Creek. 1815; soldier of 
1812. under Captain Maltbie. 

Kennedy, John, Sugar Creek, 1S12. 

Keys, Job, Sugar Creek, 1812. 

Keys, John. Beaver Creek. 1812; died in 1816. 

Kel.so. Hugh. Vance. 1812; soldier of 1812, 

Kershner, Samuel, Sugar Creek. 1812; removed to 
\'an Wert. Ohio. 

Ker-^hner. Price S., 1832; January i, 1835, married 
.A.nna Swadener. 

Kershner, Daniel, Xenia, 1840 ; buried in Union 
graveyard, Byron, Ohio. 

Kershner. Eli A., Xenia, 181 1 ; born in Washing- 
ton county, Maryland, .\ugusl 18. 1809; died Sep- 
tember 16. 1894. aged eighty-five; son of Benja- 
min and Elizabeth Ankeney Kershner. 

Kershner. Otha S.. Beaver Creek, 1829; December 
ID, 1839. married Elizabeth Burrows. 

Kershner. Elrick. Beaver Creek, 1830. 

Kershner, MaTtin, Miami, 1826; removed to Indiana; 
.-Vpril 29. 1820. married Barbary Wiland. 

Kershner. John, Miami, 1828. 

Kershner. William. Miami, 1830. 

Kershner. Samuel. Jr.. Miami. TS40. 

Kershner. Solomon. Sr.. Miami, 1806; native of 
Maryland ; died October 10, 1850, aged sevcntv- 
six ; Iniried in Union graveyard, Byron, Ohio. 



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Kershner, Sulnnion. Jr.. Bath, 1S40; January 15, 
1835. married Magdalene Steaman. 

Kershncr. ■ Andrew. Bath. iSo"; died January 8, 
1849. aged thirty-txvu: buried in Union grave- 
yard, Byron ; married Henrietta Baughnian. 

Kershner. Uaniel, Bath, 181 1; from Maryland; bur- 
ied in Union graveyard, Byron; married Susanna 
Howard. 

Kershner. John, Bath. i8jo; February 22. 1S38. mar- 
ried Sarah Whcnct;. 

Kershner, William, Baih. iSj6; October 14. 1SJ4. 
married Magdalene Kershner, 

Kershner, Thomas, Bath, iSjS: from Hagerstown. 
Maryland; born in 1806 in Cincinnati; removed 
to Noble county, Indiana, in 1859: died Septem- 
ber, 1878; son of Solomon. Sr. 

Kershner, William B... Bath. i8.?o: father of Mrs. 
Ira K. Minton; died October 9. 1851. aged forty- 
eight; buried in Unioit churchyard. Byron. 

Kershner. David, Bath. 1840; son of William B. 

Kershner, Aaron, Bath, 1840. 

Kershner. Martin, Miami, i8j6; died June 11, 1859, 
aged sixty-three. 

Kershner. John, Bath, 1828. 

Kershner, William, Miami, iSjo. 

Kershner, Henry, Bath, 1840; May JO, 1S41, mar- 
ried Julia .-Vnn Wolf. 

Kershner. Jonatlian. Miami, 1840; from Pennsyl- 
vania; son of John. Sr. ; still living in i8(W. 

Kendall. William. Xenia. 1804; son of Rol>ert. Sr.. 
and Nancy; died .\ugust 6. 1S79. aged eighty- 
seven; buried in Woodland; soldier of i8lJ. 

Kendall. Robert. Sr., Xenia, 1808: soldier of the 
Revolution ; died in 1842, aged ninety-one ; buried 
in .\. R. churchyard. East Third street, Xenia. 

Kendall. John. Xenia. 1808; son of Robert and 
Nancy ; died Fel>ruary 25. i8,S,?, aged fifty-seven ; 
buried in Woodland ; soldier of 1812. 

Kendall. Robert, Xenia. 181 1; son of William. 

Kendall. Joscjih. Xenia. i8ii; died in Xenia. Feb- 
ruary 28. 1858; buried in Woodland; Septemlier 
4. 1828. married Amanda Steele. 

Kendall, John. Xenia. 1806; a printer; born near 
Georgetown. Kentucky. September 25, 1792; died 
April 21, 1849, aged fifty-seven; December 28, 
1819, married Elizabeth Gibson : removed to Illi- 
nois; son of William Kendall, who built the 
court house; in i8o5 was editor of second paper 
published in Xe4iia. 

Kendall. William, Xenia, 1804; built the first court 
house on the public square; died in 1S24; bur- 
ied in Massie's Creek churchyard ; cousin to 
Robert, Sr. 

Kendall, Francis, Xenia, 1819; son of Robert. Sr. ; 
kept store in Xenia in 1817; died August g. 1833, 
agecj thirty-five; buried in A. R. chnrchyanl. 
East Third street. Xenia. 

Kendall, Wilson, Xenia, 182S. 

Kendall, James, Xenia, 1828: son of Robert, Sr,, 
and Nancy; died in 1846; March 25, 1824, mar- 
ried Lydia Bicket. 

Kendall. Milton, Xenia, 1829; son of Robert, Sr., 
and Nancy. 

Kendall. Robert M.. Xenia, 1840; died .August 19, 
1857, aged fifty ; buried in Woodland ; Septem- 
ber 30, 1834, married Elizabeth Stewart. 



Kendall. Xewton. Xenia. 1S40; son of Robert. Sr. ; 
died May 13. 1867. age<l fifty-pne; buried in 
Woodland. 

Kendall. Joseph, Jr., Xenia. 1840; born July. 1820; 
died February 28. 1858; buried in Woodland. 

Keiter. Dennis. Xenia, 1840; died in Caesar's Creek 
township in 1831. 

Keiter. Benjamin. Caesar's Creek. 1840 ; from Vir- 
ginia ; born June 27. 1798; died August 7. 1885; 
buried in Maple Corner churchyard. 

Keiter, George, Sr., Caesar's Creek, 1812; father 
of Dennis. 

Keiter, Fredric. Caesar's Creek, 1840; died De- 
cember 18, 1875, aged seventy-four; buried at 
Maple Corner churchyard. 

Ketterman. Ji)nathan. Xenia, 1830; from Virginia; 
died September 10, 1892, aged ninety-seven; biir- 
ied in Woodland ; married Mary Peterson. 

Ketterman, Joseph, Xenia. 1840. 

Keenan, Allen. Caesar's Creek. 1840; died Novem- 
ber. 1846. aged forty-three. 

Keenan. Edward, Caesar's Creek, 1840; buried near 
Kenton. Ohio. 

Keenan, William, Xenia, 1S40; buried at Kenton, 
Ohio, 

Kent, James. Bath, 1819; died in 1864, aged sev- 
enty-eight ; buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Kenncy, Reading, Xenia, 1S08. 

Kcnney, .lohn, Xenia, 1840; black man. 

Kenney. Samuel. Xenia. 1840; removed to Wash- 
ington, Iowa. 

Kenney, John, Xenia, 1840: father of James, who 
was murdered in the Puterbaugh fire. 

Kenney, J. F., Xenia, 1840. 

Kenney, James, Xenia, 1840; one ,of the victims of 
the Puterbaugh fire, Saturday evening August 
3, 1845; buried in Woodland. 

Kenney, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1826; July 4, 1822, 
married Eve Yaiiton. 

Kenney, John. Bath. 1807; from Pennsylvania; in 
1815 settled on what is called the Isaac Swad- 
ner farm ; January 7, 1823, married Margaret 
Brown. 

Kenney, Matthias. Bath, 1818. 

Kenney, David, Bath, 1840; October 16, 1834, mar- 
ried Susan McCashen. 

Kenney, Peter, Miami, 1820. 

Kenney. Robert, Miami, 1840. 

Kendrick, John, Xenia, 1830; from Virginia; sol- 
dier of 1812; died June 17, 1865. aged sixty-nine; 
buried in Woodland. 

Kenser, David, Xenia, 184a : buried in Woodland ; 
September 22, 1836. married Elizabeth Price. 

Keef. Alexander H., Xenia, 1826. 

Kenton. Simon, Xenia, 1820; Jiephew of Simon 
Kenton, Sr., of Indian fame; removed to Madi- 
son county, Ohio; died July 2. 1844; married 
Phebe Baker in 1820. 

Kellhoffer. Henry. Xenia. 1828 ; the old-time livery 
stable man of Xenia; died February i. 1867, aged 
sixty-two ; buried in Woodland ; October 2, 1840, 
married Anna P. Beall. 

Keifer, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1807 ; soldier of 1812 ; 
August 26, 1826, married Elizabeth Miller. 

Keifer. David, Beaver Creek, 1827. 

Keifer, Jacob, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1830; died March 



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30. 1856. aged forty-six. at Richmond, Indiana ; 
December 31 1829. married Mary Noris. 

Keifer, James, Beaver Creek, 1840; removed to 
Darke coimty, Ohio, in 1877; June 8, 1837. mar- 
ried Denaza Read. 

Keifer, George. Beaver Creek, 1840 : died March 4, 
1849, aged thirty-five, buried in Woodland. 

Keifer. George. Jr., Beaver Creek. 1840: son of 
George : died in 1857. 

Keifer. John. Beaver Creek. 1835: April 28. 1836. 
married Mary .\nn Flatter. 

Kernes. Peter, Silver Creek. 1822. 

Kerns. George. Silver Creek. 1830. 

Kerns. Adam. Silver Creek, 1840. 

Keppleton. John. Sugar Creek. 1809. 

Kelsey. Jesse. Silver Creek, 1813. 

Kelsey. Sanmel. Miami, iSio. 

Kelsey. Thomas, Miami, iSio. 

Kempt, Fredrick, Miami, 1S26. 

Kempt, Gilbert, Miami, 1828. 

Kempt, Jacob, iBeaver Creek. 1813; buried in 
Hawker churchyard. 

Kenrpt. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; married a daugh- 
ter of Jacob Herring, Sr., April i.s, 1823 ; Mar- 
garet. 

Kempt. James. Bath. 1840. 

Keeler. John. Bath. 1840. 

Keplinger. Peter, Bath, 1833; from Adams county. 
Pennsylvania ; died February. 1875, aged sixty- 
live : buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Keplinger. William, Bath, 1830. 

Kent. Silas. Beaver Creek. 1810; settled first where 
David Gerlaugh now- lives, north of Herring's. 

Kent, John, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 

Kent. James, Beaver Creek, 1811 : from Kentucky; 
removed to Fayette county, Ohio. 

Kcplar. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1S19. 

Keplar. Jonathan. Bath: .August 6. 1835. married 
Rebecca Dcvilbiss. 

Keplar. Peter. Xenia. 1840; died January 5. 1881, 
aged fifty-nine ; buried in Woodland. 

Ketterson. John. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Krepps. George. Bath. 1840: died August g. 1873. 
aged seventy ; buried in Woodland. 

Kingery. Martin. Sugar Creek. 1804. 

Kingery. Michael. Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Kingery. Christian. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Kirkpatrick. John. Sugar Creek. 1804 ; soldier of 
1812. under Captain Clark. 

Kirkpatrick. William. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 
1812; died December 10. 1825. aged seventy-si.x ; 
buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Kirkpatrick. William W.. Sugar Creek. 1810; wife, 
Mary : daughters. Margaret and Rebecca. 

Kirkpatrick. Samuel D.. Beaver Creek, 1803 ; son 
of William: soldier of 1812: buried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard. 

Kirknatrick. George. Beaver Creek, 1803; son of 
William: soldier of 1812. under Captain Fer- 
guson : died in the service. 

Kirkpatrick. William. Beaver Creek, 1803; son of 
Samuel: removed to Wisconsin: January 15. 
1837. married Lydia Tobias. 

Kirkpatrick. Amps. Beaver Creek. 1840; son of 
Samuel: died in Colorado in 1888: December 10. 
1839. married Mary Elizabeth Davis. 



King. Peter. \'ance, iSii : soldier of 1812. 

King. William. Beaver Creek. 1803: soldier of 1812. 
under Captain Maltbie : died in 1814. 

King. Leonard. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

King. Francis. Caesar's Creek. 1840: June 11, 1833, 
married Mary Gerard. 

King, Benjamin. Xenia. 181 1. 

King. Vincent. Xenia. 1840: a miller: died August 
12. 1874. aged seventy-four; buried in Massie's 
Creek (Stevenson's) cemetery: November 15. 
1837. married Jane G. Stevenson. 

King. Walter. Xenia. 1835 : a carpenter ; died April 
5 i88r. at his home in Kenton. Ohio; brother of 
N'incent. 

King. William. Xenia. 1840: from Kentucky; died 
February 29. 1868. aged sixty : buried in Wood- 
land ; married Eliza Robinson. 

King. John. Miami. 1817: born in Roxburyshire. 
Scotland, in 1789; died February 22. 1882. aged 
ninety-three : buried in Massie's Creek cemetery 
( Stevenson's). 

King. David. Silver Creek. iSig. 

King. Leonard. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1840: died May 
3. 1859. aged thirty-five : buried in Hussey grave- 
yard. EowersviUe. Ohio. 

King. Amos. Silver Creek, 1840; died August 24, 
1890. aged seventy. 

King. J. W.. Xenia, 1S44: born August 30. 1814, 
died July 8, 1885, aged seventy : buried in Wood- 
land. 

King. Cornelius. Silver Creek. 1840. 

King. Henry. Xenia. 1834. 

King. Jeremiah. Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 1812. 

Kiner, Michael. Xenia. 1819. 

Kiser. John. Beaver Creek. 1803: soldier of 1812; 
Christina, his wife; died in 1822. 

Kiser. Itichard. Beaver Creek. 1803: soldier of 1812: 
buried at Beaver Creek. 

Kiser. Peter. Beaver Creek. 1803; son of John: re- 
moved to Miami county. Ohio; February 3. 
1825. married Mary A. Reprogle. 

Kiser. Daniel. Beaver Creek. 1803: soldier of 1812; 
son of John. Sr. 

Kiser. John. Tr.. Beaver Creek. 1805; son of John. 
Sr. 

Kiser. William. 1819: brother of Benjamin; was 
whipped by Aaron Beal, at Oldtown in 1806. 

Kiser. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1804; the champion 
fighter of Greene county until he nvct Aaron 
Beal at Oldtown in 1S06: (see History of Day- 
ton, page 163). 

Kiser. Abraham. Beaver Creek. 1819. 

Kiser. Samuel, Beaver Creek. i8to. 

Kiser. Lewis. Beaver's Creek. 1827: died .\ugust 6, 
1885. aged eighty-four. 

Kiser. Jacob. Xenia. 1816: died December 8, 1850; 
buried in M. E. graveyard, near Selma. Ohio. 

Kiscr. Abdel Beaver Creek. 1834. 

Kiser. John. Caesar's Creek. 1840; December 7. 
iSjo. married Elizabeth Ellis. 

Kirk. Rachel. Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Kirk. Samuel. Xenia. 1826: December 20. 1825. 
married Elizabeth Marshall. 

Kirk. Edward. Xenia. 1840: died in 1S18 in Beaver 
Creek township; August 10. 1842. married Mary 
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533 



Kirk. Fredrick, Xenia. 1840; buried in Tabor cluirch- 

yard. near New Jasper. Ohio. 
Kirk, William, Xenia, 1840. 
Kildow. Jacob, Xenia. 1840: buried in Massie's 

Creek cemetery (Stevcn>on's). 
Kirt. John. Xenia, 1828; married a daughter, March, 

1824, Nancy, of John Marshall : removed to 

Champaign county, Ohio. 
Kirkendale. George. Bath. 1S07; soldier of 1812; 

<lied July 1, 1871, aged seventy. 
Kirkendale. Jacob, Bath, 1811; soldier of 1812. 
Kirkendale. Joseph. Bath. 1816; January 25, i8i~, 

married Polly Kirkendale. 
Kirkendale. Matthew. Bath. 1819. 
Kirkwood. Samuel. Bath. 180.?: died March 6. 1878. 
Kirkwood, George, Bath, 180.?. 
Kirkwood, William, Bath. 181 1: soUlier of 1812: 

January 11, 1816. married Julia Ann Sliover. 
Kirkwood. Anna. Bath, 1813. 
Kirkwood. John. Bath, 181 7. 

Kirkwood, Robert, Bath, 1827: June 2. 1836, mar- 
ried Catharine Smith. 
Killgore. John. Beaver Creek. 1807: came from 

Kentucky in 1801 ; not finding game plenty, re- 
moved to Fayette county. Ohio. 
Killen. Patrick, Silver Creek. 1817; died -March 25, 

1822. aged sixty-nine: buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, Jamestown. Ohio. 
Killen. James. Silver Creek. 1817; son-in-law of 

Patrick Killen ; buried in Baptist graveyard. 

Jamestown. Ohio. 
Killen. David. Silver Creek, 1826; son of Patrick 

and Sarah: September i, 182^. married Amelia 

Short. 
Killen. Hugh. Silver Creek. 1824: died April 25. 

1824. aged twenty-seven; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, Jamestown, Ohio. 
Kise, William, Miami, i8jo. 
Kite. Asa. Beaver Creek. 1828. 
Knight. John. Sugar Creek. 1803. 
Knapp. Henry. Bath. 1836; October 29, 183S, mar- 
ried Reliecca Roberts. 
Knight, Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1808: soldier of 1812; 

died March 19, 1850: buried one mile south of 

Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Knight, Daniel, Sugar Creek, 1828; April 16, 1827, 

married Elizabeth Wallace. 
Knight, Sipiire. Sugar Creek. 1828: born October, 

1804: died April 28, 1846; buried one mile south 

of Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Knight. Alfred. Sugar Creek. 1840; born November 

15. 1812; died .-\pril 11. 1847: buried in Baptist 

graveyard. Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Knight, James, Sugar Creek, 1S40. ^ 

Knight. Zimri. Sugar Creek. 1840; born August 8. 

1810; died December 4. 1846; buried in Baptist 

graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Knott. Peter. Jr.. Miami, 1840: died May 17. 1852, 

aged forty-five: buried in Clifton cemetery. 
Knott, Ignatius, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 
Knott, David. Miami. 1818: December 30. 1818, 

married Margaret Braley. 
Knott. John. Miami. 1819: from New Jersey: died 

in 1826: April 20. 1820. married Nancy Miller. 
Knott, Peter, Sr., Miami, 1819: died October 21, 



1828. aged seventy-four ; buried in Clifton ceme- 
tery. 

Knott. William H., Miami. 1826; died April 25, 
1869. aged seventy: buried in Clifton cemetery; 
March 6. 1828. married Ann Finley. 

Knott. Lydia. Miami. 1830: widow of William Knott. 

Knott, William, Ross, ,1811; September 5, 1837, 
married Lydia Price. 

Knott, Zacharias, Ross, 1840. 

Knobling. Casper, Bath, 1840; died Febriiary 24, 
1883, aged ninety-three: buried in Fairfield cem- 
etery. 

Knox. John. Bath, 1807. 

Knox. William. Xenia. 1840; ren^oved to Logan 
county. Ohio: died March, 1881. 

Knox. Hugh. Xenia. 1840: died September 11, 1855, 
aged fifty ; buried in Woodland. 

Knox, Brice, Xenia, 1840: died October 12, 1894, 
aged seventy-five ; buried in Woodland. 

Knox. John, Sr.. Miami, 1808; came to the United 
States in 1810, and to Greene county, Ohio, in 
1820 : buried in Miami township. 

Knox. John F., Miami. 1810: June g. 1837. married 
Elizabeth Haganliaugh. 

Knox. Jt/hn B.. Miami, 1840: died December 20, 
187(1. aged sixty-eight: buried in Clifton ceme- 
tery. 

Knox. Robert. Miami, 1833: born February 14, 1812; 
died April i, 1841 : buried in Clifton cemetery. 

Kneely. Samuel, Xenia, 1840. 

Knave, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 180S. 

Kniss, Samuel, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Kniseley, George, Bath, 1826 : buried in Kniseley 
graveyard, west of Mad River. 

Kniseley. John. Bath, 1827: 'from Pennsylvania; 
died in [869: buried in Kniseley graveyard. 

Kniseley. Joseph. Bath. 1840 : died in 1868 ; buried 
in Kniseley graveyard. 

Koogler. Jacob. Sr.. Batli. 1803: born in 1785; died 
July 22. 1837. aged forty-eight; buried in Rocka- 
field graveyard. 

Koogler, Adam, Beaver Creek, 1803: soldier of 1812; 
buried in Union graveyard, Byron, Ohio. 

Koogler, Jacob, Beaver Creek. 1803 ; came from 
Penn.sylvania in 1800: died in 1870, aged eighty- 
six: buried in Union gravej'ard ; soldier of 1812. 

Koogler. George. Beaver Creek. 1827; son of Jacob; 
born May 11. 1806: died December 19. 1892. 
aged eighty-six : buried at Mt. Pisgah, north of 
Zimmerman. Ohio. 

Koogler. Samuel. Sr., Beaver Creek, 1840; soldier 
of 1812; buried in Union graveyard. 

Koogler. Samuel, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840: died 
June 7, 1886, aged iseventy-five ; February 15, 
1840. married Elizabeth Snipp. 

Koogler. Solomon. Beaver Creek, 1840 : still liv- 
ing in 1899 : September 3, 1840, married Cath- 
arine Jones. 

Koogler, Martin, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; removed to 
Ixigan county, Ohio. 

Koogler. Simon. Beaver Creek. 1840: died Decem- 
ber 20. 1867. aged seventy-five : buried in L'nion 
graveyard : married Elizabeth Parsons. 

Koch. John. Bath. 1840 : died December 20, 1867, 
aged seventy-five ; buried in Union graveyard. 



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Koogler, Simon. Bath. 1S40; died May 21, 1897. 
aged 'seventy-nine ; buried in Union graveyard. 

Koutz. A.. Xenia. 1840. 

Koutz. Daniel. Xenia. 1835: an employe of Merrick's 
hotel; died in Xenia February 25, 1851, aged fifty- 
five. 

Krise. Christian. Xenia. 181 1: X'oveniber 3. 1805. 
married Esther Staley. 

Krise. Abraham. Beaver Creek. 1816. 

Krise, John, Beaver Creek, 1827. 

Krise, Oliver P.. Beaver Creek. 1840; soldier in 
Civil War ; member of Co. E, Ninety-fourth O. 
V. I. ; died in 1898 : buried in Woodland. 

Kreder, Henry. Bath. 1840: buried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad River. 

Kustcnborder. Matthew, Beaver Creek, 1820; June 
3, 1827. married Sarah Zimniernian. 

Kustenborder. Matthew. Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1830. 

Kustenborder. John. Beaver Creek. 1830. 

Krepps, George, Xenia. 1830 : died August 9. 1873. 
aged sixty-six : buried in Woodland. 

Kurtz. Christian. Bath. 1818. 

Kurtz, Conrad. Bath. 1830. 

Kyler. John. Sugar Creek. 1817; from 1843 to 1845 
represented Greene coimty in the legislature ; also 
■served one term as commissioner : died Septem- 
ber It, 1854, aged fifty-eight; buried at Mt. Zion. 

Kyler, Ruth, Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Kyler. Jesse, Sugar Creek, 1820; removed to Iowa, 
Kosciusko county. 

Kyler. Bazell. Sugar Creek. 1826: died February 5. 
1843. aged forty ; buried in Beaver Creek church- 
yard : married Eliza Hanes. 

Kyler, Sappington. Sugar Creek. 1827 : June 13, 
1813, married Susan Ann Coy. 

Kyler, James. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Kyler. George, Miami. 1828: from Pennsylvania: 
father of Abdael G. : removed to Madjson coun- 
ty, Ohio : married Hester Marshall. A 

Kyler, Abadil. Miami, 1840: born in Maryland Feb- 
ruary 18. 1810; died October 4. 1891. aged eighty- 
one; married Mary Pauilin. 

Kyler. Albert, Miami, 1S40. 

Kyle, Joseph, Sr.. Xenia. 1803 ; from near Harris- 
burg. Pennsylvania : moved to Kentucky, thence 
to Ohio: soldier of Resolution, as were four of 
his brothers: died February 2, 1821. aged sev- 
enty-two; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery 
( Stevenson's). 

Kyle, Samuel. Xenia. 1804 : son of Joseph, Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 1812; died February 25, 1851, aged sev- 
enty-nine: buried in Cedarville cemetery; sur- 
veyor and associate judge. 

Kyle, Joseph, Xenia. 1806; .son of Joseph, Sr. ; sol- 
dier of 1812: died July 16. 1849. of cholera,, aged 
sixty-two ; buried in Woodland ; representative 
of Greene county. 

Kyle. Samuel. Xenia. 1807: soldier of 1812; grand- 
fatlier of Harvey and Samuel : died in Indiana. 

Kyle. Samuel. Jr.. Caesar's Creek, 1816; son of 
Samuel; died March 2S. 1847, aged thirty-four; 
buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Kyle. William L,. Xenia. 1826; grandfather of Wil- 
bur Maddox : died in 1876 ; buried in Cedar- 
ville. 



Kyle. James .\.. Xenia. 1826; son of Joseph; captain 
of Co. H, Xinety-fourth O. V. I. ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Kyle. Dr. Joseph A.. Xenia, 1833: son of Joseph: 
born in 1812: died December 7, 1886, aged 
reventy-four, buried in Woodland. 

Kyle. David M., Xenia, 1825: died July 10, 1897. 
aged eighty-six : buried in Woodland ; son of 
Samuel. 

Kyle. James. Xenia. 1829: son of Samuel, of Caes- 
ar's Creek ; father of Harvey and Samuel ; buried 
in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Kyle. James. Xenia. 1840: son of Samuel f Judge") ; 
born X'ovember 8. 1819: died September 4. 1897, 
aged seventy-eight ; buried at Cedarville. 

Kyle. Joseph. Xenia. 1840: son of Samuel; born 
June 29. 1809: died August 28. 1881 ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Kump. George. Xenia. 1826 : from Pennsylvania : a 
shoemaker; died .\pril 24. 1888, aged seventy- 
two ; buried in Woodland. 

Kendig. John. Bath. 1825: born in 1798; died in 
1878: buried in Bath churchyard, west of Mad 
River. 

Kendig. Daniel. Bath. 1825: died August 4. 1828, 
buried in Bath churchyard. 

Kendig. Tobias. Bath. 1840; buried in Bath church- 
yard. 

Klepard. George. 1840. 

Langdon. Richard C, 1828: X'ovember 3, 1829. mar- 
ried Arabella Mitchel; published a paper in 
Xenia in 1829. "Farmer's Record and Xenia 
Gazette." 

Lamme. Isaac: from Orange county. N'irginia : died 
December 11, 1888. aged eighty-eight. 

Lamme. Nathan. Sugar Creek, 1803 ; captain in 
Revolutionary War; first sheriff of Greene coun- 
ty. Ohio ; died in 1834. aged eighty-nine ; buried 
at Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Lamme. Josiah. Sugar Creek. 1805; soldier of 1812: 
removed to Indiana: September 25. 1806; mar- 
ried X'ancy Carman. 

Lamme. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 
1812; died .\pril, 1863, aged seventy-eight: buried 
at Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Lamme. William. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 
1812: removed to Iowa. 

Lamme. James. Sugar Creek. 1810; soldier of 1812: 
removed to the west: Februarv 2. 1837, married 
Hester Black. 

Lamme. David. Sugar Creek. 1810; soldier of 1812: 
buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio : 
married Margaret Frazier. 

Lamme. Henry. Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Samuel, 
Sr. : removed to Illinois: June 28, 1838. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Glotfelter. 

Lamme. Samuel, Sugar Creek. 1840: son of Josiah; 
died .\ugust 16. 1885. aged seventy-three ; Febru- 
ary 7, 1837. married Sarah Cooper. 

Lamme. John I.. Sugar Creek. 1S40. 

Lanune. Xathan. Jr.. 1840; in 1840 married Phebe 
Quick. 

Laird. Benjamin. Xenia. 1806: soldier of 1812. 

Lawrence. William, Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 



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335 



1812: Iniried in Pioneer graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Ohio ; married Jane McConnel. 
Lawrence, Sanmel. Sugar Creek. 1813 ; soldier ot 

181 J : buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook. 

Ohio ; married Ann McConnell. 
Lawrence. Ellen>on. Xenia. 1828. 
Lawrence. Uriah. Ro?s. 1828: died October 31. 1875. 

aged sixty-eight: February 14. 1828. married 

Hulzcy McFarland. 
Lawrence. George. Ross. 1840. 
Lawrence. Milo. Ross. 1818: died in 1836: August 

15- 1833. married Emma Hatch. 
Lawrence. Dr. Horace. Ross. 1818: died in 1850. 
Lawrence. Chancey. Ross. 1813. 
Lawrence. Martin. Ross. 1815: died in 1846: buried 

in Bloxsoin graveyard, near Selma. Ohio. 
Lawrence, John W.. Ross, 1815. 
Lawrence. Clark, Ross, 1816. 
Lawrence. Chancey G., Ross. 1818. 
Ijwrence. John B.. Ross, 1821 ; died October 12, 

1871. aged eighty: February 8, 1816, married 

Amelia Vickers. 
Lawrence. Levi C. Ross, 1826: born in 1791 ; died 

in 1871 : buried in Bloxsom graveyard; February 

26, 1824. married Dorothy Sirlott. 
Lawrence, l.awson, Hmss, 1827. 
Lawrence. Morris. Ross. 1829. 
Lawrence, Lewis W.. Ross. 1840. 
Lawrence. Hiram, Ross. iS.io. 
I_-;iwrence. Charles. Ross. 1840. 
Law. William. Sugar Creek. 1804: died January 28. 

1826. aged seventy-six : buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Law. Jesse, Sugar Creek. 1810: died January 5, 

1864, aged seventy-nine: Iniried in Woodland; 

soldier of 1812. 
Law. John G.. Sugar Creek. 1830: died January 8, 

1877, aged sixty-seven : buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Law. T. P.. Xenia. 1840. 
Law. Rev. James. Xenia. 1830. 
Law. William. Jr.. Xenia. 1840: died April 7. 1S53. 

aged seventy-seven : buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Lamaster. Thornton. Silver Creek. 1840; died Aug- 
ust 13, 1855. aged sixty-eight; buried at Bow- 

ersville, Oliio. 
Lamaster, Richard W.. Silver Creek. 1840; died. 

August 13. 1855. aged fifty-five; buried at Bow- 

ersvillc. Ohio. 
Lang. William. Xenia. 1840; from Virginia: died 

March 11. 1891. hged ninety-four: buried in 

Woodland. 
Layman. Christian. Silver Creek. 1840: buried in 

Jamestown cemetery ; August 18. 1842. married 

Susanna Snabr. 
La>Tnan. Jacol). Silver Creek. 1840: died April 3. 

1861. aged eighty-seven; buried at Jamestown. 

Ohio. 
Lacey. John. Xenia. 1840: November 20. 1S2S. mar- 
ried Rnaney Moorelicad. 
Lacey. Samuel, Xenia. 1840. 
Lamston. Horton, Bath. 1807. 
Lamston. Richard. Miami, 1813. 
Larrow". John. Bath. i8og. 
Langhlcy. Jonathan. Xenia. 1830; April 30. 1833. 

married Marv M. Williams. 



Layton. .Arthur. Bath. 1803. 

Layton, John. Bath, 1814: from \'irginia; removed 
to Clark county ; December 30, 1S34, married 
Evaline Tulis. 

Layton. Joseph. Miami. 1814: die.d in 1836. 

Layton. Isaac, Bath, iSig. 

Lantz, John, Beaver Creek, 1836: died July 14, 
1871, aged sixty-six: buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 

Lantz. Ezckiel, Beaver Creek. 1806. 

Lantz, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1820: from Washing- 
ton county, Maryland : born in 1805 ; died in 
1874 : buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Lantz, Samuel. Beaver Creek. i8jo. 

Lafong. Orlander B.. Beaver Creek, 18,30: Septem- 
ber 8, 1842. married Margaret Kershner. 

Lafong, Gtiorge B., Beaver Creek, 1830: born in 
Richmond. Virginia. February. 1787; died April 
18. 1875. aged eighty-eight: buried in Hawker's 
churchyard; soldier of 1S12. 

Landers. Thomas, Silver Creek, 1820: minister and 
teacher in the school ; died in Bath township in 
1825. 

Landers. Henry. Bath. 1820: died in 1831. 

Landers. Jacob. Bath. 1826; January 9, 1822, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Bates. 

Laflin, William. Bath. 1817. 

Lafferty. Samuel. Bath. 1840. 

Lapscott. Joseph. Miami. 1840. 

Lcffel. .Samuel. Ross, 1829. 

Lesher. Jacob. Bath. 181S: .\pril 8. 1819, married 
Phebe Read. 

Lesher, James, Bath, 1S16. 

Lesher. Timothy. Bath. 1820: May 13. i8ig. mar- 
ried Sarah Read, 

Levey. Perry. Xenia. 1840. 

Levey. D. L., Xenia. 1840. 

Ledbetter, E.. 1835: December 15. 1836, married 
Catherine Prather. 

Ledbetter, Hamlin, Xenia. 1828; from Brunsw-ick 
county. Virginia; soldier of i8r2: born in 1798: 
died in 1836. aged sixty-three: buried in Wood- 
land. 

Ledbetter. John. Xenia. 1840 ; son of Hamlin : died 
September 17. 1886. aged seventy-two; buried in 
Woodland. 

Ledbetter. Robinson. Xenia. 1S40; soil of Hamlin; 
buried in Woodland. 

Ledbetter. Warren. Xenia, 1840 ; born in Allen coun- 
ty, Kentucky. January 28. 1822 : died in 1900. 

Ledbetter. James, Xenia, 1840: son of Hamlin; Oc- 
tober 9. 1839. married Rachel Borden. 

Ledbetter. Stephen. Xenia. 1840: son of Hamlin; 
died June. 1886. buried in Woodland. 

Lapham. Pazza, Xenia, 1838 ; from Champaign coun- 
ty : first editor of "Xenia Torchlight," in 1838: 
died in 1842, aged twenty-nine, in West Liberty, 
Logan county, Ohio. 

Lenox. John. i\Iiami, 1S26: son-in-law of Christian 
Hagenbaugb. 

Ledbetter. George. Xenia. 1840; born October 25, 
1819: died April 13. 1887; buried in Woodland. 

Leach. D. F.. Xenia. 1S40; removed ito Shelby- 
ville. Indiana. 

Leach. W. D., Xenia, 1840; from Rockbridge coun- 
tv. Virginia. 



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Leach. Thomas, Xenia. 1840: died in Xenia August 
28. 18.^9; John C. Deacon, administrator: mar- 
ried Elizabeth Amy. 

Lecompt. FeHx, Miami, iS.'.o. 

Levalley. John. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Leffeh Samueh Rpss. 1830: owned a sawmill at 
Grape Grove in 1830. 

Lewis. Daniel. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1803 : from North 
Carolina: soldier of 1812; buried in Pioneer 
graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Lewis, Jloel. Sugar Creek, 1809; son of Daniel, 
Sr. ; soldier of 1812. under Capt. John Clark; 
married Mary Follace. 

Lewis, Daniel. Jr., Sugar Creek, 1808: died Janu- 
ary g, 1863, aged sixty-five: buried in Wood- 
land: born May 7, 1797: married X'ancy Robin- 
son. 

Lew-is. Hannah. Sugar Creek. 1820; widow of Dan- 
iel. Sr. : buried at Bellbrook. 

Lewis, Joseph. 1840 : July 29, 1840. married Sarah 
D. Newcom. 

Lewis, Jacob, Caesar's Creek, 1840' died March 
14, 1846, aged sixty-eight : buried in X'ew Hope 
cemetery, Paintersville. Ohio. 

Lewis, John, Xenia. 1806; September 10, 1832, mar- 
ried Susanna Synns, by Edward Williams, M. G. 

Lewis, Littleton, Xenia, 1821. 

Lewis, George W., Xenia, 1828. 

Lewis, William, Xenia, 1840 : removed to "Craw- 
fordsville, Indiana; March 15, 1840, married 
Mary Fletcher. 

Lewis, William, Bath, 1816; Janua:-y 13, 1817, mar- 
ried Mary Stiles. 

Lewis. Samuel, Bath, 182a. 

Lewis, Bennett. Miami, 18,30: one of the original 
proprietors of Clifton. Ohio, in 1833; born in 
1803; died October 21, 1876. aged seventy-four; 
buried in Clifton. Ohio. 

Lew-is, Thomas. Ross. 1826 ; one of the original pro- 
prietors of Grape Grove: July 12, 1827. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Vandine. 

Lewis, James, Silver Creek. 1S.30. 

Lewis, Abraham, Sugar Creek. 1808; a noted hunter. 

Lambert. Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1803; soldier of 
the Revolution; buried in Mercer graveyard. 

Lambert. Aaron, Caesar's Creek, 1805 ; son of Jos- 
eph : soldier of 1812; died ^L-lrch 12. 1850, aged 
sixty-five ; biiried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Lambert. John. Caesar's Creek. 1807: son of Joseph: 
soldier of 1812; June 10. 1813, married Nancy 
Lee. 

Lambert. Phcbe, Caesar's Creek, 1812. 

Lambert. Joseph, Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1813. 

Lambert. Moses, Caesar'.s Creek, 1817; youngest son 
lof Joseph. Sr. ; February 5. 1824. married 
Susanna Peterson. 

Lambert. Martha. Caesar's Creek. 1828. 

Lambert, .-\brahani. Caesar's Creek. 1830. 

Lambert. .\mos. Bath. iS.'O. 

Lambert. Josiah, Bath. 1809. 

Lambert. William. Bath. 1809: kept store in Fair- 
field in 1820: died June .30. 1832: buried in grave- 
yard between Mitman's and Fairfield. Ohio. 

Lambert, Aaron, Jr.. Bath. 1810: buried in Janies- 
to\>in cemetery. 



Lambert. John. Bath. 1811 ; December 29, 1832, mar- 
ried Xancy Murphy. 

Lambert. .\dam. Bath, 1840. 

Lane. lohn, Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Lane. Jacob, Silver Creek. 1828. 

Lane. Thomas C, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Lane, Matthias, Miami, 1840. 

Lane. Robert, Xenia. 1813. 

Lau,ghead. Joseph R.. Xenia, 1840; died July 12, 
1883, aged sixty-eight ; buried in Woodland. 

Laughead. David. Sr.. Xenia. 1803: from Kentucky; 
was with Roger Clark at Oldtown in 1780; died 
January 28. 1824. aged sixty-seven ; buried in 
Ma-vsie s Creek cemetery (Stevenson's^ ; wife, 
Elizabeth. 

Laughead. David ^L. Xenia. 1809; son of David. 
Sr. ; soldier of 1812: died January 27. 1870. aged 
eighty-one: buried in Massie's Creek cemetery 
( Stevenson's). 

Laughead. James. Xenia. 1809: son of David. Sr. ; 
died March ii. 1854. aged thirty-seven: buried 
in Woodland. 

Laughead. William. Xenia. 1817: son of David; re- 
moved to Mercer county, Illinois; died Decem- 
ber 15, 1872. 

Laughead. Rev. I. N.. Xenia. 1840 : died July 22, 
1894. aged eighty-four; buried in Washington, 
Iowa. 

Laughead. Josciih K.. Xenia. 1840: died in 1883, 
aged sevtnty-eight : buried in Woodland; April 
18. 1839. Catharine Galloway. 

Laughead. David. Jr.. Xenia. 1826; buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek (Stevenson's). 

LaRew. Samuel. Sugar Creeks 1811 ; sergeant in 
Capt. Maltbie's company in War of 1812; died 
in 185S. aged eighty-three. 

LaRcw. .-Vbraham. Xenia. 1806 : soldier of l8l3 ; 
buried near Cincinnati : also of the Revolution. 

LaRew. William. Xenia, 180S. 

LaRew. Fredrick. X<;nia. 1840: soldier in Civil 
War : buried in Woodland ; Company D. One 
Hundred and Tenth Infantry. 

Ladd. Xoble. Xenia. 1819. 

Ladd. George. Xenia, 1826. 

Lambertson, Thomas. Xenia. 1817. 

Lambertson. John. Xenia, 1817. 

Larkin. David. Ross. 1806: from Maryland. 

Larkin. David B.. Ross, 1829. 

Larkin. Perry. Ross. 1840 : died .August 22. i88l ; 
buried at South Charleston. Ohio. 

Lake. Henry. Ross, 1840. 

Lackey. John. Ross. 1830; from Rockbridge county. 
Virginia. 

Lackey. Isaac. Sr.. Ross, 1830; died September, 1850, 
aged sixty-one; buried two miles west of James- 
town, Ohio. 

Lackey. Isaac. Jr.. Ross. 1830. 

Lackey^ Thomas. Ross, iSjo ; son of Isaac; June 2i. 
1836, married Jane V. Harper. 

Lackey. James. Ross. 1840; October 15. 1834. mar- 
ried Marv -Ann Boots. 

Lauman. Philip S.. Xenia, 1825: from Virginia; died 
October 17, 1870, aged eighty: buried in 'Wood- 
land. 

Lauman. George. Xenia. 1826; died November 15, 



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1871 : buried in Woodland: October 31, 1826, 
married Magdalene S;ntlier. 

Launian. Henry. Xenia. i8j8: from Virginia: died 
in 1829: buried in A. R. churchyard. East Third 
street. Xenia: January 13, 1821. married Eliza 
Holman. 

Lauinan. lolni. Ro*s. 1S40. 

Lcnard. William. Xenia. 1807: Augu.-;t 26. 1820. mar- 
ried Deborah Fifer. 

Lenard. John. Sugar Creek. 1805. 

Lenard. Thomas, Silver Creek, 1S13: soldier of 
1812, 

Lenard. Nathaniel. Silver Creek, 1813. 

Lenard, Jephaniah. Silver Creek, 1817: soldier of 
1812. 

Lenard, Ezekiel, 1840 : Decendjer 29, 1842, married 
Parmelia Moorman. 

Leslie. Jacob C. Xenia. 1812; died in 1815: David 
Connelly, administrator of his estate. 

Leslie. Elisha, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Leslie. Jacob. Xenia, 181 1. 

Leslie. lames. Xenia, 1818. 

Little. Daniel P., Ross. 1812; died in 1812 : buried 
east of Grape Grove. 

Little. Obadiah. Sugar Creek, 1820: November 29, 
1821. married .Mice Grant. 

Little. John. Xenia. 1830: died August 17, 1867, 
aged si.xty-seven : buried in Massie's Creek cem- 
etery: married Elizabeth Cooper. 

Little. William K.. Xenia. 1830: died May 27, 1852: 
buried in Massie's Creek cemetery, ( Cedarville). 

Little. Robert. Xenia, 1840: born in 1817; died in 
1872: buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Little. Thomas. Xenia. 18,30: died January 26. 1861, 
aged si.xty-nine : buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery, Cedarville. 

Little. Sanmel, Xenia, 1830: from Ireland; died 
February 14. 1836, aged ninety-five; buried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Little. Jacob. Ross. 1815: died in 1851. aged si.xty- 
si.x : l>uried east of Grape Grove: (blacksmith): 
from Frederick county. Virginia. 

Little, Joseph, Ross. 1820: son of Jacob. 

Little, David. Ross, 1820; died April, 1836, aged 
fifty-four : buried at Grape Grove. 

Little. Martin, Ross, 1820. 

Little, Rev. Cyrus. Ross. 1840 : son of Jacob : born 
in Frederick county. Virginia. May 30. 1814 : mar- 
ried Susan Dalbv: present home, 1899, Van Wert, 
Ohio. 

Little. Jobn, Ross. 1823 : died March 23. 1870. aged 
eighty-si.x : buried in Little graveyard. Grape 
Grove: married Sarah Miller. 

Little. Robert. Ross. 1840: father of the late Hon. 
John Little: born September, 1811: died June 
8, 1875: buried in the Little graveyard. 

Little. Simon, Ross, 1834; died in i8gi, aged sev- 
enty-seven; buried in the Little graveyard. 

Little, George W., Ross. 1S30: died November 2. 
1825, aged sixty-six: buried east of Grape Grove. 

Lee, Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1803; died February 
3. 1817: buried in Baptist graveyard, south of 
Jamestown, Ohio. 

Lee. John. Bath. 1807; soldier of 1S12: died in 
1814. 



Lee. John, [r., Bath, iSia. 

Lee. William. Bath. 1826. 

Lee. William G., Bath, 1828. 

Lee. James. Silver Creek. 1816: died in Silver Creek 
township in 1820: January 6. 1820, married 
Nancy Haughey. 

Lee. Thomas. Silver Creek. 1819: July 11, 1840, 
married Mary Ann Turner. 

Lee, Mary, Silver Creek, 1820. 

Lee. John, Silver Creek, 1826. 

Lee. David. Silver Creek. 1829. 

Lee. David P.. Silver Creek. 1830; January 17, 1828, 
married Sarah Haughey. 

Lee. WiHiam. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Lee. John P., Silver Creek. 1840. 

Lee. Charles. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Leaman, Peter. Xenia. 1827; from Pennsylvania; 
died December 27, 1851, aged seventy-eight; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Leaman. David. Sugar Creek. 1827: died June 15, 
1852. aged eighty-one; buried in Beavertown ; 
December 26, 1826. married Rebecca Bell. 

Leaman, Jonatlwn, Xenia, 1827. 

Leaman. George. Xenia. 1829. 

Leaman. John, Xenia. 1840: son of Peter; from 
Maryland: died October 16, 1891, aged seventy- 
si.x : buried in Woodland. 

Leaf, William, Sugar Creek, 1840: November 3, 
i8j8, married Hannah Parker: 

Leet. .\braham, Xenia, 181 1. 

Ligett. John. Xenia, 1825: from Virginia; died 
March ,?o, 1862, aged eighlv-fou'-; buried in 
Woodland. 

Ligett, William, Xenia, 1829; November 11, 1834, 
married Mary Bain. 

Ligett. John. Jr.. Xenia. 1840: November 11. 1841, 
married Mary Lamme. 

Ligett. Henry. Xenia. 1840: .April 17, 1838. mar- 
ried Jane Brown. 

Ligett. .Alexander. Xenia, 1840 : died June 16, 1877, 
aged fifty-three : buried in Woodland. 

Ligett. J. D., Xenia. 1840; attorney and minister; 
died in Detroit. Michigan. 

Lindsey. Jeremiah. Sugar Creek, 1813. 

Lindsey. Enos. Sugar Creek. 1817. 

Lindsey. William. Bath. 1820; March 12. 1835, mar- 
ried Rachel Killen. 

Lindsey. Robert D.. Bath. 1820; died July 17, 1849, 
aged sixty: buried in .\Iey churchyard. 

Light. Samuel, Bath. 1828: buried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad River. 

Light. Joseph. Bath, 1829; buried in Bath church 
yard. 

Light. Jacob. Bath. 1840: died May 5. 1879, aged 
eighty-five. 

Light. John, Sugar Creek, 1840: September 24, 1829, 
married Martha Dunn. 

Linscott. Benjamin. Sugar Creek, 1828. 

Linscott. Jeremiah. Sugar Creek, 1830: died June 
4, 1898, buried in Beaver Creek churchyard: sol- 
dier in Civil war. Company E, Seventy-fourth O. 
V. L : married Catharine Cunningham. 

Linscott. Corhon. Sugar Creek. 1835. 

Linscott. Squire. Sugar Creek. 1S35. 

Linscott. James. Sugar Creek. 1835. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Linscott. Jarrctt. Sugar Creek. 1840; soldier in 
Civil war : buried in Chattanooga cemetery : mem- 
ber of Company E, Seventy- fourth. 

Linkart, Thomas, Xenia ; 1840. 

Linkart, Wm.. Xenia. 1840; from \'irginia : died 
May 24. 1875, aged sixty-one. buried in Wood- 
land. 

Linkart. Joseph, Xenia. 1840: died May 9. 1885, 
aged .sixty-three, buried in Woodland. 

Linkart. George. Xenia. 1840: removed to Sheffield, 
Illinois. 

Linkhart. Obed,, Xenia; 1836; .\pril 9. 1839, 'mar- 
ried Marv .■\nn Potter. 

Linkart. John. Xenia, 1840; died May 22, 1881, aged 
seventy-five, buried in Woodland. 

Linkart, '.Andrew, Xenia. 1840; died February 26, 
1854. aged seventy-nine, buried in Woodland : 
February 6, 1834, married Christena Rhodes. 

LinviUc. John. Xenia, 1811 ; soldier of 1812: mar- 
ried Hannah, daughter of John Mars-hall ; buried 
in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's). 

Liiivillc, Wm., Ross, 1820. 

Ligler. John. Ross, 1828. 

Livingston. .Andrew. Bath. 1811 : soldier of 1812. 

Littler, Archibald, Ross. 1836; November 3. 1837, 
married Jane Nallow. 

Littler. Nathan, Xenia, 1S26: December 4. 1834, 
married Brnanda Sellars. 

Littler. Robinson. Xenia. 1826. 

Littler. John, Miami, 1840. 

Littler, Noble G., Miami. 1840. 

Littler. John, Miami. 1840; November, 1835, mar- 
ried Mary Conwell. 

Liaharger, John, Silver Creek. 1828. 

Licklider, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1840: born in 1820, 
died in 1894, buried in Beavertown. 

Licklider. Adam. Beaver Creek, 1808; buried in 
Beavertown cemetery. 

Lightfoot. Christopher. Miaini. 1808: soldier of 1812. 

Lippencott. Obadiah, Bath. 181 2. 

Lippencott. Samuel. Bath, 1813: father-in-law of 
Joseph Davis. 

Lippencott. Ira. Miami. 18:0. 

Lindaniood. Geo. H.. Xenia. 1825: born .August 29. 
1760: died December 25. 1857: buried in Wood- 
land. 

Lindaniood. Lewis. Beaver Creek. 1830; buried in 
Beaver churchyard : his wife, "Magdalena, died in 
1830. aged twent}->-six. 

Lindamood. Henry. Xenia, i8<o. 

Lindaniood. .Alirahani. Xenia. i8/!0. 

Liken, John, Xenia. 1830. 

Liken. David. Xenia. 1830. 

Liken. Leonard. Xenia, 1830; removed to Greenfield. 
Iowa. 

Liken. James C, Xenia, 1830; son of Leonard; died 
at Greenfield, Iowa. .April 25. 1841. 

Littlewood. Thomas, Xenia. 1S08. 

Linebaugh. Elijah. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Litchcr. D. P., Bath, iS.'.o. 

Litcher. Timothy, Bath, 1818; May 15. 1819. married 
Sarah Read. 

Lidenick. John. Miami. 1840. 

Long. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 18.^0; February 11, 1833, 
married Mary .Ann .Austin. 

Long. John, Caesar's Creek, 1812. 



Long. Peter. Caesar's Creek. 1820 ; died May 24, 
1835, aged fifty-three ; buried in Shook grave- 
yard. 

Long. William, Caesar's Creek. 1820; born May 7. 
1801 ; died March 11. 1891. aged eighty-nine; 
buried in Woodland; married Mary Hagler. 

Long. Peter. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1818; October 23, 
1823. married Eliza Hopping. 

Long. Jesse W.. Caesar's Creek. 1830; son-in-law of 
Jacob ; Februarv 24. 1825. married Hannah Hag- 
ler. 

Long. Reuben. Caesar's Creek. 1828; October t8, 
1829. married Mary Harpole. 

Long, Henry H.. Caesar's Creek. 1830: one of the 
heirs of John Harnier ; February 20. 1823. mar- 
ried Mary Waldon. 

Long. Elias. Xenia, 1840 ; rempved near Topeka, 
Kansas, in 1879. 

Long. David E.. Silver Creek. 1830; Jnne 27. 1833, 
married Feaslh»irn. 

Long. Adam. Xenia. 1840; March 21. 1839. married 
Mary Jane Giffy. 

Long. Ellis. Xenia. 1818; removed to Kansas. 

Long. John. Xenia, 1826. 

Long. George. Beaver Creek. 1819: died January 27. 
1839. aged sixty-eight ; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 

Long, John, Beaver Creek. i8ig. 

Long. Solomon. Beaver Creek, 1828. 

Long. William O.. Beaver Creek, 1840: died in Bath 
township in 1849. 

Long. Rev. George. Jr.. Beaver Creek, 1840; March 
19. 1840. married Margaret Ankeney. 

Long. James. Silver Creek. i8l6 ; from Virginia ; 
died near Jamestown. November 22, 1852, aged 
fifty-two ; buried in Jamestown cemetery. 

Long. Harvey. Silver Creek. 1821. 

Long. Henry H.. Silver Creek, 1828; February 4, 
1829. married Rebecca Birt. 

Long. Henry. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Lovctt. Mark, 1840; June 21, 1840, married Hannah 
-Appleton. 

Lovett. George. Ross. 1S40; from Penn.sylvania ; 
died February 12. 1889. aged seventy-three ; buried 
in Cedarville cemetery. 

Loller. Moses. Sugar Creek. 1818; January 13. 1827, 
married Sarah Vaughn, 

Loy. Fredrick. Silver Creek. 1840; died in 1852, 
aged forty-five ; buried in Husscy graveyard, 
Bowersville. Ohio. 

Logan. Samuel. Xenia. 1807; a carpenter: died No- 
vember 21. 1873. aged sixty-one; buried in Pi- 
oneer graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Logan. Hugh. Beaver Creek. 1830. 

Logan. George. Miami. 1808; soldier of 1812. 

Logan. John, Ross. 18,30; died October 27. 1836. aged 
fifty-seven ; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery ; 
married Sarah Moreland. 

Loveioy. William. Sugar Creek. 1826. 

Louck, John. Bath. 1835; born in Pennsylvania Jan- 
uary 12, 1813. . 

Loftus. Gideon. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Lowry. James. Caesar's Creek. 1803; died Septenil)er 
8. 1881. aged seventy-one. 

Lowry. .Ann. Caesar's Creek. 1804; Iniried in Wood- 
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Lowry. James M.. Caesar's Creek, 1826; born in 
1809; died September 22. 1881. aged seventy-two; 
buried in Eleazer churchyard. 

Lowry. Rebecca. Caesar's Creek. 1826; buried in 
Woodland, on the Harbison lot. 

Lowry. .-Me.xandcr. 1824; March 24, 1825, married 
Elizabeth Sanders. 

Loudccker, Joseph. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Londccker. John. -Miami, 1840. 

Lockhart. Samuel. Silver Creek, 1824; born in Pcnn- 
svlvania : removed to Kentucky, then to Ohio ; 
died February 20. 1869: buried at Bowersville; 
aged eiglity-five. 

Lockhart. William. Silver Creek', 1830; November 
15. 1827. married Tabatha Bryan, Bowersville. 

Lockhart. M. F., Silver Creek, 1840: March 3, 1833, 
married Nancy H. Moorman. 

Lockart. Tabatha. Silver Creek, 1840: widow of 
William Lockhart. 

Loyd. James, Xenia, l8o.^ ; soldier of 1812 ; died May 
27, 1842, aged sixty-three: buried on the old I-oyd 
farm, south of Xenia. 

Loyd. John. Xenia. 1805: died .\pril 25. 1872, aged 
eighty-seven : buried on tlic farm : born in \'ir- 
ginia May 8, 1785. 

Loyd. William E.. Xenia. 1840; died June 29, 1888, 
aged seventy-four: buried in Woodland, Xenia, 
Ohio. 

Lovd, Lewis N., Xenia, 1840: son of James and Pollv 
'Loyd. 

Loyd, Marcus L., Xenia. 1840: son of James: died 
September 2),. 1846, aged twenty-eight ; buried 
in McDonald graveyard. 

Louck. John. Bath. 1835: born in Hanover, Penn- 
sylvania, June 12. 1813;. treasurer of Greene 
county in 1854; died July 23. 1894, aged eighty- 
two. 

Loyd. Tillman. Spring \'allcy. 1840: died in 1869. 

Loyd. .Alexander 1).. Bath. 1840: buried in Bath 
churchyard, west of Mad River. 

Lonas. Jesse. Ceaver Creek. 1840: died March 23. 
1871. aged seventy; buried in Mt. Zion church- 
yard. 

Lowe. Jacob, Silver Creek. 1830. 

Lowe, Henry, Silver Creek, 1830, 

Lowe, John, Sr., Miami, 1805; died in Bath town- 
ship in 1805; Thomas Watson, administrator. 

Lowe, John, Jr., Miami. 1840: died March. 1847. 
aged seventy-two; buried in Folck graveyard, 
Bath township. 

Lowe. William. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Lowe. Nathan, Beaver Creek, 1S07 ; died in 1826; 
James Collier, administrator. 

Lowe. Thomas, Beaver Creek, 1811. 

Lowe, .Jeremiah, Bath. 1820 ; December 26. 1822. mar- 
ried Mary Jones. 

Lowe. George. Bath. 1806; died in 1823. . 

Longstreth. .Ernest. Bath. 1806: soldier of 1812; 
buried in Mitman graveyard; June 24. 1806. 
married Nancy York. 

Longstretli. Bartholomew. Bath. 1811 : buried at 
Fairfield Ohio. 

Longstreth. Daniel. Bath. 1828; died March 30. 1875. 
aged si.xtv-eight ; buried in Woodland. 

Louderman. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1826. 



Loper. Stephen. Beaver Creek. 1830 ; buried in 
Beaver Creek township. 

Loper, Isaac, Xenia, 1830; died December 7, 1882, 
a^ed seventy-si.x : buried in Wpodland. 

Losh, John, Bath, 1840. 

Loomis. Thomas, Ross, 1826. 

Loofborrow, David. Sugar Creek. 1805. 

Loofborrow, Jacob, Bath, 1819. 

Luce, Thomas F., Miami. 1830: died .^pril 28, 1878, 
aged eighty: buried in Clifton cemetery. 

Luce. Beniamin, Bath, 1807. 

Luce, Justice, Miami, 1803: died September 3, 1875, 
aged seventy-three; buried in Clifton cemetery. 

Luce. Abner G.. Sugar Creek. 1827: died February 
26. 1849. aged forty-five: buried in Middle Run 
churchyard; associate judge. G. C. 

Luce. William. Miami. 1827: died in 1845. aged fifty- 
three; buried in Clifton cemetery. 

Lucas. Dennis, Xenia. 1830; from Virginia: died 
.\ugust, 1866. aged seventy-nine ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Lucas. John. Caesar's Creek. 1803 : born July 29, 
1793; died in 1871 ; buried in Maple Corner 
clnirchyard. 

Lucas. Caleb. Caesar's Creek. 1803; born October 
2. 1776; died .-Xpril 25. i8.>i. aged seventy-four; 
buried in Burlington : soldier of 1812. 

Lucas. ,-\braliani. Caesar's Creek. 1804 : son of 
Thomas, Sr, 

Lucas, Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1804. 

Lucas, Francis, Caesar's Creek. 1805 ; son of Thomas, 
Sr. 

Lucas, .\benezer. Caesar's Creek. 1805 : son of 
Thomas. Sr. 

Lucas. Simon, Caesar's Creek, 1819: July 4, 1816, 
married Elizabeth Sutton. 

Lucas. John. Caesar's Creek. 1829: died June 2, 
1875. aged .seventy-one : September 10. 1840, mar- 
ried Nancy Harness. 

Lucas. Jabez, Caesar's Creek. 1810; September 10, 
1842. married Sarah Smith. 

Lucas. Bazel E.. Xenia. 1819; Iwrn January 23. 
1807; died .\ugust 18. 1888; buried in Woodland. 

Lucas. Tliornton. Xenia, 1840: born December 2Q, 
1799: died December 4, 1874, aged seventy-six; 
buried iiv Woodland : November 28, 1838, mar- 
ried Mary Blessing; father of John B. Lucas. 

Lucas, David. Caesar's Creek, 1819: July 4, 1822, 
married Mary Burnsides. 

Lucas, Tobias, Silver Creek. 1828. 

Lucas, Peter, Caesar's Creek, 1821 ; April 13. 1824, 
married Mary stickle. 

Lucas. James. Bath, 1826. 

Lucas. Thomas, Silver Creek, 1820; died May 3, 
1S72. aged seventy^eight ; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery. 

Lunback, Jacob, Ross, 1820. 

Limdry. Jesse. Silver Creek. 1840: died at Gurney- 
villc November 8, 1876. aged seventy-two. 

Lutz. Nicholas, Bath, 181 1; buried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad River. 

Lurkins. Joseph B., Miami. 1840. 

Lynn. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1806: died in 1849 in 
Sugar Creek township. 

Lynn. James, Xenia. 1807. 



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Lynn. David. Batli. 18.1.0. 

Lyon, Peter. Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 181.2. 

Lyon. Daniel \V.. Sugar Creek. 1816. 

Lyon. James, Sugar Creek. 1840 : died August 16, 

1849: son-in-law of Robert McKnight; buried in 

.McKnigbt graveyard; .April 18. 1839. married 

Mary McKnight. 
Lyon, John, Sr.. Caesar's Creek, 1812; father-in-law 

of Wilford McDonald: born in England; came 

to Vireinia: thence to Ohio; died in 1818; wife, 

Catherine. 
Lyon, James, Caesar's Creek, 1826 ; son of John, Sr. 
Lyon, William. Caesar's Creek, 1848; son of John, 

Sr. 
Lyon. Josenh. Silver Creek. 1836; September 20. 

1838. married Nancy Sanders. 
Lyon. Robert Hook. Xenia. 1813 ; son of John. Sr. ; 

died .\ugust 31. i8g8. aged eighty-six; buried in 

Woodland. 
Lyle, James, Xenia, i8ig: from Virginia; soldier 

of 1812: died January 23. 1868. aged eighty-tive ; 

buried in Woodland. 
Lyle. Joseph, Xenia. 1840; buried in Woodland. 
Lyle. John G.. Miami. 1826; buried in Yellow Springs 

cemetery; June 6. 1840. married Clarasa Brealey. 
Lyle. William R., Miami, 1813; buried in Glen For- 
est cemetery. Yellow Springs. Ohio. 
Laird. David. Xenia. 1812; a merchant tailor in 

Xenia in 1S15; removed to Canton. Ohio. 
Laird. Jesse, Xenia, 1815; removed to Canton, Ohio. 
Laird. Benjamin. Sugar Creek, 1812; removed to 

Canton, Ohio; died in Sugar Creek township in 

1814. 
Loudcrdale. Robert. Xenia; died in Xenia in 1823. 
Lyle. William. Sugar Creek, 1S40; son of James; 

buried in Woodland. 
Lapham, Pazza, Xenia. 1S38; founder of "Xenia 

Torchlight"; removed to Logan county. Ohio; 

died at West Liberty January 29. 1842. aged 

twenty-nine. 

Martindale. Mary. Sugar Creek. 1803; died in 1805; 
buried in Middle Run churchyard, south of Bell- 
brook; wife of James. 

Martindale, Samuel, Caesar's Creek. 1803. 

Martindale. William. Sugar Creek. 1821 ; died Jan- 
uary 2. 1837. aged fifty-seven ; buried near P. .\. 
Peterson's farm. 

Martindale. Wealthy. Sugar Creek. 1840; widow of 
William; buried near P. .\. Peterson's farm. 

Martin, Ezekiel, Sugar Creek, 1803; soldier of 1812. 

Martin. Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1803: soldier of 
1812. 

Martin. Isaac. Sugar Creek. 1803. 

Martin. Permar. Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Martin, Harry. Sugar Creek. 1803. 

Martin. John. Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Martin, Charles, Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Martin Jacob. Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Martin. Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1827. 

Martin. Jonas, Xenia, 1810; soldier of 1812. 

Martin. John, Xenia, 1813. 

Martin. Dr. Joshua, Xenia, 1S13; from Loudoun 
county, Kentucky; born March 2^. 1791 ; died 
October 31, 1855, aged si.\ty-five ; buried in 
Woodland. 



Martin. Dr. Samuel. Xenia. 1834; from Ireland to 
Pennsylvania, thence to Ohio; died June 21. 1879, 
aged eighty-three ; buried in Woodland. 

Martin, Evan, Xenia, 1817. 

Martin, judge Daniel, Xenia, 1840; born in 1801 ; 
died January 26, 1875, aged seventy-four ; buried 
in Woodland ; from Maryland. 

Martin. William. Bath. 1807; September 15. 18.50. 
married Mary Gray. 

Martin, John, Bath. 1S07. 

Martin. Uriah. Bath. 1816; died in 1829. aged fifty- 
one. 

Martin. Daniel. Bath. 1820; September 16. 1820. mar- 
ried Nancy Devere. 

Martin. Ashel, Bath, 1826. 

Martin. Henry. Bath, 1827; JLay 8, 1828, married 
Polly Clayton. 

Martin, Elijah. Bath, 1830; March 13, 1835. married 
Elizabeth Pringle. 

RLartin. Rhoda, Bath, 1830. 

Martin, Tames, Miami, 1808. 

Martin. William. Miami. iSio; September 4. 1837. 
married .•\nn Maria Peck. 

^Lartin. John. Miami. 1817. 

Martin. Joseph. Ross. tSjo. 

Martin. Eldridge. Ross. 1840. 

Martin. George. Silver Creek. 1840; died March 28. 
1855 ; buried in Baptist graveyard, near James- 
town, Ohio. 

Martin. Samuel G., Caesar's Creek, 1S03. 

Martin. John. Caesar's Creek, 1S03; September 6. 
1814. married Elizabeth Price. 

^L^rtin. James. Caesar's Creek. 181 7. 

Martin, .\lfred. Caesar's Creek. iS.'.o. 

Martin, .\brahain C. Bath, 1835; April 28. 1836. 
married Ann Sparks. 

Maley. Rev. George W.. 1826; a minister in the 
M. E. church. 

Marshall. Robert. Sugar Creek. 1803; soldier of ^ 
1812; died July 15. 1867. aged eighty-two; buried 
on the Marshall farm on the Miami River. 

Marshall. John. Su.gar Creek. 1803; son of Robert; 
born November 26. 1796: died January 26, 183(1; 
buried on the Marshall farm, si.x miles west of 
Xenia, on the Little Miami River, 

Marshall, James, Sugar Creek, 1817; died February 
13, 1888, aged seventy-five; buried in Woodland; 
son of Robert. 

Mar-hall. Mark. Sugar Creek. 1S19; fourth son of 
Robert. Sr. ; .\ugust 6. 1S27. married Susan Hum- 
mer. 

Marshall. William. Sugar Creek. 1827; son of Rob- 
ert. Sr. ; died in 1823. 

Marshall. Margaret. Sugar Creek. 1830; widow of 
Robert. Sr. ; buried in the Marshall graveyard. 

Marshall. Jesse, Sugar Creek, 1830 ; from Kentucky ; 
son of Robert, Sr. ; died September 19. 1855. 
aged fifty ; buried in Woodland. 

ALirshall. John. Sugar Creek. 1804; fnim \'irginia; 
died at his brother Thornton's. December 3. 1880. 
aged eighty-six ; buried in Woodland. 

Marshall. David. Sugar Creek. 1818; died March 5. 
184.;; buried in Zoar churchyard, Caesar's Creek; 
father of Dr. Thornton. 

Marshall. William. Sugar Creek, 1826; October 21, 
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Marshall. George R.. Sugar Creek. 1840; born in 
iSog: died in 1886: buried in Woodland. 

Marshall. John. Xenia, 1803; brother of Robert. Sr. : 
born March 16. 1770: died March 14. 1855; buried 
in Ma-sie's Creek clir.rchyard (Stevenson's); 
built the first house in Xenia on lot 193, April 
7. 180J. 

Marshall. Robert T.. Xenia. 1825: son of John. Sr. ; 
the first child born in Xenia: died in Urbana. 
Ohio. October 25. 1875. aged seventy-two : buried 
in Massie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Marshall. William B.. .Xenia. 181 1 ; son of John. Sr. : 
died September 4. 1892. aged eighty-two: buried 
in Massie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Marshall. Lindsey. Xenia, 1814: died in Xenia town- 
ship in 1835 : buried in the Associate church- 
yard. 

Marshall. James. Xenia. 1815: died September, 1815, 
aged fifty-five ; buried in Massie's Creek church- 
yard (.Steveii'son's). 

Marshall. David. Xenia. 1820: son of Lindsey; died 
May 3. 1842. aged furty-ninc ; buried in A. R. 
churchvard, East Third street. Xenia; married 
Delilah Hanes. 

Marshall. Lemuel. Xenia. 1826; removed to Cham- 
paign coimty. Ohio. 

Marshall. William J.. Xenia. 1827; removed to Cham- 
paign county. (Dhio. 

ALirshall. Dr. Thornton. Xenia. 1826; from Vir- 
ginia; died July 25. 1866. aged eighty-three; bur- 
ied in Woodland ; father of Oscar Marshall ; 
April 19. 1836. married Mary Walker. 

Mar>hall. James. Xenia, 1840: son of John; died 
June 5. 1849. aged sixty-six: buried in Woodland. 

Marshall. Robert. Sr.. Heaver Creek. 1S28; Septem- 
ber 21. 1826. married Xancy Hummer. 

Mar-hall. Jesse, Jr., Beaver Creek. 1840; son of 
John ; buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Marshall. Stephen. Bath. 1808. 

Mar.-ball. Jacob. Rath, 1S17. 

Marshall. I^^man, Bath, 1826. 

ALirshall, John, Ross. i8ig: January 18. 1816; mar- 
ried Nancv Havs. 

ALirshall. William.' Ross. 1819; died in 1867; March 
22. 1821. luarried Catliarine Huffman. 

Marshall. Scth, Ross. iSjo. 

Marshall. William, Silver Creek, 1820. 

iVLirshall. Rev. Samuel. 1840; chaplain of the Sev- 
enty-fourth O. V. L: died January .s. 1872. aged 
seventy-six : buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Mackay. Alexander, Xenia, 1804. 

Mackay, William, Xenia, 1816. 

Alaltbie. Capt. Anmii, Sugar Creek, 1809: captain 
in War of 1812; died June 18, 1854. aged sev- 
enty-four; buried one mile south of Bellbrook, 
Ohio, in old Baptist graveyard ; September 25, 
1806, married Rachel Carman. 

ALaltbie. Milo B.. Sugar Creek. 1830: died March 
21. 1836. aged twenty-eight: buried in old Bap- 
tist graveyard, near Bellbrook. 

Mayor. David. Bath. 1840 : son-in-law of Joseph 
Huft'er: buried in Hufter graveyard, west of 
Mad River. 

Alack. Henry. ALami. 1840: died October 15. 1874. 
aged seventy-two. 

Alanahan, Jes-se, 1840; removed to Waterford, Indi- 
ana. 



Manahan. David. Sugar Creek. 1840; died in 1856. 
Alanahan, Thomas, 1840: June 11, 1840, married 

Barrett. 

Mahan. Chas.. Ross. 1819; father-in-law of Thomas 

Hare; removed to Iowa. 
Alahan. John, Ross. 1819: removed to Xoblesville. 

Indiana. 
Mahan. John. Jr., Ross, 1821 ; January 11, 1824, 

married Hester Sheigley. 
Mahan, James, Ross, 182O. 
Mahan. \\'illiam, Ross, 1826. 
Alahan, I^slie, Ross, 1827. 
Alahan. Rev. Alatthew, Rass, 1827; died July 22, 

1853. aged eighty-one; buried in Jamestown cem- 
etery. 
Alahan, Jacob, Ross, 1826; removed to Aluscatine, 

Iowa, where he died. 
Alahan. Asa. Ross. 1828; November 3. 1836. married 

Elizabeth A. Tiles. 
Alahan. James. Ross, 1826. 
Alahan. Olivet. Ross, 1840; a blacksmith; his shop 

was on Lyman Ballard's farm; marrie<l Hannah 

Alercer, 
Alatthews, Joel, Miami, 1826. 
Alatthews. John. Caesar's Creek. 1808; July 4. 1809, 

married Polly Hussey. 
Matthews. .Abraham. Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Alatthews. Dr. James. Cae.sar's Creek, 1835; March 

12, 1835, married Margaret Watson, 
Alason, Joshua. Xenia. 1840; born September to, 

1806; died October 2. 1892: buried in Woodland. 
Alason. Joseph. Es(|.. Sugar Creek, 1840; from Vir- 
ginia; born October 21, 1800; died January 30, 

1871 ; buried in Woodland. 
Mason. John. Xenia, 1834 : from Virginia ; born 

January 15, 1795; died February 25, 1894, aged 

seventy-nine ; buried in Spring Valley, Ohio. 
Mason. Roman. Beaver Creek. 1816; December 18, 

1817. married Nancy Downey. 
Mason. Lew-is. Beaver Creek. 1820: died in 1844. 
Mason. Henry, Ross. 1840. 
Alason, Ridhard, Beaver Creek, 1820; ALirch 14, 

1826, married .Susan Fogle. 
Alason. David. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Alason. David, Jr.. Silver Creek. 1840: born in 

Belmont county. Ohio, in 1818. 
Alason, Stacey, Silver Creek, 1840: died February 16. 

1888. aged sixty-nine; buried in New Hope 

churchyard; married Elizabeth Buell. 
Alasson, Wills, Aliami, 1840; died October 23, 1804, 

aged eightv-eight ; buried in Yellow Springs, 

Ohio. 
Alaflfit. Thomas E,. Ross. 1826; removed to Spring- 
field. Ohio. 
Alaffit. Robert. Bath. 1829: January 4. 1827. mar- 
ried Asenia Powell. 
Maflit,, Francis, Sugar Creek, 1840: son of William 

N. ; born September 6, 1813, died January 28, 

igoo; buried at New Burlington. 
Manville. Thomas E.. Ross. 1826; carried on the 

tanning business in Ross township in 1827. 
Alaxey. Enoch, Xenia, 1816 ; son of Horatio ; died 

at the home of Martin Alaxey September 7, 1861, 

aged sixty-six. 
Alaxey, Horatio, Caesar's Creek, 1804; wife, Jane; 

children. Jane, Alalinda, Polly, Loyd, Cynthia 

and Edna ; died in 1835. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Maxey, Rev. Bciinet. Caesar's Creek, 1804. 
Maxey. Lewis. Xenia. 1840; August 17. 1841. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Starr. 
Ma.xey. Stephen. Xenia. 1809: son of Horatio. Sr. 

Maxey. Martin. Xenia, 1816: son of Horatio. Sr. : 
born Septemlier J. 1791 : died March 4. 1862; 
buried in Woodland. 

Maxey. Abner. Xenia, 1816: son of Horatio, Sr. ; 
died in 1822. 

Maxey. John T.. Xenia, 1840; December 24, 1840, 
married Charity Starr. 

Maxey, Horatio. Jr., Xenia, 1828: died October 31, 
1864, aged sixty: buried in Woodland. 

Maxey, William C.. Xenia, i8jo. 

Maxey. Beniiet. Jr.. Xenia. 1S40. 

Maddux, John. Xenia. 1804; ploumaker in Xenia at 
an early date. 

Maddux, W'illiam, Xenia, 1834: from Maryland: .sol- 
dier of 1812: died and was buried at Soldiers' 
Home, Dayton. 

Maddux. David, Xenia, 1840: son of William: born 
in 1812: died December 20, 1896: buried in 
Woodland : aged eighty-four. 

Maddux. Philip. Xenia. 1840; son of William: born 
July 14, 1816. 

Maddux. John, Jr., Xenia. 1840: son of William: 
died ^lay 4, t8S8, aged sixty-four : buried at 
Spring Valley, Ohio. 

Mann, Charles, Caesar's Creek, 1805 : from Penn- 
sylvania; a German: soldier of 1812; died De- 
cember 4, 1865, aged eighty-three; buried at 
New Burlington, Ohio; married Lydia Jenkins. 

Mann. David Caesar's Creek. 1813; son of George 
and Elizabeth; soldier of 1812; died July 29, 1856, 
aged >evontv-t\vo ; buried at Xew Burlington, 
Ohio. 

Mann, David, Jr., Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Mann. Daniel. Miami, 180S. 

Mann, Michael, Silver Creek, 1813. 

Mann. John. Silver Creek. iSjg; January 28. 1830. 
married Mary Fisher. 

Mann, Richard, Silver Creek, 1819. 

Marsh. Stephen. Beaver Creek, 1S40. 

Marsh. John, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Mangold. Hiram, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Mangold, James H., Caesar's Creek, 1836; February 
27, 1838, married Catharine A. Fink. 

Madden. John, Xenia, 1806. 

Madden, Benjamin, Xenia, iSii: December 27, 1832, 
married Jane Hamaker, 

Madden, Warren. Xenia, 1812; died at West Ches- 
ter, Butler county, Ohio, October 18, 1848 ; a 
former resident of Xenia, 

Madden, Jaiues G.. Xenia, 1828 ; removed to Mon- 
mouth, Illinois: June 25, 1840, married Martha E. 
Strinhers. 

Madden, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Madden, Thomas, Miami, 1820; his wife buried in 
Clifton cemetery. 

Martimore, Henry. Silver Creek. 1S40: buried at 
Bowersville. Ohio. 

Maitland. Isaac, Xenia, 1S07. 

Malone, Lester, Ross, 1825: .August 5, 1826, mar- 
ried Nancy Hanes, 

Malone, William, Xenia, 1849. 



Malone, Anna, Xenia, 1808; died April 16, 1825; 

buried on the Heath farm. 
Mays. George. Bath. 181 1; soldier of 1812: killed 
in battle ; buried in Rockafield graveyard. 

Mays, Benjamin, Bath, 1813. 

Mays. Isaac H.. Bath. 1840: U:>rn in 1813 ; died in 
1870. aged si.xty-six ; buried in Hawker's church- 
yard. 

Mays, John, Miami, 1820; store keeper at Patter- 
son's Mill, 1820, Clifton, Ohio. 

Mallow. Peter, Xenia, 181 7: a native of Rockingham 
county, Virginia; eldest son of George, Sr. : bur- 
ied near Dunkirk, Jav^ coumty, Indiana. 

Mallow, George, Sr., Xenia, 1817; soldier of the 
Revolution: wife was Catherine; died May. 1837; 
buried in Boot's graveyard. 

Mallow. Col. George. Xenia, 1826; son of George, 
Sr. ; died August 19. 1861, aged seventy; buried 
in Boot's graveyard, near Jasper, Ohio ; married 
Julia Haug'hey. 

Mallow. John. Xenia. 1829: second son of George. 
Sr. : died January 12. 1873. aged seventy-two: 
buried in Boot's graveyard. 

AL'illow. Jonathan, Xenia, 1839. 

Maxwell. W'illiam. Beaver Creek, 1803: married 
N'ancy Robins in 1793 at Fort Washington: first 
sheriff of Greene county; also one of the first 
associate judges of Greene county; died in 1809. 

Maxwell, Elias, Beaver Creek, 1820: son of Will- 
iam, Sr. : May 30. 1822, married Nancy Morgan. 

Maxwell. William. Jr., Beaver Creek, 1826: son of 
William, Sr. ; September 14. 1815, married Pat- 
sey Morgan ; married Sarah Robinson. 

Maxwell. Nancv, Beaver Creek, 1826; daughter of 
William, Sr' 

Ma.xwell. John, Beaver Creek, 1826; son of Will- 
iam, Sr. ; died .-Kpril 2/. 1891, aged ninet\-two : 
buried in Woodland. 

Ma.xwell. David. Bath. 1812: March 24. 1814. mar- 
ried Elizabeth McCaspen, by Matthew Smith. 
Justice of Peace. 

Maxwell. George. Xenia. 1826; son of William, Sr. ; 
a hatter; firm of Jonathan Jones & Ma.xwell; 
married Savela Kyle in 1827. 

Maxwell. Thomas. ^liami. 1836: February 7. 1837, 
married Francis Hopping. 

Maxwell, Ludlow, Beaver Creek, 1836; November 6, 
1828; married Delila Marshall. 

Macklin, James. Xenia. 1820. 

Macklin, John, 1835; September 20, 1836, married 
Peggy .-X. Campbell. 

Maclin. Evans. Xenia, 1840: died in 1876, aged six- 
ty-.seven: .August 25. 1831, married Eliza Thomas. 

Magor, James, Xenia, 1820. 

Matr<in, Peter. Xenia, 182S. 

Matton. John M.. Xenia, 1840. 

Manor. Benjamin. Xenia. 1828: from Frederick coun- 
ty, X'irginia: died October 24, i860, aged seventy- 
one ; buried in \N'ood!and. 

Manor. William. Xenia. 1840; died November, 1862, 
aged fortv-three ; buried in Woodland ; soldier in 
Civil War. 

Manor, John, Xenia, 1840: a cooper; removed to 
Muncie, Indiana; died June 5, 1881. 

Manor. Cl^orge, Xenia, 1835 ; from Berkeley county. 



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West Virginia; died October 3. 1867, aged seven- 
ty-one ; buried in Woodland. 

Manor. David, Xenia, 1840. 

Manor. John W.. Xenia. 1840; soldier in Co. F, One 
Hmuired and Fifty-fonrth Infantry; died Decem- 
ber 1.3. i8q7 : buried in Woodland. 

Malmlni. William. Beaver Creek, 1840: April i, 
1840. married Caroline Beeks. 

Mayhood. .Andrew B.. Xenia, 1832; November 8, 
1832. married Jane Johnson. 

Manair, William, Bath. 1813; buried in Manair 
graveyard, west of Mad River. 

Manair. Isaac. Bath. 1813; soldier of 1812; buried 
in Manair graveyard. 

.Manair. John. Bath. 1S18: buried in Manair grave- 
yard. 

Ma.xon. James, Bath. 1826: died March 6. 1837, aged 
t'hirty-onc; buried in Mitman's graveyard; mar- 
ried Fliza Hardnifln. 

Ma.xon, Jesse, Bath, 1810; soldier of 1812: buried in 
Mitman graveyard, near Fairfield, Ohio. 

Ma.xon, Miosher, Baih. 1811. 

Ma.xon. Moses. Bath. 1817. 

Maxon, John, Bath, 1840. 

Ma.xon. Simon. Miami. i82g; November 25, 1832, 
married Malinda SIceth. 

Ma.xfield, David, Bath, 1825. 

Mahoney. Gabriel. Bath. 1840. 

Mapcs, Thomas. Bath, 1827. 

Marks, Samuel, Miami, 1840. 

Markley. John. Bath. 1822; died August 20, 1853, 
aged fiftv-three; buried in Fairfield. Ohio. 

Markley, William. Miami, 1828. 

Macey, William, Miami, 1830. 

Mandenhall. John. Silver Creek. 1803; died in l8^i; 
buried in Friend's churchyard, south of Xew 
Burlington Ohio. 

Mandenhall, Stephen. Silver Creek. 1803; buried in 
Friend's churchyard, south of Xew Burlington, 
Ohio : married Jane Davis. 

Mendenhall. Martin, Silver Creek, 1803; one of the 
first settlers and founders of Jamestown, Ohio ; 
died near Jamestown in 1834. 

Mendenhall. Ricliard. Silver Creek. 1804; soldier of 
1812; son of John; removed to Hamilton county, 
Indiana. 

Mendenhall. J'pscph. Silver Creek. 1808; son of 
John: October i, 1818. married Cloe Barzdal ; 
soldier of 1812. 

Mendenhall. William. Silver Creek. 1827; son of 
John ; buried at Caesar's Creek ; died X^ovember 
20. 1876; married Sarah Peterson. 

Mendenhall. Malichi. Silver Creek. 1830; removed 
to Vermilion county, Illinois: .April 6. 1820. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Starr. 

Mendenhall. Silas. Silver Creek. 1840: died of can- 
cer in New Jasper township March 10, 1880; 
February 14, i83g, married Lavina Beason. 

Mendenhall. .Aaron, .Silver Creek, 1813; son of John; 
soldier of :8i2; removed to Indiana; April 5, 
1S16. married Lavina Westfall. 

Mendenhall, Zacharias, Silver Creek, 1826: February 
22. 1S21, married Mary Dorathy Winans. 

Mendenhall. Acquilla, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Mendenhall, Beniamin, Sugar Creek, i8to; son of 



John; died February 10, 1891, aged eighty-six; 
buried at Spring Valley; November i, 1832, 
married Ann Simmerson, 

Mendenhall, Ivy, Sugar Creek, 1826 ; died Septem- 
ber 20, 1875, aged seventy-two: buried in Wood- 
land: November 23. 1826, married Hester Meds- 
ker. 

Mendenhall. Obadiah. Xenia. 1810; soldier of 1812. 

Mendenhall. Ira. Xenia, 1817; born November 8, 
1802; removed to Indiana. 

Mendenhall, John, Xenia, 1818: from North Caro- 
lina; died September 20. 1875, aged seventy-two; 
buried in Woodland. 

Mendenhall. David. Xenia, 1828. 

Mendenhall, Nathan, Xenia, 1828; son of John; 
drowned March 3. 1885, aged seventy-eight : bur- 
ied in Woodland : married Rhoda .Anderson. 

Mead, Jonathan R., Bath, 1819. 

Mead, Andrew. Bath, 1814. 

Mercer. John S., Sugar Creek, 1830; .son of Edward, 
Sr. : removed to Clinton county. 

Mercer. David M., Sugar Creek, 18.30; son of Ed- 
ward, Sr, : removed to Indiana. 

Mercer, Edward. Sugar Creek. 1802 : from Mary- 
land ; son of Aaron and Nancy Carr Mercer; 
born March 4, 1769; died February 5, 1837, aged 
sixty-seven : buried in Mercer gravej'ard, south 
of Xenia; soldier of 1812. 

Mercer. Lewis E.. Sugar Creek. 1828; son of Ed- 
ward. Sr. : May 5. 1841. married Mary .Ami 
ScartT. 

Mercer, .Aaron, Sugar Creek, 1800: son of Jonathan; 
died December 17, 1800, near Cincinnati; buried 
in old Baptist graveyard, Columbia, at that place; 
father of Edward, Sr. 

Mercer, James .A.. Sugar Creek, 1840: son of Ed- 
ward ; removed to Iowa ; married Beulah Jay. 

Mercer. Jonathan. Bath, 1803: from Virginia: broth- 
er of Edward, and father of Gen. Robert : will 
recorded in 1805 : one of the first settlers in 
Bath township. Greene county. 

Mercer. Edward. Bath, 1803; son of Jonathan; died 
in 1S40. 

Mercer. Moses, Bath. 1805; son of Jonathan ; Febru- 
ary 7, 1819, married Mary Carpenter. . 

Mercer. Gen. Rolicrt. Bath. 1805: son of Jonathan; 
born at Cincinnati December 2, 1795 ; died Sep- 
tember 23, 1868; buried in Fairfield, Ohio; sol- 
dier of 1812. 

Mercer. Henry. Bath. 1816; son of Jonathan ; soldier 
of 1812; married Susanna Fink. 

Mercer, Robert, Jr,. Bath. 1829: February 28, 1828, 
married -Ami Tingley; buried in Bath township. 

Mercer. Thomas. Miami. 1828: brother of John; 
removed to Rochester. Indiana. 

Mercer, John, Ross, i8m : from Frederick county, 
Virginia; soldier of 1812; born September 14, 
1789: died June 28. 1880, aged ninety-one. 

Mercer, Samuel, Xenia, 1828. 

Mercer, Daniel, Ross, 1828; died June 8, 1879, "iged 
ninety-two ; brother of John D, 

Mecum. Daniel, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Merryman, George, Sugar Creek, 1807. 

Merryman, Joshua, Sugar Creek, 1811 ; soldier of 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUXTV. 



Merrill. Jo-.hiia. Sugar Creek. 1821. 

Medsker. Hamilton. Sugar .Creek. 1830 ; September 
17. i8u. married Hannah Sharp. 

Medsker. John. Bath, 1813. 

Medsker. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1817; father of 
Mrs. Hettie Mendenhall : died at Pine Creek. 
Indiana, aged ninety. 

Medsker, Isaac, Caesar's Creek. 1828. 

Medsker. George, Caesar's Creek, 1830: November 
8, 1827, married Jane Donell. 

Medsker, Abraham, Xenia, 1840. 

Medsker, David, Xenia. 1829: born in Highland 
county. Ohio, in 1807 ; came to Xenia November 
6. 1829: died August 22. 1879: buried in Wood- 
land ; undertaker in Xenia ; father of Mrs. Eliz- 
abeth Pettigrew. 

Merryfield. James. Caesar's Creek. 1818. 

Merryfield. Henry. Caesar's Creek. 1826. 

Merryfield. Samuel. Xenia. 1829: September 9, 1829. 
married Jemima Taylor. 

Merryfield, Abner, Caesar's Creek. 1827. 

Merryfield. James. Xenia. 1807. 

Merryfield. John. Ross. 1830. 

Merrick. David. Beaver Creek. 1829: son of Josepli. 
of Kent county. Delaware : born in Beaver Creek 
township in 1820. 

Merrick. John, Beaver Creek, 1828 : died in 1849. 

Merrick, Casoer L., Xenia, 1828; from Massachu- 
setts; born in 1802; died March 12, 1882 aged 
eighty one; buried in Woodland. 

Merrick, John W., Xenia, 1840; died January 17. 
1849, aged thirty-one; buried in Woodland. 

Merrick, Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1829; father of Da- 
vid ; from Delaware county. Maryland : born Oc- 
tober g. 1779; died March 3. 1857. aged seventy- 
eight. 

Merrick. Thomas T.. Silver Creek. 1840; removed to 
Louisville. Kentucky. 

Merrick, Watson, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Merrick, Roswell, Silver Creek, 1828: removed to 
Greencastle, Iowa; father of Casper L. Merrick. 

Manser, Peter, Bath, 1840. 

Mentser, John, Xenia, 1840: died at Lawrencebur.g. 
Indiana, January 30. 1847. aged twenty; buried 
in Woodland. Xenia. 

Meldin, J., Xenia, 1840. 

Meeks, .lames, Ross, 1830. 

Meeks, Joseph, Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Mcnser. .\ndrew. Beaver Creek. 1840 ; born August 
26. 1790; died August 20. 1849; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Maeley, Thomas. Miami. i8ig: died in 1826. 

Melrose, John. Ross. 1840; May 2. 1839. married 
Catharine demons. 

Melrose. Adam. Ross. 1840; died June. 1836 aged 
twenty-seven ; buried two miles west of James- 
town. Ohio. 

Medley. James, Silver Creek. 1813. 

Meredith. Dr. P. C. Xenia. 1820; from England; 
died March 14. 1867; buried in Woodland; mar- 
ried Julia Sexton. 

Miller. Isaac. Sugar Creek, 1803; .soldier of 1812; 
buried in Middle Run churchyard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio; wife, Hannah, died in 1813. 

Miller. William. Sugar Creek. 1803; died in Xenia 
■township in 1822. 



Miller. Robert Cooper. Sugar Creek. 1827; son of 
Isaac. Sr. ; removed to Lafayette. Indiana; father 
of John Miller, the painter. 

Miller. Isaac. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1827; died in Sugar 
Creek township in 1829. 

Miller. Jane. Sugar Creek, 1830; widow of Isaac. 

Miller, William. Bath. iSig: from Northumberland. 
Pennsylvania; died December 7. 1859, aged sev- 
enty; buried at Fairfield, Ohio. 

Miller. James P.. Sugar Creek. 1826; August 4, 
1829. married Amanda Davidson. 

Miller. Reuben. Bath. 1832; from York county. 
Pennsylvania; born September 25, i8io; died Oc- 
tober I, 1892, aged eightv-two; buried at Fairfield' 
Ohio. 

Miller. Augustus C. Sugar Creek. 1810; son of 
Isaac; soldier of 1812; buried at Dayton. Ohio. 

Miller, Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1803; died April 
28, 1848, aged sixty-three; buried in Rockafield 
graveyard, near Fairfield, Ohio. 

Miller, John M.. Caesar's Creek. 1820 ; died August 
20. 1862. aged sixty-five ; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchvard. 

Miller. James, Xenia. 1807; from Scotland: died 
in 1829. aged seventy-one; buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery. 

Miller, Jacob, Xenia, 1807: from Pennsylvania; born 
January, 1799; died February. 1885. aged eighty- 
six ; buried in Baptist graveyard. Cedarville. 

Miller, William M., Xenia, 1807; from Maysville, 
Kentucky ; removed to Indiana ; father of George, 
of Xenia (house mover). 

Miller. John, Xenia, 1808; died July 18, 1850; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Miller, Peter, Xenia, i8to; born in 1776; died June 
I. 1882; buried in Baptist graveyard. Cedarville. 
Ohio. 

:\Iiller, Samuel H„ Xenia, 1818. 

Miller George. Sr.. Xenia. 1820; son-in-law of Elias 
Bromagem ; married Martlia ; soldier of 1812; 
born ill! 1796. died June i. 1882, aged eighty-six. 

Miller, Benjamin, Xenia. 1820; son of George and 
Martha. 

Miller. Ruth. Xenia. 1820; daughter of George and 
Martha. 

Miller, Jacob, Jr., Xenia. 1820; died in Wilmington. 
Ohio. May 16. 1858. aged fifty-five; buried in 
Woodland. 

Miller, Aaron M., Xenia. 1820; in 1827 the commis- 
sioners loaned him and James Collier the north- 
west corner of the public square for a law and 
physic office. 

Miller, Lewis. Xenia, 1840; March 21, 1837. mar- 
ried Phebe Rich. 

Miller, Jerry. Xenia. 1S40. 

Miller. Christy, Bath, 1803; Septeiuhcr i, 1833. mar- 
ried Rebecca Roberts. 

Miller, James, Bath, 1803; died May 12, 1841, aged 
fifty-seven ; buried in Folck graveyard. 

Miller, John, Bath, 1803; soldier of 1812. 

Miller, Isaac, Bath, 1803; soldier of 1812. 

Miller. Martin, Bath, 1805; May 8, 1809, married 
Mary Frost. 

Miller. Daniel. Bath. 1840; l>orn August 23. 1791 ; 
died June 6. 1858. aged sixty-six; buried in 
H.iwker churchvard. 



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Miller, James, Beaver Creek, 1828 : from Green- 
castle, Pennsylvania: born September 15. 1807: 
married Sarah Harncr in 1840: died in 1872. aged 
si.xty-seven : buried in Beaver Creek churchyard: 
father of William T. Miller. 
Miller, Mo.-cs, Bath, 1807; died in 1814. 
Miller, Aaron, Bath, 1807. 

Miller, Robert, Bath, 1807: a native of Lancaster 
county, Pennsylvania: came to Ohio in 1807; 
purchased the Kerkeni'all farm: died in 1835. 
Miller, Thomas S., Bath. 1826; son of Robert: born 
in 1801 : died September 26, 1836: buried in Fair- 
field cemetery. 
Miller, John Wolf, Bath, 1826; died January, 1870. 

aged sixty-one: buried in Fairfield cemetery. 
Miller, Thomas, Bath, 1829: born in Lancaster coun- 
tv, Pennsylvania, in 1801 : died September 26, 
i'8,?6. 
Miller. Samuel, Jr., Bath. 1840: born in 1811; died 
in l88(), aged seventy-eight : buried in L'nion 
churchyard, Byron, Ohio ; December 27. 1838. 
married Mary Warner. 
Miller. Robert P., Bath, 1840: .son of Thomas: born 

May 2, 1826. 
Miller, Jones, Beaver Creek, 1830: died Septemljer 
29, 1872, aged sixty-seven ; )>uried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard. 
Miller, John, Beaver Creek, 1827: born October 15. 

1801; died in 1850: buried in Woodland. 
Miller, John W., Beaver Creek, 1840: March 11. 

1841, married .Aletlia Hopping. 
Miller, Morris, Miami, 1808. 
Miller, Washington, .Sugar Creek, 1840: died March 

5, 1S74: buried at Bellbrook : aged fifty-eight. 
Miller, Ephraini, Caesar's Creek. 1830; died Octo- 
ber 2. i86g. aged seventy-two; buried at Maple 
Corners, 
Miller, Benjamin, Miami, 1808, 
Miller, Jacob, Miami, 1808: died January 20, 1847, 

aged sixty-two: buried in -Mey churchyard. 
Miller, Jonathan. Miami. 1808. 
Miller. Maser, Miami, 1808. 
Miller, James, Sr., M'iaini, r8io; died in 1820. 
Miller, James, Jr., Miami. 1810: died July 24, 1888, 

aged seventy-three. 
Miller. Peter. Miami. 1809. 

Miller. Moses. Sr.. Miami. 1810: died March, 1814. 
Miller. Daniel. Miami, iSii; soldier of 1812; son of 

Moses, Sr. 
Miller, Jonathan Davton, Miami, 1812: son of Moses, 

Sr. 
Miller, Marion Baker, Miami, 181?: son of Mr,;c--. 

Sr. 
Miller, John. jMiami, 1814; son of Moses. 
Miller, Alexander S., Miami, i8ig: removed to Gar- 

nett, Kansas: brother of William. 
Iililler, James W., Miami, 1819: died in 1830; 

brother of William. 
Miller, Rebecca, Miami, 1S20. 

Miller. Samuel, Miami, 1820: from Pennsylvania: 
died July 27, 1881, aged seventy: buried near 
Byron, Ohio. 
Miller, James N., Miami, 1S21 : brother of William. 
Miller, James M., Miami, 1828. 

Miller, William, Ross, 181 1; died September 25, 
1873, aged seventy-three: buried at Clifton, Ohio. 



Miller, Robert. Ross. 1S26: removed to Logansport, 
Indiana. 

ALIIcr, Johnson, Ross, 1826: died April 24, 1844, 
aged seventy-three : buried in Bethel churchyard. 

Miller. Thomas, Ross, 1827: February 11, 1827, mar- 
ried Christana Frazier. 

Miller, George, Ross, 1830: September 24, 1828, mar- 
ried Caroline Wilson. 

Miller. John, Ross, 1840; died .•\ugust 25. 1872, aged 
sixtv-four : buried at Cedarville, Ohio ; married 
Hester Bryson December 15, i8.?9. 

Miller, Jackson, Ross, 1840. 

Miller, David, Bath, 1820: died June 17, 1856, aged 
fifty-eight: buried at Fairfield, Ohio, 

Mickle, John. Silver Creek, 1812: from Tennessee; 
son-in-law of C. Hussey; a school teacher. 

Mickle, .-Ydam, Caesar's Creek, 1818. 

Milton. George. Ross. 1818. 

Milton. John. Xenia. 1806: wdicelwright and chair- 
maker: an old time Methodist. 

Mitchell. James, Sugar Creek, 1805; soldier of 1812; 
died November 28, 1848, aged eighty-three: bur- 
ied in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Mitchell, David, Jr., Sugar Creek, tSig; son of 
James: soldier of 1812: buried in ^L^ssie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Mitchell, Henry. Sugar Creek. 1826: December 4. 
1825. married Sarah Porter. 

MitcheU. Samuel C. Xenia. 1818: September 28. 
1820. married Susanna Read. 

Milchell. David. Xenia. 1807: soldier of 1812: died 
June to, 1817, aged eighty; buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery, 

Mitchell. M.. Bath, 180S; soldier of 1812. 

Mitchell, William M., Bath, 180S. 

Mitchell, John, Xenia, 1807; died at Greencastle, In- 
diana, February, 1874, aged sixty-five; buried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Mitchell, Margaret, Xenia, 1820. 

Mitchell. Davis, Xenia, 1820. 

Mitchell, Lees, Xenia, 1S26. 

Mitchell, Matthew, Xenia, 1826; a school teacher; 
successor to Lancelot Junkins at the old school 
house ; married a daughter of Elizabeth Cun- 
ningham ; removed to tlie west. 

Mitchell, James E.. Xenia, 1827: son of James. Sr. ; 
born May 27. 1805; died .A.pril 26. i860: buried 
in Cedarville cemetery: September 4. 1834. mar- 
ried Ann Foster. 

Mitchell. Neriah. Xenia. 1829. 

Mitchell. Josiah. Xenia. 1828; son of David; died 
January. 1836;' buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery (Stevenson's). 

Mitchell. James R., Xenia, 1828; December 17, 18,^9, 

married Margaret h. McLinn, 
Mitchell. James, Xenia, 1828; died February 24. 
1858. aged seventy-six; buried in Massie's Creek 
ccmeterv. Cedarville. 
Mitchell, Levi, Xenia, 1830; died November 12, 1875, 
aged seventy-two ; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery. Cedarville. 
Mitchell, Robert H., Xenia, 1840: November 6, 1834. 

married Rachel Townsley. 
Mitchell. John. Jr.. Xenia. 1840: died February 5. 
1870, aged sixty-<even ; buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery ; inarried Margaret Moreland. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Mitchell, Francis P., Xenia. 1840; son of James. Sr. ; 
was a physician; died at New Orleans of yellow 
fever; married Margaret Wright. 

Mitchell. Robert. Miami. 1808; soldier of 1812. 

Mitchell, George. Silver Creek, i8j6; soldier of 
1812; son^n-law of Patrick and Sarah Killeen. 

Michell, Robert A., Xenia. 18.^7; &on of James, 
Sr. ; died in the west Jime 19, 1896, aged eighty ; 
buried in Woodland. 

Millman, Ephraim. Miami. 1806; soldier of 1812. 

Miner, Isaac, Miami. 1828; died Xovember 27. 1831. 

Mills, Constantinc. Sngar Creek. 181 1. 

Mills. Moses, Sugar Creek, 1811; daed July 8. 1845, 
aged fifty-two; buried in Pioneer graveyard. Bell- 
brook, Ohio. 

Mills, Job. Sugar Creek, 1840; born September i, 
i8i"' in 1900 still living at Xew Burlington, Ohio, 
aged eighty-three. 

JMills. John, Caesar's Creek. i8ig; died at Dayton, 
Ohio, Januarv, 1883 ; brother-in-law of T. B. 
Gest. " ' 

Mills. Thomas B.. Silver Creek. 1840; son of John; 
January 22, 1829, married Sophia Dines. 

Mills, Jacob, Miami, 1809; from Virginia; died July 
29, 1S50 ; buried in Glenn Forest cemetery. Yel- 
low Springs; September 30, 1824, married Mar- 
garet McClellan. 

Mills, George, Caesar's Creek, 1826; April 30. 1827, 
njarried Cyntha Strong. 

Mills, John, Silver Creek. 1815; son of Jacob; died 
May 10. 1886, aged ninety-one; buried in James- 
town, Ohio. 

Mills. Owen Davis, Miami. 1810; died in 1838 in 
Miami tovi-nship; Xovenilier 30, 1835, married 
Martha Hardnian. 

Mills. Perquin, Miami. iSio; July. 1817. married 
Charlatt Weller. 

Mills. William, Miami, 1840; son of Elisha ; born in 
Connecticut January 5. 1S14; died Xovember 3. 
1879. aged sixty-si.\ ; buried in Yellow Springs, 
Ohio; Co. M, Seventy-fourth Infantry. 
Middlcton, Nathaniel. Sugar Creek. 1826; from Vir- 
ginia. 
Middleton. Xathan, Sugar Creek, 182S; from \'ir- 

ginia. 
Middleton. John. Caesar's Creek. 1826; died Sep- 
tember 7, 1864; father of Christopher. 
Middlcton. James. Caesar's Creek. 1825; from Mar- 
tinsburg. Virginia; died January 16. 1888, aged 
eighty-four • buried in Woodland. 
Middleton. Bethel. Caesar's Creek. 1830; died April, 
1855. aged eighty-three: buried in Eleazer church- 
yard. 
Middleton, Thomas. Caesar's Creek, 1830; from Vir- 
ginia; died May 22, 1888. aged eighty-six; buried 
in Eleazer churchyard. 
Middleton. Nathan. Jr.. Caesar's Creek.' 1840. 
Michenor. Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 
Milieu. Eli. Xenia, 1834; from South Carolina; came 

to Xenia in 1834. 
Millen, David, Xenia, 1840; from South Carolina; 
born October 11. 1813 ; died May 2i. 1889. aged 
seventy-six; buried in Woodland; married Mar- 
garet McMillan. 
Miimer. Abraham. Beaver Creek. 1803; soldier of 
1812; removed to Sidney. Ohio. 



Minner. Abraham. Beaver Creek, 1803. 
Minton, Jonathan, Beaver Creek, 1840; from Vir- 
ginia ; died December 19, 1878, aged eighty ; bur- 
ied at South Salem, Ross county, Ohio ; father 
of Ira K. Min'.on, of Xenia. 

Mintle. Jacoli. Sugar Creek. 1840; died in i860; bur- 
ied in Friend's graveyard. Waynesville. Ohio. 

Mintle. Philip. Sugar Creek, 1840; brother of Jacob; 
removed west, where he died ; buried at Corwin, 
Ohio, in 1857. 

Mmick. John. Bath. 1820; died FebruaVy 5. 1849. 
aged sixty-three ; buried in Beaver Creek church- 
yard. 

Minick. George, Bath. 1816: died in 1830; December 
7. 1816. married Cathorine Shover. 

Minick, Adam. Bath. 1840. 

Michael. John. Bath. 1S16. 

Michael. Samuel C. Bath. 1S21. 

Middlebourgh, J.. Bath. 1840. 

Mittman. Peter. Bath. 1834; from York. Pennsyl- 
vania; died December. 1890. aged eighty; buried 
at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Mittman. Tacob. Batlj. 1835; father of Peter; soldiel 
of 1812; from Pennsylvania; buried in Mittman 
graveyard, near Fairfield. Ohio. 

Mittman. John. Bath. 1840; son of Peter; died 
August 22. 1875 ; buried in Mittman graveyard. 

Mineral. George. Bath. 1807. 

Mock. John. Sugar Creek. 1804; from North Caro- 
lina; soldier of 1812; removed to Fayette coun- 
ty. Ohio, in 1S53 ; died in 1862. 

Mock. Daniel. Srgar Creek, 1809 ; removed to Fay- 
ette countv Ohio. 

Mock, Phebe. Sugar Creek, 1813. 

Moon, Jacob, Sugar Creek. 1818. 

Moon. Mahlon. Ross. 1830. 

Moon. Gideon. Su.gar Creek. 1S40 ; died April 29, 
1884. aged eighty-one ; buried at Bowersville, 
Ohio; February 20. 1831, married Jane Turner. 

Morgan. Xathaniel. Xenia. 1805: father of Morgan 
Morgan; died January 21. 1831. aged eighty-six; 
buried on the Jvlorgan farm. Oldtown. Ohio. 

Morgan. William. Sugar Creek. 1805; buried on the 
Morgan farm, six miles west of Xenia ; January 
16. 1828. married Elizabeth Marshall. 

Morgan. George. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 1812. 

Morgan. Morgan. Caesar's Creek. 1824; August 8, 
1824. married Elizabeth Hamton. 

Morgan. Jonathan. Sugar Creek^ 1808; soldier of 
1S12; October 7. 1816. married Nancy Bloxsom. 
of Ross township. 

Morgan. John. Sugar Creek. 1807; father of Will- 
iam; died in i8[o; daughters. Xancy. Martha and 
Peggy; wife. Sally. 

Morgan. Thomas, Sugar Creek. 1806; soldier of 
1812; died in 1S24; October 28, 1813, married 
Nancy Morgan. 

Morgan. Evan. Sugar Creek. 1807. 

Morgan. Sarah. Sugar Creek. 1803. 

Morgan. John. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Morgan. Henry. Sugar Creek, 1816; removed to 
California in 1849. 

Morgan. Ralph, Sf^'ar Creek, 1817; April 15, 1819, 
married Ann Sturges. 

Morgan. Xancy. Sugar Creek. 1820; widow of 
Thomas Morgan. 



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Morgan. Josopli. Sugar Crook. 1830: fon of Mor- 
gan Morgan ; removed to Pike county. Illinois. 
Morgan. Morgan, Xenia. 1817: from Hagerstown, 

Maryland; died February 18. 1844. aged fifty-six; 

buried on hill top back of Jacob Harner, on his 

old farm ; father of Mrs. Chas. Harner. 
Morgan, James. Xenia. 1806; son of Thomas. 
Morgan. Daniel; son of Morgan; died- in Missouri. 
Morgan. Peter, Sr.. Bath. 180,?; buried in Bath 

churchyard, west of Mad River. 
Morgan. Cornelius. Beaver Creek. 1803 ; son of 

Peter ; buried in Bath churchyard, west of Mad 

River. 
Morgan. John, Sr., Beaver Creek, 1803; removed 

back to Virginia. 
Morgan. John, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1803; son of Peter; 

buried in Bath churchyard, west of Mad River. 
Morgan. Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1803; the old miller; 

in 1803 he had a mill about two miles southwest 

of Harbine's. 
Morgan. Joshua. Beaver Creek. 1813; son of Peter. 
Morgan. Vanzant, Beaver Creek, 1813: son of Peter; 

-oldier of 1812. 
Morgan. Samuel. Beaver Creek, 1816; son of Peter; 

-oldier of 181J. 
Miirgan. William. Beaver Creek. 1S18. 
Morgan. Evan. Beaver Creek, 1803. 
Morgan. Jacob, Miami, 1813: soldier of 1812. 
Morgan, Thomas, Sr,, Miami, 1816; will recorded 

in 1821. 
Morgan. Thomas. Jr.. Miami. 1820: son of Thomas. 

Sr. 
Morgan. Christopher. Miami. 1840. 
Mnrgan. Charles; son of Peter. 
.Morgan. Gabriel ; son of Peter. 

Morgan. David J.. Xenia. 1835; son of Morgan; bur- 
ied in Union graveyard. 
Moss. George. Sugar Creek, 1835; died in 1838, aged 

sixty; buried at Mt. Holly. 
Moss. Matthew, Sugar Creek, 1840; buried on the 

Heath farm, south of Xenia. 

Moss. Thomas S., Sugar Creek, 1812; died June 12, 

1816, aged twenty-eight ; buried on Heath farm. 

Moss, Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1840; born March 

19. 1818; died January 31. 1883, aged si.xty-live; 

buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 
Morchead. .\ndrew. Bath. 1S40. 
Montgomery. Samuel. Bath. 1826; October 25, 1826, 

married Charity Critchtield. 
Montgomery. John. Caesar's Creek. 1803. 
Montgomery. Robert. Sugar Creek, 1820; August 

29, 1820. married X'ancy Miller. 
Moberly, John, Caesar's Creek. 1S13 ; soldier of 1812. 
Moore, George. Sugar Creek. 1836; May 11. 1837, 

married Sarah Brewster. 
Moore. William. Sugar Creek, 1813. 
Moore. William C. Sugar Creek. 181 1 ; soldier of 

18 12. 
Moore, Charles, Caesar's Creek, 1804: soldier of 

l8t2. 

Moore, William M,, Caesar's Creek, 1806; soldier of 
1812; September 12, 1806, married Nancy Flood. 

Moore. David. Caesar's Creek, 1S18. 

Moore, James, Sr., Xenia. 1818; soldier of 1812; 
died April 29, 1845, aged fifty-seven ; buried in 
Dean cemetery; son-in-law of Daniel Dean, Sr. 



Moore. William H.. Xenia. 1829; son of James; 
died July 4, l8go; aged seventy-one; buried in 
Woodland. 
Moore, John. Xenia. 1840; Jackey; buriecF in Wood- 
land; married in 1815, Prudence Ferguson. 
Moore. James G.. Xenia, 1840; son of James; re- 
moved to Indiana; ."^pril 13. 1834, married Mar- 
garet Sipe. 
Moore. John. Xenia. 1831 ; merchant tailor; son of 
Thomas and Margaret Wallace; born in County 
Tyrone. Ireland. September 15. 181 1; died in 

Xenia ; buried in Woodland. 
Moore. William. Xenia. 1808. 
Moore, Samuel, Xenia, 1828; son of James; removed 

to Indiana; October 11. 1816. married Rachel 

Ewing. 
Moore, Daniel, Batli, 1807. 
Moore, Richard. Bath. 1807. 
Moore, Jeremiah, Bath, 1813. 
Moore. Horace. Bath. 1S40. 
Moore, Thomas P., Miami, 1812. 
Moore. Charles .•\.. Miami, 1813. . 
Moore. Pressley. Caesar's Creek. 1S30 ; died in 1834. 
Moore. Ervin. Miami, 1817; June 20, 1820, married 

Elizabeth Eperson. 
Moore. Gavin, Miami, 1819. 
Moore, Jesse, Silver Creek, 1830. 
Morris. William E.. Xenia. 1840; died March 12, 

1863; buried in Woodland; brother of Mrs. Judge 

Winans. 
Morris, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1826. 
Morris, Stephen, Sugar Creek, 1818; November 6, 

1819. married Hannah HutYman. 
Morris. W. S.. Sugar Creek. 1828; died -A.pril 3, 

1898, aged eighty-five; buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Morris Peter. Sugar Creek. 1828. 
Morris. William. Sugar Creek. 1828;' died February 

22. 1875 ; buried at Bellbrook. 
Morris, George H.. Bath. 1816: died near Bellbrook 

M'ay 10, 1877; February 19, 1835, married Delila 

Steene. 
Morris, John, Sugar Creek, 1840; died March 7, 

1887, aged sixty-four ; l.niried in Bellbrook cenie- 

tcry. 
Morrow, James, Xenia, 1803 ; from Kentucky ; cap- 
tain in War of 1812; buried in Massie's Creek 

churchyard ( Stevenson's) . 
Morrow, James K., Xenia. 1826; son of James. Sr. ; 

born in 1774; died in 1855; buried in Massie's 

Creek churchvard ; married Harriet Sterritt, Oc- 
tober 8, 1828.' 
Morrow, Joseph, Xenia, 1840; son of James, Sr. ; 

died December 9, 1885. aged seventy-three, buried 

in Woodland. 
Morrow. Samuel. Xenia. 1821; son of James. Sr. ; 

removed to .Albany, New York. 
Morrow, John, Xenia, 1821. ^ 
Morrow. Robert. Xenia. 1821 ; son of James. Sr. ; 

removed to Cincinnati. Ohio. 
Morrow. Chas. W.. Bath. 1821. 
Morrow. James E.. Silver Creek. 1840 ; November 

24, 1836, married Matilda Sanders. 
Mountjoy. Edward. Xenia. 1826. 
Moreland. Thomas. Xenia, 1830; died April 16. 1S33, 

aged forty, buried in Massie's Creek cemetery; 

married Rutji Small. 



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Moreland, \Vm.. Xenia, 1811: soldier of 1812; died 
January 9. 1S34 aged thirty, buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery. 

Moreland, Fredrick. Beaver Creek. 180.1. 

Moreland, James, Bath. i8.iO: January 6, 1820, mar- 
ried Sarah Lee. 

Moreland. John, Sr.. Miami. 1808: died January 5. 
1S12. aged twenty, buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard. (Stevenson's). 

Moreland, John, Jr.. Miami. 1808. 

Moreland! \Vm.. Miami. 1808; soldier of 1812: died 
in 1837. buried in Massie's Creek churchyard 
(Stevenson's ). 

Moreland. Mary J.. Miami. 1810. 

Moreland. John J.. Miami. 1812. . 

Moreland. Christian, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Moorman. Chas. F.. Silver Creek. 1809: from Camp- 
bell county. Virginia : November 24. 1816. mar- 
ried Matilda Watson. 

Moorman. Thomas. Sr.. Silver Creek. 1809; from 
Virginia: soldier of 1S12 ; died October 26. 1845. 
aged eightv-eight. buried east of Jamestown. 
Ohio. 

Moorman, Thomas P.. Silver Creek. 1809; from Vir- 
ginia: organized the Friends' Church at James- 
town in 1812. 

Moorman, Micajah C, Silver Creek, 1809: from \'ir- 
ginia: soldier of 1812. 

Moorman, Andrew, Silver Creek. 1811. 

Moorman, John. Silver Creek, 1812: soldier of 1812. 

Moorman, Pleasant. Silver Creek. 1812: soldier of 
1812: died in i860. 

Moorman. Samuel. Silver Creek, 1813; soldier of 
1812. 

Moorman, Chilis, Silver Creek, 1813: died January 
12, 1871. aged eighty-five, buried in Moorman 
graveyard. Jamestown. Ohio. 

Moorman, Chas. F., Silver Creek. 1817; born June 
25. 1795. in Campbell county. Virginia : died Sep- 
tember 30. 1880. aged eighty-five, buried in 
Jamestown cemetery. 

Moorman. James. Silver Creek. 1819: soldier of 
1812: died January 5. 188;. aged ninety-one. 
buried in Moorman graveyard. 

Moorman, Johnson, Silver Creek, 1819. 

Moorman. Lydia. Silver Creek. 1820. 

Moorman, Thomas C. Silver Creek. 1809: from Vir- 
ginia; died May 23. 1880. aged seventy-five, buried 
in Jamestown cemetery. 

Moorman. Goodman. Silver Creek, iSog: February 
8. 1827. married Lydia Price. 

Moorman. James E.. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Moorman, Pleasant, Jr., Silver Creek, 1840: ^Llrch 
6. 1840. married Mary Hickerson. 

Moorman. John. Xenia. 1816. 

Moorman. James T.. Xenia. 1826. 

Moorman. Andrew. Xenia. 1816. 

Moorman. Pleasant • G.. Xenia. 1816: July 9. 1834. 
married Mildred Moorman. 

Moorman. Peyton. Xenia, 1816; from Virginia: 
died March 15, 1861. aged eighty, buried in 
Woodland: married Rebecca Reese. 1819. 

Moran. James. Xenia. 1S19. 

Morton. James. ^lianii. 1830. 

Morton. Thomas. Miami. 1828: February 12. 1829. 
married Margaret McClure. 



Moorman. Samvel. Xenia. 1819. 

Moorman. John C. Xenia. 1816, 

Morton.. John. Xenia. 1818. 

Monroe. Hugh. Xenia. 1835: removed to Muncie. 

Indiana, in i8o3. 
Monroe, David. Xenia. 1S19: from Scotland: died 

X'ovember. 1S48. buried in Woodland: born ni 

^783. 
Monroe. George. Xenia. 1840: son of Ilavid : died 

August 23. 1879. aged sixty-nine, buried in Wood- 
land : married January 2. 1829. ^Lirtha Cunning- 

ha.n. 
Monroe. James B.. Xenia. 1840: son of David. 
Monroe. Wm.. Xenia. 1830: died August 3. i8.?0. 

aged twentv-two. buried in Woodland ; son of 

David. 
Moulderbaugh. Wm., Xenia, 1826, 
Moudy, Martin, Xenia, 1S40: June 5, 1834, married 

Margaret McClure. 
Moudy, George, Xenia, 1840. 
Moudy. Peter. Xenia. 18.30: built the first grist mill 

on the site of the Charlton Mill in 1836: died 

September 7. 1839. 
Moudy. -Andrew. Xenia. 1840. 
Morningstar. John. Beaver Creek. 1S03: March 5. 

1829. married Barbary Brinker. 
Morningstar. George. Beaver Creek. 1807: first 

erected his cabin on what is known as the John 

B. Stine farm. 
Morningstar. Philip. Beaver Creek, 1807. 
Morningstar. Levi. Beaver Creek. 1831 : X'ovember 

3, 1831. married Elizabeth Grimes. 
Mooney. Rebecca. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Moler. Casper, Beaver Creek. 1820: died in 1865. 

Moler. Vandever, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Moler, John. Jr.. Bath. 1840; died July 27. i88r. 
aged seventy-one. 

Moler. John. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1820: born Novem- 
ber 7. 1780. died September 12. 1882. aged ninety- 
two, buried in Woodland, Dayton. Ohio. 

Moser. Dunham. Beaver Creek. 1825: from Virginia: 
born in 1803. died in 1895. aged ninety-one. buried 
in Fairfield cemetery. 

Moler. .Adam. Sugar Creek. 1817: died June 6. 1891. 
aged seventy-one. buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 

Moody. Wm., Xenia. 1827: died January 23. 1827: 
formerly from Springfield. Ohio. 

Moler. Franklin. Beaver Creek. 1S40 : died October 

4. 1873. aged seventy-eight. 

Moody. John. Bath. 1S40: died October 22. 1881, 
aged si.xty-tbree. buried near Byron. Ohio. 

Moodie. Robert. Miami. 1806: from Scotland: dieil 
in Xenia. August 24. 1872. aged ninety-si.x : buried 
in Massie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's) : sol- 
dier of 1812. 

Moodie. Andrew. Miami. 1810: died October 8. 1815. 
aged fifty-three, buried in ISIassie's Creek church- 
yard (Stevenson's). 

Moody. John H.. Bath. 1840: father of Walter P.: 
buried in Union churchyard. 

Moody. Philip. Bath. 1840: from \'irginia: died 
April 23, 1883. aged seventy-nine, buried in L'nion 
graveyard. Byron. Ohio. 

Moody. ^L•^rtin. Bath. i8jo: son of Philip: died Feb- 
ruary. 1875. Iniried in L'nion churchyard. 

Marlow, Horatio, Miami, 1820. 



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MorisoM. Thomas P., Silver Creek, 1825. 

Morisuii. Samuel. Miami, i8jo. 

Morrison, Peter, Miami, i8,?o: died in 1839, aged 
eighty-one. buried in Clifton. 

Monohon. John. Ross. 1819; October 7. 182,^. mar- 
ried Nancy Stipe. 

Monohon, Peter, Ross, 1819. 

Monohon. Owen. Ross, 1830 ; November 30, 1826, 
married Ann Liza Strong. 

Moulder. Michael. Bath. 1836; died October 18. i860, 
aged seventy-one. buried in Fairfield cemetery. 

Morey. Roger B., Silver Creek. 1840. 

Mortimore. Henry. Silver Creek. 1835; August 11, 
1835. Mary Lockhart. 

Mullen. \Vm.. Caesar's Creek. 1803: removed to In- 
di.iiia : October 13. 1831. luarried Fanny .\ry. 

Mullen. John. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Mullen, Samuel G.. Caesar's Creek. 1826; brotlier of 
W'm. : died August 13, 1871. aged seventy, buried 
in New Hope churchyard. Paintersville, Ohio. No- 
vember II. 1824, married Phebe McConnel. 

Mullen. Frankey. Jefferson. 1840; died October 22. 
1878. aged seventy-eight. 

Mullen, .lames M.. Caesar's Creek, 1840; died at 
Paintersville, Ohio; February 23. 1832, married 
Phebe Ellis. 

Murdock. Robert. Xenia, 1840; from Ireland; died 
April 14, 1876, aged seventy-six, buried in Mas- 
sic's Creek cemetery. 

Murphy. Martin. Bath. 1821 ; December 7, 1820. mar- 
ried Eleanor McCormack. 

Murphy, Jane, Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Mnrpliy. John C. Sugar Creek. 1826; from Ken- 
lucky; born in 1790. died December 11. 1871. 
aged seventy-seven, buried in Bellbrook. 

Murphy. David, Caesar's Creek. 1807 ; soldier of 
1812: in 1850 removed to Indianapolis. Indiana. 

Murphy, Wm.. Caesar's Creek. 1828; February 7, 
1X20. married Jane Reed ; February 5. 1827. mar- 
ried Lydia Turner. 

Muriihy, Jacob. Caesar's Creek, 1840: from Virginia' 
died December 4, 1S92, aged eighty-tliree. 

Murpliy, John, Sugar Creek. 1810; January 22, 1818. 
married Ann Laurence. 

Murphy. John. Xenia. 1810; soldier of 1812: August 
7. 1842. married Mercey Sackett. 

Murphy. John B., Xenia. 181 1 ; died in Xenia. in 
1S70, buried in Woodland. 

Murphy, Horatio. Xenia. 181 1. 

Murphy. William IT.. Beaver Creek. 1840; January 
7. 1838. married Mary Sipe. 

Murphy, Daniel. Xenia, 1819. 

Murphy. Thomas. Caesar's Creek. 1840; married 
Phebe Faulkner. 

Murpliy. .Abraliam C. Caesar's Creek. 1840; May 23, 
1839, married Abigal M. Davis. 

Murphy. Andrew. Miami, 1803: died in Miami town- 
ship in 1863. 

Murphy, John. Miami. 1803. 

Murphy, James S.. Miami, 1840; December 12, 1837, 
married Mary Walker. 

Murry, Thomas. Xenia. 1810. 

Murphy, Joseph T.. Miami. 1840; November 19, 
1837, married Lyda Bayliff. 

Murphy. Henry. Miami. 1840. 

Murry. William. Xenia, 1818; February 13, 1S19. 
married Elizabeth Stewart. 



Murry, James, Beaver Creek, 1819. 

Murry, John, Xenia, 1820. 

Murry, Samuel. Xenia, 1830; Septeml)cr 8, 1831, 
married Sarah Whiteman, 

Munger. Reuben. Beaver Creek. 1840; from Con- 
necticut ; died March 26. 1890. aged ninety-five ; 
father of Judge E. H. Munger. Xenia. 

Musetter, Christopher. Caesar's Creek, 1840; died in 
1846, aged forty; buried in Eleazer churchyard; 
married Mary Smith. 

Musetter, John, Caesar's Creek. 1840 ; died Septem- 
ber 27, 1847. aged seventy-eight ; buried in Eleazer 
churchyard. 

Musgrove. Rev. Anthony, Xenia, 1840; the blind 
preacher; died .'\pril ig, 1870; buried in Wbod- 
land. 

Musgrove. John. Xenia. 1820; soldier of the Revo- 
lution ; buried in Woodland. 

Munfort. Peter, Miami, 1813; first pastor of Pres- 
byterian church, Clifton, Ohio, in 1812. 

Munthaw, Eohraim. Ross, 1815; a traveling tailor 
of the early days ; German descent. 

Mulnick. Mary. Silver Creek. 1813. 

Myers. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1813; died in 18,54; 
buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Myers, Isaac. Caesar's Creek, 1829. 

Myers, George, Esq.. Beaver Creek, 1810; soldier 
of 1812; March 28, 1823, married Malinda Davis. 

Myers. James. Beaver Creek, 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Myers. Michael. Beaver Creek. 183a; father-in-law 
of Joseph Hawkins; removed to Peoria, Illinois. 

Myers, M, F., Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Myers. Jacob F.. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Myers. Jonas. F.. Beaver Creek, 1840; June 7, 1838, 
married Elizabeth Dice. 

Meyers. David. Bath, 1840. 

Myers, William. Bath. 1807. 

Mvers. John, Bath, 1820; June 3, 1840, married Nancy 
Neal. 

Myers. George. Bath. 181 1; 2slarch 7. 1835, married 
Mary Kelby. 

Myers, William, Miami, 1808; died July 4. 1872, 
aged seventy-five. 

Myers, Noah. Miami. 1826. 

Myers, Thomas, Miami. 1840; December 24. 1835, 
married Catharine Confer. 

Myers, John, Ross, 1813 ; from Pennsylvania ; mar- 
ried Lucy Plummer ; died in 1868, aged fifty-five. 

Myers. Peter, Ross, 1840 ; March 8, 1840, married 
.\rgyle McPhael. 

Myers. Adam, Ross, 1840. 

Myers. Francis, Silver Creek. 1840; January 23, 
1840, married Maria Browder. 

Myers. Jioseph, Sugar Creek, 1825 ; died September 
12. 1875, aged seventy-five. 

Myers. Israel. Ross. 1840; died in 1869: buried in 
Green Plains. Clark county, Ohio. 

Music, Samuel, Xenia, 1808. 

Musser. H. R.. Bath. 1828; died June I. 1873. aged 
seventy; buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

McAllen. Gen. James, Silver Creek, 1822; died at 
JMonmouth, Illinois, September 12, 1846, aged 
forty-three, 

Mc.\llen, James. Xenia, 1827. 

McAfee. Henry. Silver Creek, 1821 ; died in 1828, 

McBride, William. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 
1812. 



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McBride, James. Esq., Sugar Creek, 1808; lieutenant 
in War of 1812: Spring Valley's Justice of the 
Peace ; married Rachel Van Eaton. 

McBride. John M.. Cciesar's Creek, 1840: January 

19. 1840, married Eliza Jane Syphers. 
McFjride, Henry. Xenia, 1813. 

McBride. Harvey. Xenia. 1818: son-in-law of James 

Todd ; married Betsey. 
McBride. William. Xenia, 1828. 
McBride. John, Xenia. 1816; died October 29, i860, 

at Cincinnati : buried at Jamestown. Ohio ; May 

I. 1834. married Sarah Long. 
McBeth. Jeremiah. Xenia. 1S13: died in i868. 
McBeth. Samuel. Xenia, 1813. 
McBeth. .-Me.xander. Xenia. 1840: died February 11. 

1S80. aged eighty: buried in Woodland; married 

Sarah Dement. March 3, 1831. 
McCann, Wilson B., Xenia. 1833: from \'irginia: 

horn October 11. iSii ; married in Xenia in 

1835. 

McCampbell. Joseph. Xenia. 1840; born January 6, 
]8i8; died January 9, 1888, aged seventy; buried 
in Woodland. 

McCanlass. William. Xenia. 1828; died in 1835. 

McCabe. Oakley, Bath, 1828; soldier of 1812. 

McCabe, Armstrong. Sugar Creek, 1805 ; soldier of 
1812; married a daughter of James Barrett; re- 
tuoved to Vigo county, Indiana. 

McCabe. James. Sugar Creek. 1810; died in 1830 
in Vigo county, Indiana. 

McCabe. John, Sugar Creek. i8t8 : removed to In- 
diana. 

McCabe. T. B., Caesar's Creek. 1819. 

McClurc. Gilbert, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

McChire. Andrew. Sugar Creek. 1812; died July, 
1867, aged sixty-four; buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard, Bellbrook, Ohio; August 7. 1826, married 
Jane Hutchison. 

McClure, James, Sugar Creek, 1813: Iniried in Pi- 
o".eer graveyard, Bellbrook. 

McClure. Andrew S.. Sugar Sreek. 1829; died in 
1837; buried at Bellbroo'k, Ohio. 

McClure. Natlianiel I.. Sugar Creek. 1830: died Oc- 
lober 6, 1877. aged sixty-nine; October 28, 1830. 
married Elizabeth Russel. 

McClure, Levi, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

McClure. John, Sugar Creek, 1800; from Virginia; 
died March 5. 1886. aged seventy-six; buried at 
Bellbrook, Ohio; married Elvira Young. 

McClure. William. Beaver Creek. 1803; December 

20. 1810. married Margaret Mitchell. 
McClure, Harvey, Beaver Creek. 1840. 
McClure. Williaiu. Bath. 1807. 
McClure, Nathan, Bath, 1807. 
McClure, William, Jr.. Bath. 1810. 

McClure. Joseph. Xenia. 1840; a miller; born in 

Augusta county. \'irginia. in 1819; removed to 

Danville, Illinois, in 1857. 
McClure, John, Xenia. 1807. 
McClure. Robert. Miami. 1813. 
McClure. .Mexander. Silver Creek. 1828; December 

22. 1829. married Margaret X'eeley. 
McClure, Moses, Miami. 1S26. 
McClure, Thomas B.. Miami, 1829; June 13. 1832. 

married Anice Tasa Linkhart. 
McConnell, Adam, Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1806. 



McConnell. Williaiu. Sugar Creek, 1806. 

McConnell. Robert. Sugar Creek, 1808; died June 
28, 1822 ; buried in Massie's Creek churchyard. 

McConnell, James. Sugar Creek. 181 1; brother of 
Samuel; died in 1829; grandfather of Mrs. John 
R. Horn. 

McConnell. .^dam. Sugar Creek, 1816; died April 
23. 1841. aged eighty-one; buried in Xenia. 

McConnell. Alexander. Sugar Creek. 1826; born 
June 4. 1800; died October, 1858, aged fifty-eiglit ; 
buried ope mile north of Paintersville on the 
Jamestown pike, 

McConnell, James, Caesar's Creek, 1807; died Sep- 
tember 2, 1829, aged sixty-four. 

McConnell. John. Caesar's Creek. 1826; August 18, 
1829. married Eliza Barber. 

McConnell. Alexander. Caesar's Creek, 1827; son of 
Samuel ; never married ; buried in Woodland. 

McConnell. William. Xenia. 1806. 

McConnell. Samuel. Sr.. Xenia, 1806; soldier of 
1812; died December 31, 1845, aged seventy; fa- 
ther of Mrs. Dr. George Watt; buried in Wood- 
land. 

McConnell. .\dam, Xenia, 1806; son of Samuel; died 
April 23. 1841. aged eighty-eight; buried at 
Sydney. Ohio; March 6. 1823. marrried Jane Mc- 
Cracken. 

McConnell. William. Jr.. Xenia. 1827 ; son of Sam- 
uel ; born April i. 1819; died Xoveniber g. 1858; 
buried in Woodland. 

McConnell, James L., Xenia, 1827; April 4. 1839. 
married Xancy Marshall; buried in Bellbrook. 

McConnell. Isaiah. Xenia. 1828; son of Samuel; re- 
moved to Kenton. Ohio; son-in-law of James 
Bain. Sr. ; married .\nn Bain January i. 1828. 

McConnell. Robert. Jr.. Xenia, 1829; removed to 
Hardin county. Ohio; May 29. 1834. married 
Eliza Jane Beamer. 

McConnell. David. Xenia. 1840 ; August 12. 1838, 
married Margaret Fields: removed to Iowa. 

McConnell. James. Beaver Creek. i8i6. 

McConnell. Robert. Beaver Creek. 1830. 

McConnell. John. Ross. 1S28: September 17. 1S35. 
married Julia Ann Brackney. 

McConnell. William. Ross. 1828. 

McConnell. Jane. Ross. l8?o. 

McConnell, J. M.. Ross. 1840. 

McConnell. Zacharias. Ross. 1840; Docemlier 12. 
1S37. married Jane D. Wright. 

McConnell. David. Ro-s. 1840; .August 12. 1838. mar- 
ried Margaret Fields. 

McCool. Thomas P.. Sugar Creek. 1826; the old 
school teacher ; buried in Zoar churchyard. Caes- 
ar's Creek township. 

McCrackeu. Alexander. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

McCracken. Henry. Xenia. 1818; cabinet-maker; 
built the house in 1836 where Farrell's grocery 
now is. 

McCracken. .\rthur. Xenia. 1826; February i. 1825. 
married Mary Black. 

McCracken. Rev. Jolin S.. Beaver Creek. 1827: from 
Pennsylvania: married Xovember 11. 1839. 'o t'i« 
widow of Rev. Johnson Welch ; born April 6. 
1S04: died .April 1. 1863. aged fifty-nine. 

McCracken, John. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1829; died 
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McCracken. James. Beaver Creek, 1829. 

McCracken. James B.. Beaver Creek. 1830: June 22. 
1837. married Hannah Stewart. 

McCracken. William. Miami. 1840. 

McCurfly. William. Sugar Creek. i8ig. 

McCliristy. Jesse, Sugar Creek. 1828. 

McClung. John S.. Esq.. Beaver Creek. 1840: born 
in Rockbridge. V'irginia. September 5. 1803 ; died 
September. 1866. aged si.\ty-four: buried in 
Woodland. 

McClnng, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

McClung, Chas.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

McClung. James B.. Beaver Creek, 1840; buried 
in Woodland. 

McCandlas. Robert. Sugar Creek, 1828. 

McCandlas, William, Sugar Creek. 1817: died in 
1835, aged forty-seven ; buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard. Bellbrook. Ohio. 

McCoy. Robert, Xenia. 1805: born January 4, 1787; 
removed to Columbus. Ohio: died January 16. 
1856: brother of Alexander. 

McCoy. .Mexander, Sr.. Xenia. 1803; from Kentucky; 
in 1802 settled on Clark's Run; soldier of 1812. 
under Capt. Morrow : will recorded in 1824 ; 
Sarah was his wife; buried in Massie's Creek, 

McCoy, .\lcxander. Jr.. Xenia. 1803; son of Alex- 
ander. Sr. ; removed to Warren county, Ohio ; 
Fel)ruary 28. 1826, married Jane Ward. 

McCoy, John. Xenia. 1803 ; son of Alexander. Sr. ; 
born September 4. 1781 : died September ii. i8,lo, 
aged fifty-eight; buried in Massie's Creek church- 
yard (Stevenson's). 

McCoy. David. Xenia. 1803; son of Alexander. Sr. ; 
removed to Warren county. Illinois ; died in 
Henderson county. Illinois. 

McCoy. Francis S.. Xenia. "1806; soldier of 1812, 
under Capt. Herrod ; was drowned in the Mis- 
sissippi river. 

McCoy. Robert. Xenia. 1806 ; son of Alexander. Sr. ; 
removed to Kentucky ; died in i860, at Brook- 
ville. Bracken county, Kentucky. 

McCoy. James. Xenia, 1803: soldi'cr of 1812; died 
.•\pril 2, 1863. aged eighty-si.x ; buried in Cedar- 
ville cemetery, 

McCoy, William, Xenia, 1816: soldier of 1812, under 
Capt. Morrow ; son of .Me.xander, Sr. ; removed 
to Warren county, Ohio. 

McCoy. Lewis. Xenia. 1828. 

McCoy. Joseph, Ross. 1818; removed to Monmouth, 
Illinois. 

McCoy. James, Jr.. Ross. 1826; August 21. 1827. 
married Betsey W. Millan. 

McCoy. James. Ross. 1840. 

McCoy. John. Ross. 1840: removed to Kansas: son 
of James: June 15. 1837. married Dorcas Burn- 
sides. 

McCIain. .\le.xander. Ross. 1840 : died February 2. 
1868. aged seventy-two: buried in Bethel church- 
yard, near Grape Grove. Ohio. 

McClain. James. Beaver Creek. 1840 : January 16. 
1S40. married Isabella Warner. 

McCIain. .\ndrew. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

McClain. Philip, Caesar's Creek. 1830; died October 
30. T874. aged seventy-seven: buried at James- 
town. Ohio. 

McClain, Xathaniel, Caesar's Creek. 1826; soldier 



of 1812; his sawmill was one mile west of Xenia 
on Shawnee Creek. 

McClain. J. S.. Caesar's Creek. 1828 ; March 20, 
1830. married Mahala Mars. 

McCIain. Israel D.. Xenia, 1828. 

McCallaster. William. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

McCallaster. John. Caesar's Creek. 1840; December 
27. 1839. married Mary Shook. 

McCallaster. Joseph. Xenia. 1812 ; Xovember 9, 
1817. married Elizabeth Goodnight. 

McCallaster. Benjamin. Xenia. 1819; January 18. 
1821. married Rachel Edmondson. 

McComos, Daniel. Xenia. 1828. 

McComos. David. Xenia. 1828. 

McComos. Moses S.. Xenia. 1828; July 20. 1829. mar- 
ried Barbary Stephens. 

McCullough. John. Xenia. 1807 ; died September 9. 
1817, aged twenty-three: buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's), 

McCullough, WiHiam, Xenia, 1810; died September, 
1823, aged thirty-four ; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's); soldier of 1812. 

McCullough. Solomon. Xenia, 1810; settled on the 
Owen Swadner farm; died January 10. 1S34. 
aged seventy-five. 

McCullough. James. Xenia. 181 1 ; son of Solomon. 

McCullough. William. Xenia, 1812; son of Solomon. 

McCullough. David M.. Xenia, 1840: •^on of Soln- 
mon. 

McCullough, Greene. Xenia, 1829. 

McCullough. Hugh. Xenia. 1840: son of Solomon; 
September 20. 1838. married Jane McWilliams. 

McCullough. Alexander, Beaver Creek. 1803. 

McCullough. James, Beaver Creek, 1829; soldier of 
1S12. 

McCullough, Nicholas, Beaver Creek, 1806. 

McCullough. Solomon. Beaver Creek, 1807. 

McCullough. John. Miami, 1808: captain in War 
of 1812: October 5. 1813. married Harriet Doyle. 

McCullough. Samuel. Miami. 1840; died at his home 
•r. Yellow Springs .April 24. igoo; buried in 
Glen Foi'est cemetery. 

McCrosson. John. Bath. 1840. 

McCormack. Thomas. Xenia. 1820. 

McCormack, James. Xenia, 1827. 

McCormack. John. Bath. 181 1: soldier of 1812; bur- 
ied in Bath churchyard, west of Mad River. 

McCormack. William. Bath. 1810: soldier of 1812. 

McCormack. James. Bath. 1810; soldier of 1812; 
died in 1828. 

McCormack. James. Jr.. Bath. 181 1. 

McCormack. Philip. Bath, 1816. 

McCormack. Samuel. Bath. 1826; son of James. 

McCann. Wilson B.. Xenia. 1833 ; born October 4, 
181 1, in Virginia: August 13. 1834. married Cath- 
arine Williams ; father of James B. McCann. 

McCarty. James. Xenia. 1832 : born in Northumber- 
land county. Pennsylvania, December 10, 1808 : 
died February 6. 1901 ; November 7, 1833, married 
Margaret Williams. 

McCarty. .Andrew. Xenia, 1845 ; from Virginia ; born 
March 12. 1817; came to Xenia October 11, 1845; 
died June 16, 1900. 

McCarty. Lewis W.. Bath. 1840. 

McCarty. William. Bath. 1838: March 19. 1839. mar- 
ried Dicev Price. 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



McCroskey, Joseph, Sr., Miami. 1830; died in 1837. 

McCroskey. Hugh G., Ross. 1840; son of Joseph; 
died at indianapolis. Indiana, April 17, 1857, aged 
fifty-five : buried in Woodland. 

McCroskey, David, Ross, 1840; son of Joseph. 

MeCullunin, James. Xenia, 1840: born in 1800; died 
in 1875. aged seventy-six; buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard. 

McCuHumn, Samuel. Silver Creek, 1807. 

McCullumn. James S.. Xcnia. 1840; died November 
19, 1884. aged ciglity-two: buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard. Cedarville. Ohio. 

McClurg. Samuel. Miami, 1840. 

McCord. Joseph. Bath, 1805; November 10. 1803, 
married Mary Hall. 

McCord. James. Ross. 1840 ; a blacksmith ; shop was 
on the farm of Lyman Ballard. 

McCune. George, Miami. 1808. 

McCune. Joseph. Bath, 1807. 

McCunc. J. \\'.. Xcnia. 1840. 

McCune. Lawrance. Xenia. 1840 ; died July, 1849. 
aged forty ; buried in Woodland. 

McCune. Joseph, Beaver Creek. 1803. 

McCreary. Edward, Xenia, 1840; died September 15, 
1852, aged forty-five : buried in Woodland. 

McCreary, Lewis. Xenia, 1840. 

McCray. Elizabeth. Bath. 1830; died in 1840; buried 
in Slitnian graveyard. Fairfield. Ohio. 

McCloud, W:lliam, Bath, 180.?: moved to Hardin 
county, Ohio. 

McCashen. John. Bath. iSio; buried at Knob Prairie, 
two miles north of Enon. Ohio. 

McCashen. James. Bath. 1814: soldier of 1S12; re- 
moved to Shelby county. Ohio. 

McCashen. WilHani. Bath. 1820: removed to Shelby 
county. Ohio ; June 18. 1822. married Elizabeth 
VViuget. 

McCashen. Jacob, Bath. 1828: removed to Shelby 
county, Ohio. 

McCashen. Daniel. Bath. 1830; removed to Shelby 
county, Ohio, 

McCashen, James, Jr.. Bath. 1823; December 7. 1821, 
married Sarah Winget. 

McCIellan. William. Xenia. 1804: Clark's Run: died 
.Vpril 8. 1817. aged fifty-si.x ; buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery (Stevenson's). 

McCIellan. Capt. Robert. Sugar Creek, 1806; a na- 
tive of Forks of Yah, Westmoreland county. 
Pennsylvania: captain in war of 1812; died .April 
13. 1846. aged sixty-eight; buried in Woodland. 

McCIellan. Robert. Jr., Sugar Creek. 1827; died Oc- 
tober II, 1876, aged seventv-five: buried in Wood- 
land. 

McCIellan. Isaiah. Sugar Creek. 1828: born X'ovem- 
ber I. 1805; died February 22, 1882. aged sev- 
enty-six; buried in Woodland. 

McCIellan. James. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

McCIellan. John. Caesar's Creek. 1831 : brother of 
Robert Sr. : died June 21, 1866. aged eighty-one: 
buried in Woodland. 

McCIellan, William, Xenia, 1806; from Kentucky, 
in 1802: died December 13, 1863, aged ninety: 
buried in Baptist graveyard, near Cedarville, 
Ohio. 

McCIellan, William, Jr.. Xenia. 1826. 

McCIellan. James. Xenia. 1826; .August 13. 1856. 
married Harriett Beanier. 



McCIellan. Benjamin, Xenia. 1828: son of William; 
died November 4, 1851. aged forty-four; buried 
in Baptist graveyard, near Cedarville. 

McCIellan. Joseph. Xenia. 1828; brother of Robert, 
Sr. ; removed to Princeton. Indiana; January- 11, 
1814. married Xancy McConnell. 

McCIellan. John. Caesar's Creek, 1830; died in 
1813. n 

McCIellan. John. Jr.. Xenia. j8l2; a blacksmith: 
son of Robert. Sr. : born in Pennsylvania in 
1800: die 1 June 8. 1880: buried in Woodland. 

McCIellan. James. Xenia. 1840; born in 1815 ; died 
in 1876; buried in Woodland. 

McCIellan. William S.. Xenia, 1840; son of John 
and Nancy ; born March 20, 1825 ; died Decein- 
ber 26, 1892 : buried in Woodland. 

McCIellan, Thomas, Xenia, 1840: father of Field- 
ing McCIellan (cooper) ; buried in Woodland. 

McCIellan. Robert. Jr.. Xenia. 1840: son of John. 

McCIellan. William, Beaver Creek, 1813: died .\pr:l 
8. 1817. aged fifty-six; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's). 

McCIellan. John. Miami, 1808; John had two sisters, 
Peggy, wife of John Sterritt, and Polly, and one 
brother. .Abraham. 

McCIellan. James, Miami, 1818, 

McCIellan. Keniamin. Miami. 1828. 

McCIellan. Williaiu, Miami. 1828. 

McCellan. John. Miami. 1820; March 25, 1830, mar- 
ried Matilda Myers. 

McCIellan, Samuel, Miami, 1820; June 7, 1832, mar- 
ried Francis Hamaker. 

McCIellan. Benjamin. Ross, 1827: December n, 1826- 
married Sarah Barr. 

McCIellan, James, Silver Creek, 1817. 

McCIellan. Fielding. Xenia. 1840; son of Thomas and 
father of George B. ; died July 15, 1877; buried 
in Woodland. 

McCIellan. David, Sugar Creek. 1840; son of Capt. 
Robert. 

McCIellan. William. Sugar Creek, 1840; son of 
Capt. Robert ; borii January 3. 1825. 

McCIellan. C. R.. Xenia. 1840: removed to Oska- 
loosa, Kansas ; buried at Cedarville. Ohio. 

McCashen. James. Jr.. Bath. 1828 ; December 27. 
1821. married Sarah Winget. 

McCray. Chappcl. Bath. 1810. 

^IcDonald. Isaiah. Xenia. 1800; from North Caro- 
lina; soldier of the Revolution, under General 
Gates; wife. Edith: died March 26. 1823, aged 
seventy-eight : buried in McDonald graveyard, 
southeast of Xenia. 

McDonald. Dempsey. Xenia. 1800 : died September 
30. 1827. aged forty-four; buried in McDonald 
graveyard; son of Isaiah; .soldier of 1812. 

McDonald. Levet. Xenia, 1800; son of Isaiah; died 
October 17, 1884. aged seventy-two: buried in 
McDonald graveyard. 

McDonald. John X.. Xenia. 1809: son bf Levet: died 
.\ugust 29. 1831. aged eighty-five; buried in .A. 
R. churchyard. East Third street. Xenia. 

McDonald. Rev. Geo. Wilson. Xenia. 1807; son of 
Levet: died February 7. 1851. aged sixty-five; 
buried in McDonald graveyard. 

McDonald. .Andrew W.. Xenia. 1811 ; son of Levet. 

McDonald. Isaiah. Jr.. Xenia. 1821 ; .son of Demp- 
sey. Sr. ; March 13. 1821. married Mary Hare. 



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McDonald. Wilford, Xenia. 1820; son of Isaiah: 
born in Tennessee. March 9. 179S: died Apr.l 
J/. 18S4. aged eighiy-si.x : buried in Woodland. 

McDonald. Samuel, Xenia, 1840. 

McDonald, .mitred. Xenia. 1840: son of Wilson; 
died -April 16, 1897. aged eighty; buried ii! 
Woodland; November 21, 1839, married Chris- 
tana Bone. 

McDonald. Thomas. Xenia. 1840 ; son of Level ; 
died July 25. 1839. aged twenty-five; buried in 
McDonald graveyard. 

McDonald. John. Xenia, 1840; son of Dempsey ; died 
September 10. 1815. aged twenty-four; buried m 
McDonald graveyard. 

McDonald. W. F.. Xenia. 1S40 : November 23, mar- 
ried Harriet Smith. 

McDonald. John. Beaver Creek, iSo" ; died in Xenia 
township in 1834. 

McDonald. Reuben. Beaver Creek. 1808; in 1809 
appointed by Bishop Asbury deacon in the M. 
E. church, and was by virtue of that office iii- 
litled to solemnize marriage. 

McDonald. Daniel, Bath, 1827. 

McDonald, John, Sugar Creek. 1828; brother-in-law 
to Hugh Hamill : removed to Hamilton ; Novem- 
ber. 1S31. married Marv Gibson. 

McDonald. John P.. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

McDonald. Nimrod, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of 
Jarrod ; May 14, 1839, married Mary Ann Mc- 
Knight. 

McDonald, William, Xenia, 1840; third son of 
Dempsey ; died at the home of Bud Robmson 
in 1852 ; buried in Woodland ; was the first to 
discover the Puterbaugh fire in 1845 ; forced the 
door open and brought out the body of James 
Kcnney. 

McDorman. Michael. Ross, 1806; removed to Clark 
county, Ohio. 

McDorman, James, Ross, 1826; from Virginia; bur- 
ied at Charleston. Ohio, in 1894 ; aged ninety- 
four. 

McDougle, Robert, Caesar's Creek, 1815. 

McDowell. Austin. Xenia. 1837; from Allegheny. 
Pennsylvania ; was a soldier of the Civil war ; 
captain in Co. D. Seventj-fourth O. \'. I. and 
Co. I. One Hundred and Twenty-eighth ; died 
May 31. 1892. aged seventy-seven; buried in 
Woodland. 

McDowell. John, Xenia, 1820. 

McDowell. Nelson. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

.McDowell. William G.. Silver Creek. 1830; died at 
Jamestown in 1874, aged eighty-four ; burie<l at 
Jamestown. Ohio; April 6, 1837. married Re- 
becca Paris. 

McDill. John, Xenia, 1826. 

McDill. John. Jr., Xenia. 1840. 

McDerinot. Edward. Bath. 1805; soldier of 1812. 

McDermot. James. Bath. 1807. 

McDermot. Michael. Bath. 1816. 

McDermot, John. Bath. 1840; died in 1853. 

McDonough. Edward. Miami. 1819. 

McDermot. William. Bath. 1840. 

McElwain. .\ndrew. Xenia. 1844; from Cumberland 
county. Pennsylvania; born March 22, 182 1 ; died 
in Xenia. 

McElroy. Daniel, Ross. 1830. 
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McElhaney. Julius J., Bath. 1840. 

McGuire. Dr. Wesley B.. Xenia. 1840; died April 16, 
1853. aged forty-three ; buried in Woodland ; born 
March 4, 1810. 

McFariand, John, Sugar Creek, 1810; soldier of 
1812. 

McFariand. William W., Xenia, 1836; September 23. 
1818. married Maria Bishop. 

McFariand. J.icob. Sugar Creek, 1818; died July 31, 
i860, aged sixty-four buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's).) 

McFariand, William, Xenia, 1803 ; from Kentucky ; 
died September 1, 1816, aged fifty-three; buried 
in Massie's Creek churchyard (.Stevenson's). 

McFariand. John, Xenia, 1806; born in 1784 in East 
Tennessee; April 16. 1816, married Mary Climer. 

McFariand. John. Jr.. Xenia. 1806. 

McFariand. Robert W., Xenia, 1806; son of Joseph; 
was a lieutenant in War of 1812; died August 
23. 18O9. aged eighty-five; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard. Cedarville. 

McFariand. .Arthur. Xenia. 1810; soldier of 1812; 
died November 27. 1834. aged forty-six ; buried 
in Baptist graveyard. Cedarville; August 12. • 
1813. married Jane Junkin. 

McFariand. Joseph. Ross. 181 1; from Kentucky; 
died November 29. 1839. aged seventy-two ; bur- 
ied in Baptist graveyard. Cedarville. 

McFariand. John W.. Xenia, 1S12 ; son of Joseph ; 
born April 3. 1788. 

McFariand, Thomas, Xenia, 1818. 

McFariand. Isaac. Xenia. 1819; died in 1824. Oc- 
tober 25. aged twenty -eight ; buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard. 

McFariand, Rebecca. Xenia, 1820. 

McFariand. Jacob. Xenia. 1827: July 15. 1S34. mar- 
ried Margary McGrew. 

McFariand. Enoch. Xenia. 1827. 

McFariand. Lewis. Xenia. 1827; December 13, 1832, 
married Jane A. Dunlop. 

McFariand, Archibald. Xenia, 1828. 

McFariand. Arthur. Jr.. Ross, 1826. 

McFariand, Clark. Ross. 1840; February 9. 1837. 
married Jane Bozarth. 

McFariand. James. Ross. 1824 son of Joseph died 
April 3. 1829, aged tw enty-seven ; buried in Bap- 
tist graveyard, Cedarville. 

McFariand. Nathan. Ross, 1840: son of Arthur. 

McFariand. Greene C. Ross. 1840; son of Arthur; 
died at Cedarville. March 16. 1862. aged fifty-four ; 
buried in Baptist graveyard. 

McFariand. Hugh. Ross. 1840; December 30, 1838, 
married Evaline Hacks. 

McFariand. David. Ross. 1840. 
McFariand. John. Ross. 1840. 

McFariand. Jesse M.. Ross, 1840; son of .Arthur; 

born N'ovember to, 1819; died December 10, 

1880: buried in Baptist graveyard, Cedarville; 

September 7, i84_-. married Manerva Campbell. 

McFariand. Benjamin, 181 1 ; son of Joseph, Sr. ; 

born .August 20. 1795. 
McFariand. Joseph. Jr.. 181 1 : born September 3. 

1790: son of Joseph. Sr. 
McGrew. James L.. Bath, 1S29. 

McGrew. William. Bath. 1S35 ; November 3. 1836, 
married Martha Gallowav. 



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McGuire. John, Caesar's Creek, 1807; in 1825 taught 
school at New Jasper, Ohio. 

McGuire, Adsit, Xenia. 1807. 

McGuire, Wesley, Bath, 1817; born March ,26, 1812: 
died April 16, 1853 : buried in Woodland. 

McGuire, Chas., Sr., Bath, 1810. 

McGarey, John, Xenia, 1840 ; from Scotland : died 
February 2, 1873, aged eighty-three ; buried in 
Woodland. 

McCiarey, Henry, Bath, 1840. 

McGerccy, James, Xenia, 1832; came to Ohio from 
Pennsylvania : died in Xenia April 12. 1894. aged 
cigbly-h\e; buried in Woodland; a saddler; mar- 
ried Caroline Brown August 3, 1834. 

McGec. John, Xenia. 1840. 

McGee. James, Xenia, 1840. 

McGathc. Doninie, Beaver Creek, 1807. 

McGinness, John, Bath. 1826: died in 1836. 

McGinness. Joseph, Xenia, 1840; born January 15, 
1786; died January 10, 1871. aged eighty-lour; 
buried in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's;. 

McGinness, Abraham, Ross, 1826. 

McGaw," James F.. Ross. 1826: from Chester. South 
Carolina; died July 30, 1871, aged eighty-eight; 
buried in Massie's Creek cemetery, Cedarville, 
Ohio. 

McGaw, William, Bath, 1826. 

McHugli, Alexander, Bath, 1807. 

McHugh, John, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

McHatten, .Vlexander. Miami, 1820; from Kentucky; 
a lieutenant colonel in war of Revolution; died 
April 23, 1837, aged ninety-three ; buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

McHatten. John. Miami, 1840; born September, 
1820; died January 22. 1876, aged fifty-six; bur- 
ied in Clifton cemetery. 

McHatten Samuel. Miami, 1820; son of Alexander, 
died August C), i860, aged seventy-seven, buried 
in Massie's Creek churchyard (Steveiison's). 

McHatten. Joseph. Miami. 1840. 

Mcintosh, John. Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Mcintosh. William. Beaver Creek, 1820: from Boone 
county. Kentucky; died June i. 1870, aged sev- 
enty-one; buried in Beaver Creek cemetery; sol- 
dier of 1812; in 1S34 was keeper of the infirmary. 

Mcintosh. Khue. Beaver Creek. 1826; buried in 
Beaver Creek chin-chyard ; February 14. 1828. 
married Mary Morningstar. 

Mcllheney, Dr.. Xenia. 1835; born in 1808; died 
August 26. 1849 : buried in Woodland. 

Mcllhaney. John. Beaver Creek. 1840: died February 
26. 1893. aged eighty. 

Mclntire. John. Miami. 181 1; soldier of 1812. 

Mclnlire. James, Miami, 1814, 

Mclntire, Jo-eph, Miami. 1814; July 4. 1816, married 
Caroline Boyd. 

Mclntire. .-\ndrew. Xenia. 1835; born March 9, 1817; 
died September 14. 1885; buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

McKnight. John. Esq.. Sugar Creek. 1803 ; first 
Justice of Peace in Sugar Creek township; died 
in 1812. 

McKnight, William. Sugar Creek. 1807; from Rock- 
bridge county. Virginia; soldier of 1812; died 
July 16. 1853. aged seventy-six; buried in M.'- 
Kniglit graveyard. 



McKnight. Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1807 died in 1853 
at his home in Spring \'alley ; buried in Mc- 
Knight graNej'ard. 

McKnight. Uavid, Sugar Creek, 1S40; died January 
17, 1883, aged seventy-four; buried in McKnight 
graveyard, near Spring Valley. 

McKnight. Robert, Sugar Creek, 1807 ; soldier of 
1812; born August 7, 1779; died February 22, 
1856, aged se\ enty-six ; buried in McKnight 
graveyard. 

McKnight. Jolin, Sugar Creek, 1812 ; born Aprd 
17, 1811; died April, 1900; son of William; Inir- 
ied in Woodland. 

McKnight. David. Sr., Sugar Creek, 1807; died 
March 17, 1825, aged sixty-four; buried in Mc- 
Knight graveyard. 

McKnight. James, Sugar Creek, 1S40; son of Rob- 
ert ; died July 8. 1844 ; buried in McKnight grave- 
yard. 

McKnight, Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1840; son oi 
William; born September 10, 1816; died De- 
cember 14, 1898, aged eighty-two; buried in 
McKnight graveyard. 

McKnight. Josiah. Xenia, 1840; soldier of 1812; 
from \';rginia' buried in Woodland. 

^IcKey. Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1813. 

McKey. Abraham, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

McKey. James, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 

McKey, W'illiam, Miami, 1827. 

McKay, Geo. W., Caesar's Creek, 1840; kept store 
at New Burlington, Ohio, in 1840; died in 1862, 
aged fifty-nine ; buried at Maple Corners. 

McKay, Samuel F.. Caesar's Creek, 1840; father of 
George A., the surveyor; killed by the falling of 
a tree. 

McKay, Thomas. Xenia. 1811. 

McKay, Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1812. 

McKay, Moses, Caesar's Creek, i8iy; from Freder- 
ick county. Virginia; born September 17, 1766; 
died January 28, 1828 ; buried at Mt. Holly. 

McKelvey, John P., Xenia, 181 1. 

McKaig. John. Bath. 1803. 

McKaig. William. Bath, 1840; July 10. 1819, mar- 
ried Malinda Climer. 

McKaig, James. Bath, 181 1. 

McKaig. Silas. Bath. 1826. 

McKevern, Joseph, Xenia, 1840 ; died October 21, 
i8b4, aged forty-seven ; buried in Woodland. 

McKenz.ie. William. Bath. 1807; soldier of 1812. 

McKenzie, John, Xenia. 1840 ; buried in Woodland. 

McKenestry. Joseph, Bath, 1821. 

McKenney. William. Caesar's Greek, 1809. 

McKenney. Hiram. Bath. 1S20; May 14, 1822, mar- 
ried ^Iargaret Havens. 

McKenney. Samuel. Captain. Bath. 1807; soldier in 
War of 1812; died in Clark county; music 
teacher. 

McKenney. Joseph. Bath, 1817. 

McKenney. James. Bath. 1817. 

McKenney, Robert. Bath. 1817; June 14. 1838. mar- 
ried Olentinc. 

McKenney. Anthoney. Bath. 1817. 

McKnabb. Milton, Bath. 1840; killed December 16. 
1879, by falling down court house stairs. 

McKnabb, William. Bath. 1811 ; from Kentucky; 
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McKnabb. Abncr. Bath. i8^6. ■ 

MoKnabb. Abncr \V,. Balh. 18.26; April 16, 1829, 
married Sarah Dunn. 

McKnabb, Wibon. Balh. 1829. 

-McKnabb, Lewis C. Batli. 1840; born .August 27, 
1807; died December 16. 1869: buried at Fair- 
field. Ohio ; married Rebecca Maxon. 

McLaughlin, William, Miami. 1S27 ; February 13. 
182,;. married .Anna Boggcss. 

McLaughlin. John, Xenia. 1830: February 27, 1823. 
married Sarah Baldwin. 

^icLaughlin, jame.v Xenia. 181 1; in 1871 removed 
to Virginia, where he died; father of Mrs. Geo. 
Watts. 

McLaughlin. Thomas. Xenia, 181Q. 

McLaughlin, Sarah. Xenia, 1819. 

McLaughlin. Janie'. Xenia. 1838. 

McLeod. Ur. Alexander. Xenia, 1830; native of the 
Isle 01 Mull. Xorth Britain; died in 18.53 : l)"''- 
icd in Woodland. 

-McLinn, Isaac, Xenia, 1812. 

McLane, John, Sugar Creek, 1893 : from Lexington. 
Kentucky; died October i, 1848, aged eighty- 
four; buried on the William Huston farm, JJell- 
brook. Ohio ; never married. 

McMillan. Daniel, Xenia. 1803; kept tavern in 
-Xenia in 1806. 

McMillan, Daniel. Xenia. 183 1 ; a farmer; native 
of Ireland; born in 1776; came to Chester coun- 
ty. South Carolina in 1787, and to Ohio in 1831: 
died Mny 13, 1863. aged eighty-seven ; buried 
in Massic's Creek cemetery, Cedarville, Ohio. 

McMillan, Rev. Hugh. .Xeiiia. 1S28; born in 1794, 
October 17; d;ed October 9, i860, aged seventy- 
six : buried in Massic's Creek cemetery, Cedar- 
ville, Ohio. 

McMillan. Rev. Gavin, Xenia, 1828; located in 
■ Preble county. Ohio, where he died and is buried. 

McMillan. James C.. Xenia. 1831 ; son of Daniel. 
Sr. ; born in 1810; died February 12, 1894. aged 
tighty-four; buried in Woodland. 

McMillan. James, Xenia. 1840; born December, 
1801 • died -\pril 13. 1863; buried in Woodland; 
married Malinda Hagler. 

McMillan. Rev. John. .Kenia. 1840; son of Daniel. 
Sr. ; chaplain of the One Hundred and Ninth 
Pennsylvania during Civil War ; died in Penn- 
sylvania May, 1874; buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

McMillan, James, Miami, 1830; died -August 11, 
1S47, aged fifty-five; brother of Daniel. Sr. 

McMillan. David, Ross, 1840; died -April 27. 1856, 
aged si.xty-seven ; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery ; brother of Daniel, Sr. 

McMillan. Hugh, Xenia. 1840: died February. 1894. 
aged si.xty-nine ; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery ; son of James. 
McMillan, Robert. Miami. 1835; died February 13. 
1881. aged eighty-three; buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 
McMinn. John H.. Miami. 1827 ; Xovember 2. 1837. 

married .Ann Palmer. 
-McMillan. Xewton, Xenia. 1835; -April 7, 1836. 

married Rachel Brown. 
M.cXeeley. William. Sugar Creek. i8,?0. 
McXctt, Daniel, Caesar's Creek. 1826. 
McX'air. Ward. Caesar's Creek. 1830; born in 1803; 



died in 18S0 aged seventy-seven ; buried in 

Woodland. 
MeNulty, James, Xenia, 1820. 
McXulty. William. Bath. 1830; soldier of 1812; 

buried in Casad graveyard, east of Fairfield, 

married Thursa McFarland, 
McX'eal, Thomas H., Beaver Creek. 1840; buried 

in Bath chureh>ard. west of Mad River. 
Mc.Xary. William. Balh. 1807: died October 23, 

1842. aged si.xty-one ; buried in Bath churchyard. 
McXary. .Alexander. Bath. 1807. 
Me. Vary. Edward, Bath, 1808. 
McXary, Bryant, Bath. 1809. 

McNary, John. Bath, 1809; died in 1846, aged forty- 
nine; buried in Bath churchyard; December 17, 

1820. married X'.mcy Steelman. 
McXary. -Andrew. Bath. 181 1. 

McPherson, -Adam. Mad River. 1803; married Jan- 
uary 7, 1819, Mr. -Adam McPherson to Miss 

Phebc Steele; (records of Clark county); from 

Kentucky with the Galloways. 
McPherson. James. Mad River. 1803; an Indian 

agent and early "note keeper" in Mad Rive: 

township, Greene county. 
McPherson. John. Mad River. 1803. 
McPherson, John G.. Xenia, 1840 ; son of John H. : 

died March 6. 1896. aged seventv-two ; buried in 

Woodland: in Co. H. O. V. I. ' 
McPherson. John H.. Xenia. 1816; born June 10, 

1796; died January 15. 1844. aged forty-eight; 

buried in Woodland ; recorder of Greene county 

from 1830 to 1 84 1. 
McPherson, George. Xenia, iSig. 
McPherson. William. Xenia, 1840; son of John H. ; 

in 1901 yet living. 
McPherson, Moses, -Xenia. 1840; son of John H. ; 

removed to Cambridge. Indiana. 
McPherson. .A. '\'.. Caesar's Creek, 18.54. 
McPhial. Cornelius. Ross. 1830. 
McQuiston, William, Xenia. 1835; died September 

17, 1894, aged eighty-one; buried in Massie's 

Creek cemetery; married Margaret McDill. 
MicQuiston. Hugh, Xenia. 183.5; died October 2, 

1836; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 
McRunnels, John. Ross. 1829; born September 2. 

1804; died January 13. 1864 ; buried in Enon 

cemetery. Clark county. 
McSherry. John. Bath. 1827. 

McSherry, Elias. Bath. 1830; October 16. 1834. mar- 
ried Jane .Anderson. 
McSherry, Reuben, Bath. 1830. 
McTunie. Dr.. Cedarville. 1833; one of the first 

physicians of Cedarville. Ohio. 
McWilliams, David, Caesar's Creek. 1830; died 

May I. 1832. aged seventy; buried in Zoar 

churchyard. Caesar's Creek township. 
McWilliams, Robert. Xenia, 1840. 
McWhater. John. Miami. 1830; X'oveniber 12, 

1832. married -Ann Smith. 
McQuirk. -Alexander. Xenia. 1840; from Scotland; 

died March 26, 1889, aged ninety-two; buried in 
Woodland. 

Nailor. Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1829; died -April 15. 

1869; buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 
Xailor. Samuel. Bath. 1820; died -April, 1869, aged 



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figlity-ont : buried at Fairfield, Ohio; native of 

New Jersey. 
Nagle, Dr. Borton. Xenia. 1S40; from Hinkleton, 

Lancaster county. Pennsylvania; died April 2(j. 

184-', aged twenty-nine. 
Nortliout. Willis, Sugar Creek, 1803. 
Nichols, Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1840; died March 

-5. 1855. aged seventy-five ; buried in Woodland. 
Nelson. Henry, Sugar Creek, i8ig; August n, iSjo, 

married Elizabeth Medsker. 
Nelson, Jonas. Sugar Creek, 1830; September lO. 

iSj8. married Lucretia Lewis. 
Nelson, Daniel, Sugar Creek. 1840; January -'4. 

1837, married Elizabeth Hardman. 
Nelson. Alexander, Xenia. 1840. 
Nelson. John, Bath. 1803; soldier of 1812. 
Nelson. James. Bath. i8j-. 
Nelson. Jacob. Bath, 1840; died March 5. 1870. aged 

sixty-three: buried in Bath township. 
Nelson Nathaniel. Miami, 1840. 
Nelson. Horatio. i8j6 ; Februarv s. 1827. married 

.\Liry Allen. 
Nelson, A., Ross, 1840. 
' Nannet, Jacobus, Bath, 1820. 

Nash, John. Sugar Creek, 1840: renicved to Logan 

county, Ohio. 
Nash. Nathan, Xenia. 1820; killed by lightning 

while at work as a plasterer .\ugust 17. 1843. 

at the house of Joshua Wright, East Second 

street, Xenia. 
Nash. William, Xenia. 1826; removed to Warren 

county, Illinois. 
Nash, Hugh. Xenia. 1826; born March 13, 1805; 

died February 14. 1869. aged sixty-four; buried 

in Woodland ; married Rebecca Graham. 
Nash, James. Xenia. 1820; January 17. 1826; mar- 
ried Margaret Brown. 
Nash, Thomas, Xenia, 1840 ; March 5, 1835, married 

Isabelle Booth. 
Nagley. Henry. Miami, 1812; soldier of 1812. 
Nichols. James, Sugar Creek. 1840. 
Nichols, John. Caesar's Creek, 1813; died July 31. 

1877 ; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 
Nichols, John D.. Xenia, 1840. 
Nichols, Erastus S.. Xenia. 1840; from New York; 

died November 15. 1896. aged seventy-nine; bur- 
ied in Woodland; March 22. 1S42. married Mary 

-Ann Cnnubaugh. 
Nichols. John. Bath, 1840. 
Nicluds. Joseph. Miami. 1830. 
Nichols, William. Sr.. Miami, 1840. 
Nichols. William. Miami. 1840; March 11. 1S41, 

married .Margaret McCoy. 
Nichols, Thornton, Silver Creek, 1840; died in 1840. 
Nave, John, Sugar Creek. 1840; from Marylaiul ; 

born in 1802; died September 28. 1883; buried 

in Mt. Zion ; aged eighty-two. 
Nave, Leonard. Beaver Creek. 1807; died in 1809. 
Nave, Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1808: soldier of 1812; 

,, removed to Clark county. Ohio; .August 2;^. 1808. 

married Cathornie Garlough. 
Nichols. Luther. Xenia. 1840; died .-Xpril i. 1857. 

aged seventy-five: buried in Woodland. 
Newkirk. Benjamin. Xenia. 1812; from New Jer- 
sey; born September 21. 1791; died August 6. 
1877. aged eighty-six: buried in Woodland. 



Nichols. Samuel. Xenia. 1840: died December 24. 
1862. aged fifty-eight : buried in Woodland. 

Nisbet. John C... Xenia. 1830: from Chester county. 
South Carolina; born in 1808; died in 1888. aged 
eighty; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 
Cedarville. Ohio; married Mary McMillan. 

Nisbet. Samuel. Xenia, 1830: from Chester county. 
South Carolina; died June 6. 1885, aged seventy- 
four; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery; sol- 
dier in Civil War. Co. D, Twelfth Infantrv. 

Nisbet. Hugh M.. Xenia. 1830; died Mdrch 28. 1868, 
aged forty-five ; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery, Cedarville. Ohio. 

Nesbitt. Jonathan. Xenia. 1817; from Clear Spring--, 
Washington county. Maryland; died May 3. 1856. 
aged eighty-si.x. 

Nesbitt. Robert. Xenia. 1817: from Indiana coun- 
ty. Pennsylvania; from Ireland: married Nancy 
Townsley; born December 27. 1790; died June 
26. 1876 : buried in Woodland ; a carpenter. 

Nesbitt. Thomas, Xenia. 1840: son of Robert: born 
November 2S. 1822 ; died in Cincinnati in 1900. 

Nesbitt. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1816; settled on the 
farm of David Gray in 1781 ; born in Washington 
county. Maryland : father of Bcnoni, the lawyer ; 
died in Hardin county July 16, 185O. aged 
eighty-four; buried in Woodland. 

Nesbitt. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1826. 

Nesbitt. John. Beaver Creek, 1840; died September 
24. 1843. 

Nesbitt. Benoni, Xenia, 1S32 ; a lawyer; born Oc- 
tober 14. 1814: died April ii. 1897, aged eighty- 
five ; buried in Woodland. 

Nesbitt. Nathan, Xenia. 1830 ; a potter ; from Clear 
Spring. Mvryland: died November 10, 1879, aged 
70; buried in Woodland. 

North. Lyman, Xenia. 1S16: nati\e of Connecticut; 
died in Champaign county. December 21. i860, 
aged sixty-eight; he and Orin were brothers. 

North. Orin. Xenia. 1817; died December 8. 1877. 
aged eighty-three: buried in Woodland: June 
3. 1828. married Martha Kenton. 

Nevious. Samuel. Xenia. 1817. 

Nevious. David. Bath. 1827. 

Nevious, John H.. Miami. 1821 : April 26. 1832. mar- 
ried Cathorine E. Brown. 

Nevious, David. Miami. 1821 : December, 1823, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Griner. 

Nevious. William J., Miami, 1826; son-in-law of 
James Curry, Sr. ; buried in Massie's Creek cem- 
etery (Stevenson's). 

Nevious. John W.. Miami. 1826. 

Nevious. J. F.. Miami. 1840. 

Nevious. Luke. Miami. 1840: born July 10. 1782: 
died September 24. 1863 ; buried at Yellow 
Springs. Ohio. 

Nevious. Henry F.. M«ami. 1840: son of John: born 
August 2}. 1813; died March 6, 1825; buried at 
Yellow Springs. Ohio. 

Newland. Mark. Xenia. 1816: soldier of 1812. 

Newland. Thomas. Xenia. 1830. 

Newender. Jesse. Miami. 1840. 
• Newcomb. Samuel. Xenia. 1826; died in 1869; bur- 
ied in Woodland : was for years treasurer of 
Greene county. 

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Samuel: ilicd Septcmlier 23. 1841, aged tweiity- 
<even ; buried in Woddlnnd. 

Newcomb. Isaac. Xcnia. 1840; N'oveniber 16. 1842. 
married Jane Carpenter. 

Nevvsoni. Israel. Xenia, 1840. 

Norri.s. George. Xenia. 1821. 

Norris, Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1818. 

Norris. John. Beaver Creek. 1819. 

Norris. Jacob, Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Norris. William. Xenia. 1840; a carpenter: died in 
1888. aged seventy-three: buried in Woodland. 

Noland. Obed C. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Noland. Lazarus. Cae.sar's Creek. 1827; son of Will- 
iam: born June 13. 1788; died .^pril g. 1843: 
buried in Zoar churchyard. 

Noland, Dr. Thomas. Caesar's Creek, 1829; born 
December 2_'i. iSoo; died December 9. 1835. aged 
thirty-five: buried in Woodland. 

Noland. William. Xenia. 1840: died March 18. iSjr, 
aged seventy-nine : buried in Woodland. 

Noland. Job. Xenia. 1840: son of William. 

Noland. James. Xenia. 1840: son of Lazarus. 

Nordyke. Daniel. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Nordykc. Hiram, Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Norwick, Daniel. Bath. r8ii: died in 1815: Thomas 
Jones was appointed administrator of the estate. 

Norwick, W.. Bath. 181 1. 

Norwick. Margaret. Bath. 1811. 

Norwick. Jacob. Bath. 1811. 

N)ott. William. Xenia, 1807. 

Norfolk. Benjamin. Xenia. 1840: died in Xenia Oc- 
tober 24, 1854. aged si.\ty-tive : buried in Wood- 
land: March 19. 1837. married Nancy Forbes. 

Norfolk. Ira. Xenia. 1840. 

Nortes. Nicholis. Beaver Creek. 181 1. 

Noble. Benjamin, Beaver Creek. 1813. 

Noble, Joshua. Beaver Creek, 1812: soldier of 1812. 

Noble. George, Beaver Creek, 1840 ; March 29, 
1841. married Jane Gowersprav. 

Nolard, P. M. D.. Xenia. 1828. 

X'older. William. Siher Creek. 1840. 

Nisonger. Jacob. Xenia. 1806: from Virginia: born 
March 5. 1776: died Miiy 5. 1835. aged fifty-nine; 
buried in Woodland ; married Rebecca Reed. 

Nisonger. Robert. Xenia. 1809: son of Jacob and 
Rebecca : September 10. 1842. married .\mi Wil- 
son, 

Nisonger. John. Xenia. 1823: son of Jacob and Re- 
becca. 

Nisonger. Samuel, Xenia. 1827: son of David and 
Rebecca : May 3, 1842, married Nancy Scarff. 

Nisonger. Robert. H,. Xenia. 1840: removed to 
Cincinnati. 

Nisonger. William. Xenia. 1825; January 11, 1827, 
married Julia .\nn Snyder. 

Nisonger. Joseph. Xenia. 1840: son of Jacob; born 
June 2i. 1820: died March 8. 1892. aged sev- 
enty-one : buried in Woo<lland. 

Nisonger, Perry, Xenia. 1840: son of Jacob: died 
in Logan county, Ohio ; buried in Woodland. 

Nimerick, Zimri G., Xenia, 1810: born November 
18. 1820: died November 15. 1845. aged twenty- 
five: buried in Morgan gravcvard. near Oliltmvn. 
Ohio. 

Nimerick. John. Xenia. 1812: buried in Morgan 
graveyard : December 13. 1842. married Parthenia 
iBeall. 



Nimerick. Peter. Xenia. 1827: buried near Old- 
town. Ohio, 

Nimerick. William. Beaver Creek. 1830. 

Nicholson. Valentine. Xenia. 1840. 

Nickey. Christian. Xenia. 1840. 

Neigh. James, Xenia. 1840: removed to Springfi Id. 
Illinois. 

Newton. John, Beaver Creek. 1827, 

Newton. Thomas. Beaver Creek. 1817. 

Next. John. Bath. 1818. 

Neild. Jason, Sugar Creek. 1840: died June 6, 1S67, 
aged forty-five : buried in Woodland : born in 
Bucks county, Pennsylvania. July 7. 1S18. 

Neil, Thomas, Sugar Creek. 1820, 

Neil. Ann. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Neil. Richard. Sugar Creek. i8jo, 

Neil, Jacob. Caesar's Creek, 1828, 

Xcil. I.ewis. Xenia. 1830. 

Neil, Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1817; son of .\]jrahani 
Neil. 

Ntil. .Abraham. Beaver Creek. 1818: father-in-law 
of Thomas Given, who married Rachel : died 
in 1827: H. Hamill. executor: November 2S,. 
1S26, married Sarah Silvers. 

Neil. William. Bath. 1818. 

Neil. John. Bath. 1819, 

Neil. Thomas. Bath. 1840: died in 1869, 

Neil. Edmond. Silver Creek. 1807 : died February 
10. 1865. aged eighty-eight : buried at Jame-- 
tovvn, Ohio. 

Neil. Thomas. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Neil. Timothy. Silver Creek. 1840: born July. 1809; 
died October. 1891 : liuried in Woodland: March 
9. 1837. married Hulda Paullin. 

Neil. Lewis. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Nevill. Samuel, Caesar's Creek. 1804, 

Nevill. Henry. Xenia. 1832: from Virginia: died 
January 28. 1877. aged sixty: buried in Wooi'- 
land. 

Nebigger. John. Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

NIebbigger. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1820: Novem- 
ber 14. 1822. married Susanna Porter, 

Neeley. James. Caesar's Creek. 1815: died in Sugar 
Creek township in 1829; buried on his old farm, 

Neeley. William. Caesar's Creek. 1830: son of 
James: removed to .Allen county. Ohio: July 
6. 1826. married Ruth Paullin. 

Neeley. Elizabeth. Caesar's Creek, 1830: daughter 
of James. 

Neeley. James. Sr.. Xenia. 1807 ;, soldier of 1S12: 
died in Sugar Creef: township in 1826, 

Neeley. James, Jr.. Xenia. 1807: March 26. 1840. 
married Cyntha Beason. 

Neeley. Nathaniel. Xenia. 1840 : son of James ; re- 
moved to Allen county. Ohio, 

Neeley. Thomas. Xenia. 1840: removed to .Allen 
county. Ohio: September 12. 1832. married Mary 
Canada. 

Neisley. Nathaniel. Bath. 1830. 

Neisley. Samuel. Bath, 1840. 

Neisley. Richard. Bath, 1820. 

Neisley. George. Bath. 182O. 

Nunamaker. Michael. Xenia. 1816: from Maryland; 
died February 27. 1866. aged seventy-five: bur- 
ied in Woodland: October 28. 1821. married 
Mary Hivling. 

Nugart. John, Bath. 1820, 



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Newport. Thoiiia?. Xenia. iSij. 

Newport. William. Xenia. i8i,?; soldier of 1812; 
December 28. 1815. married Margaret McFarland. 

Newport. William A.. Xenia. 1816. 

Newport. Je.-se. Xenia. 181.?; the founder of Cedar- 
ville. Ohio, in 1816; built the first saw-niill there. 

Newport, Daniel. Xenia. 1819. 

Napp. Joi^eph. Miami, 1808. 

Napp. iMosc:. Miami. 1810: soldier of 181.2. 

Naughton. Erastus. Bath. 1818. 

Negley, Henry. Vance. 1812; April 15. 1813. mar- 
ried Phebe Berge. 

Nagley. John, \'ance. 1812; soldier of 1812. 

Nagley. George. Vance. 1812 ; soldier of 1812. 

Nutt, Irvin. Xenia. 1832; February 5. 1834. mar- 
ried Barbary Persinger. 

Nutt. Joshua. Sugar Creek. 1814: was auctioneer 
when the lots for the town of Bellbrook were 
sold in the fall of 1815: died Mtiy 22. 1826; bur- 
ied in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio; aged 
forty-one. 

Nutt, Richard. Xenia. 1835; September 3. 1836, mar- 
ried Mary Exson. 

Nine. Samuel, Bath, 1840. 

Null. Christian. Caesar's Creek. i8,?o; son-in-law 
of \"alentinc Bone. 

Oates. Joseph. Sugar Creek. 1828; died May i;, 
1864, aged seventy-two; buried in Mt. Ziou 
churchyard. 

Cakes, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Oblinger. Christian. 1829; January 4. 1831. marrie.! 
Mary Horn. 

Odell. Isaac. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Ogan. Peter. Silver Creek, 1S16. 

Ogan. William. Silver Creek. 1828. 

Ogan. Marshall. Silver Creek. 1840; died December 
24, 1874; buried at Jamestown; August 21, 1834, 
married Mahala Jones. 

Ogden, John C, Beaver Creek. 1830; removed to 
Indiana. 

Ogden. William. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Ogden. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Ogg. Isaac. Bath. 1826. 

Ogg. Reuben. Bath. i8i7. 

Ogg. Thomas. Bath. 1827. 

Oglesbee. Aaron. Sugar Creek. 1813; died February 
7, 1824. aged sixty-one buried in Mercer grave- 
yard: his w'ife. Susan, died in 1850. aged eighty- 
three ; buried by his side. 

Oglesbee. Asa. Sugar Creek. 1813; son of Aaron 
and Susan: March 28, 181 t, married Phebe 
Mock. 

Oglesbee. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 7828; son of Aaron 
and Susan, 

Oglesbee. Susanna. Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Oglesbee. Daniel. Caesar's Creek. 1830; from Vir- 
ginia : died December 26. 1884. aged seventy-one. 

Oglesbee. Isaiah. Caesar's Creek. 1830: died August 
17. 1858. aged sixty-three: buried in New Hope 
churchyard, near Paintersville. 

Oglesbee. David. Caesar's Creek. 1830. 

Oglesbee. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 18,30. 

Oglesbee. Eli, Caesar's Creek. 1840: died February 
28. 1871. aged sixty-four; buried in New Hope 
churchyard : married Rebecca Mann. 



Oglesbee. Elias, Caesar's Creek, 1S40. 

Oglesbee, James, Caesar's Creek. 1840; August 2<j. 

1840, married Catharine Curl. 
Oglesbee. Jonathan. Caesar's Creek. 1825; August 

16. 1832. married Hannah Parrott. 
Oglesbee. John. Caesar's Creek. 1826. 
Oglesbee. Josiah. Caesar's Creek, 1830. 
Oliver, Allen, Silver Creek. i8l6; soldier of 1812. 
Ohlwine, Chas.. Miami, 1820. 
Ohiwine, David, Miami. 1820: December 17. 1836, 

married Charles Taylor. 
Oliver. John. Silver Creek. 1813: .soldier of 1S12. 
Olcntine. Richard. Miami. 1817; died; in 1849. aged 
seventy-two; buried at M'.ddle Run^ Clar'K county, 
Ohio; in 1817 married Ann Newkirk. 
Orr. Joseph. Xenia, 1836; March 17, 1836. married 

Mary Hopping. 
Ordway. Joseph. Ross, 1820; died in 1826. 
Orr. James. 1836; January 11. 1838, married Juliana 

Hopping. 
Orr, William, Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1803; accused v)f 
horse stealing by Robert Frakes in 1S06: not 
guilty; in 1808 he was killed by Robert Frakes. 
Orr. William. Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1803. 
Orr, Samuel, Xenia. 1836: September 28. 1837. mar- 
ried Jane E. Moore. 
Orr. John, Jr.. Xenia. 1832: born April 6. 179.1; 
soldier of 1812. under Capt, Chestnut, of South 
Carolina; from Ireland in 1783; son of John 
and Rosanna Orr ; died January 9. 1882. aged 
eighty-seven ; liuried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery (Stevenson's). 
Orr. John. Jr., Xenia. 1831 ; was clerk of courts of 
Greene county from 1864 to 1880 ; died Decem- 
ber 30. 1883. aged sixty-three ; buried in Wood- 
land ; son -of John. Sr. 
Orcutt. Barrough. Ross. 1826: died May 27. 1871. 
aged seventy-four; buried in graveyard east of 
Grape Grove, 
deary. Jerry. Ross. 1S15; from Ireland; the old 
pioneer school tea£l:er of Ross township ; house 
stood at Paddy's Crossing : a preacher, also. 
Ohagen, William. Xenia. 1827. 
Oren. J., Caesar's Creek. 1819. 

Oren. George T,, Beaver Creek. 1826: died May 
21. 1873. aged seventy-six; at the time a res- 
' ident of Miami township. 
Oren. Jesse. Ross. 1840 ; April 25, 1824, married 
Margaret Keiffer ; May 3, 1827, married Eliza- 
beth Fream. 
Onea, Francis, Caesar's Creek, 1S05. 
Oneal, William, Beaver Creek, 1803. 
Oneal, Thomas. Cresar's Creek. 1826. 
Oneal. Thomas. Jr.. Bath. 1840 ;December 13. 1835. 

inarried Christiana Wolf. 
Oneal. Henry. Xenia-. 1840; buried in Woodland. 
Oshall. John. Sugar Creek. 181 1 ; July 28. 18 13. mar- 
ried Mary Marshall; May 7. 1822. married Mar- 
garet Sterritt. 
Operiyke. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1821 was born in 
X^cw Jersey: a drummer boy in War nf 1S12; 
died at St. Louis, Missouri. 
Opedyke. Peter, Sugar Creek. 1820: born in 1777; 

died in 1844. 
Opedyke. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1814; born in X^ew 
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while digging n \V!.'ll on the Steele farm Janu- 
ary 23. 1825. 

Opedykc. George. Sugar Creek, 1819; died in 1837. 

Osburn, Rev. John. Sugar Creek. iSig: Septem- 
ber 28. 1820. married Margaret Skecne. 

Osburn. David. Silver Creek. 1833: born in Cler- 
mont county. Ohio : removed to Fayette county. 
Ohio, in 1862. 

Osburn. H. M, C.. Silver Creek. 1830. 

Osburn. Hiram. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Osburn, David M.. Silver Creek. i8-io- i".o,r,i;,ry 22. 
183S, married Cyntha Jackson. 

Ovan. William. Miami, 1840, 

Owens, Jonathan, Sugar Creek, 1808; May 22. i8oC>, 
marrietl- Lucy jMarshall : soldier of 1812, under 
Capt. Maltbie : died June 9. 1853, aged seventy ; 
buried in Woodland. 

Owens, Rev. George, Sugar Creek, 1813: soldier of 
t8i2 ; died December 26, i856, aged seventy-one ; 
buried in Woodland. 

Owens. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1813; brother of 
Rev. George: married a daughter of William 
Maxwell. Sr. 

Owtns. Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1813 : married Jane 
Marshall .Xpril 18, 1815; a brother of Rev. 
George. 

Ow'tns, James, Caesar's Creek, 1805: soldier of 
1812; married Deborah Marshall .-Kugust 5, 180.=;. 

Ow-ens, Samuel T., Caesar's Creek, 1811 ; from 
Brunswick county, Virginia: died January i, 
1867, aged fifty-nine: buried in Woodland: audi- 
tor of Greene county from 1857 to 1861 : cap- 
tain of Co. G, Seventy-fourth O. V. I. 

Owens. VV'illiam. Sr., Xenia, 1811: from Virginia: 
was brother-in-law of Sanniel Wright, who was 
the father of Coke Wright: died March 11. 
1827: buried in Davis's orchard, near Union 
churcli : aged eighty-six. 

Owens. William. Jr.. Xenia. 181 r: from Brunswick 
county. Virginia: born March g, 1770: died De- 
cember 26, 1862 : buried in Wixjdland : aged 
eighty-four. 

Owens. Johns. Xenia. 1840: died .■\ugust ,?o. 1872, 
aged sixty; buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Owens. Henry, Xenia, 1840; died one and one-half 
miles south of Cedarville, February 10, 1900, 
aged eighty-six. 

Owens, Peter, Spring Valley, 1840: from Ireland; 
died January 6, 1892, aged seventy-five. 

Owens. Benjamin. Xenia. 1830. 

Owens. John S.. Xenia, 1838: .-Vugust 9, 1838, m;ir- 
ried Elizabeth J. Butler. 

Owens, Geoige B.. Xenia. 1841: died in the Union 
settlement NoA-ember 25. i8(S2: born July 14. 
1808: buried in W'oodland ; aeed fifty-five. 

Owens. Uriah. Btaver Creek. 181Q. 

Owens. Thomas, Beaver Creek, 1819. 

Owens. Samuel. Beaver Creek, 1819. 

Owens. Elias. Beaver Creek, 1830. 

Oxlev, Joint, Silver Creek. 18,30: died March 18, 
1837, aged si.xty-three: buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, west of Bowersville. 

Oxiey. William T,. Silver Creek. 1S40: son of 
John. 



Oxley. Jesse, Silver Creek, 1840; son of John_ 
Oxley, Enos, Silver Creek, 1840 : son of John. 
Oxley. F.lisha F.. Silver Creek, 1840: died Feliruary 

g, 1898, aged seventv-two, buried in Bowersville, 

Ohio. 

Palmer, Martin, Sugar Creek, 1801: born in 1790: 
removed to St. Charles. Missouri ; was sheriff 
of St. Charles in 1880. 

Palmer. Wm. H.. Sugar Creek, 1806; died Septem- 
ber 30, 1876, aged eighty-one, buried in P'ayette 
county, Ohio. 

Palmer, James, Sugar Creek, 1806; removed to Clin- 
ton county, Missouri, 

Palmer, John. Caesar's Creek, 1S40; sou of Joseph; 
removed to Clarksville. Iowa; May 11, 1841, 
ma'Tied Flora R. Lyle. 

Palmer. George, Xenia, 1840 : July 22. 1838. married 
.Ann .\nen. 

Palmer. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1813 : soldier of 1812. 

Palmer. Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1805: from P'ennsyl- 
vania : soldier of 1812; died December 14, 1864. 
aged seventy-four, buried in Woodland : March 
3, 1814, married Julia A. Butler. 

Palmer, X'atban, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Palmer. Thomas. Silver Creek, 1813: soldier of 1812; 
removed to Indiana. 

Palmer. Israel. Miami, 1840: removed to Springfield^ 
Ohio. 

Palmer, Perry, Xenia, 1S40: removed tO' Missouri.. 

Parker, Peter, Sugar Creek, 1812. 

Parker. Reuben. Bath. 1816. 

Parker. John R.. Silver Creek. 1809; (Daddy);- 
kept hotel in Jamestown. Ohio, for thirty ^years; 
died in 1882. aged ei.ghty-one. 

Patterson. David. Miami. 1840; died July 7, 1876, 
aged seventy-four, buried at Cliflfton, Ohio. 

Patter>-on. Alexander, Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Patterson, Robert E., Sugar Creek, 1840: died at 
Bellbrook, Ohio, April tg, 1883, aged seventy- 
eight, buried at Bellbrook ; married Mary Landes. 

Patterson, James, Sugar Creek, 1840 ; from West 
Virginia: died December 24, 1891, aged eighty- 
foiu", buried in Woodland: from Warren county; 
father of T. C. Patterson. 

Patterson, John, Caesar's Creek, 1840: died .April 16, 
18.SO, buried in Woodland, aged seventy-five. 

Patterson, Daniel. Caesar's Creek. 1840: .April 17, 
1834. married Mary Shoemaker. 

Patterson. Thomas. Bath, 1828: died in 1850, buried 
in Bath churchyard, west of Mind river. 

Patterson. Thomas L., Bath, 1830: died in Xenia, 
September 25, 1895: July 7, 1836, married Rebecca 
Hummer. 

Patterson. James. Bath. 1840: born in 1782, died 
February 13, 1841 : brother of Aunt Harriet Pat- 
terson. 

Patterson. Robert. Beaver Creek, 1828: died in 
1883, aged seventy-eight, buried at Bellbrook. 

Patterson, Capt. John C. Caesar's Creek. 1828 ; 
born in Greene county. Pennsylvania; died July 
26. 1896. aged seventy-five. 

Patterson, Thomas, Xenia : died in 1835. 

Patterson, John C. Silver Creek, 1828; born in 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREEK E COUXTY. 



Warren county. Pennsylvania. February 22. 181S ; 
died Apri! 16. 1850. aged seventy-five; July 21. 
1842. married Roxanna Bargdoll. 

Pattcr-on. Francis, Miami. 1814: kept tavern ;n Clif- 
ton in 1818. 

Patterson. Jefferson. Miami. 1820. 

Patterson. Henry. Ross, 1830. 

Pattcr'^on. Wm., Xenia, 1840; from Virginia: a 
millwright : died November 22. 1889. ouried in 
\V\H)dland; soldier in Civil war. Company E. 
First Ohio. 

Parks. Richard. Xenia. 1819; died September 30. 

1841. at Milford. Ohio. 

Parks. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1830: died October 5. 
1823. aged fifty-three. 

Parks. Joseph. Sugar Creek, 1840: March 22. 1838. 
married Mary Hanes. • 

Parks. Wm.. Sugar Creek. 1840: died .April. 1882: 
brother of Mrs. James H. Dickey: for some time 
resided in Franklin county. 

Parks. John. Bath. 1820. 

Parks, James. Xenia. 1810: soldier of 1812. 

Pratt. Robert. Sugar Creek, 1840, 

Pratt, Wm., Xenia, 1840. 

Pratt. Gilbert. Ross, 1826. 

Pratt. Wm.. Ross. 1830. 

Pratt. Joseph. Ross. 1840: Xovembcr 28. 1839. mar- 
ried Upphias Ballard. 

Payne. John, Miami. 1812; March 25. 1813. mar- 
ried Latitia Whiteman. 

Painter. David. Caesar's Creek. 1803: soldier of 
1812 : died in 1840. buried in Xew Hope church- 
yard. 

Painter. Jesse. Caesar's Creek. 1807 : son of David : 
soldier of 1812; died in 1867. 

Painter. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1817; son of David. 

Painter, Thomas, Caesar's Creek, 1820: son of 
David. 

Painter. Joshua. Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Painter. David C. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Painter, Samuel, Caesar's Creek. 1827 : August 16. 

1842. married Lucinda Faukner. 

Painter. David. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1840: died De- 
cember 6. 1863. aged forty-five, buried in X'ev,- 
Hope churchyard. Paintersville. Ohio. 

Parlott. Joshua. Caesar's Creek. 1827. 

Padgett. Wm. C. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Paullin, Uriah. Ross. 180S; died March 14. 1812. of 
"Cold Plague." 

Paullin. Jacob. Ross, 1810: died F-ebriiary 12. iS-Ji, 
aged -eventy-three. buried in Jamestown, Ohio. 

Paullin, Wm.. Miami. 1812; died at bis home near 
Yellow Springs, aged seventy-two. February \2. 
;86i. 

Paullin. Rebecca. Ro--. 1813. 

Paullin. J'oseph. Ross. 1816: died June 12. 1875. 
aged eighty, buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Paullin. Enos. Ross. iSiS: November 18. 1817. mar- 
ried Polly Monrey. 

Paullin. David. Ross. 1827; died .\ugust 29. 1874. 
aged sixty-nine, buried in Jamestown cemetery: 
December 6. 1827. married Susan Smith. 

Paullin. Joseph. Jr.. Ross. 18.^0: .\pril 3. 1823. mar- 
ried Jane January. 



Paullin. J. B., Ross. 1840. 

Paullin. Ncwcomb T.. Ross. 181 1 : born June 18. 
1811 : died July. 1880. Clark county. 

Paris. Thomas. Xenia. 181 1: died October 6. 1823. 
aged fifty-three, buried in Massie's Creek church- 
yard (Stevenson's). 

Paris. John. Xenia. 1826: from Kentucky: first post- 
master of Cedarville. Ohio : died July 22, 1853. 
aged fifty, buried in Cedarville cemetery. 

Paris. Robert. Xenia. 1830. 

Paris, George, Xenia, 1840: July, 1841. married 
Rebecca Jamison. 

Paris. Alexander. Xenia. 1840: died November 10. 
1840 by strangulation : was mentally unbalanced. 

Pavey. Samuel. Xenia. 1816. 

Paul. Reuben B.. Sugar Creek. 1840: died June 14. 
1854. aged forty, buried in Woodland. 

Paul. Col. John B.. Beaver Creek, 1803 ; the first 
clerk of the courts of Greene county; died in 
1830. buried in Madison, Indiana. 

Paul. Jonathan. Beaver Creek, 1807: brother of Col. 
John : first located on what is known as the John 
B. Lucas farm : removed to Greenburg. Indiana, 
where he died. 

Paxson. Wm.. Xenia. 1816; died February, 1841, 

Pa.\son. .Aaron. Beaver Creek. 1820; died .\pril 26. 
1890, aged seventy, buried in Union graveyard, 
Byron. Ohio : married Lucy Swadener. 

Paxson. Cynthia. Beaver Creek. 1820. 

Pa.xson. .\n.'OS. Beaver Crec'K. 1820. 

Paxson, Isaac. Beaver Creek, 1840; son of Aaron; 
removed to Clark county. Ohio, to Columbus. 
Ohio: died June 5. 1881. buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 

Pa.xson. .-Karon. Beaver Creek. 1818: born May 27, 
1797. died December 11. 1884. aged eighty-seven, 
buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Parkinson. Willis. Xenia. 1820: died in 1826: mer- 
chant of Xenia. firm of Dodd & Parkinson. 

Passals. -Clement. Miami. 1803; died October 2},. 
1883. aged eighty-one. buried at Yellow Springs. 
Ohio. 

Patton. Wm., Bath. 18,^0: buried in Rockafield 
graveyard, near Fairfield. Ohio ; married Sarah 
Koogler. 

Patton. David. Ross. 1835; died in 1884. aged seven- 
ty-four, buried near Grape Grove. 

Patton. J. H.. Ross. 1830 ; died June 2. 1846, aged 
seventy-seven, buried east of Grape Grove, Ohio. 

Patton. John M.. Ross. 1840; from Virginia; died 
March 28, 1881. aged sixty-two, buried east of 
Grape Grove. 

Patton. John F., Xenia. 1840; from Virginia; died 
July 8, 1886, aged seventy-four, buried in Wood- 
land. 

Parnell. George. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Parlott. Dav-d. Silv.-r Creek. 1840. 

Parish. Joseph. Ross. 1813. 

Parsons. John. Jr.. Bath. 1832; died March 5. 1865, 
aged fiftv-five. buried in Miiman graveyard. Fair- 
field. Ohio. 

Parsons. David. Bath. 1840: born October 8. 1791. 
died August 25. 1880. buried in Union church- 
yard, Byron, Ohio. 



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Parsons. John. Sr.. Bath. 1S2Q: a soldier of the 
Revolution : buried in Union churchyard. Bvron. 
Ohio. 

Packer. Isaac. Beaver Creek; 1816. 

Pearson, Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Pearson. Peter. Caesars Creek. 1816; died in 1840; 
son of W'illiani; January 4. 1831. married Mary 
Evans. 

Pearson, Peter P.. Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Pearson, Lewis, Caesars Creek. 1840; died Decem- 
ber 9. 1896. aged eighty-six; son of William. 

Pearson, Lovell, Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Pearson, James. Miami. 1840. 

Pearson, John. Silver Creek. 1813. 

Pearson. Jacob. Caesar's Creek, 1830 : November 20. 
18.33, married Mary Adset. 

Pearson, VVm.. Silver Creek. 1819; died in 1849. 

Pearson. Mark. Silver Creek. 1827 ; from 'Virginia ; 
ton of WillianT; born February 24, 1807: re- 
moved to Fayette county in 18.36. 

Pearson, Isaac, Silver Creek. 1840; son of Peter, 
of Caesar's Creek : Xovember 3. 1833. married 
Susan Haughey. 

Pearson, Edward W.. Silver Creek. 1840 ; son of 
Peter, of Caesar's Creek; July 17. 1823, married 
Violet Hanlcy. 

Pearson, Jonathan. Silver Creek. 1820. 

Pearson. Jesse .■\., Silver Creek, 1840; from Vir- 
ginia; died July 27. 1893. aged seventy-eight, 
buried at Bowersville. Ohio. 

Parry, Ebenezer. Sugar Creek. 1S08: soldier of 
1S12: died June 4. 1855. aged seventy-five, buried 
two and a half miles east of Paintersville, Ohio. 

Parry. Allen. Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 1812; 
Capt. McClellan. 

Parry. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1811; wife's name. 
Ruth ; died in i8ig. 

Parry. John. Caesar's Creek. 1820; March 11. 1830. 
married Rue Horney. 

Parry. Ruth. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Parry. Richard. Xenia. 1840. 

Parry. Peter. Bath. 1840; Xovember 20. 1834. mar- 
ried Presella White, 

Parry, Chas., Silver Creek, 1830. 

Parry, Samuel. Silver Creek, 1840; December 5. 
1823. married Mary Frazier. 

Parry. Wyatt. Silver Creek. 1840: May 2-. 1841. 
married Nancy Lee. 

Parry. Walter. Xenia. 1S30; son-in-law of Daniel 
Dean. Sr. ; died in 1878. buried in Monmouth. 
Illinois. 

Pennywit. John. Sugar Creek. 1813; from Virginia; 
born in 1812: died in iS<)i. aged seventy-nine, 
buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Pennewit. Mark. Sugar Creek. 1820; died in 18O2. 
buried in Bellbrook cemetery; December i, 1836, 
married Xancy Smith. 

Pennewit. Philip. Sugar Creek. 1819. 

Pennewit, Adam. Sugar Creek. 1829: born Septem- 
ber. 1763. died July 27. 1851, buried in Baptist 
graveyard. Bellbrook. 

Pennewit. Harrison, Sugar Creek. 1840; died April 
A. 1889. aged seventv-six. buried at Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 

Pcgg. Vtilentine. Sugar Cri-i-k, 1S13. 



Pegg. James, Sugar Creek, 1840; July 15. 1841. mar- 
ried Rebecca Bozarth. 

Pedrick. Isaac. Sugar Creek, 1813; died in 1848. 

Pcdrick. Wm.. Sugar Creek, 1830: soldier of 181 2; 
died in 1833. 

Pendry. Eli. Caesar's Creek, 1804, came to what is 
now Jasper township in 1803; lost his laud, and 
Galloway gave him 100 acres. 

Pendry. James, Caesar's Creek, 1819. 

Pendry. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1819; February 6. 
1817. married ^^argaret Boots. 

Pendry. Wm. E.. Caesar's Creek. 1826. 

Pewsey. Joel. 1816. Caesar's Creek. 

Peck. John. Bath. 1840; died in 1845; October 30. 
1832. married Ruth Martin. 

Peck. Joseph, Xenia, 1840. 

Peterson. John. Caesar's Creek, 1840: son of Jonas; 
died X'ovember. 1881. 

Peterson. Samuel. Jr.. Caesar's Creek, 1817; died 
June 12. 1882. aged eighty-six. buried in Wood- 
land. 

Peterson. Felix. Caesar's Creek. l8.?o; son of Jacob; 
born May 18. 1809, in Hardy county, Virginia ; 
died .\pril 9. 1874, aged si.>Cty-five, buried in 
Woodland. 

Peterson. William. Caesar's Creek. 1832; January 3, 
1834. married Matilda Boblett. 

Peterson. Philip. Caesar's Creek. 1815; died in 1851. 
aged eighty-two. buried in Maple Corner's 
churchyard. 

Peterson. Samuel, Caesar's Creek. 1815: from V'ir- 
ginia ; died May. 1832. aged thirty-seven, buried 
in Zoar churchyard; son of Philip. 

Peterson, Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1830; died in 
1857. 

Peterson, Moses. Caesar's Creek. 1830; third son of 
Jacob : died .April 18. 1868. aged sixty-seven, bur- 
ied in Woodland. Xenia. Ohio. 

Peter.son. Jacob. Xenia. 1819; son of Samuel; die<l 
January 3. 1867. aged eighty-two, buried in 
Maple Corner's churchyard. 

Peterson. Jesse. Caesar's Creek. 1840; December 26, 
1838. married Eleanor W'eaver. 

Peterson. Jacob P.. Xenia. 1840; son of Philip; 
died Miarch 16. 1876, aged sixty-two. 

Peterson. Michael. Xenia. 1807. 

Peterson. John, Xenia, 1819; from Hardy county, 
V'irginia : removed to the west: died in Illinois 
in 1839 '■ brother of Jacob. 

Peterson. Saul. Xenia. 1820. 

Peterson. Solomon. Xenia. 182 1 ; wife. Magdalene; 
died October 17. 1827. aged thirty, buried in Mer- 
cer graveyard, south of Xenia. 

Peterson. Jonas. Xenia. 1817; from Hardy county, 
Virginia ; of Swiss descent ; born September 8, 
1800. died June 16. 1882. aged eighty-two. 

Peterson. Joel. Xenia. 1828; son of Jacob: died Jan- 
uary. 1S66, aged sixty-five, buried in Maple Cor- 
ner's churchyard. 

Peterson. Jacob. Xenia. 18,30 : died in Caesar's Creek 
township in 1863 ; November 4. 1834. married 
.Ann Biblett. 

Peterson. Felix. Xenia, 1840; son of Jacob: De- 
cember 10. 1833. married ^Vary S. Weaver. 

Peterson, .Adam. Miami, 1810. 



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Peterson. Abel. Caesar's Creek. 1832: son of little 
Jacob: in 1899. still living: born in Hardy comi- 
ty, Virginia. October 18. 181 1. 
Pelham. Samuel. Xenia. 1808 : editor of "The Ve- 
hicle." published in Xenia in 1810: died in 1824. 
Pelham. Peter. Xenia. 1808 : from Bo.ston, Massa- 
chusetts ; first auditor of Greene county; born in 
1747, died in 1822, aged seventy-five: was com- 
missioner in 1812; wife. Parthena. 
Pelham, Jesse. Xenia. 1810. 

Pelham. Jesse D.. Xenia 1810: son of Peter; died 
in 1823; Chapel H. Bonner, administrator of the 
estate; farm adjoined Oldtown. Ohio. 
Pelham. Henry, Ross, 1811 ; brother of Peter. 
Pelham. Wm. F.. Xenia, 1840: born in 1818, died 
in 1883. aged sixty-five, buried in Woodland; 
son of Samuel. 
Persinger. Jacob. Xenia, iSiCi. removed to Sidney, 

Ohio; died 1851. 
Persinger. Smith, Xenia, 1826; born May 9. 1SD4. 
died January 22. 1843. aged thirty-eight, buried 
in Woodland: married Catherine Xesbitt. 
Persinger, Madison, Xenia, 1826. ' 
Persinger. John Milton. 1826: died in Chicago. Illi- 
nois. 1898. aged ninety. 
Persinger, Wm., Xenia, 1826: died May 25, 1855, 
aged seventy, buried in W'oodland ; October 6, 
1825. married Precella Beatty. 
Persinger. Christopher. Xenia. 1829: born in 1808. 
died in 1841. aged thirty-three, buried in Wood- 
land : married Constance Crumwell in 1838. 
Petro. Philip. Bath. 1803: son of Nicholis. 
Petro. Niicbolis. Bath. 1803: son of X'icholis. Sr. 
Petro. Jonas. Bath. 1803 : son of X'icholis. 
Petro. Paul. Sr.. Bath. 1803: died February 28. 1812. 
aged thirty-five, buried in Petro graveyard, 
Fairfield. Ohio. 
Petro. Margaret. Bath. 1830: wife of Paul: died in 
1851. aged seventy-one. buried in Peti'O grave- 
yard. 
Petro. Paul. Jr.. Bath, 1833; born in 1812, 
died in 1887, aged seventy-five, buried in Fair- 
field: February 9. 1837. married Catherine War- 
ner. 
Petro. Asa. Bath. 1830: February 17. 1835. married 

Roxy Ann Shingledecker. 
Petro. Paul, Jr.. Bath. 1833; born in 1812. died in 
1887. aged seventy-five, buried at Fairfield. 
Ohio. 
Petro. Seth. Bath. 1832: died May 15. 1835. aged 

twenty-four, buried in Petro graveyard. 
Pendlum. James. Silver Creek. 1828. 
Pcndlum. Jolin D.. Silver Creek. 1828. 
Pendlum. Alfred. Silver Creek. 1840: grandfather 

of Charles : buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 
Peacock. Elijah. Ross. 1830: October 5, 1826. mar- 
ried Emily Dolby, 
Peerman. Wni.. Ross. 1840; died October 18. 1841. 
aged forty-one. buried in Caesar'.s Creek church- 
yard. Jamestown. Ohio. 
Penncll. Daniel. Mfiami. 1826: died in 1868. buried 

at Yellow Springs. Ohio. 
Pepper. .Mfred. Miami. 1840: died October 5. 1871, 

aged fifty-two. buried at Bowersville. Ohio. 
Pepper, Corban, Silver Creek. 1840. 
Perkey. Major Henry C. Miami. 1834: died Jan- 



uary 22. 1852. buried at Clifton. Ohio; a native 
of Buckingham county. Virginia. 

Pedi,grew. Wm.. Bath. 1840: July 7. 1829. married 
Elizabeth Jones. 

Peoples. Wm.. Bath. 1816. 

Peoples. Francis. Bath, 1840. 

Peterman. Jacob, Bath, 1840. 

Pippen. Charles. 1836: X'oveniber 29. 18.^8. marric<t 
Linah Brown (colored). 

Picklesimer. Samuel. Xenia. 1807. 

Pilcher, Enoch. Sugar Creek, 1820; died September 
22. 1857, aged fifty-one, buried at Mt. Holly; No- 
vember 10, 1818. married Susannah Grant. 

Pilcher. Enoch. Sugar Creek. 1830; son of Enoch; 
died in 1851. 

Pilcher. .\maziah. Xenia, i8,?o: January 3, 1832. 
married Jane Gowdy. 

Piper. Philip. Xenia. 1840; died November 25. 
1879. aged seventy-three, buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Perkins. Robert G.. Sugar Creek. 1826 : died near 
Bellb'-ook. April. 1836. buried there: December 
24. 1825. married Elizabeth Robinson. 

Perking John. Caesar's Creek. 1826; .son-in-law of 
John Downey. 

Perkins, Dr. Thomas, Xenia, 1806: soldier of 1812; 
born .'Vpril 17, 1787. died in 1841. aged fifty-six, 
buried in Woodland. 

Perkins. Baker. Xenia, 1811: died in 1846; father 
of Thomas B.. John S.. and Stith G. Perkins: 
buried on the farm south of Xenia. 

Perkins. Wm. \\".. Xenia. 1826: son of Thomas and 
Elizabeth : born July 5. 1803. died September 20, 
18.^0. aged twenty-seven, buried in Woodland. 

Perkins. Thomas B., Xenia, 1826; son of Baker. 

Perkins, Dr. Isaac S., Xenia, 1826: died October 
II. 1843. aged forty-seven, buried in Woodland. 

Perkins. Henry W.. Xenia. 1828. died .August 24, 
1832. aged twenty-si.x. buried in Woodland. 

Perkins. Joseph. Xenia. 1828. 

Perkins. Thomas S.. Xenia, t8,?o: died May 10, 
1886, aged eighty-six. buried in Woodland. 

Perkins. Thomas M.. Xenia. 1810: died in X'ebraska 
City. Nebraska. .April 23. i860, aged fifty; mar- 
ried Mary Jane Parkison. 

Perkins. John. Xenia. 1821 : died October 6. 1871, 
aged sixty-eight, buried at Bowersville. Ohio. 

Perkins. Isaac, Beaver Creek, 1819. 

Perkins. Robert. Beaver Creek. 1811 ; died .April 5, 
1836. aged sixty-four, buried in Mt. Zion church- 
yard. 

Perkins. Valentine. Bath, 1840. 

Pierce, Michael, Xenia, 1826: died at Cedarville June 
to, 1872. aged eighty-two. buried at Cedarville. 

Pierce. John. Xenia. 1830: from Virginia: died Feb- 
ruarv 6. 1881. aged eightv-two, buried in Wood- 
land! 

Pierce. Thomas. Xenia. 1840. 

Pierce. Wm. G.. Xenia. 1825: .April 21. 1825. mar- 
ried Margaret Davidson. 

Pierce. Robert. Xenia. 1807. 

Pierce. Thomas. Silver Creek. 1830: April 8. 1838, 
married Unity Gordon. 

Pierce. David. Sugar Creek. 1826; from New Hamp- 
shire: born in 1810. died in 1892. a.ged eighty-two. 
buried in Middle Run churchyard. 



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Plitnix, Henry, Xenia. 1806: son-in-law nf James 
Todd ; owned the Brice Knox site. 

Porter, James. Sugar Creek. 1806; soldier of 181 j; 
on back of his discharge it is written, "seven 
months' pay due him : " died in Sugar Creek in 
1814. 

Porter, James M.. Sugar Creek, 1810; January 3, 
1839, married Delila Creamer. 

Porter, Susanna. Sugar Creek. 1813. 

Porter, Jane, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Porter. Rohcrt. Sugar Creek. 1820; December 28. 
1824, married Ruth Heaton. 

Porter Andrew, Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Porter, Nathan, Caesar's Creek, 1803. 

Porter, James, Caesar's Creek. 1803; died in 1814. 

Porter, Nathaniel, Caesar's Creek, 1805. 

Porter, John N., Xenia, 1806; October 28, 1840. 
married Eliza Ann Collins. 

Porter, Nathaniel, Xenia, 1806. 

Porter, James, Xenia, 1806. 

Porter, Joseph, Xenia, 1807. 

Poague, Wm., Sugar Creek. 1808: soldier .it 1812, 
died October 25, 1842. buried in Woodland. 

Poague. Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1808: soldier of 
1812; died in 1816: removed frdm Mercer grave- 
yard to Woodland. 

Pnague. Robert Davis, Sugar Creek. 1833; son of 
Thomas; born in Greene county. January 2, 1813, 
died August 10, 1859. buried in \VoodIand. 

Poague, James, Sugar Creek, 1812: soldier of 1812; 
died in 1825; Wm. Poague and John Bell, admin- 
istrators. 

Poague. Wm, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1S19: son of James; 
November 19. 1826, married Julia Ann Crumley. 

Poague. John, Sugar Creek, 1826 

Poague, David. Xenia. 1827. 

Poague. Washington. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Poague. Preston. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Poague, Samuel. Xenia, 1840; died March 20, 1873, 
aged si.\ty-two, buried in Woodland; married 
Elizabeth Voss. 

Poague. Robert. Sugar Creek. 181 1; .-\pril 21. 1825. 
married Susanna Vaughn, 

Poague. Wm, T,. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Poague. Rev. .Andrew W., Xenia. 1820: died .April 
20. 1840, aged forty-nine, buried at Clifton, Ohic, 

Powers. Edward. Caesar's Creek. 1826: born May 
27- 177.1. <lied February 16, 1843, buried in New 
Hope churchyard. Paintersville : October 5. i8oQ< 
married Elizabeth Luce. 

Powers, George, Caesar's Creek, 1S40. 

Powers. Alfred. Caesar's Creek. 1840; died March 
I. 1884, aged sixty-nine, buried in Woodland; 
son of Edward; married Susanna Burrell. 

Powers. Wm. D.. Beaver Cieek. i8o8; soldier of 
1812; son of William and Rhoda ; born in Co- 
lumbia coi-.mty. New Jersey, in 1779, died .Augu.n 
27. 1857, aged ceventy-eight ; buried in Union 
graveyard. 

Powers, Daniel, Bath, 1810: Iwunty juniper in War 
of 1812; (see Histiry of Greene County. Bath 
township). 

Powers, Daniel C, Bath, 1818, 

Powers. Snowden. Silver Creek. 1830; December 29. 
i8ig. married Rebecca Wikel. 

Powers, John. Silver Creek. 1830. 



Powers, Edward, Jr., Silver Creek, 1840; December 
26. 1826, married Elizabeth Caldwell. 

Powers, Michael, Xenia, 1840; from Waterford, Ire- 
land; died June 30, 1880, aged eighty-five, buried 
in Woodland; father of William, and step-fa- 
ther of G. !•. Robinson, compiler of this work. 

Ponipey, Clayborn, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Pollock, John, Jr., Xenia, l8ti; February 10, 1825. 
married Mary Caldwell. 

Pollock, Alexander, Sugar Creek, 1824; May 27, 
1824, married Elizabeth McClure. 

Pollock, John, Sr., Xenia, 1811 ; soldier of 1812; 
buried in Massie's Creek, churchyard (Steven- 
son's). 

Pollock, Samuel, Xenia, 1811: soldier of 1812; Sep- 
tember I. 1820, married Martha Neley. 

Pollock, Isaac, Xenia, 1816. 

Pollock, George, Xenia, 1827. 

Pollock, William, Xenia, 1830; died in 1862, Au- 
gust 8. aged eighty-four, buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard. 

Pollock, Uriah, Bath, 1817. 

Pollock. Israel. Ross, 1819. 

Popenoe, Willis P., Ross, 1819; son of James, Sr., 
in 1899. stdl living in Topeka, Kansas, aged 
seventy-three. 

Popenoe, James, Beaver Creek, 1803; ex-representa- 
tive and ex-sheriflf of Greene county ; built the 
R. F. Howard residence on E. Main St. ; died 
in 1848 at Cci.Len-ille, Ohio. 

Popenoe. James, Jr., Centerville, Ohio, 1820. 

Popenoe, Peter, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; brother of 
James. Sr. ; murdered by Indians in Kentucky in 
1807. 

Popenoe. Peter. Jr., 1820; removed to Kansas; son 
of James. Sr. 

Powell. Wm,, Xenia, 1829. 

Powell. David. Beaver Creek, 1812. 

Poland. Robert R., Baver Creek, 1828; father of 
Samuel, of Xenia ; prosecuting attorney of Greene 
county from 1838 to 1841 ; died in California; 
married Eleanor McConnell, 

Poland, VV'm., Beaver Creek, 1806. 

Poland, John, Beaver Creek, 1810. 

Poland, Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1810. 

Poland. .Aaron, Beaver Creek, 1810. 

Pool. Bushrod, Xenia, 1840. 

Pool, Madison. Xenia, 1840. 

Popjoy. Nathaniel. Bath, 1804. 

Poi. John. Rath, 1807, 

Ports, John, Bath. 1827. 

Potter, Nathan. Miami. 1S40: died April 19. 1852. 
aged seve-ity-seven, buried in Glenn Forest, Yel- 
low Springs. 

Potter. Levi, Miami, 1840 . 

Potter, David, Miami, 1840: 1837. helped organize 
M. E. church at \'ellow Springs; October 22, 
1840, married Sarah Graham. 

Post, Joseph, Miami, 1829. 

Pruett. Elisha. Sugar Creek. 1S04; died in 181 1; 
had two son5. and two daughters. 

Pruett. Hester, Sugar Creek. 1821 ; widow of Elisha. 

Pruett. David, Silver Creek, 1830; June 17, 1830, 
married Latitia Jones. 

Price. William. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Price. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1809: soldier of i8t2. 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Price. Will.. Sugar Creek. 1809: soldier of 1812; 
September 3, 1S35. married Sarah Pearson. 

Price, David. Sr.. Xenia. 1803 : wife. Susanna ; he 
died in Caesar's Creek township in 1807. 

Price. David. Jr.. Xenia, 1803; son of David and 
Susanna. 

Price. Frederick. Xenia, 1803 ; from Virginia ; in 
1830. sold his farm to Stephen Bone and removed 
to Indiana. 

Price. Peter. Silver Creek, 1803: son of David, Capt. 
in War of 1812: one of the first justices of the 
peace in Caesar's Creek township. 

Price, Joseph, Xenia, 1804 : son of David and Su- 
sanna. 

Price, Geo.. Silver Creek, 1807; June 10. 1813, mar- 
ried Jane Hussey. 

Price. Napoleon. Xenia, 1840; June 30. 1835, married 
Elizabeth Pearson. 

Price, John, Xenia. 1819; soldier of 1812; son of 
David and Susanna ; July 2, 1804, married Han- 
nah Davis. 

Price. Silas, Xenia, 1827. 

Price, Geo. H.. Xenia. 1827. 

Price, Augustus. Xenia, 1827. 

Price, .\bsaloni. Xenia. 1840: died March 10. 1877, 
buried in Woodland ; April 23, 1842, married 
Mary Bowers. 

Prather. Eli. Beaver Creek, 1830; died in 1833. 

Prugh. George. Xenia, 1808. 

Prugh. Elias. Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Prill. Henry. Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1803. 

Prill, Henry. Sr., Caesar's Creek, 1803. 

Prevost. Samuel. Miami. 181 1; from New Jersey; 
soldier of 1S12: died December 6. 1881. aged 
eighty-one, buried in Clifton. 

Prevost. Joseph. Sr.. Miami. 1812: soldier of 1S12; 
buried in Woodland. 

Prevost, Joseph. Jr.. Miami. 1819; buried in Clif- 
ton, Ohio. 

Prior. Jesse, Xenia, 1S40. 

Prior, John, Xenia, 1840. ^ 

Prescott, John S.. Xenia. 1840: Massachusetts; at- 
torney at law: October 4, 1834. married N'ancy 
Ann Townsley. 

Prescott, Dr. John H., Xenia, 1840; died in Xenia. 
November 16. 1872. aged sixty-five, buried in 
Woodland. 

Protsman. John. Beaver Creek. 1807. 

Proctor, John. Bath. 1813: soldier of 1812. 

Prethro, David, Silver Creek, 1821. 

Pruden, Benjamin, Miami, 1820. 

Pruden. Daniel. Miami, 1826. 

Pringle, Robert, Miami, 181a; soldier of 1812: Sep- 
tember 21, 1815, married Elizabeth Smith. 

Pringle, Rev. Francis, Xenia, 181 1; first past'or of 
what is now the Second U. P. church. Xcni;'. : 
died in 1819. 

Putcrbaugh. David. Beaver Creek. 1807: died in 
1808; special court held to appoint administrator: 
1829, married Catharine Snyder. 

Puterbaugh. Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1812; soldier of 
1812: buried at Mt. Zion. Beaver Creek. 

Puterbaugh. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1812: March 2O. 
1816. married Hannah Hittle. 

Puterbaugh. Henry M., Caesar's Creek. 1812. 



Puterbaugh. Andrew. Beaver Creek. 1812 : Septem- 
ber 2. 1819. married Ani:a Glotfelter. 

Puterbaugh. Adam. Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Puterbaugh. Samuel. Xenia. 1827 ; died September 
30. 1879. aged seventy-nine, buried in Woodland : 
father of Mrs. George Moore, Xenia. 

Puterbaugh. Henry. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Purdy, John F.. Sugar Creek, 1828: editor of 
"Xenia Free Press" in 1840. 

Purdy. .A. W.. Xenia, 1840. 

Pugh. Hughlet. Ross. 1840: died in 1866. 

Pugh. Wm.. Miami. 1810; January 27. 1835, married 
Elizabeth Shoemaker. 

Pugh, T. C. Miami. 1840. 

Phillips, Eli. Xenia. 1806; buried near Zoar church- 
yard. Caesar's Creek township. 

Phillips. Chas., Xenia, 1806: son-in-law of James 
Todd. 

Phillips. David. Xenia, 1816. 

Phillips. Benjamin. Xenia, 1819. 

Phillips. John. Xenia. 1819. 

Phillips, Jonathan, Xenia. 1820. 

Phillips. James. Xenia. 1828. 

Phillips. Ira. Miami. 1808. 

Phillips. Wm.. Miami. 1840. 

Phillips. Isaac. Miami. 1840. 

Phillips. Henry, Ross, 1840. 

Phillips, Thomas. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Phillips. M.. Silver Creek, 1812: born in 1791, died 
in 1873. buried in Jamestown. Ohio. 

Pharis. Robert. Ross. 1819: justice of peace of Ross 
township in 1818. 

Pharis. Samuel. Ross. 1824: February 20. 1828, 
married Sarah Marshall. 

Pharis. Isaac. Ross. 1834: June 4, 1S35, married 
Catherine Haddex. 

Pitman, John. Xenia, 1826, 

Plank, Jacob. Xenia, 1826: December 2},. 1823. mar- 
ried Barbarv Martin. 

Plewett. John 'M.. Bath. 1821. 

Pike. John. Bath. 1820. 

Piles. \\"illiam. Ross. 1819: July 6, 1820, married 
Nancy Bishop. 

Plowman. .\ath;m. Miami. 1840: buried in Clifton 
cemeterv : December 12. 18^7, married Lucinda 
Fallis. 

Peel, John, Caesar's Creek, iSoi : lived on Christo- 
pher Hussey's farm; soldier of 1812. 

Quinn, Harvey. 1820: son of Matthew. 

Quinn. Elias. 1822: son of Matthew. 

Quinn. Nicholis. Sr., Beaver Creek, 1803: a native 
of Dublin, Ireland. 

Quinn. Nicholis, Jr., ■ Beaver Creek, 1803: was 
twenty-three year old when he left Ireland : w;i- 
to have lieen a preacher : never married ; diei! 
in 1808: property willed to Matthew. 

Quinn. Matthew. Beaver Creek, 1803: brother of 
Nicholis: father of Amos, who was the father 
01 Elias: died in 1831; buried on what is known 
as the Routzong farm. 

Quinn. Amos. Beaver Creek. 1816 : son of Matthew : 
father of Elias Quinn and Mrs. J. B. Lucas : 
one of the early school teachers in Beaver Creek 
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to 1837: died in 1837; buried in Associate church- 
yard. West Market street. Xenia. 

Quinn. John. Beaver Creek, i8j8; died June 24. 
1874, aged sixty-eight ; buried in Jamestown, 
Ohio ; son of Matthew. 

Quinn. John L., Caesar's Creek. 1828: June 17. 
1828, married Hannah Feisthorn. 

Quinn. James. Xenia, 1840; October 13, 1813, mar- 
ried Sarah Andrews. 

Quinn. Samuel, Beaver Creek. 1820; son of 
M'atthew : September. 1826. married Sarah Hop- 
ping. 

Quick, .\hraliani. Sugar Creek. 1828: buried in Bap- 
tist graveyard, near Bellljrook. Ohio. 

Quick. Oakley. Sugar Creek. J840: buried in Bap- 
tist gravv.'yard. Bellbrook. 

Quick. Moses. Caesar's Creek, 1826; January 6, 
1826, married Sarah Van Imo. 

Quinn. Garrett. Beaver Creek. 1840; son of Mat- 
thew; Matthew Quinn's daughters, .\nna. Xancy, 
HetiHey and Rosanna. 

Ramsey. James. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1804: died in. 
1806: James Cunningham. John Vance and Will- 
iam Tanner, appraisers of his estate. 

Ralston. Jo-^eph. Su.arar Creek. 1806. 

Ramsey. Archibald. Sugar Creek. 1818; died in 
1825; buried in Sugar Creek township; Jonathan 
Campbell, administrator of his estate. 

Ramsey. Mary. Sugar Creek. 1806. 

Ramsey. Benjatnin, Sugar Creek, 1818. 

Ramsey. William R.. Sugar Creek. 1827; removed 
to California; died in 1861 ; October 19. 1823. 
married Isabella Stewart. 

Ramsey. BloomfieUl. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Ramsey. Samson. Xenia. 1819; editor of "The 
Spark." a Democratic paper publi'ihcd in Xenia 
in 1837. 

Ramsey. Simon. Xenia. 1818. 

Ramsey. Chas.. Xenia, 1840. 

Ramsey. Thomas L.. Xenia. 1840: died September 
20. i88t. aged si.xty-nine; buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery. 

Rains. Simon. Beaver Creek. 181 1; from Kentucky: 
soldier of 1812; died November 21. 18.S5. aged 
eightyone : buried in Woodland. 

Rains. Jonathan. Beaver Creek. 181 1 ; soldier of 
1812. 

Rain?. William. Miami. 1840; from Kentucky; sol- 
dier of 1812; died May 25. 1875. aged ninety- 
four. 

Ragan. .\braham G.. Bath. 1828; June 18. 1821;. 
married Elizabeth Casad. 

Ragan. Jesse L., Bath. 1833; June 5. 1S28. married 
Mary Casad. 

Ragan. Reason. Silver Creek. 1S24; soldier of 1812; 
his daughter. Rachel, married Moses Walton, 
Sr. 

Ragan. Marian. Silver Creek. 1S30; died near In- 
dianapolis January 5, 1S64. 

Randall. Israel. Sr.. Xenia. 1S40: died June. 1830; 
had gone fishing: found dead next morning. 

Randall. David H.. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Randall. Levi. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Randall. William. Xenia. 1840. 

Randall. John. Xenia. 1840. 



Randall. Israel, Jr., Xenia. 1840 ; born X'oveniber 
II, 1818; died November 22. 1896. aged seventy- 
four ; buried at Cedarville. Ohio. 

Rambaugh. Jacob, Silver Creek, 1813; son of Will- 
iam and Jane. 

Rambaugh, George, Silver Creek. 1813. 

Rambaugh, David. Silver Creek, i8l8. 

Rambaugh, William, Sr.. Silver Creek, 1820; his 
wife, Jane; he died in 1827. 

Rambaugh. Philip, Silver Creek, 1826. 

Rambaugh. John W., Silver Creek, 1830; son of 
William and Jane: died in 1S27. 

Rambaugh. Nicholas, Silver Creek. i8.?o. 

Rambaugh. George, Jr., Silver Creek. 1820; died 
in 1837 ; buried near Maple Corners. 

Rorebaugh. Samuel. Caesar's Creek. 1840; born May 
5, 1816; buried in Miaple Corners churchyard. 

Rorebaugh. Fredrick, Caesar's Creek, 1819; died 
in 1833. 

Rorebaugh, Jacob, Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Rorebaugh. Solomon, Caesar's Creek. 1828; died 
September 9. 1841, aged thirty; buried in Maple 
Corners churchyard. 

Rorebaugh, IClijah. Caesar's Creek, 1829. 

Ramidi. Joshua, Ross. 1840. 

Raper. Rev. William, 1S2O ; a Methodist preacher. 

Kamah. Daniel, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Raniah. John, Ross, 1840, 

Ramey, William, Xenia, 1826; removed to Van 
Buren county, Iowa. 

Rainey, John. Xtnia, i8,?o; removed to \^an BurL-n 
county, Iowa. 

Rainey, James. Xenia. 18.30; died in Miami town- 
ship; buried in Clifton. Ohio. 

Rakestraw, .Mien. Ros.s, 1826. 

Rakestraw, James M., Caesar'~ Creek, 1827. 

liakestraw. Samuel. Silver Creek. 1840; February 
28. 1839, married Mary Ann X'elson. 

Rakestraw. Job. Silver Creek. 1826; January 12, 
1829. married Ann Borton. 

Rader. .'Vdam. Sr., Xenia, 1821 ; from Cumberland 
county. ^Pennsylvania ; died October 30, 1869; 
buried in Woodland; aged eighly-two. 

Rader. .-Vdam, Jr.. Xenia, 1840. 

Rader. William. Xenia, 1840; from Pennsylvania; 
died August 10. 1887 ; buried in Woodland. 

Rader, John M., Xenia. 1840 ; died November 2y. 
1891. aged eighty-one: buried in Woodland; 
April 16, 1839. married Maria Gray. 

Rader. David. Xenia. 1840; died February 12. 1SS5, 
aged seventy-one ; buried in Woodland ; Feb- 
ruary 4, 1836, married Elizabeth Mallow. 

Rader, .Andrew, Xenia, 184a; died October 2^, 1868, 
aged forty-tive; buried in Woodland. 

Rayburn, William, Xenia, 1S40; removed to Spring- 
field, Illinois. 

Rayburn. Samuel, Xenia, 1840 ; removed to Spring- 
field, Illinois. 

Rayburn. James. Xenia. 1840; removed to Spring- 
field. Illinois. 

Rayburn. John S.. Xenia. 1826; October 19. 1S27, 
married Jemima Read. 

Rady. Daniel W.. Silver Creek. 1827. 

Ratchford. John. Silver Creek, 1830: .April 14. 1840. 
married Obeda Shefield. 

Randolph, Richard, Miami, 1840; born in Prince 



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Edward county. \'irginia. in 1795; died Jan- 
uary 30, 1859; buried in Clifton. 

Ranch, Joseph, Miami, 1813. 

Rapp, Joseph. Miami. 1840: March 5. 1840. mar- 
ried Sarah Philips. 

Ray. John, Miami, 1809. 

Ray. Wilham M.. Beaxcr Creek. 1816; soldier of 
1812; January 7. 1S17. married Xancy Reel. 

Radcliff, Hen.iamin, Keaver Creek. 1805. 

Radcliff, Simon, Beaver Creek, 1808: August 28, 
1839, married Charlotte Smith. 

Radcliff, Jesse. Bath. 1830: January 17. 1831. married 
RO'Sannah Casad. 

Read, William. Xenia. 1840: born in Adams coun- 
ty in 1807; died August 12. 1870: Iniried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Reid, John. M«., M. D., A. M., Xenia. 1830; from 
Edinburgh, Scotland: died July 12, 1840, aged 
si.xty ; buried in Woodland. 

Rarrnar, Barnett, Bath, 1817. 

Rarrnar, Daniel. Batli, 1817. 

Reid, Enoch S.. Xenia, 1840; from Bourbon coun- 
ty, Kentucky: died at Xew Paris, Preble coun- 
ty, Ohio, June 20, 1885 : born April 7, 1802. 

Reid, Alcxarider, M. D., A. M.. Xenia. 1840: from 
Scotland: died May 16, 1854, aged seventy-two; 
buried in Woodland. 

Read, Isaac, Sugar Creek, 1805. 

Read. James. Sugar Creek. 1820: died in 1841. 

Read. Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Read, Riley VV., Sugar Creek, 1820; removed to 
Shelbyvillc, Indiana: died September 9, 1874. 

Reid, James, Xenia, 1S09: from Ireland: died April 
13, 1822, aged seventy-five: buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery (Stevenson's): wife, .Vnna; 
grandfather of Whitelaw Reid. 

Reid. E. Y., Xenia. 1840: born May 2;^. 1S19: died 
January 22. 1885 ; buried in Woodland. 

Reid, John, Xenia, 1812: brother of James'; died 
October 28, 1871, aged eighty-one; buried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Reid, Abner. Xenia, 1816: died December 7, 185S, 
aged seventy-six: Ijuried in Woodland. 

Reid. Ezra, Xenia, 1816: brother of Abner; died in 
Champaign county December 26, i860 ; buried 
in Woodland. 

Reid, Amassa. Xenia. 1818: removed to Champaign 
county. 

Reid. Robert Charlton. Xenia. 1809: born near Lex- 
ington. Kentucky, May 31, 1795; died October 
17, 1865, aged seventy: buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. Cedarville, Ohio, 
Reid. Joseph C. Xenia. i8t8: died in 1855. 
Reid. Thomas. Xenia. 1827: liorn July 8. 1799: died 
October 9, 1880. aged eighty-one ; buried in 
Cedarville cemetery. 
Reid. Thomas A.. Xenia. 1828; April 2^. 1826. mar- 
ried Ruth X'isonger. 
Reed. Johnson. Xenia. 1828; born May i, 1803; died 
October 3. 1829. aged twenly-six: buried in Mc- 
Donald graveyard. 
Reed, Allen. Xenia. 1830: January 9, 1826, married 

Margaret Miller. 
Reed, James, Xenia. 1830. 
Reed, Thomas, Jr., Xenia. i8.w. 
Read, Andrew. Bath. 1S03; from Xew Jersey; one 



of Greene county's associate judges; also served 
as Justice of the Peace in Bath township. 

Read. David. Bath. 1807. 

Read. William. Bath. 1814; son of Andrew; soldier 
of 1812: born January 21. 1793; died December 
25, 1862; buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Read. John. Bath, 1817; died in 1840. 

Read. Elephalet. Bath, 1820. 

Read. James. Bath. 1827; October 20. 1829. married 
M'atilda Guthridge. 

Read. John \V., Beaver Creek. 1840; buried in Aley 
churchyard. 

Read. Thomas. Miami. 1840; died February 22, 
1888, aged eighty-seven. 

Reeder. Elijah. Sugar Creek. 1831 ; died July 28, 
1888. aged seventv-eight ; buried one mile south 
of Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Reeder. James, Sugar Creek. 1809. 

Reeder. Jacob Gano. Bath, 1818; June 8. 1819. mar- 
ried Mary Davis. 

Reeder. Stephen. Xenia. 1826: removed ii«ir Cincin- 
nati : son-in-law of Abraham Lariie. 

Reeder. John, Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Reeder. Benjamin, Bath, 1817. 

Reeder. Abiinh. Bath. 1828. 

Reeder. Abijah S.. Batli. 1829: June 11. 1829. mar- 
ried Lucinda Smith. 

Reeder. Stephen W.. Bath. 1829: married Catlierine 
Small November 16. 1809. 

Reif, John. Xenia. 1830; died March 8, 1876. aged 
eighty; buried in Woodland. 

Redding. Ezekiel. Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Reele. Ransome. Xenia. 1825; an old time school 
teacher at Oldtown. Greene county in 1825. 

Reel. Joseph, Xenia, 1827; died in 1820. 

Reele, .-Mex.. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Reele. David. Sugar Creek. 1830: buried in Beaver- 
town cemetery; June 24. 1824. married Elizabeth 
Hufford. 

Reele. Henry, Beaver Creek, 1820; died in 1867: 
buried near Eeavertinvn, Montgomerv countv, 
Ohio. 

Reaves. Nathaniel. Caesar's Creek. 1813. 

Reid. Williim. Xenia, 1840, 

Reaves, William. Xenia. 1840. 

Reaves, Asher, Silver Creek, 1813; from Virginia: 
soldier of the Revolution: died July 31, 1845, 
aged eighty-seven : buried in Baptist graveyard, 
Jamestown. Ohio. 

Reaves. Rev. George. Silver Creek. 1816: pastor of 
Caesar's Creek Baptist church; died in 1854, 
aged fifty-nine; buried at Bowersville, Ohio. 

Reaves. Obadiah, Silver Creek, 1821 ; brother of 
George: removed to South Bend, Indiana: died 
in i860 ; married Charlott Moorman. 

Reaves. Rev. Elias M.. Silver Creek. 1840; son of 
George: died February. 1896, aged seventy-eight: 
burie<l in Highland county, Ohio: married Eliz- 
alieth MvConnell. 

Reene. Pet.'r. Beaver Creek. 1840: died October 
6. 1880. aged sixty-one: buried in Hawker's 
churchyard; married Catharine Bovey. Decem- 
ber 8. 1842. 

Reese. William R.. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Reese. Daniel, Xenia, 1816: soldier of 1812. 

Reese, Joseph. Xenia. 1821 ; soldier of 1812 : born 



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in 1794; (lied Marcli 30. i865; liuricd in F'ctrii 
graveyard. 

Reese. Abraham. Bath. 1840: from Laneester coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania : died Novcndjer 12, 1844. aged 
twenty-nine; buried in Petro graveyard. Fair- 
field. Ohio. 

Pvenwick, .-Xiidrew, Xenia, 1820. 

Renolds. James. Xenia. 181 1; soldier of 1812; niei- 
chant in Xenia in 1813. 

Kenold.s, I-lugh. Rath, 1840. 

KcnoULs. Elijah, Xenia, 1823; August 7, 1S23, mar- 
ried .^nn Barkshirc. 

Reuolds. Robert S., Xenia, 1840: attorney at law in 
Xenia in 1840. 

Reynold?. Thomas. Xenia. 1840; died June 28, iSfia, 
aged seventy-six; buried in Massie's Creek cem- 
etery, Cedarville, Ohio. 

Ream. Andrew. Xenia, 1829; father-in-law of Wash. 
Taylor: killed in a boiler explosion at Marys- 
ville, Ohio, May, i860; buried in Woodland. 

Ream, Samuel, Xenia. 1840; brother of .Andrew; 
removed to F.ellefontaine. Ohio. 

Ream. Leonard. Xenia. 1840; died July 26. 1843; 
buried in old M. E. graveyard. Ea>t Third street. 
Xenia. 

Renton, John N., Ross, 1826. 

Kedi^h. Natlian. Miami, 1810; soldier of 1812. 

Retter. Jacob, Miami, 1807; soldier of i8i2. 

Rctter, Tobias, Beaver Creek, 1807 ; died June 24, 
1S24, aged sixty-three; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. Alpha. Ohio. 

Rctter. John, Beaver Creek, 1811; soldier of 1S12. 

Retlcr. Samuel. Beaver Creek, 1818; died February 
4, 1840, aged forty-six ; buried in Aley church- 
_yard. 

Retter. Emanuel. Jr.. Reaver Creek, 1826; January 
26. 1827, married Cathorine Hawker. 

Rctter. J. J.. Bath, 1840. 

Rcprogel. .Adam. Bath. 1818; June it, 1822. mar- 
ried Eve Miller. 

Rcprogel, Ceorge. Bath, 1818. 

Rcprogel, Jacob, Bath, 1830. 

Reprogel, John. Bath. 1820; June 21, 1821. mar- 
ried Mary Ann Young. 

Reprogel. Emmanuel. Bath. 1826; died March 22. 
1S80. aged seventy-three. 

Reprogel. C., Bath, 1840. 

Repples. F-rancis, Bath, 1840. 

Rich, Jacol). Jr.. Xenia. 1840; native of Virginia: 
son of Jacob; buried on old home place, three 
miles south of Xenia. 

Rich. Josuph, Sugar Creek. 1808; son of Jacob. Sr, 

Rich. Joseph. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 181 1: son of Jacob. 
Sr. 

Rich. James, Sugar Creek, 1816; son of Jacob. Sr. 

Rich, Jacob, Sr., Xenia. 1801 ; native of Virginia; 
moved to South Carolina when eleven years old ; 
came to Ohio when twenty-two ; died May 3. 
i860; buried on the old home place, three miles 
south of Xenia ; father-in-law of Clark William- 
son. 

Rich. George, H., Xenia. 1820. 

Rich. Thomas. Xenia. 1840; son of Jacol); died De- 
cember 6. 1842, aged twenty-three; liuried on the 
Rich farm. 

Rike. Jacob. Sugar Creek. 1816; buried in Ewry 
graveyard, Beavertown. 



Rike, Henry. Sugar Creek. 1830; died June 8. 1831. 
aged sevtnty-s:x ; buried in Ewry graveyard. 
Beavertown. 

Rike. Greenburry. Sugar Creek, 1840; February i, 
1835, married Rebecca .\. Walker. 

I^iddell, Silas. Sugar Creek. 1840; from Maryland: 
died December 6, 1871. aged sixty-four; rnn'ied 
in Woodland. 

Richardson, Evan D., Sugar Creek, 1829. 

Richardson, Amos, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Richardson. James, Xenia, 1819. 

Richardson, James FL. Xenia, 1820; .August 13, 
1S22, married Kiturah Whitcly. 

Richardson. William, Xenia, 1826; son-in-Iavv of 
Valentine Bone, of Caesar's Creek township ; 
died in 1870. 

Richardson, Joshua, Xenia, 1827, 

Richardson, Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1813 ; August 5, 
1829, married Tena Alt. 

Richardson. Daniel, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Rice, William, Bath, 1820; July 19, 1821, mar- 
ried Ruth Laicher. 

Rice. John, Sugar Creek, 1807; brother of Jacob; 
February 3. 1838. married Ruth Turner. 

Rice. Roley, Sugar Creek, 1831. 

Rice. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1826; removed to Hag- 
creek, .Allen county, Ohio; November 6, 1828, 
married Hannah Neal. 

Rice, Russel, Xenia, 1817; son of Flarvey ; a black-, 
finith; a drummer in War of 1812; died De- 
cember 4. 1879. aged ninel) -eight ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Rice, Silas, Xenia, 1818; son of Harvey; brother 
of Russel; a lifer in War of 1812; he and his 
brother belonged to Capt. Montjoy's company; 
buried at Hamilton. Ohio. 

Rice, Lucy, Xenia, 1820; mother of Russel and 
Silas; buried in Woodland. 

Rickman. Thomas. Caesar's Creek, 1809. 

Rickman, James, Xenia, 1827. 

Rickman. William. Xenia. 1826; May 10. 1827, mar- 
ried Mary Miller. 

Risk. James. Caesar's Creek. 1815. 

Richards. Littleton, Xenia, 1825; January 17, 1827, 
married Margaret Harvey. 

Richards, Conrad, Xenia, iik)7. 

Richards. Arnold, Xenia, 1807; removed to Chi- 
cago; May 30, 1816, married Mary Mayberry. 

Richards, William. Xenia. 1813; e.x-rccorder oi 
Greene county; soldier of 1812; removed to 
Chicago, Illinois. 

Richards. Cieorge, Xenia. 1826. 

Richards. Manley. Xenia. 1828; Decendjer 20. 1821, 
married Cathorine Hardman. 

Richards, Ananias, Xenia. 1828 ; April 8, 1826. mar- 
ried Mary Driscall. 

Richards. Daniel, Xenia, 1829; son of William. Sr. 

Richards, Augustus, Xenia. 1840; son of William, 
Sr. 

Riggans, Jeptha. Xenia. 1825 ; editor of "Clintonian 
and Xenia Register." published in Xenia in 1825. 

Rightsel, John. Ross. 1840. 

Richmond. John A.. Ross. 1840. 

Richey. John. Silver Creek, 1816. 

Ritenhouse, John, Beaver Creek, 1803; soldier oj' 
1812. 

Ritenhouse, Garrett, Beaver Creek, 1803. 



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Ritenhouse, Jackson, Beaver Creek. 1804. 

Ritenhouse. William, Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Ritenhouse. OlKidiah. Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Riley, John, Miami. 1809; soldier oif 1812. 

Riley. Christian. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Ricketts. Daniel D.. Jasper. 1820; died in 1864. 

Ricketts, Chas., Bath, 1820. 

Ridenonr, David. Xenia, 1840; December 26. 1841, 
married Elizabeth Swisher. 

Ridenonr. Samuel. 1840; June 5. 184J. married Jane 
Gatrell. 

Ridenour. Daniel, Beaver Creek. 1840; died Feb- 
ruary 17. 1877. aged sixty-three: buried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard. 

Ridenour. Maj. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1840: died 
in Union county, Indiana, July 30. 1848 ; soldier 
in Wayne's army. 

Ridenour. Herlry. Beaver Creek. 1832; born in 
1807; died December 8. 1884. aged seventy-seven; 
buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Ridenour. Richard. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Ridenour. Dani(;l. Ross. 1830 : died February 26, 
1874. aged seventy-six ; buried in Grape Grove. 

Ridenour. Michael. Ross, 1840; died September 8, 

18S6. aged six(v-four ; buried in Grape Gro\c. 
Ohio, 

Ripley, William, Bath, 1840; August 2, 1836, mar- 
ried Manerva Johnson. 

Ripps, William. Bath, 1840. 

Rhodei, William, Xenia, 1820; from New Jersey; 
a wagon maker; died .-^pril 10. 1888. aged sev- 
enty-seven : buried in Woodland. 

Rhoades. Sanford, Miami, 1811. 

Rhoades. Walter. Miami. 1821 ; October 0, i82(-.. 
married Ann Rhinehine. 

Rhoades. Matthias. Miami, 1821. 

Rhoades. Nicholis. Miami. 1820; died in 1830; sol- 
dier of the Revolution, in "Lee"s Legion," Jan- 
uary 24, 1830. 

Rhoades, John, Miami, 1821 ; February 4, 1836. mar- 
ried ^Iary .•Xnn Shaffer. 

Rliinehart, Nicholas, Miami, 1S40. 

Rhinehart, Isaac, Miami, 1S20; Scpteniljcr 16, 1830, 
married Francis Gibson. 

Rhinehart, Matthias, Miami, 1828. 

Rodgers, James, Xenia, 1840; died November i, ' 
1854, aged fifty-seven. 

Rodgers. William. Sugar Creek. 1808; from Rock- 
bridge county. Virginia : son of John ; soldier 
of 1812; father of Aniel and Lewis; born Sep- 
tember 7, 1784: died December 3. 1815; buried 
in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook; built the 
Rodgers mill. 

Rodgers, Henry, Sugar Creek, 1805; married Sus- 
anna Hurley, August 15, 1805. 

Rodgers, Andrew, Xenia. 1820. 

Rodgers, James. Xenia. 1840; died November 1. 
1854, aged fifty-seven, 

Rodgers. Richard. Xenia. 1829. 

Rodgers, Lewis, Xenia. 1830; son of William died 
June I", 1857, aged forty-five; buried in Wood 
land; married Eliza Govvdy. 

Rodgers, .'Xniel, Nenia, 1830: son of William; born 
July 18, 1814; died January 4, 1892, aged sev- 
enty-eight • buried in Woodland. 

Rodgers, Luke, Xenia, 1840. 



Rodgers, Amos, Xenia. 1837; died January 28. 1868, 
aged fifty-seven ; buried in Woodland. 

Roe. Daniel. Xenia. 1826; Manufacturer of paint 
at Yellow Springs in 1826: removed to Cin- 
cinnati. 

Robinson. Joseph. Sr., Sugar Creek, 1803; died 
March 6, 1806, aged seventy-two; buried in 
Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Robinson. Joseph. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1803; soldier 
of 1812; died in 1820; buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard. Bellbrook; son of Joseph. Sr, 

Robinson. Edward. Sugar Creek. 1803; son of Jos- 
eph. Sr. ; soldier of 1812; died October 17. 1845. 
aged seventy-three j buried in Pioneer graveyard, 
Bellbrook. 

Robinson. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1804; March 27, 

1804. married Sarah Blair Carman. 

Robinson. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1804; August 15. 

1805, married I.ydia Horner. 

Robin-on, George, .Sugar Creek, 1S20 ; May 18, 1823, 
married Ann Kiler. 

Robinson. James. Caesar's Creek, 1807; January 17, 
1841, married Ann White. 

Robinson. Thomas, Caesar's Creek. 1S07 : November 
18. 1831. married Cyntha Hanes. 

Robinson. William, Caesar's Creek. 1807; grandfa- 
ther of James, of Jamestown; removed to Fay- 
ette county, Ohio. 

Robinson. Singleton. Caesar's Creek, 1828; son of 
William; father of James ; born in 1811. 

Robinson, Spencer, Caesar's Creek, 1828. 

Robinson, Braxton, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Robinson. Mitchell. Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Robinson, William, Sr,, Bath, 1S09: died in 1822. 

Robinson. W'illiam Carman. Xenia, 1829; grandfa- 
ther of Edith, ex-deputy clerk of courts: buried 
in Woodland. 

Robinson, William Coburn, Xenia. 1828; ex-sheriff 
of Greene county from 1839 to 1842; died April 
4, 1842, aged thirty-six; buried in Woodlanr ; 
father of George F. Robinson ; son of Henson. 
Sr. 

Robinson, Samuel. Xenia, 1829: son of Henson, Sr. ; 
removed to Miami county; buried in Piqua. 

Robinson. Henson. Jr.. Xenia, 1829; son of Hen- 
son, Sr. ; removed to Winfield. Kansas, where 
he died and is buried. 

Robinson. John. Xenia. 1829; father of Henson. of 
Springfield. Illinois: died March 31. 1843. aged 
twenty-eight; buried in Woodland. 

Robinson. Stafford. Xenia. 1840 

Robinson. Samuel D.. Ross. 1840; September 24. 
1840, married Ann J. Pollock. 

Robins(m. Thomas R., Ross, 1840. 

Robinson, Joseph, Silver Creek, 1816; died March 
9. 1891 ; buried in Baptist graveyard, Jamestown. 
Ohio ; aged eighty-one. 

Robinson. Absalom. Silver Creek. 1840. 

Ross. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1840 : from Greene 
county. Pennsylvania : son of Robert ; died Aug- 
ust 12, 1822. aged twenty-four; buried at Mt. 
Zion. 

Ross, .\lexander F... Sugar Creek. 1S09; soldier of 
1812. 

Ross. John. .Sugar Creek. 1S17; soldier of 1S12; died 
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Kcjss, Rachel, Sugar Creek, 1850. 

Ross. Robert, Caesar's Creek, 1804; (lied July 10, 

1S77, aged eighty-three; buried at Jamestown. 

Ohio. 
Ross, John, Caesar's Creek. 1807; died November I, 

1866. aged *ixty ; buried at Bowersville, Ohio. 
Ross, Alexander, Xenia, 1807. 
Ross, John, Xenia, 1817. 
Ross, George, Beaver Creek, 1818. 
Ross, Thonias D., Miami, 1840; died January 29. 

i83i, aged :eventv-five ; buried at Fairtield. 

Ohio. 
Ross, Alexander, Miami, 181 1. 
Ross. Isin, Silver Creek. 1840; died X'oveniber i, 

l866, aged sixty; buried at Bowersville. 
Ross, James, Ross, 1813; removed to Missouri. 
Ross, Enos, Ross, 18.32 ; died August 13, 1887. aged 

seventy-seven ; buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 
Rose, James, Sugar Creek, 1840. 
Rose, Simon, Xenia, 1840. 

Rose, James I., Xenia, 1840; removed to Knox coun- 
ty^ Illinois. 
Ro-e, William. Silver Creek. 1813. 
Rose, James. Beaver Creek, 1820. 
Robins. William. Beaver Creek, 1803. 
Rouzier. John. Caesar's Creek, 1817. 
Romain. Christopher. Bath. 1811; soldier of 1812. 
Romame, Peter, Bath. 1813. 
Romaine. Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1828. 
Roley. Samuel. Silver Creek, 1830; January 5. 1832. 

married Emily Stul'l. 
Rnley. Elijah. Caesar's Creek. 1828: May I. 1S28, 

married Martha Cornvvell. 
Roley. Elisha. Caesar's Creek. 1828; December 29. 

1836. married Eleanor Williams. 
Roley. Elias. Silver Creek, 1840; October 26, 1829. 

married Sarah Mullen. 
Rockhill, Edward. Xenia, 1840; died June 8. 1863. 

aged sixty-eight ; buried in Woodland. 
Rowe, (Bernard. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 
Rollings, John R., Caesar's Creek. 1806. 
Rough, .Vlex., Sr., Xenia, 1803; died in 1805; the 

first buried in Massie's Creek churchyard (Stc 

venson's). 
Rough.- Alex., Jr., Xenia. 1828: died October 21. 

1851, aged forty-five; buried in Massie's Creek 

cemetery. 
Rough. Margaret. Xenia. 1807 ; widow of .iMcx.. Sr. ; 

buried in Massie's Creek churchyard (Steven- 
son's). 
Rough. Thomas, Xenia, 1826: the heir of Thomas 

Simpson; removed to Hardin coamty. Oliio: 

February 8, 1827. married Grace Collins. 
Rout, William. Xenia, 1808. 

Rowen. Alexander. Ross. 1813 ; soldier of 1812. 
Rowen, Edward, Ross, 1812; soldier of 1812. 
Rosegrant, Alex, Bath, 1807. 
Rosegrant, John, Miami, 1810; died in 1814. 
Rosegrant, George. Miami. 1810. 
Rodecker. George, Miami, 1820; store keeper in Lu,i 

low. Greene comity, Ohio, in 1819; June 14, 

1840, married Christiana Haverstick. 
RoadhauK'l. Henry, Beaver Creek, 1819. 
Robertson, Samuel, Xenia, 1840. 
Romspert. John W.. Beaver Creek, 1840; died June 

13, 1881, aged sixty-seven; buried iii Hawker's 

churchj'ard. 
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Romspert, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1840; from Mary- 
land. 

Rockafield. Martin, Bath, 1807; wife, Mary; born 
September 14, 1761 ; died March 9, 1836, aged 
ninety- foair; buried in Rockafield churchyard. 

Rockafield, Aaron, Beaver Creek, 1807; soldier of 
1812; son of Martin, Sr. ; died in 1836. 

Rockafield, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1826; son of 
Aaron ; December 6, 1827, married Elizabeth 
Casad. 

Rockafield, Adam, Beaver Creek, 1829. 

Rockafield, John, Bath, 1827; son of Martin, Sr. ; 
died July 16, 1859, aged fifty-eight; buried in 
Rockafield graveyard; October 1, 1826, married 
Elizabeth Cost. 

Rockafield, George, Bath, 1828; son of Aaron, Sr. 

Rockafield, Jacob, Bath, 1830. 

Rockafield. Isaac, Bath, 1840; son of Martin, Sr. ; 
June 30, 1833, married Mary Wolf. 

Rockafield. Abraham, Bath, 1840; died March 3, 
1829, aged twenty-two ; buried in Rockafield 
graveyard. 

Routzong, Nathaniel, Beaver Creek, 1819. 

Routzong. Adam. Beaver Creek, 1840; September 
7, 1837, married Sarah Kcxjgler. 

Routzong. Adam, Bath, 1828; from Maryland; died 
June 16. 1887, aged eighty; buried in Union 
graveyard; born in 1806. 

Routzong. Henry, Sr., Bath, 1828 ; from Maryland ; 
died July 20, 18.49, aged eighty-one; buried near 
Byron, Ohio. 

Routzong, Henry, Jr.. Bath, 1829; died January 25, 
1892. aged eighty-seven; buried at Byron, Ohio. 

Routzong. John, Bath, 1840; died January 22, 1896, 
aged eighty-six ; buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Routzong, Elias, Bath, 1840; November 12. 1836. 
married .Anna Sipe. 

Roberts. Wesley, Xenia, 1825; colored; from Bruns- 
wick county, Virginia; came to Xenia in 1825; 
a good citizen; barber by trade; died April 7, 
1862, aged forty-seven. 

Roberts, John. Sugar Creek, 1827; from Virginia; 
died December 12. 1898, aged nincty-si.x ; April 
20. 1837, married Cyntha Kenady. 

Robert.s, Abraham, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Roberts. Samuel B., Caesar's Creek, 1840; February 
25. 1819, married Rebecca Beall. 

Roberts, Silas, Xenia, 181 1; soldier of 1812; died 
July 16, i860, aged seventy-four; buried in 
Woodland. 

Roberts. Orlistus, Xenia, 1819; a charter menihei' 
of first Masonic lodge organised in Xenia. 

Roberts. John, Xenia. 1830; son of Silas; died Sep- 
tember 20, 1872, aged fifty-two ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Roberts. Benjamin. Xenia, 1S30; Jaiiuafly 9. 1826. 
married Nancy Rivers. 

Roberts. Lewis, Xenia, 1830. 

Roberts. George, Bath, 1817; July 9. 1818. married 
Sarah Beall. 

Roberts, Conrad. Bath, 1820; father of Daniel. Rob- 
ert. Jacob, Adam and Noah; died in 1832; buried 
in Folck graveyard. 

Roberts, Jesse, Miami, 1840; September 7, 1837, mar- 
ried Mary Ann Cooper. 

Roberts. William, Ross, 1818; son of Conrad; No- 
vember 20, 1839, married Eliza Ann Dawson. 



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Roberts, William J.. Ross, l8l8. 

Rockett, Nlathaniel. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Rockwell, Abraham. Beaver Creek, 1840; died Sep- 
tember 12. 1877. aged sixty- seven ; buried in 
Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Ruth, George. Sugar Creek, 1S08. 

Ruth, William, Caesar's Creek, 1804. 

Rutli. Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1804; buried at 
Jamestown, Ohio ; May 10, 1S04, married Jane 
Wilson. 

Ruth, John, Caesar's Creek, 1805. 

Ruth, Samuel, Silver Creek, 1820; February 7, 1827, 
married Eleanor Hite; buried in Jamestov n 
cemeterj'. 

Ruth, M. W., Silver Creek. 1840. 

Rusher. Andrew, Beaver Creek, 1830: died No- 
vember 8. 1871. aged seventy-five: buried in 
Hawker churchyard. 

Russell, Joshua. Sugar Creek. 1810: soldier of iSij; 
died October 17. 1879; buried in \\'ondland. 

Russell, Moses. Sugar Creek. i8i3_: died March 13. 
1851, aged seventy-five; buried at Sidney. Ohio. 

Russell, William. Beaver Creek. 1828: January 14. 
1830, married Xancy Lamme. 

Russell. Adam. Sr.. Beaver Creek. 1813 : died Feb- 
ruary 10, 1857, aged eighty-six ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Russell, Joshua. Jr.. Reaver Creek. 1826: died Oc- 
tober 17, 1879, aged eighty: buried in Woodland; 
October 9. 1835. married Martha McClure. 

Russell. William R.. Beaver Creek, 1827. 

Russell. John, Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Russell. Rev. Moses. Miami. 1840: died March 22. 
1864. aged fifty-two ; buried in Clifton cemeterv ; 
December 6, 1842. married Xancy Jacoby. 

Russell. .Alexander, Miami. 1809. 

Russell. Adam, Jr., Beaver Creek. 1840: from Vir- 
ginia: died May 4. 1891. aged eighty-si.x; buried 
in Woodland. 

Ruhert. Isaac Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Rubert. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Ruhert. Enos, Beaver Creek. 1808; soldier of 1812; 
died May 11. 1828. aged fifty-six; buried in 
Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Rubert. John, Beaver Creek. 1830. 

Rubert. Moses. Beaver Creek. iSii. 

Rumbaugh. James. Silver Creek. 1828; February it. 
1830. ma:'ried Julia ,Mdridge. 

Rue. John. Heaver Creek. 1803: born in Maryland: 
removed to Clark county. Ohio. 

Rue. .Vbraham, Be.iver Creek. 1803. 

Rue. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1805: soldier of 1812. 

Rue. Margaret. Beaver Creek. 1813. 

Rue. .'\braham. Xenia, 1830; colored; worked for 
years for James Galloway, Jr. 

Rudduck. David, Caesar's Creek. 1828: died June 
18. 1867; buried in Zoar churchyard: aged fifty- 
nine. 

Rudduck. Joseph. Caesar's Creek, 1828: died June 
13. 1858, aged eighty-one; buried in Zoar church- 
yard. 

Runyan. .Abraham. M.ianii. 1807. 

Runyan. John. Miami. 1807. 

Rush. Jesse. Bath. 1S07: buried in Folck graveyard: 
father-in-law of X'athan Frakes. 



Rush, Jacob, Bath. 1810. 

Rush, Zebedee, Bath. 1816. 

Rush. Jesse. Jr., Bath, 1818; January 31, 1820, mar- 
ried Jane Martin. 

Rush. Alva. Bath, 1840; January 9. 1842, married 
Mary Roberts. 

Rush. John. Bath. 1826; August 19, 1819. married 
Elizabeth Tatman. 

Rush, Dr. Leonard. Bath. 1826; March 10. 1829. 
married Eleanor, daughter of Elisha Searl. 

Ruffan. William, Bath, 1826. 

Ryan. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1806; March 18. 1S04, 
married Hannah Bush. 

Ryan. William, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Ryer, Joseph. Bath, 1826; January 13. 1827. mar- 
ried Lois Petro. 

Routledge. George, Xenia, 1835. 

Sackett. Cyrus, Sugar Creek. 1803: died July 13. 
1846. aged eighty-three; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, one mile south of Bellbrook, Ohio ; wife, 
X'ancy. 

Sackett, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1816: son of Cyru; 
and Xancy; May 28. 1816. married Anna \'an 
dolah. 

Sackett. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1821 ; son of Cyru^ 
and X'ancy. 

Sackett, Cyrus, Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1826; son of Cyrus 
and Xancy. 

Sackett. Alexander, Sugar Creek. 1840 ; son of 
Cyrus; born .-Kpril jj. 1808; died April 10, 1893; 
buried in Baptist graveyard, Bellbrook. 

Sackett. John. Sugar Creek. 1840; died March 5, 
1891, aged sixty-five; buried in Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Sanders. Jesse, Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1806; wife, Sarah; 
daughters. Jemimah. Jane. Susanna ; sons, Fores, 
John and Jesse. 

Sanders. John, Sugar Creek, 1806; from X'orth 
Carolina; father of Jesse; soldier of the Revo- 
lution ; buried at Mt. Holly on the borders of 
Greene county ; died in 1812. . 

Sanders. Forris, Sugar Creek, 1808; son of Jesse: 
from North Carolina ; grandfather of John C. 
Sanders, of Xenia; removed to Indiana; sol- 
dier of 1812. 

Sanders. Jesse. Sugar Creek, 1808: fromj X'^orth 
Carolina; soldier of 1812: son of Jesse; father 
of Rebecca and Susan; died May 21. 1880. aged 
eighty-eight: buried in Woodland; Xovember 5. 
1840, married Elizabeth Simerson. 

Sanders. Hezekiah. Sugar Creek, i8og: from Vir- 
ginia: soldier of 1812: long a resident of Xenia; 
biiried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Sanders, Jesse. Sugar Creek, 1813 ; from Virginia; 
soldier of 1812; August 19, 1830, married Casan- 
der Bell. 

Sanders. John F.. Sugar Creek, 1827; January 15. 
1808. married Christiana Cane. 

Sanders. Branson. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

Sanders. Jesse. Jr., Sugar Creek. 1840; son of 
Forris ; died iSIay 19. 1882. aged seventy-six : 
buried in Woodland; father of John C, of 
Xenia. 

Sanders, James. Caesar's Creek. 1840; son of For- 
ris ; removed to Indiana. 

Sanders. James. Caesar's Creek. 1804. 



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Sanders, VVilliani. Caesar's Creek, 1808: from North 
Carolina; died July 2, 1862, aged eighty-four; 
Ijuried in Baptist graveyard, Jamestown, Ohio. 

Sanders, Aaron. Caesar's Creek. 1840; from Loudoun 
county, Virginia; died in 1865. 

Sanders, .^aron. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1807; from 
Loudoun county. \'irginia ; huricd neaf James- 
town, Ohio. 

Sanders, Hezikiah, Xenia, 1807. 

Sanders. Isaac, Xenia, 1807; soldier of 1812; died 
.\ngust 4, 1883. aged eighty-four; buried in 
Jamestown, Oliio. 

Sanders. Mahlon. Xenia. 1827. 

Sanders, Samuel, Xenia, 1807; soldier of 181J. 

Sanders, William. Xenia, 1840. 

Sanders. Levi. Silver Creek. 1840; son of William; 
removed to Clark county, Ohio; .-Kugust u, i8jo' 
married Polly Sanders. 

Sanders, William, Silver Creek. 1812; son of Moses. 
Sr. ; from Loudoun county. Virginia; died in 
1861 : Iniried at Janicstow'^. Ohio. 

Sanders. Lawrence. Silver Creek, 1822; born June 
2. 1801 ; died .May .30. 1836, aged thirty-four; 
buried ai Jamestown, Ohio; married Nancy 
Spahr. 

Sanders. Benjamin. Silver Creek, 1828. 

Sanders, Janics, Silver Creek, 1830; died March 
28, 1894, aged eighty-seven ; buried near James- 
town, Ohio ; married Kesiah Farmer. 

Sanders, William, Jr., Silver Creek, 1830; died Oc- 
tober 5. 1830. aged twenty-two; buried in- Baptist 
graveyard, Jamestown, Ohio. 

Sanders, Jolin, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Sanders, Moses, Silver Creek, 1820; son of William; 
in i8gg yet living ; April 16, 1820, married Anna 
Farmer. 

Sanders, William S.. Silver Creek, 1830; March 9, 
1849. married Milly Boulden. 

Sanders. James D.. Silver Creek, 1840 ; son of 
\\'illiam ; died in i8go; buried at Jamestown, 
Ohio. 

Saulsberry, Jeffrey S., Sugar Creek. 1806; Sep- 
tember 8, l8oft, married Jemimah Sanders. 

Saulsberry. James. Sugar Creek. 1827; died in 1861; 
buried in Mercer graveyard, south of Xenia. 

Saulsberry. Daniel. Sugar Creek, 1S40: soldier in 
Civil War, Co. G, One Hundred and Fifty- 
fourth ; August 20, 1819, married Deborah 
Horney. 

Saterfiekl. John, Sugar Creek, 1811 ; soldier of 
1812, under Capt. Clark. 

Savers, Calvin, Xenia, 1807; married Nancy, daugh- 
ter of William Ma.xwell. 

Savers, John, Beaver Creek, 1821 ; had a carding 
mill at Bellbrook, Ohio; firm name, John Bell 
& John Sayers, in 1826. 
Sayers, Thomas, Beaver Creek, 1821. 
Sauni. Jacob, Beaver Creek, 181 1; born January 2, 
1777: died September 5, 1858, aged eighty-one; 
buried in Beaver Creek churchvard ; soldier of 
1812. 
Saum, Abraham, Beaver Creek, 1819. 
Saum, Jacob D., Beaver Creek, 1826. 
Saum. Jacob, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1826. 
Saum, Nicholas, Beaver Creek 1827. 
Sale, Franci-- A., Xenia, 1826; brother of Richard; 



died at Marion, Indiana, February 12, 1879, aged 
si.xty-two ; son of Rev. John and Nancy Sale. 

Sale. Rev. John, Xenia. 1807; born April 24, 1769; 
died January 27, i8i7. at Troy, Ohio, aged sixty ; 
buried in Bonner graveyard, south of Xenia. 

Sale, Richard W., Xenia, 1826; died at the home of 
his brother in Indiana, November 19, 1881; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Sale, John F., Xenia. 1827; son of Rev. John and 
Nancv ; December 18, 1832, married Jane San- 
ford. 

Sale, Thomas W., Xenia. 1828; son of Rev. John 
and Nancy ; removed to Indiana. 

Sale. Fredrick B., Xenia, 1830; son of Rev. John 
and Nancy. 

Santmyer, David. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Sailor, George, Xenia. 1819. 

Savin, Samuel, Xenia, 1827: from Rockbridge 
county, Virginia ; born November 29, 1781 ; died 
March 22, 1851, aged fifty-nine; buried in Boots' 
graveyard, near Jasper, Ohio. 

Savill. Joseph, Xenia, 1827; son of Samuel; born 
February 15. 1817: died in 1894; buried in Wood- 
land : aged seventy-seven. 

Savill. Henry, Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Savill. Jacob, Caesars Creek, 1840; removed to 
Washington, Iowa. 

Sanderson, John A.. Xenia. 1840. 

Sample, John, Miami, r840. 

Sannile, James, Miami. 1830; March 4, 1834, mar- 
ried .Ann Hartsc>ok. 

Sadler, William. Beaver Creek. 1828; September 28, 
1826, married Elizabeth Fields. 

Sawyer, Uriah, Bath, 1820. 

Service. Stephen, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Sellinger. .\dani. Sugar Creek, iSii; soldier of 1812; 
died August 25, 1825, aged si.xty-two ; buried in 
New Burlington cemetery. 

Sellinger, George, Sugar Creek. 1811; soldier of 
1812; died September 26, 1813. aged twenty-one; 
Iniried at Burlington. 

Seaman. Lewis A., Xenia, 182S ; a resident of 
Xenia from 1828 to 1836 : died at Bellefontaine 
December 28, 1882. 

Seaman. Henry, Sugar Creek. 1813; soldier of the 
Revolution: from N'irginia: died in 1838. aged 
eighty ; buried in Middle Run churchyard, south 
of Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Seaman, David, Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Seaman, Isaiah, Xenia. 1828; January 7. 1830, mar- 
ried Ruby Burr. 

Seaman. Peter, Xenia, 1812. 

Seaman. Jonathan, Xenia. 1826: son-in-law of Sol- 
omon Smith ; September 17, 1822, married Sarah 
Smith. 

Seaman, George. Xenia, 1826; married a daughter 
of Moses Trader. 

Seaman. Philip. Xenia, 1829: died in Xenia .August, 
1831. 

Seaman. Benjamin, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Sensabaugh. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1840; died June 
27, 1891; buried in Pisgah churchyard, north of 
Shoup's Station. 
Selvey. James. Ross. 1S18: .\pril 24. 1825, married 

Mary Jackson. 
Sewcll, Peter, Beaver Creek, 1803. 



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Sexton, Charles, Xenia. 1840; son of Joseph, Sr. ; 
removed to Cincinnati, Ohio; buried in Spring 
Grove. 

Sexton. Charles W., Sugar Creek, 1829. 

Sexton, Col. Joseph, Sr., Sugar Creek, 1826; from 
Frederick. Virginia: died in 1836, aged sixty- 
three: buried in Massie's Creek churchyard (Ste- 
venson's). 

Sexton, John, Xenia. 1821 : died in 1841 ; buried in 
Caesar's Creek churcliyard, south of New Bur- 
lington, Ohio. 

Sexton. James. Xenia. 1830; died May ir, 1877, aged 
fifty-five : buried in Woodland. 

Sexton. Samuel. Xenia, 1840; removed to New- 
York : a successful M. D. 

Sellars, Jacob. Xenia, 1817; son of Henry, Sr. ; Aug- 
ust 26. 1817, married Nancy Beatty. 

Sellars, Pollsier, Ross, i8ig: died February jy, 
1857, aged sixty-nine ; buried in Bloxsom grave- 
yard, near Selma. 

Sellars, James, Ross, 1829. 

Sellars, Albert, Ross, 1840; from Georgetown, Vir- 
ginia; died March 5, 1894, aged eighty-two; 
buried near Selma. 

Sellars, John, Xenia. 1825; from Virginia; soldier 
of 1812; died December 17, 1S74, aged seventy- 
eight: buried in Woodland. 

Sellars, Henry, Xenia, 1825; brother of John. 

Sellars, John M., Xenia. 184.0; came to Xenia from 
Warren county in 1852. 

Seldomridge, Michael, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Stldomridge, David, Xenia, 1840; soldier in Civil 
War, Co. C. Seventy-four O. V. I. ; buried in 
Miassie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Seldonridge, William, Xenia, 1840. 

Seldomridge, James, Bath, 1840: December 31, i835' 
married Malinda Littlejohn. 

Seldomridge. Samuel, IXIiami, 1840. 

Severs, George, Caesar's Creek, 1830 ; February 12, 
1829, married Nancy Thompson. ' 

Searl, George, Bath, 1836 ; July 8, 1838, married 
Susan Lee. 

Searl, Elijah, Bath, 1813; one of the first tavern 
keepers in Fairfield. Ohio. 

Searl, Reuben, Bath. 1813. 

Searl, Reuben, Jr., Bath, 1813. 

Searl, Elisha, Bath, 1813; soldier of 1812; kept tav- 
ern in F'airfield, Ohio, in 1817. 

Searl, David A., Bath, 1816. 

Searl, John, Bath, 1816. 

Searl, Timothy, Bath, 1817; March g, 1821, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Hosier. 

Searl, Sweetland, Bath, 1817. 

Searl. Brown, Bath, 1818; F'ebruary 13, 1817, mar- 
ried Barbary Hosier. 

Searl, Reuben S., Bath, 1826. 

Searl, Isaac B., Bath, 1826, 

Searl, Job, Bath, 1826; August 26, 1829, married 
Elizabeth Maxon, 

Searl, John, Bath, 1827; May 8, 1830, married Eliz- 
abeth Merrill. 

Sett, John, Silver Creek, 1827; February 8, 1821, 
married Nancy Ary, 

Sensabaugh, Joel, Xenia, 1840. 

Seal, William, Sugar Creek, 1840; died October 11, 
1863, «igcd eighty; buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 



Seslar, Jonas, Silver Creek, 1S27 : died November 
4, 1868, aged seventy-one; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery, 

Seslar, Thomas, Silver Sreek, 1840; died September 
24, 1879, aged eighty-four ; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery. 

Seslar, Josephine, Silver Creek, 1840; widow of 
Thomas. 

Seslar, Joseph. Silver Creek, 1840; December 26, 
1839, married Maria Chaney. 

Seslar, Martin, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Sevval, Peter. Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Sears. Penlope, Silver Creek, 1820. 

Sechman, Casper, Miami, 1840. 

Seamore. Thomas, Bath, 1840. 

Schooley. Israel, Sugar Creek, 1806; soldier of 
1812; July i6, 1820, married Deborah Fifer. 

Schooley, Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1806. 

Schooley, James. Xenia. 1840; died November 6, 
1881 : October 31. 1840, married Mpria Buscr. 

Schooley, William, Xenia, 1840; died May 16, 1871; 
buried in Woodland ; soldier in Civil War, Sev- 
enty-fourth O. V. I. 

Scott, Rev. 'f'hnmas, Sugar Creek, »8o8 ; be it was 
who married John Paul and Sally Griffen Grover. 

Scott, Stephen, Sugar Creek, 1815; from \'irginia; 
son of John; a member of Caesar's Creek Bap- 
tist church in 1820; died February, 1884, aged 
ninety-eight; buried at Maple Corners. 

Scott, Aloses, Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Scott, James, Sugar Creek, 1803; had a history in 
the courts: born .April 27, 1768: died March 5, 
1816; buried in Pioneer gravevard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 

Scott, Robert, Sugar Creek, 1804 ; a son-in-law of 
John Gowdy, Sr.. of Sugar Creek; born Janu- 
ary I, 1766; died July 20, 1833, aged sixty-seven; 
buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Scott. William, Caesar's Creek, 1816; died May 11, 
1857, aged fifty-six; buried in Caesar's Creek 
churchyard, Jamestown. Ohio. 

Sqott, Andrew, Xenia, 1807; soldier of 1812; son 
of William and Jane. 

Scott, Jo.seph. Beaver Creek, 1834; .\ugU5t 8, 183.5, 
married Elizabeth Bates. 

Scott, Moses, Xenia, 1807. 

Scott, M-argaret. Xenia, 1807. 

Scott, (Jeorge, Xenia, 1827. 

Scott, John. Xenia, 1827: from Virginia; grand- 
father of the late D. B. Tiffany ; soldier of the 
Revolution ; died in 1840 : buried in the M. E. 
graveyard. East Third street, Xenia. 

Scott, James A., Xenia, 1816; from Northumber- 
land county, Pennsylvania; died August 12, 1881, 
aged eighty-seven ; buried in Woodland : soldier 
of 1812 ; ex-sheritT and ex-representative cf 
Greene county. 

Scott, John, Xenia, 1816; a millwright; brother of 
James A.; removed to Miami county; died near 
Troy, aged eighty-one. 

Scott, William, Xenia, 1840. 

Scott, Moses. Miami, 1810. 

Scott, John, Miami, 1812. 

Scott, William, Miami, 1817; soldier of 1812; died 
June 28, 1843, aged eighty; buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery; wife's name, Jane. 



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Scott. John, Ross, l8,?o; son of William; from 
Scotland : died Feljruary 9, 1885, aged eighty- 
five : buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Scott, Jame.-i. Ross, 1830; son of William and Jane. 

Scott, William, Ross, 1840; son of William and 
Jane. 

Scott, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1811 ; son of William 
and Jane. 

Schnebly, James, Sugar Creek, 1819: from Fred- 
rick county, Maryland; .soldier of 1812; born 
September 18, 1782; died July 15, 1879, aged 
ci^hty-seveli ; buried in Woodland; built the mill 
in 1833. 

Schnebly, John, Sr., 1819; lirother of James. Sr. ; 
coroner of Greene county in 1835 ; saddler by 
trade: removed to Dayton; died in 1852. 

Schnebly, John L., Sugar Creek, J840; died Janu- 
ary 5, 1879, aged sixty-two; buried in VVood- 
land. 

Scarf, John, Xcnia, 1818 ; died December 10, 1847, 
aged sixty-six; buried in Woodland. 

Scarf, Nicholas, Xenia, 1818; from Winchester, Vir- 
ginia; died September 20, 1841, aged seventy- 
seven; buried in Woodland; wife's name. Provi- 
dence. 

Scarf, Benjamin, Xenia, 1818. 

Scarf, John, Xenia. 1826; died Deceiiiber JO, 1847; 
buried in Woodland. 

.Scarf, William, Xenia, 1840; died September 26, 
1838. aged forty-nine; buried in Woodland. 

Scarf. James, Xenia, 1840; son of William; born, 
in 1818: died July 18, 18S9; buried in Woodbnd. 

Scarf. John. Jr., Xenia. 1840; removed to Burling- 
ton. Iowa. 

Scarf, James R., Xcnia. 1840; son of Xicholas and 
Providence. 

Scarft. William, Xenia, 1840; removed to Bcllcfon- 
laine, Ohio. 

Scarf, Milton, Xenia, 1840; son of William; died 
May, 1900; buried in Woodland. 

Scroggy, John. Sugar Creek, 1820; died January 21, 
1891, aged seventy- three ; buried in Xew Burling- 
ton cemetery. 

Scroggy, Wilson, Sugar Creek, 184a; Jlay 20. 183c, 
married Armelia Young. 

Schroder, Philip, Bath, 1840. 

Schrack, Samuel, Silver Creek, 1826; died Novem- 
ber 16, 1864, aged seventy; buried in Baptist 
graveyard, near Jamestown. Ohio. 

Schrack. John. Silver Creek, 1830. 

Schrack. William. Caesar's Creek, 1828; Seiucniber 
26. 1829, married Mhrgaret Risk. 

Scroggs, "Thomas F.. Xenia, 1830; died March 3. 
1833; buried in (irccnfield. Highland county. 
Ohio. 

Scroggs, Allen, Xenia. 1840; buried in Woodland. 

Scroggs, .\le.xander, Caesar's Creek, 1827; buried 
in McDonald graveyard, southeast of Xcnia. 

Scroggs, Mary Lyon, Caesar's Creek, 1840; wife of 
.\lexander; died .Ai'gust 23. 1849. aged forty- 
six; buried in McDonald graveyard.- 

Schnect. John. Silver Creek. 182S. 

Schanepp. Jacob, Bath. 1840; born in 1807; buried 
in Fairfield cemetery. 

Scudder, William, Beaver Creek. 1840: January 2. 
1840, married Elizabeth Minton. 

Schuer, Samuel. Bath, 1816; from Pennsylvania; 



born in 1789; came to Ohio in 181O; died Octo- 
ber 10, 1S75. aged eighty-six ; buried at Union. 

Schuer. George, Bath, 1840; died in 1889. 

Scudder, Obediah, Beaver Creek, 1840; March 25, 
1831, married Fanny Minton. 

Schreaves, James, Bath, 1820. 

Schofield A. D.. Xenia; October 14. 1842. married 
Cynlha Griffin. 

Schroycr, Jacob. Miami. 1819: killed while digging 
a well in Clark county, in 1870. 

Shigley, Simon. Bath, 1840. 

Shigley, Robert, Sugar Creek, 1826; son of John; 
removed to White count\% Indiana ; born Janu- 
ai'y 9. 1799; died in 1S79; married X'ancy Flood. 

Shigley, Adam, Sugar Creek, '1808: soldier of iSu. 

Shigley, Fredrick. Bath, 1803; removed to Indiana; 
related to the Fulcks, of Balh township ; married 
Tamor Bailey. 

Shigley, John, Bath, 1803; soldier of 1812; from 
N'irginia ; removed to Battleground. Indiana. 

Shigley, Adaiu. Xenia, 1807; soldier of 1812. 

Shigley, Clement, Xenia, 1812. 

Shigley, Peter, Silver Creek, 1830 ; born September 
12. 1806; died May 30, 1873, aged sixty-seven; 
buried in Jamestown cemetery. 

Shigley, John, Ross, 1808; from \'irginia; removed 
to Indiana in 1828. 

Shigley. George. Ross. 1812: from Pennsylvania; 
died May 14. 1867. aged seventy-seven; buried 
in Jamestown ; soldier of 1S12. 

Shigley, John, Ross, 1820. 

Shigley, Wdliam, Ross, 1829; 2ilarch 6. 1826. mar- 
ried Cyntha A. Simpson. 

Shigley, Joseph, Ross, 1827; died November 15, 
1890, aged seventy-six; January 15, 1822, mar- 
ried Polly Mahan. 

Shigley, B., Ross, 1840. 

Shigley, John W., Ross, 1S40. 

Shields, Joseph. Sugar Creek, 1819; son of William 
and Elizabeth; born September 19. 1S21 ; in 
1844 married Anna Prugh. 

Shields, William, Sugar Creek. 1819; son of James; 
died on the farm in 1823; wife, Elizabeth; will 
recorded. 

Shields, Preston, Sugar Creek, 1819; son of Will- 
iam and Elizabeth. 

Shields. James, Xenia, 181 1; from Ireland to Vir- 
ginia in 1805; then to Ohio; died June 13, 1839, 
aged fifty-eight; buried in Woodland; brother 
of John W. 

Shields, John, Xenia, 1830, 

Shields. Harvey, Xenia, 1840; son of James; died 
at Garnett, Kansas, April 13, 1877: buried in 
Woodland. ' 

Shields. Robert. Xenia, 18,33; ^on of Robert; born 
in Greene county in 1812; died in 1879. age<l 
sixty-eight ; buried in Woodland. 

Shields, Rev. John W., Xenia, 1840; born X'ovem- 
ber 10, 1817; died March 13, 1886; buried in 
McKnight graveyard; became totally blind in 
later years. 

Shank. George H., 1840 ; removed to Paris, Illi- 
nois, in 1886; died November .16, 1894. 

Shank. D. H., 1840; removed to Paris, Illinois. 

Shank. Thomas, Sugar Creek, 181 1; soldier of 1812, 
under Capt. Samuel Herrod. 

Shank. Solomon, Sugar Creek. 1827; died Febru- 



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ary i6, lS66. aged sixty-two buried in Mt. Zion 

churchyard ; married Susanna Glotfelter. 
Shank. William. Sugar Creek. 1840; February 14, 

1839. married Elizabeth Puterbaugh. 
Shank, Henry. Sugar Creek, 1815; a native of Fred- 
erick cminty. Maryland: died September 5. 1865: 

aged eighty-three: buried in Beaver Creek 

churchyard. 
Shank, .\bsaloni. Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Henry; 

died Deccmlier. 18S1. aged fifty-nine; buried in 

Beaver Creek cliurchyard. 
Shank. John. Bath. 1829; died in 1844; July 21, 

1836, married Arminta Chalmers. 
Shank. Jeremiah. Bath. 1840: December ,51, 1840, 

married Catharine JHars. 
Shank. Isaac. Bath. 1829: August 19. 1830. married 

,Ann Smith. 
Shank. John M.. Bath. 1840: died at Alpha, March 

20. 1891. aged si.xty-seven : buried in Beaver 

Creek churchyard. 
Shank. Jacob, Bath, 1840. 
Shackle. Levi, Silver Creek. 1840. 
Shane, Ervin, Sugar Creek. 1830: December 25, 

1833, married Sarah Gibson. 
Shcdd. John. Bath. 1840. 
Shane. John. Bath, 1838: May 16, 1839, married 

Margaret Long. 
Shoemaker. David, Caesar's Creek, 1828; August 

6, 1835, married Louisa A. Shoemaker. 
Shoemaker, William, Caesar's Creek, 1840: ^fay 17, 

1831. married Parmela Bell. 
Shoemaker. Fredrick. Caesar's Creek, 1820; re- 
moved to Indiana : died in 1856. 
Shoemaker. Isaac. 1830; July 2^. 1829. married Lu- 

cinda Hite. 
Shoemaker. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1826; brother of 

Fredrick ; buried in Dearduff graveyard. 
Shoemaker, George, Caesar's Creek, 1826; son of 

Fredrick : died in 1829. 
Shoemaker. Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1826: father 

of David : son of Fredrick : died March, 1857 ; 

buried in Massie's Creek churchyard (Steven- 
son's). 
Shoemaker, Thomas, Xcnia, 1840. 
Shoemaker. Jonas. Silver Creek. 1840 ; removed to 

Clinton county. 
Shoemaker. Elie. Caesar's Creek. 1840: brother of 

Mrs. Lin^^ey Marshall; removed to Indiana. 
Shaver, Henry. Sugar Creek. 1829. 
Shaw. .Amos C. Sugar Creek. 1830; a shoemaker; 

grandson of William Bull. Sr. ; removed to Cen- 
terville. Michigan. 
Shaw. Alexander, Xenia, 1816: brother of Capt. 

Samuel. 
Shaw, Capt. Samuel, Xenia. 1816; soldier of 1812. 
Shaw. David, Xenia. t8io; son-in-law of Alex. Mfc- 
Clintock. of Bourbon county, Kentucky: died 
in 18.^6. 
Shaw, Hezekiah, Xenia. 1808; was appointed a 
deacon in the M. E. cliurch by Bishop McKend- 
ree in 1S03. 
Shaw, Ervin, Xenia, 1840. 
Shaw. Andrew. Ross. 1840: .\pril i. 1S41. married 

Mary Ary. 
Shaw. James. Bath. 1820. 
Shaw. Samuel. Bath. 1840. 



Shaw. Robert, Miami, 1817: born X'ovember 29, 
1804; died February 9, 1886; buried at Clifton, 
Ohio. 

Shaw, George, Miami, 1807 ; administrator of es- 
tate of Nicholas Rhodes; August 24. 181 7. mar- 
ried Jane Rhodes. 

Shaw, Robert, Jr., Miami, 1826. 

Shaw, Isaac, Miami, 1828: from New Jersey; born 
October 10, 1806 ; died December 28, 1888, aged 
eighty-two ; buried in Clifton cemetery, 

Shaw, Reuben, Miami, 1840. 

Shaw, William, Ross, 1840. 

Shaw. Tliomas W.. Sugar Creek. 1840: son of John. 

Shaw. John, Sugar Creek, 1840 ; died near Spring 
Valley April 9, 1851, aged seventy-one. 

Shaw. Edward. Sugar Creek, 1840 ; son of John. 

Shingledecker, Jacob. Beaver Crek, 1803 : captain 
in War of 1812 ; died October 4. 1849, aged sev- 
enty-five ; buried in Union graveyard. Bvror.. 
Ohio. 

Shingledecker. Isaac. Beaver Creek, 1806; removed 
to Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Shingledecker, Jacob, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1807. 

SJiingledecker, John, Beaver Creek, 1808; soldier . 

•^ of 1812. I 

Shingledecker. James. Beaver Creek. 181 1. 1 

Shingledecker. Abraham. Beaver Creek, 1811 ; sol- 
dier of 1812. 

Shingledecker, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 

Shingledecker, Hiram, Bath, 1826; August 12, 1827. 
married Martha Ankeney. 

Shingledecker. Henry, Bath, 1830. 

Sheley. Theodrack L., Silver Creek, 1840; born 
July ID, 1818: died April 11, i895_. aged seventy- 
six : buried in Sheley graveyard. ' i 
„Sheley. John, Bath, 1807: served all through the I 
Revolutionary War : died in 1820, aged ninety- ' 
seven ; buried in Sheley graveyard. 

Sheley. Michael, Silver Creek. 1807; son of John; 
died January 14, 1853, aged eighty : buried in 
Sheley graveyard. Jamestown, Ohio. 

Sheley, Saiuuel, Sr., Silver Creek, 1807; son of 
John and Margaret; May 17. 1807, married Laury 
Duffy. 

Sheley, David, Silver Creek, 1807: son of John, Sr., 
aud Margaret. 

Sheley, Samuel. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1S40: removed 
to Iowa; October 31, 1833. married Margaret 
Seslar. 

Sheley, John. Jr., Ross, i8i3;*son of John and Mar- 
garet: June 2i. 1821, married Elizabeth Bailey. 

Sheley, Benjamin, Ross, 1813; son of John and 
Margaret. " ' 

Sheley. M. W.. Ross. 1828: May 2i, 1839, married 
Elizabeth Sanders. 

Sheley. William, Ross, 1825: from Jeffer.son county. 
Virginia : son of John. Sr. ; died September 23, 
1863. aged ninety-seven; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery. 

Sheley. William B.. Silver Creek. 1832; born Oc- 
tober 24, 181 1 ; died May 21, 1870, aged fifty- 
eight ; buried in Bowersville. Ohio. 

Sheley, Ludlow, Silver Creek. 1830. 

Sheley. X^oah. Silver Creek. 1830; grandson of 
John. Sr. ; son of Benjamin: removed to Mich- 
igan ; March 30, 1837, married Isabella Bedingcr. 



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Sliclcy. William B.. Silver Creek. 1840 March 27, 
1834, niarried Edna Evans. 

Slielcy, Darby, Xenia, 1840; son of Rodney- died 
January 29, 1865, aged forty-three ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Shelev. William T.. Silver Creek, 1840; October 12, 
i8.?7, married Leah Watson. 

Sheley. David, Silver Creek. 1803; son of Michael; 
born February 10. 1816; died July 28. 1890, aged 
seventy-four: buried on the old home place, near 
Jamestown, Ohio. 

Sheley, John \V., Silver Creek. 1830; son of Will- 
iam; died November u. 1868, aged si.xty ; buried 
at Jamestown, Ohio; January 24, 1838. married 
.Ann Lambert. 

Sheley, Biishrod. Silver Creek. 1840; son of 
Micliael ; died in 1892; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery. 

Shook. David, Caesar's Creek. 1807 ; from Virginia ; 
born May i, 1779; died February. 1830; buried 
at Tabor, near Jasper, Ohio. 

Shook, Harman, Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Shook, Abel, Caesar's Creek, 1840; born April 19, 
1814; died March 4, 1838. aged twenty-three; 
buried in Tabor churchyard. Jasper, Ohio. 

Sliouk, Peter. Cae.->ar's Creek, 1807. 

Shook. Henry. Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Shook Madalene, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 

Shook. Elijah, Caesar's Creek, 1832; December 4, 
1834, married Susanna Judy. 

Shook. Eli, Caesar's Creek, 1840 ; youngest brother 
of Abel; November 17, 1842, married Sarah Mc- 
Calaster. 

Sliook, John. Xenia. 1812; from \"irginia; died 
April 4. 1850, aged eighty; Ijuried in Shook 
graveyard, near New Jasper, Ohio. 

Shook, Aaron, Xenia, 1827; died .August 10, 1873, 
aged seventy ; buried in Shook graveyard ; Feb- 
ruary 3, 1824, married Margaret Long. 

Shook, Adam, Xenia, 1840. 

Shook, Monus, Ross, 1813. 

Siianer, Adam, Caesar's Creek, 1809; died Septem- 
ber 2, 1858, aged seventy-six ; buried in Shaner 
graveyard, Jamestown, Ohio; soldier of 1812. 

Shaner, George, Caesar's Creek, 1809; soldier of 
1812 ; buried in Shaner graveyard, Jamestown, 
Ohio. 

Shaner. Fredrick, Caesar's Creek, 1830; September 
6, 1826, married Mary Shook. 

Shaner, Levi, Silver Creek, 1830; died September 
2, 1858, aged seventy-six years, seven months ; 
married ^latilda Thorbourgh. 

Shaner, John. Silver Creek, 1S27 ; February 5, 1829, 
married Nancy Stephens. 

Shaner, Henry. Silver Creek, 1827; died July 28, 
1854; buried in Baptist graveyard, near James- 
town, Ohio. 

Shaner. George. Jr., Silver Creek, 1840; soldier in 
Civil War. Seventy-fourth O. V. L; died May 5. 
1898 ; buried in Jamestown, Ohio. 

Shaner, William. Silver Creek. 1840; died July 26, 
1854. aged forty-one ; buried in Baptist grave- 
yard, near Jamestown, Ohio; July 6, 1840, mar- 
ried Dianah Reaves. 

Shaner. J.,hn. Silver Creek, 1840; removed to Darke 
county in 1853. 



Shcpard. Henry, Beaver Creek, 1830; died Novem- 
ber 3, 1873, aged seventy ; buried in Mt. iZon 
churchyard. 

Shcphard. Mercer, Beaver Creek. 1813. 

Shephard, Daniel. Caesar's Creek, 1813: John Dow- 
ney's wife, Celia, was his daughter. 

Shephard. Jesse, Caesar's Creek, 1816: soldier of 
1812. 

Shephard. William, Xenia, 1840; from Scotland; 
died October 17, 1892, aged eighty-two ; buried 
m Woodland. 

Shephard, John, Miami, 1820. 

Shephard. Jacob, Bath. 1820: died Jamiary 30, 1890, 
aged seventy-five; buried in Mitman graveyard, 
near Fairfield, Ohio. 

Shirk, Jacob, Caesar's Creek, 1819; died January, 
1864; buried in Tabor churchyard. New-' Jas- 
per, Ohio. 

Shirk, Jonatiian. Caesar's Creek. 1827. 

Shirk, .Alfred, Caesar's Creek, 1840; son of Jacob; 
died March 29. 1886. aged seventy-two; buj-ied 
near Jamestown. Ohio ; married Sarah Blalock. 

Shirk. Jacob. Caesar's Creek. 1819; died May 31, 
i860, aged seventy-four; buried at Cable, near 
New Jasper, Ohio. 

Short, Peyton, Siher Creek, 1826; March 11, 1824, 
married Rhoda Ryan. 

Short. William R.. Silver Creek. 1826; March 22, 
1825, married Wilmoth Browder. 

Short, .\dani, Ross, 1840. 

Short. Kendall. Ross, 1840. 

Shainbaugh. Joseph. Caesar's Creek, 1826; died No- 
vember 29. 1845. aged fifty-six ; buried in New 
Burlinguin cemetery. 

Shambaugh, Franklin, Caesar's Creek, 1829; died 
in 1847; sons, Isaac and Charles. 

Showdy. George W.. Xenia, 1840; wagon maker; 
shop was on Cooper's — Mrs. Harvey — lot, West 
Third street, Xenia. 

Shoup. Martin, Xenia, 1800; from Frederick county, 
Maryland; of Swiss descent; father of George, 
Solomon and Samuel. 

ShoupL George, Beaver Creek, 1806; son of Martin; 
w-ife, Charlotte ; died in 1812, aged fifty-nine ; 
buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Shoup, Solomon, Beaver Creek, 1808; son of Mar- 
tin; died April 4, 1834, aged forty-five; buried 
in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Shoup, Charlotte, Beaver Creek, 1813; wife of 
George ; buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 

Shoup, Rev. Moses, Beaver Creek. 1807; son of 
George, Sr. ; soldier of 1812 ; died May 7, 1880, 
aged eighty-six: buried in M't. Zion churchyard. 

Shoup, David, Beaver Creek. 1819: son of George. 

Shoup. Solomon. Jr., Beaver Crek, 1830; son of 
George. 

Shoup. Solomon, Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1830; son of 
George. 

Shoup. Henry J., Beaver Creek, 1840; son of Solo- 
mon: died at his home, west of Alpha, March 
16, J899, aged eighty-one; buried in Mt. Zion 
churchyard ; September 16, 1841, married Eliz- 
abeth Coy. 

Shoup, Mo<es, Jr.. Beaver Creek, 1840; son of 
Solomon: died June 13, 1891, aged seventy-two; 
buried in Mt. Zion churchyard. 



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Shoup. Samuel. Bath, 1805; son of Martin. Sr. ; 

died July 18. 1812. aged forty ; buried in Cost 

graveyard. Fairfield, Ohio. 
Shouj). Dorothy. Bath. 1813: wife of Samuel: died 

March ,3. 1837, aged sixty-four; huried in Co?t 

graveyard, Fairfield. 
Shoup. Daniel. Bath. 1817; son of Moses; born 

September, 1822. 
Shoup. Daniel L.. Bath.' 1819; November 12, 1833, 

married Catharine Holverstitt. 
Shoup, Emanuel K.. Bath, 1816; December 30. 

1824. married Mary Polsier. 
Shoup. Michael. Bath. 1840; December i. 1841. mar- 
ried Ann Fogle. 
Shover. Simon, tiath. 1S07; soldier of 1812: died 

in 1813. 
Shover, Kalrina. Bath. 1803. 
Sliover, James, Bath. 1814. 
Shover. John A.. Bath, 1827. 
Shopc. Samuel, Bath, 1807. 
Shaul. George. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 
Shearer. Valentine, Xenia, 1811 ; from Franklin 

county, Pennsylvania, near Chambersburg. 
Shearer. John. Xenia, 1834: father of Judge C. C. 

Shearer ; died May 23. 1899, aged eighty-seven ; 

buried in Woodland. 
Shivel, John. Xenia, 1^40. 
St-ickiand, Garland. Silver Creek. 1840. 
Shadley, James, Silver Creek, 1840. 
Shadley. .'\rchihakl. Silver Creek. 1840 : died August 

4, 1888, aged seventy-one; buried at Bowersville. 

Ohio. 
Shillinger, Adam, Caesar's Creek, 1807; soldier of 

1812; died -August 25, 1825, ag^ed sixty-two • 

buried at New Burlington, Ohio. 
Shillinger. George. Caesar's Creek. 1812 ; soldier of 

1812; died September 26. 1813, aged twenty-one. 

buried at N«vv Burlington. 
Shillinger. Rebecca. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 
Sharp. Samuel. Silver Creek. 1840; died March 12. 

1846. aged eightv-five : buried at Jamestown, 

Ohio. 
Sharp. Robert. Xer.ia. 1S30: a silversmith; died in 

Xenia November 5, 1833. 
Shaffer, Enoch, Silver Creek, 1819. 
Shaffer, Philip, Be.iver Creek. 1840. 
Shaffer. George. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Shaffer. Abraham. Bath, 1840. 
Shaffer. Daniel. Mi.imi. 1840: buried in Clifton cem- 

eterv. 
Shull. Daniel. Silver Crek, 1830. 
Shannon, George, Bath, 1807. 
Shannon. John. Beaver Creek. 1819; died at the 

house of his son-in-law. W. P. Smith. 0<ka- 

loosa. Iowa, July 25, 1853. aged sixty-four; Sep- 
tember 3. 1821. married ilargaret Ankeney. 
Shannon. Joseph. Beaver Creek. T830. 
Shew. Jacob, Beaver Creek, . 1805. 
Shew. Philip, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 
Shew. Robert. Miami. 1814. 

ShultK. Samuel. Xenia, 1840; January i. 1840. mar- 
ried Eliza Barr. 
Shell. William. Xenia. 1840. 
Shaber. John. Beaver Creek. 1805. 
Shaber, Fredrick, Beaver Creek, 181 7. 
Shellabarger. Jacob. Miaiwi, 1813 ; son-in-law of 

Thomas Beard. 



Shellabarger, David, Bath, 1826. 

Shellabarger, John. Bath. 1826. 

Shel!;.barger, Abraham. Bath. 1840. 

Sl-.iller. Adam. Bath. 1820; from Frederick county, 
Maryland ; settled first at Fairfield. Ohio ; re- 
moved later to Clark county, where he died, aged 
ninety-seven. 

Showers. Adam. Bath. 1813. 

Sherman, Oliver, Bath, 181". 

Shackle, Levi, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Simmons, Rev. William. Xenia, 1840; died August 
4, 1874, aged seventy-seven; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Simmons. John. Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Simons, Henry, .Sugar Creek, 1811. 

Simons, David, Sugar Creek. 1826; October 22, 
1833, married Eliza Jane Whicker, 

Simons, Jonathan, Xenia, 1821. 

Simmons. George, Xenia. 1840; August 25, 1825, 
married Nancy Trader. 

Simons, Samuel, Bath, 1821 ; July 29, 1S21, marrieo 
Hannah Miller. 

Silvers, Nathan, Sugar Creek, 1813; died in 1829; 
buried in Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Silvers. Asa, Sugar Creek, 1827; August 25, 1825, 
married Catharine Hefferland. 

Silvers. David, Sugar Creek. 1829. 

Silvers, Lydia, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Silvers, James M., Sugar Creek, 1836; May 24, 1832, 
married Mary Ann Mann. 

Singleton. Alfred, Silver Creek, 1840; died Feb- 
ruary 28. 1875, aged sixty-five; buried in James- 
town, Ohio. 

Simpson, Thomas, Xenia. 1803; from Pennsylvania: 
died September 14. 1821. aged sixty-two; buried 
in Massie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Sinn>son. William Sr.. Xenia, 1813; wife, Mary; 
died in :827. 

Simpjon. William, Jr.. Xenia. 1816; son of William 
and Mary: died in Xenia in 1840. 

Simpson, Samuel, Xenia, 1816. 

Simp-on. James. Xenia 1827: from Pennsylvania: 
born March 9. 1808: died May 20. 1886; buried 
in Woodland; married Susanna Gowdy. 

Simpson, William, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Simpson, John, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of William 
and Mary; Augu.n 17, 1830. married Cvntha 
A. Wise. 

Simpson. Ephraim. Ross. 1815; February 14, 1842, 
married Ruth Files. 

Sirlotf. Nicholas. Ross. 1816. 

Sirlott. Elizabeth. Ross. 1830. 

Sirlott. George. Ross, 1816; merchant in Ross town- 
ship in 1816. 

Sirlott. Sanuiel. Ross. 1818: December i, 1818, 
married Sarah Harper. 

Siglar. Jacob. Ross, 1818. 

Siglar. Mark. Ross. 1819. 

Silvej'. James, Xenia, :8ll; soldier of 1812. 

Simms. Sam lel. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Sidensticker. Henry. Bath. 1807; November 6. 181 1. 
married Catharine Fro.-.t. 

Sidensticker. Henry, Beaver Creek, 1826: died in 
Beaver Creek in i860. 

Sidensticker. John. Beaver Creek. 1S40: December 
8. 1834. marriel Sarah .Knn Hclmcr. 

Sidensticker, Simon, Xenia, 1840: died February 



ROBIXSO.ys HISTORY OF GREEXE COUXTV 



26. 1885. aged seventy; August 18, 1836. married 

Julia Ann Oxley. 
Si^iC(l, John. Silver Creek. 1820; died in Sugar Creek 

township Deceniher 7. 1877. aged ieventv-one. 
Sisco. Henry. Silver Creek, 1826. 
Sidell. Jolni, Xenia. 18.40; removed to Vermilion 

county, Illinois; Sidell township in that county 

named for him. 
Siddal. Josc))h B,, Eeavcr Creek. 1840; died April 

8. 1871, aged sixty-three; buried in Beaver Creek 

churchyard. 
Siinmerman, George. Ross, 1840. 
Sinnard, Abraham, 1838; June 29. 1839, married 

Jane Holing^head. 
Sipe. William, Beaver Creek, 1812; soldier of 1812; 

June 6, 1813. married Elizabeth Morningstar. 
Sipe, Franci;. Miami. 1808. 
Sipe, John. Beaver Creek, 1840; November 28. 1835. 

married Elizabeth Harshman. 
Sipe, Christian. Bath, 1810: died in 1855; buried in 

Folck graveyard; (October 22, 1817, married Cai- 

oline Carpenter. 
Simonton. Samuel. Miami. 1817. 
Simonton, Benjamin, Miami, 1817: soldier of 1812. 
Simmerson, William, Sugar Creek. 1840; Decem- 
ber 22, 1842. married Eliza Strain. 
Siniison, Robert. Sugar Creek, 1804; died in 1841. 

aged seventy five ; buried in Pioneer graveyard. 

Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Sinu-on, John. Sugar Creek, 1826; died February 2. 

1851. ag^d fifty-four; buried in Pioneer 'grave- 
yard. Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Simison, Robert, Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1826. 
Skates, William. Silver Creek, 1813. 
Skeel, Xathan, Silver Creek, 1820. 
Slater. William. Sugar Creek, 1S20. 
Slaughter, E?.ekiel. Miami, 1811 ; soldier of 1812. 
Slaughter, William. Sugar Creek, 1829. 
Siddal, Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1840; died June 12. 

1854. aged forty-one ; buried in Beaver Cre.-k 

churchyard. 
Slinger, Richard, Xenia, 1816. 
Slinger. Thomas, Xen-'a. 1817. 

Slagle, J<iseph. Xenia, 1830; January 26. 1832. mar- 
ried Catharine Long. 
Slagle. George, Cgesar's Creek, 1830; wife, Cath- 

rine; from Augusta county, Virginia; February 

19. 1833, married Elizabeth Hagler. 
Slagle, George W.. Caesar's Creek, 1840; from Vir- 
ginia ; son of George and Cathrine. 
Slagle, Joh'i, 1840; September 18, 1841. married 

Catharine Shoemaker. 
Slagle. Christian K,, Caesar's Creek, 1840: from 

Virginia ; son of George and Cathrine. 
Slagle, Charles, Bath, 1840. 
Slider. Elijah. Bath. 1818. 
Slow. Levi, Miami, 1840. 
SIceth, John, Bath. 1807: soldier of 1812. 
Sleeth, David, B.->.th, J807 ; soldier of 1812. 
Slecth. Alexander. Bath. 1807. 
Sleeth, Thomas. Bath. 1S07. 
Sleeth, Jonas, Bath 1810. 
Sieeth, James, Bath, 1812. 
Sleeth, William, Bath. 1817. 
Sleeth. Thomas. J.-. Bath. 1830. 
Sleeth, .\lvin. Bath 1840. 



Slossom, James. Sugar Creek. 1826. 

Sloan, James. Xenia. 1820. 

Sloan. George P.. Ross. 1828. 

Smith, Walter. Beaver Creek. 1840; born in Mont- 
gomery county, Maryland. May g. 1788; died 
at Alpha February 2, 1873. aged seventy-two ; 
buried in Beaver Creek churchyard. 

Smith, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1808: soldier of 1812. 

Smith. Jacob, Sugar Creek-, iSii ; removed to the 
West; grandfather of Lewis Smith, commissioner 
in 1888; married a daughter of John Jame.-.. 
Lydia. 

Smith. John. Sugar Creek. 181 1; died in 1868. aged 
eighty-three: buried in Mt. Holly graveyard; 
died June 29. 

Smith. Isaac, Sugar Creek, 1817; son of Jacob, Sr. ; 
removed to Indiana. 

Smith. Jo^iah B.. Sugar Creek, 1817. 

Smith, Jeremiah. Sugar Creek, 1817; soldier of 1812; 
died in 1848: November 18. 1813. married Mav 
Marshall. 

Smith, John. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1820; died in 1848, 
aged forty ore; buried in Mt. Holly graveyar:!. 

Smith. John L., Sugar Creek, 1820; May 31. 1832. 
married Elizaljeth VV'right. 

.Smith, John. Sugar Creek, 1820 

Smith, Philip, Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Smith. .Abraham. Sugar Creek, 1828; son of Jaco!) ; 
removed to Indiana. 

Smith. John, Sugar Creek, 1838; born January 19. 
1S17; died in 1848. aged thirty-one. 

Smith, George C. Sugar Creek, 1840; April it. 
1839, married J.-tne Smith. 

Smith, John R., Sugar Creek, 1840; Octob.-r 24. 
1839 mar'-ied Sarah Jane Micher. 

Smith, Jackson, Sugar Creek, 1840; married Catha- 
rine, daughter of John James. Sr. ; died March 
19. 1892, aged seventy-five. 

Smith. Jacob. Jasper, 1840; died in 1857: father of 
Neljon, of Co. C, Seventy-fom-th O. V. I. 

Smith, Scth, Sr., i8li; died April i, 1837, aged 
seventy-six ; buried in Hicksite churchyard, 
Selnia. 

Smith. John. Sugar Creek. 1840; died in 1848; fa- 
ther of J. W. Smith, of Spring Valley, Ohio. 

Smith, James, Sugar Creek. 1833 ; son of Jacob ; 
born in 1812; died February 28. 1876. aged sixty- 
four ; buried at New Burlington, Ohio. 

Smith, David. Cae.iar's Creek. 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Smith. Solomon. Caesar's Creek. 1830; died in 1837; 
buried on the St. John farm ; March 12, 1829, 
married Nancy Jones. 

Smith. Charles. Caesar's Creek! 1830; died Sep- 
tember 17. 1864. aged seventy-eight; buried in 
Shook graveyard ; married Nancy Bishop. 

Smith. George W.. Caesar's Creek. 1830; son of 
Solomon- di;d April 2. {846, aged eighty-fom- ; 
buried in 2oar churchyard. 

Smith. John A.. Caesar's Creek. 1828; from Vir- 
.ginia; died in 1863. aged ninety-two. 

Smith, John C. Caesar's Creek, 1840; January 29, 
iSto-. married Emieline Wittv : died July 1882. 

Smith. Benjamin G., Beaver Creek, 1840; son of 
Bolen; from Pennsylvania; died June 8. 1887, 
i.ged seventv-two; buried in Mt. Zion church- 
vard. 



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Smiih. 'I'licmas B.. Caesar's Creek. 1840; probated 
the will of John A. Smith; September 18, 1838, 
11. :u ried Margaret Medsker. 
Smith. Georsje. Jr.. Cae.^ar's Creek. 1840; from \'ir- 
gir.ia: born in 1812; died in 1883, aged sevcnty- 
or.e ; buried in Woodland. 
Smith. Jacob C. Caesar's Creek, 1840; born No- 
vember 10. 1812 : died May 23, 1879, aged sixty- 
six ; buried in Woodland ; married Dianah Long. 
Smith, John H.. Caesar's Creek, 1840. 
Smith. Rev. William G., Caesar's Creek, 1840: from 
Hardy counly. Virginia ; his parents settled in 
Jasper township in 1815; died near Bellbrook, 
Ohio. January, iS/t). aged sixty-seven. 
Smith. John, Caesar's Creek, 1840; from Virginia; 
ilied January 31, 1883. aged eighty-four: Inuicd 
in Briplist graveyard, near Jamestown; January 
i(), i8j3. married Margaret Burrell. 
Smiih, William M.. Caesar's Creek, 1S40; September 

20. 1840. married Margaret Black. 
Smith. William P., Caesar's Creek, 1840; removed 
to Oskaloosa, Iowa; son-in-law of John Shannon, 
who was a brother of Mrs. J. A. Scott. 
Smith. Daniel, Caesar's Creek, 1835 ; son of Jacob : 
from Hardy county. Virginia; born in 1814; died 
in 1884, aged seventy; Lorenza St. John, his 
son-in-law. 
Smith. John, Beaver Creek. 1S40; horn July 8, iSio; 
died November 23. 18S7; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 
Smith, William, Beaver Creek, 1803. 
Smith, Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1803; November 7, 

1837, married Lucinda McFarland. 
Smith, Jacob, Si.. Beaver Creek, 1803; ex-commis- 
sioner, representative and senator for Greene 
counly; died in iSig; buried in Woodland; sol- 
dier of 1812. 
Smith. Col. John. Beaver Creek. 1803 ; son of Jacob ; 
ex-sheritt of Greene county; died May 4. 1852. 
aged seventy-two; buried at Springfield. Ohio. 
Smith, .Spencer, Miami, 1805. 

Smith. Josiah B.. Beaver Creek. 1808; second son 
of Jacob; soldier oi 1S12; August 31. 1809. mar- 
licd Margaret Borders. 
Smith, Josiah C. Beaver Creek. 1808. 
Smith, Job, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 
Smith, Jacob, Jr.. Beaver Creek. 1811 ; son of Jacob. 
Sr. ; removed to Indiana: June 3. 1818. marr'cd 
Sarah Kirkendale. 
Smith. John S.. Beaver Creek. 1815; December 3, 

1840, married Elizabeth Jackson. 
Smith. Selh, Miami, i8ti: son of Jacob, Sr. : born 
July 16. 1798: died in 1876; buried near Selma, 
Ohio ; aged seventy-seven. 
Smith, Samuel S., Beaver Creek. 1830: May 2J. 

1832. married Mary Steele. 
Smith, John F.. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Smith. Hugh. Reaver Creek. 1840; died November 
9. 1880, aged sixty-nine; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 
Smith. Samuel. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Smith. Crawford. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Smith. William D., Bath, 1812: died in 1820: buried 

in Mitman's, near Fairfield, Ohio. 
Smith. Matthias. Bath. 1807; soldier of 1812; fa- 
ther-in-law of William King: will recorded in 



1823 ; died August 6. 1823 : buried in Folck 
gravevard ; aged fifty-three; his widow married 
A. H'vling, Sr. 
Smith. John, Bath, 1807, 
Smith, David, Bath, 1809. 
Smith. Caleb. Bath. iSio. 
Smith, William, Miami, iSio; died October 19. 1877. 

aged eitrhty. 
Smith, William W.. Bath, 1813. 
Smith, John, Bath, 1817; February 25, 1836, married 

laviiia Kirkwood. 
Siritli, Cilayborn, Bath, 1821. 
Smith, Silas .C, Bath, 1830. 

Smith, Robert, Bath, 1840; died at Bellbrook Aug- 
ust 6, 1892, aged seventy-four. 
Smith, James, Bath, 1840. 
Smith, John B., Bath, 1840. 

Smith, Edward, Bath. 1S40; February 20, 1834, mar- 
ried Mary Ann Landpher, 
Sn>ith. Fredrick, Bath, 1840. 
Smith, Jane, Bath, 1830. 
Smith. Peter. M'ami. 1807: died Nnvember 25, 1890. 

aged seventy-four. 
Smith. Vincent, Miami, 1830. 

Smith. William H., Miami, 1840; die<l .August 21), 
1866. agei.1 tlfty-two ; buried in Clifton cemetery. 
Smith, Traccy, Ross, 1830, 

Smith, Rev. Samuel. Silver Creek, 1838; minister 
in Baptist church: from Virginia; father of 
John W., of Xenia. 
Smith, Jonathan, Beaver Creek, 1840; died at the 
residence of Peter Benham, February, 1879; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 
Smith, Jonathan G., Ross, 1840: died November 4, 

1877, aged sixty-four ; buried in Woodland. 
Smith. Levi, Ross, 1840. 

Smith, Jeremiah. Ross, 1816: married Jane Thorn- 
burg, of Tennessee, in 1822: died in 1848, aged 
fifty-six ; buried near Bowersville, Ohio. 
Smith. John. Ross. 1840: died June 31. 1883. aged 
eighty-four; buried in Baptist graveyard, near 
Jamestown. Ohio. 
Smith. Barbary. Silver Creek. 1820. 
Smith. Thomas. Silver Creek, 1820: died February 
3, 1889, aged sixty; buried in Husscy graveyard, 
Bowersville, Ohio. 
Smith, Joshua, Silver Creek, 1840; from Maryland: 
died February 28, 1892, agod seventy-two; buried 
near Jamestown, Ohio. 
Smith. George. Silver Creek. 1827: died November 
5. 1827. aged twenty-seven ; buried in Hussey 
graveyard. Bowersville. Ohio. 
Smith. Jonathan. Silver Creek. 1840; died February 
2. 1847. aged seventy-three: buried near Selma, 
Ohio; May 14. 1840. married Malinda Ary. 
Smith, .\ndrevv. Xenia, iSii. 
Smith. Knocli. Xenia. 1812. 
Smith. William. Xenia. 1813; died in 1821 ; March 

II, 1819, married Vina Wilson. 
Smith. Edmond B.. Xenia. 1813: an artist; painted 

the portrait of Major Galloway. 
Smith. George M.. Xenia. 1816; from Rockbridge 
counly. Virginia: father of Mrs. Winston Black, 
of Xenia; Iniried in old graveyard near the 
standpipe. Xenia. 
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odist John"; -died October 24. ij56j. aged sixty- 
two; buried in Woodland; April 8, 1819, married 
Rulb Marshall. 
Smith, SanuK-l L.. Xenia. 1817; October 19, i8.it, 

married Nancy Sanders. 
Smith, Ezra, 1824; September 19, 18.24, marrie.] 

Sarah Fi.sher. 
Smith. Solomon, Xenia, 1818. 

Smith, Matthew, 1840; July j, 1840, married Eliza- 
beth Ann Hagler. 
Smith, Bolen, Xtiiia, iSi6; from Brunswick county, 
Virginia ; died in 1837, aged si.xty ; buried in 
Woodland. 
Smith, Christopher, Xenia. 1840; died January, i8;o, 
at Greenville, Darke county, Ohio; a former resi- 
dent of Xenia. 
Smith, William. Xenia, 1840; February 16, l8j7, 

married Jane T. Br}^son. 
Smith. James, Jr.. Xenia, 184OJ April 28, 1842, mar- 

rie^l Dorcas Spahr. 
Smith, Goldberry, Xenia, 1840; September 13, 1840, 

married Louisa Teas-. 
Smith. Adam L., Xenia, 1840; from Scotland; 
painter by trade; soldier in Civil War, One Hun- 
dred and Fifty-fourth Infantry, Co. F; buried in 
Woodland, 
Smiihgall, George, Bath. 1840. 
Smilhgall, George, Jr., Balh. 1840; February J5, 

1841, married Lydia Voder. 
Small, James. Xenia, 1803; soldier of the Revolu- 
tion; died .April 23. 1842, aged eighty-four; bur- 
ied in Massie's Creek cemetery, Cedarville. 
Small, Robert, Xenia, 1810. 
Small. David C, Xenia, 1827. 

Small, David M., Xenia, 1818; died June 15, 1873, 
aged sixty-seven; l)uried in Massie's Creek cem- 
etery. 
Small, William, Xenia, 1828. 
Small, James, Jr., Xenia, 1840: removed to Mbn- 

mouth, Illinois; soldier in Mexican War. 
Small, Culbertson, Xenia, 1840; died April 4, 1800, 
aged eighty-two ; buried in Massie's Creek cem- 
etery. 
Small, Jacob, Xenia. 1812. 
Small. Sanuiel. 1836; December 12, 1837, married 

Polly Wright. 
Smiley, William, Xenia. 1816; November 26, 181 7, 

married Nancy Penningham. 
Smart, Rev. James P., Xenia, 1843; from Pennsyl- 
vania; pastor of the Associate church, Massie's 
Creek; died March i, i86r, aged forty-seven; 
buried in Woodland. 
Smeigh. Samuel, Xenia, 1840; from Maryland; an 
undertaker; firm of Shearer & Smcigh ; di^ 1 
.•\pril 8, 1876. aged sixty-nine; buried in WooJ- 
land ; married I-jabell Dodds. 
Snveltzier. .-Xndrew. Beaver Creek. 1807 ; born No- 
vember 20. 1765; died May i. 1838, aged seventy- 
two; buriod in the old Coy graveyard. 
Smeltzier, J.\cob, Beaver Creek, 1807. 
Snodgrass, William. Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1805. 
Snodgrass, William. Sugar Creek, 1803: soldier ot 

1812; died in 1840. 
Snodgrass, James. Sr.. Sugar Creek. 1803; soldi-'r 
of the Revolution : refused to apply for pension ; 
he was fighting for libertv. not for moncv. 



Snodgrass, James, Sugar Creek. 1S03; son of James, 
Sr. ; died in 1846; October 9, 1806, married Eliz- 
abeth Taylor. 
Snodgrass, Robert, Sugar Creek. 1803; .soldier of 

i8t2; died in 1815. 
Snodgrass, James, Sugar Creek, 1806, 
Snodgrass, Samuel, Sugar Creek, 1809; soldier of 
i872; died in 1823; November 21, 1822, married 
Rachel Sncvvdcn. 
Snodgrass, Robert, Jr., Sugar Creek, i8ii; Fel)- 

ruary 3, 1814, married Sarah Whicker. 
Snodgrass, Joseph, Sugar Creek. 1816; from Vir- 
ginia ; died October 19, 1882, aged eighty ; buried 
in Jamestown cemetery ; .married Xancy Kirkpat- 
rick. 
Snodgrass, John, Sugar Creek. 1821 ; died in 1825. 
Snodgrass, James, Sugar Creek, 1817; died Janu- 
ary 26, 1869, aged seventy-three ; buried in 
Woodland. 
Snodgrass, William. Bath, 1817. 
Snodgrass, Thomas, Balh, 1819; from \'irginia; 

died May 6, 1844, aged ninety, 
Snodgrass, Samuel, Ross, 1821 ; soldier of the Rev- 
olution ; buried at Jamestown. Ohio; died May 
6, 1844, aged ninety. 
Snodgra.ss, Samuel, Jr., Ross. 1821 ; died in 1844. 
Snodgras.s, Robert, Ross, 1821 ; son of Samuel; 
died March 31, 1839, aged thirty-nine; buried in 
Bethel graveyard. ?iear Grape Grove. 
Snodgrass, Joseph, Ross, 1826; son of Samuel. 
Snodgrass, Joseph. Jr.. Ross, 1828, 
Snodgrass, Jolm B.. Ross, 1840; January 25, i8.)8, 
married Jane Ballard; died .^pril 29, 1862, buried 
in Jamestown cemetery, aged forty-nine. 
Snodgrass, James, Silver Creek, 1826; born in 1795, 
in Virginia ; soldier for five years during and 
after the War of 1812; September I, 1825, mar- 
ried Abby Mendenhall. 
Snowden, James, Sugar Creek. 1803; from New 
Jersey; son of Jacob; one of the early associate 
judges of Greene county; removed to Indian-i. 
Snowden, Jacob, Sugar Creek, 1803 ; died in 1836, 

aged sixty-six ; buried at Bellbrook. 
Snowden, Lewis. Sugar Creek. i8ii; son of Jacob; 

buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 
Snowden, Benjamin, Sugar Creek, 1811; son of 

James ; removed to Indiana. 
Snowden, David, Sugar Creek. 182S; died July 24, 
1871, aged sixty-six ; buried in Bellbrook ceme- 
tery ; son of Jacob. 
Snowden. Hezekiah, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of 

David ; removed to Iowa. 
Snediker, Wm., Bath, 1840. 
Snediker, Thomas, Bath, 1840. 
Siiediker, David, Bath, 1840, 

Suavely, John, Xenia, 1806; from Maryland; 

Rachel, his wife ; great-grandfather of H. H. 

Eavey and C. F. Robinson ; buried in Watts 

graveyard, near the standpipe, Xenia. 

Snavelv, Jacob, Xenia, 1S06; son of Jolm and 

Rachel. 
Suavely, Henry. Xenia, 1819; son of John and 

Rachel. 
Snavelv, William, Xenia, 1819. 

Suavely. Samuel. Xemia, 1829; son of John and 
Rachel ; died in Virginia. 



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Snider. Jacob. Xenia. 1811: soldier of 1812. 

Snyder, Simon. Xenia, 1826: son of Jonathan. 

Snyder, John. 1830; December 30, 1830, married 
Xancy A. Coy. 

Snyder. Henry, Beaver Creek, 1808; soldier of 1812. 

Snyder, Jonathan, Beaver Creek, 1815; from Wash- 
ington coimty, Maryland; born October 15. 1785; 
died Decembr 22, 1863, aged seventy-eight ; bur- 
ied in Beaver Creek churchyard; soldier of 
1812. 

Snyder, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1840; born in 1805; 
died in 1884; buried in Beaver Creek church- 
yard ; married Sally Burrows. 

Snyder, William. Beaver Creek, 1840; from Penn- 
sylvania ; died December 22, 1886, aged sixty- 
eight. 

Snyder. Jon.ithan. Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840; son of 
Jonathan; died in 1858; March 8, 1839, married 
Elizabeth Kershner. 

Snyder, George, Beaver Creek, T840; died Septem- 
ber 10, 1877. aged sixty-four ; buried in Beaver 
Creek churchyard. 

Snyder. Martin. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Snyder, John., 1840; born in Beaver Creek township 
in 1822. 

Snyder, Henry. Bath, 1817; son of Jonathan; bur- 
ied on Kemps farm, two miles east of Dayton, 
Ohio; Xovember 25, 1813, married Sally Smith. 

Snyder, Fredrick, Bath, 1840; August 5. 1841. mar- 
ried Marcella Given. 

Snyder, Conrad, Miami, 1S04. 

Snyder, Casr)er, Xenia, 1840; died April 5, 1877, 
aged sixty; buried in Woodland. 

Snipp, Jacob, Bath, 1827: soldier of 1812; died 
August 27, 1S77, aged eighty-seven : buried in 
Aley churchyard. 

Snipp. Rhinehardt. Beaver Creek, 1807; born March 
8, 1755; died Xovember 20. 1840, aged eighty- 
six ; buried in .-Mey churchyard. 

Snipp. Abraham, Beaver Creek, 1819 ; born March 
6, 1792; died February 21. 1875. aged eighty- 
two ; buried in Aley churchyard. 

Snipp, John, Beaver Creek, 1821. 

Snipp. Solomon, Beaver Creek, 1828; June 28, 
1824, married Mary Frost. 

Snipp, Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1829: June Ij, 1823, 
married Susanna Frost. 

Snipp. Jacob, Path. 1820; December 5. 1816, mar- 
ried Mary Trubee. 

Snook, Joab, Miami, 1840; June 27. 1833, married 
Maria Scott. 

Snook. Freeman, Miami. 1840. 

Sowards, Reuben, Sugar Creek, 1804; from Penn- 
.sylvania : soldier of 1812; died Decembr 7, 1843, 
aged six'.v-six ; buried in Pioneer gravevard, 
Bellbrook.' Ohio. 

Sowards. John, Sugar Creek. 1820; February 27. 
1823, ma. ried Elizabeth Porter. 

Sowards. Elisha Sugar Creek. 1840; died February 
28, 1893. aged eighty; buried in Bellbrook. Ohio. 

Sowards, R:>uben, Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1826; April 4, 
182F, married Hannah Mills. 

Sowards. Hezekialv Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Sowards. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Sowards, Thomas J., Bath, 1840. 

Sowards, David T., Silver Creek. 1840. 



Sowards, ^Fahlon, Silver Creek, 1813 ; December 
9, 1813, married Catharine Runibaugh ; Decem- 
ber 20, 1821, married Margaret Beason. 

Sowards, Samuel, Silver Creek, 1816; December 24, 
1836. married Unity Morris. 

Sowards. Edward. Silvc- Creek. 181 1. 

Sollars Isacher. Sugar Creek. 1830; died in 1833, 
aged fiftv-one ; buried in Baptist graveyard, 
Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Sollars, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1840 ; September 25, 
18.37, married Sarah Poague. 

Sollars, John. Sugar Creek, 1840; removed to Kan- 
sas. 

Sollinger, .\dam, Beaver Creek, 181 1, 

Sodders, Henry, Silver Creek. 1840; died Septem- 
ber 14, 1870, aged eighty-nine: buried at James- 
town, Ohio. 

Sodders. David. Silver Creek, 1840; son of Henry; 
buried in Clark county; August 21, 1839, mar- 
ried Ellen Shadley. • 

Sodders. Wm.. Silver Creek. 1840; son of Henry. 

Sodders. John. Silver Creek. 1835; September 11. 
1836. married Phebe MeCasle. 

Sonner. William. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Sparks, Leonard. Xenia. 1809; soldier of i8t2. 

Sparks, Thomas. Suga.- Creek. 1809; soldier r-f 
1812 ; son of his buried in Pioneer graveyard, 
Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Sparks, Simon, Bath. 1818: April i, 1813. married 
Catharine Tcmpletdn. 

Sparks. .Andrew. Bath, 1813. 

Sparks. Richard. Bath, 1826 ; died in 1829 ; March 
13, 1828, married Lucy Devoer. 

Sparks. Matthew. Xenia. 1813; from Kentucky: 
died September 23, 1847; father-in-law of Silas 
Roberts. 

Sparks. Elias M., Sliver Creek, 1840; died Febru- 
arv, 1876, aged sixtv-one ; buried in Bowersville, 
Ohio. 

Sparks. Peter. Beaver Creek. 1807. 

Sparks. Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Sparks, .-\ndrew S.. Bath. 1827. 

Sparks. Daniel. Bath, 1S30. 

Sparks. John T.. Bath. 1840; December 7. i8,-;6. 
married Cathorinc Guthridge. 

Spell ford. Xoah. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Spencer. Michael, Ross. 1803. 

Spencer, Francus, Ross. 1812: soldier of 1812: son 
of Michael ; June 23, 1818, married Margaret 
Fletcher. 

Spencer. Mi:h?.el. Jr.. Ross. 1807; soldier of 1812; 
died in 1828. 

Spencer. Thomas. Ross; son of ^lichael. 

Spencer. F''ank. Cedarville; born in 1820. 

Spencer. I-^aiah. Ross. 1809: died January 20. 1840, 
aged forty-mne : buried in Caesar's Creek church- 
yard, northwest of Jamestown. Ohio. 

Spencer, Joseph, Ross. 1807. 

Spencer. James. Ross. 1806; died May 28. 1882. aged 
eighty-three: buried in Cedarville cemetery; 
March 14. 1S22. married Sarah White. 

Spencer. John. Xema. 1806: captain in War of 1812. 

Spencer. Henry E.. Xenia. 1828; editor of "The 
Wc>lern Cconet." published in Xenia in 1828. 

Spencer. Thmias. Xenia. 1829; from South Caro- 
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ied in Caesar's CrccU cluirchyard : .March 2. 
1841, married Nancy Hamilton. 

Spencer, Charles. Xenia. 1840; August 7. 1S39. mar- 
ried Jane Sulavan. 

Spencer, James, Caesar's Creek. 1829; from S'lutli 
Carolina; son of Thomas: born .August i.?, 1810; 
still living in Jamestown, Ohio, in 1900. 

Spray, John. Miami. i8j6. 

Spray, Jesse, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Spunkard. John, Caesar's Creek, 1827. 

Spain, Thcodoric, Xenia, 1806: one of the pioneers 
of Old Union, south of Xenia, Ohio. 

Spain, James, Xenia, 1806. 

Spears, Rolr.-rt, Xenia, i8jo ; died March 2, 183O ; 
Dcccmljer 15, 1831, married Sarah Davis. 

Sprague, John, Balli, 1840; member of the Owenitc 
Community, Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1826. 

Sprague, Daniel, 1! ith. 1840; member of the Owen- 
ite Comnuinity, Yellow Springs. Ohio, in i8j6. 

Spears, Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1826; step-father of 
Robert Evans; son-in-law of William Stanfield; 
died October i, 1856. 

Spears, Sanuiel, 'Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1840: son of 
Saniuel ; Novenil>er j8, 1833, married Rachel 
Forman. 

Spears. John, Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Samuel; 
Claysville laid out by hiiu and Elias Adsit ; 
married Nancy Stanfield. 

Spears, James, Sr., Sugar Creek, 1840; son of Sam- 
uel; died in 1854: buried in Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Spahr, Matthew, .Xenia, 1819: from \'irginia ; father 
of Mrs. Daniel Spahr; Augu-t 8, j8i8. married 
Susanna Hagler. 

Spahr, Edward, Xenia, 1820: from Hardy county, 
Virginia; born May 6, 1785: died May 26, 1864, 
aged eighty ; buried in Shook graveyard. 

Spahr, Richard, Xenia, 1816; buried in Woodlanil 
in 1849; also his son. James. 

Spahr. Gideon, Xenia, 1816; son of John; of Swiss 
descent ; torn in Hardy county, Virginia. May 
21, 1788; came to Obio in 1816; died in James- 
town June, 1856; settled two miles east of Xenia, 
near Shawnee Creek. 

Spahr, Nancy. Xenia, 1830; wife of Gideon. Sr. 

Spahr, Gideon, Xenia, 1820; died in i8gi. aged 
seventy-one; May 5. 1821, married Phebe Hag- 
ler. 

Spahr, Elijah, Xenia, 1840; died August 17, 189!, 
aged seventy-five; buried in Woodland. 

Spahr. John, Xenia, 1840; died .\ugust 9, 1881, aged 
fifty-seven, buried in Woodland. 

Spahr, Philip, Caesar's Creek, 1813 ; died December 
18, 1854, aged seventy-seven ; buried in Shook 
graveyard, near New Jasper, Ohio. 

Spahr, William, Caesar's Creek, 1827; born May 3, 
1805; died October i, 1891, aged eighty-six; bur- 
ied in Woodland; January 11, 1828, married 
Sarah Smith. 

Spahr, Johni, Caesar's Creek. 1828; brother of Ed- 
ward; died in 'Jay county, Indiana. January 17, 
1882; January 31, 1833. married Palma Judy. 

Spahr. David M., Caesar's Creek, 1840: son of 
Philip; died September 14, 1844. aged thirty-one; 
buried in Shook graveyard: wife. Ann. 

Spikenard, Alexander, 1820; December 16, 1824, 
married Esther Deeds. 



Spikenard, John, Caesar's Creek, 1830; married 
Magdalena, daughter of George Deeds, April 5, 
1821. 

Spearman, Charles, Xenia, 1840. 

Speelman, Jonathan. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Speelman. Christopher. Xenda. 1840. 

Spratt. Thomas, Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Shanglcr, Jacob, Bath, 1840; died in i860. 

Srodes, DaviJ, Cedarville; died in i860. 

Squires. John M.. Xenia. 1840; died June 10, 1S97, 
aged eighty-four; buried in Woodland. 

Squires, Josiah, Bath, 1828. 

S(|uires. Hanford. Sugar Creek. 1822; from Fau- 
(|uier county, Virginia ; born February, 1806 ; 
<lied July 15, 1869, aged si.xty-three ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Squires, John B., Xenia, 1840: died in 1897, aged 
seventy-four; buried in Woodland. 

Squires, Sidney, Xenia, 1840. 

Sroufe, Lewis, Miami, 1811; soldier of 1812. 

Sroufe, Sebastian, Miami, 1805; soldier of 1812; 
removed to Indiana. 

Sroufe, Christopher, Miami. 1805; soldier of 1812. 

Sroufe, George, Miami, 1805. 

Sroufe. Sebastian. Jr., M'iami, 1810; November 1, 
1808, married Catharine Townsend. 

Sroufe. David. Miami, 181 1; soldier of 1812. 

Sroufe, Thomas, Miami, 1814. 

Sroufe, Andrew, Mianii. 1829: died in 1829; Octo- 
ber 6. 1817, married Mary Bachelor. 

Sroufe, Perry, IMiami, 1840; son of Andrew; buried 
at Yellow Springs. 

Sroufe, Bernard, Miami, 1840; removed to Iowa. 

Standley, Abraham, 1805 ; October 3, 1805, married 
Mary Horner. 

Sradc, John. Xenia, 1840; Jimc 30, 1836, married 
Sarah Clinc. 

Stevenson, Major John; a soldier of the Revolu- 
tion is buried in Kentucky; father of Samuel 
Stevenson, father of James, William, John and 
Thomas. Pioneer Stevensons of Greene county. 
Ohio. 

Stevenson, James B., Sugar Creek, 1806; April 25, 
1836, married Phebe Engle. 

Stevenson, Robert, Sugar Creek, 1826; April 28, 
1824, married Elizabeth Ramsey. 

Stevenson, James, Xenia, 1803 ; April 3, 1805, mar- 
ried Anna Galloway; died March 31, 1864. aged 
ninety-four ; buried in Massie's Creek church- 
yard ; soldier of 1812. 

Stevenson, William, Xenia, 1803; cousin of James, 
John and Thomas : November 19. 1808, married 
Peggy Scott; died November 8, 1826, aged sixty- 
one; buried in Massie's Creek (Stevenson's). 

Stevenson, John. Xenia, 1803; soldier of 1812; died 
May 14, 1846, aged sixty-nine; buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's) ; married 
Kitty Kirkpatrick. 

Stevenson, Thomas, Xenia, 1810; from Woodford 
county, Kentucky ; died in 1857, aged seventy- 
two ; buried in Massie's Creek churchyard. 

Stevenson, Robert W., Xenia, 1817; soldier of 1812 ; 
married Abigail Gowdy September 23, 1818 ; bur- 
ied in Massie's Creek churchyard (Steven- 
son's). 

Stevenson, John B., Miami, 1840. 



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Stevenson. Thomas G.. Xenia. 1817 ; son of Thomas, 

Sr. ; died April 10, 1868, aged seventy-eight. 
Stevenson. Charles. Xenia. i8t8; married to Miss 

Cynthia Scott in 1819. 
Stevenson. Robert. Miami, 1818; February 3, 1814, 

married SarahCohagan. 
Stevenson. Charles \V.. Xenia. 1819; son of Will- 
iam, of Miami township; died in 1826. 
Stevenson. Thomas. Xenia, 1821. 
Stevenson, Samuel, Xenia, 1826; son of James. 
Stevenson, Samuel. Xenia. 1840; son of John; died 
March 9 1870, aged eighty-nine; January 24. 1828, 
married Harriet Webb. 
Stevenson. William. Xenia, 1840; died December 17, 
1875. aged si.Kty-seven ; son of William, oi 
Miami township. 
Stevenson, Jam-;s, Xenia. 1836; son of Thomas: 
born May 27. 1815: died December, 1893, aged 
sevent}--nine : buried in Woodland. 
Stephenson. William, Sr., Bath. 1803; from Ken- 
tucky ; caotain in War of 1812 ; died Novenibir 
II. 1834; buried in Milman gravevard, Osborn, 
Ohio. 
Stephenson, William, Jr.. Bath, 1803 ; son of Will- 
iam. Sr., of Bath ; January 25. 1812, married 
Eleanor Sutton. 
Stephenson, John, Bath, 1803 ; son of William, Sr.. 

of Bath township. 
Stevenson, Wm. Mjami, 1809; married Margarvl 
Scott, a widow : died X'ovember 8, 1826, agi i 
sity-one ; buried in Massie's Creek church- 
yard. 
Ste\enson. Robert, Miami, 1809; son of William an 1 
Margaret ; died February 3, 1894, aged seventy- 
three. 
Stevenson. Charles W., Miami, 1821 ; son of William 
and Margaret ; Januar> 25, 1819, married Cyn- 
tha Scott. 
.Stevenson, Samuel, Miami, 1826; son of William 

and Margaret. 
Stevenson. John. Miami. 1828; sOn of \\'illiam and 

Margaret. 
Stephenson. Peter. Bath. 181 1: son of William, of 

Bath. 
Stevenson, Thomas B., Xenia, 1840 : died in Cham- 
paig'.i co'.mty December 27. i860, aged thirty- 
three. 
Stephenson, George H.. Bath. 1808; died in 1814; 

Jonathan Clayton, administrator. 
Stepleton. John. Sugar Creek, 1808; July 23, 1807, 

married Sally Van Eaton. 
Stepleton. Jesse. Beaver Creek. 1840. 
Stepleton. Solomon. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Stanberry, William. Xenia. 1840; September 23. 

1819, married Edeith Cooper. 
Stanley. William. Sugar Creek. 1808: died in 1820; 
buried on the Smith Stowe farm; October i. 
1822. marrie*J Sarah McGlaughlin. 
Stanley. Robert. Caesar's Creek. 1809. 
Stanley, Martin, Caesar's Creek, 1828; February 12.. 

1829, married Mulinda Bartlet. 
Steele, Harvey. Xenia. 1840; from Maryland; born 
October 4. 1814: died February 24. 1883; buried 
in Woodland. 
Steele. Alexander, Xenia, 1835; died March 14. 
1842. 



Steele, John, Xenia. 1S35 : brother of Thomas. 
Steele. William, Xenia. 1840: died July 15, 1894, 

aged eighty-six : buried in Woodland. 
Steele. John. Xenia. 1828; son of William; died 
June 6. 1829; buried in the .\. R. graveyard, 
East Third street, Xenia. 
Steele. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1809: soldier of 1812. 
Steele. James, Sugar Creek. 1811 ; brother of Sam- 
uel; died October 16, 1836. aged forty-three; 
buried in Pioneer graveyard. Bcllbrook. Ohio. 
Steele. Jacob. Xenia. 1816: died Xovember 5, 1863, 
aged forty-seven : buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard ; married Elizabeth Gettard. 
Steole, Rev. John. Xenia, 1817 ; from Bourbon 
county. Kentucky ; built the David Barr house ; 
in 1S17 became pastor of what is now the first 
L'. P. church' died January 11, 1837, at Oxford, 
Ohio. 
Steele. Thomas, Xenia, 1816; came to Xenia from 
Ireland in winter pf 18x5 ; taught school and 
lived on the lot where now is located the Xenia 
high school building; memorial window in high 
school room is in memory of him ; died in 
Logan county August 6, 1875, aged eighty-four. 
Steele. Martin B.. Xenia, 1830; January 9, 1837, 

married Jane Stevenson. 
Steele. Wm., Xenia, 1840; son of John; murdered 
at the time of the Puterbaugh fire in 1845 ; bur- 
ied in Associate churchyard, West Market street, 
Xenia. 
Steele. Robert. Xenia, 1840. 
Steele. David E.. Beaver Creek, 181 1. 
Steele. Ebenezer. Beaver Creek, 1816; born in Vir- 
ginia. December 18. 1781 : died February 17, 
1862. aged eighty-one : buried in Beaver church- 
yard. 
Steele, .^bner, Btaver Creek, 1817. 
Steele, Peter, Beaver Creek. 1826. 
Steele. John, Beaver Creek, 1825 ; grandfather >of 
Daniel Steele and Mrs. Gussle Poague ; from 
\'irgini:'. ; born May 20, 1809; died July 4, 1882. 
aged seventy-two ; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 
Stipp. Lettice. Sugar Creek. 1813: died in 1835. aged 
seventy- four: buried in Middle Run churchyard, 
southwest of Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Stipp. George. Sugar Creek. 1813: soldier of the 
Revolution: died in 1836: buried in Middle Run 
churchyard. 
Stipp. Joseph. Sugar Creek. 1819; died September 
29, 1823 ; buried in Middle Run churchyard : Jan- 
uary 7, 1819. married .Amelia Bull. 
Stipp. .Abraham. Sugar Creek. 1826; August 15. 

1824. married Mary Coffelt. 
Stipp, Fredrick. Xenia. 1813. 
Stipp, .Abraham. Jr.. Xenia. 1830. 
Stipp. Ge'ir'.T(. W., Sugar Creek. 1835; publisher of 
"Clintonian and Xenia Register." a paper pub- 
lished in Xenia in 1825 and 1826. 
Stipp. Xathan B.. Sugar Creek. 1840; died Decem- 
ber I. 1852. aged thirty-three; buried in Wood- 
land: March 11. 1841. married Eliza Jane Ken- 
ney. 
Strain. James, Sugar Creek. 1813: died X^ovember 
19. 1864. aged seventy-four: buried in Pioneer 
graveyard. Bellbrook, Ohio. 



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Str:iin. Samncl, Sugar Creek. 1816: April 20, i8jo. 
married Rebecca Koclgers. 

Strain, John. Sugar Creek. 1S16: Imried in Pioneer 
graxey^.rd, I'elllirook ; -Jied m iJ''24; Xovembrr 
9. i8jo, n-arried Margaret Simpson. 

Strain, \Vdr,;in. Sugar Creek, 1810; died April 20. 
1845, aged twenty-three; buried in Pioneer grave- 
yard, Bcllbrook. Ohio. 

Strain. Robert, Sugar Creek, 1819; son of \Vm. ; 
died in 1858; liuried in Bellbrook cemetery; 
IVlovembcr 25, 1S24. married Mary Simnicrson. 

Strain. Hugh. Sugar Creek. i8.jo; ion of Win. 

Stormont. Johii. Xenia. 1840 ; died January 26, i860, 
aged lifty-six : buried in Massic's Creek ceme- 
tery. Cedirville, Ohio. 

Staley, Henry. Beaver Creek, 1808. 

Staley, Daniel, Beaver Creek. 1808; born February. 
1782, died April 16, 1829, aged forty-seven; bur- 
ied on the Marshall farm, six miles west of 
Xenia. 

Staley. Jacob, Reaver Creek, 1816; son-in-law of 
Jacob Smith. Sr. ; removed to Logan countv. 
Ohio. 

Staley, Elias, Beaver Creek, i8t8; soldier of 1812; 
April 16, 1826, married Hannah Rutley. 

Staley. Samuel, Beaver Creek. 1826: October 26, 
i8jo, married Catharine Staley. 

Staley, Enoch, Beaver Creek, 1827. 

Staley, George, Beaver Creek, 1829. 

Staley, Catharine, Beaver Creek, 1S30; widow of 
Samuel Staley. 

Slei)lKns. .\ndrew. Bath. 1840; buried in Bath 
chmehyard. west of Mad River; died in 1843. 

Stephens, John, Bath, 1805. 

Stephens, John, Sugar Creek, 1813; soldier of 1812. 

Stephens. Jacob, Caesar's Creek, '1807. 

Stephens, Cheesteen, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Stephens. Benjamin, Caesar's Creek. 1817. 

Stephens. Scott, Caesar's Creek, 1819. 

Stephens, Andrew, Caesar's Creek, ]8i8; from 
Peimsylvania: an uncle of Jacob Miller; died at 
tlie-.ige ')f sixty-nine; buried in Bowersvil'r, 
Ohio. 

Stephens, John, Xenia, 1806. 

Stephens, James, Xenia, 1807; .\ngust 20. 1807, 
married Malinda White. 

Stephens, Thomas, Xenia, 1812. 

Stephens, Evers, Bath. 1807. 

Stephens, Robert £.. Bath. 1807; son of .\ndrew, 
of Bath township ; died in 1833. 

Stephens. Robert R.. Bath. 1819. 

Stei)hens. Philip, Bath. 1819; October 24, 1822. 
married Margaret Smith. 

Stephens. Elijah, Bath. 1S07. 

Stephens, Evan, Miami. 1808; soldier of 1812. 

Stephens, Margaret, Miami, 1830; widow of Philip 
Stephens. 

Stephens, Samuel, Miami, 1840; January 15, 1829. 
married Sarah Parash. 

Stephens. John. Silver Creek. 1818; born in 1790; 
died in Indiana. 

Stephens. .Andrew. Silver Creek. 1840; son of John: 
died November 15. 1892. aged seventy-three; bur- 
ied in Jamestown' cemetery. 

Stephens. Adam, Silver Creek, 1827; removed to 
Illinois. 

Strong. Koah, Sr., Caesar's Creek, 1803; hauled the 



logs to build the tavern of W. A. Beatty in 1804; 
died March 14. 1814. aged sixty-three; buried 
in Jamestown, Ohio. 

Strong, Reulien. Esq.. Caesar's Creek. 1803; son of 
Xo.-ih : ,\pril 19. 1804, married Anna Wilson; in 
181O. married Barl.ary Boots. 

Strong, Benjamin, Esq., Caesar's Creek, I810; died 
June 21. 1845, aged fifty-six; buried in James- 
town, Ohio; son of Noah. 

Strong. John, Caesar's Creek. 1S30; removed to 
Illinoi.s. where he died; November 18, 1834. mar- 
ried Clarasa Rorbaugh. 

Strong. Leonard. Caesars Creek, 1840; removed to 
Illmois; December 28, 1841, married Mary Ary, 

Strong, (ieorgc W.. Silver Creek, 1812; April it, 
1837. married Nancy Marshall. 

Strong, hlisha W.. Silver Creek, 1813; from Bos- 
ton, Massachusetts ; married Phebe Vail ; father 
of Mrs. John C. Patterson; died in 1823. 

Strong. Washington, Silver Creek, 1820; son of 
Noah ; said to have been the first person to 
marry in Jamestown, Ohio. 

Strong, Sylvester, Silver Creek, 1826; son of Noah; 
removed to Atlanta, Illinois, in 1836; died Jan- 
uary 5, 1900, aged ninety-five. 

Strong. JohiK Silver Creek, 1828; August 27, 1837. 
married Sarah Arate. 

Strong, VVTUiam, Silver Creek, 1830. 

Strong, W. G., Silver Creek. 1840. 

Strong, Ozias' M., Silver Creek, 1840; son of Ben- 
jamin; died January 15, 18S9, aged seventy-two; 
buried in Jamestown cemetery. 

Sturges. William R., Sugar Creek. 1S18; December 
6. 1825, married Sarah Stull. 

Sterritt, Joseph, Xenia, 1803; died June 22. 1809. 
aged fifty-three; buried in Massie's Creek (Ste- 
venson's), 

Sterritt, John, Xenia, 1803; brother-in-law of John 
and Abraham McClellan; married Peggy McClel- 
lan ; died in 1836. 

Sterritt. Joseph, Xenia, 1803; died August 28, 1825, 
aged thirty-pne; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Sterritt. Robert E., Xenia, 1811; died in 1825; bur- 
ied in Massie's Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Sterritt, James, Xenia, ,1820; July 2, 1825, married 
Ann Mitchell. 

Sterritt, Hugh. Xenia, 1826. 

Sterritt, Abraham A,, Xciiia, 1828 ; died February 
28, 1836, aged twenty-eight ; buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Sterritt, John A.. Xenia. 1828; buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Sterritt, Joseph E.. Xenia. 1811; died August 15, 
1823, aged thirty-four; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Sterritt, James B., Xenia. 1840; died December 21, 
1858, aged fort}--six ; buried at Cedarville. Ohio. 

Sterritt, Wm., Ross, 1830; he and John Miller ran 
a lanyard in Jame>town m 1810. 

Sterritt, Pugh, Ross, 1840; died May 12, 1872, aged 
seventy-one ; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Stake. JohnM., Sugar Creek, 1838; from Washing- 
ton county, ^laryland; son of .\nthony; born 
in 1S08; died November 9, i8g8, aged ninety; 
buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 

Stout. Milton, Beaver Creek, 1826. 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREEXE COUXTY. 



Stout. Joseph. Sugar CiLck. it^JO. 

Stout, Jonathan. Sugar Creek. 1S26: Augu.^t 26. 
. 1824. married Rebecca Bank. 

Stout, Henrj. Osborn, 1S40; died February. 1871. 
aged sixty-six. 

Stout, Isaac, Bath. 1807. 

Stout, Barkiiani, Bath, 1S07. 

Stout, Abraham, Miami, 1808. 

Stout, Banhani. Miami, 1810. 

Stout, Ralph R.. Miami. 1814. 

Stout. Dr. Nathaniel. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Stratford, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Street, John. Caesar's Creek, 1807; soldier of 1812: 
died in 1829, aged fifty-three. 

Stull. Benjamin, Xenia, 1807; died in Davton in 
1858. 

Stull, John, Xenia. 1807; merchant tailor in Xenia 
in 1807; died in 1829; buried at Fairfield. Ohio. 

Stull. Peter. Xenia. 1816: March 4. i8ig, married 
Rebecca Kirkpatrick; died May 23, 1871, aged 
eigh.ty-thrte. 

Stull. Joseph. Beaver Creek. 1840: born in 1803; 
died July 20. 1864. aged sixty-three. ' 

Stull. John, Jr., Bath. 184a: Fel)rLtary 16. 1867, mar- 
ried Dilly Stites. 

Stewart, Elijali M.. Miami. 1830: died Septen-.ber 
I, 1863, aged seventv-one ; buried in Clifton, 
Ohio. 

Stewart. Thomas G., Miami. 1830; died April 16, 
1880. aged eighty-six; buried in Clifton, Ohio. 

Stewart, William, Caesar"s Creek, 1830; died in 
' Bowersville. Ohio, March I. 1899, aged ninety- 
three. 

Stewart, Andrew, Beaver Creek. 1803 ; soldier of 
1812; died in Beaver Creek township in 1815. 

Stewart, Moses. Caesar's Creek. 1813; soldier of 
1812; December 23, 1821, married Mary Petro. 

Stewart, John, Beaver Creek. 1820 ; died March 8, 
1870, aged seventy-one; buried in the Petro 
graveyard. Fairtield. Ohio. 

Stewart, Archibald, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Stewart. James R.. Beaver Creek. 1840; son-in-law 
of Alexander McClintock ; died in 1825. 

Stewart. Samuel. Bath, 1807 ; captain in War of 
1812; brother of John. 

Stewart. John, Bath, 1807; soldier of 1812: Iniriei 
at Clifton, Ohio. 

Stewart, Henry, Bath, 1829. 

Stewart, Samuel, Miaijii, 1808. 

Stewart, James, Miami, 1808 ; March 2, 1818, mar- 
ried Catharine Funderburg. 

Stewart, John, Miami, 1808. 

Stewart, John T., Miami, 1810; soldier of 1812; 
\ father of Judge Stewart, of Xenia ; buried in 
Clifton, Ohio. 

Stewart, James. Ross, 1817; died in 1817. 

Stewart, William, Ross, 1840; son of James; born 
June 26, 1806: died March i. 1899. 

Stewart, James. Silver Creek. 1812; died October II. 
1825. aged fifty-three; buried in Baptist church- 
yard, west of Bowersville. 

Stewart, Robert. Silver Creek, 1810; from Wash- 
ington county, Virginia ; soldier of 1812 ; brother 
of James ; buried in Bowersville cemetery. 

Stewart, Christopher. Silver Creek, 1827 ; from Vir- 
ginia ; soil of Robert ; born in 1803 ; died Feb- 



ruary 18. 1S80; buried in Hussey graveyard, 
Bowersville, Ohio. 

Stewart. William, Jasper, 1830; died .\pril 9. 1879, 
aged eighty-one. 

Stewart. Gen. David. Xenia, 1840; born July n, 
1805 : died X'ovember, 1859 ; buried in Woodland ; 
brother of Samuel. 

Stewart. William I., Caesar's Creek, 1803; one of 
the first justices of the peace of Caesar's Creek 
township ; office at Caesarsville. 

Stewart, William, Sr., Caesar's Creek, 1820; sol- 
dier of Revolution ; from Ireland ; thence to 
South Carolina , thence to Ohio ; died .August 
4, 1830, a,ged ninety-one ; buried in WoodUlnd. 

Stewart, Samuel. Xenia. 1820; son of William, Sr. ; 
died in Xenia in 1846. 

Stewart, Robert M.. Xenia, 1818; son of William; 
died March 6, 1867, aged seventy-eight ; l)uried 
in Woodland. 

Stewart, John, Xenia, 1820. 

Stewart, Dr. Robert. Xenia. 1820 ; son of Samuel ; 
died March 11, i88g, aged eighty-six; buried in 
Woodland. 

Stewart. Samuel. Xenia, 1820; son of Samuel: sol- 
dier in Civil War, Co. C. Seventy-fourth; re- 
moved to Montana. 

Stewart, Robert M.. Xenia. 1827; died March 6. 
1867, aged sixty-four ; buried in Woodland. 

Stewart, William H.. Xenia. 1827; son of Sanuio; ; 
born in 1811; died April 23, 1889; buried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Stewart. Dr. James M., Xenia. 1830; died at Cedar- 
ville February 23, i8gg, aged eighty-six ; buried 
in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Stewart, Joseph I.. Xenia, 1840; son of Saiuuel ; re- 
moved to Washington, Iowa. 

Stewart, William. Sugar Creek. 1840; died in 1850, 
aged seventy-three; buried in Pioneer graveyard, 
Bellbrook. OJiio. 

Stewart. Samuel. Sugar Creek. 1840; from Penn- 
sylvania; brother of Gen. David; died Septem- 
ber 14, 18S3; buried in Woodland.- 

Stewart, William, Sugar Creek, 1840; "Fast-line 
Stewart"; Iiorn in 1802; died March, 1858. bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Stewart. Edward. Silver Creek. 1811; soldier ot 
1812. 

Stewart. Robert E., Sugar Creek. 1840; died Octo- 
ber lO. i860; buried in Bellbrook. 

Stewart. James C, Xenia, 1835 ; from South Car- 
olina ; son of Robert, who was the son of Will- 
iam ; died March 18, 1893, aged seventy-nine ; 
buried in Woodland. 

Stewart. .-Mcxander. Xenia. 1830; born in 1785: 
died in 1857; buried in Woodland. 

Stewart. David, Xenia, 1817; elder in Covenanter 
church. Caerar's Creek; died in Silver Creek 
township in 1829. 

Stewart. Charles. Xenia. 1818; September 14, 1838, 
married Mary Duncan. 

Strawham, Isaac, Bath, 1840. 

Strawham. Andrew, Ros.s, 1840. 

Stincr, John, Bath, 1840. 

Stiner, John. Jr., Bath. 1840. 

Stiner. Jacob. Bath. 1840; soldier in Civil War; 
died in 1880 at Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio. 



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Stitio, James, Bath, 1840. 

Stillwell, John, Bath, 1840. 

Stockwell, VVilHam. IBeaver Creek, 1803. 

Stratton. David, Xenia, 1828; died June 2, 1834, 
aged seventy -eight ; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (.Stevenson's). 

Stratton, David B,. Caesar's Creek, 1830; died June 
8, 1855, aged seventy ; buried in Woodland. 

Stratton, Caleb. Miami, 1819. 

Stratton, William, Silver Creek, 1827; May 15, i8j8, 
married Elizabeth Taylor. 

Stratton. Mahlon. Xenia, 1830; soldier of 1812; 
removed to Clinton county. 

Stratton, Reuben, Xenia, 1840. 

Strothcrs, William, Xenia, 1819; died June j, 1S34, 
aged seventy-eight ; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard ( Stevenson's) . 

Slrorhers, Thomas, Xenia, 1821 ; June 25, 1835. mar- 
ried Jane Gibson; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Strothers. John, Xenia, 1826; February 24, 1835, 
married Isabelle Kendall. 

Strothers. James. Xenia, 1827. 

Strothcrs. William. Jr.. Xenia. 1830: removed to 
Warren county, Illinois. 

Stinnp. Leonard, Cae.-ar's Creek. 1803. 

Stump. Isaac, Caesar's Creek, 1840: died in 1874, 
aged seventy-three ; buried in New Burlington 
cemetery. 

Stump. Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Stump, Jones, Caesar's Creek. 1840: from Virginia; 
died April 12, 1892. aged eighty-six; buriei! 
near Spring Valley, Ohio. 

Stutnp. J. A., Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Stump, Wm., Xenia, 1827 ; died August 22, 1852, 
aged forty-one, buried at Mt. Holly. 

Stump. Daniel, Sugar Creek, 1840 : soldier of Revo- 
lution ; died, aged seventy-one, buried at Mt. 
Holly. 

Stone, John, Sugar Creek. 1820; May 12, 1820. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Cunningham. 

Stone, Francis, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Stone. N. F.. Miami. 1840; married the widow ot 
Timothy Bates, Maria, daughter of Gen. White- 
man. 

Stiles, Benjamin, Xenia, 1815; from Virginia; died 
July 29, i860, aged seventy-two; buried at Fair- 
field, Ohio. 

Stiles, Moses. Silver Creek, 1827; July 6. 1826. 
married N^ancy Cottrell. 

Stiles, Joshua. Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Stiles, Hiram. Xenia, 1840; native of New' Jersey; 
soldier in Civil War, Co. G, One Hundred and 
Fifty-fourth. 

Stiles, Isaac, Sugar Creek, 1836; born in 1819; 
died November 15, 1898; buried at Spring Val- 
ley, Ohio. 

Stiles, George, Sugar Creek, 1840; March 22. 1838, 
married Harriet Baringer. 

Stith, Jesse. Sugar Creek. 1840; January, 1840, 
niarried Bathsheba Cavender. 

Stafford, John, Caesar's Creek, 1804: married a 
daughter of Valentine and Christina Bone. 

Stafford, Jesse, Caesar's Crek, 1826; son of John; 
died May 2. 1866. aged sixty-one ; burid at Tabor, 
near New Jasper, Ohio. 
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Stafford, Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1828; son of 

John ; February 14, 1827, married Ann Graham. 
Stafford, Valentine, Caesar's Creek, 1828; son of 

John. 
Stafford, Darlington, Caesar's Creek, 1840; died 

October, 1887, aged seventy-five; buried at Maple 

Corner. 
Stafford, Samuel, Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1840; Janu- 
ary 13, 1839, married Sarah Williams. 
Stafford. Wni. R., Miami, 1S40; February 2, 1838, 

married Hester Ann Owens. 
Stanton, William, Caesar's Creek, 1807 ; soldier of 

1812. 
Stanton. Frederick, Caesar's Creek. 1S07 ; buried 

Woodland. 
Stowe. Charles. Miami, 1804; from Dinwiddic 

county, Virginia. 
Stowe, Alexander, Xenia, 1807; died March ii, 

1840. aged seventy: buried in Woodland. 
Stowe. Joseph. Xenia, 1826; son of Alexander; 
.died October i, 1839, aged thirty-nine; buried 

in Woodland. 
Stowe, W. W., Xenia, 1840. 
Stowe. Richard, Xenia, 1840; son of Alexander; 

died August 7, 1858, near Greenville, Bond 

county, Illinois. 
Stowe. Smith A.. Xenia. 1840; soldier in Civil 

War. Co. C. Seventy-fourth ; buried in Wood- 
land. 
Stark. M. D., Xenia, 1840; died July 2, 1881, in 

Hot Springs, Arkansas ; buried in Woodland. 
Stark. William T.. Xenia, 1816: from Loudoun 

county, Virginia; .soldier of 1812: died Septem- 
ber I, 1858, aged sixty-eight; buried in VVood- 

land. 
Stark, Washington A., Xenia. 1836; born July 6. 

1815; October 6. 1841, married Louisa Ballard; 

died February 16. 1901, aged eighty-six years. 
Stark. William M., Xenia, 1840; liorn June 18, 1817, 

died February 23. 1893; buried in Woodland. 
Stark. Clinton, Xenia. 1840: died March 9. 1S95, 

aged seventy-six ; buried in Woodland. 
Stark. Albert M., Xenia, 1840; soldier in Civil War; 

Quartermaster of One Hundred and Tenth ; died 

June 10. 1897; buried in Woodland. 
Studivan, John. Silver Creek. 1826; died in 1829. 
Studivan. Stephen, Silver Creek, 1826; removed to 

Piqua, Ohio. 
Studivan, Thomas, Silver Creek, 1840; December 

25, 1830. married Nancy Stewart ; removed to 

Piqua. Ohio. 
Stacey. Ezekiel, Silver Creek, 1826. 
St. John, Daniel W., Caesar's Creek, 1828 : son of 

John, of New York; born Miiy I, 1805; died 

in 1872 ; buried in Woodland. 
Stire. Henry, Xenia, 1828 ; died February 22. 1875 ; 

buried in Woodland ; a resident of Xenia forty 

years. 
Starr, Orange B., Silver Creek, 1826. 
Starr, Abraham, Caesar's Creek. 1828; October 15. 

1818, married Mary Stanfield ; administrator of 

estate of John Starr. 
Starr. John, Caesar's Creek, 1820 : died in Caesar's 

Creek township in 1829. 
Starr. Mary, Caesar's Creek, 1830 ; widow of John 

Starr. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Starr. Christopher, Caesar's Creek, 1840; son of 
John and Slary : June 13. 1839, married Lydia 
Ann Ikens. 

Starr, Abraham. Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Starr, Jacob, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Starr, Hiram. Silver Creek, 1838; August 18, 1839, 
married Rhoda ,\nn Castell. 

Starr. William, Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Starr. Samuel. Bath. 1840. 

Stemble. Frederick. Xenia. 1830; from Frederick 
county. Maryland; born December 23. 1780: died 
May 23, 1868. aged eighty-eight ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Stemble. Jacob. Xenia. 1830; son of Fredrick; born 
March 26, 1802 ; died November 18, 1859, aged 
forty-eight : buried in Woodland. 

Stemble. J. N., Xenia. 1840; died May 18. 1856. aged 
forty-seven; buried in Woodland; January if, 
1840. married Amanda Richards. 

Stiner. John, Bath, 1840. 

Stiner. John. Jr., Bath. 1840. 

Sterge. William K.. Bath. 1S28. 

Stinebough. George, Bath, 1827. 

Stockton. Richard. Bath. 1827. 

Stockton, Joseph, Bath. J827. 

Stonerock. Samuel. Bath, 1S26; May 26, 1S21. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Fogle. 

Stoker. Jacob, Bath. 1807: Iniried in Bath church- 
yard, west of Mad River. 

Stoker. William. Bath. 1807; died in 1827; buried 
in Bath churchyard. 

Stoker. Abraham. Beaver Creek, 1827 : died January 
14. 1878, aged sixty-one; buried in Beaver 
churchyard. 

Sturry. William, Xenia, 1820. 

Stafielieam, Isaac. Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Standticld. William. Xenia. 1808; soldier of 1812; 
died May. 22, 1842, aged seventy-two. 

Standiield. John, Xenia, 1817; brother of William; 
died March 13. 1842. 

Straight. John, Xenia. 1826; married August 30. 
i8i8. to Ruth Mendenhall. 

Steene, Moses, Silver Creek, 1840; bufied near 
New Jasper on lames M. Smith's farm. 

Steene. William. Silve- Creek, 1840; July 22. 1839. 
married Harriet Eerriman ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Steene. Robert, Miami. 1825; August it, 1825. mar- 
ried Mary Lumback. 

Stokes, Jervus. Sugar Creek. 1826: January 11. 
1827, married Mnry Brelsford. 

Stokes. Matthew. Beaver Creek. 1827. 

Stokes, Isaac, Xenia, 1840. 

Stanforil. James, Ross, 1812. 

Stanford. Thomas. Ross. 1813. 

Stireman. Adam. Ross. 1840. 

Stinsun. David. Silver Creek. 1830: February 7. 1830. 
married Mary Stewart. 

Stinson. John. Silver Creek. 1828: murdered by his 
son-in-law. Nelson Farmer, April. 1849; (see 
files of -Torchlight." March 8, 1849). 

Story. .'Mfred. Silver Creek. 1840; died May 14, 
1855. aged fiftv-six ; buried at Bowcrsville. Ohio. 

Stillings. James. Xenia. 1840; died May 6. 1844. aged 
seventy; buried in Salem graveyard, south of 
Paintersville. Ohio. 



Stillings, James, Xtnia, 1840; from Virginia; died 
July 4, 1882, aged seventy-eight ; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Stillings. William, Xenia, 1840, 

Strite, John, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Strator, Benjamin, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Stingley. Henry. Bath. 1819; died at Osborn July 3. 
1895. aged one hundred and one ; buried in 
Woodland. 

Stingley, Leonard, Xenia. iSig. 

Strickle, Abraham E.. Xenia, 1828. 

Strickle, Jacob. Xenia, 1840; a shoemaker; died 
November 16. 18S7 ; buried in Woodland. 

Stoops, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1830. 

Stoops. William, Beaver Creek, 1830. 

Stoops. John. Beaver Creek. 1840; died June i, 
1864. aged sixty-six; buried in Woodland; sol- 
dier in Civil War. Thirteenth Battery. 

Stine. Jacob B.. Beaver Creek, 1830; from Wash- 
ington county, Maryland ; son of Matthias ; born 
in Pennsylvania in 1803 ; died in 1893 ; buried 
in Woodland. 

Stine, John. Beaver Creek. 1820; father of J. H. 
Stine, of Oldtown ; died at Hagerstown, Mary- 
land. December 16, 1873. 

Stine. John. Beaver Creek. 1820; born in Union 
county. Pennsylvania ; died December 9, 1881, 
aged eighty-two ; buried in Fairfield, Ohio. 

Stine, Edward, Beaver Creek, 1840; died August 
II. 1891, aged seventy. 

Strovel. Christian. Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Strader, Beniamin, Bath, 1821. 

Strader. John M., Bath. 1828. 

Strader, John P.. Bath, 1840. 

Strawsburg. John, Bath, 1826. 

Strawsburg. David. Bath. 1826. 

Stutsman. David. Bath, 1840; died in 1836; buried 
at Beavertown, Ohio. 

Stutsman, James, Bath. 1840. 

Stroutsenburg, John. Bath. 181 1. 

Stroutsenburg, George. Sugar Creek, 1840 ; yet liv- 
ing in 1900, in Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Stiles, Samuel, Bath, 1807. 

Stites, Benjamin. Bath, 1S16. 

Stites. Mahlon, Bath, 1816. 

Stite.-. Abraham. Bath, 1827; December 26, 1827, 
married Sarah Martin. 

Stites, George H., Bath, 1840. 

Sullivan. John, Beaver Creek, 1806; soldier of 
1S12. 

Sullivan. James, Bath, 1813. 

Suber. George, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Sutton. Josiah. Caesar'.; Creek. 1820; married Cath- 
orine Shrack June. 21, 1827. 

Sutton, William G.. Caesar's Creek. 1803; from 
Kentucky ; one of the first settlers of New- 
Jasper. Ohio : removed to Indiana. 

Sutton, Isaiah. Caesar's Creek, 1803; son of Will- 
iam G. ; died in 1825; Henry Sutton, adminis- 
trator of his e.Uate. 

Sutton. Genire, Caesar's Creek. 1S03; soldier of 
1812: from Kentucky. 

Sutton, .\niaziah, Caesar's Creek. 181 ^ ; soldier of 
1812. 

Sutton. Samuel. Caesar's Creek, 1803 ; from Ken- 
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Siition. Lewis, Caesar's Creek. 180.). 

Sutton, John, Caesar's Creek, 1804. 

Sutton, Jeremiah, Caesar's Creek, 1805; soldier of 

1812. 
Sutton, Jesse, Caesar's Creek. 1813: July 8. 181.;. 

married Jane Jackson. 
Sutton, William, Caesar's Creek, 1813; soldier of 

181 J ; hi^ wife. Jane; daughters, Esther and Polly. 

(lied in 1818. 
Sutton, Daniel. Caesar's Creek, 1827; son of Wm. 

G. : born in Greene county ; died October 7, 

i860, aged fifty-nine: buried in Woodland. 
Sutton. David, Cac-ar's Creek. 1840; son of Will- 
iam G. 
Sutton, Daniel B.. C.iesar's Creek, 1840; removed 

to Red Key, Indiana: died there in 1898, 
Sutton. Rev, Wni. B., Silver Creek, 1810; died 

February 25, 1863, aged seventy-four; buried in 

Jamestown, Ohio, 
Sutton, Amos. Bath. 1809: soldier of 1812; March 

27, 1817, married Sarah l.ippcncott. 
Sutton. Cornelius. Bath. 1809; soldier of 1812. 
Sntton. Cornelius. Jr.. Bath, 1813. 
Sutton. Isaac. Bath, 1819. 
Sutton, Ferdinand, Miami, 1840. 
Sutton, Ezra, Ross, 1816. 
Sutton, Henry. Ross, 1820. 
Sutton. Ira. Silver Creek, 1840. 
Sutton, Jesse, Silver Creek, 1840. 
Sutton. William G., Jr., Silver Creek, 1840; died 

in 1851. 
Sutton, Jacob, Silver Creek, 1840; son of Wm. G. ; 

died July 22, 18S0, aged sixty-four; buried in 

Woodland. 
Sutton, Robert. Sugar Creek. i8ri; soldier of 1812. 
Svvarvvood. John, Caesar's Creek, 1826. 
Swane. Thomas. Sugar Creek. 1840; died May 16, 

1858. aged .sixtv-five ; buried at Spring Valley, 

Ohio. 
Su ane, James, Beaver Creek. 1840 : died in 18.34. 
Swisher. Abraham, Xenia, 1829; from Virginia; 

died April 16, 1880, aged eighty- four; buried in 

Woodland. 
Swisher, Michael, Xenia, 1840. 
Swift, Charles. Caesar's Creek, 18,30: black man: 

from Virginia: December 23, 1824. married Bar- 

liary Brow-n, former slave of Josiah Elain. 
Swadner. Adam, Beaver Creek, 1807 ; died July 12, 

1S67, aged sixty: buried at Fairfield, Ohio. 
Swndncr, Adam, Sr., Bath, 1807; died June it. 

1S39. aged seventy; buried in Union graveyard, 

near Byron, Ohio. 
Swadner. Andrew, Beaver Creek, 1818; died June 

6, 1842, aged seventy-five. 
Swadner, Jonathan, Beaver Creek, 1819; died in 

1835. October 10, a.ged thirty-seven; buried in 

I'nion graveyard. 
Swadner, William. Beaver Creek. 1819; died Feb- 
ruary 20, 1865. aged stventy-two; buried in 

Beaver Creek churchyard. 
Swadner. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1819: born in 1808, 

died in 1887, buried in Union churchyard. 
Swadner, George. Beaver Creek. 1820. 
Swadner. Isaac. Beaver Creek, 1826: from Virginia: 

died July 17. 1887. aged eighty-three; buried in 

Beaver Creek churchyard. 



Swadner, .■\braliam. Benver Creek. 1826; buried in 

Hawker's churchyard. 
Swadner, Abner Beaver Creek. 1828. 
Swadner, Adam. Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840 : born 

June, 1811; died in 1881 ; buried in Union 

churchyard, Byron, Ohio; married March 31, 

1833, to Catherine Ann Keefer. 
Swadner, Benjamin. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Swadner, Jacob, Beaver Creek. 1840; died July 25, 

1827, aged seventy-nine; buried in Hawker's 

churchyard. 
Swadner. Owen, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Sweet. Stephen, Xenia, 1840 ; from Connecticut. 
Sweet, Thomas, Xenia. 1840; died March 29, 1868, 

aged fifty-five; buried in Woodland. 
Swabb. Daniel. Bath. 1840: died March 31. 1874, 

aged sixty-nine ; buried in Fairfield. Ohio. 
Swigart. Jacob. Beaver Creek. 1810: soldier of 1812. 
Swigart, Peter, Beaver Creek, 1808: born in Ger- 
many ; died in 1839, aged eighty-two ; buried in 

Mt. Zion churchyard. 
Swigart. Michael, Sugar Creek, i8to; son of Peter; 

from Somerset county, Peiinsylvauia ; died 

February 19, 1S49, aged eighty- four; buried in 

Mt. Zion; soldier of 1812. 
Swigart. John, Beaver Creek, i8lo; died October 

7, 1847, aged fifty-six: buried in Beaver Creek 

churchyard; soldier of 1812. 
Swigart, Joe', Sugar Creek, 1840: son of Michael; 

horn in 1820; died March 11, 1891, aged seventy- 
one. 
Swigart. Peter. Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1819 ; March 28, 

married Margaret Dice. 
Swigart, Henry, Sugar Creek, 1819 : born October 

14, 1798; died July 25. 1850: buried in Mt. 

Zion churchyard. 
Swope. George, Caesar's Creek, 1840: died May 23, 

1866, aged sixty; buried in Eleazer churchyard. 
Syiihers, John, Beaver Creek, 1813. 
Syphers, Henry, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Syphers. Jacob, Silver Creek, 1833 ; died December 

I, 187s, aged eight)^-five; buried in Jamestown, 

Ohio. I 

Syphers, Lisbon, Silver Creek, 1840; native of 

Greene county, Pennsylvania ; March 19. 1837, 

married Mary Dawson. 
Syphers. J. H., Silver Creek, 1840; died in Io\va 

October 16, 1842, 
Syphers, Ezra, Beaver Creek, 1840; died May 2, 

1878, aged sixty-seven. 
Sharp. Aries. Silver Creek. i8it: soldier of 1812. 
Shifflet, Michael, Silver Creek, 1805. 
Shit^flet. Garland. Silver Creek, 1840. 
Sheitield. Ja.-ob, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Sheffield. John, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Talbert. Addison. Sugar Creek. 1835; November 2, 
1836. married Elizabeth Schnebley. 

Talbert, Josiah, Xenia. 1809; soldier of 1812; re- 
moved to Champaign county, Ohio. 

Talbert. Josiah G.. Xenia. 1808: Iniried in Oakdale 
cemetery, Urbana, Ohio. 

Talbert, Robert, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Talbert. Richard C. Xenia. 1811 : soldier of 1812; 
removed to Madison. Indiana ; clerk of courts of 
Jefferson county, Indiana. 



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Talbert. Addison. Sugar Creek, 1832 ; brother of 
John; buried ni Bellbrook cemeterj'. 

Talbert. John B., Sugar Creek, 1832; born April 
j8. 1814; died at the home of his daughter, al 
Kirkwood, Missouri. January 30, 1898, aged 
eighty-three : buried in Bellbrook cemetery. 

Talbert. John, Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1808; died March 
I, 1873, aged eighty-seven ; buried in Bellbrook 
cemeter}-. 

Tanner, \V illiani. Sugar Creek, 1803; his wife, El- 
sie: his will recorded in 1824; buried near Bell- 
brook, Ohio. 

Tanner, James, Sugar Creek, 1803; son of William 
and lilsie. 

Tanner. Isaac. Sugar Creek, i8o6. 

Tanner, Robert, Sugar Creek, 1808. 

Tanner, VVm., Jr., Sugar Creek, 1S20; August 5, 
1 81 6, married Mary Ramsey. 

Tanner. John. Sugar Creek, 1826; son of William 
and Elsie. 

Tanner, Rankin, Sugar Creek, 1830; son of Will- 
iam and Elsie. 

Tanner. Joseph. Sugar Creek, 1826; died May 17, 
1820. aged twenty-eight : George Gordon, ad- 
ministrator of his estate. 

Tate, Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1831; died December 
8, 1848. aged thirty; buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Tate, Patterson, Sugar Creek, 1840; died Septem- 
ber 13, 1887 ; buried in Woodland. 

Tate, John, Sugar Creek, 1816; died September 25, 
1842. aged fifty-nine: buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Tate. Hugh. Sugar Creek. 1826; died in 1839, aged 
fifty-six : buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bell- 
brook, Ohio. 

Tate. James, Sugar Creek. 1826. 

Tate, William, Sugar Creek, 1828 ; born April 27, 
17SO; died August 5, 1836, aged fifty; buried in 
Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Tate. William R.. Sugar Creek. 1840; died Decem- 
ber 21, 1881, aged sixty-seven; buried in Wood- 
land. 

Tate. Andrew. Sugar Creek. 1827. 

Tate. James, Sugar Creek. 1819; died August, 1831, 
aged seventy-five; buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 

Taylor. Joseph A.. Sugar Creek. iSii; soldier of 
1812. 

Taj lor, Joseph, Sugar Creek. i8ii. 

Taylor, David, Sugar Creek, 1840 ; September 23, 
1824. married Ruth Barker. 

Taylor, John, Caesar's Creek, 1S09. 

Taylor. Rev. John P., Caesar's Creek, 1828; native 
of James City, Virginia; married a daughter of 
Fredrick Bonner; born November 20, 1782; died 
September, 1873. aged ninety-two, at Dublin, 
Indiana. 

Taylor, Franklin. Xenia, 1840 ; died October 8, 1875, 
aged seventy-four. 

Taylor, Silas. Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Taylor. William, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; died Decem- 
ber 15. 1857, aged sixty; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard, 

Taylor, George, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; son-in-law of 
Jacob Smith, Sr. ; removed to Indiana. 

Taylor. Joseph, Beaver C^tk, 1804; December 29, 
1803, married Polly Smith, 

Taylor, Isaac, Beaver Creek, 1S06; from Rock- 
bridge county, Virginia, 



Taylor, Septimus, Beaver Creek, 1819. 

Taylor, Richard. Beaver Creek, 1828. , 

Taylor, Peter, Bath, 1807; soldier of 1812; buried 
at Pleasant Grove, near Byron, Ohio. 

Taylor, Joseph, Bath, 1807; buried at Pleasant 
Grove. 

Taylor, Isaac. Ross, 1840; born on the Atlantic 
Ocean ; died August 28, 1884, aged eighty-three. ' 

Taylor, D.ivid, Ross, 1807; soldier of 1812; Febru- 
ary I. 1627, married Mary Frost, 

Taylor, Henry, Ross, 1807; soldier of 1812; buried 
in Foick grave\^rd, Bath township. 

Taylor. VVilliani, bath. 1810; January 4, 1826, mar- 
ried Matilda Stublefield; died in Bath town- 
ship in 1814. 

Taylor, William G., Ross. 1810; died April 16, 1873, 
aged seventy-three ; buried in Baptist graveyard, 
near Jamestown, Ohio. 

Taylor. Beniamin. Ross, 1808; died March 21, 1887, 
aged seventy-two. 

Taylor. Samuel, Ross, 1820; died in 1861 ; Owenite 
Community, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 

Taylor. John. Ross, 1828. 

Taylor. George, Ross, 1830. 

Taylor, Ralph, Ross, 1840. 

Taylor. H. G., Ross. 1840. 

Taylor. Royal. Ross, 184a. 

Tanquery. Benjamin. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Tabor, Bennet, Xenia, 1830; a member of the Owen- 
ite Community, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 

Tatman, Joseph, Bath, 180,^; from Kentucky; sol- 
dier of 1812: buried in the Milman graveyard, 
Fairfield, Ohio. 

Tatman, James, Bath, 1803 ; father of Joseph : died 
in 1871 ; buried in the Mitman graveyard. 

Tatman. Joseph, Jr.. Bath, 1803. 

Tatjn.tn, Edward, Bath. 1810; kept tavern in his 
house in Bath township in 181 5. 

Tatman, John, Bath. 1817; died in 1821. 

Tatman, Indiana, Bath, 1813; buried in Mitman 
graveyard. 

Taft. Lyman, Xenia, 1840 ; died January, 1882, 
aged eighty-six ; buried in Woodland. 

Tannihill. William. Miami, 1840; September 28, 
1839, married Lydia Ann Knox. 

Tem.plar, George W., Miami, 1840; Stptember 30, 
1834, married Hannah Medsker. 

Templar, Stacey, Xenia, 1840; died October 24. 
1864. aged eighty-three ; buried at Maple Corners. 

Templar, James Xenia, 1840. 

Ten-pleton Rev. Jas., Sugar Creek. 1S07; died May 
I, 181 ^; buried in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 

Templeton, John, Bath, 1807; died in 181 1. 

Templeton, Joanna, Bath, 1813. 

Templeton, William, Bath, 1817. 

Templeton, Dr. Jos. T., Xenia, 1826; pioneer doc- 
tor of Xenia ; died in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
, vania. 

Templeton. Jonathan. Silver Creek, 1840. 

Teas. Samuel, Xenia, 1820: died July 4. 1844, aged 
forty-two ; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Teach, Jacob, Xenia, 1840; died June 1, 1892, aged 
seventy-four. 

Teas, John, Xenia. 1818; February 4, 1828, mar- 
ried Louisa Saunders. 

Teas, Thomas, Xenia, 1829, 



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Teas, Samuel. Jr., Xenia, 1830. 

Terry, Joiiatli.m Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Tedford, Alexander, Beaver .Creek. 1806. 

Terry, Dr. Dmid L., Xenia, 1840; died May 24. 
1845: in 1840 was one of Xenia's leading physi- 
cians. 

Tennery, John, Bath, 1813. 

Teel. Samuel. Bath. 1803. 

Thomas, Daniel. Sugar Creek, 1803; soldier of l8l2. 

rhoma -.. .\b -ah.im, Sugar Creek, 1803 ; died April 

29, 185S. aged sixty-seven; buried in Middle Run 
chi?r;hyard. 

Thomas. Abraham. Jr.. Sugar Creek, 1804. 

J'homai Pa-;iel, Sugar Creek. 1804. 

Thoma^. George, Sugar Creek, 1817; October 3. 
1818. married Elizabeth Beck. 

Thomas, Joseph, Ross. 1830; "White Pilgrim;" 
born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania ; died 
January 31, 1886, aged seventy-nine; buried east 
of (irape Grove. 

Thomas. Hiram. Silver Creek. 1832: born in Frank- 
lin county, Pennsylvania; died September 6, 
1872. aged sixty-one. 

Thomas, Charles, Sugar Creek, 1820; May 9, 1825. 
married Mercy Sackett. 

Thoniia; Albert. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Thomas Arthur. Caerar's Creek, 1826: died October 

30, 1854, aged forty-nine: buried one mile north 
of Paint^rsville Ohio. 

Thomas. Arohibald. Caesar's Ci cek. 1829: from 
Virginia' died in 1862. near Urbana, Ohio; fa- 
ther of Mrs. Henry Buckles. 

rhoma; Harry. Caesar's Creek. 1830; October 2, 
1828, married Susanna Bayliflf; removed to Pili • 
nois. 

rho:nas. Jacjb Caesar's Creek, 1830: November 29, 
1832 married Stacia Bruce. 

Thoma;. Jacob Xenia. 1811: soldier of 1812. 

Thoma ;. Frincis, Xenia. 1819: removed to Blooni- 
ington. Illinois ; died in 1873. 

Thomas. William, Xenia. 1820: removed to Bloom- 
ington. Illinois. 

Thomas. Jas. C.. Xenia. 1826. 

Thomas. Stephen. Xenia. 1830; colored. 

Thomas. John, Xenia. 1840: died March 16, 1873, 
aged sixty-six ; buried in Woodland. 

Thomas. Prossley. Xtnia, 1840 ; colored. 

Thomas, Kelly. Xenia. 1840; died December 4. 1S72; 
colored whitewasher. 

Thoma-,, John, Caesar's Creek. 1840 ; died May 2, 
1894. aged seventy-five. 

Thomas. Tu.-ker. Miami. 1840. 

Thomas. Jacob, Silver Creek, 1820: March 7, 1834, 
married Elizabeth Stanley: died in 1851. 

Thomas. Robert. Silver Creek. 1828. 

Thomas. Benjamin. Silver Creek, 1830; died Sep- 
tember 12. 1856, aged fifty-six; buried in James- 
town cemetery. 

Thomas. Arthur. Silver Creek. 1830; November 15, 
1S27. married Mary McConnell. 

Thomas, Chockley, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Thomas. Jonah. Silver Creek, 1840; May 25, 1837, 
married Elizabeth Johnson. 

Thomas. Henry Silver Creek. 1840. 

Thane. John. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Thompson. Charles. Si-g^r Creek. 1826.. 

']'homp;on. J'lnath.m. Xenia City. 1828: from Eng- 



land: died May 5, 1875, aged eighty: buried 'n 
Woodland. 

Thompson, Robert, Xenia City, 1830. 

Thompson. Alexander. Xenia. 181 1: kept store in 
Xenia in 1816: died in 1S27: burie.i in Massie's 
Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 

Thompson. Samuel. Xenia. 1830: died in 1833: mar- 
ried Ann Kirk. 

Thompson. James, Xenia, 1830, 

Thompson. Joshua, Bath, 181 1. 

Thompson. W'illiam. Bath. 1820. 

Thom^json. Archibald. Ross. 181 1. 

Thompson. John, Xenia, 1832 ; July 5. 1832, mar- 
ried Mary Lyons: died May 31. 1878, aged sixty, 

Thompson, William, Ross, 1813. 

Thompson. Niathan. Xenia. 1814: from Lancaster, 
Penn.sylvania: died at Cedarville. March 2. 1854; 
buried in Woodland. 

Thompson. George W.. Xenia, 1840: died January 
16, 1857. aged forty-six ; buried in Cedarville 
cemetery. 

Thomi)son. .Abel. Xenia. i8,?6: from Frederick coun- 
ty. Virginia; died January 14. 1851, aged sev- 
enty-two: buried in Woodland. 

Thatcher. Thomas, Caesar's Creek, 181 1. 

Thatcher, David, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Thatcher, Jesse. Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Thatcher. Absalom, Xenia, 1840. 

Tharp, William G.. Jr., Xenia, 1840: died May 31, 
1856, aged fifty-seven: buried in Woodland. 

Tharp. Henry. Caesar's Creek. 1S40. 

Tharp. William G., Sr., Caesar's Creek, 1840; died 
April 2, 1838. aged sixty: buried in Zoar church- 
yard. 

Tharp, John B.. Caesar's Creek, 1840 : December 
13, 1832, married Matilda Gerard. 

Thorn, Benedict, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Thorn, Wm., Sr., Xenia, 1804: from New Jersey; 
•.soldier of 1812: died in 1863. aged seventy-two; 
buried near Salem, Ohio. 

Thorn. Thomas, Ross, 1840: died in 1865. 

Thorn. Dr. Isaac. Miami, 1840; son of William 
and father of Dr. A. L. Thorn, of Yellow 
Springs. Ohio. 

Thorn, James, Ross, 1840. 

Thorn. Thomas. Ross, 1840. 

Thorn, Dr. Elihu, Ross, 1840; died October 2, 1876; 
born January 11, 1819: buried at Yellow Springs. 

Thornton, D. W.. Ross. 1840. 

Thornton. John. Ross, 1840. 

Thoi-nburg, Joel, Caesar's Creek. 1804 : died May 
5. 1861. aged eighty-four: buried in New Hope 
churchyard. 

Thornburg. Amo.s, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Thorn. Elijah. 1840; died February 7. 1899. aged 
eighty-three. 

Thatcher. Amos. Ross. 1807 : soldier of the Revolu- 
tion. X'ew Jersey Militia. 

Thornlnirg. George. Caesar's Creek. 1807 : died in 
iS.v'^: buried in Baptist graveyard, southwest of 
Jamestown. Ohio. 

Thornburg, Joel. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Thornburg. Eli. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Thornburg. Richard. Silver Creek. 1813: soldier of 
1812. under Capt. Lucas. 

Thornburg, Uriah. -Silver Creek. 1817. 

Tlnirnburg. George. Silver Creek. 1817. 



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Thornburg. Job. Silver Creek, 1817. 

Thornbiirg. John. Silver Creek. 1826 ; March 7. 
1816. married Julia Ann Short. 

Thornburg. John, Jr.. Silver Creek, 1826. 

Thornburg. Simon. Silver Creek. 1826 ; January 5, 
1823. married Elizabeth Beason. 

Thornburg. John B.. Silver Creek, 1828. 

Thornburg. Robert. Silver Creek, 1829. 

Thornburg. John L., Silver Creek. 1830. 

Thornlnirg. Ashel. Silver Creek, 1840. 

Thornborough, James. Silver Creek. 1840 : died in 
1844. aged twenty-one : buried in New Hope 
churchyard. Paintersville. Ohio. 

Ticen. Wm. J.. Sugar Creek. 1820: died in 1852, 
aged eighty : buried at Bcllbrook. Ohio. 

Ticen. Pearson. Sugar Creek, 1826. 

Tiffany. John. Xenia. 1832; from Berkshire county, 
Massachusett.- ; soldier of 1812 : died July 9. 
1855. aged eighty-six; buried in Woodland. 

Tingley. John, Bath. 1803. 

Tingley, Joseph. Bath. 181 1; died fn 1815; Andrew 
Read, administrator of his estate. 

Tingley. John I.. Bath. 1811 : brother of Joseph. 

Tingley. John A.. Bath. 1816: soldier of 1812: died 
January to, 1830. aged fifty-five : buried in Cost 
graveyard. 

Tingley, Isaac. Bath. 1816; September 24. 1826. mar- 
ried Mary Galloway. 

Tingley. Jacob. Bath, 1818: July 11. 1819. married 
Elizabeth Clayton. 

Tingley. Samuel D., Bath. 1821 : son of Samuel. 

Tingley, Samuel. Bath. 1820: died in 1837. 

Tingley. Wm.. Bath. 1826; October 11, 1827. mar- 
ried Elizabeth Wilson. 

Tingley. John W.. Bath, 1826: nephew of Joseph; 
married Hannah Longstreth \ovember 22, 1827. 

Tingley. John H.. Bath. 1829; ilarch 24. 1836, mar- 
ried Hannah Watlin. 

Tingley. Winns. Bath, 1820. 

Tingley, James. Bath. 1830; Xovember 22, 1827, 
married Mary Bradley. 

Titlow. Abraham. Bath. 1814: died July 7, 18.53, 
aged sixty; buried at Fairfield, Ohio. 

Todd, John. Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 1812; son 
of James; removed to Indiana: died at ^Madison, 
Indiana. 

Todd. James, Sr., Sugar Creek. 1808; soldier of 
1812 ; son of James ; removed to Flat Rock, In- 
diana. 

Todd, James B.. Sugar Creek. 1811 ; son of James, 
Sr. : .soldier of 1812. 

Todd. James M.. Sugar Creek, 1816. 

Todd. Prestley. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

Torrence. David. Sugar Creek. 1S28 ; son of John, 
Sr. ; died December 6. 1851, aged forty-seven; 
buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Torrence. Dr. John. Sugar Creek. 1840; son of 
William; died July 28. 1889. aged seventy; bur- 
ied at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Torrence. David B., Sugar Creek. 1840; son of 
William: died December 28, 1894, aged seventy- 
two; buried in Woodland. 

Toops. Adam, Caesar's Creek. 1840; died in 1866. 

Towell. John. Ross. 1810; soldier of 1812; came 
from Frederick county, Virg'inia ; buried at Grape 
Grove, Ross township. 



Towell. John. Jr.. Ross, 1840; June 9, 1839, married 
Catherine Ruth. 

Towell. Samuel. Ross. 1840; September 7. 1837. 
married Lydia Ann Mendenhall. 

Toleman, Silas, Xenia, 1829. 

Tole, Joseph, Bath. 1807. 

Tole, Macaiah. Bath, 1807. 

Tosh, William, Bath, 1830. 

Tobias, Samuel, Beaver Creek. 1826; died in 1820. 

Tobias, Jacob, Beaver Creek. 1826. 

Tobias, Abr.iham, Beaver Creek, 1826; June 23, 
1829, married Catherine Koogler. 

Tobias, John. Beaver Creek. 1826; August 26, 1836, 
married Elizabeth Rockafield. 

Tobias. George, Beaver Creek. 1840; son of Peter; 
born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; 
died October 19, 1881, aged seventy-four; buried 
in Hawker's churchyard. 

Tobias. William Beaver Creek, 1840; son of Sam- 
uel; born March 14, 1821. 

Tobias, Peter, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1840 ; died Oc- 
tober 4, 1887, aged seventy-four ; buried in 
Hawker's churchyard. 

Tobias. Daniel, Beaver Creek. 1840; died February 
2, 1855, aged thirty-seven ; buried in Aky 
churchyard. 

Tomliufon. Jonathan. Silver Creek. 1840; October 
26. 1826. married Eliza Shepherd. 

Trowden. Jacob. Sugar Creek. 1809. 

Truman, Jeffrey. Sugar Creek. 1826; native of Vir- 
ginia; born in 1784; died in 185 1. aged sixt>- 
seven : buried in Elam graveyard, south of Xenia. 

Trader. Rev. Moses. Sr., Xenia. 1804 ; from Cum- 
berland county, Virginia ; died April 9, 1854, 
aged seventv; September 2, 1804^ married E. 
McDonald. 

Trader, Alfred, Xenia. 1840: son of Moses. Sr. : 
born May lo, 1810; died April 3. 1883; buried 
in Woodland. Xenia. 

Trader. Moses W., Xenia, 1840; son of Moses. Sr. ; 
died April 25. 1863. aged forty-four; buried in 
Woodland: soldier in Civil War. Co. K, Twelfth 
Ohio, Eighty-third regiment. O. \'. I. 

True. Robert, Xenia, 1810. 

True, Martin, Xenia, 1811 ; soldier of 1812. 

True. Robert B.. Xenia. 1846. 

Traster, John, Xenia, 1826; June 29, 1826. married 
Mary Clemens. 

Traster. Peter, Xenia, 1840. 

Trobridge. Silas. Bath, 1807. 

Trulinger. Daniel. Bath. 1820. 

Todd. John. Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Todd. Wm.. Beaver Creek. 1810; died in Lafayette, 
Indiana, in 1853. 

Townsley. John. Xenia. 1803; from Washington 
county. Pennsylvania ; died December 23. 1822, 
aged fifty: buried in Massie's Creek churchyard 
(Stevenson's). 

Townsley, Thomas. Xenia. 1803; born in Pennsyl- 
vania. June. 1755; came to Kentucky in 178S, 
to Ohio in 1800 ; soldier of the Revolution : died 
February 22. 1841, aged eighty-five; buried in 
Clifton cemetery. 

Townsley. William. Xenia. 1806: son of Thomas; 
died in 1825, November 12. aged forty-two. 

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Thomas. Sr. ; bom September 17. 1786: died Oc- 
tober 12, 1857. aged seventy-two; buried in 
Woodland. 

Townsley. William. Jr., Xenia, 1808: son of John. 
Sr. ; born April 22, 1786. 

Townsley. George, Xenia, 1809; born June 29, 1797; 
died January 4, x86o, aged sixty-two; buried in 
Cedarvillc cemetery; son of John. 

Townsley, Alexander, Xenia, i8og; son of John; 
from Pennsylvania to Kentucky : thence to Ohio ; 
born July 31. 1788; died in Cedarvillc in 1870. 

Townsley, John, Jr., Xenia, 1812; son of John; 
born December 29, 1792. 

Townsley, Thomas, Xenia, 1824; .son of John; born 
November 25, 1793: April 15, 1816, married Mar- 
garet Barber. 

Townsley. Samuel, Xenia, 1817; son of John: sol- 
dier of 1812; born September 12, 1795; died April 
24, 1853, aged sixty-two; buried in Cedarvillc 
cemetery. 

Townsley. James. Xenia, tSiS; son of John: born 
December I, 1801 ; first school teacher in Cedar- 
villc township. 

Townsley, Innis, Xenia. 1821 ; son of John; born 
August 4, 1799; died May 31, 1879. aged sev- 
enty-nine; buried in Cedarvillc cemttery. 

Townsley, I. N., Xenia, 1830: died June ,^0, 1892, 
a.^ed seventy-eight ; buried in Cedarvillc ceme- 
tery. 

Townsley, Thomas P., Xenia, 1830: son of George. 
wliO' was the son of Thomas ; born May 27, 
1817; died November I, 1898, aged eighty-one; 
buried in Woodland. 

Townsand, Wm.. Xenia, 1810; removed to Clin- 
ton county, Ohio; died May 11, 1850, aged tliir- 
ty-six. 

Townsand, Abraham, .Silver Creek, 1812. 

Tov/nsand, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Townsand, Levi, Caesar's Creek, 1807: June 2j. 
1808, married Martha Martin. 

Townsand, John, Caesar's Creek, 1807. 

Townsand, Zach., Silver Creek, 1813. 

Towler. Rev. James. Xenia. 1804 ; came from 
Prince Edwards county. Virginia, near Peters- 
burg; died July 10, 1836; buried on the Towler 
farm ; first postmaster in Xenia. 

Towler, Benjamin B., Xenia. 1819: died from a 
gunshot, February 23, 1857, aged fifty ; buried 
on the Towltr farm, west of Xenia. 

Towler, Dr. Thomas. Xenia, 1840: born June 20, 
1799; died June 18, 1874; buried in the Tow'.er 
graveyard. 

Torrence. John. Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1804; first ser- 
geant in War of the Revolution; died in 1840; 
buried in Woodland. 

Torrence, William, St'.gar Creek. 1811 ; born in 
Scott county, Kentucky, in 1789; died in 1859. 
aged seventy-one ; buried in Pioneer graveyard, 
Bellbrook, Ohio; soldier of 1812. 

Torrence, A.iron, Sugar Creek. 1820; son of John, 
Sr. ; died June 5, 1870, aged seventy-three; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 

Torrence, John, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1826; born No- 
vember 14, 1797; died October, 1855; buried in 
Woodland. 

Trulinger. David, Bath, 1821. 



Trollinger, Jacob, Bath, 1825; died February 13, 
1870, aged seventy-one. 

Trubee. Christopher, Bath, 1S03 : died in 1817. 

Trubee. Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1803 ; soldier of 
1812; May 17, 1838, married IVLatilda Booker. 

Trubee. Christian, Beaver Creek, 1804. 

Trubee. John. Beaver Creek. 1816; soldier of 1812; 

Trubee. John. Jr., Beaver Creek, 1835 ; died De- 
cember 21, 1854, aged forty-one: buried in Petro 
gravevard. near Fairfield. Ohio. 

Tracey. William M.. Bath, 1828. 

Tripp. Augustus. Bath. 1840. 

Tritt. Joseph. Bath. 1840. 

Trump, Jacob, Bath, 1840. 

Tresslar. John. Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1830; died March 
24, 1877, aged ninety-five. 

Trader. Joseph. Miami. 1818; June 26. 1829, married 
Phebe Badgley ; died in Miami township in 
1870. 

Trader. \'alentine. Miami. 1818. 

Trent. John. Silver Creek. 1819. 

Trusdale. Richard C. Silver Creek. 1835; from 
Yorkshire, England; buried in Hawker's grave- 
yard. Clark county. Ohio. 

Trusdale. William. Silver Creek. 1840: in i8q8 still 
living in Cedarvillc. Ohio; in 1900 his son still 
resides in Cedarvillc. 

Trusensider. Benjamin, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Tucker. John, Beaver Creek, 1806. 

Tucker, John. Sugar Creek. 1817. 

Tucker. William. Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Tucker. Reason. Sugar Creek. 1830. 

Tucker. Thoitias. Sugar Creek. 1840 ; October 10, 
1830, married Mary Shoemaker. 

Turner. James. Sugar Creek, 1827; son of Wm. and 
Elsie , died in 1&S2. 

Turner. James. Jr.. Sugar Creek. 1840; son-in-law 
of James Snodgrass. 

Turner. Aa-on. Su^ar Creek. 1840. 

Turner. Benedict. Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Turner. John. Caesar's Creek. 1804; son of A\'m. and 
Elsie. 

Turner. Joseph. Caesar's Creek. 1804: from North 
Carolina: grandfather of David; died in 1849; 
buried on the home place. 

Turner. Harkness, Caesar's Creek, 1805 ; son of 
ThoiTias ; murdered at Greenville, Darke county, 
Ohio, August II, 1859; (see files of "Torch- 
light," August, 1859). 

Turner. Walter, Caesar's Creek, 1805 ; son of 
Thomas. 

Turner. Robert. Caesar's Creek. 1807: removed to 
Clarksville. Clinton county, Ohio. 

Turner. Robert. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1807 ; August 
Ti. 1818. married Elizabeth Lucas. 

Turner. George, Caesar's Creek. 1807. 

Turner. Jonathan. Caesar's Creek, 1819. 

Turner. George, Jr., Caesar's Creek, 1826; son of 
Joseph. 

Turner, Joseph. Jr.. Caesar's Creek. 1830 ; July 2, 
1829. married Phebe Shepherd ; died in Caesar's 
Creek township in 1847. 

Turner, Jonah, Caesar's Creek. 1840: son of Joseph; 
father of -David, of Eleazer ; born in 1807; re- 
moved to Coles county. Illinois: died in 1865. 

Turner. Elijah. Caesar's Creek. 1840; son of Joseph; 



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born November 7. 1815; died May 24. 1899. aged 
eighiy-four. 

Turner. James S., Xenia, 1828. 

Turner. Jonathan. Xenia, 181 1.; December 5. 1828, 
married Mary Bruce. 

Tinner, Walter, Xenia, 181 1. 

Turner. George, Xenia. 1819: removed to She!l>y 
county, Ohio. 

Turner, Janics B.. Xenia. 1820: buried in Mastic's 
Creek churchyard I Stevenson's). 

Turner. Robert. Miami, 1810. 

Turner. James. Miami. 1827; lived on the Spring- 
tield Pike, two miles north of Yellow Springs, 
Ohio; died July 11, 1877. 

Turner. Adam. Miami, 1830: a relative of Rev. 
Robert Armstrong; December 9, 1835. married 
Eleanor Spencer, 

Turner, Henry, Silver Creek, i8i6; son of Hark- 
ness; soldier of 1812; died April 30, 1870, aged 
seventy-four ; buried in Baptist graveyard. 

Turner, Harculus. Sr.. Silver Creek, 1816; wife, 
Annie; will recorded in 1814. 

Turner. William, Silver Creek, 1S16; from Vir- 
ginia; born in 1797; died December. 1870; bur- 
ied in Jamestown cemetery; soldier of 1812: son 
of Harculus. 

Turner, John. Silver Creek, 1818. 

Turner. Levi, Silver Creek, 1818; son of Harculus; 
died December 15, 1870, aged seventy-three; 
buried in Baptist graveyard, near Jamestown, 
Ohio; father of William, who was still living in 
1898. 

Turner. Thomas, Silver Creek. 1830; son of Har- 
culus ; married Elizabeth Haughey ; removed to 
Indiana. 

Turner, James. Silver Creek, 1830; son of Harcu- 
lus ; removed to Indiana. 

Turner, Hugh, Silver Creek. 1840; son of Thoma,; 
died in 1875 ; buried at Jamestown. Ohio. 

Turner. James, Jr., Silver Creek, 1840; son of Har- 
culus; died in Silver Creek township. 

Turner. Sylvester, Silver Creek. 1840; son of James; 
died in 1875 ; buried in Bloomington. 

Turner. .Amey. Silver Creek. 1820; widow of Har- 
culus. 

Turner, William, Jr., Xenia, 1840; died February 
12, 1870, aged seventy; buried in Jamestown 
cemetery, 

Turnbidl, William, Sr., Xenia, 1817; died Septem- 
ber 28, 1870, aged sixty-seven ; buried in Cedar- 
ville cemetery. 

Turnbull. Alex.. Xenia, 1819; son of John; in 1853 
removed to Moninouth. Illinois. 

Turnliidl. tiilbert. Xenia. 1826; died in Monmou;h. 
Illinois. October 29, 1S51. aged fifty-three; son 
of John. 
Turnbull, John, Xenia, 1826: son of William; born 
:iear N.i^hville, Tennessee, February i;, 1851 ; 
died August 12, 1880, aged seventy-nine; buried 
in Cedarville cemeterv; father of Dr. John. 01 
Bellbrook. Ohio. 
Turnbull. Wm. H., Xenia. 1827; died March 25, 
1830, aged twenty-five; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchy:ird (Stevenson's). 
Turnbull. Jas.. Xenia. i8i5;'son of Wm. ; born 
near Nashville. Tennessee, in t8o7 ; died Janu- 



ary 18. 18S6. aged seventy-eight ; buried in Caes- 
ar's Creek churchyard. Jamestown. 

Turnbull. Thomas. Xenia, 1827; son of William; 
died May i, 1845, aged thirty-six; buried in 
Caesar's Creek churchyard, Jamestown. 

Tu.iibull, David. Xenia. 1840; November 23. 1830, 
ni.-irried N; nc\ Mitchell; in 1830 removed to 
Morn.outh. Illinois. 

Turnbav.gh. John, Beaver Creek, 1810. 

Turnbaugh, Samuel, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Turnl.augh. Joseph. Beaver Creek, 1840; died Oc- 
tober 14. 1841, aged twenty-fi\e; buried in Aley 
churchvard. 

Tultle. Chandler. Silver Creek, 1817; executor of 
the estate of Andrew Downey. Jamestown, Ohio. 

Tuttle. James, Xenia. 1830; removed to .Atlanta, 
Illinois; died .April 19. igoo. aged ninety-four. 

Tuttle. Samuel. Xenia, 1830; buried in Woodland. 

Tulleys. Thomas. Beaver Creek, 1806. 

Tulleys, John. Miami. 1826; buried in Glen Forest, 
'I'eHow Springs. Ohio. 

Tulleys. Levi M., Bath, 1840. 

Tulleys. Erasmus. Miami. 1840; from 'Virginia; 
died April 25. 1880, aged seventy-four; buried 
at Yellow Springs. Ohio. 

L'llery. David. 1813. 

L'llery, Daniel, Xenia, 1840; died at Springfield, 

Ohio, February 28, 1847. aged forty-seven. 
Urter, Peter, Bath, 1830, 
L'mphreyville, David. Miami. 1810. 
Upp. Joseph W.. Miami, 1840. 
L'pp. George, Miami, 1840. 

Van Eaton. .Abraham, Sugar Creek, 1803; soldier 
of 1812; one of the first grand jurors of Greene 
countv; buried in Pioneer gravevard, Bellbrook, 
Ohio.' 

VanEaton. John, Xenia, :8i2; son of Abraham; sol- 
dier of 1812; died in 1858, aged sixty-six; buried 
in Woodland. Xenia. 

N'anEaton. John. Jr., Xenia, 1840; removed to 
York, New York. 

Vandolah. Joseph. Sugar Creek. 1803; son of Peter, 
Sr. ; died in Sugar Creek township in 1814. 

\"andolah. Peter. Sr., Sugar Creek, 1803 ; from 
Washingtcn township, Fayette county, Pennsyl- 
vania; died November, 1815; wife, Hester. 

Vandolah. Thomas. Sugar Creek, 1817; died De- 
cember 8. 1863. aged sixty-seven ; buried in Pi- 
oneer graveyard. Bellbrook. Ohio. 

\'andotah. Peter. Jr.. Xenia. 1819; son of Peter. Sr. 

\'andolah. Sarah .Ann. Sugar Creek. 1830; wife of 
Peter, jr. 

N'andolah. James, Sugar Creek, 1830; son of Peter. 
Sr. ; May 12 1832, married Rebecca Tucker. 

Vance, James, Sugar Creek. 181 1; soldier of 181 J. 

X'ance. John. Sugar Creek. 1803; soldier of 1812. 

\"ance. John W.. Sugar Creek. 1803; son of Joseph 
C. ; removed to Vermilion county, Illinois; 
X'ance township, Ohio, named for him. 

X'ance. Joseph C, Sugar Creek. 1803; laiil out the 
town 01" Xenia in the fall of 1803; removed to 
Champaign county. Ohio; liuried in Buck Creek 
churchyard. 

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Vance. Samuel. Caesar's Creek, 1830: soldier 01 

181 J : born March 25. 1780; died August 24. 

18^2. 
Viance. Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1810; son of Jo- 
seph C. ; was governor of Ohio. 1836-1839: died 

at his home in Urbana, Ohio, August 27. 1852. 

aged sixty-seven. 
Vance. David. Miami. 1808 ; son of Joseph ; died 

Xovcniber 1.5. 1812. 
Vance, John. Miami. 1808. 
Vance, Joseph, Miami, 1810; son of John; soldier 

of 1812. 
Viance. Abraham, Miami, 1810; .'on of Jo.seph, of 

Sugar Creek ; married Mary Enni.s. 
Vance. Wni., Ross. 1840. 
Voss, Fannie, Ross, 1830. 
Voss, Francis, Ross, 1840, 

Varner. David, Beaver Creek, 1830: from Mary- 
land; removed to Iowa; died in 1845: brother 

of Anthony. 
Varner, Anthony, Beaver Creek, 18.^0; buried on 

the old Varner farm in 1859, 
Varner, John, Beaver Creek, 1840: son of .-Vnthony ; 

died in 1892; buried at Mt. Zion. 
Varner. .\ndrew. Beaver Creek. 1840; son of 

Anthony; removed to Illinois. 
Varner. John, Beaver Creek, 1830 ; brother of 

.■\iithony; buried on the Marshall farm. 
Vani)elt, John, Sugar Creek, 1826; removed to Flat 

Rock, Indiana. 
Vanpclt. Riley. Sugar Creek. 1827; removed t'^ 

Indiana. 
\'aughn. John. Sugar Creek. 1812; died in i8,sq: 

wife. RhDda. 
Vaughn, Jacob, Sugar Creek, 1819; son of John. 
Vaughn. Wm.. Sua:ar Creek. 1819; son of John: 

soldier of 1812. 
Vaughn. Thompson. Sugar Creek. 1819; soldier of 

1812. 
Vaughn. Harrison, Sugar Creek, 1820; March 6. 

1834, married Sarah Mentzer. 
Vanard, Francis,'- Caesar's Creek, 1813. 
Vanmeter, VVm. A.. Miami. i8.?o; February j6. 

1835, married Martha Jane Lysle. 
Vanard, Adam, Xenia, 1816. 

Vanmeter. Joel. Miami, 1812; soldier of 1812; re- 
moved to Clark county, Ohio. 

Vanmeter, Solomon, Caesar's Creek, 1813 ; the only 
house that is still (1898) standing in the towu 
of Winchester, or Babtown, was built by him. 

Vanmeter, Jacob W.. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 

Vami'ieter. J. D., Bath, 1840; his wife is buried 
in the Bibbtown graveyard. 

Vandine, Matthew, Bath, 1819. 

Voley. Isham, Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Vandenter. Isaac. Xenia, 1807. 

Vancamp, Isaac, Xenia. l8og. 

Vancamp, Aaron. Xenia. 1810. 

Vickory. Christopher. Silver Creek. 1818: Septem- 
ber 12. 1818, married Mary Avry. 

Vincent. Wm., Xenia. 1820. 

Vincent. Wm. H., Xenia, 1830. 

Vanwinkle, Jesse, Xenia. 1820. 

Vickcrs. Elias, Xenia, 1829. 

Vantraps. James. Xenia. 1830. 

Vangrant, William, Xenia. 1819. 



\'incenheller. John. Xenia. 1840; buried in Wood- 
land. Xenia. 

\"igus, Jabes, Xenia, 1830; died March 24. 1838, 
aged fifty-eight ; buried in Woodland. 

Vigus. Charles, Sr.. Xenia. 1830; buried in Wood- 
land. 

\'andenventer. Jacob. Bath, 1807. 

\'andenventer, Peter, Bath, 1807. 

\'andenventer. Cornelius. Bath, 1807. 

\'andenventer. Isaac. Miami. 1808. 

\'est. John. Bath. 1820. 

VanHeet. Matthew, Bath. 1827. 

Vanfleet. Matthias S., Bath, 1819, 

\'orhees, J.. Bath, 1840. 

VHjrhees, P., Bath, 1840. 

Vanenian, Benjamin, Jr.. Silver Creek. 1817; born 
in Pennsylvania. September 17, 1795; died Aug- 
ust 9, 1879, aged eighty-five; buried in Hussey 
graveyard. 

X'anenian. R.jgcr. Silver Creek, 1830. 

\'aneman. Benjamin. Sr.. Silver Creek. 1817; emi- 
grated to Illinois; died at Bowersville, Ohio. 

\'aneman. Sliadrack. Silver Creek, 1840 ; son of 
Benjamin; buried in Hussey graveyard. 

\aneman, Calvin. Silver Creek, 1820; son of Ben- 
jamin, Jr. ; born September 3. 1837, in JefTerson 
town>hip, Greene county, Ohio. 

\'ogle. Peter, Beaver Creek, 1811; soldier of 18:2, 

\'enise. Jacobus G., Bath, 1820, 

Vancleif, Wm.. Beaver Creek, 1835; February I), 
1836. married Barbary Hawker. 

Wakefield. Ricliard. Sugar Creek. 1806; .\pril ir. 

1805. married Elizabeth Eniiis. 
Warmaii. Henry, 1808. 
Warnian. David. Sugar Creek. 1812; buried in 

Beavertown cemttery. 
Warman. Wm., Beaver Creek, 1812; died Mav S, 

1855. 

Walker. Robert. Sugar Creek. 1810; died in Sugar 
Creek township in 1824. 

Walker. Theopholas. Sugar Creek. 1828. 

Walker. Rebecca, Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Walker, Mordica, Caesar's Creek, 1828. 

Walker. Francis, Xenia, 1828. 

Walker, Piatt B.. Xenia, 1836 ; was one of the gold 
hunters in 1849; father of T. B. Walker, of 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; died in California. 

Walker. James W.. Ross. 1828; a member of the 
Owenite Community, Yellow Springs, Ohio. 

Walker. Samuel L.. Ross. 1840; son of Zachariah. 

Walker. Michael, Ross, 1840. 

Walker. Zacharias, Ross. 1827 ; died in 1836. aged 
eighty; buried in Bethel graveyard, near Grape 
.' Grove. Ohio. 

Walton. Edward, Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1806; born in 
Virginia. Jan. 3. 1777; parents were from Penn- 
sylvania; died April 10. 1867, aged ninety; bur- 
.ied in Caesar's Creek churchyard, south of New- 
Burlington ; soldier of 1812. 

Walton. Samuel. Sugar Creek, 1828; son of Ed- 
ward ; born in Shenandoah, Virginia, in 1804 : 
died March 9, 1844. 

Walton. Mo-:e5, Sugar Creek. 1830; son of Ed- 
ward; born June 27. 1809; died January 8, 1887; 
buried at Spring Valley, Ohio, 



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Walton. John, Sugar Cri-i'k. 1840 ; son of Edward. 

Wall. David. Bath. 1820: died Xovemher 5. i860, 
aged fifty-nine ; buried in Pleasant Grove 
churchyard, near Byron, Ohio. 

Wall. Joshua. Caesars Creek, 1829; January 19, 
1829, married Nancy Haines ; buried at Bowers- 
viUe, Ohio. 

Wall, Eli. Sugar Creek. 1S40. 

Wall, Andrew, Beaver Creek, 1840; died February 
14, 1895, aged eighty-three : buried in Union 
graveyard. Byron, Ohio. 

Wall, Abraham. Bath, 1840. 

Wall, Zacharias, Ross. 1840; died, aged fifty-six; 
buried in Bethel graveyard, Grape Grove, Ohio. 

Wadkins, Joseph. Bath, 1807; kept tavern in Bath 
township in 1814. 

Wadkins, Theopholis. Silver Creek. 1819. 

Wadkins. Robert, Silver Creek, 1819; died in Xenia 
township in 1829. 

Wadkins, Moses, Silver Creek. i8ig. 

Wadkins. Robert, Tr., Silver Creek. 1820. 

Wadkins, Reese, Ross, 1826. 

Wadkins. James. Xenia, 1840 ; died in Macon coun- 
ty, Illinois. October 13. 1862. aged forty-five. 

Way. Paul. Caesar's Creek, 1805. 

Way. Thomas. .Silver Creek, 1840; died in Silver 
Creek township in 1865. 

Way. Martin. Caesar's Creek. 1840: buried in Xtw 
Hope churchyard. 

Wallace, Jonathan. Xenia. 1807; from Pennsyl- 
vania : father o^ Jonathan H. : died in Xenia :;: 
1814. 

Wallace. Jonathan H.. Xenia. 1807 : died at the 
house of .Anthony Byers, Clark county. .\pri! 25. 
1850. aged seventy. 

Wallace. James. Xenia. 1810; September 20. 1827, 
married Welthy Peter.'on. 

Wallace. George Ross 1838: January 17. 1839. mar- 
ried Sarah Baldwin. 

Wallace. Perry W. D.. Xenia. 1826; shoemaker: 
married a sister of Coke Wright : died October 
27, 1876. aged seventy-five : buried in Wood- 
k'.nd, Xenia. 

Wallace, Joseph, Xenia, 1S26. 

Wallace. Re\ Tames. Sugar Creek. 1826: removed 
to Huntsville, Logan county. Ohio. 

\Va)lace. Joseph. Xenia. 1828: Xovember 25. 1824, 
married Lucy Wright. 

Wallace. Stephen. Bath. 1840. 

Wallace. Joseph. Ross. 1826. 

Wallace. Samuel. Ross. 1840; died July 7. 1847. 

Wallace, Samuel H.. Ross. 1840. 

Wallace, Tobias. Ross. 1840. 

Walcutt. John H.. Sugar Creek. 1829: soldier 01 
1812. 

Watt. Andrew. Xenia. 1830; son of Hugh: died June 
17. 1837. aged twenlj--two. buried in Ma^sie's 
Creek cemtcry. 

Walt, George, Sr., Sugar Creek. 1S20: from he- 
land : died in 1845. aged eighty : buried in Pi- 
oneer graveyard. Bellbrt)ok. Ohio. 

Watt, George M.. Sugar Creek, 1830; son of George, 
Sr. : from Ireland : a tailor : died November 28. 
1865. aged sixty: buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

\\'att. William. Bath. 1820: died October 10. 1897. 
aged seventy-two : buried in Union graveyard, 
near Byron, Ohio. 



Watt. Andrew. Beaver Creek. 1820 ; brother of 
George; son of George, Sr. ; removed to Indiana. 

Watt, James. Beaver Creek. 1835 ; son of George. 
Sr. ; died April 25. 1866, aged eighty-three ; 
buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Watt, Hugh, Ross, 1817; from Belfast, Ireland; 
father of George, the dentist; died May 15. 
1857. aged eighty-six ; buried in Massie's Creek 
cemetery. 

Watt. John. Ross, 1826: son of Hugh. Sr. ; died July 
19, 1832, aged twenty-eight ; buried in Massie's 
Creek cemetery. 

Watt, Hugh, Jr.. Ross. 1830; son of George, Sr. ; 
died at Oakland. Indiana. October 11, 1880; 
brother of George, the tailor. 

Watt. Thomas. Ross. 1840: son of Hugh; died Jan- 
uary 5, 1892, aged eighty-one ; from Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Watt, James M., Ross. 1840; son of Hugh. Sr. 

Watt, Dr. George, Xenia. 1840 : son of Hugh : born 
in 1820: died in 1893; soldier and surgeon in 
Civil War. One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Reg- 
iment : buried in Woodland. 

Watt, Wm.. Xenia. 1833 : from Scotland : died June 
12. 1894. aged eighty : buried in Woodland. 

Watt. J. H., Xenia, 1840. 

Watts. Edward. Xenia. 1815: born in Petersburg, 
Virginia, in 1782: soldier in War of 1812; died 
June 23, 1859, aged seventy-five; buried in 
Watts' graveyard. 

Watts. George F.. Xenia. 1807 : son of Edward and 
Margaret ; died May 4. 1896. aged seventy-foui ; 
soldier in One Hundred and Tenth Infantry. 

Watts. .Arthur. Xenia, 1807. 

Watts. William. Bath. 181 1; soldier of 1812; died 
in 1835; buried in Union gravevard. near Byron, 
Ohio." 

Watts. John. Beaver Creek, 181 1 ; May 29. l8.?4, 
married Nancy Shepherd ; buried in Lhiion 
graveyard. Byron. Ohio. 

Watts. Willi.Tui. Beaver Creek. 1826; died Octo- 
ber 10. 1891. aged seventy-two; buried in Union 
graveyard. 

Wakeman, Gideon, Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Watson. William. Silver Creek. 1830: died Janu- 
ary 3. 1853. aged sevcnt\--seven : buried in Hus- 
sey gravej'ard, Bowersville, Ohio. 

Watson, Jesse, Silver Creek. 1807. 

Watson. Jesse. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1807. 

Watson. James. Silver Creek. 1807 : soldier of 1812. 

Watson. David, Silver Creek, 1807. 

Watson. Thomas, Esq.. Silver Creek. 1807: first 
to keep tavern in Jamestown. Ohio, in 1813 ; 
died in 1888 : buried in Woodland. 

Watson. Capt. John. Silver Creek. 1807: captain in 
war of 1812: died August 3. 1861. aged eighty; 
buried in Moorman graveyard. Jamestown. Ohio. 

Watson. Francis. Xenia. 1820: a native of Vir- 
ginia : father of George Watson ; died near 
Xenia in 1835. 

Watson. Robert. Xenia. 1821 : ."^on of Francis: laid 
out the town of Clifton in 1833: died October 
25. 1834. aged thirty-five : buried in Woodland. 

Watson. Henry. Xenia. 1826 : son of Francis. 

Watson. Jesse. Xenia, 1826. 

Watson. John, Xenia. 1830 : died in Xenia township 
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Watson. James. Beaver Creek. 1818. 

Watson. Henry S.. Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Watson. Howell. Miami. 1817. 

Wats< n. John. Silver Creek. 181 1 ; January 4, 1830, 

married Malinda Shoemaker. 
Watson, John, Jr.. Silver Creek, 1813. 
Watson, David, Silver Creek, 1813. 
Watson. Lewis, Silver Creek,> 1817; son-in-law of 

Elisha Bales. 
Watson, Thomas A.. Silver Creek, 1818; native of 
Bedford county, Virginia; removed to Americus, 
Tippecanoe county, Iowa. 
Watson. Pascal, Silver Creek. 1818. 
Watson. James. Silver Creek, 1816; August 4, 1813, 

married Nancy Lindsey. 
Watson. Jesse L., Silver Creek. 1827. 
Watson, Eli, Silver Creek, 1827. 
Watson, Chas. M., Silver Creek. 1828; soldier of 
1812; August 28, i8?4. married Elizabeth Bal- 
lard. 
Watson, James. Sugar Creek. 1840; died in 18.52, 
aged fifty-five; buried in Middle Run church- 
yard, southwest of Bcllbrook, Ohio. 
Watson. George. Xenia, 1840; son of Francis; died 
March 30, 1885, aged sixty-eight; buried in 
Woodland. 
W'lalden. John. Silver Creek. iSti ; father-in-law of 

John Heaton. 
Walden. nionms, Silver Creek. 1813; kept tavern 

in Jamestown in 1817. 
Winans, James. Sr.. Silver Creek. 1820; died Feb- 
ruary 20. 1827. aged eighty-one; buried at 
Jamestown, Ohio. 
Winans. Dr. Matthias. Silver Creek. 1820; died 
July 7. 1849, aged fifty-eight; buried at James- 
town. Ohio. 
Winans, John. Silver Creek, 1826; February 21, 

1821. married Susanna Bargdoll. 
Winans. Jas. J., Xenia. 1840: died April 28, 1879, 

aged s^ixty-one ; buried in Woodland. 
Wakelev, Wm. S.. Caesar's Creek. 1840. 
Wallthall. Alexander B., Ross, 1818. 
Wallthal!. Alfred. Ross, 1840; died Xovember 7, 

1873, aged fifty-five. 
Warren. Edward. Silver Creek, 1813 ; soldier of 
the Revolution; a resident of Silver Creek town- 
ship. 
Warren, Henry. Miami. 1826. 
Whalin. Thomas. Xenia. 1807. 
Whalin, John. Bath. 1813. 
Whalin. Joseph. Ross. 1840. 
Ward. William. Xenia. 1807. 
Warren. C. H.. Miami: son of Luther; died in 

Miami township in 1861. 
Ward. George. Xenia. 1807: died in 1839, aged sev- 
enty-nine; buried in Clifton cemetery. 
Ward. Harvey, Xenia. 1816. 

Ward, Jonathan. Xenia. i8ti: from South Carolina; 
born November 29, 1783 ; died June 3. 1838 ; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 
Ward, Henry. Beaver Creek. 1803; soldier of 1812. 
Ward. Enos. Ross. 1828: January 6. 1824. mar- 
ried Betsey Bull. 
Ward. Lewis. Xenia. 1840: buried in M'assie's 

Creek churchyard (Stevenson's"). 
Ward. Joseph. Xenia. 1840; buried in' Massie's 
Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 



Ward. Joseph C, Xenia, 1840; March 24, 1835, mar- 
ried Sarah A. Stevenson : administrator of the 
estate of George Ward, Clifton. Ohio. 
Ward, James L.. Xenia, 1840 ; died Febrirary 27, 

1843. ^^ Maryville, L^nion county, Ohio. 
Ward. Michael "W.. Bath. 1826; die-stuff factory at 

Oldtown, Ohio, in 1825. 
Ward, J. T.. Miami. 1840; died August. 1849; buried 

in Clifton cemetery. 
Wamble, Edward, Xenia, 1810: from Virginia; 
served one year in War of 1812 ; died .April 30, 
1852. 'aged sevcniy-tbrce : buried in Woodland. 
Wamble. Mahlon. Xenia. 1840: son of Edward. Sr. ; 
died in Xenia May 18. 18S5. aged sixty-one ; bur- 
ied in Woodland. 
W/adams. Noah E.. Xenia, 1826. 
Waugli. William. Xenia. 1826; his wife was the 

nurse of James Edwin Galloway. 
Wead. Jame^:, Xenia, 1819; soldier of 1812. 
Wcade, William. Xenia. 1829. 

Wcade. John. Miami. 1826; died October 31. 1833, 
aged fifty-two • buried in Bloxsoni graveyard, 
near Selma, Ohio. 
Weade. James. Miami. 1829; died October 3, 1872, 
aged eighty-two ; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard (Stevenson's). 
Weade. Henry. Miami. 1828. 

Weade. Ebenezer. Beaver Creek. 1810; died August 
28. 1830, aged eighty-two ; buried in Beaver- 
town cemetery. 
Wagoner, George. Bath, 1826. 
Wagoner, Jobn, Miami. 1.S40; died June 6. 1875, 

aged eighty-one. 
Wagoner. Samuel. Beaver Creek, 1840. 
Walford. Jacob. Bath. 1826. 
Warner. William. Ross, 1819. 

Warner, Henry. Bath. 1828 ; died February 24, 
1894. aged eighty-one ; buried in Petro grave- 
yard. 
Warner, James. Bath. 1830 ; September 2, 1827, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Hopping. 
Warner. George W., Bath, 1840: died December 6, 
1848. aged fifty-eight ; buried in Petro graveyard, 
Fairfield, Ohio. 
Warner. Henry, Bath, 1840. 
Waldridge. Isaac. Sugar Creek. 1804. 
Walburn. John. Miami. 1808; March 29. 1832, mar- 
ried Jane Shaw. 
Walburn. Robert. Miami, 1808; soldier of 1812. 
Warnick. James. Xenia. 1840: died May 11, 1862, 
aged fifty-five : buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery, ^ 
Walters. Tobias. Ross. 1840. 
Wanamaker. Nancy. Bath. 1840; widow of John 

Wanamaker. 
Wanamaker. John. Ross. 1822 ; February 16. 1822, 

married Nancy White. 
Wence. William. Ross. 1840. 
Wcnce. Abraham. Ross. 1840. 

Wetherholtz. Joel. Xenia. 1840; died January, 1844. 
Wclherholtz. Jonathan. Xenia. 1840; February 16, 

1837. married Margaret Savill. 
Wieatherholtz. James. Xenia, 1840. 
Weatherholtz. Washington. Xenia. 1840; died in 
Spring \'alley township February 17. 1892, aged 
seventy- four : from Virginia. 
Weeks. John. Beaver Creek, 1807. 



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Wfir, Wm. S.. Xenia. 1828; ^^arch. 1831, niarrie 1 
Paulina Gregg: buried in Massie's Creek church- 
yard. 

Weir, Pleasant, Xenia. 1840: .-\pril 18, 1820, married 
Catharine Johns. 

Weir. Alexander. Xenia. 1840; died March 20, 1852, 
aged sixty ; buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Weir, Samuel, Xenia, 1828. 

.Webb, James, Sugar Creek. 1804; soldier of 1812: 
Wiife, Lucy; died in 1808. 

Webb. Austin. Sugar Creek. 1808 ; died in 1859, 
May 12, aged seventy-two ; buried in Folck 
graveyard. 

Webb. Henry. Sugar Creek. 1840 ; son of Austin ; 
died November 7. i88g. aged seventy-two. 

Webb, Jam«s, Jr., Sugar Creek, 1818; son of Aus- 
tin; died July 22. 1863. aged thirty-eight. 

Webb, Valentine. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Webb. Allen. Sugar Creek. 1840; son of Austin. 

Webb, Harvey. Sugar Creek. 1840; died November 
7, 1889, aged seventy-two. 

Webb, Frederick. Xenia. 1827. 

Webb, Fredrick C. Xenia, 1828. 

Webb, John. Miami, 1803. 

Webb, Samuel, Miami, 1808. 

Webb, Jolm. Silver Creek. 1826: died .\pril 6. 1875, 
aged sixty-three. 

Webb. Samuel B.. Silver Creek, 1828; soldier of the 
Revolution; married Mary, daughter of Will- 
iam Bull. 

Webb. Thomas. Silver Creek, 1840; son of Samuel 
and Mary. 

Webb, .\saph Bull. Silver Creek. 1840; son of 
Samuel and Mary; August 20. 1837. married 
Margaret Rook. 

Welch, Thomas, Sugar Creek. 1840. 

Welch, Andrew, Xen;a. 1813; April 18. 1818. mar- 
ried Martha Baker. 

Welch, Abel, Xenia, 1816. 

Welch, Henry. Xenia. 1816. 

Welch, William, Xenia, 1817. 

Welch, Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1818. 

Weaver, Abraham. Caesar's Creek. 1820 ; died June 
28. 1831, aged sixty-nine: buried in Zoar church- 
yard. 

Weaver, George, Sr., Caesar's Creek, 1826: from 
Pennsylvania; died March 28. 1871. aged sixty- 
six : buried in Zoar churchyard. 

Weaver. George. Caesar's Creek. 1826: January 9. 
1837, married Hannah Font. 

Weaver, Jacob, Caesar's Creek, 1826; son of John, 
Sr. 

Weaver. Isaac, Caesar's Creek, 1826; died June 
3. 1868, buried at New Burlington, Ohio. 

Weaver, Samuel, Caesar's Creek, 1832 ; February 
19. 1834. married Ann Ellis. 

Weaver, Christian, Caesar's Creek, 1826; died De- 
cember I. 1872. aged seventy-eight; buried at 
Maple Corners. Ohio. 

Weaver, David, Caesar's Creek, 1826; son of John. 
Sr. ; September 6. 1836. married Elizabeth Bell. 

Weaver, John, Caesar's Creek, 1828; died in 1835. 
aged sixty-two. 

Weaver. John M., Caesar's Creek. 1840: born March 
17. 1815; died August 31. i8<)i. aged seventy-six; 
buried in Beaver Creek churchvard. 



Weaver. Franklin. Caesar's Creek. 1827. 

Weaver. Fredrick. Xenia. 1840. 

Weaver, John. Beaver Creek. 1810; died December 
19, 1848, aged sixty-two; buried in Woodland, 
Xenia. 

Weaver. George, Miami, 1820. 

Weaver. Martin, Miami, 1820; July 21, 1818, mar- 
ried Susan Jordon. 

West. Edwin B.. Sugar Creek. 1820; died .-Kugust 
28, 1850: buried on the Flam farm. 

West, Nathan, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

West. Caleb. Xenia. 1819: in 1825 of the firm of 
West & Cushman. carding mill at Oldtown, 
Ohio. 

W^est, Chancey, Xenia. 1828. 

West. Elijah, Xenia, 1830; died in Xenia in 1835. 

West, Chas., Ross, 1840. 

West. Moses. Ross. 1827 ; bought the Junkin's saw 
mill that was located on the north fork of Mas- 
sie's Creek, in 1827. 

Webster. R'juben. Beaver Creek. 1840: buried in 
Woodland. Xenia. 

Weddle. Perer M.. Xenia. iSii; soldier of 1812. 

Wells. Benedict. Miami, 1812: soldier of 1812. 

Wells. Perquin. Miami. 1812: JSnuary 6. 1823. mar- 
ried Mary Bradley. 

Wells. Chas.. Caesar's Creek, 1826. 

Wells, Squire, Xenia, 1819. 

Wells. John. Beaver treek. 1819. 

Wescott. Richard. Xenia. 1840 ; September 13, 1836, 
married Margaret Mallow'. 

Westfall. Andrew. Beaver Creek. 1803. 

Westfall, .^nn, Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Westfall. James. Beaver Creek, 1803 ; son of Jona- 
than ; father-in-law of Rev. Adam Hawker. 

Westfall. John. Beaver Creek, 1803 ; died Decem- 
ber II. 1874. aged eighty; buried in Hawker's 
churchyard. 

Westfall, Andrew, Bath, 1807. 

Westfall, Jon.ithan. Bath, 1813; soldier of 1812; 
died in 1813 in Bath township. 

Westfall, Joel. Bath, 1813. 

Westfall. Abraham. Xenia. 1817. 

Westfall, Rankin, Xenia, 1826; June 10. 1824. mar- 
ried Martha Black. 

\\ hitenian. Benjamin. Beaver Creek. 1803; from 
Virginia: settled on Beaver Creek in 1798, 
Miami township in 1809: soldier of the Revo- 
lution in the northwest; died July 30, 1852 aged 
eignty-th'ee ; buried at Clifton. 

Whiteman. Jacob. Xenia. 1809: soldier of 1812: 
from Frederick county. X'irginia, in 1773; came 
to Ohio in 1809; died August 28, 1839. aged six- 
ty-six ; buried in Massie's Creek churchyard. 

Whiteman. Henry. Xenia. 1816: soldier of 1812; 
his wife is buried in graveyard at Mt. Holly, 
Ohio; he removed to Illinois, where he died. 

Whiteman. Lewis. 1825; son of Benjamin. 

Whiteman. Joshua M.. Xenia. 1836; July ig. 1837. 
married Matilda McFarland. 

Whiteman. James. Xenia. 1821 ; June 24. 1830. mar- 
ried Ruth Xoland: removed to Iowa. 

Whiteman. Joab. Xenia. 1826: died December 13, 
1852. aged forty-nine; buried in Massie's Creek 
church\»a"d. 

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397 



difil July i6. i88j; Imricd in Massie"s Creek 
churcliyartl. 

W'hitemaii. Levi, ]i-.. Xeina. 1S40; March 6. 1828, 
married Aletha Whil-eman ; died at his home, 
four miles north of Xcnia, in i88j. 

Whitcman, Hvart. Rev., Xenia. 1840. 

Wliilcman, Joel, Xenia, 1840. 

Whitcman, Jonathan. Xenia, 1840. 

Whitcman. Ci-tenlnny. Xcnia. 1811 ; soldier of 1812; 
buried in Mas.^ie's Creek churchyard (Steven- 
son's;. 

Whitcman, James \V., Sugar Creek, 1835: died May 

6, 1846, aged thinv-two: buried at Mt. llollv, 
Oliio. 

Wliitcmnn, John, Xenia, 1835; died December 13, 
1851, aged fifty; buried in Cincinnati, Oliio. 

Wliileman, Bishop, Xenia. 1820: died December, 
1825 ; buried in ilassie's Creek churchyard : Mar- 
garet Whitcman, executrix of his estate. 

Whitiiigcr, Henry, Beaver Creek, 1803. 

Wliitehick. EH^lla, Beaver Creek. 1819. 

W'hitelnck. James. Beaver Creek. 1818. 

Whitelock. William, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Wheeler, libenczcr, Miami, 1808; soldier of 1812. 

Wheeler, Samuel, Miami, 1813. 

Wheeler, Mason, Miaini. 1831; born March 27, 
1810; died September i, 1847; buried at Yellow 
Springs, Ohio. 

Whitcomb, Thomas, Miami. 1840; June 2/, 1S33, 
married Kachel Stevenson. 

Whitcomb. Turner W., Miami. 1840. 

W hitmere, Jas. W., Caesar's Creek, 1840. 

Whincry, Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1840: died in 
. 1844. 

W hinery, Wni., Caesar's Creek. 1840; tanner by 
trade ; died in Caesar's Creek. 

Whitson, Solomon, Sugar Creek, 1840; died June 

7, 1867, aged fifty-nine; buried in Ntw Burling- 
ton, Ohio; September 8, 1831, married Hannah 
Compton. 

Whitehead. Richard, Silver Creek. 1840. 

Wharton, John, Sugar Creek, 1820. 

Wharton, Amos, Sugar Creek, 1840; died in Xenia 

in 1898; buried in Clifton cemetery. 
Wharton, Mahlon, Caesar's Creek, 1804 ; from 

Bucks county. Pennsylvania; buried in Rays- 

ville, Warren county. Ohio. 
Wharton, John, Caesar's Creek, 1829; April 19, 

1821, married Sarah Cotrell. 
Wharton, Jonathan, Caesar's Creek, 1830. 
Whicker, Matthew, Sugar Creek, 1810; soldier of 

1812. 
Whicker, W'illiam. Sugar Creek, 1810. 
Whicker, John, Sugar Creek, 1813: soldier of 1812; 

buried at Bellbrook, Ohio. 
Whicker, James, Sugar Creek, 1816. 
Whicker, James, Jr., Beaver Creek, 1813. 
White. John, Sugar Creek, 1810; soldier of 1812 ; 

died September 3, 1862, aged ninety; buried at 

Bellbrook, Ohio. 
White, Thomas, Sugar Creek, 1813 ; son of Stephen; 

born in Kentucky, June it. 1802; died June 15, 

1885, aged seventy-nine ; buried in Bellbrook, 

Ohio. 
White, Benjamin, Sugar Creek, 1820; soldier of 

1812; son of Thomas; removed to Ladoga, In- 
diana. 



White, James B., Sugar Creek. 1820; son of Thcnn- 

as; buried at Cenlerville, Ohio. 
White, Joseph, Sugar Creek, 1826; son of Thomas; 

removed to Montgomery county, Indiana. 
While, Stephen, Sugar Creek, 1827 ; son of Thomas ; 

born in Ireland in 1768. came to Kentucky in 

1790; died in 1845. aged eighty-six; buried in 

Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook, Ohio. 
White, James, Xenia. 1807; died in 1844; buried 

in Pioneer graveyard, Bellbrook. Ohio. 
White. John, Xenia, 1816; son of Thomas; died 

June 2, 1866, aged seventy-three; buried in Bap- 
tist graveyard, Cedarville, Ohio. 
White, Joseph, Xenia, 1818; son of Thomas, of 

Sugar Creek. 
White, Daniel, Xenia, 1819. 
White, Jesse, Xenia, 1819; son of Xathaniel. 
\\ bite, Phebe, Xenia, 1820. 
White, Capt. Thomas, Xenia, 1826; died June 15, 

1882, aged seventy-nine ; buried in Bellbrook 

cemetery. 
White, l->asmus, Xenia, 1840; February 12, 1840, 

married Jane Murphy. 
White, John, Beaver Creek, 1808. 
White, David, Bath, 1840. 
White, George, Bath, 1817; a Quaker; proprietor 

of Xenia Woolen Mill in 1826; buried in \\Tood- 

land. 
While, Joseph, Beaver Creek, 1820. 
White. John, Beaver Creek, 181 1. 
White, Lemuel, Beaver Creek, 1840. 
White, Joseph, Bath, 1813. 
Wliite. Joseph W., Bath, 1813. 
White. Jame:-. Sr., Ross, 1806; from Kentucky; 

died July 9, 1817, aged sixty-three; buried in 

Baptist graveyard, Cedarville. 
White, John M., Ross, 1815; died luly 2, 1866, aged 

seventy-three; buried in Baptist gravey 

darville, Ohio, 



graveyard, Ce- 



White, Wni., Ross, 1815; December 27, 1816, mar- 
ried Eleanor Marshall ; died in 1823. 
While, Thomas, Ross, 1820. 
While, Daniel, Ross, 1821. 
White, Joseph, Ross, 1821. 
White, Rev. Levi, Ross, 1840; one of the early 

ministers of Greene county, Ohio. 
White, John, Ross, 1840; died October 5, 1871, aged 

fifty-two; buried in Bowersville cemetery. 
White, William, Silver Creek, 1829; June 24, 1830, 

married Malinda January. 
White, Benjamin, Silver Creek, 1828; died June 

22, 1856, aged fifty-six; buried in Bowersville 

cemetery. 
White, Joseph, Silver Creek, 1829. 
W'lhite, Nathaniel, Xenia, 1816; merchant in Greene 

county in 1815. 
Wheeling, John B., Xenia, 1840. 
Wike, Kenard, Miami, 1840; buried in Clifton, 

Ohio. 
Willett, Samuel, Vance, 1808; soldier of 1812. 
Willett, James, Miami, 1808. 
W'ildman, John, Sr.. 1814; from Loudoun county, 

Virginia ; died in 1840 ; buried in Bloxsom grave- 
' yard, Selma, Ohio. 
Wildman, William, Ross, 1840; son of Edward; 

buried in Friend's churchyard, Sehna; died in 

1870. 



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Wildman, Edward. Ross, 1840. 

Witgall, John, Balli, 1840. 

Widmire. William. Miami. 1840. 

Winget. Zdjbec, Bath. 1807. 

Winget, Samuel. Balli, 1807. 

Winget. Reuben, Batli, 1807. 

Winget. James. Bath. 1809: soldier of 1812. 

W'inget. Hugh, Bath. 1810: soldier of 1812. 

Winget, Caleb. Bath, 1S12. 

Winget, Daniel, Bath, 1812. 

Winget, Joshua. Bath. 1816. 

Winget, Caleb, Jr.. Bath. 1817. 

Winget, Robert. Bath. 1817; August 28. 1817, mar- 
ried Sarah Rej'inour. 

Winget. John. Bath. 1817. 

Winget, William. Bath. 1819: November 14. 1822, 
married Nancy McCashen. 

Winget, Hugh i\I.. Bath. 1821. 

Winget. Peter. Bath. 1840. 

Winget, David. Miami. i8ia. 

Winget, Aaron. Mianiii, 1828; August 22, 1822, mar- 
ried Anna Little. 

Wiseley, Patrick. Bath, 1817. 

Wiseley, Richard, Bath, 1817. 

Willard, Jacob, Bath. 1816. 

Willson. John. Sr.. Sugar Creek, 1803; from New 
Jersey to Pennsylvania, thence to Kentucky: 
thence to Ohio in 1796; died at West Creek, 
Miami county. Ohio; one of the first settlers 
of Greene county, Ohio. 

Wils-on, John, Jr., Su.gar Creek, 1803; October 30, 
1806, married Nancy Dinwiddie; soldier of 1812. 

Wilson, Daniel. Sugar Creek. 1803; born April 21, 
1759; in 1811 remo\ed to Montgomery county, 
Ohio. 

Wilson, George, Sugar Creek, 1803; soldier rn 
1812; removed from the township. 

Wilson, David, Sugar Creek. 180S; soldier of 1812: 
removed to Vigo county, Indiana ; married a 
daughter of James Barrett. 

Wilson, John S.. Sugar Creek, 1808; son of Daniel; 
born September 29, 1786; died May 24, 1879. 

Wilson, Harvey R.. Sugar Creek, 1830. 

Wilson. Williaiu W.. Xenia. 1830; son of James, 
of Clark's Run : died in Xenia March g. 1836. 
aged twenty-seven. 
Wilson, Joseph, Caesser's Creek. 1803: died March 
II. 1823, aged si.xty-ninc; buried at Jaiuestown. 
Ohio; born in 1754. 
Wilson, Joseph, Caesar's Creek, 1803; soldier of 
1812; born in North Carolina August 27, 1787: 
died December 26. 1872. aged eighty-five; buried 
in Baptist gravevard, southwest of Jamestown. 
Ohio. 
Wilson. Amos, Caesar's Creek, 1805; removed to 

Clinton county, Ohio. 
Wilson. John, Esq.. Caesar's Creek, 1805. 
Wilson, Jacob R.. Caesar's Creek, 1840; March 9, 

i8.?9, married Malinda Boblett. 
Wilson. Joseph, Xenia, 1806: son of John, Sr. ; No- 
vember 10. 1808. married Joanna Townsley. 
Wilson. John. Xenia. 1807; deputy sheriff of Greene 
county under Jas. Popenoe in 1827; married 
Sarah Buckles April 17. 1820. 
AVilson. Samuel. Xenia. 1817; was a brother of 



John ; their mother's name was Sarah ; one sis- 
ter's name was Sarah Townslev. 

Wilson. James. Xenia, 1820; died in Xenia May, 
1836. 

Wilson. Robert. Xenia. 1826; May 3. 1827, married 
Mary Wilson. 

\\'ilson. John. Xenia. 1829; son of John, Sr. ; a 
tailor. 

Wilson, Joel. Xenia, 1830; December 18, 1828, mar- 
ried Sarah "Bromagem. 

Wilson, Aaron, Xenia, 1830. 

Wilson, Rev. Samuel. Xenia, 1830; from Pennsyl- 
vania ; son of William ; pastor of the Second 
U, P. church. Xenia. for years ; died September 
5. 1887; buried in Woodland; father of Dr. S. 
S. Wilson, of Xenia. 

W'ilson. David T., Xenia, 1830; a blacksmith; fa- 
ther-in-law of .A.. S. Crow, carpenter; removed 
to Iowa. 

Wil-on. Solomon. Miami, 1833; from Virginia; born 
December 16. 1818; died July 6, 1862, at his 
home in Miami township. 

Wilson, Jacob, Jliami, 1840. 

Wilson. Matthew. Miami, 1840; died January 5, 
i886._ aged seventy-five ; buried in Woodland. 

Wilson. Pearson, Miami, 1840. 

Wilson, Valentine. Beaver Creek, 1806; son of 
Isaac and Mary Wilson; December 4, 1806, mar- 
ried Eleanor Judy. 

Wilson, Robert. Beaver Creek, 1807. 

Wilson. Jeremiah. Beaver Creek, 1817; soldier of 
1812: son of Isaac and Mary. 

Wilson. Daniel, Beaver Creek, 1826; son of Isaac 
and Mary. 

W'lson, Jacob. Sr.. Bath. 1802; from Redstone, 
Pennsylvania; soldier of 1812; son of Isaac and 
Mary : died in 1814. 

^\■ilson. John. Bath, 1807; soldier of 1812; son of 
I Sitae and Mary. 

\Vilson, Michael. Sr., Bath. 1807; from Kentucky; 
died in 1814. 

Wilson. Michael. Jr., Bath. 1807; removed to Clark 
county. Ohio. 

^\"i!son, Christian, Bath. 1807. 

Wilson. Wm., Bath. 1809: soldier of 1S12; son of 
Isaac and Mary; died in 1813. 

Wilson. Isaac, Bath. 1801 : from Redstone, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1801 ; died April 10, i860, aged six- 
tv-nine : buried at Fairfield. Ohio; father of 
Uriah. 

Wilson. George. Bath. 1816; died in Beaver Creek 
township in 1821. 

Wilson, James, Bath. 181C: from Virginia to Ken- 
tucky ; soldier of 1812 ; removed to Champaign 
county. Ohio: died in 1837. 

Wilson. Jonathan, Bath, i8ig. 

\\"ilson. Cyrus, Bath, 1820. 

Wlilson, James. Bath. 1821. 

Wilson, Daniel. Bath. 1820. 

Wilson. Dr. T. J.. Xenia. 1830; died January 7, 
1S81, aged eigluy-two: father of George, who 
now resides in Fayette county, Ohio. 

Wilson, Henry. Bath. 1826. 

Wilson, John Q.. Bath, 1827. 

Wilson, Robert, Bath. 1840. 



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Wilson, John, Miami, 1812; removed to Peoria 

county, Illinois. 
Wil.-on. William. Miami, J819; son of Jacob; died 
at French Grove, Peoria county, Illinois. Janu- 
ary 6. ICS58. aged forty-three. 
Wilson. Junia .\., Miami, 1819. 
Wilson. William. Bath, 1840; died December 4, 
1881. aged sixty-nine: buried in I'nii>n i-hurch- 
yard. Byron. Ohio. 
Wilson. George, Miami. 18.^0. 

Wilson. Lsaac S., Miami. 1820; May 30, 1837, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Knott. 
Wilson. Levan H.. Miami. i8j8. 
Wilson. John E.. .Miami. 1830. 

Wilson, Jacob. Miami. 1830: died in Xcnia Feb- 
ruary 14. 1859. aged seventy-one; buried in Clif- 
ton. Ohio; soldier of 1812; married Jacob Pcr- 
singer's mother. 
Wilson. John Q.. Miami. 1840. 

\\'ilson. William. Ross. 1813; died January 27. 1821- 
aged eiglity-one; buried in Massie's Creek 
churchyard ( Stevenson's). 
Wilson. John. Ross. 1815; December 9. 18.10. mar- 
ried Mary Wilson. 
Wilson. James. Ros.s, 1819. 
WiLson, Warner, Ross, 1820. 

Wilson. Perry, Ross, 1828; died January 4, 1831, 
aged forty-nine; buried in Baptist graveyard, 
Cedarville, Ohio. 
Wilson. John T., Ross. 1840; died May 22, 1857, 
aged forty-four ; buried in Baptist graveyard, 
Cedarville. Ohio. 
Wil.son. Joseph, Jr.. Ross. 1811; born in 1788; died 

July 8, 1873, aged eighty-five. 
Wilson. Joseph, Sr.. Silver Creek. 1803 ; died March 
II. 1823, aged sixty-nine; buried at Jamestown. 
Ohio. . 
Wilson. George, Silver Creek, 1813. 
Wilson, John, Silver Creek, 1816; died September 
20, 1886. aged eighty-two; buried at Port W'ill- 
iam. Clinton county, Ohio. 
W'ilson. James L., Silver Creek, 1817. 
Wilson. Mary. Silver Creek. 1820. 
Wilson, Benjamin. Silver Creek, 1840; February 27, 

1840, married Leah Moorman. 
Wilson, James, Silver Creek, 1840. 
Wilson. Spencer, Miami, 1811 ; soldier of 1812; 

died in Sugar Creek township in 1823. 
Williamson, Jo3eph, Sugar Creek, 1816; his son, 
Joseph, died at his home, three miles west of 
Bcllbrook. November 10, 1897, aged seventy-one. 
W'illiamson, Eleazer, Sugar Creek, 1818; July, 
1838. married Eliza Abercrombie ; in 1823 he 
was a member of State Militia. 
Williamson, David. Xenia, 1836; from York coun- 
ty. Pennsylvania ; died October 18, 1858, aged 
seventy-eight : buried in Woodland. 
Williaiuson, John S.. Xenia, 1836; born in York 
county, Penns3lvama, .-Vpril i. 1817: died at 
Cedarville. Niovember 18, 1898, aged eighty-two; 
buried in Massie's Creek cemetery. 
Williamson. Andrew D., Xenia. 1836; born January 
30. 1815. in York county. Pennsylvania; died 
near Spring Valley August 24. 1899. 
AVilliamson. James, Bath, 1812; died in 1855, aged 



seventy-four: buried at Fairfield, Ohio; son of 
Joseph. 

W'illiamson. Wm.. Bath. 1813: soldier of 1812; bur- 
ied in Mitman graxeyard. near Fairfield, Ohio; 
son of Samuel H. 

Williamson, Samuel. Bath, 1816: son of Samuel 
H. and Mercy, of Bath township. 

Williamson, Samuel H., Bath, 1818; wife, Mercy 
Casad ; he died in 1839. 

Williamson, John M., Bath, 1818: son of Joseph, of 
Bath township. 

Williamson, Jas. W., Bath, 1820. 

Williamson. Jas., Jr.,- Bath, 1810. 

Williamson, Mercv, Bath. 1840; widow of Sam- 
uel H. 

WTlliamson. Chas.. Beaver Creek, 1804. 

Williamson. George T., Miami, 1830; a native of 
Cincinn-iti. Ohio ; owned a farm in Ross town- 
ship : dijd in London. England, December 5. 
1858. 

Williamson, William. Miami, 1830; April 3, 1833, 
married Jane McCroskey. 

Wiklc, Philip. Silver Creek. 1811 ; soldier of 1812. 

Wikle. John. Silver Creek. 1840; died in Jetferson 
township in 1823. 

Wickersham, Edward, Silver Creek, 1840; died 
August 26, i8.'7, aged forty-seven; buried in 
Woodland, Xenia. 

Wickersham, Mary. Silver Creek, 1840. 

Wickersham, James, Sugar Creek, 1840; died De- 
cember 10, 1893. aged eighty-two; buried at 
Spring Valley; (from Clinton county, Ohio). 

Wise. Richard. Bath. 1807; died in Bath township 
in 1814. 

Wise. Elizabeth. Bath, 1830. 

Wise. Benjamin, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Wi>e. Henry D.. Beaver Creek. 1840. 

Wise. Henrj-, Miami, 1810. 

Wise. Joseph. Bath, 1840. 

Wise, Jacob, Bath, 1840. • 

W''i^e. Jesse, Ross, 1830; November 30. 1826, mar- 
ried Deborah Strong: died March 12, 18/6, aged 
sixty-eight ; buried near Selma, Ohio. 

\\'ise. Henry, Siher Creek. 1840. 

Williams, Remembrance. Sr., 1803; native of Flar- 
rison county, Virginia, near South Branch of 
the Potomac River; came to Kentucky in 1790, 
thence to Ohio in 1799; died February 2, 1803; 
buried near Madison, Indiana. 

Williams. Remembrance. Jr., 1808; removed to 
Champaign county. Ohio. 

W^illiams. John. Xenia, 1806; son of Remembrance, 
Sr. ; born April 4, 1783; died April 6, 1826; bur- 
ied in W^oodland; soldier of 1812. 

WilKams, Henry. Xenia. 1808: soldier of 1812; No- 
vember 6. 1834, married Mary Ann Downey. 

W'illiams, Garrett, Xenia. 1809: son of Remem- 
brance. Sr. : removed to Jefferson county. Indi- 
ana : buried in the orchard of the old home. 

W'illiams. Jesse. Xenia. 1811 : son of Remembrance; 
died July 18, 1866. aged fifty-nine; buried in 
West Lancaster. Ohio. 

Williams. Charlotte. Xenia, 1820. 

Williams. George P.. Xenia. 1826. 

Williams. Edward. Xenia, 1828. 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Williams, Will.. Cae<ar"s Creek. 1813: died Febru- 
ary 22, 1849, aged filtj-thrte : buned in Wood- 
land, Xenia. 

Williams, Josiah. Caesar's Creek. 1826; died in 
.1831. 

Williams, Providence, Caesar's Creek. 1829. 

Williams, Isaac P., Caesar's Creek, 1830; August 
27, 1829, married Rachel Mills. 

Wiiriams, Stephen, Silver Creek. 1810; soldier of 
1812. 

Williams, Whitlock, Caesar's Creek, 184a. 

Williams, Chas., Beaver Creek, 1803 ; died in 1807. 

Williams, John, Beaver Creek, 1807; died at Jef- 
ferson, Fayette county, Ohio, January 15, 1847, 
<iged ninety-four. 

Williams, .-Nndrew, Beaver Creek. 1808. 

Wslliams, Rcbert. Bath, 1813: son of Remembrance; 
soldier of 1812. 

Williams, VV'ni., Bath, 1S17; died February 22, 
1863 ; buried in Woodland. 

Williams. Seabury. Bath. 1819; June 3. 1818, mar- 
ried Susan Parker. 

Williams, Richard, Bath. 1840: died June 15. 1864. 
aged fifty-one : buried in Massie's Creek church- 
yard (Stevenson's). 

Williams. John, Ross, 1806; grandfather of David 
B. ■ Williams ; died near Yellow Springs, Ohio. 

Williams, James, Ross, 1828; father of D. B. Will- 
iams ; born August, 1807 ; died December 27, 
1891, aged eighty-four: buried west of James- 
town, Ohio. 

Williams, Martin, Sugar Creek, 1840: a black man; 
January 3, 1834. married Xancy Hyson. 

Willis. Luke, Caesar's Creek. 1813. 

Willis. Daniel, Bath, 1813. 

Windiman. C, Xenia, 1840. 

Wikle, Philip, Silver Creek, 1813 ; died in 1888, 
aged eighty-five; buried at Port William, Clin- 
ton county, Ohio. . 

Wikle, George, Silver Creek. 1S20; December 29, 
1821, married Hester Ogan. 

Wickle, Daniel. Silver Creek. 1820; December 24, 
1818, married Ruth Ann Willis. 

Wickle. Phillip. Jr.. Silver Creek. 1840: Xovember 
8, 1832. married Mary Jane Morgan. 

Wickle. John S., Silver Creek. 1840: died in Caes- 
ar's Creek township in 1836. 

Wickle, Andrew, Silver Creek, 1840. 

Wlickle, William, Xenia, 1807; X'ovember 4, 1831, 
married Eliza Weaver. 

Winter, Stephen, Xenia, 1806; died in Xenia Jan- 
uary 16, 1837, aged eighty-five ; buried in Mas- 
sie's Creek churchyard; soldier of the Revolu- 
tion. 

Winter, James, Xenia, 1806; son of Stephen; died 
June 22, 1832 ; was thrown from a carriage. 

Winter. William, Xenia, 1817; son of Stephen; 
wife's name, Elizabeth; died in Xenia in 1839. 

Winter, Adam, Xenia, 1819 ; son of Stephen ; died 
December 19. 1848, aged fifty; buried in Caesar's 
Creek churchyard. Jamestown, Ohio. 

Winter, John. Xenia, 1826. 

Winter, Joseph, Xenia, 1820; a tanner: died Aug- 
ust, 1844, aged fifty-six ; buried in Massie's 
Creek churchyard (Stevenson's). 



Winters, Rev. Thos.. Xenia. 1821 ; May 25. 1835, 
married Harriet Hivling. 

Winter. Dr. Andrew, Xenia. 1855: from Xorth 
Carolina; died July 15, i8gi, aged seventy; bur- 
ied in Cedarville cemetery. 

Wilkcn.son. Abel. Xenia. 1819. 

Wilkenson, James. Xenia. 1820 ; a native of An- 
trim. Ireland: born January 15, 1769; died July 
26, 1826, aged fifty-seven : buried in Massie's 
Creek cliurchyard (Stevenson's). 

Wilkenson, Robert. Bath, 1826 ; July 20, 1826, mar- 
ried Sarah Casad ; buried in Casad graveyard, 
Fairfield, Ohio. 

\\'ilkenson, Jean, Miami, 1820. 

Wilkenson. Andrew, Xenia, 1840. 

Wilkin>, Cornelius. Xenia, 1840; sheriff of Greene 
county from 1850 to 1854; removed to Iowa. 

Wyland. Christian, Bath, 1803; removed to In- 
diana. 

Wyland, Christopher, Bath, 181 1: son o'f Christian; 
soldier of 1812; removed to Indiana. 

Wyland, John, Bath, 1813 ; son of Christian; sol- 
dier of 1812; removed to Indiana. 

\\'yland, John, Bath, 1813; son of Christian; sol- 
dier of 1812; removed to Indiana. 

Wyland. Daniel, Bath. 1817; son of Christian; April 
II, 1824, married Margaret Howard; removed to 
Piqua, Ohio. 

Wyland. Jonathan. Bath. i8io; son of Christian; 
removed to Piqua, Ohio. 

Wyland, Elias, Bath. 1820; son of Christian; re- 
moved to Piqua, Ohio. 

Wyland. Jacob, Bath, 182 1 ; died in 1835; buried in 
Folck graveyard, near Byron, Ohio. 

Wyland. Christian. Jr., Bath. 1826; December 10, 
1829. married Louisa Stillwell. 

Winterish. John, Beaver Creek, 1810. 

Winters. Rev. Thos. H., Xenia, 1840; born in 
Montgomery county, Ohio; died April 13. 1S89. 
aged seventy-si.x. 

Wiscner. John, Bath, 1820: died January 16. 1837, 
aged thirty-two; buried in Union graveyard, 
Byron, Ohio. 

W/ood, Matthew, Xenia. 1816; died June 15. 1830. 
aged fiftv-five; buried in Mas.sie's Creek ceme- 
tery. 

Wood' Robert. Bath. 1816. 

Wtood, Wm., Sugar Creek, 1804; married to Han- 
nah Beck November 10, 1803, by Rev. Joshua 
Carman. 

Wood, Asbury, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Wood, Franklin Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Wood, Richard, Miami, 1813. 

Wood. Eleanor, Silver Creek, 1813. ! 

Wood, Solomon, Silver Creek, 1819. 

Wood, Addison G., Silver Creek, 1819. 

Wfiolhurn. Robert. Bath, 1807. 

Wloolart. Michael. Sugar Creek, 1829. 

Worthington. John B., Sugar Creek, 1840; April 
2. 1835, married Sarah Stith. 

Woodburn, Samuel, Sugar Creek. 1840; died in 
1836; buried in Methodist graveyard. 

Wbodburn, John, Sugar Creek, 1840. 

Woodring. Peter, Ross, 1808. 

Worrel, John. Bath. 1807; soldier of 1812. 



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Worrel, John D. B., Bath, 1820. 

Woolsey, Dr. Jeremiah, Xenia. 1827; died February 
6, 1834. at Cincinnati, Ohio ; a former resident 
of Xenia, 
Woolsey, Uanicl, Xenia. 1821 ; removed to Evans- 

ville, Indiana. 
Wolf, George, Sr., Bath, 1803; wile, Mary Cath- 
erine; born in 1755; died December 6, 1813, aged 
fiftv-fivc; buried in Union graveyard, Bvron, 
Ohio. 
Wolf, Henry, Bath, 1806. 

Wolf. John, Bath. 1806; from Lanca.-ster county. 
Pennsylvania; a tailor; his wife, Christine: died 
Oetol)er 27, 1831, aged sixty-seven: buried in 
Union graveyard. Byron, Ohio. 
Wolf, David, liath, 1816; born November 6, 1803: 
died June 30, 1879; buried in Union graveyard; 
son of George and Catherine. 
Wolf, Lewis, Bath, 1840; son of John and Chris- 
tina; removed to Kokomo. Indiana. 
Wolf. John, Bath, 1807; son of George, Sr. ; soldier 

of 1812. 
Wolf, Jacob. Bath, 1812: son of George and Mary; 
died May 8. 1870, aged seventy-six; buried in 
Union graveyard. 
Wolf. Jacob, Bath, 1819; son of John and Cliris- 

tina. 
Wolf, John, Bath, 1819; son of John and Christina; 

May 25. 1815, married Yants. 
Wolf, Daniel. Bath. 1820; from Pennsylvania; died 
November 6. 1885. aged eighty-seven; buried in 
Union graveyard, Byron. 
Wolf. George. Jr., Bath, 1820; son of John and 
Christina; born March 14, 1796; died December 
9. 1844: buried in Union graveyard. Byron. 
Wolf. Adam. Maimi, 1814; soldier of 1812; died in 
1857, aged tifty-nine; buried in Muddy Run 
cemetery. 
Wolf, Daniel. Bath, 1820; born in 1803; died in 
1879; buried in Union graveyard, Byron, Ohio. 
Wolf, Jacob C, Bath, 1826. 
Wolf, ITios. F.. Bath, 1826. 

Wolf, David, Bath, 1826; born in 1803; died June 
.30, 1879. aged seventy-five ; buried in Union 
graveyard. Byron, Ohio. 
Wolf. John W., Bath. i82(); from Lancaster county, 
Pennsylvania; died June 25. 1877, aged eighty- 
four; buried in Union graveyard. Byron, Ohio. 
Wolf, Benjamin. Bath. 1826; first white child born 
in Bath township; born in 1800; son of George, 
Sr. 
Wolf. Joshua. Bath, 1840; died September 3, 1889. 
aged sixty-three ; buried in Union graveyard, 
Byron, Ohio. 
Wolf, Henry, Bath, 1826; son of John and Chris- 
tina. 
Wolf, Simon. Bath, 1826; son of John and Chris- 
tina : was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 
1805; died June 3. 1S70. near Byron, aged 
eighty-five. 
Wolf. John H.. Bath. 1827. 
Wolf. John I.. Bath. 1827. 
Wolf. Jacob B., Bath, 1830. 
Wolf. Abraham. Bath. 1840: died July 15, 1849: 

buried in LInion graveyard. Byron, Ohio. 
Wolf. Daniel K., Bath. 1840; son of John; born 
in 1823. 

25 



Wolf, Simon. Bath, 1840; son of Daniel; murdered 

near Byron, October 22, 1874. 
Wolf, John, Ross, 181 1. 

Wolf. John. Jr., Ross, 1819. 
Wolf. Jacob, Ross, 1820. 
Wolf. David, Ross, 1821. 

Woodley. Jas., Xenia, 1840; died in Xenia Decem- 
ber 8, 1873, aged sixty ; buried in Woodland. 

\\'oodward, Henry, Bath, 1811 ; soldier of 1812. 

Woodward. Joseph, Bath, 1813; from New Jersey: 
died August ID. 1859, aged sixty-nine ; buried at 
Fairfield, Ohilo. 

Woodward. Samuel, Bath, 1817; died in 1834; his 
wife buried in Casad graveyard, near Fairfield, 
Ohio. 

Woodward, John, Bath, 1817; son of Joseph, of 
Bath township. 

Woodsand, Samuel. Bath, 1819; son of Joseph; two 
other sons, George and William. 

Woodman. ,\irahani. Ross, 1821 ; January 29, 1818, 
married Ruth Bond. 

Woohnan, Jcseph, Caesar's Creek. 1820; born 
September 10, 1791 ; died December 25. 1844; 
buried in New Hope cemetery, Paintersville. 

V\\)odin, Thos., Bath, 1840. 

Wright. George. Sugar Creek, 1813; died in 1819; 
buried in McKnight graveyard ; brother-in-law of 
\Vm. McKnight. 

Wright. Thos., Sugar Creek, 1804 ; died February 
19, 1891, aged seventy-four; buried at Maple 
Corners, Caesar's Creek. 

Wright, George. Caesar's Creek, 1816;- soldier of 
the Revolution ; father of Mrs. Henry Hypes ; 
died September 25, 1829, aged seventy-three; 
buried in Woodland, Xenia. 

Wright Reuben, Caesar's Creek, 181 7. 

Wright. James G., Caesar's Creek, 1829; son of 
Wesley; died .April 21, 1881, aged seventy-four; 
buried in Wioodland. 

Wright, Wesley, Caesar's Creek, 1816; son of 
George; born October lo, 1785; died August 14, 
1828; buried in Babb graveyard: aged fifty. 

Wright. Thos. B., Caesar's Creek, 1840: son of 
Wesley ; died February 18, 1891, aged seventy- 
four; buried in Maple Corners churchyard. 

Wright, Nat. B., Ross, 1840; son of William. 

Wright. Wm., Ross, 1821 ; from South Carolina: 
father of John B. ; died January 9, 1859, aged 
seventy-nine; buried in Massie's Creek ceme- 
tery. 

Wright, Joab, Ross, 1840. 

Wright. David G., Ross, 1840: July 11, 1823. mar- 
ried Sarah Nebiger. 

Wright. Joshua, Xenia, 1840 ; brother of Jesse, Sr. : 
Nathan Nash was killed by lightning at hia 
house. 

Wright. John B.. Xenia, 1830; from North Caro- 
lina; died July 3, 1892. aged eighty-four; buried 
in Woodiinid : son of William. 

Wright, Samuel, Xenia, 1811 ; died June 11, 1859. 
at the house of Coke Wright, aged ninety-two ; 
buried in Woodland. 

Wright. Josiah. Xenia. 1812: soldier of 1812; grand- 
father of Clayton and Pogue, of Xenia ; died in 
1814. 

Wright. George Clayton. Xenia. 1814; soldier of 
1812; born October 23, 1790; died July 5, 1879, 



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aged eighty-nine : biiricti in Woodland on the 
Pelhani lot. 

Wriglit. George, Xenia, 1816. 

Wright. .Mcrrit. Xenia, 1816: from Brun?\vick 
county, Virginia ; soldier of 1812, under Capt. 
Aplcwhite; died .\pril 10, 1855. aged sixty: bur- 
ied in Wuodland ; father of the late J. B. M. 
Wright. 

Wright, Lewis. Xenia, 1816; son of George; soldier 
of 1S12, nnder Capt. Aplewhite; died November 
8, 18(16, aged sixty-nine ; buried in Woodland ; 
born February it, 1796. 

Wright, W,in. O., Xenia, 1818; son of Wesley. 

Wright, Wni. '1'.. Xenia. 1814: from Brunswick 
county, Virginia; born in 1798; died October 16, 
1852 ; buried in Woodland ; son of George. 

Wright, Thos. C., Xenia, 1821; mn of Sainuei ; 
died February 24, 1871, aged seventy-three; bur- 
ied in Woodland ; ex-auditor of Greene county. 

Wright, Samuel Watson, Xenia, 1826; son of 
George and Sophia; a batchelor ; born Decem- 
ber 14, 1802; buried at B'owersville, Ohio. 

Wright, Ira .1., Xenia, 1826; a brother of T. C. 
W'right ; died at Cairo, Ilihiois, of the cholera ; 
a tombstone was erected by his brother to his 
memory. 

Wright. Warren, Xenia, 1S28; related to Dickey 
Anderson; died in Springfield, Ohio, April 20, 

1874- 
Wright, Edward Owens, Xenia, 1828; son of Geo.. 

Sr. ; born in 1806; died X'ovember 24, 1889, aged 

eighity-three ; buried in Woodland. 
Wright, Rrchard W'atcost, Xenia, 1829: brother of 

Lewis ; died August 26, 1873, aged sixty-five ; 

buried in Woodland. 
Wright, Wm., Xenia, 183a; from South Carolina; 

father of J. B. Wright. 
Wright, Geo. W., Xenia. 1S12; son of Josiah; born 

October 13, 1809; died October 4, 1873; aged 

sixty-four; father of Cart and Pogue ; buried 

in Woodland. 
Wright, Jiohn B. M.. Xenia. 184a; born August 12. 

1817; died January 5, 1809, aged eighty-.two ; bur- 
ied in Woodland ; son of Alerrit. 
Wright, Jesse, Sr., Xenia, 1840: a cooper; soldier 

of 1812; died March 17, 1863, aged sixty-nine; 

buried in Woodland. 
Wright, John M., Xenia. 1840; son of Jesse; died 

April 12, 1876, aged fifty-one; buried in \N'ood- 

land. 
Wright. Sanniel. Xenia, 1840; son of Jesse; liuried 

in Woodland. 
Wright. Clinton. Xenia, 1840; son of Jesse. 
Wright. Caleb, "Bath, 1814. 
Wright, William, Bath. 1840; son of Jesse; died 

August 28, 1883, aged sixty-three: buried in 

Woodland. 
Wright. Richard, Ross, 1820; died January 12, 1864, 

aged seventy-seven; buried near Selnia, Clark 

county, Ohio. 
Wright, Richard Walcoat, Ross, 1840; son of Geo. 

and Sophia; born June 22. 1808; died in Cin- 
cinnati ; liuried in Woodland, Xenia. 
Wright. Richard H., Ross, 1840. 
Wright. .Andrew, Ross, 1832; from South Carolina: 

died March 4, 1850. aged sixty-seven : buried in 

Massie"s Creek cemetcrv. 



Wright. John F.. Ross, 1832; son of Andrew; born 
March 28. 1818; died August 13, 1847; buried 
in Wioodland. 

Wright. Wm. J., Ross, 1840; son of Andrew; died 
December 7, 1884, aged sixty-eight ; btiried in 
Massie's Creek cemetery. 

Wyford. Jacob. Bath, 1818; October 8, 1817, mar- 
ried Catherine Kingley. 

Weymouth, Gregory, Cedarville; died August 5, 

1895, aged seventy-seven. 

Weymouth, George, Cedarville; from Ireland: died 

August 10, 1896, aged eighty-two. 
Wyland. Solomon, 1830; July 25, 18.^3, married 

Mary Ann Keifer. 

Yates. Wlilliam, Beaver Creek, 1807. 

Vates, Susanna, Sugar Creek, 1813. 

Yates, Susan, Beaver Creek, 1820. 

Yates. Thos., Caesar's Creek, 1830; son-in-law of 
David Price. 

Young, Nathan, Bath, 1830; died April. 1855; bur- 
ied at Fairfield, Ohio. 

Young, David, Sugar Creek, 1840 ; died February 7, 

1896, aged seventy-six; buried at Bellbrook, 
Ohio. 

Young, William, .Sugar Creek, 1840 ; September 3, 

1836, married Sarah McClure. 

Young, Thomas, Beaver Creek, 1803; M;irch 28, 

1837, married Sarah Coy. 
Young. Robert, Beaver Creek, 1807. 
Young, Andrew, Beaver Creek, 1807. 
Young, Michael, Bath, 1811. 
Young, John, Bath, 1816. 

Young, John, Jr., Bath, 1821. 

Young, Benjamin, Bath, 1821. 

Young, Lorenzo, Xenia, 1840 ; died December 15, 
1870, aged fifty-six ; buried in Woodland. Xenia. 

Young, Abraham, Silver Creek. 1817. 

Young, Dr. John A., Xenia, 1837; a student of I5r. 
Samuel Martin, 1837-1838; died May 3, 1874, 
aged sixty-two; died a;t Monmouth, Illinois. 

York, Jeremiah, Bath, 1804; his wife, Ann; his 
son, John. 

Yeakle, Jacob, Xenia, iS.vj: died November 4, 1874, 
at Terre Haute, Indiana, aged seventy ; mer- 
chant in Xenia in 18.^4. 

Yoder, Aaron, Bath, 1840. 

Yonts, Isaac, Beaver Creek, 1840. 

Yockey, Samuel, Beaver Creek; died March 17, 
1858, aged thirty-nine; buried in Beaver Creek 
churchyard. 

Zartman, Samuel, Silver Creek, iS.^o: born Feb- 
ru.iry 23, 1803; died July 31, 1856; buried in 
Jamestown cemetery. 

Zartman. Isaac, Silver Creek, 1840; brother of 
Samuel; buried at Jamestown, Ohio. 

Zimmerman, Jacob, Beaver Creek, 1807; died June 
4, 1867, aged sixty-one; buried in Mt. Zion 
churchyard. 

Zimmeirman, Dr. George, Beaver Creek. 1813; died 
in Beaver Creek township October 27. 1818; bur- 
ied in Home graveyard. 

Zimmerman, John, Beaver Creek, 1830; April 8, 
1827, married Magdalene MiHcr; removed to 
Indiana. 

Zinniierman. Nancy. Beaver Creek, iS.!0; wife of 



KOBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 403 

Dr. John Zimmcrnian ; riitd December JJ, i85i. : lier 13, iSgo, aged eighty-one: Imried in Wood- 
aged ?eventy-nine. I land. 

Zimmcr. John, Xcnia. 1830: from Chester, South I Zinn. William. Sugar Creek. 1820. 

Carolina: died June 24. 1866. aged fifty-eight: Zimmerman. George. Ros>, 1813; died in 1846, aged 

Inirit'd in Woodland. eighty-five ; buried in Bethel, near Grape Grove, 

Zimmerman. .Mcx. G.. Xenia. 1830; died Scpteni- Ohio. 



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BIOGRAPHICAL 



REV. JAMES G. CARSOX. D. D. 

¥(>v a third of a century the pastor of the 
Second United I'resbyterian ciuircli of 
Xenia. Re\-. James Giilespy Carson, has been 
\veli known througliout this portion of tlie 
state wiiere his lal)ors Iiave Iieen effective in 
promoting' the intellectual development of 
the c< immunity, his inlluencc being (.)f no re- 
stricted order. He commands not only the 
highest respect of his own people but of all 
denominations, and has attained considerable 
distinction as a leading divine in the L'nited 
Presbyterian ministry. Arriving in Xenia in 
December. 1869. his consecrated life, zeal 
and untiring efforts have been the means of 
greatly increasing the numerical and sjjirit- 
ual strength of his church and his life his- 
tory forms no unimportant chapter of the 
history ol the moral progress of Greene 
county. 

Rev. Carson was born near Mary\'ille. 

Blount countv, Tennessee, on the nth of 
February. 183.3, a son of the Rev. David 
and Jane Walker (Giilespy) Carson, the 
former a native of Franklin county, Penn- 
sylvania, and the latter of Blount county. 
Tennessee. At an early age the father was 
graduated in Jefferson college and then con- 
tinued his studies under the direction of Dr. 
John M. Mason, of the Associate Reformed 
church for three vears, while later Dr. Jo- 



seph Banks, of Philadelphia, (jf the Asso- 
ciate church, was his preceptor. His first 
pastorate was in a church near Maryville, 
Temiessee, where he remained for nine 
years, and in T833 he was elected professor 
of the Associate Presbyterian Seminary, at 
Cannonsburg, Penn.sylvania. The school 
was afterward removed to Xenia, and 
in July. 1834. Rev. David Carson removed 
to the north to assume his duties in the sem- 
inary, but on the 25th of September of the 
same year, before taking up the work of his 
professorship, he was called to his fmal 
home. In the family were three children, 
the eldest being Dr. David Walker Carson, 
of Burgettstown, Pennsyh-ania : James G., 
of this review; and Ellen J., who died in 
May, 1858, at the age of twenty-three years. 
The paternal grandfather, David Carson, 
emigrated from Ireland, it is believed, as 
early as 1784 and settled at Greencastle, 
Pennsylvania, where he followed tlie tailor's 
trade. His wife bore the maiden name of 
Jane Oliver and was a granddaughter of the 
Rev. James Fisher, author of Fisher's cate- 
chism, and the great-granddaughter of Eben- 
ezer Erskine, one of the founders of the 
United Presbvterian church. 

The maternal grandfather of the Re\'. 
James G. Carson was James Giilespy. who 
was born in Augusta county, ^'irginia. in 
1772, and about 1780 removed with his 



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parents to Tennessee, where he became a 
prominent farmer and poHtician, represent- 
ing his district in the general assembly, and 
a member of the constitutional conxention 
of that state. He married Eleanor Cowan. 
She had an aunt who was captured by the 
Shawnee Indians in Tennessee and was con- 
veyed by tliem to Old Chillicothe, now Old- 
town, (ireene county, Ohio, where she was 
assisted to escape l)y the Indian chief. wh(T 
sent her across Lake Erie on the ice to De- 
troit, whence she was taken to Pittsburg 
and from there down the river to Maryville, 
thus being returned to her home after an ab- 
sence of seven vears. Her husband was 
killed at the time she was captured but she 
secured his scalp, which had been taken by 
the Indians and carrietl it in her bosom. 
Subsequently she was again married and was 
captured the second time by the Indians — 
this time by the Cherokee trilse — with whom 
she remained two years in Georgia, when 
her old neighborhood having captured some 
of the tribe, an exchange was made and her 
release secured. 

When onlv a few months old Rev. Car- 
son, of this review, was taken to Pennsvl- 
vania. His father died soon afterwanl. He 
was reared in Cannonsburg. that state, ac- 
quiring his education there, and was gradu- 
ated from JeffersonCollege with the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Arts, in the class of 
1849. In 1875 the degree of Doctor of Di- 
vinitv was conferred upon him by Mon- 
mouth College. After his graduation he 
followed the profession of teaching for 
about three years. In the summer of 1852 
he entered the seminary at Cannonsburg. in 
which he was graduated in March. 1855. 
and I in the 226. of June, that year, he was 
licensed to preach, after which he supplied 
various churches, including his father's old 



congregati(in in Tennessee. In November. 
1856. he was ordained antl installed as pas- 
tor of the congregation at South Buffalo, 
now Claysville. \\'ashington county, Penn- 
sylvania, where he remained until May, 
1867, which covered the period of the Civil 
war. During the progress of hostilities be- 
tween the north and tlie south Dr. Carson 
was connected with the Christian commis- 
sion, stationed at Romney. \'irginia. and in 
the spring of 1864 was stationed at Knox- 
ville. Tennessee. His most important work. 
however, during the Civil war was that 
which he performed as the president of the 
Union League of Buffalo township, and also 
in the active support which he gave to tlie 
administratidU in its work of putting down 
the rebellion. He met with much opposi- 
tion in the community where he was lo- 
cated, but his eloquent words and logical ut- 
terances had marke<l influence in molding- 
sentiment. 

In 1867 Dr. Carson removed to Can- 
nonsburg. where he remained until 1869 as 
pastor of the United Presbyterian church, 
and in the month of December, of that year, 
he came to Xenia. accepting the pastorate of 
the Second United Preslivterian church, and 
since that time he lias filled its pulnit. cover- 
ing a period of almost a third of a century. 
In the fall of 1873 ^^^ ^^"^^ ^l^o elected pro- 
fessor of homiletics and pastoral theology 
of the Xenia Theological Seminary, occu- 
pying that chair for fifteen years, or, until 
the spring of 1888, when, finding that his 
duties were too arduous he resigned the 
]irofessorship and gi\-es his attention only 
to the pastoral work. He has served as a 
member of the board of managers of the 
Xenia Theological Seminary, and was its 
secretary for four years. 

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^on was married to Miss Mary H. Clark- 
son, a (laiigliter of the Rev. Thomas B. 
Clarksoii. of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, a 
granddaughter of tlie Rev. James Clark- 
son, of (luinston, Pennsylvania. Her death 
occurred in Xenia, March 21, 1894. She 
possessed a most amial)le and kindlv dis- 
position and was of great assistance to her 
husljand in his work. The Doctor's labors 
have covered a wide range along lines that 
tend to uplift humanity. He has been a 
strong supporter of the temperance policy 
of the Republican party, and in this way 
has been a factor in political circles. He 
indorses every movement and measure for 
the promotion of education that will fit the 
young for the practical and responsible du- 
ties of life. 1 Ic has been a delegate to differ- 
ent sxnods of his church, and his wise 
counsel and keen insight to possibilities 
have made his opinions of value in such 
gatherings. His knowledge is broad and 
comprehensive, for his reading has covered 
a wide range. He is interested in anything 
that will give him a clearer, broader view 
of life and its purposes and of human na- 
ture, and aid him in the work of so present- 
ing the truth to his parishioners ami his 
auditors that his words will intluence their 
lives for good. He is an able and elo- 
quent divine, is an earnest student who reads 
widely and brings to his duties the riches 
of a strong mind and untiring zeal. 



GEORGE A. :\IcKAY. 



George A. McKay is holding the posi- 
tion of citv engineer of Xenia and of county 
sur\-evor of Greene countv and in lioth of- 
fices is displaying his capabilitv and fidelity 



to the trusts reposed in him. He was born 
in this county on Christmas day, of 1850, 
and is the son of Samuel I*", and Angeline 
A. McKay. The father was a native of 
Ohio, and after arriving at years of matur- 
itv was married in 1850 to Miss Angeline 
Moore, who was born in \'irginia and came 
to Ohio when only se\en years old. Her fa- 
ther, Presley Moore, was numbered among 
the pioneer settlers of the Buckeye state ami 
at length l(jst his life liy accident, a tree 
falling upon him. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 
Kav were born five children: George .\., 
Maria L.. Oscar F.. Sarah J. and Irxing V. 
Samuel F. McKay (f'cd in 1895 and his 
wife, who survi\-ed him some years, died 
in the spring of 1900. He was a member 
of the Baptist church and the mother of 
the Reformed church. He was, until his 
tleath, a resident of Caesarscreek township. 
George A. McKay, of this review, was 
reared upon his father's fami. but could not 
content himself with the work of the fields, 
desiring broader (opportunities. He ac- 
cpured his education in the common schools 
and in Antioch College of Yellow Springs. 
He became master of the various branches 
of mathematics and his qualification in this 
regard has made him a capable surveyor. 
He commenced engineer work when only 
sixteen years of age and for a long period 
served as civil engineer in connection with 
the Aliami Valley & Columlnis Railroad, the 
Cincinnati, Hamilton «& Dayton, the Duluth, 
South Shore & Atlantic Railroad, and later 
with the Chicago & West Michigan, now 
the Pere Marquette Railroad, with which 
he had been connected for four years prior 
to his election to the office of county sur- 
vevor in 1892. He assumed the duties of 
that position on the 1st of January, 1893, 
and In- re-elections has since Ijeen continued 



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therein. He was also a])])'jinte(l city engin- 
eer soon afterward ami lias since been the 
incumbent in that position. 

On the 25th of September, 1873, 'Sir. 
McKay was imited in marriage to Miss Ida 
I. Peterson, a daughter of Jacob S. and 
Sajrah C. Peterson, of Ohio. Four children 
have graced this union: W'erter P., Mabel 
L., Nellie (t. and Edna. !Mr. AIcKay is 
a member of Xenia Lodge, F. & A. M., 
and also of Xenia Chapter, R. A. M., while 
he and his wife hold membership relations 
with the Trinity Methodist Episcopal 
church. He is well known as a public- 
spirited and progressive citizen, whose ad- 
vancement in life is the outcome of his 
own efforts. He lias won a credital.ile repu- 
tation as a public offlcia!. who is prompt and 
faithful in the discharg-e of his duties, and 
in social life he has gained tiie regard of 
all with wlioni he has come in contact by 
reason of his fidelitv to manlv ]M'inciples, 
his genial disposition and his deference for 
the opinions of others. 



GEORGE W. HARPER. 

Xo history of Greene count)- would be 
complete without the life record of George 
\\'. llar])er. He has passed the seventieth- 
milestone on life's journew and has wit- 
nessed much of the remarkable advance 
which this country made through the nine- 
teenth century. He has lived to witness the 
dawning of a new century of ]irosperily 
and prf)gress, and yet takes a deep interest 
in all that pertains to the national welfare 
and to local improvement. He was a friend 
of Abraham Lincoln in early life and has 
known nianv other prominent men of this 



and other states. He has been a very im- 
portant factor in the business development 
of this section of Ohio, and as the years 
ha\e passed he has pros])ere'(.l in his un- 
dertakings until now he is numbered among 
the men of affluence in his community. 
Honored and respected by all, there is no 
man in Cedarville or Greene county who 
occupies a higher place in public regard, 
not only by reason of this splendid success, 
but also' because of the honorable, straight- 
forward business policy he has ever fol- 
lowed. 

George W. Harper was bom in Ross 
township, this county, on the 30th of May, 
1825, and comes of a family of English 
origin. His paternal grandfather, John 
Harper, was born in \'irginia, near Harper's 
Ferry, and it was in honor of this family 
that Harper's Ferry was named. During 
the early days the ferry was owned by 
Thomas Harper, a brother of John, who 
operated a boat at that point for many years. 
John Harper was a lo_\al defender of the 
cause of liberty at the time of the Revo- 
lutionarv war, and carried his musket over 
many a field where the battle waged, con- 
tributing his share to the brilliant victory 
wliich crowned the American amis. Leav- 
ing the Atlantic coast he made his way in- 
land to Ohio, and liecame one of the h(-)n- 
ored pioneer settlers of Greene county, his 
last days being passeil upon the old home 
farnt in Ross township. Pie purchaseil 
there a large tract of land which was aft- 
erward (li\-i(lcd among his children. He 
died at an advanced age and was laid to 
rest in a cemetery of Ross township. 

Thomas Harper, the father of our sub- 
ject, was born at Harper's Ferry, a large 
part of the property there being then owned 
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named. lie came tu Ohio about 1812 ami 
located in Ross tnwnsliii). wlnere lie en- 
gaged in farming and stock-raising. Tlie 
land which he purchased was a raw tract, 
but he improved it, transforming it into a 
farm of rich fertility. Bv judicious invest- 
ment of his cajjital he liecame the owner of 
fifteen hundred acres, and in addition to its 
cultivation he successfully engaged in the 
raising of hogs and cattle on an extensive 
scale, lie married Mary Sirlotte, a nati\-e 
of Maryland, and a daughter of George 
and Elizabeth Sirlotte, who were probably 
natives of ^larx'land. and trace their ances- 
try back to France. Tiiomas Harper lixed 
to the age of eightv-one years, passing away 
in 1882. In his religious faith he was a 
Mcthiidist and in his political views was a 
Democrat. His wife died u])on the home 
farm in Ross township, in 1872, at the age 
of seventy-one years. She, too, was a niem- 
lier of the Methodist church d.uring the 
greater part of her life. ;uid her earnest 
Christian character left its imjiress upon the 
lix'es of her children, 'ihe remains of Mr. 
and Airs. Harper were interred in Black- 
son's cemetery in Clark county. In their 
family were five children, George \V. Har- 
per being the ehlest of the three sur\'i\'ing 
niembers. 

Until twent}-one years of age Mr. Har- 
per, of this review, remained upon the old 
homestead. He attended the common 
schools of the township, also select schools 
in Xenia. and later becaine a student at 
Greene Plains. After attaining his ma- 
jijrity he turned his attention to the cattle 
business, buying cattle in both Illinois and 
Indiana, and driving them through to Lan- 
caster, Ohio, and Philadelphia, where he 
sold them in the market. This was before 
the era of railroads in the west and the long 



journey was acc<:)mplishcd on foot, tie 
also crossed the .\lleghanv Mountains sev- 
eral times before a railroad had been built 
across that chain. He finally extended his 
operations as far west as Springfield, Illi- 
nois, flriving cattle through from that ])oint 
to Philadelphia. While in the former city 
he boarded in the same house with Abra- 
ham Lincoln, whose acquaintance he formed 
and with whom he formed ties of friend- 
ship. Mr. Harper now recalls many enter- 
taining reminiscences connected with their 
acquaintance. He continued in the cattle 
business for five or si.x years, after which 
he ])urchased some farm lands in Greene 
and Clark counties. He there bought and 
bred cattle and shipped them to the mar- 
kets after fattening them. He still owns his 
original homestead, which lies largely in 
Ross township. Greene county, consisting of 
about one thousand acres. He continued to 
successfully deal in cattle until his removal 
to Cedar\ille in 1865. Here he engaged in 
the banking Inisiness for ten or twelve vears 
;uid was the chief mover in the establish- 
ment of the bank, which opened its doors 
for business in 1888 and soon was placed on 
a safe financial basis which brought to it 
man\- patrons, yir. PIar])er continueil as 
its president until al)out three years ago. 
when he withdrew in order to lead a retired 
life. He is not engaged in any active lousi- 
ness pursuits at the jiresent time, save the 
supervision of his projoerty interests. Since 
remox'ing to Cedarville he has always man- 
aged his large farming property from this 
])oint. He has at present se\'enteen hun- 
dretl acres of valuable lanil, while his wife 
has seven hundred and seventy-five acres. 
He also owns about two thousand acres in 
Missouri, mcjst of which is grazing land. 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



business affairs and his snund judgment, 
business foresigbt and enterprise have been 
the strong features in his remarkably suc- 
cessful career. He has erected a number of 
fine buildings in Cedar\-ille, including his 
own residence, a handsome brick structure, 
and has thus contributed to the impro\-e- 
ment of the town. 

In i860 I\Ir. Harper was united in mar- 
riage to ^liss Vinna M. Murray, a daughter 
of George ]\Iurray. of South Charleston. 
Ohio, an extensive and prominent farmer 
who died about twenty years ago. In his 
political \ie\\s Mr. Harper was formerly a 
Democrat, but is now a Populist. He 
served as a member of the city council of 
Cedarville for a number uf years, and was 
the Democratic candidate for state sena- 
tor on one occasion, but he never sought 
office, preferring tn devote his care and at- 
tention to his business affairs. He be- 
longs to the Methodist church and is and 
has been for many years one of its trustees. 
For more than forty years he and his wife 
have traveled life's journey together, and 
throughout the long period their home has 
e\er been hospitably open for the reception 
of their many friends. Mr. Harper is a 
man of strong purpose, of unfaltering de- 
termination in the execution of business 
projects, and his success is attributable to 
his own efforts. He has a very wide ac- 
quaintance throughout this portion of the 
atate and is held in the highest regard by 
all with whom he has come in contact. 



ASA LITTLE. 



Asa Little, treasurer of Greene county, 
was born in Ross township, June 18, 1845, 
and has alwavs made his home in this 



County. His parents, Robert and Elizabeth 
(Hiatt) Little, were natives of Virginia and 
were there Ixtrn. reared and married, but 
about 1830 emigrated westward and cast 
their lot with the early settlers of Ross 
township. Greene county, where the father 
engaged in farming. He made agricultural 
pursuits his life work and died in 1875 at 
the age of sixty-five years, while his wife 
passed away in 1889 at the age of seveniy- 
cight years. The}- were the parents of six 
children, all of whom reached years of ma- 
turity, namely: J. H., who is now a resi- 
dent of Yellow Springs. Ohi6; John, de- 
ceased; Mrs. Lucy Ritenhour. who has also 
passed away ; Emily, the w ife of J. !M. Birch, 
of Yellcnv Springs; Asa, of this review; and 
Anna, the wife of Henry J. Flagg of 
?veiiia. 

To the public school system of his nati\'e 
lownship Asa Little is indebted for the early 
educational privileges w hich he enjoyed. He 
afterward attended Antioch College, in Yel- 
low Springs, where he took a special course, 
completing his education in the school room 
at the age of eighteen years. He then en- 
gaged in teaching in Greene and ^ladison 
counties, successfully following that profes- 
sion for several years. He afterward be- 
came an active factor in commercial circles, 
being engaged in the grain business at 
Jamestown, Xenia and Yellow Springs, op- 
erating along that line for several years. In 
1898 he put aside personal interests in order 
to serve his fellow townsmen in the office 
of county treasurer, to which he had been 
elected in the fall of that year. In 1901 he 
was again chosen to the position, so capably 
had he filled the office, and will continue as 
the incumbent until September, 1904. He 
is a careful custodian of public office, being 
most reliable, honorable and capable. 



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413 



In 1865 Air. Little was married to Aliss 
Margaret Moprnian, a daugliter of Charles 
T. and Matilda Moorman, who were early 
settlers of this county. Two children graced 
tiiis marriage, but Arthur Ward died at the 
age of thirteen years. Tiie surviving son is 
C. H. Little, who is now engaged in the 
wholesale grain business in Xenia. In his 
social relations Mr. Little is an Odd Fellow, 
belonging to the lodge at Yellow Springs, 
and both he and liis wife are members of the 
Christian churcli. In liis political views he 
has always been a Repuljlican but had never 
souglit or held office prior to the time tliat 
lie was elected county treasurer. His official 
rc'.-ord has demonstrated the fact that the 
confidence reposed in him was well placed, 
lie is most capable and loyal and his word 
no man cam question. 



AUGUSTUS THOMPSON. 

Augustus Thompson has now passed the 
seventy-seventh milestone on life's journey 
and is a venerable and honored resident of 
Yellow Springs. He was lx)rn March 12, 
1825, in Geauga comity, Ohio, and lived at 
the place of his birth for twenty-si.K years. 
His parents were William and Lucinda 
(W'alden) Thompson. The family is of 
Scotch-Irish lineage. The great-grandfa- 
ther after coming to this country from 
Scotland settled in Pennsylvania at an early 
day. His son, Isaac, the grandfather of our 
subject, was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war. He married and had eight children 
six sons and two daughters. 

William Thompson, the fathei of our 
subject, was the third chiUl and fought for 
his country against England in the war of 



iSi J. He was born in Pennsylvania, March 
21, 1789, but catue tcj Ohio with his parents 
in 1 80 1, being about twelve years of age. 
His father purchased a tract of timber land 
in Geauga county and much labor was re- 
quired in clearing this in order to make it 
cultivable. William Thompson, although 
the youngest in the family, sJKiuldered his 
ax and went to the woods with the rest, 
doing his full share in the arduous undertak- 
ing", and ere long became quite an expei't 
woodsman, and this led him to believe that 
he could make a farm for himself. He there- 
fore ijurchased a tract of one himdred acres 
of timber land adjoining his father's fann 
and began its cultivation and improvement. 
He built a house from timber from his own 
land and as companion in his new home 
and one with whom he might share the joys 
and sorrows of life he chose Miss Lucinda 
Walden, who at that time was teaching 
school in Huntsburg township. She was an 
earnest Christian lady, a member of the 
Alethodist church, and her brother, Asa, was 
a minister of that denomination. She had 
two other brothers, Elisha and Rial, the 
fomier a Methodist in religious faith, and 
the latter a Universalist. Mr. and Mrs. 
Thompson were married in Warren, Ohio, 
on the 8th of February, 18 15, and then start- 
ed to make a farm in the midst of the forest. 
As the result of his industry and persever- 
ance he was enabled to pay for his farm 
from his sale of maple sugar, which he man- 
ufactured from his own trees. He did all 
of the work in connection therewith even to 
the manufacture of the buckets and troughs. 
The wife faithfully performed the work of 
the home, using the spinning wheel and loom 
and thus furnishing the family with an 
abundance of towels, table linen, bedspreads 
and clothing. Nine children came into this 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



household, eiglit sons and one daughter. All 
were married and secured homes for them- 
selves, and five of the brothers became de- 
fenders of the L'ninn in the Civil war. ^^'ill- 
iam Thompsdn did his full duty to his chil- 
dren, to his friends and to his country, and 
was held in high esteem by all who knew 
him. He served as township treasurer and 
filled many minor ofifices with credit to him- 
self and satisfaction to his constituents. 

The family passed through varied experi- 
ences and two sad accidents occurred in the 
family history. One was the death of Elisha 
James, who had gone to the woods in order 
to get fuel for the schoolhouse fire together 
with many other patrons of the school. He 
was then but a little more than twelve years 
of age and was killed by a falling tree. 
Again three years later the youngest child, 
Henry Thom])son, was struck l.iy lightning 
when he and a cousin had gone to gather 
wild strawberries. William Thompson, the 
father, died at the age of eighty-four years 
and six months. The mother, who was Ijorn 
in Massachusetts and lived there until a few 
years prior to her marriage, passed away at 
the advanced age of eighty-four years and 
four months. The former was an Episcopal- 
ian in religious faith and the latter a ]\Ieth- 
odist. 

Augustus Thompson, who was the fifth 
in order of birth in that family, spent the 
first twenty-six years of his life upon the 
home farm in Geauga county, and in the 
district schools of the neighborhood obtained 
his education and through the summer 
months assisted his father upon the home 
farm. He was the first of his family to re- 
spond to the country's call for aid, enlisting 
April 27, iSrii, as a member of Company 
D, Xinetecnth Reg'iment of Ohio Volun- 
teers. He served for four months and was 



then discharged at Columbus, but he after- 
ward re-enlisted in Company A, Twenty- 
ninth Ohio \'oluntcer Infantry, and served 
until July. 1862, wlien he was again dis- 
charged on account of disability. Upon his 
return from the war he remo\-ed to Bay 
City, ^lichigan, in 1862, in order that he 
might educate his children, and there en- 
gag'ed in teaming, which he followed for a 
number of years, also devoting some atten- 
tion to farming. In 1877 he removed to 
Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was first 
employed in a planing mill for three years. 
He then engaged in the somewhat n<>\e\ em- 
ployment of building up the trade of run 
down hotels, going to Texarkana, Texas, 
for that purpose in response to a telegram. 
Six months' faithful service Iirought the de- 
sired result, yir. Thompson then resigning 
to become the manager oi another run down 
hotel in the same town. Here he was again 
successful. Init irom his excessive labors so 
exhausted his vitality that he was forced to 
abandon this occupation and for five months 
devoted himself to traveling for his health. 
At that time he reached Dayton, and 
he has since been a resident of Ohio. 
Sixteen years ago he located at Yellow 
Springs, where he has since resided. Here 
he has since been connected with agricul- 
tural pursuits, and although he d(.ies not do 
any of the hard work ujion the farm he still 
has the general ox'ersight of his agricultural 
interests in Miami township. 

In July. 185 1, Mr. Thompso.n was uni- 
ted in marriage to Miss Ro'.illa L. Johnson, 
who was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, 
and died in Bay City. ^Michigan, when about 
sixty years of age. She Avas the mother of 
two children. Henr_\- C, who was born in 
(ieauga county, Ohio, was educated in Bay 
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RO BIX SON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



415 



the office of the city surveyor, acting as as- 
sistant in the work of (h'awing maps, and 
dinnng llie jieriods of vacation lie was in tlie 
ticld, heconiing fanniiiar with tlie ]5raclical 
\\()i-i< of civil engineering and surveying. 
Jic has become an expert surveyor and is 
still following tjiat business in Bay City, 
Michigan, where he has served as city sur- 
veyor. He also served as city surveyor of 
Lansing for one year. At the age of si.xteen 
\ ears he began teaching school and followed 
that profession until he had mastered 
siu"ve}"ing, when he abandoned it in 
order to take up his chosen life 
wiirk. He married Kate Wliitmore, 
and they have three chiklren. Frank 
C. Thompson, the youngest son, was 
born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and Ijegan 
teaching in the district schools before attain- 
ing the age of sixteen. After two years he 
was made jjrincipal of a graded schoul, a 
piisitiiin wjiich he held for live years, when 
he resigned in order to accept another posi- 
tion in which he continued for live years. 
He afterward held the office of city comp- 
troller at West Bay City, Michigan, and 
later was employed on the farm of Hiram 
Confei- in Greene county, but he soon re- 
turned to West Bay City to assist his broth- 
er Henry in surveying and civil engineering, 
and was afterward appointed by the post- 
master general to the mail delivery ser\'ice 
in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in which po- 
sition he has since served. He married Car- 
rie Confer, a daughter of Hiram Confer, 
then of Yellow Springs, but now a resident 
of California. 

For his second wife ]Mr. Augustus 
Thompson chose Matilda Hamma, the wed- 
ding being celebrated on the 29th of De- 



David and Susan (Wolff) Hamma. Her 
father was born in Pennsyhania of German 
lineage, on the paternal side, while on the 
maternal side the line is of English descent. 
The parents of Mrs. Thompson removetl to 
Ohio during her early girlhood, settling in 
Richland county, where her father carried 
on farming. He afterward sold his farm, 
settling in Greene county, purchasing a tract 
of land in IMiami township. Here he died 
in 1865 at the age of seventy-seven years, 
rmd his wife died some years previous upon 
the old homestead in Miami township. She 
was the mother of seven children, but only 
three of the number are now living. Mr. 
and Mrs. Thompson make tlieir home in 
Yellow Springs and are well known there. 
Mr. Thompson owes his success in life to his 
own earnest and indefatigable efforts. He 
has led an upright and honorable life, char- 
acterized by loyalty to his country and b\' 
fidelity in friendship as well as honor in busi- 
ness relations. 



cember, i! 



The lady was born in York 



county, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of 



ROBERT S. JACOBY. 

Roliert S. Jacoby is numbered among 
the native sons of Xenia township, Greene 
county, for here his birth occurred on the 
22w\ of November, 1842. His parents were 
Mathew Cory and Phoebe A. (Jackson) Ja- 
coby, the latter a daughter of General Rob- 
ert Jackson, who died in Xenia. The father 
of our subject was born in Xenia township, 
and for many years was engaged in distil- 
ing and milling. He died when about thirty 
years of age and our subject is the only sur- 
viving member of the family of three chil- 
dren. 

Robert S. Jacoby was educated in the 



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township schools and worked upon the home 
fami until the Civil war began, when with 
patriotic spirit he offered his services to the 
go\-ernment, enlisting in Company D, Sev- 
enty-fourth Ohio A'ohinteer Infantry, with 
which he served until the close of the war, 
when he received an honorable discharge 
at CaoTip Dennison, being mustered out with 
the rank of sergeant. He was a participant 
in many of the great battles under the cnm- 
maaid of General Sherman antl did not miss 
a single day's service in four years of war- 
fare, taking- part in all of the encounters in 
which his regiment was engaged. He was 
always found at his post of duty, whether 
on the picket line or in the firing line, and 
with a most creditable military record he 
returned to his home. 

After the close of the war Mr. Jacoby 
located upon the old homestead farm in 
Xaiia township and there engaged in the 
tilling of the soil tor an umber of years. 
He also purchased the gristmill which was 
erected by bis grandfather and has since 
operated it in ci:>nnection with agricultural 
pursuits, being successfully engagetl in the 
manufacture of flour and in the work of til- 
ling the soil. He farms two hundred and 
fifty acres of good land and his place is re- 
garded as one of the best in the locality. For 
some years after the war he was also en- 
gaged in the grocery business in Xenia and 
in the agricultural implement business.. 

In 1 87 1 was celebrated the marriage of 
Mr. Jacoby and Miss Mary C. Humphreys, 
who was born in Xenia township, Greene 
county, a daughter of Joseph Humjibreys. 
who was also a natii\-e of this county and 
died at the age of eighty-seven years. Mr. 
and I\Irs. Jacoby have a pleasant home on 
the old paternal homestead in Xenia town- 
ship, He is a charter member of Yellow 



Springs Post, G. A. R., and retains pleasant 

relations with his old armv comrades 
through this connection. In his political 
\iews he is a Republican, having firm faith 
in the principles of the party and strongl\- 
upholding its interests, yet never seeking 
office as a reward for party lealt}-. He is to- 
day as true tri his duties of citizenship as 
when he followed the starry banner of the 
natiiin upon southern battlefields. 



JOSEPH H. HUSSEY. 

Joseph H. Hussey owns and operates one 
hundred and forty acres of land in Jefferson 
township and is a progressive, wide-awake 
and diligent farmer. His birth occurred on 
the old family homestead, August 31, 1856. 
His father, Christopher Hussey. was burn 
in Tennessee in the year 1794, while the 
grandfather, Christopher Hussey, Sr., was 
a native of Xorth Carolina, born in 1757. 
\\"hen the country l>ecame invoh-ed in the 
war with England. stri\ing for national in- 
dependence, he joined the colonial forces, 
thus gallantly fighting in the war of the Rev- 
olution. His son was a valued soldier in the 
war of 181J. When about twel\-c years of 
age he was brought by his parents to Jeffer- 
son township, Greene county, Ohio, they set- 
tling near w hat is now the village of Bow- 
ersville, on the old homestead occupied by 
J. H. Hussey. There a log house was built, 
circular in form, "which until a few vears 
ag'o stood as one of the landmarks of the 
ccjuntry side, but it has now been replaced by 
a fine brick residence, one of the most at- 
tractive and comfortable farm residences in 
the township. The grandfather bought 
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417 



faniij}- were the followin<i^ children, namely : 
'i'hdnias, Stephen, Elijah, Nathan. Christo- 
pher, Jaciih. I'olly, Sophia, Nancy. Rebecca 
and Elizabeth, who came to maturity. 

Christopher Hussey, Jr., the father ot 
our subject, acquired his education in the old 
time log school house near his home, sitting 
upon the slab seat and resting his feet upon 
the ])uncheon floor. He studied liis lesson:? 
by the light which came through greased 
paper window.s. while the room was heated 
by an immense rire-])lace occupying almost 
*» one entire end of the building. When eight- 
een years of age he put aside his te.xt books 
and ceased his attendance at school, to which 
he had to walk a distance of three miles 
both morning and evening. He then began 
\\( irking for his father, but his training pre- 
\ious to this time hail not been meager, in 
fact he worked so steadily in the held that 
jjerhaps his entire attendance at school would 
cover only about a complete year. So mea- 
ger had Ijeen his educational privileges that 
after drr\-ing a lot of hogs to Cincinnati to 
market he was unable to figure up the prof- 
its. He worked with, his father until his 
death and then took control of the large 
fami. which he contineud to cultivate and 
improve until his own death, (iwning eleven 
hundred and twenty-five acres. In early 
mimhood he was united in marriage to ^liss 
Mary Haug'hey, a native of Jefferson town- 
ship, Greene county, and they became the 
parents of nine children, namely : Christo- 
pher, Stephen, John, Elijah, ATary, Thomas, 
Nancy J., and two wlio died in in- 
fancy. The father was again married, after 
the death of his first wife, his second union 
being with Miss Catherine Lockhart, a nati\-e 
of Silvercreek township, Greene countv, the 
marriage being celebrated in 1838. In their 
family were the following children : Nar- 



cissa. Henry, Lydia Ann, Evelyn and Emma, 
twins, James. Alliert, Flora, Joseph H., 
Catherine. Emma died in infancy. The fa- 
ther died ]\Iarch 8, 187.;, and the mother 
November 4, 1900. 

Josepii H. Hussey, whose name intro- 
duces this record, acquired his early educa- 
tion in the common schools of tlie village of 
Bowersville and later continued his studies 
in the private scJiools in the '•:ounty and state, 
receiving much Ijetter educational privileges 
than were afforded to many boys of the time 
and locality. Later he began working for his 
father, to whom he gave bis assistance until 
the death of his parent. Tiie management 
of the home farm then dev61ved upon him 
and to its further development and imjirove- 
ment he has gixxn his attention, lie has 
since remodeletl the house and barn and has 
placed many excellent improvements and ac- 
cessories upon the old homestead, making it 
a valuable and attractive farm. For about 
four years he was engaged in the grocery 
l)usiness in Springfield, Ohio, but during the 
greater part of his life his attention has 
been given to agricultural pursuits. When 
the farm was originally purchased by his 
grandfather. Christopher Hussey, it con- 
tained t\vent\-seven hundred acres of land, 
but b\- division among the heirs and by sale, 
the present homestead of our subject has 
been reduced to one Iiundred antl forty 
acres. At the time of the original purchase 
the land was bought for one dollar per acre 
and at the present time it is worth one hun- 
dred dollars [ter acre. 

In the year 1879 Mr. Hussey was united 
in marriage to Miss Anna Hall, a native of 
Clinton county, Ohio, and to them have been 
born two children, Frank and Truman, both 
residing at home with their father. Mr. 
Hussey is a stanch Republican in politics 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



when issues are in\-ulvc(l, but ai lucal elec- 
tions, where tlie nu\y question before tlie 
people is the capabiHty of the caiKhdate to 
discharge the business of town or county, he 
votes independently. He is a devout man of 
unquestioned honor and integrity and. with 
his wife, huld.s membership in the Chris- 
tian church at Bowers\-ille. 



JOHN H. ^IcPHERSOX. 

John H. ^IcPherson. who is now accept- 
ably filling the office of auditor of Greene 
county, was born on the nth of July, 1840, 
upon the farm where he continued to reside 
imtil after the outbreak of the Ci\'il war. 
.\l that time Mr. M'cPherson enlisted in tlie 
Union army, with which he served for 
three years and two months, and was then 
honorably discharged at Savannah, Georgia,- 
in 1865. Returning to the home farm he 
then engaged in carrying on agricultural 
pursuits in Greene county until 1884, when 
he left the farm in order to become a factor 
in the mercantile circles of Xenia, where he 
engaged in tlie hardware business as a mem- 
ber of the firm of Williams & ]\lcPherson. 
In 1896 he was elected to the office of county 
auditor and has since served in that capacity. 



MARCUS SHOUP. 



Out of the dq)ths n\ his mature wisdom. 
Carlvle wrote: "History is the essence of 
innumerable biographies." ^lacaulay has 
said : "The history of a nation is best tolj 
in the lives of its peojile." It is therefore 
fittiu"- that tile sketches of Greene countv's 



eminent men should find a place in this 
x'olume. Marcus Shdup is known as one of 
the most capable law_\'ers (.)f the Greene 
county bar, as a Republican of prominence 
and as a promoter of many industries which 
have proved of great value to the city and 
countv while ad\ancing his individual suc- 
cess. He was born in Beavercreek town- 
ship, Greene county, on the .^th of ]\Iay. 
1869, and is a son of Daniel M. and Maria 
( \\ ampler ) Shoup. He comes of <jne of the 
old pioneer families of Greene county, the 
ancestral history h?iving long been inter- 
woven with the annals of this portion of the 
.state. His paternal great-grandfather. 
George Shoup,' located in Bea\ercreek town- 
ship in 179''), having removed to Ohio from 
Hagerstown, Maryland, which was the old 
home of his ancestors who had come froiu 
Switzerland to the new world during the 
latter part of the se\-enteenth century. Soon 
after his arrival George Shoup entered two 
sections of land in Bea\'ercreek township, 
and devoted his attention to the develop- 
ment and improvement of the farm. He 
was also a minister of the German Baptist 
church, and engaged in proclaiming the gos- 
pel throughout his portion of the country, 
his influence contributing in no small de- 
gree to the moral development of his com- 
munity. Closes W. Shoup, the grandfa- 
ther of our subject, was born, reared and 
died on the old family homestead which 
his father had developed and improved. He 
was a prosperous farmer, owning about one 
thousand acres of land. His life was ever 
honorable and upright antl he became a 
preacher of the Dunkard church. 

Daniel M. Shoup, the father of our sub- 
ject, was born on the old family homestead, 
September 10, 1822, and there spent his 




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hovliood (lays, in fact. CDntinuing to make 
Iiis lionie there until 1H54. wlien lie pur- 
cliaseil lanil in Bea\'ercreck tii\\nslii[) an<l 
reniuxed to tlie farm wliicli lias since been 
his lionie. 'I'hrtmg'liout liis entire life he has 
carried on agricultural pursuits, and has 
prospered in his undertakings, his well di- 
rected labors bringing to him creditable 
success. In early life lie was a stanch ad- 
vocate of the Whig |)arty, anil upon its dis- 
solution he joined the r.anks of the Repub- 
lican party, with w hich he has since aftiliated. 
He, too, is a member and minister of the 
German Baptist clunx-h. lie married Maria 
Wampler in August, 1S44, and took her as 
a bride to the old home farm. Slie was burn 
in Stark county, (^hio, February 24. 1827, 
a daughter of Phili]) and Catherine ( Ro_\er ) 
\\'ani])ler. who reniiixeil from Carroll coun- 
ty, Maryland, to Ohio. They spent one 
year in Stark county and subse(|uentlv they 
took up their abode on the StillwrUer, in 
Montgomery county, which was the home 
of Mrs. Slioup at the time of her marriage. 
She died in 1900, but the father of our sub- 
ject is still li\ing. 

Mr. Shoup began his education in the 
district schools of Bea\ercreek township, 
and was later graduated in the high school 
of that township. Subsequently he entered 
the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, 
where he spent four years and on the com- 
pletion of the regular course was gradu- 
ated in the class of 18SS with the degree 
of Bachelor of Sciences. He then entereil 
the office of Craighead & Craighead, of 
Dayton, as a law student, remaining with 
them for more than a year, when he con- 
tinued his studies in the office and under 
the direction of Judge E. H. Munger. of 
Xenia, Ohio, with whom he remained until 

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admitted to the bar, on the 6tli of .March. 
1S90. At that time Mr. Shouj) openeil an 
office in Xenia and has since engage! in gen- 
eral practice. Professional advancement is 
jiroverbially slow. The first element of 
success is perhaps a persistency of purpose. 
an eff'ort as enduring as the force of grav- 
ity. These Mr. Shoup possessess. He also 
possesses aptitude, character and individual- 
ity. He has gained a good clientage which 
has constantly increaseil. connecting him 
with much of the most important litigation 
tried in the courts of his district. His 
careful preparation of cases is supplemented 
Ijy a power of argument and a forceful 
presentation of his [joints, so ijiat he ne\er 
fails to impress court or jury and has 
gained many verdicts favorable to his cli- 
ents. Mr. Shoup has taken his part as an 
active factor in the Republican ])arty in 
Greene county. He has served as chairman 
of the C(junty central connnittee and of the 
county executive committee, and lias been 
a delegate to various congressional and 
state conventions. In 1894 he was elected, 
without opposition, as ])roscculing attorney 
for Greene county, and three years later was 
re-elected without opposition for the second 
term, so that he continued in tlie office for 
si.K years, discharging his duties acceptably 
to the people and with credit to himself. On 
the 7th of April, 1902, he was nominated 
t)y the Republicans as their candidate for 
probate judge and in this county a nom- 
ination is equivalent to an election on the 
Republican ticket. 

\N'hile the practice of law has been the 
real life work of Mr. Shou]), he has yet con- 
tributed in a large measure to commercial 
and industrial activity and has been the 
promoter of man}- enter[)risc. 'aid Inisiness 



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RUBINSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



interests of great Isenefit to his commu- 
nity. In connection with J. W. Xeff he 
was line of the acti\"e organizers of the 
Rapid Transit Comiiany. which was later 
consolidated with the Dayton & Xenia Trac- 
titm Company. 'Sir. Shonp became secre- 
tary, treasurer and attorney of the former, 
which constructed its line and operated it 
for two years prior to the consolidation. To 
our subject much credit is due for g-i\-ing 
to Xenia better transportation facilities, that 
being the fu'st electric railway in the coun- 
ty. He also organized the Citizen's Tele- 
phone Company and was its president until 
its consolidation with the Springfield Home 
Telephone Company. In company with oth- 
ers he organized the Xenia Buggy Com- 
pany, and is now its secretary and treasurer. 
This is one of the successful manufactur- 
ing institutions of the city, turning out 
about five hundred vehicles each year and 
giving employment to about forty men. In 
connection with J. F. Orr, Mr. Shou]) or- 
ganized the Home Building & Savings Com- 
pany, in 1894, and it is now the second 
largest building and loan association in the 
county. Mr. Shoup has been its attorney 
from its organization and is also attorney 
for the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Rail- 
road. 

In 1S92 Mr. Shoup was united in mar- 
riage to Miss Carrie Bradley, who dietl the 
following year. On the 12th of January. 
1897, he was joined in wedlock to ]\Iiss 
Mary ^lahanna, of Hillsboro, Ohio. They 
now have two children, Pauline E. and 
Catherine I^. Fraternallv Mr. Shoup is 
connected with Xenia Lodge, Xo. 49, F. & 
.\. M., and has also taken the chapter de- 
gree. He also belongs to Iwanhoe Lodge. 
Xo. 56, K. P., of which he is ])ast chan- 



cellor, and is one of the charter members 
of Xenia Lodge, No. 668, B. P. O. E. In 
his social and professional life he is a most 
honored antl honorable man. He is like- 
wise a loyal, patriotic American, devoted to 
the interests of his native land and his com- 
munity. His life has l)een a straightfor- 
ward, honorable and uprig-ht one. Indo- 
lence is utterly foreign to his nature and his 
enterprising and progressive spirit of perse- 
xerance, supplemented by strong mentality, 
have been the stepping stones by which he 
has risen to an eminent position at the 
Greene countv bar. 



SA^IUEL G. ANDREW. 

One of the most highly esteemed and 
respected citizens of Beavercreek township 
is Squire Samuel G. Andrew, who is success- 
full}- engaged in genei'al farming and stock- 
raising. He has always resided in this coun- 
ty and his life record commends him to the 
confidence of those with whom he has been 
associated, for lie has ever been honoral)le 
and relialile in all his relations with his fel- 
low men. Fie h-as li\ed and labored to 
goodly ends and has g-ained a position of dis- 
tinctive prominence in the county, wihich he 
has aided to develop, winning the respect 
which is never denied a man whose integ- 
rity and honor are beyond question. 

Mr. Andrew was born in Xenia town- 
shij), August 23, 1840, his parents being 
George and Jane (Ouinn) Andrew. FT is 
father was a naitive of South Carolina, lx)rn 
on the 1st of March, 1791, and during his 
Iioyhood came to Greene county, where the 
family has since been a potent factor in pub- 
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came familiar witli the difliciilties of jjinnecr 
life and was also familiar with- the arduous 
task of developing a new farm on the fr<in- 
tier. On the 29th of January. ]8i-, he mar- 
ried Miss Elizabeth Ann Foster, who was 
horn Ajjril 13. 1798. After her death he was 
a;^ain married on the 22(1 of Decemlier. 
1839, to Mrs. jane (juinn. who 1)\- her first 
marriage had one daughter. Mrs. John B. 
Lucas. The children of the father's first 
marriage were: William: .Mexander: 
Martha, the deceased wife i)f James Tur- 
ner: Rciliert: William; John: I'-lizalieth ; 
Hugh: and (ieorge. The only surviving 
members of the second marriage are: Sam- 
uel of this re\iew, and John Calvin, who re- 
sides in Xenia. The father of this family 
passed away .\|>ril 22. i8f)S. at the age of 
seventy-twi) years, ten months and ten days. 
He had witnessed a large part of the growth 
of his adopted county and liad been an act- 
ive partici])ant in its development and up- 
building. I'mth he and his wife were mem- 
bers of the l-'irst United Presbyterian church 
in which he served as deacon, doing every- 
thing in his power to adxance the growtli 
of the church and promote the infiuence of 
Christianity. In his business affairs he was 
cpvite successful. He started cut in life on 
his n\\n acciiunt with almost nothing, tak- 
ing ujy his abode west of the ])ow(ler mills. 
He there cleared a large tract of huifl and 
developed a good farm, becoming the owner 
of three hundred and twentv acres of valu- 
able land. In 1854 he sold this property 
and bought two hundred and fiftv acres upon 
which his son. Samuel G. Andrew, now re- 
sides. The house upon the place is a brick 
structure wliich was erected in 1840 and was 
one of the finest farm residences in the en- 
tire ciiuntx'. The life record of George .An- 
drew pri>\es cnnclusi\-ely that success is not 



a matter of genius but can be gained as the 
legitimate reward of earnest, persistent and 
honorable effort. In his political views he 
was a Whig until the dissolution of that 
jyarty, when he joined the ^'anks of the new^ 
Republican party. 

In the district schools of his native coun- 
ty Samuel G. Andrew pursued his educa- 
tion. He attended school during the winter 
months, for in the summer seasons iiis ser- 
vices were needed in the work upon the liome 
farm. He did not leave hume until the 
s]3ring of 1864 when ne j'lined Cnmijany F, 
of the One Hundred and ^ifty-fourth Ohio 
Infantry. He had fcirmcrly been a member 
of the National Guards of Xenia. With the 
regiment he went to the front <'ind ])artici- 
])ated in the battle of Xew Creek. \'irginia, 
and did guard duly Ihrnughout he remainder 
of his term of service, when he was honor- 
ably discharged at Camp Dennison in Sep- 
tember. 1864. 

Returning to his home the S(p.iire re- 
sumed the work upon the farm. He was 
married on the 21st of August, 1866, to 
Miss Keziah Luse, a nati\e of Clark county, 
Ohio. They had no children of their own 
b,ut adopted a daughter, Carrie Romelia, 
who became the wife of Joseph Hutchison, 
a resident farmer of Beavercreek tnwnshii), 
and their children are: Sanniel Andrew, 
named for the subject of this review, and 
Louis Bell. The Scjuire was called upon to 
mourn the loss of his wife in 1889, her death 
occurring- on the 7th of May of that year, 
while her remains were interred in the Xenia 
cemetery. ISIr. Andrew was again married 
in 1889, his second union being with Mrs. 
Rachel Jones, a native of this township, who 
by her first marriage had a son, Daniel O., 
who is now living with our suliject. 

Mr. Andrew belongs to the United Pres- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



bvterian cluirdi, while his wife is a member 
of the Reformed cluirch. He votes with tiie 
Repuljhcan party and in 1890 he was elected 
upon that ticket to serve for one term as 
justice of the peace. He has a pleasant home 
in Beavercreek township, having remodeled 
the old brick liDUse. which was erected sixty- 
two vears ago. and stands in the midst of 
riclilv cultivated fields. He is successfully 
carrving on farming and stock-raising. He 
has always resided in Greene county and his 
life record is in many respects worthy of 
emulation. His career has been character- 
ized b\- practical inisiness ability and sturdy 
common sense, qualities which are too often 
lacking. His life, too. has been in harmony 
with his religious belief and his friends 
throughout the communitv are manv. 



CLEMEXT W. LIXKHART. 

For four terms of two years each Xenia 
has honored Clement W. Linkhart with the 
mayoralty of the city and as the chief ex- 
ecutive he h.as largely promoted the city's 
welfare, improvement and substantial up- 
laiilding. His [lolitical recortl is one nmst 
commendable. He is known as one of the 
leading members of the Repulilican party in 
Greene county and his labors in its behalf 
have been effective and earnest. Since cast- 
ing his first presidential vote for (leneral 
U. S. Grant, his zeal and interest in the i)arty 
ha!\-e never wavered, but ha\e grown with 
passing years as lie has studied more closely 
into the political situation of the country 
and viewed its needs from a broader stan<l- 
point. .\o higher testimonial of the confi- 
dence and trust reposed in him by his fellow 
townsmen could Ijc "iven than the fact that 



he has been continued in the position of the 
chief executive of Xenia through four con- 
secuti\-e terms, honoring the city which has 
honored him through the faithful perform- 
ance oi duty and through his effective lal)ors 
in promoting its advancement along many 
lines that contribute to its prosperity. de\el- 
opment and attractive appearance. 

]\Ir. Linkhart was born in Xenia town- 
ship. Greene count\'. im the JOth of Octuber. 
1847, lii-'' parents being Joseph and Clara 
(Collier) Linkhart. the former a native of 
\'irginia and the latter of Greene count)-. 
The Linkhart fannly is of German origin. 
and the grandfather of our subject, on leav- 
ing his native country, crossed the .\tlaniic 
to the Old Dominion. Later he remo\-ed u> 
Barnesville. Belmont county. Ohin, where 
he ranained until the father of our subject 
was alxiut ten years of age. when he came 
to Greene county, where he spent his re- 
maining days. Joseph Linkhart was a me- 
chanic and early in life learned to hew tim- 
ber. In early manhood he was engaged in 
cutting ties for the Little ]\Iianfi Railrdi'd 
and later he cut the timber and built the dam 
for the Miami Powder Works. He after- 
ward learned the cooper's trade antl f(ir years 
was engaged in the mamifacture of pnwder 
kegs. In this countv he married Clara Col- 
lier, a native of Xenia township and a 
daughter of Moses Collier, one of the old 
settlers of Greene county. L'nto Joseph and 
Clara Linkhart were born nine children, ot 
wbonr four reached years of maturity: 
Clement W. ; Joseph, of Colorado; Xettie. 
who was first married to John Cromwell 
and after his death became the wife of 
Thomas Madden, of Xenia; and Harry A., 
who resides in Indiana. The father Ii\e 1 to 
the age of seventy years and his wife passed 
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425 



\'ears. in our sul)iecrs liniiie in Xenia. hutli 
Ijeing interred in Wniulland cemetery. 

In the district sclitiols Clement W. Link- 
liart ]5ursued liis primary education and at 
the age of sixteen responded to iiis coun- 
try's call for troops, enlisting on the Jjd of 
February, 1864, as a niemhcr of Company 
D, Eighth Ohio C<'i,i\alry. with which he 
ser\ed for nearl\- two years, until the close 
of the war. lie was mustered in at Colum- 
l)us and the regiment y"\s assigned to the 
Army of West \^irgiuia, liecoming a part 
of the First Brigade, Second Division, under 
command of General \\-erill. Mr. Linkhart 
])artici]3ated in the Ilunlcr raid, taking part 
in a number of skirmishes when on the way 
to Lynchbttrg and on the retreat, and at that 
place his company was in the thickest of the 
fight. Mr. Linkhart lost his horse on the 
first day of the battle and for several days 
attempted to follow- his company on foot. 
He then fell in with the Twelfth Ohio infan- 
try. Its Comjiany I) was from Xenia and 
they rendered him nuich needed assistance. 
For five days and five nights he had been on 
the retreat and ]ia<l not had a single bite to 
eat. When he was found 1)\- the L'nion 
troojis he was almost exhausted. With the 
Twelfth Ohio he returned tO' Charleston. 
West Virginia, where he remained for a few 
days when some stragglers of Company 1). 
Eighth Ohio, 'arri\-ed in Charleston, and 
with them he was sent to Parkersburg and 
tlien t<> Martinslnu'g, where he finmd the 
greater part of his compan\-. There he was 
gi:ven another horse and then went to the 
front. On the second day after obtaining 
his horse he was on tiie skirmish line and 
his horse was shot dead. He then went to 
the rear and was sent to Sandy Hook, and 
was then put on guard duty at Bolivar 
Heights. He was (jn dut\- in front of one 



of the general's lieadquarters when (i;'neral 
Sheridan made his famous ride and could 
hear him galloping dow n the valley long be- 
fore he had reached his destination. On be- 
ing relieved Mr. I-inkhart w;is put on com- 
missary dutv at Harper's Ferrv, but after 
two weeks was taken ill and from the hos- 
pital there was transferred to a hospital in 
Hagerstown, Maryland, and then to Harris- 
burg. In the fall of 1864 he was granted a 
thirty-days furlough and returned home. On 
account of ill health he remained at home 
for forty days and tlien proceeded to Colum- 
bus and Pittsburg and at the latter ])lace 
was arrested because lie out-staid his fur- 
lough. He was transferred to Baltimore and 
next to Washington and after being in the 
barracks facing the capitol grounds for two 
weeks under guard, then on to .Alexandria, 
Virginia. Ten days later with a squad of 
men of his company he was sent to Grafton, 
West \'irginia, where he was released. With 
fifteen others he started to march to Bev- 
erly, arriving on the itth of January, and 
that night the whole Union command was 
captured by General Rosseau's Confederate 
Cavalry. The regiment lost forty men be- 
fore surrendering. The Union troops were 
then marched to Stanton, West \'irginia, en- 
during many hardships, and were then load- 
ed into freight cars like cattle and sent to 
Libby prison, but that place was so crowd- 
ed that no more could be received and these 
men were put in a large four-story brick 
warehouse across the street, afterwaril 
known as the Pemberton prison, .\bout four 
lumdred were put in one room on the sec(jnd 
floor. On the 14th of February, 1865, they 
were paroled and transferi"ed by rebel boat 
to General Butler's lines, and thence on the 
City of Xew York to Annapolis, Marvland, 
and after a week ]\Ir. I^inkhart was sent 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREEXE COUNTY 



Illume on a fiiiiough. Several weeks later 
he reported for duty at Claiksburg, West 
Virginia, w liere he remained for a month in 
charge of several thousand horses and 
mules. He was mustered out of service July 
30. 1865. at Clarksburg. \\'est Virginia, 
transferred to Cincinnati and then proceeded 
to Camp Dennison, where he was paid off 
and finally discharged. He was a brave and 
loyal soldier and deserves the gratitude of 
his country for what he accomplished as 
one of the defenders of the .Union. 

Soon after his return Mr. Linkhart 
learned coopering and for fifteen years was 
in the employ of the Aliami Powder Cimi- 
pany, most of the time in the coopering de- 
partment, but some of the time in the p')w- 
dcr department. He also engaged in paint- 
ing for that company for a time. 

On the 6th of }ilarch, 1870, ^Ir. Linkhart 
married Bessie J. Clark, a native of Fair- 
haven, Connecticut, and a daughter of 
Thomas Clark, who was connected with the 
Miami Powder Compan\'. He was an expert 
powder make- and was killed at Xewburg, 
now a part of Cleveland. Our subject and 
his wife were married in Cleveland and to 
them were born four children, but twin 
daughters died in infancy and Ira Fay died 
at the age of eighteen months, while Clara 
G., the only surviving child, is the wife of 
Xewton L. Reutinger. of Chillicothe, Ohio, 
by w honi she has one child, Clement H. 

i\fter se\'ering his connection with the 
powder company Mr. Linkhart removed to 
Xenia. and was employed as janitor of the 
courthouse, in which capacity he served for 
four years, in the meantime he was elected 
township clerk of Xenia township, and 
served in that capacity for three years. At 
the end of his service as janitor he was ap- 
pointed deputy sheriff under Janies .\. John- 



son, which office he held for four years. He 
was elected sheriff of Greene county in 

1886, taking the oath of office in January, 

1887. and was re-elected in 1888, holding 
the office until January. 1891. He thus 
served for four years, when, accordijig 
to the la^vs of Ohio, he was no longer eligi- 
ble to re-election. He then li\'ed retired for 
a time, but in 1892 was made the Republi- 
can candidate for mayor. Two years later 
he was again nominated but both times was 
defeated. In 1896, however, he was again 
nominated and this time was elected and so 
capably did he administer the affairs of the 
office that he has been ciintinued in the posi- 
tion by re-election to the present time. 

Fraternally he is a member of Lewis 
Post, X'o. 347, G. A. R. ; Xenia Lodge, Xo. 
52, L O. O. F. ; Elks Lodge, Xo. 668 ; and 
he also belongs to the Trinitv Methodist 
Episcopal church of Xenia. He was elected 
to the office of president of the Ohio 
League of Municipalities at Columbus. Jan- 
uary 7. 1902, an organization f(jrmed to 
further tlie interests of the cities and their 
officers. He is today as true to his duties of 
citizenship as when he wore the blue uniform 
of the country and fought to protect the stars 
and stripes upon southern battlefields. The 
terms progress and ]>atriotism might be 
termed the keynote of his character, for 
throughout his career he has labored for 
e\ery public interest with which he has been 
associated, and at all times has been actuat- 
ed by a fidelit\- to his countr\' and her wel- 
fare. 

♦-•-♦■ 

SAMUEL W. COX. 

Samuel W . Cox, one of the older resi- 
dents of Yellow Springs, was born in the 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



427 



was built within tiie limits of wliat is now 
known as the village of Yellow Springs. His 
natal day was December 5, 1833. and his 
parents were Samuel W. and Elizabeth 
(Jones) Con:. The hitter's father, Dennis 
Jones, who was born in Wales, and emi- 
grated to America, married in Loutluun 
county, \'irginia, and came to Ohio at a 
very early day, locating in Clark county, 
where he lived and died, lie had followed 
merchandising in X'irginia The father of 
our subject was born in Bucks county, Penn- 
sylvania. The parents were married in 
(jeorgelown, D. C, where two children were 
born unto them. The father w:ii a lilack- 
smith Ijy trade and followed that pursuit 
throughout his entire life, lie was employed 
on the Chesapeake & Ohio canal during its 
construction and in 1827 he came to this 
state, spending his first winter in Clark 
county. later becoming a resident of Miami 
township, (Jreene countv, his home being 
near the springs from which the \ illage rc- 
cei\ed its name. His farm is now known as 
the Kneff place. There Mv. Cox lived for 
seven years and on the expiration of that 
period he purchased a place near the village, 
upon which he remained until called to the 
home ])eyond, when he was seventy-seven 
years of age. At the time of llie war of 
1812 he joined the army, but remained at 
the front only a short time. He served as 
postmaster of the village of Yellow Springs, 
under the administration of James K. Polk, 
for four years, and was a stanch ad\-ocate 
of the Democratic party and its principles. 
His wife survived him for t\ientv vears, 
passing away about seven years ago. Both 
were consistent and faithful members of tht 
Methodist church and Mrs. Cox, the mother 
of our subject, was one of the twehe who 
organized the first Methodist church in 



Yellow Springs. In their family were ten 
children, five of whom are yet living. 

Samuel W. Cox learned the blacksmith'i 
trade of his father, and fcjllowed that pur- 
suit at Yellow Springs for forty-five years, 
when he retired. This in brief is the his- 
tor_\' ot his business career and one must 
read between the lines in order to learn of 
the untiring activity, the good workmanship, 
his honesty in all trade relations and his ni'- 
fallcring perseverance. All who knew him 
recognized these sterling traits in his busi- 
ness life and thereby he won a liberal pat- 
ronage rmd eventually secured a comfort- 
able competence which now enables Iiiin to 
rest from further labor in his pleasant home 
in the village of Yellow Springs. He has 
Iieen a prominent factor in public life here 
anil for the i)ast fifteen years has filled the 
])osition of treasurer of the village. He has 
also l)een a member of the school board and 
for seventeen years has been treasurer of 
Miami township. In matters of citizenship 
he has always been loyal and faithful and 
this has been manifest not onlv in ]nib!ic 
office, for at the time of the Cix'il war lie 
joined the army iov one hundred days' ser- 
vice as a member of Company A, One Hun- 
dred and Fifty- fourth Ohio Infantry, and on 
the expiration of that term he re-enlisted as 
a member of Company K, One Hundred 
and Eighty-fourth Ohio Infantry, serving 
until the close of the war. He particip-ilcd 
in a number of battles and skirmishes and 
was at length discharged in Colimibus. Ohio, 
holding the rank of sergeant at the time he 
was mustered out. 

Before he went to the war Mr. Cox was 
married. It was on the 4th of December, 
1855, that he was joined in wedlock to Mary 
J. Rice, a daughter of Edward and Alviza 
( Sivirrow) Rice. By this union were born 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



tour cliildren. all of whom are deceased. 
Cora J. liaving Idied at the age of eleven 
months, Edward W. at the age of nineteen 
years. Mary F. when nit'.eteen years of age, 
and Franklin R. in infancy. Mvs. Cox was 
born in Maine, and in 1851 came with her 
parents to Ohio. Her father was superin- 
tendent of the construction of Antioch Col- 
lege, and afterward became treasurer of the 
institution, continuing in that position for 
aliout three vears. He then went to Oxford 
;'.nd built an addition to the college there. 
ThrouglKHit the greater part of his business 
career he was a carpenter and contractor, 
successfullv carrying on the work which he 
had chosen as a life vocation. He died at 
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Cox. when 
about eighty years of age. and his wife 
].)assed away about twenty-two years ago. 
Both held membership in the Christian 
church and were people who enjoyed in a 
high measure the confidence and respect f>f 
their fellow men. 

Mr. and Mrs. Cox have long been mem- 
bers of the Methodist church, in which he 
has ser\ed as trustee for many years. They 
have a large circle of friends in Yellow 
Springs and thrmighout the surrounding 
country, and are highly esteemed by all 
with whom they have been brought in con- 
tact. Throughout his entire life Mr. Cox 
has resided in this locality and at all times 
his allegiance to public welfare has been a 
marked trait in his career. 



S.\MUEL FR.WKLIX WOODWARD. 

Sannie! hranklin Woodward, of Osborn. 
is now li\ing a retired life, although for 
mativ \cars he was i<lcntitied with agricult- 



ural i)nrsuits. He was born in Crawford 
county, Pennsylvania. December 15, 1830, 
and is a son of John and Mary (Foster) 
^^'oodwar(l. The familv is of English line- 
age and the ancestry can be traced back to 
one of six brothers. Five of these brothers 
Avere over six feet in height and were in the 
King's Guard. The one who was under six 
feet came to America, settling in Massa- 
chusetts, and was the founder of the fam- 
ily in the United States. John Woodward, 
who was born in Massachusetts, removed 
to \'ermont when a young man and there 
f)])erateil a farm until 1809, when he took 
up his abode in Cortland countv, Xew 
York. Se\en years later he removed to 
Crawford county, PennsyKania, settling in 
Spring township, where he purchased land 
and became a prominent, influential ;uid 
well-to-do agriculturist. When he was a 
\oung man he served for one year with the 
(ireen Mountain biiys in the Revolutionary 
war under that bra\e and intrepid officer. 
Colonel Ethan Allen. He married into the 
Washburn family, which is still one of the 
prominent and well known families of Ver- 
mont. 

To John Woodward and his wife was 
born a son named for his father. John. His 
l)irth occurred near Rochester, Vermont, in 
1795. and he remo\ed with his father to 
the Emjjire state when but fourteen years 
of age. After his parents removed to l^enn- 
sylvania he lived for a year in Ceneseo 
County. Xew York, and then joined his fa- 
ther and mother in the Keystone state. Be- 
coming a fanner there, he accumulated some 
money and became the possessor of one hun- 
dred and fifty acres of land. In jiolitics he 
was a Republican from 1856. when that 
j^arty was first organized, and held se\'- 




MRS S. F. WOODWARD. 




S. F. WOODWARD. 



ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY. 



433 



eral townshi]) dttices. while his rehf^'ious 
faith was w itli tlie Xew f.islil. (ir Cliristian. 
churcli. He remained uiion a farm until he 
reaciied tiie age of four-score years, wlien 
lie sold his property and for two years li\eil 
with his daughter in Winneshiek Cfnmly. 
Iowa. He then .spent nine years with his 
son. Samuel F. Woodward, and then went 
to live with another son at Girard. Erie 
o>unty, Pennsylvania, where his death oc- 
curred Fehruary 24. 1889, his remains he- 
ing interred in Spring township, Crawford 
county, Pennsylvania, where he had lived 
for so manv vears. The mother of our 
suhject liore the maiden name of M.iry 
Foster, and was liorn near Pittslnirg, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1794. there remaining until she 
was eight vears of age. when she accompa- 
nied her parents to Crawford county, where 
she was married to John Woodward in 
1819. .^he possessed great activity of both 
mind and body, and was particularly skill- 
ful in <any kind of housewifelv arts, includ- 
ing wea\-ing. She possessed much nattn^al 
skill as a matiiematician and in her life dis- 
])layed many graces of character and kindly 
acts which endeared her to all who knew 
her. She entered into eternal rest in i83('>, 
at the age of sixty-two years. Her father, 
(ieorge Foster, was born in the north of 
Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, was a 
farmer by occupation and was married near 
Belfast. 

Unto John Woodward and his wife were 
born six children, of whom Mrs. Mary J. 
Nicholson, the eldest, died in Hamilton 
county. Iowa : Charlotte, w ho became Mrs. 
Huntley, died in Erie county, Pennsylvania: 
John, who was a lieutenant in the Pennsyl- 
vania militia, is m^w living in Erie county, 
that state; Caroline is the wife of H. P. 



Nicholson, a resident of Winneshiek countv, 
Iowa: and George died in 1863, si.x months 
after his marriage. He had great talent as 
a jiortrait painter, and had he lived would 
doulitless have become famous in that line. 
His (iwn ])ortrait. painted by himself, now 
hangs in his brother's resilience in Osborn 
as an evidence of his remarkable talent. 

Samuel Franklin Woodward was the 
fifth of the famil\- in order of birth. He 
received a conimon-scliool education, and 
displayed more than the ordinary talent for 
learning. He seemed to have inherited his 
mother's mathematical ability and at the 
age of nineteen he began teaching in his 
own t(jwnship. In the summer months he 
attended Kingsville Academy in Ashtabula 
county. Ohio, and was graduated from that 
institution in the class of 1853. While in 
school he never had but one fellow pupil 
who was his equal in mathematics, and he 
earned much of his tuition money by acting 
as teacher of mathematics and siu-veying. 
In 1853 he filled the chair of mathematics 
in his alma mater for four and one-half 
nKjiiths during tlie absence of the regular 
profess(^r, and he is still one of the best math- 
ematicians in the county, .\mong his fel- 
low students in college were J. C. Bur- 
rows, who is now rei^resenting the state of 
Michigan in the United States senate; J. 
B. Burrows, now a lawyer of Painesville, 
Ohio; also S. W. and A. W. Chapman, E. 
H. fiilkex- and many other prominent men 
who ha\e attained eminence in national 
fame. 

In 1S34 Mr. Woodward started west- 
ward, journeying b_\' way of the canal to the 
Ohio rixer, thence proceeding down the lat- 
ter river by steamer to Maysville. Kentucky. 
He had intended stopping at that place and 



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ROBINSQX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



teaching-, but was dissatisfied and soon aft- 
erward made his way to Iowa, where he re- 
mained two montlis. During that time he 
invested some money in real estate, buy- 
ing government land in Black Hawk county. 
Two or three years later he pvnxhased more 
land lying- in Webster cnunty. Iowa, and at 
one time he owned over four hundred acres, 
but has since disposed of all of it. After two 
months spent in Iowa Mr. \\'oodward re- 
turned to Pennsylvania and in August. 1854, 
went to Montgomery county, Ohio, on the 
opposite side of ]\Iad river from Osborn, in 
this county. There he began teaching, re- 
maining in Montgomery county until 1859. 
when he located in Osborn. where he fol- 
lowed educational work until i860. On 
the expiration of that [leririd he became prin- 
cipal of the school at Fairtield. In 1862 
Mr. Woodward began dealing in fruit trees 
ruid successfullv followed that business for 
twelve years. During the first live years he 
tra\eled with his men and always came in 
at the end of the week with the largest sales. 
His motto was: '"One thing at a time and 
that well done."" He was verv successful, 
and by honest dealing- made an excellent 
reputation for himself and the firm. In one 
day he delivered seventy-three thousand dol- 
lars" worth of goods and rcceixed sixt\-five 
hundred dollars and twenty-three cents, in 
cash. He has done from twenty to sixty 
thousand dollars' worth of Inisiness in one 
year. In 1874. feeling that the oversight of 
so large a business was too severe a strain, 
he retired and invested his money in real 
estate. On the ist of .\pril. 1875, '''^ broke 
ground for his large fine brick home, which 
is of modern architectural design. He o\-er- 
saw the erection of this building and on the 
24th of Xovember he mo\-ed into the house, 



which is one of the finest in this section of 
the county, costing about ten thousand dol- 
lars. It is surrounded by a beautiful and 
well kept lawn, and the house in the inte- 
rior is designed in white walnut. He also 
has a very select library of many choice 
volumes. 

On the loth of Xovember^ 1856, ^Mr. 
.Woodward was united in marriage to Mary 
C. Sloan, a native of \\'ayne township, 
Montgomerv county, Ohio. She was born 
in Lycoming county. Pennsyh'ania, July 3, 
1833, and was only a year old when her par- 
ents came to Ohio, the journey being made 
in a one-horse covered wagon. Mrs. \\'ood- 
ward received a good education, anil at 
the age of eighteen years began teaching, 
but, not finding the work congenial, she dis- 
continued it after nine months. She was a 
daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth 
(Crook) Sloan. Her father was born in 
Lebanon county. Pennsylvania, in that 
part which was afterward cut off to form 
Dauphin county. He was a son of John 
Sloan, a native of that county, of Scotch- 
Irish descent. In 1833 he came to Wa_\ne 
township, ^Montgomery county. Alexander 
Sloan followed his father's occupation — 
farming. — but being a natural mechanic, 
able to make an\thing out of wood, he be- 
came a fine cabinet-maker, and also did the 
carpenter work upon his farm at Jersey 
Shore, Lycoming cotmty. Pennsylvania. In 
1834 he also came to Ohio, locating near his 
father, where he continued agricultural pur- 
suits for a number of years and then turned 
his attention to loaning money. Elizabeth 
Crook, his wife, was born in Somersetshire, 
England, and came to America when four 
years of age. She was the mother of seven 
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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



435 



James S.. wlio resides updii tlie old liome- 
stead farm in Wayne tMwnsliip. Montgom- 
ery connt}- ; ElizalK'th S.. who resides witli 
our subject; Lucinda R.. now ^frs. Powell, 
of Champaign county, Ohio; and William 
H., who is a farmer of the same county. 
Mrs. Woodward has always manifested con- 
siderable poetic ability and talent, but slie 
never devoted her time to literary work 
until 1880, siiice which time she has giv- 
en much attention tn the writing of poetry. 
She has published a book of miscellaneous 
poems entitled, "Roses and Thorns." and 
has another book almost ready for publica- 
tion, called "Darkness and Dawn." She 
writes upon local and national themes and 
many of her poems have' elicited the high- 
est commendation from capable critics. She 
lias a broad mind and deep sympathy added 
to her artistic temperament, and her literary 
work is of a very high character. We take 
jileasure in pul)lishing at the end of this 
review one of her poems that gives a 
glimpse of the old educational institution of 
learning of the pioneer days, and thus pos- 
sesses historic value. The reader will see 
that the merit of the poem is so great that 
no "apologies"' should be made to \\'ood- 
worth for its copying his metre. It is the 
equal of "The Old Oaken Bucket" in pa- 
thetic description, and will carry the mem- 
ory of all of our oUJer readers back to the 
days when they went to the "deestrick"' 
school in the log house of the early days, 
with its hewed log benches, succeeded later 
by rough lumljcr l)enches. ]^Irs. Woiidward 
was a "scholar" in the log schoolhouse she 
so fittingly describes, and the Rev. D. Ber- 
ger, of Dayton, Ohio, was there one of her 
teachers. 



In his political views Mr. Woodward 
is a Republican, having supported the party 
since its organization. Prior to that time 
he was a member of the Free Soil party. 
For five years he served on the Republican 
central committee, and at various times has 
been a delegate to the county and state con- 
ventions. He was also a member of the 
first school board of Osborn, and for twen- 
ty consecutive years filled that position with 
the exception of a brief period of two years. 
He was also clerk of the board at the time 
of the building of the schoolhouse. He 
served as a member of the first town coun- 
cil of Osborn and continued in that position 
for fifteen years. In 1890 he was a mem- 
ber of the state board of ecjualization. He 
Ijas always been very active in jMlitics but 
of late years has largely left political work 
to younger men. Mr. \\'oodward is a Ra- 
tionalist, while his wife is a Spiritualist. 
He is a Mason, having attained the Royal 
Arch degree, while with the lodge at New- 
Carlisle he is connected. He has been three 
times a delegate to the grand lodge and is 
also a member of the Knights of Pythias 
fraternity of Osborn. Mr. Woodward may 
well be called a self-made man, as his ad- 
\ancement in life has come as the direct re- 
sult of his earnest and capable efforts, his 
judicious management and careful invest- 
ments. He stands to-day a strong man ; 
strong in his individuality ; strong in pur- 
pose and in his good name; and his wide 
acquaintance in Greene county has gained 
for him many friends who hold him in the 
highest regard for his many excellencies of 
character. 

The following is the poem written by 
Mrs. \\'oodworth: 



436 ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 

THE OLD LOG SCHOOLHOUSE. WeM play base and lilackman. and have 

rarest fun : 

,,.. , , , , ., ,■ -^ „.• Or. gather in Pfroups. and tell stories and 

( \\ itli a mental apologv to the spirit ot '=.,,, == '■ 

c 1 w 1 »i N riddles. 

Samuel W (jodwortli). . .. ^ . , 

Ti i!.' 1-1 I t »i,„ „^i,io,, i-,,,o 1 And switt new the moments ti school 
How ott like a dream ot the o-olden-hued 



morning. 
The visions of childhood rise up to my 



hours Ijegun. 
Blest vears of m_\- childhood! O. liatcxnn 
school da vs. 



And backward I hie me to vouth's radiant ^^^'^^^'^ l'?"§^ y^""''^ . 'a^•e tlou n, how I 

morning. ' ^, . ';'^^"*'^ .y^" ■'^t'" ■ 

When life was all brightness and skies ^'^^ ^""''^^^ ''^"'^ sweetest ot memory s 

were all blue- pleasures. 

The sweetest and dearest of all vouthful ^^'"S ''-omid tlie old schoplhonse on top 

i^o- ,-„o ' ot the 11 . 
pleasures, 

With fondness and love I rememlier ji^g ^ej,,. ^i,! i.^g. schoolhouse, 

them still, -j'lig time-honored schoolhouse. 

Came to my young life when I carried my -j-|,e schoolhouse that stood on the top of the 

treasures — l^jj] 
My books — to the schoolhouse on top of 

the hill. The old *pig-pen tree, how we loved to ex- 
plore it. 

The dear old log schoolhouse. And wonder Iimw long since its life first 

The time-honored schoolhouse, begun: 

The schoolhouse that stood on the top of the How long since its Iiranches first swayed in 

hill. the breezes. 

And lifted its head to the life-giving 

I loved the old schoolhouse. though wood- sun. 

sy and homely. Though life has been checkered by manv a 

With long high-backed desks standing sorrow. 

back "gainst the wall. Fond mem'ry turns back to the old places 

\\'\lh little high windows to let in the sun- still. 

light. Though gone the old land-marks. I fondly 

And long, narrow benches with no backs remember 

at all. The dear old I(ig schoolhouse on top of 

The tall spreading trees, which were scat- the hill, 
ered around it. 

Their tops stretching skyward, I gaze The time-honored schoolhouse, 

on them still. The dear old log sclioolhouse. 

And manv the pleasures we gleaned frum The schoolhouse that stood on the top of the 

the streamlet — bill. 
'J'he streamlet that ran l.iv llie foot of 

the hill. The old spelling matches, O how we enjoyed 

them. 

The beautiful streamlet, 'Twas .\nna and David, and Mary and 

The clear limpid .streamlet, John 

The streamlet that ran by the foot of the \\'ere always first chosen : we vied with each 

hill. other, 

\\'hen lessons were ended, and lunch we And great was the generous rivalry 

had taken. shown. 



ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



437 



Our spelling quartet has Ijeen scattered aud 
broken, 
And one has passed on, but we tliink of 
him still ; 
We greet him no longer — his form lies en- 
shrouded 
Far, far from the schoolhouse t^n top of 
the hill. 

The dear old log sclioolhouse, 
The time-honored schoolhouse. 
The schoolhouse that stood on the top of the 
hill. 

My teachers in mem'ry all rise up before 
me, 
I look in their faces — their vnices I 
hear ; 
Their kind commentlations when lessons 
were perfect. 
Their generous praise which to each was 
so dear. 
They all have passed on, and their mem'ry I 
cherish. 
The old house is gone, vet I gaze on it 
still. 
Like all mundane things, it was destined to 
licrish. 
The dear old log schoolhouse on top of 
hill. 

The time-honored schoolhouse. 
Idle dear old log schoolhouse. 
That stood all alone on the top of the hill. 



*.\n immense holluw tree in which pigs 
slept. 

M.vRv C. Slo.xx \Voodw.\rd. 
Osborn, Ohio, June 5, 1902. 
•-•-• 

DAVID B. WATT. 

The occupation to which he was reared 
David B. Watt has made his life work, for 
he is still foUcnving farming and stock-rais- 



ing in Xenia township, owning a valuable 
tract of land of one hundred an<l fifty acres 
on the Jamestown jiike, the rich fields, 
highly cidtivated, bringing to him a good 
return for his lalxar. 

Mr. Watt was lx)rn in this township, 
February 21, 1855, ajid is of Sct)tch descent. 
His parents, William and Sarah G. (Car- 
ruthers) Watt, were both natives of Scot- 
land, and the former having spent tiie days 
of his lx>yhood and youth in his native land, 
came to the United States when twenty-one 
years of age, spending a short time in Xew 
York city, wdiere he worked at the carpen- 
ter's trade, which he had learned in the land 
of his birth. Continuing his westward jour- 
ney he establisheil his home in Eainbridge, 
Ohio, where he followed carpentering and 
building until 1849, when he came to Greene 
County, and turned his attention to agricul- 
tural pursuits in Xenia township. He pur- 
chased the farm of one hundred acres upon 
which our subject was born, and to that 
propertv he added from time to time, -\fter 
some years he removed to Cedarville town- 
ship, wdiere he bought a tract of land upon 
which he remained for twenty-three years, 
when he retired from acti\e business life 
and removed to Xenia, there to sijend his re- 
maining days in the enjoyment of a well 
earned rest. He took U]) his abode there 
about 1884 and his death there occurred on- 
the 6th of June, 1894, when he was seventy- 
nine years of age. Throughout the greater 
part of his active business life he had fol- 
lowed general farming and stock-raising and 
had prospered in his undertakings. Trul\- a 
self-made man, he came to this country w ith 
nothing but the tools which enabled him to 
work at carpentering, and as the years passed 
his industry and enterprise brought to him 
a very gratifying competence. A Republican 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



in politics, lie took a deep interest in the 
growth and success of his party, doing all in 
his power to promote its advancement. 
About 1874 he was elected and served as 
county commissioner. In early life he wa^ 
identified with the Whig party. Long a 
consistent Christian, holding membership in 
the Pre.sbyterian church, for many years he 
ser\-ed as one of its elders. He was laid to 
rest in Woodland cemetery, at Xenia, and 
his wife, surviving- him about two years, 
passed aAvay June 9, 1896, and was then laitl 
by his side. She was in her seventy-ninth 
}ear at the time of her death. Before her 
marriage she was a member of the United 
Presbyterian church, but afterward placed 
her membership in the church to which her 
liusband belonged. She was always active 
and interested in church work and her serv- 
ices in that regard were very valuable. 

Unto Mr. and ]\Irs. \\'att were liorn ten 
children: Alary E., now the wife of D. H. 
Cherry, a resident farmer of Xenia town- 
ship; Sarah J., the wife of Warren John- 
son, of \\'ichita, Kansas, where he is en- 
gaged in the raising of fruit and vegetables : 
Margaret E., who died at the age of eight- 
een years; James B., who is engaged in the 
wholesale clothing business in Chicago; 
John C, a minister of the Presbyterian 
church, of Columbus, Ohio; Agnes G., the 
wife of R. H. Nash; David B., of this re- 
view; Robert C, who is a farmer and stock- 
raiser living near Cedarville, in Cedarville 
township; Emily H., who died at the age of 
four years ; and Rosetta, who died at the 
age of eighteen months. 

David B. Watt spent the first ten years 
of his life upon the home farm in Xenia 
township and then went with his parents to 
Cedarville township, where he remained for 
fourteen years, removing thence to his pres- 



ent larm <in the Jamestown pike, in his na- 
tive township. While under the parental 
ri5of he had received ample training in the 
work of the farm, early becoming familiar 
with the labors of field and meadow and the 
best methods of caring for stock. In the 
public schools he had acquired a good Eng- 
lish education and was thus well ecpiipped 
iov the practical duties of business life when 
he started out on his own account. 

In 1880 Mr. Watt was united in mar- 
riage to Aliss Annie Fleming, who wa.s bo' n 
in Franklin, Ohio, and removed to this coun- 
ty when about six years of age. Her par- 
ents were Joseph B. and Margaret ( Bosser- 
man) Fleming. Her father was born in 
Pennsylvania and was a tinner by trade, fol- 
lowing- that pursuit throughout the greater 
part of his active business life. He was also 
interested' in the canning factory in Xenia. 
He is still residing in Xenia and is now 
connected with the Baldner Motor Company. 
The mother of Mrs. Watt is still living as is 
her grandmother. Unto our subject and his 
wife ha\-e l^een burn three children : Will- 
iam F.. who is engaged in farming with his 
father ; Rcrbert Bigger and Jennie Alay. The 
parents are members of the Presbyterian 
church and are widely and favorably knnwn 
in this community. Throughout their mar- 
ried life they ha\-e resided upon their present 
farm which Mr. Watt purchased in the 
spring of 1880. Here he has one hundred 
and fifty acres of rich land and in the con- 
duct of general farming- and stock-raising he 
is meeting with creditable success. He has 
for twenty-five years made a specialty of 
raising Cotswold sheep, being the first to 
introduce the variety in this section of the 
state, and he u.sually keeps a number of 
imported sheq) at the head of his flnck. 
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439 



as well as the state fairs. In pnjiiics he is 
an active Republican, but is not an aspirant 
for ot'tice. 



F. M. KENT, M. D. 

The state of Ohio with its pulsing in- 
dustrial activities and rapid development has 
witbin its confines many men of marked 
al)ility and Iiigb character in the various pro- 
fessional lines. He whose name initiates 
this review has gained recognition as one of 
the able and successful physicians of Greene 
county, and by his labors, his big-h j)rofes- 
sional attainments and bis sterling charac- 
teristics has justified the respect and confi- 
dence in w hi<:h be is beld by the medical fra- 
ternity and the local public. He makes his 
home in Spring Valley, but was born in 
Bellbrook, Greene county, August 31, 1864, 
his parents being George W. and Mary 
(Snodgrass) Kent. The father, who was 
probably born in Montgomery county, this 
state, was a tailor in early life and later pur- 
chased a small tract of land near Bellbrook, 
wbereon he spent the greater part of his life, 
but his last days -were passed in Spring Val- 
ley, where be died, when about seventy- 
three years of age. His widow is still living 
there. In their family were four children, 
of wihom the Doctor is the youngest, the 
others being E. M., a grocer of Spring Val- 
ley; E. S., who is engaged in conducting a 
men's furnishing store in Dayton; Ida, the 
wife of Dr. W. H. Finley, of Xenia. 

The Doctor spent bis early life upon his 
father's farm at Bellbrook, where be contin- 
ued until 1883. His early etlucation, ol> 
tained in the district schools, was supple- 
mented by study in the Normal School at 
Lebanon and at Yellow Springs, and when 



nineteen years of age he began teaching, fol- 
lowing that profession in Spring Valley and 
in Sugarcreek township for four years. He 
began preparation for the practice of medi- 
cine as a student in the ofifice of Dr. Finley 
of Spring Valley, and in 1887 matriculated 
in the Oliio Medical College of Cincinnati, 
in which be was graduated in 1889. ^ f^ '^C" 
gan practice in Lowell. Ohio, where he re- 
mained for a year and a half, and had a 
good patronage from the beginning, but 
seeking a broader field of labor he came to 
Spring \'alley and has here practiced with 
success, owing to his ability and close atten- 
tion to bis professional duties. 

The Doctor was married at the home of 
the bride in ^lechanicsburg, Ohio, June 3, 
1891, to Miss Martha Graham, a daughter 
of the Rev. T. B. and Abigail (Taylor) 
Graham. She is a lady of superior culture 
and knowledge, wIkj was educated in the 
common schools and at Adrian, Michigan. 
and afterward engaged in teaching school 
for several years. She was teaching in Bell- 
brook wben she became acquainted with the 
Doctor. Her parents still reside at Rich- 
wood, Ohio. The Doctor and Mrs. Kent 
ba\-e three children. Kathleen, George Gra- 
ham and Tliomas Marion, all born in Spring 
Valley. 

Dr. Kent votes with the Democracy and 
in 1893 was appointed a pension examiner 
and served for five years. He is a member 
of Spring Valley Lodge, Xo. 302, I. O. O. 
P., is its examiner, and in the present vear, 
T902, he became a manber of Xenia Lodge, 
Xo. 668, B. P. O. E. In the line of his pro- 
fession he is connected with the Greene 
County Medical Societ_\- and ^\•ith the State 
and X'ational ^ledical Societies and bv the 
interchange of thought which forms a feat- 
in-e of those organizations he keeps in touch 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



witli the iH'ogre.ss wliicli is cijiitinually carry- 
ing- the science of medicine ti;)\var(l perfec- 
tion. His life is a busy one. so frequent are 
tlie demands made upon his professional 
skill, and it is therefore well that he takes 
a deep and abiding interest in his wurk, in 
which he has attained a hig'h degree of pro- 
ficiencv. 



.MATHEW C. ALEXANDER. 

IMatliew C. Alexander, who is a rejire- 
sentative of the farming interests of Greene 
count V, was born in Xenia township. Jan- 
uary 3, 1825. and is still li\ing within its 
borders. His parents were John and Re- 
becca (Hook) Alexander. The father was 
born near Wheeling. West \'irginia, and 
the mother was a native of the Old Do- 
minion. Tlie former came to Greene county 
with his parents, Mathew and Isabella (Ken- 
dall) Alexander. The family has ever been 
noted for loxaltv in citizenship, a character- 
istic that has been manifested by valiant 
military service. The grandfatlier of out 
suljject had two brothers who laid down 
their li\es on the altar of their country at 
the l)atile of Brandy wine in the Revolution- 
ary war. John Alexander otYeved Iiis serv- 
ices to the government in the war nf 1812. 
After coming to this country he was mar- 
ried to Rebecca Hook and they took up their 
abode upon a farm, the cultivation of which 
claimed his attention throughout tlie years 
of his liusiness career. He was in<lustrioi's, 
energetic and reliable, and all who knew 
him entertained for him respect and confi- 
dence. His political support v. as given the 
Democracv. and both he and his ,\ife were 



\alued and consistent memliers of the United 
Presbxterian church. His death occurred in 
1865. and Mrs. Alexander sur\-ived for 
only about a year, passing away in 1866, at 
which time her remains were interred bv 
those of her husbamrs. in the Xenia cem- 
etery. They were the parents of eight chil- 
dren, of whom ]\Iathew Clark is the eldest, 
the others being: Marv L., the widow of 
Simpson Drake, and a resident of Califor- 
nia; James H., who is living in Ikichanan 
county, Iowa; John, deceased; Isabella, who 
is li\ing with our subject: George, who lias 
■|)assed awav : Charles G.. who died of t\- 
phoid lever in the army while serx'ing as a 
njember of Company D. Se\ent\-fourlli 
Ohio Infantry; and Josephine, who lives 
with her brother, Mathew. 

In the common schools near his home 
Mathew Clark .\lexander ])ursue.l his. ed- 
ucati(.}n. becoming familiar w itli the branches 
of learning which fit one for life's practical 
duties. He also received ample training in 
farm labcjr, early becoming familiar with 
the duties of the field and meadow, and he 
and his two sisters reside upon a part of the 
old homestead, where he operates two hun- 
dred and thirty-three acres of land in the 
eastern part of Xenia townshij). He has 
jjlaced iiis farm under a high state of cul- 
tivation', devoting his energies to the rais- 
ing of crops best adapted to this climate, 
and also to stock-raising, making a specialty 
of Shorthorn cattle and Poland-China hogs 
His business is well conducted and his care- 
ful supervision and capable management 
liaxe brought to him success in his under- 
takings. He represents a worthy family 
lliat from pioneer days has been active!)- and 
honorably identified with the history of 
(ireene countv. 




M. C. ALEXANDER. 



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JAMES H. DAUGHERTV. 

Carlyle iras said tliat "liiography is tlie 
most interesting as well as the most profit- 
able of all reading." It serves the two-fold 
purpose of honoring the ]i\ ing and perpetu- 
ating the memory of those who have at one 
time occupied a position of prominence and 
distinction in any of the avenues of life 
which contribute to the world's progress. 
James H. Daugherty was for some years an 
active factor in business circles in Greene 
count}- and his efforts were so discerningly 
directed that he won creditable success, while 
his uniform honesty and reliability gained 
for him an honored name. 

A nati\e of Greene county, he was born 
near Sjjring Valley, on the 14th of January, 
18^7, his parents being Michael and Lucinda 
(McReynolds) Daugherty. Being identified 
with mercantile interests he carried on a 
general store at Spring Valley in connection 
with his father for several years. After sell- 
ing his interest in that enterprise he built a 
mill fur the manufacture of linseed oil alx)ut 
two miles from Spring Valley. There he 
carried on an extensive and successful busi- 
ness, gixing employment to a large force of 
operatives. He remained there until his re- 
tirement from active business life, in 1880, 
at which time he removed to Xenia, where 
his reiiiaining days were passed. He had 
conducted all his business affairs with keen 
discernment and unfaltering honesty and his 
capable management and unflagging indus- 
try brought to him very creditable and de- 
sirable success. He became one of the pros- 
perous residents of the county and the last 
six years of his life were spent in the en- 
joyment of the fruits of his former toil. 

]\Ir. Daugherty was twice married. He 
first wedded Miss Pamelia Goe, and unto 
them was born a son, Charles M. Later our 
27 



subject was joined in wedlock to Aliss Cyn- 
thia Compton, a daughter of Henry Comp- 
ton, who was a native of North Carolina, 
but had been brought to Greene county when 
eight years of age. The second marriage of 
Mr. Daugherty was celebrated on the 15th 
of August, i860, and was blessed with two 
children, but Ella E. died at the age of eight 
months, while Rosa D. became the wife of 
F. N. Shaffer. Mr. Daugherty died in Aug- 
ust, 1886. In his death Xenia lost one of 
its worthy citizens, for he was a man of ster- 
ling worth, possessed of characteristics that 
endeared him to many friends. His life was 
at all times guided by principles of an up- 
right manhood, by relial)ility in business, by 
fidelity to every trust reposed in him. and 
when death came he left behind him an un- 
tarnished record. 



FRANK NEWTON SHAFFER. 

The life span of Frank N. Shaffer coiv- 
ered but thirty-five years, yet within that 
time he attained an enviable reputation at 
the bar and developed a' character of up- 
right manhood that endeared him to all with 
whuiu he was associated and niatle his death 
one deeply regretted throughout the entire 
community as well as in his own household. 
Mr. Shaffer was bom in Xenia, on the ^d 
of September, 1865, and was a son of the 
Rev. J. F. Shaffer. He was reared amid the 
refining influences of a good Christian home 
and his boyhood's training left its impress 
upon his life. He acquired his literary edu- 
cation in the public schools of Xenia and 
Wittenberg College, of Springfield, Ohio, in 
which he was graduated on the completion 
of the regular course with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. For one year thereafter 
he engaged in teaching school in Missouri, 
but with a desire to becoiue a member of the 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



legal profession he entered the law depart- 
ment of the University of Michigan, at Ann 
Arbor, and after completing his studies there 
was admitted to the bar of Ohio in June, 
1888, upon passing a successful examination. 
He located for practice in Xenia, and here 
in his native city Mr. Shaffer soon won a 
good clientage. He possessed strong mental- 
ity, keen analytical power, was logical in ar- 
gument, forceful in his presentation oi a 
case and won a position of distinction at 
the bar. 

On the J5th of September, 1888. Mr. 
Shaffer was united in marriage to Miss Rosa 
D. Daugherty, a daughter of James H. and 
Cynthia (Compton) Daugherty. They be- 
came the parents of one daughter, Louisa 
B., a bright little girl, whose birth occurred 
January 5, 1895. It ^^'^s on the 17th of 
September, lyoo, that Mr. Shaffer was 
called to his tinal rest and the communitv 
mourned the loss of one of its valued and 
representative men. He was popular in so- 
cial circles because of his unfailing cour- 
tesy, his deference to the opinions of others 
and his deep and never failing interest in 
his fellow man. He was always found on 
the side of progress and improvement and 
was a meml>er of the Presbyterian church, 
in which lie served as deacon. Faultless in 
honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in 
reputation, he will long be remembered bv 
those who knew him as a man of genuine 
worth, deserving of the highest regard. 



LEWIS A. KEMP. 



Lewis A. Kemp is enjoying a well 
earned rest after years of active labor in the 
helds. He is an honored retired farmer liv- 



ing in Bellbrook where he has many warm 
friends who esteem him highly for his gen- 
uine worth. He was born on a farm two 
miles east of Dayton, Ohio, in Montgomery 
county, July 30, 1825. and is a son of Isaac 
and Margaret (Herring) Kemp. The fa- 
ther was born in Frederick county, ]\iary- 
land, al»ut 1786, and the mother's birth oc- 
curred near Basil, Switzerland, about 1798. 
\Mien three years of age she was brought to 
America, the faimily locating in Frederick 
county, Maryland. Her father was quite 
unfortunate in that he had his barn de- 
stroyed by lightning and seven years la- 
ter he had another bam burned in the same 
way. He also experienced difficulty in ob- 
taining possession of property because of a 
law which furliade a foreigner to hold land. 
Therefore he left the south and made his 
way. to Greene county, Ohio, about 1805. 
Here he purchased a section of land on 
Beaver creek. The same year Ludwig 
Kemp, the paternal grandfather of our sub- 
ject, arrived in Ohio and purchased a tract 
of land near Dayton, to which he removed 
his family in the spring of 1S06. Isaac 
Kemp was then not cjuite twenty-one years 
of age. He remained in Ohio until the fol- 
lowing autunni. when he returned to Marv- 
land in order to attend school there. Later 
he engaged in teaching and during the war 
of 181 2 he was in Maryland at the time two 
drafts were made, but was not physically 
able for service. About 1813 he returned 
to Ohio and entered into partnership witli 
his father in the distillery business. In 
1823 he was married on the Herring farm, 
in Beavercreek township, to Alargaret Her- 
ring, whose father gaA-e him sixty acres of 
land near Dayton, and upon that tract he 
built a hewed log house, making it his 



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445 



lie line tlirouglioiit life. Later, however, the 
house was covered with weather-lKjardiiig', 
and otlierwise modernized. Five children 
vverc born untn .Mr. and lUrs. Kemp, hut 
only three reached mature years, including 
Lewis A. and his twin brother. Jacob IL, 
will I fur a few vears engaged in the grocery 
business in Dayton, and later became a far- 
mer (if Beavercreek town liip, Greene coun- 
ty. He married Ellen Lal-'ong, who is sti'l 
living in licavercreek. but the brother of 
our subject, died in January, 1900. leaving 
three children. The other brother, John D. 
Kemp, became a practicing phwsician after 
graduating from the Baltimore L'nix'ersity. 
He taught school in order to earn the money 
that enablcvl him tn com])lcte his college 
course, together with that fnniisiied him by 
the subject of this review, lie married Har- 
riet Holdeman at Emporia. Kajisas. having 
known her. ho\\e\cr. in Montgomerv coun- 
ty, Ohio. I"Lsta'l>lisliing an o!"tice in I)a\ton. 
he there successfully practiced until .\pril 
17, 1884, when he departed this life, lea\'ing 
one child. While practicing in X'andalia, 
he was elected to the lower house of the 
state legislature by the Ucmocratic party, 
serving for two terms, covering four years. 
He was then elected to the state senate to 
represent Preble anil Montgomery conntie,s 
and was an active and valued member of the 
assembly, lea\-ing the impress of his indi- 
viduality upon the legislation enacted dur- 
ing his service. He was also a director of 
the Southern Asxluui at Dayton, filling that 
position at the time of his death, which re- 
sulted from an injury caused by his horse 
running away. He was then about fifty- 
four years of age, having been born in 1S30. 
Thus it is that Lewis A. Kemp is the onh- 
survi\ing member of the faniilv. He is well 



known, not only in Bellbrook, but through- 
out Montgomery and Greene counties, 
where he has a large circle of friends. 

During his boyhood Mr. Kemp remained 
upon the home farm, attended the county 
schools and there studied surveying. He 
afterward engaged in teaching and later 
was for some time a student in the schools 
of Dayton. He afterward resumed his work 
as an educator and followed tlie profession 
altogether f<n- about twelve years, begin- 
ning Avhen he was twenty-one vears of age. 
At length, howe\-er. he turned his attention 
to agricultural ]nirsuits, operating his fa- 
ther's fami, and through a long jierio.l he 
successfully carried on business along that 
line. W'lhen he had accjuired a considerable 
coni]3eteiice he resohed to enjoy a good rest 
fj'om labor and well does he merit this re- 
tirement, for in former years his career was 
one of unflagging industry, enterprise ;ind 
unfaltering honesty. 

On the 24th of March, 1859, in Mont- 
gomery county, Lewis A. Kemp was mar- 
ried to Hester Ann Taylor, whose birth (oc- 
curred on the farm where their marriage 
was celebrated. They remained in Mont- 
gomery county until 1875 when Mr. Kemp 
came with his famih- to Greenr count v. hav- 
ing purchased two hundred aih! four acres 
of land- near Bellbrtjok. He also, however. 
retains possession of one hundred and twen- 
ty-four acres in Montgomery countw Si.\ 
children have been born to this marriage: 
Stephen A., who resides near Emporia, 
Kansas, where he is engaged in cattle rais- 
ing, was married in that state to Mrs. Ida 
Stanford. John died at the age of three 
years. Josephine is the wife of W. E. 
Strain, of Greenville. Ohio, and has two 
sons. Lewis Augustus is engaged in the 



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ROBhXSO.X'S HISTORY OF GREEXE COUNTY. 



cattle business at Emporia, Kansas. Addie 
is tlie wife uf \\'alter W'eller, of Montgom- 
ery CDunty. and has one daughter. Horace 
S.. who is operating his father's farm in 
Greene county, was married near Emi)(.)ria, 
Kansas, to Ida David, and has two cliiUh-en. 
The wife and nrntlier was called U> her final 
rest in September. 1890, at the age of fift_\- 
se\en years and eleven months and was laid 
to rest in Bellbrook cemetery. On the 15th 
of June. 1896. Mr. Kemp was again mar- 
ried, his second union being with Mrs. Mary 
E. Harris, nee Brown, of Bellbrook. She 
was burn in Sugarcreek township, a tlaugh- 
ter of George and Matilda (Peoples) Brown. 
She was first married March 14, 1874, to 
Clinton Harris and they had three sons, 
Clau(L\ (if .Sugarcreek township; James Le- 
roy. also of the same township, wdio mar- 
ried Catherine A\-ey and has one child ; and 
George E.. win* married Ethel Vaughan and 
lives in Daytmi. 

Since casting his first presidential vote 
for Cass in 1848, Mr. Kemp has been a 
stanch Denn icrat. He was appointed to 
ser\e for three years as school commissioner 
of Montgomery coimty. The probate judge 
wished to re-appoint him l)ut sent him word 
that he wnuld not give the office to a \'al- 
landingham man, \\hereupon ]\Ir. Kemp re- 
turned the message that he was for \'al- 
landingham and therefore did not get the 
office, but he hail the satisfaction of know- 
ing that he had stood firmly by his belief. 
He served for two terms as township trus- 
tee and one year as assessor of ]Mad River 
township. He has been a member of the 
school board for fourteen years, was town- 
ship clerk I if Mad River township, filling 
the office at the time he removed to Greene 
county. For eighteen years he has been a 
niember nf the school board of Bellbrook. 



C. H. KYLE. 

Professional advancement in the law is 
proverbially slow. The first element of suc- 
cess is, perhaps, a persistency of purpose 
and effort as enduring as the force of grav- 
ity. But. as in any other calling, aptitude, 
character and imlividuality are the qualities 
which differentiate the usual from the un- 
usual : the vocation from the career of the 
lawyer. Possessing aJl the essential charac- 
teristics of the successfiil lawyer, C. H. Kyle 
has advanced to a prominent position in 
the legal fraternity of Greene county. He 
makes his home in Xenia and is numbered 
among Ohio's native sons, for his birth oc- 
curred in Cedar\-ille, Greene county, .\iiril 
30, 1858, his parents being James and Ma- 
ria J. (Tarbox) Kyle; the former a native 
of the Buckeye state, and the latter of 
Elaine. 

Judge Samuel Kyle, the grandfather of 
our subject, came to Ohio in 1804 and lo- 
cated in what is now Cedar\ille township, 
Greene cnunty, removing to this state frum 
Kentucky. He was one of the most e.xten- 
si\-e and prominent farmers of this section 
cif the state, owning and operating twelve 
hundred acres (if land. He was alsd a sur- 
\'eyor in the early days and was actively 
connected with surveying the Cdiuity. his 
efforts C(.intriliuting in ikt small degree td 
the progress and impr()\'ement of the coni- 
miniity. In public aft'airs he was most faith- 
ful, reliable and capable, as is indicated by 
thirt\--fi\-e \ears' service as associate judge. 
He left the impress of his individuality upon 
the judicial hist(iry as well as upon the 
improvement of the comity along material 
lines and ])assed away at the ag;e of seventy- 
eight years. 

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447 



followed farming- throughout his entire life, 
being for many years a representatixe of 
agricultural interests in Ceclarville town- 
ship. Init later he retired, living in Xenia in 
the enjoyment of the fruits of his farm la- 
I)or. He died September 4. 1S97. aged sev- 
enty-seven years. His wife died in 1860. 
He hafl three children: Dr. J. M. Kyle, a 
Presbyterian missionary of Brazil, South 
America: Mary Ellen, wIki died in i8r)5 at 
the age of seven years: and L". li.. the sub- 
ject of this review. 

C. H. Kyle pursued the greater part of 
his education in the schools of Cedarville. 
but afterward entered Wooster University, 
at Wooster, Ohio, an institution imder the 
care of the Presbyterian church, lie there 
pursued a classical course and won the de- 
gree of Master of Arts in 1S79. After his 
graduation he began the study of law in the 
oftice of Judge ]\Iunger, of Xenia. who di- 
rected his reading for two years, and on 
the expiration of that period he became a 
nieiiiber of the senior class of the Cincinnati 
Law School, in which he was graduated in 
IcS8j with the degree of LL.B. When he 
completed his law course and had ben ad- 
mitted to the bar he came to Xenia in 1883. 
and for almost twenty years has been a prac- 
titioner at the bar of Greene county. He is 
acti\-ely connected with a profession which 
has important bearing upon the progress 
and stable prosperity of any section or com- 
munity, and one which has long been consid- 
ered as conserving the pul)lic welfare bv fur- 
thering the ends of justice and maintaining 
individual rights. His reputation as a law^ 
yer has been won through earnest, honest 
labor, and his standing at the Itar is a mer- 
ited tribute to his ability. 

On the 9th of August, i88(). Mi: Kyle 
was married to Emma J. McMillan, of 



Xenia, a daughter of James and C. Mary 
McMillan, the former a retired merchant of 
this city. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
Kyle has been blessed with three children, 
as follows: James Porter, Mary Olive, and 
Ruth McMillan, all attending the public 
schools of Xenia. The parents hold mem- 
bership in the Third United Presbyterian 
church, of which Mr. Kyle is one of the 
trustees. For a number of years he has also 
been a member of the l)oard of the Young 
Men's Christian Association. He is one of 
the board of directors and the attorney for 
the Citizens' National Bank of Xenia. His 
clientage has become of a distinctively repre- 
sentative character and claims his entire at- 
tention, and in the legal profession be has 
advanced to a position prominent among the 
most skillful lawvers in his district. 



JOHX R. RIDEXOUR. 

In an analyzation of the life, the work 
and the character of John R. Ridenour it is 
evident that undaunted enterprise, indom- 
itable purpose and resolute principles ba\-e 
ever l)een potent elements in his career and 
lia\-e been the means of advancing him to a 
prominent position in the county in which 
he makes his home. He is now serving as 
postmaster of Alpha and there conducts a 
grocerv store, being a well known factor in 
mercantile interests of that place. 

Mr. Ridenour was born in Beavercreek 
towntship, July 20, 1835, and is a son of 
Henry and Mary Ann (Hyland) Ridenour. 
His father was born in Martinsburg, Berke- 
]ey county. West Virginia, in Xovember. 
1804, and the mother was born in Wash- 
ington countv. Marxland, near Hagerstown. 



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ROBIXSO.VS HISTORY OF GREECE COUNTY. 



Henry Ridenour came to Ohio in the year 
1828, at which time he located hi Seneca 
county, where he engaged in farming. After 
two years, liowever. he returned to Mary- 
land and was there married in Marcli. 1830. 
Immediately afterward he brought his bride 
to Oliio and this time settled in Knox coun- 
ty, but in the spring of 1833 he removed to 
Greene county, taking up his abode near 
w here the \-i!lage of Alpha now stands. Here 
he engaged in the operation of rented land 
until 1855. when with the capital he had ac- 
fjuired through his own efforts, he purchased 
si.\ty-five acres of, land. To this he after- 
ward added and at the time of his death 
was the owner of a good farm of ninety- 
five acres. He ga\-e bis political support to 
the Democratic principles as advocated b\- 
Jackson until 1856, wben he espoused the 
cause of tlie new Republican party and was 
one of its standi adherents throughout his 
remaining days. His death occurred De- 
cember 8. 1880. and his wife, who was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
died March i, 1876. tlieir remains being in- 
terred in Beaver cemetery. In their familv 
were three sons and two daughters : Anna 
P.. a resident of Xenia; John R.. of this re- 
view: Upton H., who was killed in a runa- 
way accident in December. 1862; Thomas 
Jefferson, of Osborn. this county : and ^Mary 
E.. who is living in Xenia. 

After acquiring a common school edr.ca- 
tion. Joim R. Ridenour devoted his entire 
tii\ie to farm work until he entered the armv. 
He attempted to enlist in 1862 but did not 
pass muster and it was not until the 2d of 
May. 1864. that he was received as one of 
the defenders of the Union in the field of 
battle. In June. 1863. he had become a 
member of the Xational Guard in the town- 
ship and was mustered in at Camp Denni- 



son in the following ]\lay as second ser- 
geant of Company D. One Hundred and 
Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry. The regiment 
participated in the battle of Xew Creek and 
was engaged in scouting and guard duty. 
Ill September. 1864. Mr. Ridenour was mus- 
tered out and returned home, resuming the 
quiet pursuits of the farm, where he re- 
mained for a year aiitl a half. After his 
marriage he then purchased property near 
the fair grounds at Xenia, continuing to 
engage in the tilling of the soil there until 
1886, when he sold that farm and l;)ought 
land in the western part of Beavercreek 
township, making his home at that place for 
three and one-half years. On the expiration 
of that period he came to Al])ha and in Se;; 
tember, 1889, began tiie erecticMi of the 
building wliidi he now occupies as a store 
and jx>stoffice. 

On the 30th of September, 1874. }.Ir. 
Ridenour was wedded to Miss Sarah J. 
Prugh. of Montgomery county, Ohio.' She 
is a member of the Methodist Protestant 
church ami is a most estimable lady. Mr. 
Ridenour belongs to the Cirand Army Post, 
to the Old Guard of Dayton, and is identi- 
fied with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows. In politics he has been a stalwart Re- 
publican. He became a resident of Alpba in 
September. 1889. and tlie following Xovem- 
lier was ap])ointed ].}• Benjamin Harrison 
as postmaster, serving continuously until 
Cleveland's administration. During the 
McKinley administration, Frank Merrick 
was appointed to the position, but on ac- 
count of the criticisms which his adminis- 
tration invoked, he was removed and Mr. 
Ridenour was again appointed and has 
served continuously since September, 1898. 
In 1 87 1 he was elected justice of the peace 
and for three terms filled that position. He 



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also filled out an unexpired term as town- 
ship clerk, while for nne term he was town- 
ship trustee. In ])ul)lic office he has ever 
been found faithful. cai)abie and trustwor- 
thy. He is public-spirited in an eminent 
degree. National jirugTess and local ad- 
vancement arc causes l)Oth dear to his heart. 
Kindness, ajmiability and courtesy not only 
cliaracterize his social relations hut are a 
marked factor in his business life. 



WILLIAM W KUO.XUl'.S. 

William X'inicum Rhoades was born No- 
vember lo. 1811. in lUu^lington county. Xew 
Jersey, and was a grandscjn of John 
Rhoades. a native of England, who. on 
crossing tlie Atlantic to .\merica. took up 
his abode in Xew Jersey. He had a family 
of three sons. James. Stephen and John, and 
t\\(j daughters, one of whom l>ecame the 
wife of Charles Parker, of South Aml)oy. 
New Jersey, and their son. Joel Parker, was 
one of the governors of that state. The 
other daughter married William Vinicum. 
an attornc}-, for whom William Vinicum 
Rhoades was named. Ste])lien Rhoades mar- 
ried Elizabeth Coojier, who was of Holland 
lineage, and their children were Isaac. Will- 
iam \'.. Jacob. Martha. .\l)igail. I'llizabeth. 
Lavisa and Margaret. In the fall of 1816. 
Stephen started with his fanfily from New- 
Jersey to Ohio, making the jounic\- by wa- 
gon to Pittsburg. At that point their goods 
were transferred to a boat bound for Cin- 
cinnati, while the hc.rses were (lri\-en in'cr- 
land to the same ])lace. Later thev removed 
to Warren county. Ohio, where at the age 
of fomieen years. William \'. Rhoades be- 
gan to learn the trade of wagon and plow 



making under the direction of Joseph Gif- 
fins. at Ridgeville, completing a three years' 
apprenticeship there. He afterwanl worked 
for three years for Isaac Dunwiddie at Cen- 
terville, and then came to Xcnia. where he 
entered the employ of Rol)inson & Lucas. 
Soon after, however, he began business on 
his own account on West AVater street in a 
building a little west of Calloway street, and 
almost opposite the Barr property. 

On the 22nd of January. 1833. William 
V. Rhoades was united in marriage to Eliz- 
abeth Gowdy. a daughter of Robert and 
Nancy Gowdy. the wedding being celebrated 
at the home of the bride at the corner of De- 
troit and W'ater streets, tlie officiating min- 
ister being the Rev. John Steel, of the Asso- 
ciate Reformed church, and they were at- 
tended by Alexander Zimmerman and Mar- 
tha (jowdy. Their lirst home was a little 
frame house which str>o(l alxiut a block east 
of Detroit street, on Main street, where 
William Homer's grocery is now located. 
With the exception of a few years spent in 
St. Paris. Champaign county, they lived all 
their married life in Xenia. Elexcn children 
were born unto them, of whom two died in 
infancy. Elizabeth Ariminta was born July 
8, 1834. and was married December 4, 186 r, 
to Pred E. Hubbard, removing to Dela-ware 
countv, Ohio. Rolicrt (_iowdy was born 
March 6, 1837, and was married to Sarah 
.Abigail Roberts, September 17, 1867, their 
home being now in St. Paul, Minnesota^ 
Mary McBride. born September 3, 1839, be- 
came the wife of David Sherman, Xovem- 
ber 8. 1876. and they now reside in Xenia. 
James Marion was born February i. 1841. 
and at the outbreak of the Civil war he en- 
listed in Company F. Thirty- fourth Regi- 
ment of Ohio Volunteers, known as Piatt's 
First Z(.>uaves. ITe died in the liosjjital at 



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Murfreesboro, ^March 23, 1863. and was 
buried in the national cemeten,' there. Sa- 
rah Margaret, born March 6, 1847, resides 
in Xenia. John Brown was born February 
20, 1849, and married Adelaide Bell Dol- 
son, January 13, 1874. For several years 
he was agent for the American Express 
Company at Xenia Init is now living in Col- 
lumbus. Ohio. Charles William, born Jan- 
uary 19. 1854. was married June 5, 1883, to 
Mary Frankenburger and is now living in 
Peru, Indiana. Eliza Alice, born August 9, 
1856, was married January 22, 1880, to 
James Perry Howell, of Xenia. .\lbert 
Clinton, born December 28, 1861, wedded 
Mary Belle Haines, March 14, 1888. For 
the past eight years he has been connected 
with the F. C. Trebein Company of Xenia 
and Trebeins. They reside on a farm form- 
erl_\- owned by John Ea\-ey, just outside of 
the city limits on the Wilmington pike. 
^^'illiam \\ Rhuades. the father of this fam- 
ily, wa^ engaged in the manufacture of 
wagons and. plows in Xenia for more than 
fifty years, being a leading representative of 
its industrial interests and an honoraljle 
business man whose integrity and reliabilitv 
were above question. He was a life-long 
Deinocrat and died .\.pril 10, 1889, while 
his wife, Eliza (rowdy Rhoades, passed 
away February 6. 1890. 



JUDGE JOSEPH X. DEAX. 

Joseph X". Dean is ni>w ser\ing fur the 
second term as judge of the probate court 
of Greene county, and is one of the leading 
members of the bar of his district. He makes 
his home in Xenia, and is numl)ered anione 



the native sons of this county. There his 
birth occurred in Jasper township. August 
22, 1844, his parents being Joseph and Han- 
nah (Boggs) Dean, the former a native of 
Kentucky and the latter of Ohio, while both 
were of Scotch-Irish extraction. The pater- 
nal grandfather of our subject was one of 
the honored pioneers of this county. Com- 
ing from Kentucky in 1812, accompanied 
by his wife and eleven children, they set- 
tled in what is now Xew Jasper township, 
and there all of the children were reared to 
mature years and married and had families 
of their own, averaging eleven children each. 
There were thirty-six members of the fam- 
ily who served in the Union army, and all 
continued through the temi of enlistment, 
and returned home, with the exception of 
one, who died at the front. Thirty of the 
number are still li\-ing — honored veterans 
of the war which preserved the Union. 

Joseph Dean, the father of our subject, 
accompanied his parents to Ohio and 
throughout his entire life fc^llowed farm- 
ing, although in early life he had learned 
both blacksmithing and slioemaking, which 
pursuits he followed for a few years in con- 
nection with farming. He was one of the 
most prosperous farmers of the county and 
was a natural mechanic, having particular 
ability along that line. He could do an\'- 
thing recpiired about the farm, and his effi- 
ciency in this direction enabled him Id keep 
his place in tlrst-class condition. In his 
family were nine children who reached ma- 
ture years, while two died in infancy. The 
father passed away at the age of seventx- 
eight years, nine months and twenty-three 
days, while the mother was called to her final 
rest when she had reached the age of sev- 
ent\'-nine vears, onemnnUi and fmu" da vs. 




JOSEPH N. DEAN. 



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453 



The Judge was the eighth in Drder of 
lirii'th in tlieir family of eleven children. lie 
acquired his earl^\- education in the schools 
of New Jasper township and when seven- 
teen years of ag^e he ofifered his services to 
his country, enlisting- on the 17th of Au- 
gust, 1861, as a member of Company B, 
. Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under 
Captain Hayworth and Colonel Cranor. Me 
was mustered in at Columljus and the regi- 
ment was first assigned to the command of 
General Garfield. The first battle in which 
he participated was at Prestonburg, Ken- 
tucky. Later the regiment was assigned 
to the lunirth Army Corps, under Gordan 
Granger, and with that command Judge 
Dean partici])atcd in the battles of Lookout 
Mountain, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge 
and various engagements of the Atlanta 
campaign, including the battle of Atlanta. 
Later he met the enemy in a battle at Love- 
joy Station and Jonesboro, and on the 17th 
of October, 1864. he was mustered out. He 
was wounded in the face at Chickamauga, 
and was again hit by rebel lead at Lookout 
Mountain, where he aided in capturing 
three pieces of artillery. He was reconi- 
Viended for the commission in recognition 
of his gallantry and l)ravery on that occa- 
sion. 

After his return home Judge Dean con- 
tinued his education, becoming a student in 
Smith College, at Xenia, while later he was 
a student in Iron City College, at Pittsburg, 
where he completed his literary course and 
was graduated in 18^)7. He then began read- 
ing law under Hon. R. F. Howard at Xenia 
and for a time devoted his attention to agri- 
cultural jHU'suits, but wishing to make the 
practice of law his life work, in 1876 he 
entered the Cincinnati Law School, in which 
he was graduated with the class of 1879. 



Immediately afterward he opened an office 
in Xenia and has since Ijeen a member of the 
Greene county bar. In 1882 he was elected 
prosecuting attorney and served in that ca- 
pacity for six years. His i)rei)aration of 
cases is most thorough and exhaustive; he 
seems almost intuitively to grasp the strong 
points of law and fact, while in his briefs 
and arguments the authorities are cited so 
e.xtensively and the facts and reasoning 
thereon are presented so cogently and un- 
answerably as to leave no doubt as to the 
correctness of his views or of his conclu- 
sion. Xo detail seems to escape him ; every 
case is given its due prominence and the case 
is argued with such skill, alMJiiy antl i>ower 
that he rarely fails to gain the verdict de- 
sired. In 1896 he was elected probate judge 
and filled the office so acceptably that he 
was re-elected in 1899. He is thoroughly 
familiar with the law, which comes into 
]3lay in thg probate court and his decisions 
iKue been strictly fair and impartial, win- 
ning him high commendation. 

On the 17th of July, 1867. Judge Dean 
was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Clea- 
\'er. of Clinton county, Ohio, a daughter of 
James Cleaver, of Wilmington, Ohio. She 
died on the ist of July. 1874. leaving one 
son. Walter P., who is now deputy probate 
judge of Greene county. On the 7th of 
June. 1888. Judge Dean was again mar- 
ried, his second union being with Mary 
Gaumer, a daughter of Jonathan and Ma- 
hala Gaumer. of Muskingum county. Ohio. 
Three of her Ijrothers are electors and in 
the family eight became teachers. Two have 
also been connected with the legislature, one 
is a member of the house and the other of 
the senate. Mr. and Mrs. Dean hold mem- 
bership in the First L^nited Presbyterian 
church of Xenia, as does his son. The 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Judge also belongs to the Union Veterans' 
Legion and the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic. He is likewise a member of the Asso- 
ciation of Ex-Soldiers and Sailors, of which 
he was one of the organizers and has served 
as its president. He was a member of the 
Committee of One Hundred and <lid most 
effective work in the cause of temperance, 
especially at tlie time of the memoraljle elec- 
tinn of 1902. when it was definitely decided 
that Xenia should be free from the curse of 
the saloon. His loyaltv in citizenship is of 
the same kinil that prompted his enlistment 
in the hour of his coutnry's peril. At the 
bar he has achieved success through hon- 
orable efforts, untiring industry and capa- 
bility and in ])rivate life he has gained that 
warm personal regard which arises from 
kindness and geniality, deference for the 
opinions of others and from true nobility of 
character. 



A. H. BEAL. 



A fine farm of one hundred and twenty- 
five acres is the property of A. H. Beal and 
is lix-ated in Sugarcreck township, not far 
from Xenia. Mr. Ijeal was bom in Caesars- 
creek township, May 2, 1837. His father. 
George Beal. was a native of Pennsylvania 
and married Rachel Driscoll. who was born 
in tills state and was of Irish lineage. With 
bis parents the father came to Ohio in his 
boyhood and the marriage of Air. and Mrs. 
Beal was probably celebrated in Clark coun- 
ty, although they began their domestic life 
in Greene count)-, where all of their children 
were born. Throughout the years of his 
Inisiness career the father carried on agri- 
cultural pursuits. He reached the verv ad- 
\'anced age of eighty-two years, passing 



away in 1875. ii<-' li^'l '-^ad l-)"* a limited 
education in his youtli but he made the most 
of his opi^ortunities and possessed that ster- 
ling honesty and worth of character which 
everywhere wins respect and confidence. 
He voted with the Danocracy. In the fam- 
ily were thirteen children, one of whom 
died at the age of thirteen years, while five 
of the number are still living. 

A. H. Beal was the eleventh in order of 
birth and his youth was spent upon the home 
fami where, since old enough to handle the 
plow, he took his place in the fields assist- 
ing in -the cultivation of various crops. In 
the winter months he managed to acquire a 
good education in the public schools. He 
worked for his father until be bad receiveil 
enough to ])urchase a small farm of eighty- 
eight acres adjoining the old homestead and 
then he was married, seeking as a compan- 
ion and helpmate for the journey of life 
Miss Keziah Jane Ary, the wedding taking 
pLice on the 30th of ]March, 1859. T^^ '''''v 
resided near I'aintersville. where she was 
born June 27, 1836, her parents being John 
and Margaret (Turner) Ary. Her father 
came to Ohio from Virginia. Her mother 
v.as of English descent and they were mar- 
ried in Greene countv. 

After the marriage of 'Sir. and Mrs. Beal 
they began their domestic life upon his farm 
which continued to be their home for si.x. 
years, when he sold that property and ])ur- 
chased one hundred and sixt_\--si.K acres of 
land in Greene county. At different times 
he has purchased tracts of sixty, fift\-four, 
eleven and six acres, and in 1891 he re- 
moved to liis ])resent fann. Here he is suc- 
cessfully carrying on agricultural pursuits; 
his fields are well tilled and all mo<lern 
e(iuipments are found upon bis place, show- 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



455 



spirit, who follows modern methods in car- 
ing for his property. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Eeal lia\e been born 
seven children : Elias, who married Flora 
Hampton, is the assistant cashier in the 
bank at Bowersville. Samuel Lewis niar- 
riefl Ertie Black, who died, leaving four chil- 
dren. Emma became the wife of Samuel 
Hollingwortb. who resides near Biu'lingtnn. 
in Clinton county. Charles Elmer married 
Julia Darst, by wlmm he has four children, 
and their home is in Jefferson township. 
Melville F. married Delia Compton and re- 
sides in the village of Spring Valley, and 
Clinton ]'. completes the family. Mr. Beal 
was reared a IJemocrat aufl yet endorses the 
party. His wife is a member of the Meth- 
odist Protestant church. They are widely 
known in Greene county as worthy repre- 
sentatives of agricultural interests and their 
sterling characteristics are such as to obtain 
for them the warm regard of all with whom 
tlu'v have been associated. 



JOHN .\. IIARXER 

Jrihn A. Harner, who is engaged in gen- 
eral farming in Spring Valley township, has 
a well impraverl tract of land four miles 
southwest of Xenia. He was liorn on the 
Little Miami river, near Bellbrook, .\ugust 
31, 1S36. his parents being John and Mag- 
dalena (Haines) Harner. His paternal 
grandparents were George and Sarah 
(Koogler) Harner, and the former was 
Ixjrn in Germanw whence he sailed for 
America when about fourteen years of age. 
He ]M"obably located first near Cincinnati 
and afterward removed to a place called 
Round Bottom, coming thence to Greene 



cnunty at a very early date in the history of 
the development of this jxirtion of the state. 
John Harner was born in this countv in 
1805 and was familiar with the early prog- 
ress and inipru\enient. The forests stood in 
their primeval strength and little -was done 
to reclaim the land for purposes of civiliza- 
tion, but as the years progressed the set- 
tlers wrought many changes here, laying 
broad and deep the foundation for the pres- 
ent develojiment and prosperity of the coun- 
ts Jiihn Harner acquired a fair common 
school education and served as captain of a 
militia in the days when mustering was in 
vogue. When quite young he was married, 
and in connection with his father-in-law he 
engaged in the operation of a mill and dis- 
tillery, conducting the business in P>e!lbrook. 
There they erected a flouring mill which 
they operated until about 1848, when Mr. 
Harner retired from the business and began 
farming upon rented land. At different 
times he rented various farms, for he was 
in limited circumstances and did not have 
the money with which to purchase land. He 
had ten children and the sons remained at 
liome, all farming together. 

John .\. Jlarner. whose name introduces 
this record, continued with his father until 
thirty-two years of age. Llis early life was 
one of toil biu he formed habits of industry 
and economy, which have proven of value to 
him in his later career. He was married 
February 13, 1868, to Miss Eliza Lautz, 
who was born in the first courthouse in 
Greene county, near Harbine Mills, August 
8, 1844. She w'as a daughter of John and 
Catherine (Rhoades) Lantz, who removed 
from Marxdand to Greene county at an early 
day. In 1865 our subject and his brothers 
l)iuxhased two hundred and twenty-four 
acres of land, upon wliich John .A. Harner 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUXTY. 



now resides, and after liis marriage he took 
up his abode here. A sniaU portion of the 
land had been cleared and a portion of the 
present house had been built, but Mr. Har- 
ner has since made two additions to the 
home. The first settler upon the place was 
William Hamilton, who sold the property to 
Robert Hamilton, from whom the Harner 
brothers purchased it. Our subject has 
erected a good bank barn, forty-two by 
eighty feet, but he found this inadequate 
and built another one. thirty-six by sixtv- 
eight feet. He has a hog pen, thirty-six by 
twenty-fi\-e feet, and all the necessary out- 
buildings for the shelter of grain and stock. 
About 1884 he and his brothers dissolved 
partnership. Mr. Harner purchasing the in- 
terests of the others in the farm upon which 
he makes his home. 

Four children have been born unto our 
subject and his wife: \'inton L., who died in 
August. 1869: Maggie, who married Albert 
Thornhill, and resides in Xenia; John H., 
who married Hattie Stillings and is a farm- 
er residing in Spring Valley township with 
his wife and one child. Horace Irving; and 
Jessie, at home. 

Mr. Harner was reared a Whig and was 
only four years old at the time of the presi- 
dential election of 1840. He can remember 
William H. Harrison, who was then the 
candidate of the Whig party. In i860 he 
voted for Lincoln and has since been a Re- 
publican, unswerving in his advocacy of the 
principles of the party. He had one brother, 
William P.. who was a soldier of the Civil 
war. He belonged to Company F. One 
Hundred and Tenth Ohio Infantry, and laid 
down his life on the altar of his country at 
the battle near Spottsylvania Court House, 
his remains being interred in the soldiers' 
national cemeterv near there. Mr. Harner 



is a self-made man. He had few advantages 
in youth but he jxissessed a resolute spirit, 
unfaltering purpose and strong determina- 
tion. Steadily he has worked his way up- 
ward and to-day he is one of the prosperous 
farmers of Spring \'alley township, having 
a very desirable property, which is the visi- 
ble evidence of his life of industrv. 



WILLIAM MARTIX BARBER. 

W. ]\Iartin Barber, a nati\e of Greene 
county, was born May 6, 1820, in what was 
then Ross township, but is now Cedarville 
township, his parents being John and Sarah 
(Martin) Barber. The father was a native 
of Penns}-lvania and at an early day came to 
Ohio, settling in what was then Ross town- 
ship, Greene county. His father liail pur- 
chased a large tract of land in this town- 
ship and divided it among his sons. He, 
too, became a resident of the county, living 
here for many years, where he was eventu- 
ally called to his final rest. John Barber 
served the country in the war of 18 12 and 
throughout the greater part of his business 
career carried on agricultural pursuits. After 
the death of her husband Mrs. Barber re- 
moved to Cedarville. where she passed away 
at an advanced age. Both were loyal mem- 
bers of the Associate Reformed church, and 
in their family were eleven children, of 
whom W. IMartin was the second in order of 
birth. Only two of the number, liowever, 
are now living, the other being- Esther, wife 
of James Townslev. 

W. Martin Barber obtained his educa- 
tion in an old log school-house in his native 
township and though his privileges in that 
direction were somewhat limited, his train- 



ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



457 



ing at farm labor was nut neglected. Abdiit 
1841 he reninved to Ccdarville. where he en- 
gaged in the operation uf a sawmill, ccjntin- 
ning in that industry for many years. The 
mill was situated in the village and he en- 
gaged in its operation muil about ten vears 
ago. since which time he has lived a retired 
life, enjoying a well merited rest. In his busi- 
ness affairs he prospered as the result of his 
untiring activity, his enterprise and capable 
management. He also owns a farm of one 
liundred and fifty acres in Cedars'ille town- 
shij). which he has manageil for. a number 
of years. 

Mr. Barber has been twice married. For 
his first wife he chose X'ancy Townsley, their 
marriage being celebrated February 9, 1848. 
She was a daughter of Enos Townsley, a 
farmer and an earlx' settler of Ceflarville 
townsiiip. llcr death occurred Ma_\- 4, 
1855, and four children were left to mourn 
her loss: Emmazetta is the wife of L. J. 
Bull, of Cedarville, and they have three chil- 
dren — Carl, Frank B. and Ralph. Mary J- 
is the wife of Charles M. Crouse, who is 
engaged in tlie hardware business in Cedar- 
ville. Henry M. is the superintendent of the 
straw department of the pajjcr mill at this 
place and is a member of the budding com- 
mittee of the courthouse for this county. 
Nancy is the wife of James H. Andrew, a 
retired grocer, of Cedarville. For his sec- 
ond wife Mr. Barber chose Mary ^L Mead, 
a nati\e of Morgan county, Ohio, and a 
daughter of Holmes aiid Marv Ann Mead. 
Her father was born in Vermont and the 
mother's birth occurred in Xew Jersey. I\Ir. 
Mead follow'ed farming all his life. At an 
early da>- he came to Ohio and here became 
identified with agTicultural pursuits. His 
last davs. however, were spent in Kansas. 
The second marriage of Mr. Barber oc- 



curred Xovember 20, 1861, and by this 
union two children ha,"\e been born: Carrie 
J. and Lulu. The latter is at home and the 
fomier is now the wife of W. L. Marshall, 
who is engaged in the livery business in 
Xenia. They have four children : Harry, 
Arthur B., Mary L. and Alfred L. 

.\t the time of the Civil war Mw Bar- 
ber was made a member of the Volunteer 
Company of Xenia, was stationed at Fort 
Chase at the time of the Morgan raid, but 
was only on duty for a few da\s. In pol- 
itics he was a Democrat during early life, 
but for the past ten years has voted the Re- 
formed ticket. For se\eral terms he served 
as a member of the council at Cedarville, 
and whatever tended to advance the welfare 
ami upbuilding of the town has proved of 
interest to him and has elicited his co-opera- 
tion. For over a half-ccntin-y he has been 
a member of the United Presbyterian cluirch 
and his life has been in constant harmony 
with its teachings and principles. Mr. Bar- 
ber is now past the age of eighty-two years, 
and to him is tendered the veneration and 
respect which should e\-er be gi\e:i to one 
of advanced years. His life lias been char- 
acterized by industry, by perseverance, by 
loyalty in citizenship and trustworthiness in 
all relations, and therefore his example is 
one worthy of emulation, and one which 
should ever awaken respect. 



J. HO:\IER HAWKINS. 

Upon the farm w hich he now occupies in 
Xenia township J. Homer Hawkins was 
born on the 20th of Xovember, 1864, and 
here his entire life has been passed as a rep- 
resentative agriculturist of Greene countv. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY. 



He is a son of James and Catlierine (Crom- 
well ) Hawkins and the father was also born 
on the farm occupied hy our subject, 'i'hc 
grandfather was J^Iounts Hawkins, and at 
an early day the family lived in the Shenan- 
doah valley of Virginia. Mounts Hawkins 
was an own cousin of David Crockett, the 
famous scout and explorer. Leaving \'ir- 
ginia he emigrated westward and became 
one of the pioneer settlers of Greene county, 
Ohio. He engaged in farming in Xenia 
townsliip and purchased the old home place, 
to which he added from time to time until 
he had one ihousand acres, the greater part 
of which was originally covered with lim- 
ber, but lie cleared away the forest trees 
and developed a very valuable farm, lie 
we<l(led Mary Allen, a daughter of Davis 
and Elizabeth (Antrim) Allen, who were 
also from \'irginia. It was in i8 14' that the 
grandparents of our subject arri\ed in 
Crcene countw and the thousand acres of 
land were ])urchased for live thousand doU 
lars. Both Mounts Hawkins and his wife 
spent their remaining days in this county. 
Their son, James Hawkins, w^as reared 
amid the wild scenes of tlie frontier and as- 
sisted in the arduous task of developing a 
new farm from the wild forest land. 
Throughout the years of bis business career 
he carried on agricultural pin^suits, making 
his home upon the place where his birth oc- 
curred. He married Catherine Cromwell, a 
native of Maryland and a daughter of Rich- 
ard and Susan (McLrmghlinj Cromwell, 
also natives of the same state. 'i"he father 
was a farmer and stock-raiser and followed 
those pursuits until his death, which oc- 
curred in Maryland, when he was forty-six 
years of age. He had served bis country in 
the war of ilSu. l'\>r nearlv ten years after 
the father's death the CrtMiiwell familv re- 



mained in Maryland and then the mother 
brought her six children, of whom Mrs. 
Hawkins was one, to Greene county, Ohio. 
James Hawkins was a prosperous and i>ro- 
gressive man and ])ro\-ided a good home for 
his family. He became a very extensive 
land owner and his realt\- holdings jjrought 
to him a g(jod financial return by reason of 
the care and labor be bestowed upon the 
fields. He was a member of the First Re- 
formed church of Xenia and served as one 
of its elders for many years. In politics he 
was a Democrat. His death occurred in 
December, i8Sj, when he was sixty-two 
years of age, and thus the community lost 
a valued and representative citizen and Irs 
family a devoted husband and father. His 
widow still survives him and yet resides 
upon the old ihome farm with the subject 
of this review. Bv her marriage she be- 
came the mother of nine children: Jose])h 
C. who died in childhood; Mary Belle, at 
home: Carrie, also at home: Sallie C who 
spends most of her time in Atlanta. Geor- 
gia: Mounts, who died in infancy: l'"lora, 
who died at the age of seventeen years : 
Frances C, the wife of L. F.' Cramer, an 
insm\'mce man of Osborn, Greene county: 
Ann Maria, who died in infancy: and J. 
Homer. Of this family I'rances C. was 
married in 1881 to L. F. Cramer, of I'rank- 
lin county, Pennsylvania. Their chililrcn 
arc: Winnefred, a student in Wittenberg 
College, of Springfield. Ohio: Ral])h, a stu- 
dent in the high school of Osborn: Cather- 
ine, who is also taking the high school 
course; Joseph Carl, who died at the age of 
three years; and Marguerite, at home. 

J. flomer Hawkins pursued his earlv ed- 
ucation in the public schools of Xenia and 
later became a student in Xenia College, 
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career as a farmer and stnck-raiscr. liaviny 
gained i)ractical knciwledt^e of the business 
duriii'^- the davs i)f his youth, wlien lie was 
not occupied l)v iiis sclmol \vori<. lie is en- 
ga^'i^ed in the operation of two hundred acres 
of rich and valuable land, and the liclds are 
under a high state of cultivation. He is also 
a successful stock-raiser, making a specialty 
of short-horn cattle. Poland China hogs and 
I'ercheron horses. He takes a deep interest 
in everything tending to p'"omote the wel- 
fare of the agTicultural class and render 
their labors more effective and profitable, 
and is to-day the president of the (Ireene 
(."oinity Farmers' Institute. 

in Xovember, iS<)i, Mr. Hawkins was 
united in marriage to Miss iClizabeth iMsher. 
a daughter of Andrew I-'isher. a meat jiacker 
and dealer of Xenia. To them have been 
burn two children : James, born .March 7. 
181^4, and Kdith .\1., born .April jj. iS(;t). 
In his ])<)litical views Mr. I lawkins is a Dem- 
ocrat and has been a member of Xenia town- 
ship board of education I'or the past seven 
or eight years, while for fourteen years he 
has been a deacon in the I\eformed church, 
in wihich he holds membership. 



SAMUEL MOSES MALLOW. 

From pioneer times down to the present 
the Mallow family has been rei)resented in 
(ircene county and the name figures on the 
pages of history in comiedion with .agricul- 
tural interests and with many lines of l>rog- 
ress and iimprovemenl, wihich have lead to 
the substantial ui)building oi' this portion ol 
the state. Mr. Mallow of this review is now 
residing in Caesarscreek townshiji. 1 le was 
bovn May 6, 1831, in what is now Xcw Jas- 



per t(nvnship, bis parents being George and 
Flizabetli (Fudge) Mallow. The family is 
of Gemian lineage but was founded at an 
early date on American shores. Both of the 
parents of our subject were natives of Vir- 
ginia, the father having been born in Rock- 
ingham county. They were* married in 
Warren county, Ohio, having taken up their 
abode in this portion of the state during its 
primitive development. After their mar- 
riage they lived in Xew Jasper townshij). 
where they spent their remaining days, the 
f.lther passing awa\- in 1861 at the age of 
se\enty-one years, while the mother's death 
occurred in 1865. their remains being in- 
terred in L5oots' cemeterv of New Jasper 
township. Mr. Mallow was a W'hig in his 
])olitical views and both he and his wife 
were consistent members of the Lutheran 
church. They had six children but only two 
.are now living, llenry .\1.. the youngest of 
the famih'. lieing .a resideiU of W;irren, In- 
di;ma. 

Samuel M. M.dlow. of this review, was 
the fifth in order of birth, lie is indebted 
to the common school system ()f Xcw Jas- 
])cr township fi>r the educatiiHial in-i\ileges 
which he enjoyed in early youth. At lirsl 
be attended scIkmjI throughoul all sessions, 
but in later years, when he was <ild enough 
to assist in the work of the farm, he jjur- 
sued his studies only through the winter 
months, and when nineten years of age put 
aside his text books, lie continued on the 
old fainily •homestead until .Xovember (>, 
1 85 I, on which date was celebrated his mar- 
riage to Miss .\my H. Adsit, who was of 
I'jiglis'h lineage. She was born in Dutchess 
county. Xew \'ork, as were her parents, Hi- 
ram and Susan (lUilts) Adsit, the former 
born June 4. 1807, and the latter on the 19th 
of .\ugust of the same vear. Their mar- 



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riage was there celeljrated Decemlier 3, 
1829, anil in 1833 tliey emigrated westward, 
^Irs. Mallow being at that time only ten 
months old. They first settled in Spring 
\'alley township but after a short time ]Mr. 
Adsit purchased alxaU one hundred acres of 
land, constituting the farm upon which our 
subject now resides. From this tract he 
cleared the hea\'v timber and continued the 
work of imi)r(i\enient and cultivation imtil 
his death, which occurred September 2. 
1847, ^vhen he was forty years of age. His 
wife long survived him and passed away in 
1896 in her ninetieth year. He was buried 
in the Baptist cemetery of Caesarscreek 
township and his wife in the cemetery in 
Xenia. She was a member of the Reformed 
churdv and by her marriage had become the 
mother of four children, of whom three are 
now living: Daniel B., who resides in War- 
ren, Indiana: Silas, of Jamestown, Ohio: 
and Mrs. Mallow. 

After his marriage Samuel ]\I. Mallnw 
rented land for two years and then witli the 
money which 'he had acquired through iiis 
own efforts he purchased his present farm, 
which has been his home continuouslv since. 
He has one hundred and si.\ty acres of land 
which is under a high state of cultivation. 
He built the dwelling and barns upon the 
place and has made other substantial im- 
provements, W'bich indicates his progressive 
spirit and his enterprise. His farm work 
has been tO' hun a profitable source of in- 
come and he certainly deserves great credit 
for what he has accomplished. The home 
of Mr. and Mrs. Mallow has been blessed 
with two children. George Fudge, tlie elder, 
married Josephine Smith and resides in 
Xenia township. They have one child. Opal, 
Susan is the wife of Charles INIcKay. of 
Clinton countv, and thev have three chil- 



dren, Bernard, Amy C. and Lena M. ^Irs. 
]\Iall(iw belotigs to the Reformed church and 
is a most estimable lady. To the men and 
measures of the Republican party Mr. Mal- 
low gives his support and has held the office 
of trustee in Cajcsarscreek township. He has 
good business ability, is prudent and ear- 
nest, and owes his success not to genius but 
to the due exercise of his own good judg- 
ment. 

■*—-*■ 

HON. JOSEPH B. CUM^HNGS. 

Joseph B. Cummings is one of the dis- 
tinguished and honored residents of Greene 
county, having gained prominence in po- 
litical as well as in business circles. He 
stands to-day a strong man, strong in his 
honor and his good name, and his value to 
the communitv b_\- what he has done in be- 
half of the county is widely recognized. His 
birth occurred Alay 31, 1841, on a farm in 
Caesarscreek townshiji, where he now re- 
sides. His father, Thomas B. Cummings. 
was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 
February 6, 18 14, and there spent the days 
of his boyhood and youth, coming to tlie 
west when twentv-two vcars of age. He en- 
gaged in teaching' in his native county in 
early life, but believing that he would have 
better business opportunities in the new and 
growing west he walked from Philadelphia 
to Pittsburg and then proceeded by boat to 
Cincinnati, arriving at that place with only 
fifty cents in his pocket. He then made his 
way into the interior of the state and formetl 
the acquaintance of a man who proved to 
lie Mr. Weaver, of Greene county, and a 
neighbor of David Marshall, an uncle of 
^Ir. Cummings. The latter accompanied 
Mr. Weaver to Greene countv, and after a 




J. B. CUMMINGS. 



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few (lays accepted a pusiliun as teacher of a 
school. He taught alxmt twenty years in 
Caesarscreek tow nshi]). in tlie meantime liav- 
ing purcliased a farm of fifty-five acres, of 
whicli only ahout two acres liad been cleared, 
while a loy cabin constituted the only im- 
provement up<jn the place. Mr. Cunimings 
continuefl clearing his land while engaged in 
teaching. .\t length he abandoned that pro- 
fession and l)v industr\- ami perseverance 
and capable management became the own- 
er of a very valuable farm, e.xtending- its 
borders from time to time by additional pur- 
chases until 1)\- the close nf the war he was 
the owner of h\e hundred acres of valualile 
land. He gave a part of this to his chil- 
dren, also sold a portion of it, but at the 
time of his death retained jjossession of two 
hundred and forty-two acres. Mr. Cuni- 
mings was twice married. He first wedded 
Mary E. I Joints, who died on the ist of Oc- 
tober, iSfii. She was a descendant of the 
PetersDU family of Caesarscreek township. 
By that marriage there were eight children : 
j\Iar\-, who died at the age of sixteen years; 
Josepli B. : Sarah J., the wife of William 
Conklin, of Xenia ; James M., who is a resi- 
dent iif Indiana, and who served in Com- 
pany A.. Second Ohio Light Artillery in the 
Civil war ; Thomas Jefferson, who served in 
Company £, Second Ohio Heavy Artiliery, 
being on Ship Island during his entire serv- 
ice, and is now deceased; Martha, the wife 
of Henry C. Long, of Jasper township ; ami 
Ada, who died at the age of three vears. 
After the death of his first wife the father 
was married on the i ith of September, 1862, 
his second union being with Miss Marv E. 
McXair, who still survi\-es him and is fix- 
ing with John Cummings. The mother of 
our subject was a consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, but the father 

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and his second wife belonged to the Re- 
formed church. He served as a justice of 
the peace and took a very active part in pol- 
itics, upholding the princi])les of the Re- 
])ublican party. His death occurred Novem- 
ber 22. 1895, at the age of eighty-one years 
anil after almost a half-century's residence 
in Greene county. 

Joseph B. Cummings, whose name in- 
troduces this review, obtained bis education 
in the district schools near his home and 
remained under the parental roof until 
twenty years of age, when he enlisted at 
Dayton, Ohio, September 22, 1861, in re- 
sponse to President Lincoli/s call for aid 
in preserving the Union. He was mus- 
tered in on the 28th of the same month as 
a private of Company E, I'-irst Ohio \'olun- 
teer Infantry, and participated in the bat- 
tles (if Shiloh, Perry ville. Stone River, 
Liberty Gap, Chickamauga and nunor en- 
gagements. At Chickamauga on the 19th 
of September, 1863, he was wounded in 
both hands and the left lun.g. The regi- 
ment was in the very thickest of the fight, 
and, having sustained these injuries, Mr. 
Cummings was sent to the hospital at Chat- 
tanooga and afterward to Nashville, Ten- 
nessee. In May he was ordered to AVash- 
ington, D. C, and there was made first 
sergeant of Company H, Nineteenth Regi- 
ment of the Veteran Reserve Corps. He 
was stationed at Rochester, New York, dur- 
ing the famous draft riots in that state, and 
in that state was honorably discharged Oc- 
tober 15, 1864. 

Mr. Cummings at once returned to his 
home and on the 14th of February, 1865, 
he was united in marriage to Miss Ann 
Humston, a daughter of H. G. and Elizabeth 
(Ford) Humston, both of whom are now- 
deceased. Three children ha\e graced this 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



marriage ; ]^Iary. born September 26, 
1867, is an instructor in Greek and occu- 
pies the chair of modern languages in the 
Tuscuhim College, in Tennessee. She was 
educated in the Xenia Female Seminary and 
in Antioch College. Ina, born October 9. 
1870, is the deceased wife of T. O. Masoii, 
of Xenia. and left one son, Joe. Thomas, 
horn July 26, 1876. married Mamie "S]. 
Wise, and they reside w ith his father. They 
lost one child, Marie, but have two sons. 
Donald and Floyd. 

Mr. and ^Irs. Cummings hold mem- 
bership in the Reformed church, anil he 
maintains relations with his old army com- 
rades through his membership in Lewis 
Post, G. A. R. He is also identified with the 
Union Xational Legion. In politics he is a 
very prominent Republican and is recognized 
as a leader of public thought and action in 
his district. He was elected township clerk, 
in whicli position he served for six years, 
was land appraiser and for twelve years was 
justice of the peace. In 1894 he was chosen 
to represent his district in the state legisla- 
ture, where he proved an active working 
member. He served on a number of im- 
portant committees, including the commit- 
tees on county affairs, the military. Soldiers' 
and Sailors' Orphan Home, and of the 
last named he was chairman. In 1895 he 
was re-elected and his course was such as re- 
flected credit upon his constituents, for he 
labored earnestly and indefatigably for the 
welfare of tKose whom he represented. His 
life has been devoted to his family and his 
friends, his business and to the support of 
those principles which he believed to be 
right. His unswerving purpose, his un- 
questioned fidelity, his unfaltering honesty 
and his unchanging way ha\e commanded 
the highest respect of all. He has been a 



leader in the cause of liberty, of freedom and 
of progress and his hearty cooperation has 
ever been given to that which tends to ele- 
vate mankind. 



JAMES COLLIXS GALLOWAY. 

The name Galloway is closely associated 
witii the history of Xenia and Greene coun- 
ty. The pioneers of the Greene county 
branch of this family came from Lexington, 
Kentucky, in 1797, and settleii ujKin the 
banks of the Little Miami river about four 
miles north of Xenia, near Old Chillicothe, 
now Oldtown. This family is of Scotch ori- 
gin and they are known to have lived in the 
southwest part of Scotland, in the district 
composed of W'igton and Kirkcudbright of 
to-day. During the era of the persecution 
of the Christians in Scotland they migrated 
across the Irish sea and settled in County 
Antrim, Ireland. This is known as the 
Galloway district and it was from this place 
that the family of seven l)rothers — George. 
Samuel, John, \\'iniam, James, Peter and 
Thomas, — yearning for civil and religious 
liberty, set sail for the new world. They 
made a settlement in the province of Penn- 
sylvania early in the eighteenth century near 
the famous spring of the noted Indian chief 
Logan, in what is now Cumberland county. 

George Galloway, one of these brothers, 
was born in Scotland about 1700. emigrated 
to Ireland to avoid religious persecution, 
conring thence to America and founding a 
branch of the family in Cumberland county, 
Pennsvlvania. He marrietl Rebekah Junkin, 
a native of Scotland, and died August 3, 
1783. In their family were five sons and 
four daughters: \\'illiam. Joseph, John. 



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Samuel, James. Jane, Margaret. Martlia and 
Sarali. 

Of tliis numljer James Galloway was a 
Revolutionary soldier and pensioner. He 
was born ]\Iay i, 1750. and married Rebekah 
Junkin. wlio was born October 2, 1759. 
They were residents of Greene county. Ohio, 
at its organization, having settled near Old 
Chillicothe(now 01dtown)in 1797. The for- 
mer died near Xenia. August 6, 183S, and 
the latter August 31. 1812. their remains 
being interred in Massies Creek burying 
ground, fom- miles east of Xenia. In their 
family w ere eight sons and two daughters : 
George, James, Joseph. William, Samuel, 
Andrew, Anthony, John. Rebecca and Ann. 
Rebecca became the wife (.1 (i^orge Gallo- 
way and they were the parents of James Col- 
lins Galloway. 

George Gallowa\ was born in Cumber- 
land county, Pennsylvania. June 4, 1784, 
and was the son of Joseph Galloway. His 
brothers and sisters were John, William. 
Jane. Isabel. Joseph. Jr.. James, Sojihia. .\nn 
Eliza. Agnes and Elizabeth. He married 
Rebecca Galloway, who was born near Lex- 
ington. Kentucky. Octoljer 7. 1791, and died 
I-'ebruary 2^. 1876. at Xenia, Ohio. Her 
b.usband. George (jalli}way, dietl at the same 
]ilace January 29. 1857. Their children were 
James Collins, Madison, William. Ann, 
Martha and Eleanor. 

James Collins Galloway was Ixirn in 
Xenia township. Greene county. Ohio. June 
30. 18 1 7. He was a man of broad mind and 
liberal education for the period in which he 
lived. He was closely associated with the 
educational interests of the county, and the 
common school s)stem was materiallv jim- 
moted throug''h his efforts. He was a strong 
abolitionist, an earnest Christian and organ- 
ized the first Sabbath school for freedmen 



in the county. In politics he was a ^^ big in 
early life, and when the Republican party 
Avas fomied to prevent the furtlier extension 
of sla,very he joined its ranks. In religion 
he was a Seceder and later a Presbyterian. 
On the 1 8th of X'ovember. 1841. James Col- 
lins Galloway and Mary Ann Kendall were 
married by Rev. James R. Bonnar. She 
\\:i- born in Xenia township. ^lav 12, 1822, 
and was a daughter of William and Eleanor 
(Jackson) Kendall. Her father was born 
at Stoney Creek, Kentucky, in 1795. and 
was a son of Robert and Xancy (A\'ilson) 
Kendall. Roljert Kendall was born October 
12, 1752. and died on the 12th of October, 
1843. His wife, who was born in 1770, 
died Eebruary 18. 1852. Their children 
were William. John. James, Erancis, ^lil- 
ton, Xewtun, Martha, .\nn, Isabel and 
Xancy. Of this family William Kendall 
died near Xenia, August 6, 1879. He had 
married Eleanor Jackson, a daugiiter of 
Roliert Jackson, a granddaughter of David 
Jackson and a great-granddaughter of Dr. 
Joseph Jackson. The last named was born 
in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1690, and 
about 1762 emigrated to America, his chil- 
dren having preceded him. Of his large 
family Hugh, Robert and David were full 
brother.s, while Andrew, a half brother, 
was the father of Andrew Jackson, who be- 
came president of the United States in 1829. 
Dr. Jackson died in 1768. His son, David 
Jackson, was born in Ireland in 1730, was a 
srildier of the Revolutionary war and lost 
one of his hands in the battle of Trenton on 
Christmas day, 1776. He died in 181 r. 
The third child born unto him and his wife 
Elizabeth was Robert Jackson, the father 
of Mrs. ^^'illiam Kendall. He was born at 
Xewtown, Limavady. County Derry, Ire- 
land, in 1758. He had two brothers and 



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ROBINSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUXTV. 



one sister: Hugli. James and Mary. Rob- 
ert Jackson came to .America \vith his fa- 
tlier and liis family in 1762 and in 1786 was 
married to Elizabeth McCorkle, a beautiful 
girl and the daughter of a Revolutionary 
soldier killed in battle. She was born in 
Scotland and had two brothers, one of 
whinn was killed in the Revolutionary war 
and the other was killed by accident. Both 
Robert and Elizabeth ( McCorkle) Jackson 
spent their last days in Greene county, Ohio, 
and were buried in Massies Creek burying 
ground. He died September 26. 1828. 
There were two sons and eight daughters in 
their family : David, Robert, ^Margaret, 
Jane, Elizabeth. Mary. Rachel, ^lartha, 
Nancy and Eleanor. Of this family Eleanor 
Jackson became the wife of William Ken- 
dall. She was born in Jefferson county, 
Ohio, March 15. 1800, and died June 6, 
1888, near Xenia. Their children were 
Robert, Clark, Henry, Mary Ann, Eliza and 
Caroline. Mary Ann became the wife of 
James Collins Galloway. He died in Xenia, 
Ni>vember 28. 1899, and his wife died in 
the same city. Septanber 10, 1892. They 
were the parents of four children, all yet 
living: Clark ]\Iadison, born April 20, 
1843; Alethia Ellen. ^^larch 2j. 1846; Re- 
becca Alice, December 28, 185 1 ; and Will- 
iam Albert, April 8, i860, all born in Xenia 
township. 

Clark Madison Galloway. M. D., A. ]\I., 
enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and 
Fifty-fourth Ohio \^olunteer Infantry, for 
one hundre<l days' service in the spring of 
1864, and during that term was in West 
\'irginia. He afterward re-enlisted in Com- 
pany G, One Hundred and Eighty-first Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and took part in the 
battle of X'ashville where Hood's veteran 
armv was destroved bv General Thomas. 



He was present when Johnston surrendered 
to General Sherman at Raleigh, Xorth Caro- 
lina. At the close of the war he was mus- 
tered out of service and returned home. His 
preliminary education had been acquired in 
the pul)lic sch(X)ls and in i8()f) he continued 
his education as a student at Xenia College. 
In 1869 he entered ^Miami University, in 
which he was graduated in 1871, after 
which he began teaching, being professor in 
Greek, Latin and mathematics in Xenia Col- 
lege. For four years he was one of the in- 
structors in that institution and during the 
summer months he also taught in its sum- 
mer normals. In 1875 he entered the ^led- 
ical College of Ohio, from which he was 
graduated in 1877. He then located for the 
practice of medicine and surgery in Xenia 
and is now associated with is brother. Dr. 
W. A. Galloway. He took a special course 
at Jefferson ^Medical College, Philadelphia, 
in 1879. He is now and for ten years has 
been secretary of the Xenia board of United 
States pension surgeons ; was coroner of 
Greene county for eight years; a member of 
the board of education of Xenia for twelve 
years ; was physician and surgeon to the 
Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Xenia 
from 1888 until 1891 ; and is assistant sur- 
geon of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton 
Railroad Compau}- : was a member of the 
board of health for two years : and for a 
similar jieriod represented the first ward in 
the city council of Xenia. In 189 1-2 he 
was medical director of the Department of 
Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, and is a 
member of Lewis Post, Xo. 347, G. A. R., 
and Xathaniel Greene Chapter, S. A. R. In 
religious faith he is a Presbyterian anil in 
political belief a Republican. Fraternally 
he is connected with the Masonic Lodge of 
Xenia, X^o. 49, and in the line of his profes- 



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sion is a member of tlie Greene County and 
Ohio State Aisdical Societies. 

Alethia Ellen Galloway is a graduate of 
and received her degree of M. E. L. from 
Xenia College in 1864. In the same year 
she was married by the Rev. R. D. Harper, 
D. D., to William J. Parrett, of Lyndon, 
Ross county, Ohio. They have two chil- 
dren living: Carrie Dell, \\lv> was educated 
in Wooster University ; and Clark Sher- 
man, who Avas graduated in the same insti- 
tution in 1897 and was married January 23, 
1902, in Springfield, Ohio, to Sylvia Jones. 

Rel>ecca Alice Galloway is a graduate of 
Xenia College of the class of 1873, at which 
time the degree of M. L. L. was conferred 
ujxDn her. She taught lor one year in the 
Osborn public schools: Iv^o years in Xenia 
College: attended Antioch College for one 
year: taught for two ye;irs in the public 
schools of Yellow Springs; and from 
1888 to 1896 in the public schools 
of Xenia. She is a past regent of Cath- 
arine Greene Cha])tcr, 1). .\. R. : a mem- 
ber of the Woman's Club of Xenia : is Ohio 
Federation secretary of the General Federa- 
tion of Woman's Clubs; and a member of 
the Xenia Library Association. On the 6th 
of February. 1896, she became the wife of 
Henry Harrison Eavey, the marriage being 
performed by Rev. J. C. Eh". 

William Albert Galloway, B. S.. '\L D., 
was educated in Antioch College, being 
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of 
Science. On his gratluation from the Med- 
ical College of Ohio, in ?»Iarch, 1890, he be- 
came associated w'ith his brot'ner. Dr. Clark 
M. Galloway, and has practiced continu- 
ously to this date. He was married April 2, 
1891. in X'ewark, Ohio, by Rev. E. B. Jones, 
to Maude Evelyn, only tlaughter of \\'illiani 
C. and Evelyn ( Spitzer) Lyon. Her father 



was lieutenant governor of Oh'ui from 1888 
to 1890. Three children ha\e been born to 
th0m : Evelyn Helen, torn February 8, 
1893; William Lyon, born March 29, 1895; 
and Elizabeth Mary, born May 21, 1902. 
Dr. \\'. A. Galloway was apoointed a mem- 
ber of the State Xormal and Industrial 
lx)ard of trustees at \\'ilberforce Uni\ersity 
by Governor Bushnell in 1896, and has been 
president of the board continuously since. 
He belongs to Xenia Lodge, Xo. 49, F. & 
A. M. ; is corresponding secretary of X'^a- 
thaniel Greene Chapter, S. A. R. ; vice pres- 
ident of the Ohio Society, S. A. R. : and in 
his church relations is a Presbyterian. From 
1899 to 1902 he was physician to the Greene 
County Infirmary and Children's Home; is 
surgeon to the Cincinnati, Haanilton & Day- 
ton Railroad ; is a member of the Greene 
County, Ohio State and Mississippi Valley 
Medical Associations: and is a frequent con- 
tributor to medical and other journals. 



OTTO A. WILSOX. 



Otto A. Wilson, who is now living in 
Fairfield, is well known in Democratic cir- 
cles in Greene county, taking a deep and 
active interest in everything pertaining to 
the welfare and upbuilding of his 
party. He is now serving in the po- 
sition of township clerk. He was born 
in the village of Fairfield, August 7, 
1867, and is a son of William W. and Sarah 
( Greiner) Wilson. His paternal grandfa- 
ther, William Henry Wilson, was a native 
of Ireland and emigrated with his family to 
the new world, after which he served as en- 
sign of the Fifth Company of the Seventy- 
fourth Regiment of the Militia of Pennsvl- 



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vania. being appointed to the position in 
1811, the commission being signed by Gov- 
ernor SinK.in Snvder. This document ^is 
still in the possession of our subject. Mr. 
Wilson also has a commission in his posses- 
sion signed by President James Monroe, ap- 
])ointing \\'illiani 11. \\'ilson as the first sur- 
veyor of Clark county, Ohio. In 1816 the 
grandfather purchased a tract of land bor- 
dering for one hundred feet on Market 
street, in Springfield, Ohio, and this was in 
possession of the family for over eighty 
years, l)eing- sold but a short time ago. He 
died while vet a \iiung man. passing away 
in 1823. His remains were interred in 
Springfield. Ohio, but later were transferred 
to the family lot in Fairfield. He was the 
father of three children: Mrs. Emily Smith, 
who died in Fairfield in 1889: Catherine, 
who became Mrs. Bressler, of Fairfield, and 
died in Jul}-, 1890: and ^^'illiam \\'., the 
father of our subject. The mother of these 
children passed away in 1868. 

William W. Wilson was born in Spring- 
field, Ohio, July 20. 1823, and pursued his 
educatiim in the public schools there until 
he was twehe years of age, when he went 
to Bath township, Greene county, to live 
with .\rthur Johnson, and in that locality he 
completed his education. In 1846 lie be- 
gan to learn the cal)inet-maker's trade, in 
Dayton. Ohio. He wi.>uld walk to Dayton 
on Monda\' morning and return on Satur- 
day evening, making the journey on foot 
each way. a distance of fifteen miles. After 
he had com])letcd his trade he returned to 
Fairfield, where he opened an undertaking 
establishment and cabinet shop, continuing 
business along those lines until the close of 
the Civil war. He then entered into partner- 
ship with D. K. Wnlf. under the firm name 
of Wilson & Wolf, and t)pened a general 



store in Fairfield, but the partnership con- 
tinued only a short time, Mr. \\'ilson becom- 
ing sole owner of the business which he con- 
ducted successfully until a few years p.rior 
to his death, when on account of ill health 
he S(.ild out. He started in life with nn 
capital and b\' hard, earnest, honest work 
he accumulated considerable property and 
became a wealthy man. At the time of his 
death he owned a house and kit in Fair- 
field, where he lived, a farm in Bath town- 
ship, (ireeue county, another farm in Clark 
count v and a business block and a house and 
li)t in Springfield, Ohio, all having been ac- 
quired from his own earnest exertions. In 
politics he was a lifelong Democrat, ami 
served as township trustee for a number lA 
years, while for a few years he was justice 
of the peace, proving a capable and efii- 
cient ofificer. His wife was a niember of 
the ]\Ieth(jdist Episcopal church, and he was 
a regular attendant upon its services until 
his health failed. Mrs. Wilson was ill for 
al:)out eighteen months ]irior to her death. 
Dm"iug the last six months she was unalile 
to Iea\'e her bed. She passed away Novem- 
ber ^1, 1901, at the age of sixty-seven years, 
and was laid to rest b\ ihe side of her hus- 
band in Fairfield cemctcrw L'nto Mr. and 
I\Irs. Wilson were born two children, the 
daughter being Cornelia, the wife of F. D. 
Johnson, a resident of Chexenne. Wyoming, 
in the L'nited States mail service. . 

(Hto A. Wilson, of this re\'iew. i)ursued 
his education in the schools of Fairfield and 
accp-iired a tcac'.ier"s certificate, ])ut ne\-er 
engaged in teaching. He always li\-ed w ith 
his father and assisted him in his work and 
after his father's liealth failed assumed the 
management of the Inisiness. He is. how- 
ever, a painter l)y trade and followed that 
pursuit for a number of years, working in 



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siTine of the western cities. For a time he 
was employed in tlie sliipyards at Seattle. 
Washington. 

On the 27th of Septeml>er, 1894, Mv. 
Wilsoti was united in niai ria<^e to Miss Cora 
Miller, a native of Bath township, and a 
daughter of Jacob and Catherine Miller. In 
liis political views Mr. Wilson is a stanch 
Danocrat, and in 1895 was elected on that 
ticket to the office of township clerk, in 
which capacity he is still serving. During 
the cani|)aign f)f 1896 and those succeeding 
he has been a member of the central and 
executive committees, and has served as 
clerk of both committees. Me has also for 
several times been a delegate to the county 
and state conNciuions and is unswerving in 
his allegiance to the party. Mis wife is a 
member of tlie {•Reformed church, while he 
belongs to the Methmlist Episcopal church. 
They ha\e one of the finest hoiucs in Fair- 
field. It is heated by hot water, is modern 
in every respect and was built in an at- 
tractive style of architecture, Mr. Wilson 
himself draw ing the plans for the place. He 
also owns a fami of one hundred and sixt;- 
five acres of \'er\- \aluab!e land in Piath 
township and this brings to him a good ren- 
tal, adding materially to his income. Mr. 
Wilson has sjient his entire life in this lo- 
cality and is widely known as a gentleman 
of genuine worth, of reliabilit\- in business 
and one whose genial manner and social 
disjxjsition has gained him many friends. 



JOHN R. SMITH. 



A farm of one hundred and fifty acres 
situated in Sugarcreek township is the prop- 
erty of John Riley Smith, a well know'o agri- 



culturist of Greene county, who throughout 
his entire life has engaged in the tilling of 
the soil in this iX)rtion of the state. His 
birth occurred about four miles froiu Xenia 
on his father's farm on the C'okmibus ]iike at 
what is called East Point, in a st(jne house 
wliicb is still occupied as a residence. His 
natal day was November 18, 1839, and he 
is a son of John G. and Sophronia (?kIcFar- 
land) Smith. The father w:is liorn in Ha- 
gerstown, Maryland, and when only two 
years old was brought by his parents to 
Ohii"). the family making the journey 011 
horseback and bringing with them their 
farming utensils. Mr. Smith was born on 
Christmas day in 18 10 and the year 1812 
witnessed their emigration westward. The 
family settled at Cedarville but at a later 
date returned to Maryland. When two 
years had passed, however, they came once 
more to Ohio. The grandfather, Jonathan 
Smith, owned a small farm of ten acres on 
which he made his home until his death, 
which occurred about 1845 when our subject 
was six \ears of age. His wife, Mrs. Bar- 
bara Smith, lived to a verv advanced age. 
John G. Smith, the father of our 
subject, spent the greater part of 
his youth in this county amid its frontier 
surroundings and scenes and assisted in 
the arduous task of developing a new farm., 
.\fter arriving at years of maturity be mar- 
ried Sophronia McFarland. who was born 
in this county, her parents being Arthur and 
Martha (Claypool) McFarland. The young 
couple then began their domestic life u])on 
a farm whicb Mr. Smith rented. They be- 
came the parents of nine children, of whom 
our subject was the third in order of birth. 
Four of the number are still living, the oth- 
ers being Jonathan M., George McHenry 
and Howard Scott, all residents of ^ladison 



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county, Ohio. The father departed this hfe 
wlien about seventy years of age. 

Only very hmited educational privileges 
did John R. Smith receive on account of ill 
health. He remained at home until about 
twenty-two years of age and then began to 
earn his own livelihood. For two years he 
rented land and in 1880 he purchased his 
present farm, comprising about one hundred 
and fifty acres. This he has improved with 
modern equipments and accessories and its 
neat and thrifty appearance indicates to the 
passerby the enterprise and progressiveness 
of the owner. 

On the 1st of February, 1877, was cele- 
brated the marriage of Mr. Smith and Miss 
Henrietta Maria Bonner, who was born in 
Xenia township. Greene county. ]\Iarch i, 
1840, a daughter of Stith and Maria (Mer- 
cer) Bonner. Her father was born in Din- 
widdle county, Virginia, in 1791, and the 
mother in Hamilton county, in 1800. Both 
had come to Greene county m childhood and 
were here married. The paternal grandfa- 
ther. Frederick Bonner, arrived here in 
1803 before the admission of the state into 
the Union. He purchased a large tract of 
land just south of Xenia where the Orphans' 
Flome now stands. One of his grandsons, 
William F. Pelham. donated twenty-five 
acres of this land to the Soldiers' Home. 
The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Smith 
was Edward Mercer, who built the first 
brick house ever erected in Greene county. 
It stood on the farm owned by Robert Mcn- 
denhall. Mrs. Smith began her education 
in a log school-house and later spent a year 
and a half as a student in the Xenia Sem- 
inary. By her marriage she has become the 
motiier of one son, Jesse Clyde, who was 
born on the borne farm, ^Nlarch 9, 1880. 
Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of 



the ]^Iethodist Episcopal congregation at 
Gladys Chapel, and since casting his first 
presidential vote for Lincoln in 1864 Mr. 
Smith has been a Republican. Since 1866 
be has been identified with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows at Xenia. and his life 
exemplifies the beneficent spirit of that fra- 
ternity which is based upon mutual helpful- 
ness. 



JAMES E. GALLOWAY. 

There is particular satisfaction in revert- 
ing to the life history of the honored and 
venerable gentleman whose name initiates 
this review, since his mind bears the impress 
of the historic annals of the state of Ohio 
from the early pioneer days, and from the 
fact that he has been a loyal son of the re- 
public and has attained to a positit)n of dis- 
tinctive prominence in the thriving little city 
where he was born and where he has main- 
tained his residence during the greater part 
of his life, being one of the revered pa- 
triarchs of the community. He. however, 
spent a qaurter of a century upon the Pacific 
coast during the most interesting epoch in 
its history, — that followine- the discovery of 
gold in California. Xo family has been 
more closely or honorably connected with 
Greene county than the Galloway family, 
which, through more than a century, has 
l)een identified with the imprdvenient. prog- 
ress and upbuilding of this portion of the 
state. 

James E. Gallnway was horn in what is 
now the \er\- heart of Xenia, January 3, 
1825. His father, James Galloway, came to 
this county in 1797, being one of the first 
settlers to establish a home liere. Ohio then 
formed a part of the Xorthwcstern Territory 
anil had not vet been admitted to the union 




JAMES E. GALLOWAY. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



473 



of tlie new republic. The graiulfatlier was 
horn in Cuml^erland count)-, Pennsylvania, 
and was of Scotcli-Irisli descent, his ances- 
tors liavins^- come to this countr}- from the 
nortli of tlie Emerald Isle. He loyally served 
as a soldier under General Washington 
in the Revolutionary war. lie was an ex- 
pert shot and was designated to engage in 
hunting in order to supply the regiment with 
meat. He served for several years, partici- 
pating in many battles, vet was never woun- 
ded. Emigrating westward to establish a 
home uix:)n what was then the frontier, 
he first took up his abnde in Kentucky and 
participated in the battle at Blue Lick. 
In 1797 became to Greene county, and 
was probably the must influential resi- 
dent of the county at an early date. 
Ele served as the first county treas- 
urer, and his influence was most 
marked in laying the foundation for 
the future development and prosperity of 
this portion of Ohio. He became a pros- 
perous agriculturist and remained a resi- 
dent of Xenia townshi]) until his death, 
which occurred in 1838, when he was 
eighty-eight years of age. 

The father of our subject also bore the 
name of James Galloway. He was burn in 
Louisville, Kentucky, and after arriving at 
years of maturity married Martha Towns- 
ley, a native of Cumberland county, Penn- 
gvlvania. They became the parents of ten 
children, but our subject is now the only 
surviving member of the family. Further 
mention is made of the parents in the his- 
torical section of this volume. 

James E. Galloway, whose name intro- 
duces this record, acquired his early edu- 
cation in Xenia in a private school taught 
by Thomas Steele. He afterward jjursued 
a classical course in a school taught Ijy the 



Rev. Hugh ]\IcMi]lan. a miinster of the 
Covenanter church, who was \-er_\' thor- 
ough in his methods of instruction, and in 
addition to the common branches of learning 
taught the languages. Later Mr. Galloway 
entered ^liami University at Oxford, Ohio, 
where he was graduated in 1844, with the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts. On complet- 
ing his education he went to St. I>ouis, Mis- 
souri, where he secured a clerkship in a 
wholesale dry-goods house, serving in that 
capacitv for five years, but the discovery of 
gold in Califronia changed his plans and in 
the spring of 1849 he started for the El Do- 
rado of the west, going up the Missouri riv- 
er to St. Joseph, whence he drove a six-mule 
team across the plains. At first there were 
five wagons and seven men in the train, but 
later the strength of the jiarty was augment- 
ed until there were eighteen men, who trav- 
eled together for protection. The original 
party of se\en had purchased a stock of 
goods which they intended to take to Cali- 
fornia, but at Salt Lake City their mules 
gave out and so they auctioned off their 
goods until they had but a small remnant 
left. That they sold to Bishop Hyde, tak- 
ing notes payable in three or four months. 
Mr. Galloway and another man called on 
Brigham Young with the notes and sold 
them to him with a thirty per cent discount. 
At that time most of the Mormons were 
living in wagons, for they had not yet built 
homes in the city afterward to become fa- 
mous as a Mormon stronghold. At this 
place 'My. Gallowav saw California gold for 
the first ime. He took in payment a five- 
dollar gold piece which the Mormons had 
minted, worth about four dollars and a 
(|uarter. After four months of travel 
across the hot sandy stretches and through 
mountain passes he and iiis party arrived 



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in California on the 14th of September. 
1849. While en ronte they had seen In- 
dians se\'eral times. Inn were not molested 
save at Grand Island, where the red men 
stole a mnle from the jjartv. There were 
over a thonsand Sionx Indians who passed 
their camp on iheir way Ijack from a light 
with the Pawnees. 

After arriving in California Mr. Gallo- 
way and another man opened an auction 
house in Sacramento, there ccmdncting busi- 
ness for two years, selling sometimes in 
twenty or thirtv minutes several thousand 
dollars" worth of horses, mules and oxen. 
Thev did a general auction business at Sac- 
ramento, which place was then called Su- 
ter's Fort. After two \ears IMr. Galloway 
went to Marysville. where he remained for 
ten years, establishing a wholesale grocery 
and general mercantile business, selling to 
the mountain merchants who had their 
places of business on the streams, where 
mining camps had been established. In 
i860, however, our subject sold his store 
and went to San Francisco, where for a 
number of years he engaged in the brokerage 
business, handling mining stocks of all 
kinds. He continued this until 1866. when, 
after seventeen years' residence in Califor- 
nia, he went to Montana, making his wa_\- in 
June of that year by steamship to Portland, 
Oregon, whence he proceeded itp the Co- 
lumbia ri\er to ^^'alla Walla. \\'ashington. 
and from there proceeded across the moun- 
tains with three others on pack horses and 
mules, carrying provisions, and crossing- 
two spurs of the Rocky Mountains. After 
about a month's travel he arrived in Mon- 
tana. Landing at Bear Town, then a mining 
cam]). \Mien he had been in the territory 
about three months he was nominated for 
the legislature and although not eligible to 



run, a lawyer there told him to go ahead, as 
the only copy of the organic act in the ter- 
ritorv was in the pocket of a judge one hun- 
dred and fifty miles away. Mr. Galloway 
was nominated by the "self-risers," as the 
old Californians were known, and his op- 
ponent was a "tenderfoot." Mr. Galloway 
ran far aliead of his ticket and was elected. 
While traveling to the convention, fifty miles 
away, he stopped at a house for supper and 
was told that he might stay all night, but 
for two years he had not slept in a bed and, 
instead of accepting the oiYer, he and his 
companion went out d(jors and slept on a 
straw stack. 

After being elected Mr. Galloway re- 
moved to Helena, for he was prospecting in 
that locality at the time. The legislature 
met at Virginia City and to that place he 
went by stage coach. There were twenty- 
five members of the house and thirteen mem- 
bers of the council and it was t<) the latter 
bodv — corresponding to the state senate of 
to-day — that Mr. Galloway was elected. His 
district covered a trritory about forty miles 
wiile and one hundred and forty miles long. 
When the members of the kigislature 
reached Virginia City there were no board- 
ing places and with several others he had to 
sleep on the floor of the bar-room covered 
up with his blanket. Later he and others 
slept on the floor of the council chamber, 
and i'n the morning they would sli]) their 
blankets under the benches occupied by the 
spectators. Mr. Galloway remained in 
Montana for about four years, jjrospecting 
part of the time. He afterward went into 
a wholesale commission house at Helena as a 
clerk, and during that time drew the largest 
salary of anv man in the state, having full 
charge of live business. He was offered a 
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return lionie. Prices were ver\- high in 
those days. Brooms sold fur twenty-four 
dollars a dozen; nails at fifty dollars a keg; 
sinip at five dollars a gallon, and sugar at 
forty cents a pound, and all these were the 
wholesale rates. 

After twenty-five years" residence on the 
Pacific coast Mr. Galloway returned to 
Xenia and has since lived a retired life, al- 
though he was at one time a director in the 
First National Bank of this city. He has 
made several trips to California, .going at 
different times hy way of Nicaragua, the 
Panama route and Mexico, and in other 
parts of the country he has also traveled ex- 
tensively. He is connected with the Beta 
Theta Pi, a Greek letter fraternity. In pol- 
itics he was originally a \\'hig, and after- 
ward became a Re])ul)lican, and although he 
was very active in political circles at an ear- 
ly tlay, he always refused to hoUKoffice, save 
that of state senatur. His life history, if 
written in detail, would furnish many a 
chapter of thrilling interest. His has been 
an eventful career in which many experi- 
ences have relieved his history from mo- 
notony. Reared amid the scenes of frontier 
life in Ohio, connected with the early devel- 
opment of the Pacific coast, he is now en- 
joying a well merited rest and is accounted 
one of the honored and respected residents 
of Greene countv. 



ALBERT M. STARK 



For many ^ears Albert ]M. Stark was a 
well known figure in mercantile circles in 
Xenia and was so widely and honoral)ly 
known that no history of this county would 
be complete without the record of his life. 



His father, William T. Stark, came to 
Greene county from Lexington, Kentucky, 
in the year 1814, and almost immediately 
became a factor in the lousiness life of 
Xenia. He was Ixirn in Loudoun count)', 
\'irginia, and was a son of John Stark, 
who subsequently removed to Lexington, 
Kentucky. It was there that William T. 
Stark completed his education and learned 
the trade of a silversmith, which he fol- 
lowed during the greater part of his life. 
In 1829 he was appointed postmaster of 
Xenia and served in that capacity contin- 
uously until 1841, his first appointment 
coming from President Jackson. Fie held 
various ofticial positions of trust and was an 
honored and intluenlial resirlent of the com- 
munity. In 18 1 4 he married Miss Lydia 
Miley, who was born in Washington coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania, and afterward removed 
to Cincinnati. Her parents settled in Col- 
umbia, Hamilton county, Ohio, immediately 
after leaving the Keystone state, and sub- 
sequently Mrs. Stark became a resident of 
Greene county. By her marriage she be- 
came the mother of eleven children. Will- 
iam T. Stark departed this life in 1858 and 
his wife survived him until 1872, having 
lived with her children in Xenia after her 
husband's death. They were among the 
early and devoted members of the Method- 
ist Episcopal church and the family has 
ever been noted for industry, integrity and 
honor. 

Alljert M. Stark, whose name introduces 
this record, was born in Xenia June 4, 1822, 
and acquired his education under the direc- 
tion of Thomas Steele, one of the most 
popular and efiicient teachers of the cit}'. 
When a boy he was emplo)'ed in the store 
of Canby & Walton, where he received his 
first business training. He there remained 



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until 183S, when liis services were sought 
by J. C. McMillen. with whom he remained 
as a salesman for some time and. finally was 
admitted to a partnership in the business, 
this relation being maintained for twenty 
years. He was also one of the founders of 
what became one of the largest mercantile 
houses of Xenia, that of Stark, Lytle & 
Cooper. 

In 18C2, however, Mr. Stark put aside 
business cares and enlisted as a Union sol- 
dier in the One Hundredth and Tenth Ohio 
Infantry, and owing to his business qual- 
ifications he was immedialcly n.ade quar- 
termaster, the appointment coming from 
Governor Tod. The regiment was assigned 
to the Arm\- of the Potomac and operated 
in West Virginia with the Sixth Corps. On 
the 1 2th of January, 1863, Mr. Stark was 
captured b\- the rebels at \\'inchester and 
experienced all the horrors of life in Libby 
prison, where he was confined for fifteen 
months. He was the only prisoner who 
survived the tortures of that loathsome den 
for so long a time. Of the three who were 
captured at the same time, his two compan- 
ions died in the hospital and Mr. Stark was 
paroled from the hospital, September 12, 
1864. In the following Januan,- he rejoined 
his regiment in front of Petersburg and had 
great satisfaction in witnessing the surren- 
der of General Lee at Appomattox, knowing 
that it practically ended the war for the pre- 
servation of the Union. His regiment was 
then sent to Danville, \'irginia, on to Rich- 
mond, and a few days later was ordered to 
Washington, where it participated in the 
most celebrated military pageant perhaps of 
the century, known as the grand review. 

On the 1st of July, 1865, Mr. Stark was 
mustered out of service at Columbus and 



immediately thereafter returned to Xenia. 
where he resumed business relations. He 
was one of the oldest grocery merchants of 
Xenia at the time of his death and enjoyed 
an extensive and profitable patronage. He 
was also for a number of years the ])res- 
ident of the building and loan association, 
and for fourteen years he was president of 
the school Ixjard. Through a long period 
he also acted as a member of the city coun- 
cil, and in each public position which he was 
called upon to fill he discharged his duties 
with marked loyalty and capability. By 
Governor Hayes he was appointed a trustee 
of the Soldiers" and Sailors' Orphans" 
Home, in which capacity he remained for 
six years. Governor Bishop reapix)inted 
him to that po.-^ition and for a third term he 
was appointed by Governor Foster. He wa5 
elected appraiser of real estate of the west 
half of Xenia in the spring of 1889 by a 
large majority. He belonged to the Ma- 
sonic fraternity and to the Grand Army of 
the Republic, and took a very deep and help- 
ful interest in the latter order. He was also 
a charter member of the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows of Xenia and enjoyed the 
distinction of being its first i)residing of- 
ficer. 

On the 19th of February. 185 1. 'Sir. 
Stark had been united in marriage to Miss 
^lary W^ard, who was born May 2, 1832, a 
daughter of James H. Ward, one of the 
higiily respected pioneers and merchants of 
Middletown. This union was blessed with 
two living children, William and Walter C, 
who are residents of Xenia. Mrs. Stark 
still survives her husband and resides at Xo. 
134 West Main street. It was on the 8lh 
of Feljruary, 1895 that Albert M. Stark was 
called to liis final rest, his remains being in- 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



47? 



terred in the Woodland cemetery. He was 
long a faithful member of the Presbyterian 
ciuirch and a distinguished and worthy citi- 
zen of Xenia. 



JOHN S. TURNER. 

Almost thirty years have passed since 
John S. Turner became a factor in mercan- 
tile circles in Bellbrook, where he began 
business on a small scale. He has stead- 
il\' increased his stock to meet the growing 
demands of his trade and now has a store 
which would be a credit to a place of much 
greater size. His business reputation, Um. 
is unassailal)le. f(ir his enterprise and hon- 
orable methods have commended him to all. 

Mr. Turner was liorn in this village No- 
vember 5. 1850. his parents being James 
and .\ancy (Snodgrass) Turner. His boy- 
hdoel days were passed in this village, where 
his father had located when yet a young 
man. The latter was married in Sugar- 
creek township and engaged in real-estate 
dealing. 

In the common schools our subject ac- 
quired a fair education, fitting- him for life's 
practical duties. For a few years he clerked 
in Bellbrook and thus gained a knowledge 
of mercantile methods which have proved of 
value to him in the control of his business 
enterprise. Soon after his marriage he be- 
gan business on his own account, and he 
now owns not onh- a large stock of gen- 
eral merchandise, but the building in which 
he is carrying on business. He also has an 
excellent residence in the town and a farm 
of one himdred and ninetv acres of valuable 
land west of Bellbrook, situated on the trol- 
ley line. These investments have been 
made as the result of his success as a mer- 



chant. As the years have passed he has 
prosjjered in his undertaking, for the people 
have reliance in his business methods and 
also patronizes him because of his reason- 
able prices. 

On the 5th of June, 1874, ]Mr. Turner 
was united in ma'riage in Sugarcreek town- 
ship, to Miss Martha J. Cunningham, a 
daughter of James and Sarah (Stratton) 
Cunningham. Four children have been born 
to this union : James, who is a graduate of 
\\'ittenl>erg Ccjllege of Springfield, Ohio, 
and is employed by the Foos Gas Com- 
pany, of Springfield, was married to Miss 
Maude Butt, of that city, and there they 
make their home. John, who is a farmer 
of Sugarcreek township, married Miss 
Helen Pease, of Bellbrook, and they have 
three children. Harry M., who on the ist 
of January, 1902, was admitted in his fa- 
ther's business, married Ethel Barnett, of 
Spring Valley. Grace, the only daughter, 
is yet a student in school. 

Mr. Turner is a leading antl active 
representative of the Democratic party and 
since 1881 has continuously filled the office 
of township clerk, while since 1878 he has 
been village clerk. He has also been treas- 
urer of the school district since 1884 and is 
a citizen whose devotion to the best inter- 
ests of the community is aboi\-e question. 
He co-operates in every movement and 
measure for the general good and his labors 
have not been without result in promoting 
the progress and prosperity of Bellbrook. 



ANTHONY VARNER. 

Anthony Varner, now deceased, was 
born in Berkeley county, West Virginia, 
and later removed to Washington county. 
Maryland. In early manhood he married 



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Catherine Kline, a native of Washington 
county and tlie year 1857 witnessed their 
arrival in Greene county, Ohio. The work 
of progress and improvement was in its in- 
cipiency, much of the land was still unculti- 
vated and there was little promise of rapid 
development, hut the family cast in their lot 
with the early settlers and Mr. Varner took 
an important part in laying broad and deep 
the foundation for the present prosperity. 
There were thirteen in the party that made 
the trip to the west. Air. \'arner and his 
family being accompanied by his two broth- 
ers and their families. Three weeks had 
passed ere they reached tlieir destination. 
They first located in Dayton, where they re- 
mained for about a year and a half. On 
the expiration of that period they took up 
their abode in Deavercreek township, Greene 
county. Here Mr. \'arner purchased ninety 
acres of land which is still owned bv his 
daughter. With the exception of a small 
tract of four acres the entire farm was cov- 
ered with timber. There was an old log 
cabin ujxju the place, but no other improve- 
ments, and with characteristic energy our 
subject began to clear away the trees and 
place the field under cultivation. He built 
a larger and more substantial log house and 
also built barns, but all these are now a 
thing of the past, save the mere shell of one 
of the old buildings. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. \'arner were born 
six children: Mira. who became the wife 
of William Burrous: Elizabeth and Elean- 
or, who were next in order of birth ; John, 
who lived all his life upon the old home- 
stead and died in 1892 at the age of seventy- 
nine years, his remains being interred in 
Mount Zion cemetery : Andrew C. ; and 
Susanna. 

Andrew C. was born in Maryland, Oc- 



tober 21, 1819. and accompanied his par- 
ents on their removal to Ohio, in 1827. He 
remained a resident of this state until 1849. 
when he went to Piatt county, Illinois, 
wliere he has since lived upon the farm 
which he purchased at the time of his re- 
mo(\'al there, it having been his home now 
for more than a half a centur}'. His ed- 
ucation was acquired in the common schools 
of Beavercreek township and in Xenia. 
While pursuing his studies in the latter 
place he walked each day back and forth to 
the school, a distance of six mile:.. He aft- 
erward engaged in teaching school, being 
empkiyed in nearly every school in his town- 
ship and continuing in some of them as 
many as five terms. He was married to 
Miss Iva Paxton, and unto them was born 
one son, George D. The mother died and 
he afterward married Miss Emily Painter, 
of the well known Painter family of this 
county. It was soon after that thev re- 
moved to Illinois. In their family were 
seven children : ]^Irs. Ella Dulison, Clara 
M., William. Jeremiah, Mary, Andrew C. 
and Richard. Of this number William was 
born April 12, 18G3, in Monticello township, 
Piatt county, Illinois, where he was reared 
and educated, but in 1893 came to Beaver- 
creek township, Greene county. Ohio, where 
he engaged in the operation of the uUl Var- 
ner homestead. He is still living there and 
is one of the enterprising, v/idf.-awake and 
progressive farmers of the community. On 
the 21st of February, 1899, he was married 
in Xenia to Miss Sarah Jane Hartsock, who 
was born in Douglas county, Illinois, a 
daughter of Ephraim and Sarah Jane 
(Rice) Hartsock, both of whom are now 
deceased. Three children have been born of 
this marriage.— Charle.s- William, Frank Ar- 
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Susanna, tlie sixth nienil)er of the fam- 
ily, became the wife of Smith F"ithian, a 
native of Xew Jersey, wlio came to this 
county when a small child. After he had 
attained years of maturity he removed to 
Illinois, where he married Miss Varner. 
His death occurred January 17, 1890. 

Anthony Varner, whose najiie intro- 
duces this review, served his country as a 
soldier in the war of 1S12 and was ever a 
loyal and ])atriotic citizen, interested in all 
that pertained to the welfare of his com- 
munity. He died in 1859 in his seventy- 
fourth year, after more than thirty years' 
residence in this county, and is yet remem- 
bered by some of the oldest settlers. His 
wife passed away twenty years prior to his 
death. Both were loyal and devoted mem- 
lx;rs of the Lutheran church and enjoyed 
the high regard of many friends. Their 
remains were interred upon the farm which 
Mr. Varner had purchased and improved. 
He was a Democrat m his ix)litical views 
and was always true and faithful to his hon- 
est convictions, and well does he deserve 
to be mentioned among the honored pioneer 
settlers of Greene countv. 



MATHICW ALEXANDER BICKETT. 

Mathew Alexander Bickett, who resides 
about two miles east of Xenia, was born in 
Xenia township, January 19, 1831, and is a 
son of William R. and Isabella (Alexander) 
Bickett. His father w^as born in the Coa- 
quilla Valley, Pennsylvania, about 1796 and 
was a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Reed) 
Bickett. The grandfather was born in the 
northern part of Ireland where he spent the 
most of his life and where all but two of 
his cliildren were born. On coming to 
.\nicrica the familv settled m Pennsylvania, 



wliere he spent his remaining days, his 
death occurring a few years later. In the 
yeau 1818 \\illiam R. Bickett started with 
the remainder of the family, of whom he 
was the youngest, for Ohio. They made 
the trip with a six-horse team and passed 
the tirst winter with Robert Hamell, a 
brother-in-law-, who had come to Ohio the 
previous year as a teacher. In tlie spring 
of 1819 the Bickett family purchased one 
hundred and fifty acres of timber land and 
in connection with his brother John, the fa- 
ther of our subject built a log cabin, which 
was the family home for many years, the 
sons living with their mother. It was a 
l)ri>ductive district in which they located, 
the work of progress and civilization being 
scarcely begun. \\'ild game of all kind was 
plentiful, including deer, as well as tur- 
keys and other smaller game. ]\Ir. Bickett 
bore all the hardships and trials incident to 
pioneer life, but was at length enabled to 
o\-ercome all obstacles and secure for him- 
self a comfortable home. In 1827 he w-as 
united in marriage to- Isabella Alexander, 
and unto them were born six children : Ad- 
am R.. a resident of tiiis county; Mathew 
A. ; Mary Jane, who became the wife of 
Solomon Foust, who died a few months la- 
ter, leaving her with a son, Edward : Eliz- 
abeth Isabella; Lydia Ann, who died at the 
age of twenty years ; and W. Harvey. The 
father of this family passed away in 1865 
and the mother died in .\pri], 1S85, at the 
age of eighty-three years, their remains be- 
ing interred in Xenia, Ohio. They were the 
members of the Second United Presbyte- 
rian church and people of the highest re- 
spectability. Mr. Bickett bore an important 
part in clearing and developing the land and 
thus largely promoted the progress of the 
county. 



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ROBIXSONS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



In the common schools near his home 
Mathew A. Bickett pursued his education 
and to the development of the home farm 
he contributed his share of labor until about 
the time of his father's death. On the 30th 
of May, 1865, he married ;\Iiss Caroline E. 
Kendall, who was born in Xenia township, 
a daughter of William and Eleanor (Jack- 
son) Kendall. Her father was a native of 
Kentuckv and a son of Robert Kendall, 
while her mother was born in this state and 
was married in Xenia township. The Ken- 
dall family is of Scotch-Irish lineage and 
untt) the parents nf Mrs. Bickett were born 
six children, of whom four are living: Rob- 
ert, a resident of Xenia : Henry, of Xeiu'a 
township; Eliza, the widow of Wilson Dal- 
las, who resides near Dayton; and Mis. 
Bickett. The deceased were: Mary Ann, 
the wife of James Galloway ; and Rev. Clark 
Kendall, a minister of the United Presbyte- 
rian church, who died at Xenia. The fa- 
ther was a soldier of the war of 181 2 and 
both he and his wife were consistent Chris- 
tian people, who held membership in the 
United Presbyterian church. The marriage 
of our subject and his wife has been blessed 
with seven children. Clark K., of Xenia 
township, married Margaret Turnbull and 
has two children, Maiw Eleanor and Joseph 
Turnbull. Charles A. is at home. William 
Albert married Margaret Harper and re- 
sides in Xenia township. Annie M. and 
Eleanor L are with their parents. John W. 
IS a minister of the United Presbyterian 
church, located at Greenfield, Ohio. David 
Cameron, at home, completes the family. 

The family home is an attractive one, 
noted for its hospitality. All the buildings 
upon the farm have been erected l)y ^Ir. 
Bickett and staiid as monuments to his en- 
terprise and thrift. He has a large barn, 



forty b}" si.xty feet, and a corn crib, forty by 
nineteen feet. He makes a specialty of the 
raising of shorthorn cattle and finds this a 
profitable source of income. His efforts re- 
turn to him golden harvests and the farm is 
neat and thrifty in appearance, indicating 
his careful supervision. Beginning life with- 
out means he has added to his possessions 
till he owns about two hundred acres at pres- 
ent. He is a Republican in politics, but not 
an aspirant for ofiice. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Bickett are members 
of the Second United Presbyterian church 
and are worthy representatives of honored 
pioneer families. Their own records re- 
flect credit upon the untarnished family 
names and they ha\-e a large circle of friends 
and acquaintances in the community who 
esteem them for their genuine worth, ge- 
nial manner and kindliness. As a busi- 
ness man Mr. Bickett sustains an unassail- 
able reputation for reliability and trustwor- 
thiness. 



HALLIE O. BROWX. 

There are perhaps few ladies in all this 
land who have as wide a reputation or more 
extensive acquaintance than !Miss Hallie O. 
Bro\\n, whose career has been one of 
marked l)enefit to her fellow men. Her 
activitv has always been along lines of im- 
provement and of benefit for those with 
whom she has come in contact. The high- 
est and the lowliest in this land and in Great 
Britain have acknowledged her jwwer as an 
elocutionist, while many have reason to feel 
grateful to her for what she has accom- 
plisheil. \\'ilberforce College, of Greene 
county, Ohio, owes much of its success to 
her efiforts in its behalf and through her in- 




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rtueiice its lalmrs liavc extended to a wider 
scope, assisting main- in tlie development of 
their talents and capabilities and thus en- 
abling them to become men and women of 
strong force of character and helpful lives. 
]'erha])S the account of Miss Brown's 
early life can not l)e better given than in the 
w nrds of a contemporary historian who has 
said : "A traveler passing by a country 
farmhouse a few miles from Chatham. Can- 
ada, not many years ago, might have seen a 
little girl of eight or nine summers mounted 
on a cult, without girth or bridle, her hair 
given to the winds, dashing up a lane to pas- 
ture. There he would have seen her dis- 
mount and hastily perform the duties of 
dair_\-uiaid. first calling each Cdw b\- name 
and ])layfully inquiring as to the health of 
each. The milking finished, he would iiave 
seen her juni]> upon a tree stump or felled 
log and deliver an address to the cows, the 
slieep and the birds. She had a se|)arate 
speech for the larger animals and special 
addresses for the lambs, the ducklings and 
the other auditors that ha])pened to be pres- 
ent. Having exhausted her own vocalnilary 
she began a conversation in the language 
of the cow, the horse, the sheep, the goose, 
the rooster, until each was imitated, and 
then, bidding adieu to the "congregation," 
she remounted her steed and cantered home 
again. That was her dailv morning pro- 
gram, secret and unobserved. It was for 
this that she rose earlier than the others of 
the household itntil one morning a farm 
liand saw her hv chance, himself unob- 
served, and her secret was a secret no long- 
er. This little girl was Hallie O. Brown. 
^\'ho can say but that propitious fate had 
her then in training to develop her powers 
>vhich ha\e since carried her east and west, 
upon her mission of amusement, instruction 

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and beneficence to tens of thousands in two 
hemispheres ?"" 

Miss Brown was the youngest of six 
children. Her father died at the age of 
eighty years, in 1882. but her mother lives 
with her at Wilberforce, at the advanced 
age of eighty-five years. Jere A., their eld- 
est child, is now living in Cleveland. Ohio. 
He has served in the state legislature of 
Ohio, and now holds a position in the gov- 
ernment service at W'asliington, D. C. 
Mrs. Bell Xewman. the next younger, is 
now deceased. Mrs. Annie E. W'eaxer re- 
sides at Farmland, Indiana. Mary Frances 
is deceased. John G., also deceased, 
was a graduate of Wilberforce University 
and gave great promise of being a noted 
lecturer and speaker, liut death terminated 
I'.is career in his early manhood. 

Hallie Quinn I'.rown was born in Pitts- 
burg and during her early girlhood accom- 
panied her parents to Chatham, Canada^ 
where she acquired her ])reliminary etluca- 
tion, later continuing her studies in Wilber- 
force College, of Ohio, where she was 
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of 
Science with the class of 1873. Among her 
classmates were ]\Irs. Mary F. Lee, wife of 
Bishop B. F. Lee; and Samuel T. Mitchell, 
afterward president of Wilberforce Univer- 
sity. Her broad mind and earnest thought: 
had grasped the situation in the south, and. 
realizing that there was a mighty field of 
labor, she entered upon educational work in 
that portion of the country. Her first school 
was on a plantation in South Carolina, where 
she endured the hardships and rough life 
uncomplainingly, and continued her work of 
teaching the children of \-arious plantations 
and also instructing the aged ones to read 
their Bibles, thus bringing into many a life 
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ROBLXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



\\(Ji"(l brings ti) all the true followers of 
Christianity. Later she was in charge of 
a school on the Sonera plantation in Mis- 
sissippi, where she found that her labors 
were largely hampered by two \-ices — the 
use of whisky and tobacco — and since that 
time she has labored earnestly to abolish 
those two evils. Her fame as an instructor 
spread and her services were secured as a 
teacher in Yazoo City, but on account of 
the unsettled state of affairs in the south in 
1874-5, she was compelled to return to the 
north. 

Later a successful teacher in Dayton, 
Ohio, for four years, she was then obliged 
to give up educational work on account of 
her health, and has since devoted her atten- 
tion largely to lecturing and public reading. 
She started out upon a lecture tour in be- 
half (if her alma mater, W'ilberforce Col- 
lege, and the first }-ear"s ser\-ice proved her 
ability in that direction. Then in order to 
better present her work from the platform 
she took a course in elocution and again 
started out upon her tra\els. meeting- with 
still greater success. For several years she 
tra\-eled with the W'ilberforce Grand Con- 
cert Compau}-. an organization for the bene- 
fit of W'ilberforce College. She has lectured 
and read throughout the length and breadth 
of this land in all the leading cities, and 
e\-ery place has been favorably and enthu- 
siastically received. 

In 1894 Miss Brown went abroad and 
lectured in England for six years. Among 
the dift'erent lecture courses on which she 
appeared was that of the renowned W'est- 
lx3urne Park Listitute. She has lectured 
and recited in all the leading cities of Great 
Britain, and was connected for some time 
with Latly Henry Somerset in temperance 
work. She was entertained bv Oueen Nk- 



toria. July 7. 1899, ^^^ being served in St. 
George's Hall, the hall of the Garter, Wind- 
sor Castle. She appeared and spoke at the 
entertainment of the Princess of \\"ales, the 
present Queen of England, this entertain- 
ment being given for the poor of London at 
the time of the celebrati(.)n of the Queen's 
diamond jubilee. She has been entertained 
and dined by the most noted ladies and fam- 
ilies of England and Scotland, and during 
Queen \'ictoria's jubilee year she was the 
guest of the Lord Mayor of Lfjndon and his 
wife, and later liy the Mayor and Mayoress 
of Croydon, and journeyed with them in a 
private car to London, where special seats 
near \\'estminster Abbey were reserved for 
them from which to view the procession and 
ceremonies. She was also in attendance at 
the funeral of Gladstone, the ticket of ad- 
mission being furnished t(j her by a member 
of parlianitnt. 

I\Iiss Brown belongs to the Royal Scot- 
tish Geographical Society of Edinburgh, to 
the British Women's Temperance So- 
ciet_\-, to the Woman's Christian Temper- 
ance Union, to the King's Daughters, and 
was a member of the International Congress 
of Women. Miss Brown w-ent to England 
in behalf of the Douglass Memorial Hall, 
which was required for the accommodation 
of the large and increasing librarx' of the 
university. She lectured also on temper- 
ance and \'arious other subjects, and gave 
many readings, her splendid and exceptional 
gifts as an elocutionist winning the highest 
praise. Hers has been a life permeated Ijy 
the true missionary spirit, carrying truth 
and hel]> into many districts where it has 
been so greatly needed, and presenting facts 
in such a clear, understandable wa_\- that her 
auditors have gone away convinced. It is 
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her work, llie influence of mind upnn mind, 
and of soul upon soul heintf an incalculable 
force, the worth of which is only recognized 
in eternity, but in this land and in Great 
llritain thousands ha\e reason to be grate- 
ful to her and to speak oi her in words of 
liiving praise. 



SILAS O. HALE. 



Among those who in public office have 
adxanced the general welfare tlu-ough faith- 
ful performance of duty is numbered Silas 
Opdyke Hale, who is clerk of the court of 
l)leas in Greene county. He was l)orn in 
Bellbrook, Sugarcreek township, this coun- 
ty, March 9, 1858. his parents being Silas 
and Miriam (Opdyke) Hale, who were also 
natives of Greene county. The father was 
born near Bellbrook, August 26, 1803. and 
was a son of John and Sarah (Bowen) 
Hale, natives of Maryland, whence tliey 
removed to Kentucky and in iSoj re- 
moved to Ohio, locatin,'- in \\\\:n is now 
Sugarcreek township, Greene county, where 
the grandfather successfully carried on busi- 
ness, being engaged in both farming and 
tanning. He was one of tiie honored ]mo- 
neers of this portion of the state and took 
an active part in the early development and 
progress of Greene count\-. In 1838, how- 
ever, he removed to Kosciusko county, In- 
diana, where he died in 1845. By two mar- 
riages he had twelve children. 

Silas Hale, the father of our subject, 
obtained a common-school education, and 
when old enough began work in his father's 
tanyard, where he was emplo\'ed until 
seventeen years of age. He was then ap- 
prenticed to the cabinet-maker's trade in 
Wilmington, Ohio, and after mastering that 



business returned to Bellbrook, where he 
engaged in caliinet-making for ten years. 
Later he established a general store, which 
he conducted almost up to the time of his 
death, being one of the enterprising, wide- 
awake and reliable merchants of the town. 
For more than forty years he was township 
treasurer and was appointed postmaster of 
Bellbrook by Franklin Pierce, in which of- 
fice he served continuously until Grover 
Cleveland's first administration, a period of 
over thirty years. Xo puljlic official of the 
county has ever enjoyed to a higher degree 
the confidence and good-will of the public 
or more truly deserves the respect accorded 
him. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hale were born 
ten children, who in order of birth were as 
follows : Dorinda, John, Henry and Frank, 
twins, Angeline, Mary. Bowen, James, Mel- 
ancthon and Silas O. Four of the sons, 
John, Henry, Frank and Bowen,. were in 
the Civil war and Bowen died at Camp 
Chase in April. 1862. The parents were 
both members of the Methodist Protestant 
church and were people of genuine worth, 
true to every principle which tends to the 
tle\'elopment of an upright character. Mr. 
i^ale died in 1889 at the age of eighty-six 
years, but his widow, a lovely Christian la- 
dy, still survives him at the age of eighty- 
eight years and is Iving with her .son, Henry 
H. Hale, in Xenia. 

In the schools of Bellbrook Slias O. 
Hale acquired his early education, which' 
was later supplemented by study in the X^a- 
tional Normal University at Lebanon, w'here 
he pursued a scientific course. He prose- 
cuted his studies during the summer months 
while in winter he engaged in teach.ing En- 
tering upon his business career he first 
learned the carpenter's trade in Bellbrook 
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Ijut follcnved tliis only a short time, when 
he began teaching in Sugarcreek township. 
lie was very successful as a teacher, hav- 
ing the ability to impart clearly and concise- 
ly to otliers the knowledge he had acquired. 
On the organization of Sugarcreek town- 
ship high school Mr. Hale was selected as 
the first principal and was also made super- 
mtendent of the township schools, which po- 
sition he held from 1892 until lie entered 
upon the duties of the office of clerk of the 
common pleas court of Greene county, Ohio, 
in 1900. He was one of the organizers of 
the Ohio State Township Superintendents' 
Association, and was its first president. 
Afterward he was secretary and treasurer 
for several terms, resigning the position 
w*hen elected clerk of the courts. He served 
on the executive committee of the Greene 
Count\' Teachers' Association for one year 
and presided over the Teachers' Summer 
Institute. He was then elected president of 
the Teachers' Association and as such again 
conducted the Teachers' Summer Institute. 
which was declared one of the most popular 
ever held in Xenia. 

On the 29th of November, 1881, Mr. 
Hale was united in marriage to Miss Anna 
]\I. Gibbons, a native of Greene county and 
a daughter of Thomas Gibbons, of Bell- 
brook. Her father was a native of Ire- 
land, but for many years resided in Bell- 
brook, where he spent his last days. Unto 
Mr. and Mrs. Hale have been born one 
child, Minnie Miriam, now a student in the 
high school of Xenia. 

Socially 'Mr. Hale is connected with 
.Spring Valley Lodge, No. 302, I. O. O. F.. 
and with Xenia Lodge, No. 668, B. P. O. 
E.. and of the latter he is a trustee. In 
jiolitics he has always been a stanch Re- 
publican, deeply interested in the welfare 



and growth oi his party. He has held dif- 
ferent official positions, having been treas- 
urer of Sugarcreek township for ten years 
and also treasurer of the village of Bell- 
l,>rook several terms, as well as a member of 
the city council of Bellbrook. In 1899 he 
was elected clerk of the courts on the Re- 
publican ticket and in 1902 is again the can- 
didate of his party for that office, his sec- 
ond nomination being a public acknowledg- 
ment of his capability during the first term 
of senice. For several years he was an ac- 
ti\e member of the county central commit- 
tee and was on the executive committee for 
one year. Mr. Hale attained to a promin- 
ent position in educational circles and is now 
accounted one of the most faithful and skill- 
ful officers of the county. In all life's rela- 
tions he has been found true to the trust 
reposed in him and has well merited the 
good name which he enji;>ys. 



GEORGE CONFER. 

George Confer, a retired farmer resid- 
ing in Yellow Springs, is a native of Wash- 
ington county. Maryland, his birth ha\-ing 
occurred near Hagerstown. on the 8th of 
February, 1827, but since the age of seven 
years he has lived in Ohio, coming at that 
time to this state with his parents, George 
and Elizabeth (Bowman) Confer. The fa- 
ther was born in Maryland and followed the 
occupation of farming as a means of pro- 
viding for his family. In 1834 he came to 
Ohio, locating in Greene county, his farm 
comprising one hundred and fifty acres of 
land in Miami township, a small part of 
which had been improved. He erected 
some new buildings, making many ex- 
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which is still in jjdssessinii ni the tamily. 
There he lived and died, passing away at 
the age of seventy-two years. He was a 
manber of the German Reformed church 
and in early life gave his political support to 
the Whig party and on its dissolution Ije- 
>came a Republican. Init the honors and 
emoluments of office had no attraction for 
him. As tlie years passed his diligence and 
business ability brought to him success, so 
that he was enabled to gi\-e to eacli of his 
children a good lionie. His widow survix'ed 
him twelve years and (bed in the city of 
Xenia. She was also born in Maryland and 
was a memiber of the Lutheran church. Pjy 
Iter marriage she became the mother of five 
children, three nl win mi are still living: 
Hannah, who resides near Spring Valley ; 
William G., now deceased; George; Susan, 
w ho died at the age of twenty-seven years ; 
and Elizabeth, who is the widow of Rich- 
ard Partington and has one son, Edward. 
Her home is near Spring Valley. Greene 
•county. 

To the district school system of Miami 
township George Confer is indebted for the 
educational privileges which he enjoyed. 
He assisted his father upon the home place 
and after the death of his parent, in 1857, 
he and his brother began farming for them- 
selves and were thus engaged for two or 
three years. The partnership was then dis- 
solved and George Confer purchased more 
land adjoining the farm which his father 
had given him in Miami township. There 
he engaged in the tilling of the soil and 
stock-raising for thirty-three years and in 
1 89 1 he removed to the village of Yellow^ 
Springs, where he has since lived a retired 
life. 

On Ma}' 2, 1 86 1, George Confer was 
married in Miami township to Ann John- 



son, whose birth occurretl on the 15th of 
April, 1841, in Greaie county. She is a 
daughter of James and Catherine (Ehrler) 
Johnson. The father was a native of Ken- 
tucky and at an early date came to Ohio. 
The mother was born in France, but when 
a young girl was brought to the United 
States, settling with her father in Clark 
county, Ohio, and with him she remained 
until her marriage, .\fterward Mr. and 
Mrs. Johnson settled upon a fami in Miami 
township, Greene county, where the mother 
died in 1849. ^^f- Johnson afterward mar- 
ried again and his death occurred in 1890, 
both passing away in Miami township. 
L'nto Mr. and Mrs. Confer were b<irn si.x 
children and the family circle yet remains 
unl)roken by the hand of death. 

Mary Etta is the wife of Joseph Ver- 
uanda Shoemaker, who resided at Goes Sta- 
tion, in Xenia township, where he is con- 
ducting a grocery store. They have one 
child, Cora May, who is the wife of George 
Hall, of Dayton, by wdiom she has a daugh- 
ter, Dorothy. George Alljert. the second 
member of the Confer family, resides upon 
his father's farm on the Dayton jxike, in 
Miami townshii), where lie is engaged in the 
cultivation of the fields and in the raising, 
purchasing and sale of stock. He married 
Miss Anna Fogle and they have five chil- 
dren : Vernanda. Earle, Raymond, Verna 
and Georgia. Arthur U. resides upon the 
home fami in Miami township. He mar- 
ried Miss Clara Miller and they have three 
children, Florence, Chester and Harry. 
William W., who is also living upon the 
home farm, wedded Miss Zella Fogle and 
they have two children, Edith and Esther. 
Howard T., a blacksmith at Goes Station, 
married Nora Ginneman and their children 
were Harold, Mildred and two that died in 



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infancy. Susie, the youngest member of 
the Confer family, is the wife of John Con- 
rad, a grocer of Springfield, Ohio, and they 
have one son, Herman. 

In his political views ]^Ir. Confer is a 
Republican and for one term he served as 
supervisor of his township, while for eight 
or nine years he was a director of the public 
schools. He belongs to the Reformed 
church and take a deep and active interest 
in everything tending to promote the gen- 
eral welfare, along all lines of substantial 
progress ami improvement. 



NOAH SIPE. 



Noah Sipe is the oldest resident of Bath 
towTiship, having lived here for more than 
eighty years. He has witnessed great 
changes as time has passed and man has 
\vrought for the upbuilding and improve- 
ment of this portion of the state. The for- 
ests which stood in their primeval strength 
during his boyhood days have been cut 
down to be replaced l)y fields of waving 
grain, while here and there homes have 
been builded and are now occupied by a 
prosperous and contented people. Towns 
and villages have also had their era of pros- 
perity and improvaiient and to-day Greene 
county in its splendid development is the 
work of many enterprising pioneers among 
whom is numbered Xoah Sipe, who resides 
on a farm on the Fairfield and Yellow 
Springs pike in the eastern part of Bath 
township, where his birth occurred in a lit- 
tle log cabin, December 28, 1820. 

His parents were Christian and Cath- 
erine (Carpenter) Sipe. The father was 
born in Rockingham county, Virginia, and 
was a son of Henry Sipe, a native of Ger- 



many, who, on crossing the Atlantic to the 
new world, settled in the Old Dominion, 
where he spent his remaining days. In the 
county of his nativity the father of our sub- 
ject was reared and educated and served 
as a private in the war of 181 2. For two 
Acars thereafter he remained in Virginia, 
and alx)Ut 18 14 came to Ohio, settling first 
in Clark county, where his brother Francis 
had earlier made his home. When two years 
had passed he went to Cincinnati to see 
a man who had entered a half section of 
land. This he purchased, paying about 
nine hundred dollars out of the sum of one 
thousand dollars which he had accutnulated 
while in the east. Tliis land was all heav- 
ily wooded, but soon the sturdy strokes of 
his ax removed trees trpon the place and the 
land was cultivated. In the latter part of 
h.is life he purchased a fine farm near Yel- 
low Springs where he Vwed retired ujxmi the 
place where l>oth the father and mother of 
our subject died. The latter was born in 
Virginia and came to Greene county in 
181 2. She was a daughter of John Carpen- 
ter, who was also a native of the Old Do- 
minion, and on coming to Greene county 
with his family settled about one mile west 
of the present home of our subject. Chris- 
tian Sipe died in 1855, at the age of sixty- 
five years, while his wife passed away in 
i860, when about sixty-five years of age, 
both being interred in Yellow Springs cem- 
etery. The mother was a member of the 
^lethodist Episcopal church and in his po- 
litical views the father was a Jacksonian 
Democrat. Of this marriage were born 
seven children : Amy, the wife of Eli 
l-Joutzong, who is now deceased ; Noah, our 
subject, being the second in order of birth ; 
John, who died in early youth; Manuel, who 
is also deceased : Sarah, the wife of Lewis 



ROBINSONS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



489 



Cosier; Elizabeth, deceased; and Mary Y., 
who has also passed away. As the years 
passed the father cultivated a very good 
home for his famil\-. He became the owner 
of four hundred and eighty-eight acres of 
valuable land. He was a tanner by trade 
and in early life followed that pursuit, but 
during the greater part of his business ca- 
reer devoted his energies to fanning. 

Xoah Sipe pursued his education in the 
township schools but his advantages in that 
direction were somewhat limited. The 
building was a log structure and the schcKjl 
was conducted after the subscription plan, 
the tuition being one dollar and fifty cents 
lor three months. Tlie spelling book and 
the arithmetic were about all the Ixjoks re- 
quired and the methods of teaching were 
\ery primitive as compared with those of 
the present day. At the age of eleven years 
Mr. Sipc began to follow the plow and 
throughout his active business life he de- 
voted his energies to agricultural pursuits. 
His practical experience in youth enabled 
h.im to successfully carry on farm work after 
he had attained to man's estate. 

In the year 1848 Noah Sipe was united 
in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Wiant, a 
native of Champaign county, Ohio. In 1856 
]\Ir. Sipe erected a brick house upon the old 
home farm, where he now resides. There 
was but one other house anyAvhere in the 
locality at the time the old home had been 
erected. The first structure was a log cabin, 
which was succeeded by a fine log house 
built when Mr. Sipe was a young lad, and is 
still standing, one of the mute reminders of 
pioneer days and an indication of the pres- 
ent progress and improvement of the county. 

By the marriage of Mr. and ]\Irs. Sipe 
have been born seven children: John, who 
now resides upon the old home farm with 



(Air subject, married ]\Iary Jane Wilson ajid 
unto them four children were bjrn — Edgar 
\y., Emmet Clifford, Ida May, and John, 
Jr. Artemis, who is the wife of William 
Strasburg, is residing in Springfield, Ohio, 
and they have three children — Ota and Reta. 
twins, and Maude. Jasper is the next 
younger. Walter, who lives on the old home 
fann with his father, which is also the place 
of his birth, married Johanna Hern, and 
unto them six children have Ijeen born — 
William, Walter, Mary, Frank. Charles and 
Catherine. He assists his father in the oper- 
ation of the home farm. Ida, who married 
George Finfrock, resides in Boise City. Ida- 
I'lO. Joseph Douglas is now deceased. He 
married May Woodall and they made their 
home in Yellow Springs township. Their 
children were — Noah, Charles, Alyrtle and 
Lizzie. Mertie, the seventh member of the 
family, married Ephraim Harshman and re- 
sides in Clark county. Their children are — 
Harry, Gladys, and Elmer, deceased. 

In 1881 Mr. Sipe was called upon to 
mourn the loss of his wife, who in that year 
passed away and was laid to rest in the Yel- 
low Springs cemetery. At the age of thir- 
teen years she had become a memlier of the 
Baptist church and was ever a consistent 
Christian woman. For his second wife Mr. 
Sipe chose Sarah C. Scudder, who was born 
in Trenton, New Jersey. His landed pos- 
sessions now comprise three hundred and 
seventy and one-half acres and he also owns 
a lot in the village of Osljorn. 

In his political views Mr. Sipe is a Dem- 
ocrat, l)ut has never accepted office save 
some minor positions. For thirty years he 
has been school director and for twelve 
years w-as clerk of the school board. His 
son John has for three years been township 
trustee, elected on the Democratic ticket. 



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ROBINSONS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Mr. Sipe has devoted his energies to gen- 
eral farming and stock-raising, and as the 
years lia\e passed has met with creditable 
and gratifying success so that in the even- 
ing of life he is provided with all the com- 
forts that go to make life worth the living 
as the result of his former toil. Both he and 
his wife are consistent members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church and he is a steward 
of the church at Yellow Springs. He takes 
a very deep and active interest in religious 
affairs and his life has ever been in consist- 
ent harmony with his profession. He has 
passed the eighty-first milestone on life's 
journey and now receives the veneration and 
respect which should ever be accorded those 
who have advanced thus far. His history 
contains manv elements well worthy of emu- 
lation, for he has ever lived an honorable 
and upright life, having been true in all his 
relations to his fellow men. 



HOX. AXDREW JACKSOX. 

The list of the leading citizens of Greene 
county contain.s the name of the Hon. -An- 
drew Jackson, one of the representative and 
honored citizens of Cedarville. His record 
as a soldier, as an official and a business 
man has been so honoraljle that he has 
gained the confidence and good will of all 
with whum he has been brought in contact. 
His unbending integrity of character, his 
fearlessness in the discharge of his duties 
and his aijpreciation of the responsibilities 
that ha\e rested upon him have been such 
as to make him a most acceptable incumbent 
in the office of assemblyman and in that of 
sergeant-at-arms in llie house. He is filling 
the latter position at the present time and is 



one of the most popular men e\er called to 
the office. 

Mr. Jackson lias back of him an ancestry 
honorable and distinguished. ]\Iany repre- 
sentatives of the family have attained state 
and some national importance in business 
aft'airs. in military life and in statesmanship. 
His great-grandfather was a brother of An- 
drew Jackson, the hero of the battle of X'ew 
Orleans and later the president of the 
United States. Robert Jackson, the father 
of our sul)jcct. became j)rominent in ptiblic 
aft'airs of Greene cotmty. He was com- 
mander of the militia forces of this county 
and in 1834 he represented this district in 
the state legislature. It was in the year 
1805 that General Roliert Jackson removed 
from Pennsylvania to Ohio, settling on 
Clark's Run, near a good spring, for in those 
days it was a valuable addition to a farm if 
there was a spring upon it. His place was 
three.miles west of Cedarville on the Jack- 
son pike and is now known as the Steven- 
son farm. He was a man of soldierly bear- 
ing and commanding appearance. His com- 
mission as genera! bears date 1831. He 
filled local offices, including that of county 
commissioner of Greene cotmty, and was 
long a recognized leader in public thought 
and action. His death occurred when he 
was eightv years of age near Xenia. He 
was married, in December, 18 19, to !Miss 
Minerv;: J., a daughter of Philip Eddy, of 
Warren county and on horseback the bridal 
pair made their way to their new home in 
Greene county. An old bureau of cherry 
wood, which was a bridal present from her 
parents, is still in possession of our subject. 
Seven of the twelve children born of this 
marriage are still living. 

Upon the home farm Andrew Jackson, 




ANDREW JACKSON. 



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493 



of this revie\\-, spent his early Ijnyhood days. 
He was hcnn on Giristmas day of 1845 and 
received his education in the common 
schools. At the age of thirteen years he 
went to Xenia and accepted a position in the 
dry-goods str^re of Alerrick & Company and 
wliile Hving in Xenia he attended school. 
For two years he held a position as hook- 
keeper and served in that capacity until the 
fall of iS'^ir when he enlisted in the Union 
arm\-, amused by a patriotic desire to aid in 
the preservation of the Union. He was then 
a boy not yet sixteen years of age and the 
only son ;it home. Because of this his 
mother would not c(5nsent to his departure 
and got a writ restraining him from going 
to the front. He then went with his brother- 
in-law to ^Michigan and entering his school 
there took up the study of civil engineering, 
in which his brother-in-law was very pro- 
ficient. While carrying r)n his studies ]\Ir. 
Jackson formed a company from his class, 
composed of boys all larger than himself, 
and drilled them in Hardie's tactics. From 
that company several commissioned officers 
were drawn later in the war. 

Returning to his home the following 
spring Mr. Jackson again became connected 
with commercial circles of Xenia, but the 
fires of patriotism burned strongly within 
him and once more he offered his services to 
the government, becoming a member of 
Compan}- H. Xinety-fourth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, August 8, 1862, the regiment be- 
ing organized at Piqua. He took part in a 
number of engagements, among them being 
that of Tate's Ferry, in which the regiment 
lost over tlirce hundred men. He was 
struck 1,'y a bullet in the left arm at the bat- 
tle of Ferryville Init he never left his com- 
pany and afterward participated in the en- 



gagements at Stone River, Buzzard's Roost 
and those of the .Atlanta campaign, includ- 
ing Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mis- 
sion Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope 
Church, Marietta. Peach Tree Cretk and 
the siege at Atlanta. While at Murfrees- 
bfjro, in 1863, Mr. Jackson was detailed as 
chief clerk in the office of the brigade in- 
spector, acting in that capacity until he was 
granted a furlough in 1864. He was at 
home but fifteen days when he endeavored 
to rejoin his regiment but could get no far- 
ther than Xashville, Tennessee. There he 
reported for dut)- and was made chief clerk 
in the inspector's office there. He handled 
and issued all the ammunition to the troops, 
placed the pickets at their stations and per- 
formed other \ery important duties. When 
the war closed he was mustered out June 5, 
1865, and returned to Xenia. 

Xot long after this Mr. Jackson accepted 
the position of assistant engineer with the 
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, 
with headf|uarters at Dayton, and among 
other work which he did for that road was 
the supervision of the l)uilding of the bridge 
at Lima, Ohio, of which he had full charge, 
and which is a piece of splendid mechanical 
engineering. Soon after he was made gen- 
eral ticket agent of the Cincinnati & Zanes- 
ville Railroad, with offices in Cincinnati, 
and for six years held that responsible posi- 
tion, also acting as paymaster and engineer. 
In the meantime he had married and his 
wife's people desired that they should return 
and make their home in Cedarville, for the 
ladv's parents were reaching an advanced 
age and wished to have their daughter near 
them, and desired Mr. Jackson to assist her 
father in the care of his property interests. 
Accf^rdingly tliev Ijecame residents of this 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



town. Mr. Jackson spent three years in ^Ir. 
Dunlap's lumlier camp in Micliigan. wliere 
lie had charge of the entire force of one hun- 
dred men and at the same time superintend- 
ed the operation of his farm in this county. 
Tlie lumber firm of which Mr. Dunlap was 
the senior member did the largest business 
in that line in Cincinnati and continued in 
existence for more than half a century. For 
some time the charge of the company's busi- 
ness in Cincinnati devolved upon our subject 
and he had full supervision of its immense 
trade in all its departments. ^Ir. Jackson is 
now interested in the breeding of stock, an 
indust'y wliich has claimed his attention for 
many years and is secretary of the building 
and loan association of Cedarville, which he 
organized si.x years ago. 

On the 17th of March, 1868, Mr. Jack- 
son was married in Cedarville to Miss Mary 
J. Dimlap. a daughter of James Dunlap, 
who came from Cincinnati to this county at 
an early day, settling in Cedarville town- 
ship. He was in 'ihe lumber business in the 
former city, but lived retire<l here. He died 
at Cedarville, January 25, 1890, at the age 
of seventy-six years, while his wife passed 
away shortly after the marriage of our sub- 
ject. Mrs. Jackson is a member of the 
United Presbyterian church and a most es- 
timable lady. Unto our subject and his wife 
have been born four children: Pearl, who 
is the wife of R. G. George, the cashier and 
paymaster of the Chicago Belt Railroad, by 
whom she has one child, Marion ; Frank, 
who is township clerk of Cedarville town- 
ship and manager <if the opera Ivaise in 
Cedarville; Clara, a teacher in the public 
schools of Cedarville; and Fanny, at home. 
All were born on the home place in Cedar- 
ville township. 



r\Ir Jackson is a recognized leader of 
the Republican partv in this C'lunty and his 
opinions carry weight in the councils of the 
organization. He was elected \o represent 
his district in the sixty-eighth general as- 
sembly and filled the position so creditably 
that he was re-elected. He was chosen ser- 
geant-at-arms in the seventieth, seventy- 
first, seventA-second, seventy-fourth and 
seventy-fifth assembllies. At the last elec- 
tion in 1902 he was the Republican caucus 
nominee by acclamation and received the en- 
tire vote of the assembly, both Democrats 
and Republicans, — a case unparalleled in the 
history of the stale legislature. He is hold- 
ing soine local offices, has been a member 
of the school board for twenty-one years, is 
now serving as its clerk, and is also filling- 
the ixjsition of justice of the peace of Cedar- 
ville. He was a member of the Ohio Chick- 
aiuauga crimmission that erected moiuiments 
on the battlefield. This appointment was 
made under the act of May 4, 189 1, by the 
Ohio assembly, whereby eight commission- 
ers were appoin.ted by Governor J. E. Camp- 
bell, these being: Generals John Beatty, 
Ferilinand Vandervcer, C. H. Grosvenor 
and Aquilla Wiley, Hon. J. S. Gill, Hon. 
.Vndrew Jackson, Pri\ate Frederick \\'en- 
dall and Captain J. C. McElroy. This com- 
mission was the first in the field and erected 
fifty-two monuments which were dedicated 
.September 19. 1895, at the time of the na- 
tional dedication on the anniversary of the 
battle. The commission spent four }ears in 
its labors. 'Slv. Jackson has a wide ac- 
quaintance among the puljlic men of the 
state, as well as in Greene county and en- 
joys in high measure the warm regard of all 
and the friendship of many of the distin- 
guished citizens of Ohio. 



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FREDERICK CHRISTIAN TREBEIN. 

Frederick Christian Trebein, now de- 
ceased, was an influential and respected cit- 
izen of Greene county. The greater part of 
Iiis life was spent in tlie vicinitv of Xenia. 
His birth occurred in Dayton. Oiiio, Octo- 
ber 24. 1833. His parents were William 
and Christina Trebein, wlio jiad two chil- 
dren, a daughter. Alary, horn in Germany, 
and l-'rederick. Ixjrn in this country. Tlie 
parents were natives of Gemiany, but came 
to Dayton early in the history of that city. 
William Trebein was one of the first four 
Germans who settled in Dayton. There 
Frederick C. Trel)ein spent his childhood 
and early manhood, and for his native city 
he always retained the greatest affection. 

Mr. Trebein was self-educated and self- 
made. From chore-boy in a dry goods store 
he rose to be a partner in the business, and 
later owned and conducted a large dry 
goods store on Third street. His health 
failed after sume time and it was necessary 
for him to give up a business that confined 
him so closely indoors. 

In the earl}- part of 1868 he came to 
Greene county, settling at what is now 
called Trebein's Station, where he engaged 
in the milling and distilling business. j\Ir. 
Trebein's interests were broad and he was 
regarded as one of the foremost business 
men of the county. He was industrious, 
resolute and persevering, and these qualities 
brought him success. He was a consider- 
able propert}' owner in Xenia and was iden- 
tified with several of Xenia's largest indus- 
tries. He was always a progressive and 
public-spirited citizen, and was a man who 
had the courage to stand up for his convic- 
tions. Simplicity and straightforwardness 
characterized his entire life. 



On the i6th of November, 1869. Mr. 
Trebein was married to Miss Joan Ankeney,. 
daughter of Samuel Ankeney, long an hon- 
ored citizen of Greene county. There were 
two children : Bertha E., who resides with 
h.er mother; and Mrs. P. H. Flynn. whose 
husband manages and is a large stockholder 
in the Xenia and Buckeye Shoe factories. 
The family is identified with the Reformed 
church, to which Mr. Trebein was a liberal 
contrilxitor. He also gave his support tO' 
many other measures for the public good, 
but always in a (|uiet way. At his death, 
which occurred June 4, 1900, he left many 
warm friends who sincerely mourn his loss. 
He had become recognized as an active and 
valued factor in business circles, and was 
also highly esteemed for his genuine per- 
sonal worth. Since his death the family 
ha\e removed to Xenia and now reside at 
No. 125 North Detroit street. 



WILLIAM McClelland. 

William McClelland, now deceased, was 
a well known representative of Sugarcreek 
township, who in a high measure enjoyed 
the esteem of his fellow men because his life 
was uprig-ht and honorable. He was born 
Januarv 3, 1825, on the farm in Sugarcreek 
township, wdiich is now the home of his 
widow. His parents were Captain Robert 
and Martha (McConneil) AlcClelland. The 
father was a soldier in the war of 181 2 and 
was very prominent in political circles. He 
came to Greene county in 1802 and in 1806 
purchased the old home farm comprising" 
nearly three hundred acres of rich land, 
which he developed and improved until it 
was a very valuable farm. His death oc- 
curred in the vear 1846. 



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ROBINSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



William McClelland, whose name intro- 
duces this review, assisted his father in the 
work of the home fann during the period 
of his youth, also pursued his education in 
the district schools and enjoyed the pleas- 
ures such as were common to boys of tliat 
period. \\'hen he was twent)"-one years of 
■age he married Miss Jane Watt, of Beaver- 
'Creek township. She died about 1881, and 
on the 3d of July. 1883. ^^Ir. McClelland was 
again married, his second union being with 
?iliss Hannah ]\I. Xaughton, of Xenia. She 
was born in Hamilton county near Cincin- 
nati, and was a daughter of James and IMary 
(\\'elch) Xaughton. Her mother died dur- 
ing the infancy of Mrs. McClelland, who 
Avas then reared by a family living in Greene 
■ county, near Jamestown. After his mar- 
riage ]\Ir. McClelland devoted his energies 
to agricultural pursuits and his fields were 
•always well tilled, showing his careful su- 
pervision and his thorough knowledge of 
farming methods. 

At the time of the Civil war he mani- 
fested his loyalty to the Union cause by be- 
-coming a member of a company known as 
the Sc^uirrel Hunters. He afterward joined 
Company F. One Hundred and Fifty-fourth 
Regiment of Ohio \'olunteers. When the 
regiment took part in the battle of Xew 
Creek, his company was engaged in guard- 
ing Piedmont and thus was not in the en- 
gagement. Mr. McClelland remained at the 
front for about four months and during the 
service was ill with the measles. He never 
afterward fully recovered his health and 
died on the loth of March, 1901. in the 
seventy-sixth year of his age. He voted 
with the Republican part}-, and althougli 
never a politician in the sense of office seek- 
ing, he kept well informed on the issues and 
•questions of the day. In 1890 he was land 



appraiser and also school director. For 
eight years he was director of the Greene 
county agricultural board and then resigned 
l>ecause the board determined to have horse 
racing at the county fairs. He did not ob- 
ject to speeding horses, in fact was very fond 
of a good horse and loved to test its speed, 
his objection to the racing at the fairs being 
on the ground of the gambling which was 
connected with it. Mr. McClelland long 
held membership in the Second United Pres- 
I'xterian church and for thirty years served 
as elder, doing everything in his power to 
advance the cause of Christianity and pro- 
mote the growth of the church. His life 
was one that was in harmonv with princi- 
jiles of upright manhood and in which he 
had due regard for all his obligations to his 
fellow men. He was honorable, courteous, 
kindly and possessed a genial and friendly 
disposition, and thus his death was sincerely 
and deeply mourned throughout the com- 
munity. ^Irs. ^IcClelland has long been 
identified with the United Presbyterian 
church. 



EDMUXD HARRIS MUXGER. 

Judge E. H. ilunger is a representative 
of one of the honored pioneer families of 
Ohio, whose representatives have for a cen- 
tury been connected with the development 
and progress of this state, but further back 
can he trace his ancestry, for in an early 
eptKh in the colonization of America his an- 
ce.stors cajiie to the new world. The Mun- 
ger family is of English lineage and from 
the county of Kent in the year 1639 came 
one of the name, establishing his home in 
Xew England, where his descendants be- 
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497 



l)uil(lin.t( and iinpruvement of that section oi 
the cmintry. 

Edmund Hunger, tlie grand fatlier of our 
subject, was a general in tlie war of 1812 
and for a time w-as in charge of the Ohio 
army, liut after was superseded by General 
Hull, who took the troops to Detroit wlierc 
he afterward surrendered them, (jcneral 
Munger was a farmer Ijy occupation and 
was a man of marked ability along many 
lines. He had considerable mechanical tal- 
ent, could shoe his own horse and repair his 
farm machincrv and at the same time his 
mental talents and broad knowledge made 
him a leader of public thought and opinion. 
On coming to Ohio, he spent one siuimier 
on Avild land near Belpre, in Washington 
ciiunty, where he cleared some of his land 
and planted a crop. Afterward he purchased 
an entire section — si.\ hundred ami forty 
acres — of what was known as the Simnis 
purchase, south of Dayton in Montgomery 
county, in 1798. His new tract of land Gen- 
eral ]\Iunger cleared anil for many years 
made his home thereon. At first he lived 
in true pioneer style, his home being a log 
cabin, but as the years passed and he won 
prosperity, he added to his place all modern 
equipments and conveniences and erected a 
large brick residence. He was a man deeply 
interested in all that pertains to the promo- 
tion of the general welfare, was a leader in 
public thought and action, and was called 
to represent his district in the state legisla- 
ture. In fact, he was one of the most prom- 
inent and influential citizens of his portion 
of the state. He would hold church meet- 
ings, singing societies and meetings of a 
similar character which tended to promote 
sociability as well as culture and morality 
among the people of the community. He 
donated the ground upon which a school 



was built and was an active factor in advanc- 
ing general progress. He tiled at liis home 
en the old Simms pttrchase at the age of 
eighty-six years, while his wife reached the 
very advance age of one hundred years and 
four months. 

Reuben Munger, the father of our sub- 
ject, was reared to manhood on the old fam- 
ily homestead in (jhin, although he was bom 
in New England. He was the fifth in order 
of birth in a family of twelve children, ten 
of whom reached years of maturity and 
reared frnnilies of their own. He received 
the ortlinary common school advantages 
offered at that time and became a well in- 
formed man. His father established a cir- 
culating library and the children therefore 
liad the opportunity of acquiring much 
knowledge in that wa\-. He learned the 
trade of a builder and for many years was 
e.\tensi\-ely and successfully engaged in 
contracting and carpentering. Like his fa- 
th.er he possessed much mechanical ability 
and ingenuit}-. and could not onl\- engage in 
carpentering, but could make carriages and 
wagons and even constructed threshing 
machines in that early day. He married, 
Laura Harris, also a native of Montgomery 
county, a daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Bingham) Harris, who were Xew England 
people, and removed to Ohio at an early 
period in the settlement of this state. Unto 
Reuben and Laura Munger were born three 
children, the eldest being the Judge, while 
the second son was John, who died at the 
age of nineteen years. The third child was 
Amanda, who died at the age of four vears. 
John passed away in New Orleans, to which 
city he had been taken on account of his 
health, but he died the evening after his ar- 
rival. Although he always resided upon a 
farm, Reuben Munger never actively en- 



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gaged in agricultural jjursuits. He lived to 
a very ripe <.)ld age, passing away in his 
ninety-sixth year, while his wife died at the 
age of seventy-four, at the old home on 
Montgomerv county. Following her death, 
the father came to Greene county and spent 
his last days in the home of the Judge in 
Xenia. 

Like most boys of the period, Judge 
Munger began his education in the common 
■schools such as existed during his boyhood 
and was also instructed by a neighbor, the 
Rev. Mr. Hall, who taught him to read 
Latin. He took up the study of algebra and 
surveying independently and made for him- 
self a set of surveying instruments. He also 
made a set of blocks to illustrate the law of 
■cube root. After he had mastered the 
branches of learning taught in the neighbor- 
hood schools, he began teaching in the coin- 
mon schools and followed that profession 
for a number of years, alternating his edu- 
cational work, however, by attendance at the 
Xenia Academy and the academy conducted 
by ^Ir. Barney in Dayton. Subseciuently he 
pursued a collegiate course in Aliami Uni- 
versity at Oxford, and when in the senior 
year, together with si.xteen of his classmates, 
he left that institution and went to Dan- 
ville. Kentucky, completing his course of 
study there by his graduation in the class 
of 1848. The degree of Bachelor of Arts 
was conferred upon him and he was chosen 
to deli\'er the graduating address, taking as 
his sul)ject The Ideal. Judge Munger 
earned the sum necessary to defray his ex- 
penses throughout the period in which he 
was obtaining his education, with the excep- 
tion of the sum necessary for the last term 
•of three months. 

After his graduation Judge Plunger re- 



turned to his home and established a school 
for \fiung men and women at Bellbrook, 
Greene county, conducting the same for nine 
months. He then began reading law with 
Josepli G. Gest. of Xenia, with whom he 
read for two _\-ears, after which he was ad- 
mitted to the bar before the supreme court 
at Columbus, in 185 1. He then went into 
partnership with his preceptor, a connection 
that was maintained for two or three years, 
when ]\Ir. Gest retired from practice and 
Judge ^Nlunger purchased his library and ad- 
mitted R. F. Howard to a partnership in 
the business. On the expiration of two 
}ears, this relation was discontinued and 
since that time Judge Munger has been 
alone in practice. For years he maintained 
a very prominent position at the bar of Ohio. 
His standing at the bar was a merited trib- 
ute to his ability. He threw hiinself easily 
and naturally into the argument with a self- 
possession and a deliberation in which there 
was no straining after effect, but with a pre- 
cision and clearness in his statements and an 
accuracy and strength i:i his arguments 
which speak a mind trained in the severest 
school of investigation and in which the clos- 
est reasoning was habitual and easy. He 
has now largely retired from practice, for 
the years have brought him success and he 
is today the possessor of a handsome compe- 
tence. 

On the 3d of October, 1861, the Judge 
was imited in marriage to Aliss Emilv .\. 
Mather, of Suffield, Connecticut. The an- 
cestry can be traced back to Richard Mather, 
the distinguished minister who was one of 
the first to proclaim the £;ospel in the new 
world. Charles and Mary }Jather, the par- 
ents of Mrs. Munger, were natives of Con- 
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miiiher is still living at the age of ninety- 
two years. Unto the Jndge and his wife 
were horn six children: Clara, the wife of 
Joseph Littell, of Indiana[)olis, who is a 
minister of the United Presbyterian church, 
li\' whom she has four sons: J(.ihn C, who 
married Flora Barnes and is now a practi- 
tioner of law in Toledo; Laura, the wife of 
l\. W. Xinde, a lawyer of Fort Wayne, In- 
diana, b}^ whom she has four children ; Ed- 
mund, who is a graduate of Brown Univer- 
sity and is a musician of note, now studying 
music in the city of Vienna, Austria: Mary, 
who completed her musical education in 
Berlin ; and Charles, at home. 

Judge ]Munger served for three and one- 
half years ujxjn the bench of the common 
pleas court. He was first appointed lj_\- (Jcjv- 
ernor Hayes to fill out the unexpired term 
of Judge \\'inans, and later was elected to 
the same ofifice. He never held other otifi- 
cial ix)sitions save that of prosecuting attor- 
ney, in which capacity he served for seven 
years prior to the time when he went upon 
the bench. In jxilitics he was originally a 
AN'hig, but joined the Republican party upon 
its organization. As the years have passed 
he has made judicious investments and is 
today the owner of four hundred and fifty 
acres of valuable land in Greene county. He 
h also a stockholder in the Xenia National, 
th.e Citizens' National, and the Dayton Xa- 
tional Banks. His scholarly attainments. 
his statesmanship and reliable judgment, 
and his charming powers of conversation 
ha\e enabled him to ably fill and grace any 
l)osition however exalted, but he did not seek 
preferment in that direction, desiring rather, 
to give his undivided attention to the prac- 
tice of law during the many years of his ac- 
ti\e connection therewith, and as has been 
truly said, "Xo political preferment, no mere 



place can add to the power or increase the 
lionor which belongs to the pure and edu- 
cated lawver." 



WILLIAM G. COXFER. 

Among the honored residents of Yellow 
Springs was numbered William G. Confer, 
now deceased. He was lx)rn at Flagerstown. 
Washington county, Maryland. December 
29. 1823, and was a representative of an ex- 
cellent family, his parents being George and 
Elizabeth (Bowman) Confer, the former a 
native of France and the latter of Hagers- 
town. Maryland. George Confer emigrated 
I', the United States with his father, wbo 
settled in ^Maryland, and in 1802 'came to 
Greene county, Ohio, locating on the land 
which was for so many years the home of 
our subject. Tliis farm of two hundred 
acres was secured from the government at 
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. 
The farm labors of the grandfather were 
at one time interrupted by his enlistment for 
ser\ice in the war of 1812, but with the ex- 
ception of this period he followed agricul- 
tural ])ursuits throughout his life. The par- 
ents of our subject were married in Hagers- 
town. ^laryland. and after residing in Ohio 
for a time they returned to the former state, 
which was their place of abode until 1834. 
In that year they again came to Ohio, where 
th.ey spent their remaining ciays, the former 
dying in 1857, and the latter passing away 
in 1870. They were the parents of five chil- 
dren and were most highly respected people. 

William G. Confer w^as a lad of four- 
teen years when he left his boyhood home 
in Maryland and accompanied his parents on 
their second removal to this state. Here he 
entered the public schools, pursuing his 



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studies in a log- school-iiouse in which were 
a puncheon floor, slab scats and greased pa- 
per windows. He remained upon the home 
farm until the death of his father and until 
after his marriage. That important event in 
h.is life occurred cm the 29th of December, 
1S57. tlie lady of his choice l>eing Mary 
Jane, a daughter of Philip F. and Jane 
(Wolf) Cost. Mr. Confer built a log cabin 
which he and his family occupied until 1866, 
when he was enaljled to erect a more modern 
residence. In 1876 he built a large barn at 
a cost of several thousand dollars and nu- 
merous other structures on the premises, in- 
dicating in a marked manner the enterprise 
and thrift of the owner. In addition to the 
improvement upon the place Mr. Confer car- 
ried on successfully the work of tilling the 
soil and raising crops. He also invested 
considerable capital in the village of Yellow 
Springs, erecting the i)ostoffice building here 
and also a livery stable. 

Unto our subject and his wife were lK)rn 
hve children. George B.. their first born, 
died in October, 1887, at the age of twenty- 
eight years. Elizabeth J. is the wife of Ja- 
cob S. Cosier, a resident of Miami town- 
ship, and they have five children, Elsie J., 
Lewis \\'., Mary F., Russell H. and Georgi- 
ana. Mr. Cosier is a farmer and a very 
prominent man. John P. resides upon the 
old home place engaged in the raising of 
Jersey cattle and in conducting a dairy. Fie 
wedded Mary Jacobs, a daughter of A. Ja- 
cobs, of Miami township, and they have two 
adopted children, Gertrude Alexander and 
Harry Gross. Frank resides at Yellow 
Springs and is agent for the Springfield 
Laundry. He married Maude Bailey and 
they have one daughter, Ruth. The fifth 
member of the Confer family died in in- 
fancv. 



In 1894 Mr. Confer left the farm and 
removed to Yellow Springs, where he lived 
a retired life until his death, June 11, 1902, 
He was a member in good standing of the 
Reformed Presbyterian church in which he 
served as elder and deacon for many years, 
and to which his wife also belongs. He be- 
came identified with the church when four- 
teen years of age and his life was ever in 
consistent harmony with its teachings and 
principles. In politics he was a Republican 
and f<jr two \ears he was a member of the- 
school l)oard of his district, while for sev- 
eral terms he served as supervisor. He re- 
membered many interesting incidents of the 
early times. From 1809 until 1812 his fa- 
ther hauled flour from Cincinnati, si.x bar- 
rels making a load, and it required six bar- 
rels to pay for a barrel of salt. He saw the 
first ferry-boat plying from New Orleans to- 
Cincinnati, it taking seventy-five days to 
complete that journey. In early life ]\Ir. 
Confer became familiar with the hardships 
and trials incident to the establishment of a 
home on the frontier and bore his part in 
the work of development and progress here. 
He took a deep interest in the welfare and 
upliuilding of the criunty and thrnughout the 
long vears of his residence here was ever 
known as a loval and valued citizen. 



• SIMEON P. MALLO\\'. 

Simeon P. Alallow is one of the wide- 
awake young farmers of Caesarscreek town- 
ship, and while no exciting chapters are 
found in his life history, be is known as a 
worthy citizen interested in all that pertains 
to the general welfare and at the same time 
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501 



exercise >ii gmid business jiulgment and un- 
flagging industry. His home is on the Hus- 
sey pike and it was upon tliis farm tliat iiis 
birth occurred September 17, 1868, his [Kir- 
ents being John and Hannah (Peterson) 
Mallow. His paternal grandfather was 
George Malliiw, a native of Virginia, who 
became one of the pioneer settlers of Greene 
county, Ohio, where the parents of our sub- 
ject were educated in the district schools, 
after which tlieir marriage was celebrated in 
this county, where their sterling traits of 
character made them recognized as leading 
and representative citizens of the commun- 
ity. They became the parents of four chil- 
dren : Martha J., the wife of B. L. Lewis, 
who resides near Paintersville, this county ; 
Elizabeth, the deceased wife of D. C. Spahr; 
Charles, who died in infancy ; and Simeon, 
of this review. The father took an active 
interest in political affairs and espoused the 
cause of the Republican party. He served 
as trustee of his township lor several years 
and was also town treasurer. Both he and 
his wife belonged to the German Refomied 
church and Mr. Mallow was called to his 
i'lnal rest in 1893 ^^ the age of seventy-three 
years, while his wife died in January, 1887, 
at the age of sixty-four years, their remains 
being interred in the cemetery of Xenia. 

In the district schools Simeon P. Mal- 
low acquired his preliminary education, 
which was supplemented by study in the 
business college in Springfield. Ohio. Like 
most young men who start cnit in life for 
themselves he sought a companion and help- 
mate for life's journey, and on the 26th of 
November, 1891, he was jonied in wedlock 
to Miss Ida M. Hook, who was born in 
Greene county, daughter of Clinton and 
Mary (Downey) Hook, the former a native 
of Greene county and the latter of Clinton 

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county. They now reside near Xenia. In 
their family were ten children, of whom 
seven are yet lixing as follows: Ida M., 
now Mrs. Mallow; Pearl, the w-ife of Sam- 
uel Snyder, a resident of Columbus ; Geor- 
gia B., the W'ife of Harry Bales, who is now 
living near Xenia; Charles E., Bertha Fay, 
Lawrence and Homer, at home. 

By their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mallow 
have become the parents of tive children : 
Eva Fern, who died in childhood ; Chester 
L., 01i\e, Ralph O. and Lois Esther, who 
are still with their parents. The wife and 
mother is a member of the Methodist Prot- 
estant church of Paintersville, which Mr. 
^lallow also attends and supports. 

Mr. Mallow operated the old home farm 
from 1888 to 1893. when after the death 
of his father he bought the interests of the 
other heirs and is now- the possessor of a 
fine farm of three hundred and five acres, 
well improved with a good residence, barns 
and all modern conveniences. The fields re- 
turn a golden harvest for the care and labor 
bestowed upon them. Mr. Mallow is also 
engaged in the raising of short horn cattle 
and this branch of his business is likewise 
profitable. He is a member of the firm of 
Mallow', Lew-is & Long, who own and oper- 
ate the New Jasper limestone quarry, com- 
prising fifty-five acres, from w-hich they ship 
building stone, having a sw-itch from the 
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. 
They also manufacture brick and tile, their 
plant having a capacity of twenty thousand 
per day. Politically Mr. Mallow is a Re- 
pul)lican. and he takes an active interest in 
public affairs, has served as clerk and treas- 
urer of his township, and is filling the latter 
position at the present time. He is know-n 
as an active and reliable business man, of a 
bright and jovial disposition, and his genial- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ity and cuurtesy have gained for liim the 
good will and esteem of the entire com- 
munitv. 



JAMES A. GO\\DY. 

James A. Gowdy, who resides on the 
iipper Bellbrook road in Greene county, was 
born March 25, 1852, on this farm, which 
has been in the family for about one hun- 
dred years. In early pioneer times when 
Greene county was just emerging from its 
wild condition into the light of cix^ilizalion, 
the Gowdy family came to Ohio. John 
Gowdy was born in Connecticut in 1747 and 
Avas of Scotch-Irish parentage. He married 
Abigail Ryan, who was of \\'elsh descent, 
and about 1782 emigrated westward, locat- 
ing first at the north bend of the Ohio river. 
Later owing to military troubles, he was 
compelled to remove t(j the military station 
at the falls of the Ohio and from there went 
to a settlement which afterward became Mt. 
Sterling, Kentucky. There the family lived 
until about 1809, when they came to Greene 
county, settling on a farm two miles west 
of Xenia on the upper Bellbrook pike. John 
Gowdy died about five years later, passing 
away November 7. 1814. His ,wife survived 
him for alwut twenty-four years and depart- 
ed this life on the r>th of May, 1838. They 
had eleven children. The eldest. James 
Gowdy, was married three times, his first 
wife being Joanna Townsley, his second 
Sarah Brown, and his third Jane Purdy. 
His children were John. James. George. Jo- 
anna, who became the wife of William L. 
Finley. Samuel and Philander. Samuel 
Gowdy. the second of the family, married. 
Isabelie Cowley and their children were 
John Rvan. Abigail. Martha. Samuel. 



Frank. Robert Williamson and Diana Alel- 
■\ina. Jane, the third member of the Gowdy 
family, became the wife of Joseph Kyle and 
unt(j them were lx)rn the following named : 
Mary. Joseph Addison, Abigail, Catherine, 
John, James, Sanuiel, \\'illiam and Martha. 
Martha Gowdy married John Jolly and their 
only child was James Gowdy JoHv- The 
next members of the family were Mary an<l 
Robert. John Gowdy. who followed in the 
order of birth, married Prudence Foglesong 
and their children were George Foglesong, 
Catherine, John, James, Charles, Sarah, 
Margaret, Albert and Thomas. Alexander 
married Eleanor FitzgerreUl and their chil- 
dren were John Ryan. Ellen. Abigail. Sa- 
rah. Cyrus and Mary. Abigail, the next 
member of the Gowdy family, became the 
wife of Robert Stevenson, and their children 
were John, Thomas. Rachel and Abigail. 
Ryan Gowdv was twice married, his wi\'es 
being sisters — Diana and Xancy ^Morgan, 
and his children were John, Mary. Ryan, 
Adelaide and X'ancy. Sarah, the xoungest 
of this family, liecame the wife of Peter Ja- 
cob}', and their children were Abigail. Marv. 
Jane, John, Ann, Henry, Rachel and Su- 
sanna. 

Robert Gowdy. the grandfather of our 
subject, married Xancy ]Macke\-. the fifth 
child of Alexander and Jane Mackey. who 
\\ere married in Scntland and on cnniing to 
the United States settled near Lexington, 
Kentucky. Mrs. Gowdy was born January 
J. 1785, amd their marriage occurred August 
26. 1806. On coming to Xenia Ihev first 
lived in a stone house which stood on the 
southwest corner of Detroit and Third 
streets, where the coal yard of Ea\-ey & 
Cozad is miw Incated. Robert Gowdy was 
a tanner by trade and conducted his busi- 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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side of Detroit street, between Water street 
and Siiawnee creek. He served as captain 
and inajnr in tlie war ut iSu and afterward 
held the Cdniniissiun as culonel in the state 
militia. Their children were Ariminta, Jane 
Ryan, John Alexander. Martha, Mary, 
Eliza. Ahii^ail, l\ol)ert, Xancy Ann, Sarah, 
James Marion and Jsaljella. Of this num- 
ber Ariminta died in 183 1, and Martha. 
.\anc\- and James Marion died in infancy. 
Jane became the wife of .\maziah Pilcher ; 
John married Sarah M. Bradford ; ^lary be- 
came the wife of John McBride; and Eliza 
of William \'. Klioades : while Robert mar- 
ried Emily Manor; and Sarali became the 
wife of John Lawrence Jolly: and Isabella 
of Jacob Fishell. Abigail was married to 
William Twiss. Robert (iowdy, the father 
of this family, died Uecemlier 16, 1831. and 
I'.is wife died during the cholera epidemic 
in i84(j on the 3d of .\ugust. 

The parents of James A. (iowdy were 
Roliert and Emil\- (Manor) (iowdy. He 
was born on the Cincinnati pike and spent 
his entire life in (ireene countv. where he 
passed away in October, 1894. at the age of 
se\'enty-five years, his remains being in- 
terred in Woodland ccmetcrw His wife 
died in June. 1883. at the age of tifty-eight 
}'ears. Mr. (jowd\' voted with the Whig 
part\' in earlv life and afterward became a 
stanch Ivepulilican. Me scr\'ed for two 
terms as infirmary director and in all mat- 
ters pertaining to the general welfare he 
took a deep' and acti\-e interest. Both he 
and his wife were members of the Presby- 
terian church, in which he served as a leader 
for many years. In their family were eight 
children : ' George E.. a minister of the 
Presbyterian church, now living- in Leba- 
non. Ohio; Elizabeth, the tleceased wife of 
William Anderson, a United Presbvterian 



minister; James .V.. whose name introduces 
this record: William F., a Presbyterian 
minister living at Pleasant Ridge; Charles 
B., who for many years was secretary and 
treasurer of the Xenia Shoe Company, and 
died in March, 1902; Luella, the wife of R. 
D. Williamson, of Cedarville township; 
Robert L., an attorney of Xenia; and luiiily, 
who died at the age of six weeks. 



LEWIS SMITH. 



The Ijoard of C(junty commissioners in 
Creene vounty has been composed of a num- 
ber of the leading citizens, men who have 
been unselfishly devoted to the welfare and 
progress of the communitv and who enjoyed 
tb.e esteem and confidence of the best citi- 
zens of this portion of the state. Among 
the number who have capably served on the 
board was Lewis Smith. He came of an old 
\'irginia family, his paternal grandparents 
being Jacoli and Xancy Smith, Ijoth of 
whom were nati\-es of the Old Dominion, 
Init at an earl_\- date they emigrated west- 
ward and in Greene county established their 
home, casting in their lot amf)ng the pioneer 
settlers. It was upon the old home farm 
here that James Smith, the father of our 
subject, was Ijorn August 4. 1810. He was 
reared in the usual manner of lads of that 
period. The countrv was wild, the forest 
uncut, the streams unbridged and very little 
of the land was cleared. He assisted his 
father in the development and cultivation of 
the home farm until he decided to make 
some other pursuit his life work and learned 
the blacksmith's trade, which he followed 
for many years. He married Elizabeth Cane, 
who was born January 8, 1816, a daughter 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



of Robert and Sarah Cane. Air. Smith died 
on tlie 28th of' February, 1876, and his wife, 
surviving him for many years, passed away 
on the 20th of April. 1895. 

Lewis Smith, whose name introduces 
this review, was Ijorn in Xew BurHngton, 
Greene county, Ohio, May 5, 1837, and 
spent the days of his boyhood and youth 
there, obtaiiiing his education in the pubhc 
schools. Like his father he learned the 
blacksmith's trade and continued to work in 
the smithy until 1897, receiving a good pat- 
ronage on account of his excellent work- 
manship and his honoral)le business meth- 
ods. Li the \ ear mentioned he was elected 
county commissioner and served continu- 
ously in that office up to the lime of his 
deatli, which occurred May 7, 1902. He 
was a member of the board that contracted 
for and built the new courthouse in Xenia 
at a cost of more than two hundred thou- 
sand dollars. He was complimented and 
commended for the active interest which he 
took in the welfare of the citizens of Greene 
county and his worth was widely recognized. 

On Christmas day of i860 was cele- 
brated the marriage of ]\Ir. Smith and Miss 
Rachael Elizabeth Craft, a daughter of Al- 
len Craft, who was a farmer but is now de- 
ceased. Unto our subject and his wife were 
born ten children, of whom nine are yet liv- 
ing, namely: Rena Bell, ilinnie E., Hattie 
M.. Wesley Allen, William Francis, \Vayne 
Craft, \\'alter Le Roy, Harley Hays and 
Leslie Leonard. Socially Mr. Smith was 
connected with the ^Masonic fraternity and 
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and 
the family is identified with the Methodist 
Episcopal church of Xcw Burlington. In 
his political views Mr. Smith was a stanch 
Republican, never swer\ing in his allegiance 
to the party whose principles he believed 



contain the best elentents of good govern- 
ment. His life was quietly passed in the 
faithful performance of each day's duties, 
and while there were no exciting chapters in 
his history it yet contains many lessons that 
are worthv of emulation. 



F. E. McGERVEY. 



The true measure of individual success 
is determined by what one has accomplished, 
and as taken in contradistinction to ilie old 
adage that a prophet is not without honor 
save in his own country, there is particular 
interest attaching to the career of the sub- 
ject of this review, since he is a native son 
of the place where he has passed his actixe 
life, and so directed his ability and efforts 
as to gain recognition as one of the repre- 
sentative citizens of Xenia. He is to-day 
connected with man_v business interests 
which are of value to Xenia through pro- 
moting its commercial activity, whereon rest 
the i)rosperity and upbuilding" of every town 
or city. He is to-day cashier of the Citizens" 
Xational Bank and is also a representative 
of many other important business concerns. 

F. E. McGervey was born in this city 
on the 2 1 St of January, 1856, his parents 
being James and Caroline (Brown) Mc- 
Gervey. the former a native of Penns_\lva- 
nia and the latter of Xew Hampshire. It 
is supposed that the McGervey family is of 
Scotch- Irish origin. The parents of James 
McGer\ey died during his infancy and he 
was reared by a Pennsylvania Dutch family. 
In early life he learned the saddler's trade 
and in 1828 he emigrated westward, travel- 
ing b\- stage coach and becoming a resident 
of Xenia, which was then a thriving little 



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village. Fur more than sixty-seven years 
he condncted a harness shop in this place, 
continning in husiness up to the time of his 
death. His excellent workmanship, his hon- 
oralile treatment of his patrons and his un- 
remitting diligence brought to him success 
and he gained, as result of his labors, a com- 
fortable competence. He was united in 
marriage to Miss Caroline Brown, who had 
three sisters, and all nf them, like Mrs. Mc- 
Ciervey. celebrated their goMen weddings, 
and each sister with her husband attended 
the celebration of the fiftieth wedding anni- 
versary of all the others. The father of our 
subject passed away in 1895 at the advanced 
age of eighty-five years and his wife was 
seventy-nine years at the time of her death. 
Tliey were the parents of eight children, but 
three of the number died in childhood. The 
others are as follows: Harriet is the wife 
of J. D. Watt, of Scotia, Xeljraska. Mrs. 
Sarah ^1. ■\I_\ers, now a widow, is the prin- 
cipal of the Woman's College at Fredericks- 
liurg. Maryland. James L. is connected 
with the firm of Jobe Brothers, merchants 
of Xenia. William R., who now resides in 
Kansas City, was the organizer of the Citi- 
zens' Xational liank in 188], and ser\ed as 
its cashier until 1896, when his health failed 
him and he removed to Kansas City, where 
lie has since made his home. The youngest 
member of the family is the subject of this 
review. 

Frank E. McGervey is indebted to the 
public school system of Xenia for the edu- 
cational privileges which he enjoyed. He 
entered upon his business career when only 
bfteen years of age, being first employed as 
liookkeeper and w ben seventeen \-ears of age 
he was head bookkeeper of a large mercan- 
tile concern. Since that time he has been en- 
gaged in clerical wnrk. altlnuigh he has not 



given his entire attention to it. In 1876 he 
entered the office of the county treasurer as 
deputy and filled that positinn for eight con- 
secutive years. In 1884 he was elected 
county treasurer and served for two terms 
in that capacity. On the expiration of that 
period he entered the iiisurance and real 
estate business and is still a member of the 
firm of McGervey & Le Sourd. In 1897 he 
entered the Citizens" Xational Bank of 
Xenia as cashier and has since continued in 
that position, the success and high standing 
of the institution being attributable in no 
small degree to the efforts of the popular 
and efficient cashier. He also has other in- 
terests, being connected as a stockholder 
with leading entcr[)rises here. He is the 
secretary and treasurer of the Gas Company 
and of the Electric Light Company. 

On the 29th of January. 1880. Mr. ]\Ic- 
Gervey was united in m.arri.-ige with ^liss 
Julia Dean, a native of Greene county and 
a daughter of David Dean of Xenia. She is 
the younger of two children, her brother, D. 
C. Dean, being the superintendent of the 
Xenia Gas Company. Unto Mr. and i\Irs. 
McGervey were also born two children, but 
the daughter died in infancy, \\'alter E. is 
now acting as bookkeeper in the bank. Mrs. 
McGervey belongs to the United Presby- 
terian church and our subject holds mem- 
bership in the ^Methodist Episcopal church, 
in which he has been chorister for a cjuarter 
of a century. He has always been identified 
w ith the musical circles of Xenia and is the 
director of the Association Chorus of this 
city, comprised of one hundred and twenty- 
five members. In politics he is a stanch Re- 
publican but has never consented to hold 
office, saive that of county treasurer. He 
also belongs to the Young [Men's Christian 
Association and for fifteen vears has been 



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su active memljer of its board, taking a deep 
interest in all that pertains to the moral de- 
velopment and mental cnlture of the citv as 
well as to its material npbnilding. His ad- 
vancement has been continuous, his promo- 
tion coming to him in recognition of his 
capability, efficiency and accuracy. Well 
merited success now crowns his efforts, and 
he is honored and esteemed by all who know 
him. 

•—'¥■ 

JASPER X. WILSOX. 

Jasper X. \\'ils(in. who follows general 
farming in the southeastern part of Bath 
township, was born May 28, 1S50. in this 
township, and is a son of \\'illiam and Eliz- 
abeth E. (Watts) \\'ilson. The father's 
birth occurred in Bath township October 14, 
181 2. his parents being William and Cather- 
ine (Hefflex) \^'ilslln. The former was a 
native of Kentucky and about 1800 came to 
dreene county. Ohio, while the grandmoth- 
er arrived five years later, coming from 
Maryland, her native state. Soon after 
reaching Ohio the grandfather entered land 
from the government, thus becoming the 
owner of a tract in the eastern part of Bath 
township, which he at once began to im- 
prove. He was called out in ser\Mce in the 
war of 1812 and there contracted disease 
which terminated his life. After his death 
liis wife left the farm and made her home 
with her husband's father, Michael Wilson, 
There she died six months after the birth of 
her son William. 

The latter lived with his grandparents in 
the old homestead until he was seventeen 
years of age. He then learned the black- 
smith's trade at Byron, of Jacob Greiner, 
and after he had mastered the business he 
worked for one year as a journeyman. He 



then purchased the shop and tools of his em- 
ployer and conducted business there for 
eighteen years, after which he sold out and 
liought a little farm near the town, continu- 
ing its cultivation until 1855. He then trad- 
ed the property for a larger farm about two 
and one-half miles from Byron and was 
there engaged in agricultural pursuits until 
1872. In May. 1834. he had married Eliza- 
beth Watts, and unto them were born ten 
children, but only one of the number is now 
living. These were: William W. ; Sarah, 
who died in infancy : Jacob, w ho was a 
member of the One Hundred and Tenth 
Regiment of Ohio \dlunteers in the Cix'il 
war; Catherine, the wife of Jacob 
Wolf, but both are now deceased: Susan, 
the wife of Henry Coines, and they 
have also passed away; Elizabeth, who 
became the wife of John Lowe, and, 
they, too, are deceased: Mary Elizabeth, the 
wife of James Ross; Virginia Alice; Jasper; 
and Annette, the widow of F. B. Bryan. 
The mother of this family died ]\Iarch 13, 
1877. The father was a memlier of the Re- 
formed church for nearly half a century and 
was one of the loyal adherents to tlie cause 
of Christianity. He held the office of jus- 
tice of the peace at Byron for nearl}- two 
)ears and then resigned on account of the 
demands of his private business. In poli- 
tics he was a strong' Republican and in his 
farming operations and other pursuits he 
was very successful. After 1872 he lived 
a retired life in Fairfield until called to his 
final rest in 188 1. Both he and his wife 
were liuried in the cemetery at Byron. 

Jasper X. Wilson was educated in the 
district schools, but when still quite young 
began to assist his father in the work of the 
field and meadow and was thus engaged un- 
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spriii"' oi 1SS2 lie renn j\cd 'ti> his present 
farm. In the meantime lie liad married, 
itaving in the spring of 1871 wedded Miss 
Ellen K. Hetsel, who is now deceased. Their 
children were: Bertha and Charles, wlm 
have passed away; Bessie, the wife of John 
Kendig- of Bath township, by whom she has 
two children — Fay and Frank; William, 
\\hi> married Hattie Dillinger, by whom he 
has one child, Mabel, and tlieir home is in 
Bath township; Clelland, who married 
Laura Reed; Ettic. now deceased: Susie, 
who is li\-ing with her brother-in-law. Mr, 
Kendig; and Liira. also deceased. The 
mother died in 1888 when about thirty-eigiit 
years of age and was laid to rest in the By- 
ron Union cemeterx'. She was a consistent 
Christian woman who held membership in 
the Methodist Episcopal church. On the 
i6tli of August, 1892, Mr, \\'ils<in was 
again married, his second union being with 
Mrs. Mary (Henman) Hrinsel, who had 
one child. Jesse, liy her fcirmer marriage. 
]!y the present union there were three chil- 
dren: Ralph, who died in infancy; Ray- 
mond and Leslie, who are still with their 
jiarents. The family home is upon a good 
farm of one hundre<l and sixty acres, upon 
which Mr. Wilson is carrying on general 
farming- and stock-raising. His fields are 
well tilled and annually he gathers good 
harvests. In his pastures are found good 
grades of stock and his business is carefully 
managed, so that he is to-dav one of the 
prosperous and substantial citizens of his 
Community. 

♦-•-♦ 

MAXSEL J, HARTLEY, 

The specific anti distinctive office of biog- 
rapli_\- is not to give voice to a man's modest 
estimate of himself and his accomplish- 



ments, but rather to leave the perpetual rec- 
I'rd establishing his character by the con- 
sensus of opinion 011 the part of his fellow- 
men. That Mr. Hartley occupies a notable 
position among- the able lawyers of Ohio is 
shown by the many times his professional 
associates have honored him with official 
preferment in their fraternal organizations; 
and that the public accords him prominence 
is demonstrated liy the lilieral clientage 
which he now enjoys. It is therefore fitting 
that he be numbered among the leaders of 
the liar of Greene countw where for twenty- 
one years he has practiced continuously. 

^Ir. Hartley was born in Guernsey coun- 
ty. Ohio, on the 9th of August, 1853, his 
parents being \\'illiani 1'. and I'lleanor E. 
( Johnson ) Hartley, the former a native of 
Xew Jersey and the latter of Ohio. It is 
lieliexed that the Hartley family is of Eng- 
lish lineage fnit for inaii\- generations repre- 
sentatives of the name have resided in .Amer- 
ica, the original ancestor having come to 
the new world with William Penn. The 
Hartleys are still found in Pennsylvania and 
Xew Jersey. They were worthy people, 
identified with the Society of Friends, and 
their Ii\-es were in consistent harmony with 
the teachings of that sect, William P. 
Hartley came to Guernsey county. Ohio, in 
1837. and is now residing within a mile of 
Quaker City. Throughout his active busi- 
ness career he has followed farming and 
now he is living in practical retirement at 
the age of eighty-one years, while his wife 
has reached the age of seventy-one years. 
They became the parents of three children, 
of whom two are yet living — Mansel J. and 
Anice H.. the latter the wife of S. F. Mc- 
Burney of Quaker City, Ohio. 

Li the public schools of Quaker Cit\-, 
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early education and afterward engaged in 
teaching for four years in tlie district 
schools during the winter months, while 
in the summer season he worked upon 
the home farm. Xot content, however, 
with the educatiiinal privilegs previous- 
ly accorded liim he resolved to pur- 
sue a more advanced course and when 
twentv years of age he entered the fresh- 
man class of Bethany College of West Vir- 
ginia, where he completed a classical course 
and was graduated in 1877 with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts. He was then chosen 
superintendent of the schools of Quaker 
City, where he remained for a year, and in 
1878 was elected superintendent of instruc- 
tion in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan 
Home in Xenia, serving in that capacity 
until 1880. \\'hile engaged in teaching he 
took up the study of law under the direction 
of Charles Darlington of Xenia, and in 
April. 1881, he was admitted to the bar, 
where he has practiced continuously since. 
He entered into partnership with B. Xesbitt, 
a relation that was maintained fruni 188;') 
until 1892, when on account of his age. Mr. 
Xesbitt practically retired and died shortly 
afterward. \\'ith tiie exception of that 
j-.eriod of six years Mr. Hartley has always 
been alone in practice and the success that 
he has achieved is the merited recognition 
of his ability. He is well informed concern- 
ing the various departments of jurispru- 
dence. The people do not trust their legal 
business in unskilled hands where they risk 
losing that for which they are in litigation, 
and when one secures a large clientage it is 
an indication that the people have faith in 
his ability. Although Mr. Hartley has 
made the practice of law his chief vocation 
he has also been identified with several cor- 
jwrations and important business enter- 



prises. He is a director of the People's 
Building and Savings Company of Xenia; 
is a director of the Xenia, Cedarville, James- 
town & \Mlmington Traction Company and 
its attorney ; and is also attorney for the 
Springfield & Xenia Traction Company. 

On the nth of September, 1884, ilr. 
Hartley was united in marriage to Miss 
Laura H. Cofifman, of Dayton, Ohio, and 
theirs is one of the hospitable homes of the 
city. Their circle of friends is very exten- 
sive and is continually growing as the years 
pass by. Mr. Hartley has been called to 
many positions of public trust and since 
1 88 1 has served continuously as school ex- 
aminer of the city of Xenia. In 1879 he re- 
ceived from the state board of examiners a 
life certificate for Ohio. For two years, 
from 1889 until 1891, he was trustee of the 
Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors" Orphan Home, 
having l)een ai>ix)inted to that position liv 
Governor Campbell. In 1892 he was nom- 
inated for a presidential elector on the Dem- 
ocratic ticket but there was a Republican 
landslide in Ohio that year. He was United 
States commissioner of the circuit court for 
the southern district of Ohio and in every 
position which he has been called upon to fill 
he has proved his loyalty to his country and 
his fidelity to the trust reposed in him. A 
very prominent member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, he has been a mem- 
ber of its grand lodge since 1888: is now 
one of its trustees and is an ex-officio trustee 
of tlie Odd Fellows' Home at Springfield. 
He also belongs to Xenia Lodge, Xo. 49, F. 
& A. !M., and for four years was worshipful 
master. His wife belongs to the Baptist 
church and to its support he contributes lib- 
erally. In the line of his ])rofession he is 
connected with the State Bar Association of 
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never losing sight of any detail having bear- 
ing u[H>n iiis case, and at the same time he 
gives to the more prominent points due im- 
portance. His knowledge of the law is ex- 
act, his preparation of the cases painstaking 
and his ijower before the judge and jury is 
acknowledged by all. He is a gentleman of 
\ery modest manner, yet of pleasing person- 
ality and his uniform courtesy and genuine 
worth have made him a great favorite in 
social as well as professional circles. 



JOHN H. WOLFORD. 

Jolm TI. Wolford is the honored mayor 
of the village of Cedarville and for many 
years has been identified with its industrial 
interest, conducting a blacksmith and car- 
riage-making shop. He is a native of Wash- 
ington county, ^Maryland, where his birth 
occurred December 27, 184S, and is a son 
of John and Mahala (Brewer) Wolford. 
The father was also a native of Washing- 
ton county, where he lived and died. He 
was a shoemaker by trade and followed that 
pursuit throughout his entire business car- 
eer. He died at the age of sixty-two years, 
his death occurring in 1884, and his wife 
passed away in 1873. Eleven children were 
jjorn unto them, seven of whom are yet liv- 
ing, and all are natives of Maryland. In 
that state the subject of this review pursued 
his education and made his home until he 
was seventeen years of age, when he came 
to Greene county, Ohio, settling in Xenia, in 
1866. There he continued to reside until 
1882. since which time he has made his 
home in Cedarville. 

Mr. Wolford learned his trade of black- 
smithing and carriage-making in Xenia and 



followed the dual pursuit during sixteen 
years of his residence in that city. Coming 
to Cedarville he opened his shop here and 
has since conducted the business with good 
success, his excellent workmanship and 
trustworthy business methods commending 
him to the public confidence and, therefore, 
to the public patronage. 

Mr. Wolford has also been quite prom- 
inent in public affairs and is well fitted to 
be a leader of public thought and action. 
He became a member of the board of educa- 
tion of the village two years after his ar- 
rival here, and is thus identified with ed- 
ucational interests. For several years he 
served as its president and at all times has 
put forth every effort in his power to pro- 
mote the cause of the schools. In politics 
he has always been a Republican, and upon 
that ticket he was elected mayor of the vil- 
lage, in April, i8g6. He has been chosen 
to that office each term since, so that he is 
now sen-ing the sixth year, the term of of- 
fice expiring in April, 1902. No higher 
proof of his capability could be given than 
the fact that by popular suffrage he has 
been three times chosen for the office. Dur- 
ing his incumbency many improvements 
have been made in the city, including the 
laying of cement walks. , When William 
McK'inley was governor of Ohio he ap- 
pointed Mr. Wolford, in March, 1892, to 
the office of one of the trustees of the Day- 
ton State Hospital, and lie served in that 
capacity for four years. 

In 1872, in Springfield, Ohio, Mr. Wol- 
ford was united in marriage to Miss 
America Mills, a daughter of Jacob Mills, 
\'-ho is now living retired in Springfield. 
Five children have been born of this union 
and the family circle yet remains unbroken 
bv the hand of death. These are: Bernice; 



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Ida, tlie wife of W. A. Tunibull. a farmer 
cf Cedarville; Edna, win) is the wife of Ol- 
iver Dodds, of Xenia: J. X.: and Ralph. 
All of the children were born in Xenia with 
the exception of the ymmgest, who is a na- 
tive of Cedarville. 

Fraternallv Mr. \\'olford is connected 
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
and with the Masons, his membership being 
in the lodges in Xenia. F<:ir twenty years 
he has resided in Cedar\ille and has become 
widely known not only in the city, bttt 
throughout the surrounding district. He is 
a representative of our best type of Amer- 
iian manhood and chivalry. By persever- 
ance, determination and honorable effort he 
has overthrown the obstacles which l)arred 
his path to success and reached the goal of 
prosperity, while his genuine worth, broad 
mind and jHiblic spirit have made him a di- 
rector of public thought and action. 



PROFESSOR E. H. COLVIX. 

Professor E. H. Ci>lvin. long associated 
V. ith educational interests in this part of 
Ohio, and now lixing in Spring ^"aliey, was 
born in Clinton county. Ohio. July i8, 18"/. 
a son of James and Henrietta (Hayes) Col- 
vin. The father, also a native of Clinton 
cotmty. engaged in teaching for a brief pe- 
riod in early manhood and tlien turned his 
attention to farming, which he followed 
throughout his remaining years. His wife 
died in 1S73. but he survived until January 
ifi. 1897, ■^vhen he departed this life in the 
county of his nativity. Of their family of 
three children, our subject is the second. 
\'incent Darius, the eldest, died in infancy, 
wiiile Hally Carson is a fanner of Clinton 
countv. 



The boyhood days of our subject were 
spent upon the home farm, and he pursued 
his education through the winter months 
between the ages of eight and eighteen 
years, manifesting special aptituile in his 
studies. \\'hen fifteen vears of age he suc- 
cessfully passed a teacher's exann'nation an^i 
received a certificate, but on account of his 
youth could not obtain a position. In the 
fall of 1875 he entered the Friends College, 
at \\"ilniington, Ohio, where he com]5!eted 
the course and was graduated in the class 
of 1879. Through four years he bad daily 
walked from his home to that school and 
had never missed a recitation and was tai- 
dy only three times, a record of which he 
bias every reason to he proud. The same 
reliability and fidelity e\"er characterized his 
work as an educator. He won the degrete of 
Bachelor of Arts and in the following Sej)- 
tember he was employed to teach the \-il- 
lage school, in Ogden, Ohio. During the 
greater part of his life he has devoted his 
attention to educational w'ork and has won 
a high reputation as an instructor of supe- 
rior ability. In 1884 'le came to Spring 
\alley to accept the superintendency of the 
village school, remaining in charge for four 
years. He was then away for five years and 
during one year was teaching at Versailles, 
Darke county, Ohio. He was then again 
called to take charge of the schools of this 
place and remained as superintendent ' for 
si.K years, during which year the school- 
made satisfactory progress and many ex- 
cellent improvements in methods were intro- 
duced, rendering the work of the school- 
room much more effective in preparing the 
young for the practical duties of life. 

On the 7th of August. 1884. Mr. Col- 
\ in was married to Miss Hannah Marie 
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511 



Samuel Haines and ^hwy (Bales) Haines. 
Mrs. Colvin is a native of this county and 
by her marriage she has become the mother 
of two children: Orville Carson, born in 
Versailles, Ohio, May 29, 1889; and Pearl 
Augusta, born in , Caesarscreek township, 
Greene county, August 21. 1891. In 1899 
I'rofes.sor Colvin removed witli his family 
to LeGrand, Iowa, and became principal of 
LeGrand Academy, remaining for a year, 
liut the climate did not agree with his wife 
and daughter and he then returned to Ohio. 
Professor Colvin was reared in the 
Democratic faith and has always supported 
the party by his ballot since attaining his 
majority. He was the Democratic nominee 
in Caesearscreek township for assessor, and 
c'lltiiough the locality is strongly Republican 
he failed only five votes f)f election. He 
belongs to the Christian church in Bethel, 
Clintnii ciiuniy, near where his fatlier was 
born and in which he was a deacon. The 
professor liecame identified with the church 
when abiiut sixteen years of age. His wife 
was reared in tlie faith of the Society of 
Friends, to which she still adheres. Profes- 
sor Colvin is a member of Spring \'alley 
Lodge, No. 302, I. O. O. V.. in which he 
has filled all of the chairs and also of the 
encampment. He became so familiar with 
the proceedings of the fraternity that he 
cnuld at one time give all of its unwritten 
work from memory. He became a charter 
member of Walter Coesey Council. Xo. 89, 
Junior Order United American Workmen, 
filled all the offices and is a past council- 
man. He is also a member of the depart- 
ment of Spring Valley, and belongs to Bur- 
lingtnn Lodge, F. & A. "Si. Lie has in\ested 
in property, owning a residence in Spring 
\'alley, a house and lot in Caesarscreek 
township, and the old family homestead. 



which he purchased after his father's death. 
His influence and labors have been of 
marked effect in promoting the intellectual 
development of the community in which he 
makes his home and he and his family occu- 
py a leading position in social circles where 
true worth and intelligence are received as 
the passports into good societv. 



CHARLES \V. WHITMER. 

Charles W. \\'hitmer, a member of the 
Ohio bar practicing in Xenia, was born in 
Rainsboro, Highland county, on the 4th of 
July, 1852. and is of German lineage, al- 
though the family has long been established 
in America. Jacob Whitmer, the grandfa- 
ther, was born in Pennsylvania and spent 
the greater part of his life there, but in his 
later years remo\ed to Montgomery county, 
Ohio, where his death occurred. David 
\\hitmer, the father of our subject, was 
the only son in a family of four children, 
and was the eldest of the numljer. His 
birth occurred in Pennsylvania, at the old 
family home there. The family name was 
originally spelled Wittmer, Init later gen- 
erations adopted the present form. David 
A\'hitmer entered the ministry of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church in early life and for 
niiire than forty years was actively engaged 
m proclaiming the gospel tidings, having 
been connected with the Central Ohio con- 
ference. He officiated in different pulpits 
in central Ohio and for a time was con- 
nected with the Female College, of Hills- 
boro, but with that exception he was always 
in the ministry from early manhood until 
his death, although at the time of his de- 
mise he held superannuated relations to 
the church. He passed away at the age of 



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sixty-three years, on the 27th of June, 1887, 
in Xenia. and liis widow is still living here. 

Re\-. ^^'hitnler was twice married. He 
first wedded Hannah Fox, a native of Rich- 
mond, Indiana, and a sister of Judge Henry 
Fox, of that citv. They became the par- 
ents of two children, the elder brother of 
our subject being \\'illiam C. W'hitmer, who 
is trainmaster of the northern dix'ision of 
the Paaihandle Railroad at Columbus. The 
mother died in 1855 ^'""^1 ^^''i* buried near 
Hillsboro, Highland county. She was a 
lady of more than ordinary literar}- ability 
and culture, and wrote quite extensively for 
magazines and periodicals of her day. Aft- 
er the death of his first wife Rev. Whit- 
mer married Amanda C. Gardner, of Clin- 
ton count}', and to them w^ere born nine 
children, six of whom are yet living. Clar- 
ence is teller in the Xenia National Bank; 
Harry is connected with the firm of Whit- 
mer & Hebble, insurance agents of Xenia; 
and George is train dispatcher on the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, at Cincinnati. 

Mr. W'hitnier <.>f this review pursued his 
early education in the public schools, at- 
tended the high schools of Urbana, Ohio, 
and afterward was a student in the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, at Delaware. Before 
he was fourteen years of age he taught his 
first school and after completing his educa- 
tion he continued teaching in Greene county, 
being thus connected with educational work 
until 1S84, when he was admitted to the bar. 
He had taken up the ^tud}- of law^ with the 
firm of Alexander & Spencer, of Xenia, but 
at the time had no intention of becoming an 
active member of the legal profession, but 
after a few years time he entered into part- 
nersliip with his former preceptor, Scjuire 
W. J. Alexander, with whom he was asso- 
ciated until the hitter's death, wdiich oc- 



curred on Easter Sunda}' of 1898. Since 
that time Mr. \\'hitmer has been alone, en- 
gaging in general practice, having a wide 
and comprehensive knowledge of the prin- 
ciples of jurisprudence in its many depart- 
ments. Strong in argument, logical in his 
reasoning and with a keen perception which 
enables him to readily determine the strong 
points of a cause, he has won many notable 
forensic combats, which proves that he has 
made no mistake in allying himself with the 
legal fraternity of Greene county. 

On the j8th of November, 1876, Mr. 
W'hitnier was married to Miss Libbie S. 
Cooper, a native of this county and a daugh- 
ter of Samuel Cooper of the same county. 
Three children were born to them : Efiie 
C, at home; Freddie, who died in infancy; 
and John Raymond, who is connected with 
the Miami Telephone Company, of Xenia. 

^Ir. \Miitmer is attc_irne\- ior the Peo- 
ple's Building & Loan Association of Xenia: 
has been solicitor for the city for some time 
and in connection a\ ith the practice of his 
profession has for a number of years been 
engaged in the real-estate business, conduct- 
ing a number of important property trans- 
fers. He is cjuite prominent autl popular in 
fraternal circles, being a member of Xenia 
Lodge, Xo. 49, F. & A. i\L ; of Ivanhoe 
Lodge, X^o. 56, K. of P., of Xenia, and of 
the Uniformed Rank : Xeifia Lodge, L O. 
O. F. : Xenia Lodge of the Red Men; 
Xenia Lodge, Xo. 668, B. P. O. E. 
In politics he is a Republican, and for 
the past eight years has served on 
the board of ec[ualization for the 
city of Xenia. In office as in private life he 
is trustworthy, reliable and energetic in the 
performance of duty. His chief attention, 
however, has been given to his law practice. 
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513 



of llie law applicable to them has been a 
potent element in his success, and the re- 
markai)le clearness of expresison, an ad- 
crpiate and precise diction, which enables 
him to make others- understand not only the 
salient pniius of his argument, but his every 
fine graduation of meaning may be ac- 
counted one of his most conspicuous gifts 
and accomplishments. 



CHARLES II. SULLIXA:^. 

Charles H. Sullivan, a farmer and stock- 
raiser of Sugarcreek township, is a west- 
ern man by birth and possesses the true en- 
terprising spirit so characteristic of this 
section of the countr\-, leading to its rapid 
development. He was born in the qity of 
Decatur, Illinois, January 24, 1S76, and is 
a son O'f Taxlor and Elizabeth (Wright) 
Sulli\an. The mollier was a native of 
Greene county, Ohio, and the father had 
been a resident of Illinois and Missouri, 
where he had followed carpentering. They 
were married in Greene county and during 
the infancy of our subject they returned to 
this place so that Charles H. Sullivan was 
here reared to manhood. The public school 
system afforded him his educational priv- 
ileges. He was only six years of age when 
his parents died and he made his home with 
his maternal grandmother, i\Irs. Charles 
^Vright. 

After arriving- at years of maturity Mr. 
Su]li\an sought a companion and helpmate 
for the journey of life and on the 12th of 
March. 1896, was united in marriage to 
I\Iiss Elizabeth King, of Warren county, 
Ohio, in which place she was born October 
28, 1876, a daughter of H. H. and Frances 
(Cooper) King. This marriage has been 



blessed with two children, Ambrose and 
Mulburn. The young couple have the warm 
regard of many friends, having been so 
many ye?rs residents of this part of the 
state. Their social cpialities have made their 
home a hospitable one and it is the resort 
of many who entertain for them high re- 
gard. Mr. Sullivan gives his political sup- 
port to the Republican party, but does not 
seek public oftice. preferring that his time 
and energies should be given to his business 
interests and to the establishment of a good 
home for his little family. He is meeting 
with creditable success in his undertakings 
and is accounted one of the most progress- 
ive and prosperous of the \ounger farmers 
of this countv. 



JOHN ORR. 

Long connected with the educational and 
official interests of Greene county, John 
Orr was \videly and fa\-orably known and 
\\hen he passed away the community- 
mourned the loss of a valued citizen, one 
in whom patriotism, integrity and reliabil- 
ity were numbered among his chief charac- 
teristics. He was born in Chester district. 
South Carolina, on the 12th of August, 
1820, and was of Scotcli-Irish lineage, the 
family being founded in America by John 
Orr, the grandfather of our subject, who 
emigrated from county Antrim, in the 
north of Ireland, to the new world, taking 
up his abode in Chester district. South Car- 
olina. There he lived for many years, but 
on account of the slaverx- conditions exist- 
ing in the south he left that state and with 
a colony made his way to Indiana, settling 
near Princeton. At the same time another 



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ROBIXSOXS HISTORY OF GREEK E COUNTY. 



colony from the same neigliborhood set- 
tled near Ce(lar\-ille. Greene county, Ohio. 
William Orr. the father of our subject, was 
also a nati\e of South Carolina, ar.d 
throughout liis business career carried on 
farming. He spent the greater part of his 
life near Princeton. Indiana, and at length. 
passed away at that place. 

John Orr was the eldest of the five chil- 
dren born to his parents. He, too, was en- 
gaged in agricultural pursuits during his 
boyhcKxl, and in the district schools ac- 
quired his earlv education, which was aft- 
erward supplemented by a college course in 
Hanover, Indiana. He was graduated at 
]\Iiami University, Oxford, Ohio, in the 
class of 1845. .\fter his graduation he be- 
gan teaching and within a short time be- 
came president of a college at Macon, Ten- 
nessee, Avhcre he remained until a few years 
prior to the Ci\il war. Xorthern men were 
unwelcome in that sectirni of the countr}' at 
that time and be returned to Princeton, In- 
diana, where he was engaged in teacliing 
for several years. He next came to Cedar- 
ville, Greene county, Ohio, and was prin- 
cipal of the public schools for several en- 
suing _\'ears. In 1S63 he was elected clerk 
of tlie court of Greene county and filled that 
])osition for eighteen consecutive years, bis 
term of service l>eing unparalleled by any 
other incumbent of the office in recent vears. 
He discharged his duties in such a prompt 
and capable manner that he won the highest 
commendation of the bar and of the gen- 
eral pulilic and over the record of his of- 
ficial career there falls not the least shadow 
of wrong. 

In 1850 !Mr. Orr was united in marriage 
to Miss Henrietta Kiloh, a native of Aber- 
deen, Scotland, and a daughter of John and 
Maria Kiloh. Thev were natives of Eng- 



land and were making their home in Aber- 
dene at the time of their daughter's birth. 
When she was a maiden of nine summers 
they crossed the Atlantic to the United 
States and located in Cincinnati, where sb.e 
married Mr. Orr. Eleven children were 
born of this marriage: Alay, the wife 'if 
Judge H. L. Smith, of Xenia; Eva, the wife 
of Thomas G. Brown, of Ironton, Ohio; 
William F.. an attorney of Xenia; Charles, 
who is librarian of the Case library in 
Cleveland, Ohio, and is also a member of 
the state lil)rary commission; J. Frank, of 
Xenia ; Annie, the wife of James R. Hale, 
of Cle\eland ; Rose, also of Cleveland ; Ger- 
irude. the wife of the Rev. Charles Rice, 
of ^lichigan; Blanche, the wife of E. W. 
CtuTy, of Cleveland; Olive, the wife of 
Clyde Horton, of the same city; and Harry 
E., also a resident of Cleveland. Mrs. Orr 
if also lix'ing in the same city at the age of 
seventy-one years. 

In his religious faith Mr. Orr was a 
Presb\terian, belonging to a church of that 
denomination in Xenia. His [xjlitical sup- 
port was given the Republican partv and 
the cause of education found in him a warm 
friend. For se\eral years he was a mem- 
ber of the school board of Xenia and did 
all in his power to advance the standard of 
education here. He was himself a man of 
scholarly attainments and broad general cul- 
tr.re and his wide information rendered bis 
conversation not only entertaining, but in- 
structive. He passed away December 30, 
1883. at the age of sixty-three years, and 
his remains were interred in ^\'oodland cem- 
etery, Xenia, Ohio, but though nineteen 
years have since passed his inemorv is en- 
shrined in the hearts of scores of his old 
friends and associates, to wiiose interests he 
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515 



than llieirs. C(nil<l liis scrxicc as^ a capal)'^ 
ufticial always 1)e L'(|ualc!l the liest interests 
lit' town, state and nation would always be 
conserved and the welfare of the country 
greatly ad\-anced. 



MELVILLE F. BARROWS. 

.Melville F. Barrows, who is agency in- 
structor for the Xew York Life Insurance 
Cnnipanv, having supervision over twelve 
counties, is an enterprisint^- ])usiness man, 
whose success is attributable to his own ef- 
forts. He is numbered among the native 
sons of the count\'. his birth having occurred 
in Xenia township. July S. 1864. his i)arcnts 
l;eing John I. and I'. R. ( Butler) Barrows, 
the former a native oi Xew York and the 
latter of Ohio. The ancestry can be traced 
back to Sir Isaac Barrows of England, but 
at an early day the family was founded in 
the new world. 

Isaac Barrows, the grandfather of our 
subject, was lK)rn in Massachusetts, but in 
early life ranoved to the Empire state, 
where he spent his remaining days, engaged 
in farming, in dealing in grain and in op- 
erating a sawmill. In liis family were six 
children, including John I. Barrows, who 
acquired a college education and in early 
manhood came to Greene county, where he 
engaged in teaching school for a number 
of years. Later he followed farming for a 
numl)er of years and when he sold his land 
became a dealer in agricultural implements 
in Xenia. where he carried on business for 
fifteen years. Severing his business relations 
with the cit_\', however, he is now living in 
Xenia township, and is numbered among 
the highly respected citizens of his neighbor- 



hood. \\'hen the Civil war was in progress 
his patriotic spirit was arousetl and he of- 
fered his services to the government, be- 
coming a member of Company E, Seventy- 
fourth Ohio \'olunteer Infantry, with which 
he remained until a short time before the 
cessation of hostilities, wlien on account of 
ill healtii he resigned. He was second lieu- 
tenant of his compau}' and took part in a 
number of engagements. 

In Xenia township Jolin I. Barrows was 
married to Miss Providence R. Butler, a 
slaughter of Joshua S. Butler, a native of 
\'irginia. who came to Greene county at an 
early day. L'nto Mr. and ]\Irs. Barrows 
were born two children:^ Melville F. ; and 
Maiuie E.. who is living with her (jarents. 
Mr. and Mrs. Barrows hold membership in 
the Methodist Episcopal church and he be- 
longs to the Grand Army of the Republic. 

In the schools of Xenia Melville F. Bar- 
rt>ws ol)tained his education and biter en- 
gaged in farming for a time in Xenia town- 
shi]). l>ul later took up his .abode in the 
county seat and acce])ted the position of a 
solicitor for the Pennsyhania Mutual Life 
Insurance Company, with which he contin- 
ued for sex'en years. He then liccaiue iden- 
tified with the X'ew York Life Insurance 
Compan\- as agency instructor for central 
Ohio, his territory embracing twelve coun- 
ties. He is well versed in every department 
of life insurance and the different kinds of 
policies, and is most cajiablv re]5resenting 
the corporation in the position which he 
row fills. 

On the 14th of Feliruary, 1889, Mr. 
Barrows was married to Aliss Lulu H. 
Kline, a native of Greene countv, and a 
daughter of Emanuel Kline, a resident of 
Salem. Ohio. The\' ha\'e three children: 
Glenna AI., [ohn Freddie and Gracie E. 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Mr. Barrows" name is upuw the memlier- 
sliip rolls of several civic organizations. He 
belongs to Xenia Lodge. Xo. 49. F. & A. 
M. : Xenia Chapter. Xo. 666. R. A. M., and 
is a member of Trinity church of Xenia. 
His political support is given the Repub- 
lican jxirty, and he has served as a member 
of the city coiuicil. He has a very wide 
acquaintance in this city and the circle of 
his friends is almost co-extensive with the 
circle of his acquaintances. 



DAXIEL H. MARSHALL. 

Daniel H. ilarshall, who has followed 
agricultural pursuits throughout his entire 
business career and is now living retired in 
Cedarville, was born in Clinton county, this 
state, on what is called Buck's Run, about 
three and a half miles from Burlington, 
April 23. 1828, his parents being Robert and 
Sarah (Huffman) Marshall. The father 
w as a native of Virginia, born in June. 1801 . 
and about 1812 became a resident of Ohio, 
so that he was reared here amid the wild 
scenes of pioneer life. Here he was mar- 
ried and about 1833 be removed with his 
family from the farm in Clinton comity to 
Greene county, settling on what is known 
^s t!ie James Barber farm in Cedarville 
lowiiship. There he li\'ed for four or five 
years, when he removed to Clark coiuity. 
When se\'eral years had passed he removed 
to a small farm near his first home there, 
and afterward to the John X'elson farm in 
Clark county. His next home was three 
miles east of Clifton, and after seven years 
there spent he was called to his final rest. 
He was a mechan.ic and followed his trade 



until ;d)out fort}' years of age, when he 
tinmed his attention to the cattle business, 
which, w as the means of bringing to him a 
livelihood until his death, which occurred in 
1846, when he was forty-five years of age. 
In his religious faith he was a Methodist 
and in political belief a \N'hig. His wife 
survived until 1898. passing away at the ad- 
vanced age of eiglity-five. After the death 
of her first husband she married Elijah 
Harper, of Greene county, who was born at 
Harpers Ferry, Virginia. 

Mr. Marshall of this rev' ,as one of 

nine children : \\'illiam, eti.ed farmer 
of Otter Bentl, Lidiana ; Janiel H. ; Solo- 
mon, a black-smith and coal and grain dealer 
of Lafayette, Indiana; Jesse W., a farmer of 
Cedarville tow nsliip ; Uelila. the wife of 
Thomas E. Stewart, a farmer of Clark coun- 
ty, who is also filling the oflice of justice of 
the peace; George W., who resides in Se- 
attle, \^ ashington ; and three that died in 
infanc)-. 

^Ir. Marshall of this review accom- 
panied his parents on their various removals 
during his youth and remained upon the 
home farm until he had attained his major- 
ity. He was then married and reipoved to 
a rented farm near Com"tsville, Ohio, and 
also engaged in blacksmithing. In 1849 he 
emigrated to Iowa, settling in Louisa coun- 
ty, at Hope Farm postoftice. but he remained 
for only a short time, returning to Ohio by 
ox-team. He then located on a farm in 
Clark county, where he remained for a num- 
ber of years, after which he came to Greene 
connly. purchasing land in Cedarville town- 
ship, upon which he remained initil ten years 
of age when lie retired from active business 
life. He had successfully carried on general 
farming and stock-raising and his unre- 




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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



5 '9 



niittins' diiigence and sound judgment in 
business matters had brought him prosper- 
ity, so tliat lie is now the owner of over three 
hun(h"ed acres, ahliougli he has given away 
a good farm. He is thus enabled to enjoy 
a weU earned rest at his pleasant Iionie in 
Cedarvilie, wliicli he bought in 1888. 

On the 2d of December. 1847, -^I'- ^lar- 
shall was married in Cedarvilie township, to 
Nancy Harper, a cousin of CJeorge W. Har- 
per. She was lx)rn in Greene county, a 
daugliter of Elijali Harper. Mr. and Mrs. 
Marshall 1)ecame the parents of two chil- 
dren. Charles F., who resides on the old 
home farm three miles east of Cedarvilie. 
married Ella Eogelsong, who died leaving 
two children, Gertie May and Daniel \\'., 
and later he wedded Georgia Latham. Will- 
iam L. is proprietor of the Palace Livery 
stable of Xenia and is also connected with 
the Xenia Buggy Company, fie married 
Carrie Ilarber, ;i daughter of W. M. Barber, 
and the\- have four children : Harry, 
Arthur, ilary and Alfred. 

Perhaps Mr. Marshall has become best 
known throughout this section as an auc- 
tioneer, ha\ing been actively and success- 
fully engaged in that business for fifty years. 
He fin;dl\' retired from it on account of fail- 
ing health, however, after teaching his son, 
^^'illiam L., the business. Mr. Marshall 
served as a trustee of Cedarvilie for two 
terms and was also a first lieutenant in the 
National Guard of Ohio prior to the Civil 
war and afterward became captain of Com- 
pany A during the Morgan raid. For about 
thirty-six years he has been a meml)er of 
the INIethodist church and has been steward 
for more than twenty years, his life being in 
harmony with his professions. He has been 
a resident of Greene county for many years, 

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and has taken a deep interest in its welfare 
and progress, advancing to a prominent po- 
sition as a citizen of worth and as a suc- 
cessful farmer. 

*—•■ 

TOWNE CARLISLE. 

One of the best, most energetic and pro- 
gressive men of Yellow Springs is Towne 
Carlisle, who is also classed among the 
representative citizens, taking a deep and 
helpful interest in all measures for the 
general good. He is numbered among the 
native sons of Greene county, his birth hav- 
ing occurred in Miami township, on the 
26th of March, 1855. His parents were 
Jehu and Hettie (Batchelor) Carlisle. The 
father was a nati\e of Loudoun county, Vir- 
ginia, and in 1836, when about twenty 
years of age, came to Ohio. His birth oc- 
curred in 1816. He located in Miami town- 
ship near Yellow Springs, and always car- 
ried on agricultural pursuits in order to 
provide for his family. He aided in erect- 
ing the first building at Yellow Springs, and 
until three or four years ago it still stood 
at the corner of Corry and Dayton streets, 
and was used as a Methodist Episcopal 
church. He was a member of that 
church and led an earnest Christian 
life. In politics he was a Democrat, but 
he never sought or desired ofBce. During 
the last twenty years of his life he lived in 
practical retirement from labor and died at 
Yellow Springs at the advanced age of. 
eighty-three years. His widow still sur- 
vives him and now resides in Miami town- 
ship. She was born March 26, 18 16, at 
Yellow Springs on the property that is now 
occupied by the Old Folks Home. She was 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



a daughter of Robert Batchelor, who was 
a native of Pennsylvania and at an early 
day in Ohio's liistory came to this state, 
locating at Yellow Springs, where he died. 
In the family of Jehu and Hettie Carlisle 
were nine children, five of whom are living. 

Towne Carlisle, the eighth in order of 
birth^ acquired his early education in the 
public schools of the \'illage of Yellow 
Springs and remained upon the old home 
farm until he had attained his maji^rity, 
when he began learning the carriage-mak- 
er's trade, under the direction of T. B. 
Jobe, the present mavor of Yellow Springs. 
J Le was with him for three years and then 
engaged in the lumber business at this place 
in connection with J. H. Little. This part- 
rership was maintained until 1890. whei. 
Mr. Carlisle became sole owner of the bi:s'- 
ness which he has since conducted. He car- 
ries all kinds of lumber and has a larg;i 
and growing trade, his liberal patronage al- 
ready bringing to him a very gratifying in- 
come. 

In 1S76 occurred the marriage of Towne 
Carlisle and Miss Catherine Howard, a na- 
tive of Greene county, and a daughter of 
, John Howard, an early settler of Xer.ia 
township, where he engaged in farmmg un- 
til his death. Unto this marriage one son 
was born, Howard T., who is now twenty- 
two years of age and assists his father in 
the lumber business. He was educated in 
the public schools of Yellow Springs, The 
mother died in 1878 and was laid to rest 
in the Xenia cemeter_\- amid the deejj regret 
of family and manv friends. For his sec- 
ond wife Mr, Carlisle chose oNIattie Van 
Horn, who was Ixirn in Cedarville, and ii 
a daughter of Edward \'an Hum, a lum- 
ber contractor of Cedarville, now deceasetl. 
Unto the second marriage four children 



have been born, but Edna, the eldest, died 
at the age of five years. The others are : 
Edward, who is attending school: and Mil- 
dred and Hazel, twins, 

ISIr, Carlisle is a Republican in his po- 
litical views and since 1890 has contin- 
uously served as township clerk of Miami 
township, while since 1891 he has been a 
school director. He belongs to the Meth- 
odist Episcopal church and fraternally is 
connected with the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. 
He is a typical American business man, reso- 
lute, energetic and progressive, realizing 
that success will come as the result of ear- 
nest purpose, supi)lemented by untiring dil- 
igence. It is along these lines that he has 
won creditable prosperity and among the 
leading residents of Yellow Springs he de- 
serves mention. 



FRANK P. BRYAX. 

. Frank P. Bryan, a well known resident 
<jf Fairfield, was here born in 1852, his par- 
ents being Henry and Lydia ( Petry) Bry- 
an, the former a native of ]\larvland, the 
k.tter of Pennsyhania. The father came to 
Ohio about 1845. settling first in Canton 
and tlien he came to Fairfield. He was a 
wagon-maker by trade and followed that 
pursuit until 1872, when in connection with 
John Louck, he embarked in the grocery 
business under the firm name of Louck & 
Bryan. This relation was maintained until 
1876, when his son became Mr. Louck's 
successor in the firm and the name was 
changed to Bryan & Son. This relation was 
continued to the time of the death of the 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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I 



cember. 1889, wlieii lie was seventy years 
lit" age. He lived an upright, iionorable life 
and his integrit\- in Inisiness affairs was 
]ie\'on(l question. Me was married in Can- 
ti;n. Ohio, to Lydia Petry, and thev became 
the ]>arents of three children attaining nia- 
liirit\' : Lain-a. the wife of L. C. Mitman. 
of Osbom ; \\'illiam II.. a lilacksmith. of 
Osborn : and Frank 1'. 

The last-n;uiied is the voungest of the 
famih' rnid was educated in the schools of 
Fairfield. In carl\- life he learned the paint- 
er's trade and followed that pursuit from 
1S72 until 1876, when he entered into part- 
nership with his father. In 1879 he opened 
an undertaking business, being associated 
with Mr. Miller, also of FairfieUl. until the 
letter's death, on the iilli of .\pril, 1894. 
Since that time Mr. Br\an has been alone 
in the unrlertaking btisiness. He still con- 
tinued his ownership in the grocery store 
until 1895. when he .^old out to D. V. Mol- 
ter, and has since devoted his attention to 
his undertaking establishment. 

In his political views Mr. Bryan is a 
] )emocrat. His father ser\cd for more than 
tliirt\- years as township treasurer ^md was 
a memlier of the school lioard. After iiis 
death Frank P. Br\an was ap])ointed his 
successor and continued to ser\-e in that of- 
fice until 1898. He has been a meiuber of 
the town council of Fairfield for a num- 
ber of terms and was also treasurer of the 
\inage for ten years. Socially he is con- 
nected with the Odd Fellows' Society, be- 
longing to both the subordinate lodge and 
encami)ment. and has passed the chairs in 
both branches. He is a memV)er of the 
State Funeral Directors' Association. 

On the 2 1 St of September, 1876, [Mr. 
Bryan was united in marriage to Miss An- 
■etta Wilson, who died October 30. 1900, 



and was buried in the family lot in the By- 
ron Union cemetery. She belonged to the 
Reformed church, of which our subject is 
also a member. He owns a house and lot in 
Fairfield, and is a well known resident of 
the town. He is a graduate of the Clark 
(K; I'hatupion College of Embalming and is 
thus well equipped for the work he has un- 
dertaken. In manner !\Ir. Brvan is courte- 
ous and kindly and he is wortln- of the 
friendshi[) w hicli he gains whereser he goes. 



JACOB M. ALLAMON. 

Jacob M. .\llanion. who is filling the 
position of engineer in the Steele Build- 
ing of Xenia. was born fourteen miles west 
of Chillicothe. Ross county. Ohio, on the 
17th of September. 1862. and is a son of 
George McElroy and Eli>'-al>eth (Taylor) 
.\llamon. The father was born in Union- 
town, Pennsylvania, in 1817. and was there 
reared, coming to Ohio in 1837. \\ 'id tw en- 
ty years of age. He located in Ross county, 
Ohio, and afterward removed to Columbus, 
where he completed the wagon-maker's 
trade. He then returned to Ross county, 
where he engaged in business as a wagon- 
maker at what was known as Allamon Cross 
Roads, remaining there until 1865. He is 
now a resident of \\'ashington Cotirt House, 
and he married Miss Taylor, of Ross coun- 
ty, on the 14th of July, 1847, 'i^'' birth hav- 
ing occurred in that county in 1823. Her 
parents were ^^'illiam and Nancy (Nessel) 
Taylor, the former a refugee from France, 
having left that country in order to keep 
fi"om service in the army. He served his 
adopted country as a soldier in the war of 
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ROBIX SOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Ha\-iiig taken up his abode in Ross county, 
Ohio, he followed the shoemaker's trade in 
an early day. before shoes were so largely 
manufactured by machinery, employing four 
ci five assistants, at Bourneville. There he 
lived for many years and it was there that 
his daughter was married to Mr. Allamon. 
The father afterward took up his abode in 
East Lancaster, Ohio, where he died at the 
age of eighty ears. The mother of our 
subject died in 1883, in Xew Holland, Pick- 
away county. Both Mr. and Mrs. Allamon 
were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. 

Jacob M. Allamon pursued his educa- 
tion in South Salem. Ross county, and at 
the age of seventeen he became an engineer, 
learning the business at Xew Holland. He 
was first in the emplo}' of Haney Brothers, 
it being his inteniton to learn the millin'^ 
business with them. He had to work in all 
departments of their mill and for two years 
he gave his entire attention to engineering. 
In 1892 he located in Xenia, and was em- 
ployed by the Xational Cordage Company 
until 1S95. when he liecame engineer for 
H. H. Hawkins in his lumber business. 
That relation was maintained until IMarch, 
1901. when ^Ir. .\llamon accepted a posi- 
ti(jn as engineer for the Xenia Ice Com- 
pany in their artificial ice plant, in which 
the first ice was manufactured in Greene 
county. He tested the plant and built the 
first fire in the courthouse heating appara- 
eus. On the 5th of December. 1901, he 
came to his present jx>sition as engineer of 
tiic Steele block, the largest block in Xenia. 

On the nth of April, 1892, Mr. Alla- 
mon was united in marriage to Katie Ring- 
er, of Washington Court House. They 
had three children, but lost one. .\lfred 
Milton, the first-born, first opened his eves 



to the light of day on the 29th of Septem- 
ber, 1894. and died February 5. 1901. 
Charles, and Missouri are still with their 
parents. ^Ir. Allamon is a member of the 
Modern Woodmen of America, in the camp 
at Xenia, of which he has served as clerk, 
and is also a member of the present ]x)ar<l 
of health of Xenia. His political support 
is given to the Republican party, in which 
he is quite active, usually serving as a del- 
egate to the city and county conventions. 
Both he and his wife belong to the First 
Methodist Episcopal church, and they have 
many friends in Xeifia. where they have 
long resided. 



JEREMIAH OVERHOLSER. 

The name of Overholser is of Swiss or- 
igin and means "o\-erseer of the forest.'" If 
in any way the subject of this review ex- 
emplifies the meaning of the familv name 
it is because he is the overseer of a forest 
of fruit trees of his own planting, for he is a 
well known and successful horticulturist of 
Beavercreek township. He was bom June 
27. 1845. ''^ York countv, Pennsvbania. a 
son of Daniel and Mary (Hartman) Over- 
holser. In December, 1853. the parents 
came with their family to Greene county, 
locating first in Xenia, antl subsequaitly 
tliey removed to Alpha, where they ha\-e 
since resided. 

In the common schools of Beavercreek 
township Jeremiah Overholser pursued his 
education and under the parental roof he 
remained until his marriage, which occurred 
on the i8th of .\pril. 1877. the lady of his 
choice being Miss Anna Hylan<I. a nati\e 
of Beavercreek township, and a tlaughter 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



523 



of Tliomas and Julia (Rader) Hyland. 
Her fatlier was a native df Maryland and 
her niiitlier was Imrn in Beavercreek town- 
ship. She is still living, her home being in 
Xenia. but IMr. Hyland has passed away. 
Mr. and Mrs. Overholser began their do- 
mestic life upon a farm and he has there 
niade a si>ecialty of the culti\-ation of fruit, 
althnugh to some extent he is engaged in 
the raising of the cereals best adapted to 
this climate. Through experience, investi- 
gation and reading he has become well in- 
fdrmetl concerning the best methods of cul- 
tivating fruit and his opinions are regarded 
as authority throughout the community and 
the farm is consiilered a very valuable one 
in Greene county. Mr. and Mrs. Overhol- 
ser have no children uf their own, but ha\e 
reared an adoptetl daug'hter, Elma, who is 
still with them. 

In his ix>litica! views the subject of this 
sketch is independent. In 1876 he was 
elected constable and filled that position for 
seven consecutive years his term expiring 
in April, 18S5. The following May he was 
appointed township clerk to fill a vacancy, 
and at the next election was called to that 
office l)y popular suft'rage and has since 
served continuously therein. He is also one 
of the trustees of the school lands of Bea- 
vercreek township, and as a citizen has ever 
been most loyal and true to the trust re- 
posed in him. He manifested his fidelity 
to his country when, during the Civil war, 
he jijined the armv, enlisting in December, 
1863, at Xenia as a private of Company I, 
One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry, in command of Captain ]\Ic- 
Dowells. He was with his company most 
of the time and was promoted to the rank 
of corporal. When the war was ended he 
was mustered out at Camp Chase, Colum- 



bus, on the i6th of July. 1865, antl at once 
returned to his home t(~> assume agricultural 
[jursuits. Fraternallv he is connected with 
the Knights of Pythias, and has held the 
office of keej>er of the records and seals 
of Silver Star Lodge, Xo. 668, of Alpha. 
He also holds membership in the ^Masonic 
Lodge of Xenia, and his life is in harmony 
with the teachings and tenets of the craft. 
His career has ever been a creditable one 
and he has shown himself worthy of high 
regard in business, military, political and 
social circles. 



HENRY C. LONG. 

Important agricultural and industrial in- 
terests are successfully controlled by Henry 
C. Long, whose business affairs have as- 
sumed extensive proportions and have con- 
tributed to the material upbuilding and pros- 
perity of his community. His success in 
all his undertakings has been so marked that 
his methods are of interest to the commer- 
cial world. He has based his business prin- 
ciples and actions upon strict adherence to 
the rules which govern industry, economy 
and strict, unswerving integrity. His en- 
terprise and progressive spirit have made 
him a typical American in every sense of 
the word, and he well deserves mention in 
this history. \M:at he is to-day he has 
made himself, for he began in the world 
with little save his own energv and willing 
hands to aid him. By constant exertion, as- 
sociated with good judgment, he has raised 
himself to the prominent position which lie 
now holds, having the friendship of many 
and the respect of all who know him. 

Henry C. Long, who re-^ide* in X>w 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Jasper townsliip, was born in the house in 
which he n(.w lives. April 2/. 1848. ami is 
a son of William Long. His father was 
born in \'irgi!iia. in 1801. while the grand- 
parents, Peter and Margaret (Ewing) 
Long, also were natives of \'irginia. The 
faniilv is of Dutch and Irish extraction. 
When the grandfather came to Ohio he 
settled in Greene county, locating- first in 
Xenia township. He afterward reiuoved to 
Caesarscreek township, \\liere he purchased 
over two hundred acres of land and there 
li\-ed the life of an enterprising and indus- 
trious farmer. He was buried in Shook 
cemetery, and his wife was laid there by his 
side. L'nto Peter Long and his wife were 
bom the following children: William; Pe- 
ter; Adam; Henry; iL'irgaret, the wife of 
Aaron Shook; Martha, the wife of George 
Slagel ; Catherine, the wife of Joseph Sla- 
gel ; and Diana, the wife of Jacob Smith. 
All of this family have now passed away. 

\\'illiam Long, the father of our sub- 
ject, was educated in \'irginia. and with his 
parents came to Greene county, Ohio, in an 
old covered wagon. He early became fa- 
miliar with the hardships and trials incident 
to pioneer life and remained with his father 
until his marriage. As a companion and 
helpmate for the journey of life he chose 
Mary Ann Hagler, a native of Virginia, a 
daughter of Jacob and Mar) ( Dier) Hag- 
ler, both of whom are natives of Virginia. 

After his marriag"e ^Ir. Long purchased 
a farm upon which his son Henry C. is now 
li\-ing. and there he carried on agricult- 
ural pursuits, meeting with e.xcellent suc- 
cess in his work tilling the soil and cultix'at- 
ing the crops. In his political views he was 
a ^^'hig in earlv life, and upon the dissolu- 
tion of that party he joined the ranks of 
the new Republican part}\ with which he 



continued to affiliate until his death. Both 
he and his wife were consistent and active 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church 
and for many years he was a class leader, 
taking a deep interest in religious affairs. 
Unto them were torn eight children, four 
sons and four slaughters, but the eldest died 
in early life. The others are Allen, who is 
living in Indiana; Margaret, the wife of 
John G. Clemens of this county; Mary L., 
the wife of X. Griffith Sutton; Austin, who 
is living in Xew Jasjjer ; Durbin and Curtis, 
both deceased ; and another who died in in- 
fancw The mother of these children passed 
away in 1844, at the age of forty-one years, 
and was buried in the Shook cemetery. For 
his second wife William Long chose Clarica 
Mallow, and unto them were born five chil- 
dren; George, deceased; Henry C. of 
this review ; Peter and John, who ha\e 
passed awav ; and Laura, the wife of A. J. 
Boots, of this township. William Long 
died in 1891 and his second wife, surviving 
him about six years, passed away in 1897. 
They were both interred in the Woodland 
cemetery, of Xenia. Ohio. 

A native of Xew Jasper township, Hen- 
ry C. Long has spent his entire life within 
its borders. His early education was ac- 
quired in the district schools of his town- 
ship, and later he entered the Marshall 
school of Dayton, a commercial college, but 
he did not complete his course there on ac- 
count of ill health. Returning to the home 
farm he joined his father in business and 
in later years assumed the management of 
the affairs. After his father's death he pur- 
chased the interest of the other heirs in the 
old homestead and now has a valuable farm 
of three hundred and thirty acres, whereon 
he carries i>n general agricultural pursuits 
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525 



grades of stock I)eintj evidences (jf his thrift 
and enterprise in this chrection. Mr. Long 
lias also (_le\'cl(i])e(l the fine stone quarries 
located upon his land, getting out what is 
kno\\n as the Dayton limestone for build- 
ir.g purix>ses and placing u\x:m the market 
cut and dimension stone. He now has an 
e\tei;ded patronage and is conducting his 
business in a thoroughly progressive and 
up-tii-date manner. At the present time 
he is making arrangements for putting in a 
spur of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton 
Railroad, most of the work having already 
been completed. This will furnish him ex- 
cellent shipping facilities so that he can load 
his cars upon the ground and transfer them 
to the main track. He has also added a 
brick anil tile plant, for thej'e is an 
excellent quality of brick clay upon 
liis land, covering his stone ipiarries. 
For the conduct of his enterprise he 
has secured steam j^ower and the latest im- 
proved machinery for the manufacture of 
both brick and tile. The extent of his busi- 
ne>-:s may be judged by the fact that for the 
school building-, which was erected in Xenia 
m 1902, lie furnished the brick as well as 
the stone used in the foundation and in 
other parts of the building. The brick plant 
has a capacity of thirty thousand per dav. 
In the 0])eration of his quarries and man- 
ufacturing plant Mr. Long employs a large 
force of workmen, antl the output is of such 
excellent quality that both the stone and 
Isrick find a ready sale upon the market and 
his business has assumed extensive and 
profitable proportions. 

Mr. Long w-as united in marriage to 
Miss Martha Cummings. a sister of the 
Hon. J. B. Cummings, the wedding being 
celeljrated October 9, 1S80, and unto them 
have been torn two sons, Thomas C. and 



William H. Both our subject and his wife 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, and in politics he has been a stal- 
wart Republican and served for twelve 
years as township trustee, yet has never been 
an aspirant for office. Few men are more 
prominent or widely known in Greene coun- 
ty than Henry C. Long. He is an impor- 
tant factor in business circles and his pop- 
ularity is well deserved because of his un- 
bending integrity, his unabating energy and 
industry that never Hags. He is thoroughly 
interested in whatever tends to promote the 
welfare of his native county and throughout 
this portion of the state is honored and 
respected, not only for what he has accom- 
plished, but also because of the means he 
has enii)loved to win success. 



\ULC.\1I E. WEAVER. 

\'olcah E. Weaver was Ijorn in New^ 
Burlington, Clinton cciuntw Ohio, October 
2. 1842, and was reared at the place of his 
biitii. He was one of three children born 
unto Samuel and .\nna (Ellis) Weaver. 
The' paternal grandfather was Abraham 
Weaver. The father was born and reared 
in X'irginia and died in Greene county, Ohio, 
in 1S74. He followed his trade, that of a 
tailor, throughout the years of his manhood 
and vv as a highly respected and worthy resi- 
dent of this portion of the state. He left 
two sisters at the time of his death beside 
his immediate family. His wife died on 
the 7th of ^lay, 1890. 

In the common schools of the neighbor- 
hood A'olcah E. Wea\'er pursued his educa- 
tion, becoming familiar with brar.rhes of 
learning that fitted him for the transaction 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



of l)usiness. He has been identified with the 
fnrniing interests of the county since he at- 
tained tlie age of seventeen years, and now 
conducts a farm of tl\e hundred acres of 
vahialjle land. This, liowever, is largely su- 
perintended by his son, while Mr. Weaver 
is practically living retired. His business 
interests have been so well conducted that 
he has become one of the wealthy residents 
of Greene coimt}-. He is a man of keen 
discrimination, of unfaltering industry and 
strong purpose, and has ever carried for- 
ward to successful completion whatever he 
has undertaken. His foresight and sound 
judgment ha\-e enabled him to make iudi- 
cious investments which have returned to 
him a good income. In his farming meth- 
ods he has always been progressive and en- 
terprising, adopting the latest improved 
methods of practical \-alue and keeping his 
farm under excellent condition, its neat and 
thrifty appearance indicating his wise and 
careful supervision. 

On the 3d of October, 1877, JNIr. Weaver 
was united in marriage to Miss Belle Peter- 
son, a daughter of Abraham Peterson, of 
Clinton county. Ohio, who in that locality 
was engaged in farming on an extensive 
scale. Three children have been born unto 
our subject and his wife: Charles A., who 
at the age of twenty-three years is assist- 
ing in the operation of his father's farm ; 
Laura E.. a young lady of nineteen years: 
Anna, a little maiden of six summers. The 
family ha\c a \ery pleasant home at Xo. 
513 South Detroit street, where I\Ir. Weaver 
has resided since 1899. The son is a mem- 
ber of Xenia I-odge, F. & A. M., in which 
he' is now holding office. Mr. ^^'ea^■er gives 
his political support to the Republican party, 
and he and his family are supporters of the 



Reformed church, of which ]Mrs. Weaver is 
a memljer. He is widely known through- 
out this portion of the state not only because 
of his extensive agricultural interests, hut 
also on account of the cpialities of manhood 
which have won for him high regard. 



THOMAS C. PATTERSOX. 

Thomas C. Patterson, one of the early 
settlers of Greene county, is a native of 
\\'arren county, Ohio, his birth having there 
occurred on the 7th of August, 1832, his 
parents being James and Jane (Finney) 
Patterson. The father was a native of Vir- 
ginia and came to Ohio when a young man, 
settling in ^\^arren county about the }ear 
183 1. There he devoted his attention to 
agricultural pursuits through many years. 
He afterward removed to Greene county, 
taking up his abode here in 1866. He set- 
tled in Xenia township, where he purchased 
a part of the farm now occupied by our sub- 
ject, and upon that place spent his remain- 
ing days. He passed away in December, 
1 89 1, at the advanced age of eighty-four 
years. The comnumit}" mourned his loss as 
an honored and valued representative citi- 
zen. His life, ever honorable and upright, 
was in consistent harmony with his mem- 
bership in the Second United Presbyterian 
church of Xenia. For many years he served 
as an elder in that church, also filing a 
similar position in the church to which he 
belonged before removing to Greene county. 
His wife died in April. 1890. and was laid 
by his side in the Woodland cemeterv of 
Xenia. In the family of this worthy couple 
were six children of wIt mi five are vet 
living. 




T. C. PATTERSON. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



529 



Tliomas C. Patterson obtained his earl\' 
education in the cHstrict schools of Warren 
county. During the montlis of vacation, 
after completing his school course, he as- 
sisted his father in the work of the farm, 
tlnis early gaining a practical education in 
the work of field and meadow and a good 
knowledge of the best methods of caring 
for stock. He was thus engaged until after 
the breaking out of the Civil war, when in 
response to President Lincoln's second call 
for troops in 1862 he offered his services to 
the government, enlisting in Company B. 
Se\-enty-ninth Ohio \''olunteer Infantry, 
with which he served until the close of the 
war, when he was honorably discharged in 
\\'ashington. He served as corporal and 
tt)ok part in many important engagements 
being under the command of General 
Sherman. He met the enemy in battle at 
Resaca, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga 
and Atlanta, and whether lie was on the 
picket line, the tented field, or in the thick- 
est of the fight, was ever loyal and faithful, 
performing his duties without question. 

In 1867 Air. Patterson returned home to 
\\'arren county and remained there for a 
short time when he came to Greene county 
and settled upon the farm which he now oc- 
cupies in Xenia township, not far from the 
Columbus pike. Here he has engaged in 
the cultivation of the soil and in the raising 
of stock. He owns one hundred and thirty 
acres of rich and arable land and upon his 
farm has erected a good set of buildings 
and made many excellent improvements 
which indicate the careful supervision and 
progressive spirit of the owmer. About 
eight years ago he erected a large brick resi- 
dence and a commodious barn and every- 
thing about the place is in keeping with a 
model farm of the twentieth centurv. 



In 1866 Mr. Patterson was united in 
marriage to Miss Martha Irwin, a daughter 
of William C. Irwin, wdio lived and died in 
Warren county, devoting his business activ- 
ity to farm work. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Pat- 
terson ha\-e been born Hvc children : Anna, 
the wife of Harvey Drake, a resident farmer 
and stock-raiser of Cedarville township; 
James, who is assisting his father on the 
home farm; Mary, at home; William, who 
is employed as an accountant in Dayton, 
Ohio ; and Bertha, who is yet with her par- 
ents. Both Mr. and Mrs. Patterson hold 
membership in the Third United Presby- 
terian church of Xenia. Our subject has 
always been found straightforward and 
honorable in his business dealings and is to- 
day as true to his duties of citizenship as 
when he followed thel old flag upon the 
.southern battlefields. His entire life has 
been passed in Ohio and for more than a 
third of a century he has resided in Greene 
county, where he is known as a valued citi- 
zen and progressive farmer, well deserving 
of mention in this volume. 



ROSW^ELL FENTON HOWARD. 

Hon. Roswell Fenton Howard was long- 
er engaged in the practice of law in Xenia 
than any other attorney which; has been 
connected with its bar. There was in him 
a weight of character, a native sagacity, a 
far-seeing judgment and a fidelity of pur- 
pose that commands the respect of all. A 
man of indefatigable enterprise and fertilitv 
of resource, he has carved his name deeplv 
on the record of the political, commercial 
and professional history of the state, which 
owes much of its advancement to his ef- 
forts. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Roswell Feiiton Howard was burn in 
Hamilton county. Ohio, July 20. 1814. and 
was a son of Cyrus Howard, a native of 
Vermont, and a grandson of Solomon How- 
ard, who was one of the heroes of the Rev- 
olutionary war and valiantly fought for the 
independence of the nation. On lea\-ino- 
New England Cyrus Howard tijok up his 
alx)de in Hamilton cuunt}-. Ohio, at an early 
period in its history. As one of the first 
settlers of that section he carried on the la- 
bors incident to the developing of a farm 
in the midst of the heavy timl^er (.)f the [iri- 
ine\-al forests, making for himself and his 
family a comfortable home in the wilder- 
ness. He married Aliss Lucy Fenton, whose 
home was near North Bend, and they be- 
came the parents of a large family of chil- 
dren. The cause of education found in him 
an ardent advocate, as it did many of those 
sturd}- residents from New England and he 
aided in locating the first school in his com- 
munity. The people out of their scanty 
means subscribed a sufficient amount for 
the erection of a good brick building and 
after its completion, instruction was given 
in that school throughout the entire year — 
a very unusual occurrence even in older 
communities. Mr. Howard was a strong 
Whig in his political views and supported 
John Ouincy Adams and William Henry 
Harrison. His death occurred in Februar}-. 
185 1, and the community mourned the loss 
of one of its valued and influential citizens, 
his wife long sun'iving him, passed away 
on the 25th of April. 1885. at the extreme 
old age of ninety-two years. 

Roswell Fenton Howard was given ex- 
cellent educational pri\ileges. While ac- 
cjuiring a knowledge of the usual branches 
of study taught in the lower grades of the 
home schools, he was also a student of 



Latin and Greek. Subsequently he entered 
-Miami L'niversity, but left that institution 
in the junior year and made his way to Au- 
gusta. Kentucky, where he completed his 
C(jllege course in the school there, being 
graduated in the year 1832 with the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts. Later the degree of 
[Master of Arts was conferred upon him by 
the same institution. After leaving college 
he engaged in teaching for a time in the 
Woodward high school, at Cincinnati, but 
wishing to make the practice of law his 
lifework he began studying under the di- 
rection of Daniel J. Caswell and Jacob Piatt. 
In the law schools of that city he contin- 
ued his study and in 1837 '^"^'^^ graduated 
with the degree of Bachel(.)r of Law. The 
same year IMr. Howard opened an office in 
Nenia, which at that time contained a pop- 
ulation of onlv hfteen hundred, to whom 
the _\'oung lawyer was totallx' unknown. 
Immediately he entered upon the practice 
of his chosen profession, wherin he was 
destined to rise to an honorable and prom- 
inent position. He began the work for 
which the previous years of study had been 
a preparation, becoming a member of the 
bar where sham reputation and empty pre- 
tense were of no avail in the forensic com- 
bats. The young lawyer in his contests 
with older and experienced men, whose 
reputation and patronage were alread_\- as- 
sured, found it a hard school, but it af- 
forded excellent training, and as he meas- 
ured his strength with the best his mind 
was developed, his intellectual p<iwers were 
(|uickenedl and strengthened, and he ac- 
quired a readiness in action, a fertility of 
resource and a courage under stress that 
have been essential factors in his successful 
career. 

Air. Howard was in practice in Xenia 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



531 



fnr ti fly-live years, and altlmugli liis prac- 
tice made heavy demands iipun his time, he 
also liekl some public offices. He was a 
member of the city council, and for a num- 
ber of years served as mayor of Xenia. also 
actin<4' as a nieml)er of the Ixiard of school 
examiners. For two terms he was prosecu- 
ting attorney for Greene county. In 1848 
he was' elected to the state legislature on 
the Whig ticket and in 1866 was again 
chosen to that position, thus serving one 
term under the old constitution and for two 
terms under the new. for he was continued 
in office until 1870, by re-election. While 
in the house he was apixiinted on several 
important committees, including the ju- 
diciary and ])enitentiar\-. His thorough un- 
derstantling of the law, his close investiga- 
tion into the needs of the C(minionweaIth 
and his devotion to the general good made 
him a proinim-nt and capable member of 
the assembly. 

On May J, 1848, ]Mr. H(jward was unit- 
ed in marriage to Miss Margaret M. Steele, 
of Xenia, a lady of superior culture and 
refinement. She was a daughter of Profes- 
sor Thomas Steele, who was connected with 
the educational work until advanced age 
compelled him to lay aside arduous duties 
of the profession. Mrs. Howard passed 
away on the 27th of ]\Iarch, 1873, and 
later Mr. Howard married ]\Iiss Mar)- Han- 
nah Pollock, a native of Logan county, 
Ohio, and a daughter of William and Fan- 
ny Pollock. Mr. Howard had a family of 
nine children and two of his sons are yet 
actively connected with the legal profession. 
He passed away on the 28th of July, 1892, 
and his remains were interred in the Wood- 
land cemetery. By his upright character, his 
kindness of heart and his interest in every 
good word and work, he made numerous 



friends and his death was greatly lamented. 
His name stood high on the roll of the most 
honored and eminent lawyers in this por- 
tion of the state and all who knew him re- 
spected him because of his fidelity to truth 
and the right. 



HOX. CHARLES F. HOWARD. 

Hon. Charles F. Howard is a represent- 
ative lawyer of Xenia. the senior partner of 
the well known firm of Howard & Howard, 
and is the oldest living child of the nine 
children born tmto Hon. Roswel! Fenton 
anil Margaret Mitchell (Steele) Howard, 
whose history is given above. With t!.e 
example of his illustrious father before him, 
it is no wonder that he was attracted to the 
legal profession, or that he was inspired and 
encouraged to attain to a prominent posi- 
tion in its ranks. His birth occurred in 
Xenia on the 12th of July, 1859, and his 
early education acquired in the j)ublic 
schools here was supplemented by a liter- 
ary course in Xenia College. He afterward 
studied a year in Antioch College and on 
the expiration of that period went to Ann 
Arbor, Michigan, where he entered the 
^Michigan State University, but on account 
of failing health was unal)le to complete his 
course of study there. 

Preparing for the bar and successfully 
passing an examination for admission, he 
began practice in Xenia. In the meantime, 
however, he was elected city clerk, but i.i 
attempting to discharge the (h-fies of tne of- 
fice he was again seized with the malady 
which caused his former illness ami was 
forced to resign before the expiration of his 
term. In the spring of 1888 he was elected 



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KOBIXSOX^S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY 



mayor of Xenia, just a half-century after 
his father had been chosen for the same of- 
fice. From 1896 until 1898 Charles Fen- 
ton Howard represented his district in the 
state senate, and in the legslative body of 
the commonwealth his course was such as 
to add new laurels to the family record. In 
the spring of 1900 he was elected prosecut- 
ing attorney, which position he is filling at 
the present time, having entered upon the 
duties of the oftice in January, 1901. In 
1898 he was appointed by Judge Sage ref- 
eree of bankruptcy and his brother Will- 
iam, the junior member of the firm of 
Howard & Howard, was appointed to suc- 
ceed him by/ Judge Thompson. In the 
practice of his profession Mr. Howard ha<: 
long since left the ranks of the many and 
stands among the successful few. In con- 
nection with his other duties he has been 
identified with the People's Building and 
Savings Companv of Xenia, as one of its 
directors and president, andj is also the 
president of the \\'oodland Cemetery Asso- 
ciation. The People's Building and Sav- 
ings Companv is the oldest institution of 
the kind in Xenia. and its business has de- 
veloped from one hundred thousand to a 
half million dollars. 

On the 25th of October, 1882, Mr. 
Howard was united in marriage to Miss 
Adda D. Gowdy, a daughter of George F. 
Gowdy. She is a leading and influential 
member in the ]\Iethodist Episcopal church, 
and 1x)th ]\Ir. and Mrs. Howard enjoy the 
high regard of hosts of friends and the 
hospitality of the best homes in Xenia. Mr. 
Howard has been very active in politics and 
is a stanch Republican. The firm of How- 
ard & Howard stands to-day in the fore- 
most rank of the legal fraternity in this 
portion of Ohio, and Charles Fenton How- 



ard is a man of S(iund judgment, and man- 
ages his cases with ma,sterly skill and tact. 
William S. Howard, the junior member 
of the firm, was born in Xenia, February 
20, 1865, and like his brother began his 
education in the public schools. After 
reading law with his father he entered the 
law school of Cincinnati, just fifty years af- 
ter his father had lieen a student in that in- 
stitution. He completed the course, was 
graduated and has since been associated 
with his brother in practice in Xenia. He 
is yet a young man. but has gained a repu- 
tation hardly second to that of any member 
of the Greene countv bar. 



MOSES EVANS. 



Those men who have contributed to the 
general stability, progress and improvement 
of Greene cou.nty are deserx'ing of mention 
in her history. Such a one was piloses 
Evans, who was deeply interested in the 
welfare of liis adopted county and was ever 
loyal thereto. He was born in the X'ew- 
berry district of Si:)uth Carolina in 1821 and 
was about eight years of age when he came 
to Oliio, with h.is parents, Robert and Sarah 
(Cappoch) E\-ans. The family settled upon 
a fann near Roxanna, in SpringValley town- 
ship. The grandfather. Moses Evans, had 
died in South Carolina, and liis wife, who 
i)ore the maiden name of'Lydia Hasket, had 
afterward married Samuel S|)ear, i)f South 
Carolina. They had come to Ohio in iSjCk 
and for a short time Roi)ert Evans antl his 
family resided in the home of his mother 
and step-father, while he was seeking a fa- 
\-orable location. At length he bought about 
four hundred acres of land a i-nile and a 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



533 



half south nt Spring; \'alley (in the west side 
of the l.'ttle Miami river. Tliere he car- 
ried on farming successfully for some time, 
and, having water power in the river, he 
l)uilt and i)])erated a sawmill and gristmill, 
conductiiig the same until i8r>4. Through- 
out the years of his residence in Ohio he 
lived upon tliat farm, passing away in 1868. 
in his family were fifteen children, nine of 
whim: reached mature years, while two are 
still living. 

Moses I'lxans was the fourth in the fam- 
il\' and u;)on the home farm he was reared 
to manhood. The public scho:)ls afforded 
him good educational privileges, which he 
imi>roved. He liecame a surveyor, learning 
the business parti}' from his father and part- 
ly in school. On the 24th of March, 1842, 
he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah 
S. Huston, of Spring \'alley townshi]). She 
was born in Waynesville. Warren count}', 
Xo\ember ~. 1822, her parents being Rob- 
ert and Hannah (Townseiid) Huston. Her 
father was a native of Bucks county, Penn- 
s}l\ania, born January i, 1778. and his 
wife was born at Cape May, Xew Jersey, 
November 30. 1787. The}- became ac- 
quainted in A\'aynesville and were married 
on the iQtli of July, 1S21. For a few \'ears 
thereafter they remained in that village. Mr. 
Huston cari'ying on shoemaking until he 
•purchased, land in Spring X'alley township 
and removed to the farm, when Mrs. Evans 
was about four years old. There he died 
in 1829. and his wife, surviving him for 
some years, passed away in Waynesville in 
1S44. at which time she was attending the 
yearly meeting of the Society of Friends, to 
which she and her husband belonged and 
of which their people had been representa- 
tives for several generations. Mrs. Evans 



was the eldest of three children, and the 
youngest, Mary, died in infancy. Her only 
brother, Daniel Townsend Huston, was mar- 
ried in Warren county, and in 1850 went 
overland to California. Three years later 
he returned for his family, and then spent 
his remaining days on the Pacific coast. 
His birth occurred in 1825 and his death 
on the 9th of October, 1883. hi his family 
were four children. 

Moses Evans, of this review, purcbasetl 
ihe interest of his wife's brother in the home 
farm whicli had I)elonged to her father, and 
thereon spent his remaining days. He made 
excellent improvements upon the place and 
was a progressive and enterprising agricult- 
urist. The home was blessed with nine chil- 
dren. Robert, who became a soldier in the 
Second Ohio Heavy Artiller}'. suffered from 
a severe attack of small-po.x, but recovered. 
Later, however, he died in the hospital in 
Kno.xville, July 20. 1865. JoscjjIi C. the 
second son, born in 1845. married Anna 
Buckles, who died in 1890, and he now re- 
sides in Sugarcreek township with two of 
liis four children. He was in the one hun- 
dred days' service during the Civil war. 
Daniel T. died September 27,. 1868. Han- 
nah T^. is also deceased. Mary E. is with 
her parents. Sophia Angeline is the wife 
of Xewton Berryhill, of Sugarcreek, and 
the\' have two children. Hillanl married 
Xellie Zell, by whom he has two children, 
and their home is in Xenia. Emma is de- 
ceased. Closes Edmund, the youngest, mar- 
ried fennie Scarft, by whom he has two chil- 
dren, and thev reside upon the old home 
faim. 

IMr. Evans was strongly opposed to 
flavery and when the Republican party was 
formed to prevent its extension into other 



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tenil<iry be joined the ranks of the new po- 
litical org'anization. He lield varicms town- 
ship (jfticci. inchuHng that of trustee, yet he 
was ne\er an onlice seei<er. In i858 Mr. 
Evans was called to his final rest, and his 
d.eatli was deeply lamented throughout the 
community, for he had many friends in 
Greene county. His widow still survives 
and resides in Spring Valley. She is an 
•estimaljle lady widely and"favoral)ly known 
and the family is deserving of creditable 
mention in the history of this portion of the 
state. In October, 1894, the old home was 
<Iestroved I)\- fire. Init it was soon rebuilt. 



J.\MES LONG GINN. 

James Long Ginn, who is living a re- 
tired life in. Jamestown, was born in Silver- 
creek township. Greene county, on the 22d 
of October, 1836, his parents Ijeing John 
and Rachel (Long) Ginn, the former a na- 
tive of Ireland and the latter of Virginia. 
Willi his iiarents the father came to the 
United States when he was about eight years 
of age. The family located in what is now 
Jasper townsiiip at a very early day. There 
John (!inn was reared amid the wild scenes 
■ )f frontier life and became a farmer, fol- 
lowing that enterprise until his death in 
1844, when he was thirty-nine years of age. 
He left a widow and eight children, seven 
of whom ]\Irs. Ginn reared to adult age. 
These are : "Margaret, Sarah, Elizabeth, 
Martha, "William, James and Thomas. Five 
childreii of .the family died in earlv life. 
V\'illiam is now living in Taylor county. 
Iowa, and Thomas is a resident of James- 
town. 

James L. Ginn, of this review, accjuired 



his education in the schools of Ross town- 
shi[), and after nutting" aside his text books 
he learned the carpenter's trade, which he 
followed for twenty }ears, also being a con- 
tractor and builder. He then established a 
lumber business in this place, carrying it on 
\'er\' successfully for a quarter of a century, 
and on the e.xpiration of that period selling 
out on the ifith of January, 1902, to the 
present firm of Adams & Thuma. His pat- 
ronage was a gratifying one and his large 
sales annuall}' brought to him a good in- 
come. He was known by all to be worthy, 
reliafile and faithful in all life's relatii)ns, 
•md his enterprising efforts were therefore 
crowned with success. 

On the 5th of Xovember, 1856, Mr. 
Ginn was imiled in marriage to Miss Mar\' 
Kyle, l)v w honi he had four children : Alice 
C, now deceased: Mattie B., the widow of 
^^'. F. Copenliaver, and a resident of Cin- 
cinnati: Elizabetli, deceased: ^n^l Ellis 
Edgar, who resides in Jamestown. He mar- 
ried Lucy Irons and they have one child, 
Helen. Alice G.. the eldest meniljer of the 
famil}', was the wife of .\. G. Bingaman, 
and they had three children. Edna, Estella 
and W'hitelaw. The two youngest are mak- 
ing their home with their grandfather. ]\lr. 
(iinn. Mrs. Ginn tlied in 1890, and on the 
5th of Xovember, 1892, Mr. Ginn was again 
married, his second union being with Miss 
Emma Lloyd, a native of Greene count}- and 
a daughter of William E. and Amanda ( Mc- 
Danicl ) Lloyd, both of whom are natives of 
fireene county. The grandfather. John 
Lloyd, came to this county in 1803 and set- 
tled ujion a farm in Xenia township, where 
he spent his remaining days. The maternal 
grandfather. Wilson McDaniel. li\ed in th'is 
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I 



Xenia township, where lie alsu H\C(1 until 
he \^ as called to his tinal rest. In Ansust, 
1901, t!ie McDaniel family held the cen- 
tennial celebration of the foundinof of the 
family in this count}', the nieetin<;" heing' 
held on the McDaniel stone-quarry farm. 
This .stone ([uarry lias l)een operated for 
about seventy-five or eighty years and pro- 
duces the finest limestone in the country, ac- 
cording to the test made by the United 
States government. William E. Lloyd was 
a farmer aufl stockman during the greater 
]\'irl of his life. He died in iSSq and his 
wife in 1S84. They were the parents of 
ten children, nine of whom reached mature 
vears. while eight arc now living, Mrs. Ginn 
being the third, in order ot biiih. 

Aside from a \'cry pleasant home -'n 
j.'imestown. Mr. Ginn owns a valuable farm 
of three hundred acres in Silvercreek and 
Ross townships, to which he gives his ])er- 
sonal supervision. He and his wife are 
widely and favorably known. The lady is 
a member of the Metliodist Episcopal church 
and fraternally he is a member of James- 
town Lodge. Xo. 352. F. & A. ]\L, having 
been made a Mason in 1870, in Yellow- 
Springs. His political support is given the 
Republican party. He has served as a mem- 
ber of the town council and is now a mem- 
ber of the school board. James L. Ginn 
lias been activeh' associated with business 
atYairs of this place, and belongs to that class 
of representative American citizens who, 
while promoting individual success, also ad- 
vance the general welfare. 



ANDREW H. BAUGHMAX. 

B\- the death of this honorable and up- 
right citizen Xenia and Greene county sus- 
tained an irreparable loss and was deprived 



of the presence of one the\- had C(.ime to look 
u\)'m as a guardian, benefactor and frientl. 
Death often removes from our midst those 
whom we can ill afford to spare, whose lives 
have been all that is exemplary of the true 
and thereby really great citizen. Such a citi- 
zen was Mr.Baughman. wdiose whole career, 
both business and social, served as a model 
to the young and an insi)iration to the aged. 
Fie shed a brightness around everything 
with whicli he came in contact. By his use- 
fulness and general benevolence he created 
a meniorv whose perpetuation does not de- 
pend upon brick or stone, Ijut upon the 
spontaneous and free will offering of a 
grateful and enlightened people. No citizen 
did more for Xenia than Mr. riaughman, 
and his connection with its development and 
growth along material, intellectual and 
moral lines did nuich toward placing it in 
the ])r(jud position which it to-day occupies. 

Andrew H. Baughman was born October 
II, 1807, on a farm seven miles east of 
Hagerstown. ^faryland. His i)arents were 
Andrew and Esther ( Herr) Baughman. 
The father was born, reared and married in 
Lancaster countv, Pennsvlvania, and there 
followed fariuing and hotel-kee])ing. Dur- 
ing the war of 1812 he was the captain of 
a volunteer company. He survived his wife 
eight years, her death having occurred wdien 
our subject was only seven years of age. 

Soon after his mother's death our sub- 
ject went to live in the home of his uncle, 
who lived on a farm west of Hagerstown, 
Marvland, there remaining until he was fif- 
teen years of age, when he began to earn iiis 
own livelihood. It was, however, rather a 
preparation for a business career, for dur- 
ing the tirst }ear he was given no wages. 
The seconxl year he received fl\e dollars per 
month. In the mill he remained until he 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



had attained his majorit}-, never at any time 
receiving more than nine dollars per month, 
hut from that meager salary he managed to 
save a small amount. When he had reached 
man's estate he walked all the way to 
^Vheeling, West \'irginia. where he boarded 
a trading boat for Cincinnati, receiving his 
passage and fifty cents per day for labor 
performed on board. From Cincinnati he 
went to Hamilton, where he had two uncles 
living, and after visiting with them fur a 
day or two he made his wav tn .Vlpha. 
Greene county. On Christmas dav he liegan 
working at Harbine's mill, receiving nine 
dollars per month and his board. Added 
to what he had saved at the W'hitmore mill, 
he succeeded in accunndating one hundred 
dollars, and in company with his cousin, 
Jacob Herr, he rented the flouring mill and 
sawmill, operating them successfully during 
the years 1830 and 183 1. He was then of- 
fered one-third the prolits of the Snyder mill 
if he would becijme the manager, which po- 
sition he accepted, continuing as such until 
1836, when he furmed a ])artnership with 
Caspar Snyder, his employer's son. They 
purchased the mill and operated it for a num- 
ber of years under the firm name of Baugh- 
man & Snyder. ^Ir. Baughman was man- 
ager of the mill until 1853. In the mean- 
time it had been enlarged and good brick 
houses replaced the log huts that were abnut 
it when he took charge. 

In 1853 he sold his milling interests and 
bought a farm of two hundred and fifty 
acres, which he at once liegan to imi)rove. 
He still continued a business connection 
with Mr. Snyder, who at this time took 
cliarge of lioth the Oldtown mills, which 
they had purchased and in which Mr. Baugh- 
man still had a half interest up to the time 



of his death. The first real estate which 
he possessed was a farm in Greene C(junty, 
which he had purchased while still em- 
ployed by the elder Snyder. In addition to 
this he Ixiught seven acres within the limits 
of the city, now included between King and 
Galloway streets and Church and Shawnee 
streets. In 1871 he erected on this site an 
elegant residence, which is surrounded by a 
i)eautiful lawn and is still one of the tasteful 
and attractive abodes in the city. 

For many years Mr. Baughman was a 
most prominent figure in the financial circles 
of the city. He was first elected a director 
fjf the Xenia Bank, which afterward be- 
came a branch of the State Bank of Ohio, 
and on the passage of the national Iiank 
law was changed into the First National 
Bank of Xenia. In each of those organiza- 
tions he had been a director and the vice- 
president, antl upon the death of the presi- 
dent of the First National Bank he was 
elected to that position, which he filled until 
the expiration of the time of the charter. 
A reorganization was then effected under 
the title of the Xenia National Bank, the 
government permitting them to take the first 
name of the institution. Of this ^Ir. Baugh- 
man became the first president and contin- 
ued to hold that office until failing health 
compelled him to resign. He still retained 
his financial interest in the bank and the 
office of directcir up to the time of his death, 
which occurred in September, 1891. He 
also did a real-estate, banking and private 
loan business. He possessed keen sagacity 
and unusual foresight, which coupled with 
untiring industry and resolution enabled him 
to advance steadily to success. 

In political circles Mr. Baughman was 
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he ser\'e(l as count}' c. ininiissioner and was 
alderman for a long- ])eriod, during' which 
time he served as ])resident of the board for 
three terms. Many times he was solicited 
to run for higher offices, but he cared not for 
political ]ireferment other ihrm when he 
could ser\ e the jjcople of his immediate dis- 
trict. He cast his tirst presidential \'ote for 
General Andrew Jackson and continued to 
affiliate with the Democrat party until 1856. 
wiien he voted for John C. Fremont and 
afterward g'a\'e all his influence and effort 
of a political character to the Republican 
jiarty. 

In iH.p) he became a member of the Inde- 
jjcndent Order of Odd Fellows, and in 1833 
he united with the Reformed cluu'ch. in 
which he served as a deacon, also as Sun- 
day-school superintendent and as a delegate 
to the synod and classis. He was treasurer 
of the classis and board of cluu'ch erection. 
He was also a member of the peace com- 
mission an.d for many years one of the board 
of trustees of the Heidelburg University. 
Generous in sujjport of all departments of 
church \M)rk, he is particularK- remembered 
on account of the gift of twenty thousand 
dollars whereby was established the Baugh- 
man professorship of the Latin language, 
literature and Biblical instrtiction in the 
Heidell)urg University of Tiffin, Ohi<i. He 
ga\'e otiier lai'ge sums of monev to charitable 
and intellectual work and his name will 
long be revered because of his munificence 
and particularly for his deep interest which 
he exer manifested in Heidelburg. That he 
enjoyed in an unusual degree the confidence 
of the ])ublic and those with whom he was 
associated is shown by the fact that he was 
appointed guardian for fourteen children 
and that he settled ten large estates. 

32 



On the 7th of February. 183,:;, .\lr. 
Baughman married Miss .Mary Snvder, who 
was born in Washington county, Maryland, 
September 7, 1814, a daughter of Jonathan 
Snyder, one of the ])ioneers of Greene coun- 
ty, locating here in 1816, when his daughter 
was scarcely more than an infant. He built 
tlie first mill in the vicinity and it was after- 
ward ])urchaserl by our subject and his part- 
ner. Having no children of their own, Mr. 
and Mrs. Baughman reared several, to 
whom they became greatly attached, giving 
them all the advantages which thev would 
have bestowed upon children bound to them 
by ties of blood. Mention should also be 
made of their two neiccs, Henrietta and 
.Magdalena Krepps, who cared for them dur- 
ing their later life and who reside in the 
iiome on North King street. Thev were 
(laughlers of George and Xancy ( Batigh- 
man ) Krepps. Their father was born at 
Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1802, and was 
one of a family of seven children. Tiiere 
he was educated and grew to manhood, and . 
after his marriage he immediately located 
in Xenia, becoming one of the honored and 
promineiit residents of this city. He had 
learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he 
followed for two years, and then removed 
to Trebein Station, where he carried on the 
same pursuit until 1851. He then turned his 
attention to farming in Spring Valley town- 
ship, where lie made his home until his 
death, which occurred August 9, 1873. His 
wife passed away January 13, 1856, leaving 
nine children, of whom five are yet living. 
Mr. Krepps was a Democrat in his polit- 
ical views and was a member of the Meth- 
odist ciiurch. The surviving chiklren of 
the family are: Jeremiah; Eliza A., the 
wife of J. A. Stillings; Nancy A., who mar- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ried \\'illi;im L. Fulkerson ; and Henrietta 
and Magdalena. who reside in Xenia. They 
belong- to t!ie Alethodist church and are 
most highl)- esteemed in Xenia. 

Mr. Baughman, their uncle, was trul_\- a 
self-made man. but the most envious could 
not grudge him his success, so honorabl\- 
■was it won. so worthily used. He was most 
liberal in his benefaction and while it is 
known that he gave t\\enty thousand dollars 
to one institution and other sums almost as 
large he was never ostentatious in his giv- 
ing, and his ]irivate charity probably 
amounted to much more than that of which 
the world knew. His love for his fellow 
men was deep and sincere, and surely the 
world is better for his ha^•ing li\'ed. 



TOHX B. LUCAS. 



Progress and improvement are never the 
work of one man alone, but public ad\-ance 
is the result of aggregate endeavor and the 
county ow-cs its advancement to those men 
who in the various walks of life are reliable 
in business and trustworthy in citizenship. 
All such are worthy ()f mention i m the pages 
of the county's history and among this num- 
ber m Greene county is John Bassett Lucas, 
who was born June 15, 1842, in Xenia 
township, upon the farm which he now re- 
sides, his parents being Thornton and Alary 
(Blessing) Lucas. The father was liorn in 
Berkeley county. West Virginia, in 1798. 
and the mother's l)irth occurred in Shenan- 
doah county. Virginia. June 5. 1797. her 
parents being Lewis and Mar\- Elizabeth 
( Beardshire) Blessing, both of whom were 
natives of Cierniany and with a party of nine 



emigrants came to America. Mrs. Blessing 
had one brother and three sisters who came 
at the same time. The Blessings settled in 
Pennsylvania. This was about 1760. Later 
they removed to Berkeley county, \^'est \'ir- 
ginia, where both the grandfather and 
grandmother of our subject died. The 
mother of our subject was one of five chil- 
dren : Jacob; .\braham : John, who served 
as a private in the war of 181 2: ALary and 
Elizabeth. 

Thornton Lucas, the father of our suV)- 
iect, came to this county in 1824. and took 
up his abode upon the farm where his .son 
(obn is now living, there spending his re- 
maining days. The house which stands 
upon the place was commenced in 1824. 
About a year after his arrival Mr. Lucas 
married Mary Blessing, and to them were 
liorn three children, of whom one died in 
infancv. The others are John B. and Lewis 
Aforton, who died in 1861, at the age of 
seventeen vears. The father gave his polit- 
ical support to the Democratic party \mtil 
the time of the Civil war. after which he 
espoused the Republican party. He was a 
verv strong religious man an<l a worthy 
member of the Baptist churcli. wIkt con- 
tributed liberally to the support i>f the church 
and also laboreil in other ways for the sjjirit- 
ual upgrowth and the extension of the in- 
lltience of the church. Both he and his wife 
were laid to rest in the cemetery of Xenia. 

In tlie schools of the township the sub- 
ject of this review was educated, antl dur- 
ing his vouth he assisted in clearing and 
de\-elo]iing the home farm, always residing 
thereon. He was married. August 18. 1864. 
to Miss .Mice Ouinn. who was born in Xenia 
township, a daughter of Amos and Jane 
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539 



tucky ti< this ci miity in iSo_^. and setllcd 'it 
I.ndlow Creek. He was licirn in Dulilin, 
Ireland, and there ])repared for the churcli. 
expecting to Ijeconie an l-I])iscopalian ciergv- 
man. He came to this country to complete 
his studies and afterward decided to devote 
his attention to some other calling than the 
church. He v.-as the third in order of hirth 
in a family of nine children: J"hn. Sani- 
tiel, .\mos, Elias. Harvey. Rosa. Ann. Hetty 
and Xancy. Amos Quinn served for manv 
years as justice of the peace and was every- 
where known as "squire."" He also served 
as sheriff of the count}' frimi 1N32 until 
1837, represented his district in the legisla- 
ture for two tei'tus and was a very prominent 
and influential citizen. He married Jane 
( ioe. ^\ ho was Ivjrn near Pittsburg. T'enii- 
s}'l\'ania, a daughter of Samuel and Ali-.-c 
( \'an Home) ('ii>c. Iler father was a na- 
ti\e of the Emerald Isle. and. ha\'ing enii- 
grated to this country in c<ilonial days, he 
served as a memlier of the American army 
in the Re\'o!utionary war. In the early days 
he carried salt oxer the hills to (jreene coun- 
ty'. He was married in Pennsylvania, and 
in 181 T came to this count}-, settling near 
where the Powder Mill is now located. His 
wife was a sister of Harnett \'an Home, 
who was the first glassblower that e\'er came 
to America. By the marriage of Amos 
'Quinn and Jane (Ioe were born three chil- 
dren : Elias, whn died in 1900: Sarah, who 
is living with Mrs. Lucas, who is the third 
of the family. 

The marriage of 'Mv. and Mrs. Lucas 
was blessed with but one child, Tlmrntoii, 
Avho died in 1889, at the age of twent}'-five 
years. Mrs. Lucas is a lady of culture and 
refinement who engaged in teaching school 
in early life. ha\'ing followed that pmfes- 



sion for nine }'ears. Both our subject and 
bis wife are members of the L'nited Pres-' 
byterian church, and politicall}' Mr. Lucas 
is a Republican. He has been a member of 
the infirmary board for fifteen years and 
for twenty years was the president of the 
Agricultural Society. He to-day owns a 
valuable farm of five liundred acres and is 
engaged in general farming and stock-rais- 
ing, in which his enterprising efforts are 
followed by gratifying success. 



FRAXK A. :\lcCLURE. 

It is an impnrtant ])ublir duty t(i In inor 
and perpetuate as far as is jiossible tlie mcni- 
ory of an eminent citizen — one who bv his 
blaiiieless and honoralile life and distin- 
guished career reflected credit nut onl\' upon 
the city in which he niade bis home, but 
upon the state. Xo man was ever more re- 
spected in Xenia or ever more fully enjoyed 
the confidence of the people than Frank .\. 
McClure. At the time of his death he was 
serving as cashier of the Citizens X^ational 
Bank, and he bore an unassailable reputa- 
tion in financial circles. He was but a voung 
man, yet he acconiplished much during his 
earthly pilgrimage, and he left to his faniilv 
the priceless heritage of an untarnished 
name, while bis niemory is enshrined in the 
hearts of all who knew him. 

Frank A. ^IcClure was born in Bell- 
brook on the 1 2th of July, 1836, and he 
was one of se\'en children whose parents 
were John and Mary (Cramer) AlcClure. 
His father was a native of Virginia and 
came to Bellbrook, Ohio, where he was in- 
terested in both farming and merchandising. 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



At the early age of fourteen years the su1j- 
ject of tliis re\ie\v started out to make his 
own living', securing employment in the mer- 
cantile house of General Merrick, with 
whom h.e remained for a few years. Later 
he returned to Bellhronk. lieing employed in 
his father's store. In the year 1862 he was 
ai->pointed hv the county commissioners to 
fill the office of treasurer of Greene county, 
made vacant hy the death of General Lewis. 
Li that oftice he displayed marked business 
capacity and an accommodating and pleasant 
disposition that won for him the high re- 
gard "f the public and led to his selection 
for the important position of teller in the 
First National Bank. When Mr. Trader re- 
signed Mr. McClure was appointed his suc- 
cessor, and ihus ser\-ed until his life's laliors 
were ended in death. A local paper said 
of him after speaking of his business con- 
nections : "Such are a few brief outlines in 
the life of Mr. McClure. but how crowded 
during the past twelve years, with all the 
multifarious incidents and details of business 
that associated, him inimitably with a large 
pro])Mrtion nf the people of the county, with 
the rich and the poor, the man struggling 
against adversity and the widow with her 
mite. To wme of these did ]\lr. McClure 
ever turn a deaf ear, listening patiently to 
all they had t') say, entering confidently into 
their own ]5ersonal perplexities, freely gi\- 
ing all the advice and information pos- 
ses.sed of, and freipiently putting himself to 
great trouble to meet the desires of people 
and to assist them in various ways without 
the slightest expectation of pecuniary com- 
pensation. And it can be said of him that 
whatever he promised to do in the way of 
purely disinterested accommodation he never 
failed to perform to the best of his ability. 



To do this required a wonderful command 
of business resources, a mar\'elous memory, 
and a disposition that was not to be soured 
by mere selfish considerations. Indeed it 
seemed that business was a second nature to 
him: with such ease and facility diil he iier- 
form not only the duties strictly connected 
with the institution over which he had 
charge, but the other self-imposed ones, that 
redounded so much to the credit of his heart 
as well as his head — to his high qualities as 
a man as well as a bank officer. In his ca- 
pacit\- as cashier Mr. McClure displayed a 
remarkable know ledge of human nature and 
penetration, almost intuiti\"ely separating 
the true from the false, the worthy from the 
unworthy. He was the farthest remo\e;l 
from a machine officer, adapting liimself to 
every shade and variety of circumstance in- 
cident to business exigencies, and to all the 
mutations that credit is always liable outside 
of the large cities, at the same time not 
.sacrificing, l)ut on the contrary promoting 
the interests of his bank by a wise and just 
leniencv. He would have filled the .same po- 
sition in any of the largest city banks with 
halt the dis])lay of the peculiar mental qual- 
ities that he so largely possessed. Speaking 
of Mr. McClure's intimate knowledge of the 
business of the people at large, we might say 
that nothing was more remarkable than this 
peculiarity. Let who would enter the bank, 
and Mr. McClure would generally know the 
nature of his business before a word was 
spoken, and would be prepared with an an- 
swer quick and decisive, as though he had 
iust l)een thinking about that particular case. 
A gentleman of this city, engaged in large 
and intricate business operations, has ex- 
pressed to us his frequent astonisliment at 
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ROBINSOXS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



541 



resijects liis own business, witlmut reference 
to any record and w itli so nnich cleainess and 
precision." 

On the 23(1 of July. 1857. i" Bellhrook. 
.Mr. McClure was united in niarriajjc '.o 
.Sarah J. Steele, a daujjhter of James and 
Sarah (Bush) Steele. Her father was a 
native of Virqinia and in that state carried 
on farming- on an extensive scale. Me also 
operated a sawmill. I lis liirih occurred in 
the early part of 1793. and on the K.th of 
October, 1836. he was called to his final rest. 
His wife, who was Ijorn on the 24th of 
March, ijgi. died August 3. i<S()0. both 
being buried at Bellhrook. In their family 
were two daughters, hut Rachel E. died at 
the age of eleven years. Unto Mr. and 
Mrs. McClnre were born five children, but 
only two of the number are living: Nettie 
A., now the wife of M. C. Williams, a resi- 
dent of Lowell, Massachusetts: and M. Ger- 
trude, the wife of Dr. William Cordon Dice, 
of Toledo, Ohio. 

l\Ir. McChire was a man of domestic 
ta.stes. devoted to his family and their wel- 
fare. He rejoiced in his business ailvance- 
ment because it ga\e him greater op])or- 
tunities to pro\'ide comfortabh' for his lo\ed 
ones. He \^■as ne\er happier than when dis- 
pensing the hospitality of his own home, as- 
sisted by his wife and children. He was a 
man who had deep regard for his fellow 
men in genera! and it is d(iubtful if few men 
of his }ears and opportunities have done 
more for those among whom thev have 
lived. In addition to his duties of the bank 
]\Ir. McClnre had charge of the settlement 
of se\-eral large estates. He also performed 
the duties of various minor offices, which 
were urnemunerated but recjnired much at- 
tentii.in. He was often apjilied ti> in the m.'U- 



ter of a loan or an in\estment and would 
frequently say that he would give the matter 
thought. He ahvax's aided these and if pos- 
sible ga\e the assistance asked. He never 
failed to fulfill a prf)mise or keep an en- 
gagement, thus he had the unlimited confi- 
dence of his fellow men. who knew that his 
word was as go(xl as any bond ever sol- 
emnized l)y signature or seal. He gave his 
political sn]iport to ihe l\epublican party and 
was as loyal to it as to e\ery other cause in 
which he believed. It was on the i5tli of 
March. 1877, after a brief illness that he 
was called to his final rest, his remains be- 
ing interred in Woodland cemetery. All of 
the business hcmses of the cit_\- were closed 
during the hours of the funeral services — 
a token of resj^ect which is onl\ shown to 
men of prominence and worth. Frank A. 
McClure iiossessed all the (|ualities of man- 
hood. He was not onlv reliable in business 
and loyal to a trust, but he was genial and 
kindly and had a personality which was at- 
tractive, winning for him warm friends be- 
cause of his genuine worth. 



JOHN F. HARSH]MAN. 

John Freinfint Harshman. who is suc- 
cessfully carrying on agricultural pursuits 
in Bea\'ercreek township, his home lieing 
upon the Beaver Valley road, was born in 
this township on the 22(1 of September, 
185C1. His father, John C. Harshman, was 
also a native of this township, br)rn in 1807, 
a representati\'e of one of the oldest pioneer 
families of this portion of the state. His 
parents were Philip and Frances Harshman, 
Iwth of whom were natix-es of ]\Iar\lan(l, 



542 



ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF CREEXE COUNTY. 



V hence the_\- came to Greene county in 1803. 
Tlieirs was a long and tiresome jcjurney 
across the country, for the roads were in 
poor condition and oftentimes there was 
scarcely more than an Indian trail to mark 
the path through the forest. They located 
first near Zimmerman and lived in a wagon 
until a log cabin could be built. Upon that 
place thev spent their remaining days, and 
the grand fatlier cleared and developed three 
hundred acres of land, transforming it into 
a gooil farm which returned a valualile iti- 
come. The cabin home which he erected is 
still standi!ig as one of the land marks of 
the county and a mute reminder of the great 
changes which ha\e occurred as pioneer con- 
ditions have given way to the encroachments 
of civilization. In the family of Philip and 
Frances Harshman were six children : 
George ; John C. : Jacob : Elizabeth ; Polly, 
the wife of John Brown : and Betsy, the 
wife of Joiin Sipe. 

Jolm C. Harshman. the father of our 
su1:)ject. remained under the parental roof 
until h.e had attained his majiirity and ac- 
quire! his education in a typical log school 
house of the time, \^"hen of age he pur- 
chased fifty acres of land north of Zimmer- 
man and ;!t different times he added tracts 
of eiglity, fift\-, thirty and forty-five acres. 
He also bought another farm of well im- 
pro\ed land of ninety-five acres and still an- 
other of one hun(h"ed and twentv-seven 
acres, so that his realty holdings were cjuite 
extensi\e at the time of his death. He 
starteil out i;i life without capital, and liis 
education nas also limited, his training in 
aritlimetic being only to the rule of three. 
He was, however, a great reader and be- 
came one of the best posted men in his town- 
ship. In his business affairs he alsi.i pros- 



pered and his cajjable management and 
sound practical judgment brought tu him 
merited prosperitv. Pie was married on the 
28th of October, 1841, to Ann Maria Mil- 
ler, wh(:> was born in Bath township April 
25, 1819, a daughter of Daniel Miller. This 
worthy couple became the parents of nine 
children, of whom se\-en are yet living. 
Samuel Henry, the eldest, born October 10, 
1 842, died ]\Iay 16. 1866. He enlisted for 
one hup.dred days" service as a member of 
the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio In- 
fantry, remaining at the front from ^lay 
until September, 1864. In the spring of 
1865 he re-enlisted and continued at the 
front until the close of the war. Sarah 
Elizabeth, born October 10. 1844. married 
Andrew J. Tobias and is lixdng in Beaver- 
creek townsliip. ]\lary Catherine, born 
Marcii 13, 1846. liecame the wife of Jacob 
Shonp and died Fel)ruary 28. 1868. Ann 
Alaria, born December 28, 1847. '■'' the wife 
of \\'. W. Ferguson. Ephraim Franklin 
was born Xoveniber 11. 1849. ^lartha El- 
len. b(irn December 2^. 1851. is the wife of 
Ed. C. (ierlaugli, of Beavercreek townshi]i. 
Reuben !M., born January 29, 1852, resides 
ir. Dayton. John Fremont is the eighth of 
tlie family. Abraham Lincoln, born Jan- 
uary 4, iS(')i, is the youngest and resi<les 
in Dayton. The father was called to his 
final rest January 2j. 1880. and his wife 
passed av.ay Octi^ier 3, 1895, their remains 
being interred in the Hawker cemetery in 
Beavercreek t(_>wnship. Mr. Harshman gave 
iiis early political supiiort to the \\'hig party. 
arid upon its dissolution joined the ranks of 
the new i'e]niblican party. He was a man 
of sucli well known reliability that he was 
often a]/poinled guardian of children and 
executor of estates. His wife was a faith- 



ROB INS OX'S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY. 



543 



fill ami (lev(jted incnibcr of the L'nitJii Re- 
formed church. 

John Fremont Harshman was educated 
in the common schools of tlie township, con- 
tinuing his stuilies througli the winter 
montlis until nineteen years of age, while in 
the summer seasons he assisted in the work 
of the farm. He was thus engaged until his 
marriage, whicli occurred when he was 
twenty-three years of age, the wedding cere- 
;nony being performed on the 226. of July, 
1879. The lady of his choice was Alethea 
Ann Lafong, a daughter of O. B. and Re- 
becca LaFong, the former now deceased. 
Mrs. Harshman was born in Beavercreek 
township, Jinie 10. 1861, and by her hus- 
band was taken as a bride to the old family 
homestead, where thev remained for eight 
years, after which they spent one year upon 
her father's farm. In 1888 Air. Harshman 
purchased one hundred and tweh'e acres of 
land where he is now living. There were 
no buildings upon the place, but he has since 
erected a fine residence, a large barn an.l 
other substantial structures for the shelter 
of grain and stock, successfully carrying on 
agricultural pursuits along progressive and 
practical lines. 

The children born unto Air. and Mrs. 
Harshman are as follows: John Buneth be- 
gan his education at the age of eight years 
and completed tlie district school course at 
the age of twelve. He was graduated in 
the Beavercreek high school when si.xteen 
years of age with the class of 1899 and then 
took a special course of one }'ear in Dayton, 
after which lie entered the Columbus Uni- 
versit}', where he is pursuing a Latin anil 
philosophical course as a member of the 
class of 1904. Anna \'iola. born Septem- 
ber 2. 1887. died May 10, 1900, and was 



laid to rest in Beavercreek cemetery. Sara 
Myrtle, born August 2S, 1889, is at home. 
Mr. Flarshman is a stanch Republican 
and has filled many township offices. Since 
1894 be has served continuously as a trustee 
of Beavercreek townshij). He is a member 
of the Alpha Building .\ssociation, is one of 
its trustees, and is also a school trustee. Of 
the Agricultural Society of Greene County 
he is a director, and socially he is connected 
\vith the Knights of Pythias Lodge of 
-\lpha, in which he has filled all of the 
chairs. Both he and his wife belong to the 
Beavercreek Reformed church, in which he 
is serving as trustee. Froni early bo\hood 
he has been familiar with agricultural work 
and throughout the vears of his manhood he 
has progressed in his business life, steadily 
advancing as the result of his untiring in- 
dustry, strong purpose and capable manage- 
ment. He is a worthy representative of an 
honored family, which from the early his- 
tory of Greene county has contributed in 
large measure to its substantial upbuilding 
anil improvement. 



M. EDAIOXD EVANS. 

M. Edmond Evans, whose farming in- 
terests in Spring Valley township are an 
indication of his active, useful and honor- 
able life, was born on the farm where he 
now lives, his natal day being December 18, 
1866. and his parents being Moses and Sa- 
rah (Huston) Evans. The father died when 
his son was only two years old. Edmond was 
the ■s'otmgest in a family of nine children, 
five of whom are still living. His boyhood 
davs were snent on the home farm and in 



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ROBINSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



the district schools he acquired a good ed- 
ucation, remaining under the parental roof 
witli his mother until he had attained his 
majority. Of the other heirs he has pur- 
chased a portion of tlie old homestead until 
he now owns fifty acres of that tract and 
altogether he has sixty-six acres. In addi- 
tion) to this he has leased a considerable 
amount and now operates about two hun- 
dred and. twenty acres. 

Mr. E\ans was married in Sugarcreek 
township. Se])tenil)er 14, 1893. to ?iliss Jen- 
nie K. Scarff, of Sugarcreek township, her 
parents lieing Milton and Corilla ( Truman ) 
Scarff. She was born in Xenia. Her father 
was also a native of this county and the 
mother was born in Spring Valley. The for- 
mer died in June. 1900, at the age of seven- 
ty-five years, but the latter is still a resident 
of • Sugarcreek township. Unto ]Mr. and 
Mrs. Kvans have been born two children : 
Don Scarff. l)orn on the home farm Feb- 
ruary 12, 1896, and Hazel ]vlarie. liorn 
April 2, 1900. 

Air. Eyans votes with the Republican 
partv. and socially is connected with Spring 
Valley Lodge, I. O. O. F. His wife is a 
meiuber of the Methodist Episcopal churcli. 



LE\\TS H. \MHTE-MAX. 

In tlie iiromotion and conser\ation of 
advancement in all the normal lines of lui- 
man progress and civilization there is no 
factor which has exercised a more potent 
influence than the press, which is toth tlie 
director and the mirror of public opinion. 
Oliio has been signally favored in the char- 
acter of its newspapers, which iia\-e been 



vital, enthusiastic and progressive, ever 
aiming to advance the interests of this fa- 
\ ored section of the Union, to aid in laying 
fast and sure the foundations of an enlight- 
e;ied commonwealth, to further the ends of 
justice and to uphold the banner of the 
Buckeye state. In a compilation of this na- 
ture, then, it is clearly incumbent that due 
recognition be accorded tlie jiewspaper 
press. Mr. Whiteman is one of the leading 
representatives of journalistic interests in 
this portion of Ohio, being the editor and 
proprietor of the Xenia Herald. 

He was born in Xenia township, Greene 
county, February 15, 1842, and is a son of 
Joab and Mary (Thomas) Whiteman, both 
of whom were natives of Virginia. The 
Whiteman family is of English lineage but 
was founded in America at an early period 
in coltniial development. Jacob \\'hiteman, 
the grandfather of our suliject, was born 
and reared in the Old Dominion and thence 
c;'.me to Greene county. Ohio, in 1802. At 
li:at time Joab \Miiteman was a little lad of 
St veil summers and he rode a pony all the 
wa\- from Winchester, Virginia, to this 
county. His father followed the occupation 
of farming and to that pursuit the latter was 
rearetl. After arriving at years of matur- 
ity, lie wedded Mary Thomas and they be- 
came the parents of fi\e cliildren, all of 
whom reached years of maturity, while four 
are still living, but our subject is tlie only 
one now a resident of Xenia. At the age of 
forty-nine the father died, but the mother, 
w ho lived to tlie advanced age of ninety-one 
years, died in May, 1902. 

In tlie usual manner of farmer lads, 
Lewis H. \\'hiteman pursued his eilucation 
and was reared to manhood. He had, how- 
e\er, the advantage of attending a select 
school at Spring Valley for a lime. The 




L. H. WHITEMAN. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



547 



cnuntrv won liis patriotic devotion at the 
lime of the C"i\il war. t)n the Kjtli of Sej)- 
ttniher. i8()i. lie became a jirivate in Com- 
])any L. Tliird New Yori< Cavalry, under 
command of Captain Jeptha (iarrard and 
Colonel James H. Van Allen. He was mus- 
tered in at Camp Dennison. Cincinnati, Sep- 
tember 24, 1861, and the regiment was as- 
signed to the cavalry corps of the .\rm\- of 
tiie Potomac. With hi-; command Mr. 
W'hiteman participated in the liattles of 
Bali's Blufif. Winchester. P.urnt Hickory, 
Trenton. Tranter's Creek, (ireen\ille Lodge, 
Mill Creek, Xeuse River. Washington. Tar- 
boro. Batchelor's Creek, Kingston. White- 
hall, Cioldsboro. Jacksonville. Xewbern. Do- 
ver. Wise's Crossroads. Core Creek, Swift 
Creek, Camden and others of minor import- 
ance. He w'as appointed corporal January 
5. iSfi,^, and was honorablv discharged on 
the 14th of December of that year in order 
that he might accept the first lieutenancy of 
Comi>any E, First Regiment of United 
States Colored Volunteer Cavalry, under 
Captain Charles Emerson and Colonel Jep- 
tha (jarrard. The regiment was assigned to 
I'ayne's di\ision in the Eighteaith Army 
Cordis. Later the regiment was transferred 
to the Twenty-fifth Army Corps of the Ar- 
my of tlie James and participated in the bat- 
tles of Wilson's Landing, Cabin Point, in the 
capture of Richmond, and in the battle of 
Fort Powdiattan. Virginia, on the 25th of 
June, at which' place Mr. Whiteman was 
apjK»inted post commissary, serving in that 
caj)acity for several months. Afterward he 
went by transjxjrt to Texas, where he was 
engaged in perfomiing guard and garrison 
c'uty on the Mexican border with headquar- 
ters at Brazos and Santiago. Texas. At the 
latter place Lieutenant \\'hiteman received 
his final discharge on the 4th of Felaruarx'. 



]S66. He was a most valiant soldier, ever 
found at his post of dntv, and is now an 
honored member of the Cnion Veteran Le- 
gion. 

On the i6th of July, 1868, Lieutenant 
Whiteman was united in marriage to Miss 
Lydia A. Peterson, a native of Greene coun- 
ty, and to them were born two children, 
Howard Lee and Eftie, both of whom are 
now deceased. Mr. Whiteman has held a 
number of pilitical positions, in which his 
capability and elificiency have won for him 
high commendation. He served as post- 
master of Xenia for four years and three 
months, being appointed l)v President Cleve- 
h.nd. During the administration of that 
gentleman he was made chief clerk in the 
navy yard at Washington, D. C, anil was 
the first Ohio man to be turned out of office 
after the Republicans again came into 
power, Ijeing requested to leave the posi- 
tion ten days after President Harrison was 
inaugurated. He then went to Laurel, 
Maryland, the home of Senator Gorman, 
and at the request of the senator established 
the paper called the Laurel Democrat, w^hich 
he published for two years with good suc- 
cess. He then returned to Xenia and es- 
tablished the Xenia Herald, of which he has 
since been the editor and proprietor. He has 
purchased the Democrat-News and consoli- 
dated the two journals, so that the Xenia 
Herald is now the only Democratic paper 
in the county. It has a large circulation and 
is a bright and entertaining journal well de- 
ser\-ing the liberal patronage. 

Fraternally, Mr. \\'hiteman is connected 
with the Knights of Pythias. He has also 
Ijeen a stanch advocate of Democratic prin- 
ciples and in 1898 he was the candidate of 
his party for congress in the Sixtli district 
iiut was defeated. His career has l.)een one 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



of activity, full of incitlents and of results. 
In every sphere of life in which he has heen 
called upon to move he has made an indeli- 
hle impression, and hy his excellent ser\-ice 
and upright life he has won the high es- 
teem and regard of all. 



JAMES B. CARRUTHERS. 

It is natural when one has left the sea 
of earthly activities to review the life record 
completed and pass judgment upon what 
has been accomplished. The career of 
James B. Carruthers was one which would 
hear the closest investigation and scrutiny, 
for in business and in every relation of life 
he was an lionorable man, shaping his course 
l)y such principles as lead to the development 
of an upright character. For many years 
he was associated with the marcantile inter- 
ests in Xenia and was well known in polit- 
ical and church circles, so that when calleil 
to the home beyond the community lost one 
of its most valued representatives. 

Mr. Carruthers was a native of Scotland, 
l)orn on the 19th of March. 1821. His par- 
ents, John and Mary B. Carruthers, were 
also natives of the same country, and in the 
year 1834 they left tlie land of the heathers 
and crossed the ocean to the new world, 
taking up their abode in Xorth Carolina, 
where tliey remained for alxmt two years. 
In T836 they arrived in Ohio, first settling 
in Ross county, but after six years had 
passed they came to Greene county, where 
tliey spent their remaining days. 

When James B. Carruthers accomjianied 
his parents to this country he was but a lad 
of thirteen years. Being anxious to con- 
tribute his sliare to tlic family support, he 



secured employment as a clerk in a country 
store, being thus employed in X^orth Caro- 
Hna for eighteen months. After coming to 
Ohio he assisted in the work of tlie farm, 
aiding in the cultivation of the fields until 
he was twenty-three years of age. He then 
began teaching in a country school and later 
was a student in the school conducted by 
Thomas Steele in Xenia. Again he engaged 
in teaching, and in the year 1850 he began 
bookkeeping for the firm of Frazer & Com- 
pany, of Chillicothe, Ohio, continuing in 
that capacity for two years. On the expira- 
tion of that period he returned to Xenia. 
where with the capital he had acquired 
through his own efforts he established a 
grocerv store. Later he Ijecame connected 
with the dry goods trade, but afterward re- 
entered the grocery business. Some time 
later he sold his store and turned his at- 
tention to agricultural pursuits in Xenia 
township, where he owned a good farm near 
the city. His next change connected him 
with the coal business in Xenia, and with 
this entcri)rise he continued until his death, 
which was the result of a railroad accident 
i:i Xenia on the 2d of Deceml)er, 1898. 

^Ir. Carruthers was united in marriage 
to Jeanette Smith, a daughter of William 
and Helen ( Scott) Smith, who were natives 
of Scotland. Five children were torn of this 
union: Johan.nah M., who died at the age 
of fourteen months; Ella B. ; Jennie S. : 
William S. ; and Jessie B. The wife and 
mother was called to her final rest Septem- 
ber 2. 1S76. and on the 20th of August, 
1878. ^Ir. Carruthers was again married, 
his second union being with Miss Eliza A. 
Hyslop, a daughter of George and Margaret 
Hvslop, the former a native of Scotland and 
the latter of Pennsvlvania. 



ROBINSO.VS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



549 



Air. CarruthtTs was a meinl.ier of the 
First United Preshyterian cluirch of Xenia, 
and took an active interest in all that per- 
tained to the moral, intellectnal and material 
development ol the cnmmunitx-. For over 
thirty year.s he served as treasurer of Xenia 
Theological Seminarv and was also financial 
agent of the synod. In his church he served 
as ruling" elder antl his efforts were verv ef- 
fective in promoting its growth and e.\tend- 
in!2^ its influence. His political support was 
given with unwavering loyalty to the Re- 
publican iiarty. For si.x years he served as 
a member of the city council of Xenia and 
was also a police commissioner during the 
Civil war. He was commissioned by Gov- 
ernor Tod as captain of Company D, Sec- 
ond Regiment, of the Greene county militia. 
A man of scholarly attainments and broad 
general inforniatiou. he was well fitted to be- 
■ come a leader of i)ublic thought and opinion. 
He thoroughly enjoyed home life and took 
great pleasure in the society of his family 
and friends. Charitable and Ijenevolent. he 
always gave freely of his means in support 
of worthy charity and was particularly en- 
couraging to those who were willing to help 
themselves. Flis life was e\'er honoralile 
and upright, and at all limes and under all 
circumstances he c<immanded the respect and 
esteem of his fellow men and was regarded 
as one of the representative citizens of 
Xenia. Mrs. Carruthers and four of his 
children still survive him. one daughter, Jen- 
nie S., 1)ein.g now the wife of the Rev. \\'. 
G. IMartin, of Grove Citv, Pennsvlvania. 
Mrs. Carruthers is a lady of superior intel- 
ligence and culture and has taken a very 
active part in the public interests of Xenia. 
For thirteen years she was a most successful 
school teacher of this citv. Since 1894 she 



has been a member of the city school board, 
and in 1896 she was elected a member of 
the board of county school examiners and 
has since served in that capacity. She now 
resides in a beautiful home on North King 
street, and it is the center of a cultured so- 
ciety circle. 

♦-•-• 

REV. CLARK KENDALL. 

A life devoted to the ministry and a 
memory that yet remains 'as a blessed bene- 
diction to all who knew him — such is the 
history of Rev. Clark Kendall. For many 
years he labored earnestly and untiringlv to 
promote the cause of Christianity, and was 
one of the strong and able preachers of the 
United Presbyterian church. He was born 
in Greene county, in Xenia township, Jan- 
uary 14, 1S25, upon a farm now occupied 
by his widow. His parents were William 
and Eleanor (Jackson) Kendall. The fa- 
ther was born in Pennsylvania and after- 
ward lived in Kentuck)-. and from that state 
came to Ohio at a very early day, taking 
up his abode in Xenia township, where he 
spent the remainder of his life. He was a 
tanner by trade and followed that pursuit 
to a considerable extent after coming to 
Ohio in connection with farming. Both he 
and his wife died in Xenia township at an 
advanced age upon the old family home- 
stead. The father at one time owned the 
propert\- upon which W ilberforce now 
stands. His death occurreil in 1879, while 
Mrs. Kendall was called t<_) her final rest 
June 6, 1888. 

Rev. Clark Kendall, wln^se name intro- 
duces this review, spent his boyhood days 
upon the home farm and acquired his early 



550 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNT V. 



ediicatiim in the district schools. He after- 
ward pursued a cnurse of study in the Miami 
University, from wliich he was graduated 
and then determined to devote his life to 
the holy calling- nf the ministry. He pur- 
sued a theolcigical ci>urse in Oxford Theo 
logical Seminary, entering that institution 
in 1845. After his graduation he at once 
entered upon his ministerial work, taking 
cliarge oi a church at Buffalo, New York. 
v.here he remained for twenty-three years. 
He then accepted the pastorate of the Pres- 
byterian church at Bloomingburg. Ohio, 
where he remained for si.x years, after wliich 
he preached for one year at Seven Mile. 
Ohio. On the ex])iration of that period he 
organized a church at Jacksonburg. and upon 
leaving that place he retired to pri\-ate life, 
sjjending his last days in his old liome in 
Xenia township. 

On the i5lh of I\Iarch. 1854. Rev. Ken- 
dall was united in the holy bonds of mat- 
rimony to Sarah Hutchins. of Waterford. 
Erie county. Pennsylvania, but after about 
nine \-ears of hajjpy married life she passed 
away on the 3th of February. 1863, leaving 
one child. Mary, who was born in Buffalo. 
February 2, i860, and on the 2d of Fe1> 
ruary, 1881. liecame the wife of Dr. H. L. 
.Smith, a resident of Westerville, Ohio. 
They are devoted members of the Presby- 
terian church and ha\-e one son. Homer 
Kendall, now four vears of age. Thev also 
lost a daughter. Caroline, who died at the 
age of six \'ears. On the 30th of May, 
1865, Re\'. Kendall was again married, his 
.second union being with ]\Iargery Stewart, 
of Hamilton. Ohio, who died April 18. 
1877. They, too, had one child, William 
C, who is nn\v a minister of the Presl)y- 
tcrinn cluu'ch <>]' lilimmingljurg, Ohio, the 



church <if which his father <_ince was pastor. 
He attended W'noster L'ni\-ersit\' : is a grad- 
uate of Ohio Universitv at Columbus, and of 
the McCormick Theological Seminary <>f 
Chicago, Illinois, and is a man of no restrict- 
ed intluence in the ministry, being acknowl- 
edgetl an alile minister and the possessor of 
much strength. For his third wife Rev. 
Kendall chose Eliza Cameron, of Buffalo. 
Xew York, their marriage being celebrated 
on the 28th of October. 1879. She still 
survives her liusband and yet resides upon 
the old home place just off the Columbus 
l)ike in Xenia townshi]i. Hers is a pleasant 
home. ])rovided with many of the comforis 
of life, and throughout the communitv Mrs. 
Kendall enjoys the high regard of a large 
circle uf friends. 

it was at this place that Rev. Clark Ken- 
dall spent his last days after many vears de- 
voted ti) the work of the ministry. It wr.uld 
be almost tautological in this connection to 
enter into any series of .statements showing 
him to be a man of broad learning and wid;' 
culture, for these have been shadowed forth 
between the lines of this review. He was a 
deep and earnest student, carrying his re- 
searches far and wide in the manv branches 
of knowledge, but all with the one ])urpose 
in view of making his life of greater benefit 
to his fellow men and advancing the cause 
of Christianity. He possessed deep sym- 
pathy and while he could not countenance 
wrong doing in the slightest degree, yet he 
was e\'er anxious and read}' to help the 
wrong-doer in order that a better way of 
life might be opened before him. He was 
called to his final rest F"ebruary 20. 1900. 
and his remains were interred in the Wood- 
land cemetery. Xenia. Perhaps we cannot 
better close this review of his record than 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



551 



by i[Ui)tin.t;- from a publication of that time 
which said: "His life was one of great 
purity and he was highly respecteil for his 
gentle. Christlike spirit and his upriglit life. 
In Iiis earhcr life he was identilied with the 
United Presbyterian church, but for a num- 
ber of years he was connected \\ith our ow m 
denomin.ation. He was a verv modest, un- 
assuming man. yet his active ministr\- was 
one of great usefulness. He was permitted 
to welcome over one thousand memliers into 
tlie church. For a good many years he has 
been laid aside from the active work of the 
ministry, yet he was always in liis place at 
church and occasionally preached. In all the 
years of his suffering he was the same, 
gentle, sweet-spirited, cheerful Christian, 
feeding on the word of his Master and lean- 
mg ui)on his Beloved. His faitliful and 
helpful wife with two children sur\ives him. 
Mrs. Dr. Smith, now in Xew \'ork. and 
Rev. \\'. C. Kendall, of Blooniingl)urg. 
Ohio, (}ne of the lields in which his departed 
father labored so successfully. He was a 
good man, strong in faith, and earnest in 
spirit, and as a shock of corn cometh in his 
season, so he came to his grave in full age. 

" 'He has passed away. 
But his sweet will. 
Like a fragrant odor lingers still: 
l"he tender lesson that memory brings 
The mantle of patience o"er us flings. 
\\"e learn to follow the i)ath he trod 
To be more like him 
Who had gone to God.' " 



SAMUEL M. SPAHR. 

For more than sixty years the home in 
\\'hich Samuel Milton Spahr resides has 
stood as one of the land marks of Beaver- 



creek township. He owns and operates one 
liundred and thirty-three acres which he has 
placed under a high state of cultivation, so 
that iiis labors bring to him creditable and 
gratifying success. lie was born in Caesars- 
creek township in w liat is now Xew Jasper 
towiishi]). his parents being Gideon and 
.\manda ( Hagler) Spahr. From an early 
ej)och in the history of this portion of the 
state the Spahr family has been a factor in 
the substantial upbuilding, which come from 
tiie successful conduct of legitimate business 
enterprises. Philip ;md Mary (Shook) 
Spahr caine from Virginia to Greene county 
in pioneer times. Among their children was 
Gideon Spahr, whose birth occurred in New 
Jasper t<:»wnsliip. whose education was ac- 
quired in the schools there and who re- 
mained with his parents throughout the 
perioil of his l3<iyho(jd and youth. He 
wedded Mary Amand.-i Ilagler, a sister of 
William L. Hagler, and for about eight or 
nine years they remained in Xew Jasper 
township. On the expiration of that period 
they removed to Jay count}-, Indiana, wdiere 
they made their home for two years and then 
returned to the old home in X'ew Jasper 
township. In 1864 they removed to Beaver- 
creek township, but the father spent the last 
few years of his life retired in Bellbrook, 
where he died September 4, 1891, when 
more than se\enty years of age. his remains 
being interred in the Bellbrook cemetery. 
His wife, who was born January 17, 1825, 
now makes her home in Bellbrook. Gideon 
Spahr endorsed the Republican party and its 
principles by his ballot. His religious faith 
was that of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
to which both he and his wife belonged. 
They were the parents of six children, five 
sons and a daughter: J(jhn L.. a resident 



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n 



of Cedarville townshi]), married Hannali 
Peterson, and they have three children. — 
James Milton, Ida Jane and Osman P. 
j\Iarv Louise is the deceased wife of P)oyd 
G. Hopping-, of Xenia, and left three chil- 
dren, John, David and William. Philip R., 
a resident of Aljjha. married Ella Sivers. 
and their children are Lord, John, Ima. 
Emma, Philip and Esther. David Al.. of 
Beavercreek township, married Elizabeth 
Keiter, and their children are Pearl and 
Edith Amanda. Samuel Alilton is the next 
of the family. Closes B., of Xenia township, 
married Harriet Gatrell and they have two 
children. Ethel 'SI. and Walton. 

Samuel M. Spahr was born April 19. 
1S53, "' ^ew Jasper township, but was 
mostly educated in Beavercreek township. 
A\'hen old enough to be of any assistance he 
began to aid his father in the work of the 
farm, and after reaching manhood was in- 
terested in agricultural ]iursuits with his fa- 
ther operating rented land. They were quite 
extensively engaged in farming, one year 
operating a farm of nine hundred acres 
near Trebein after leaving Xew Jasper 
township. Later they spent eight years on 
a farm of six hundred and forty acres in 
Sugarcreek township, and from there re- 
moved to the farm in Beavercreek township 
now occupied by our subject. Here the\' 
cultivated two hundred and twenty acres, 
one hundred and thirt}-three acres of which 
the son subsequently purchased. The part- 
nership between father and son continued 
until after the marriage of the latter, when 
Gideon Spah.r retired and moved to Bell- 
brook. Our subject remained upon the farm 
in Beavercreek township which they had 
rented, and in 1S93 he purchased one hun- 
dred and thirtv-three acres of that tract as 



previously stated. He has since made many 
improvements on the place and to-day has 
one of tlie well tilled and valuable farms in 
the southern part of the township. 

On the nth of Xovember, 1886, Mr. 
Spahr \\ as united in marriage to Miss ilar- 
garet Wolf, who was born in Cincinnati, a 
daughter of Frank and Margaret (Sorg) 
Wolf. Four children bless this union, 
namely: Harry Edmund, Edna Mae, 
Homer Milton and Florence Louise. 
The family is one well known in the com- 
munitw Mr. Sjjahr is widely recognized as 
a man of good business ability, his life be- 
ing characterized by industry that never 
flags and by sound business judgment and 
honor. His success is due entirely to his 
own well directed efforts and he may there- 
fore justly be called a self-made man. While 
a stanch supporter of the Republican party 
and its principles, he has never been an as- 
pirant for otnce. thijugh he takes an acti\e 
interest in educational affairs and has served 
as a member of the school board. 



TOHX L. FERGUSON. 

John L. Ferguson, a farmer whose home 
is just west of the corporation limits of Bell- 
lirook, was Ixirn June 16, 1850, six miles 
south of Xenia in Spring Valley township. 
His fath.er. Robert H. Ferguson, was born 
not far from \\'inchester, Virginia, Jul\- 17. 
T819. and was a .son of Samuel and Mildred 
(Garrison) Ferguson, who were also na- 
tives of Virginia. The great-grandfather 
of our subject, however, was a native of 
Scotland and at an early period in the de- 
\elopment of the colonies took up his abode 
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553 



was one of two cliiklren, and in the year 
1832 he emigrated westward to Ohio, set- 
tling nn t!ie farm where our suhject was 
1)1 irn. There he spent his remaining days, 
dying prinr to the marriage of liis S'ln, Rob- 
ert H. He had served his country as a sol- 
dier in llic war of i8ij and was e\'er a 
I'lyal and ])uhlic-spirited citizen, llis wife 
was horn in 1782. She had lost her mother 
when quite young and as she li\ed near 
llannah W'asliington and her father had no 
housekeeper, Mrs. Fergusr)n remained for 
some time with Mrs. Washington, who was 
frequently \-isited hy her relati\e. the great 
General W'asliington. who often held Mrs. 
Ferguson upon his knee. She frequently 
described to her grandson, our subject, the 
carriage in which Washington rode, and 
^\•hen John I.. I'erguson visited the Centen- 
nial at I'liiladelphia in 1876 he saw this 
vehicle. 

Robert H. Ferguson accom])anied his 
father to Greene county in 1832 and upon 
the home farm was reared. Throughout his 
entire life he carried on agricultural pur- 
suits and his death occurred in the spring of 
1883 at the age of sixty-three years. In 
early manhood he had wedded Mary J. 
Cooper and they liecame the parents of four 
children, of whom our subject was the sec- 
ond. Horace A., the eldest, is residing in 
Dayton and has four children. Sally Mary 
is the wife of O. Frank Collett, of New 
Burlington, and has two children. \\'illiam 
married Mary Mendenhall and died January 
6, 1889, leaving two children. Robert H. 
Ferguson gave his political support to the 
Democracy, but was never an aspirant for 
ofifice. He held membership with the Bap- 
tist church and his life was in consistent har- 
mony with its principles. 



Xo event of special importance occurred 
to vary the routine of farm life for John L. 
Ferguson in his youth. He worked in the 
fields and accjuired a good common-school 
education. On the 29th of September, 1880, 
he married Miss ^ilargaret E. McClure, of 
Sugarcreek townshii), a daughter of John 
C. anrl Elvira (Young) McClure. She was 
reared upon the home farm where our sub- 
ject now resides. She had one brother. 
Cyrus McClure, who became a niember of 
the Seventy-fourth Ohio Regiment and died 
of measles in the hos|)ital at Xashville. Ten- 
nessee. There were nine children in the 
family, of whom Mrs. Ferguson was the 
eighth. All reached years of maturity and 
six of the number are yet living. Mr. Fer- 
guson iiurchased a small tract of land from 
his father and made it his home for six 
years, wlien he came w itii his family to his 
present place of residence, purchasing sev- 
enty acres of Mr. McClure. X^early all of 
the improvements upon tlie property have 
been made by our subject save a little build- 
ing of one room which had been erected l)y 
Mr. McClure, who died shortly afterward, 
l)assing away March 5, 1886, while Mrs. 
McClure died May 18, 1901. In his farm- 
ing methods ^Ir. Ferguson is enterprising, 
practical and progressive, and his labors 
have been attended with a high degree of 
success. His fields are now richly cultivated 
and his buildings are in good repair. His 
efforts have been so discerninglv directed 
along well defined lines of labor that his 
work has brought to him a very gratifying 
competence. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson has been- 
born one child, Ethel, whose birth occurred 
in S]5ring Valley township and wdio is a 
graduate of the Belllirook high school of 



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the class of 1901. The parents held mem- 
bership in the Baptist chnrch. bnt on ac- 
count of the distance of their hume fn>m a 
church of that denomination they identitieil 
themselves with the Methodist Protestant 
chnrch. Politically Mr. Ferguson is a Dem- 
ocrat, and for two terms served as justice 
of the peace of Sugarcreek township. The 
cases which he decidetl during that time 
showed that he was strictly fair and im- 
l)ariial. and no decision which he ever ren- 
dered was c\er reversed. 



REV. NICHOLAS J. KELLY. 

Rev. Nicholas J. Kelly is pastor of St. 
Erigid's church of Xenia. He came here 
early in the year 1901 and soon gained a 
place in the respect and affections of his peo- 
ple, while engaged in the promotion of the 
cause of Catholicism. He was born in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, on the 31st of August, 1851, 
being a son of Christopher C. and Cathar- 
ine (Carey) Kelly, both of whom were na- 
tives of Ireland, and are now deceased. In 
the parochial schools of St. Peter"s Cathed- 
ral of Cincinnati Father Kelly pursued his 
early education, after which he was em- 
ploved for several years by the firm of Chat- 
field & Woods, proprietors of a large paper 
house of that city. Determining, however, 
to devote his life to the priesthood he re- 
sumed his education and from 1875 until 
1878 was a student in St. Xavier College in 
Cincinnati. Subsequently he matriculated 
in. Mt. St. Mary's Seminary of the West, 
located at Price Hill, Cincinnati, and in 
1880 he became a student in Mt. St. Mary's 
of Emmittsburgh, Maryland. In 1881 he 
once more entered St. Xavier College, from 



which he was graduated in the class cjf '83, 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He 
tlien entered St. Marys Theological Semin- 
ary in Baltimore. Maryland, where he com- 
])!eted the fidl course and was ordained to 
the priesthood on the iSth of December, 
1886, by the Most Rev. William Henry El- 
der, in St. Peter's Cathedral, Cincinnati. 
Ohio. 

During sixteen }ears he has devoted his 
time and energies with untiring zeal to the 
work and advancement of his church. For 
about a year he served in the mission field 
and was then stationed as the assistant pas- 
tor at St. Peter's Cathedral at Cincinnati, 
when on the 19th of October, 1889, he was 
appointed pastor of St. Gabriel's parish in 
Glendale, where he served eight years. On 
the 27th of September. 1897, '^^ ^^''^^ given 
charge of the parish of Lebanon and the at- 
tached missions of Monroe, Morrow, Fos- 
ter's Crossing and Waynesville, where he 
remained until the 12th of March, 1901. 
He then took charge of St. Brigid's church 
in Xenia. He is a man of scholarlv attain- 
ments and broad general information as well 
as theological learning. Consecrated to his 
holy office he puts forth every effort in his 
power to advance the cause of his church 
and the moral and intellectual standing of 
the community at large and under his lead- 
ership the various churches with which he 
has been connected have matle very satisfac- 
ti iry advancement. He soon won friends in 
Xenia, not only in St. Brigid's church but 
among people of various denominations. 
His life is indeed a busy one. Each morn- 
ing he celebrates mass at si.x o'clock and 
sometimes earlier. He is particularly watch- 
ful and helpful to the sick of the neighbor- 
liood and is a man of broad sympathies and 
humanitarian principles. 



I 




REV. N. J. KELLEY. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



557 



St. Brigid's church, of which he is now 
serving' as pastor, is one of the strong Catli- 
oHc chnrches in tiiis ix>rtion of Ohio. The 
large brick edifice, ninety-one by forty-tln^ee 
feet, is situated on tlie corner of Second and 
West streets, and tiie chnrcli jxroperty also 
ccjutains a school building of three rooms 
and the rectory, containing ten rooms, while 
there is a convent furnishing a pleasant 
home for the Si.sters of Charity, who have 
charge of the school. The early history of 
tile church is somewhat lost in ol>scurit\- be- 
cause adequate recijrds have not been kept. 
There are church and marriage records dat- 
ing back from 1849 but little other data was 
kept. It was learned that in 1844 there 
were live Catholic families in Xenia and that 
in that year a Rev. Father Junckcr of Day- 
ton celebrated mass on the porch of the home 
of Jacob Klein. .Vlxmt 1849 Archbishop 
Purcell of Cincinnati and Rev. Father Rose- 
crans celebrated mass before nine persons in 
Xenia. It is possible that other priests vis- 
ited the city in the meantime and before the 
church edibce was erected. As the congre- 
gation grew it became imperative that a 
more commodious place of worship be had 
than a private residence. This was found 
in the basement of the court house, the use 
of which was given gratis to the Catholics 
and other denominations alike. In 1849 the 
Catholics of Xenia were organized into a 
denomination. Father Kearnev was in 
charge of the little church and was succeed- 
ed by Rev. Father Howard in May, 1850. 
Rev. Father Blake succeeded Father How- 
ard and became the first resident pastor of 
Xenia. arriving in August. 185 1. It was 
intended to build a church in that year but 
the work was not accomplished and it was 
not until the nth of June. 1852, that the 
corner stone was laid, the church being ded- 
33 



icated and the sacrament of confirmation ad- 
ministered on the 31st of October of the 
same year. The cost of the church was 
about five thousand dollars and it was called 
St. Brigid's in honor of the patroness of 
Ireland. Father Blake remained in charge 
for thirt\-four years, during which time the 
church made rapid and satisfactorv growth. 
The work was prganized in various depart- 
ments and its influence was widely extended, 
in 1885 Father Blake practically retired and 
i''ather Cunningham of Yellow Springs took 
charge, remaining until 1887. when he was 
succeeded by Rev. Joseph Stoeppelmann, 
who' on the 4th of October of the same year 
was succeeded by the Rev. Isaac J. Hoster. 
The church was then in debt and though 
improvements were much to be desired, none 
were attempted until the debt was paid, and 
this was accomplished during his first year 
as pastor. In September, 1888, the lot ad- 
joining the church and school was purchased 
for one thous;nid dollars and the sisters re- 
moved into a little cottage which stood on 
the lot. In the summer of 1889 another lot 
was purchased on which was a good house 
and in this the sisters took up their abode 
in August. The church and school have re- 
ceived excellent attention, many improve- 
ments being made. Three altars, costing 
fifteen hundred dollars, the bequest of Fa- 
ther Blake, were erected and used for the 
first time on Christmas Day of i888. In the 
spring of 1894 the pastoral residence was 
begun and was occupied on the 6th of Xo- 
\ember, following. The school is presided 
over by five Sisters of Charity and one hun- 
dred and forty-five scholars are enrolled. 
This school was begun in 1855 but it was 
not until 1879-80 that the Sisters of Charity 
took charge of the school. In February, 
1898, the parochial school board was estal> 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



lished which undertook to raise sufficient 
monev to support the scliool without draw- 
ing on the ordinary receipts of the church. 
Various church societies have l^een estab- 
lished and are in good working order and 
the influence of the church is being continu- 
ally extended under the guidance of Father 
Kelly. Satisfactory progress is being made 
along many lines and he has the confidence 
and co-operation of his people to an unusual 
degree. This l>eing the jubilee year of the 
church, it having been founded fifty years 
ago, the pastor and congregation are mak- 
ing extraordinary efforts to fittingly cele- 
Wate the occasion. To this end the' pastor 
and people are making strenuous efforts to 
liquidate the present debt, which was Janu- 
ary I, 1902, aliout forty-five hundred dol- 
lars, and at the present time have every 
reason to feel confident of success. 



KEY. TOIIX S. :\I.\cCR.\CKEX. 

In the history of this county Rev. John 
S. MacCracken well deserves mention, for 
lie liore a very active part in the moral de- 
velopment and progress of his community. 
He devoted his entire life to the work of 
the ministry and although many years have 
passed since he departed this life his mem- 
ory is still enshrined in the hearts of those 
Avho kne>v him. 

Rev. MacCracken was born in Butler 
county. Ohio, .April 6, 1804, and came of an 
old .\merican family that was foundetl in 
this (■omlt^^• in colonial days. The great- 
grandfather was killed by the Indians while 
standing in the yard of his frontier Penns\l- 
vania home, ^\ bile his grandfather was killed 
duiing the Revolutionary war, Mav 31. 



1778. The parents of our subject were John 
and Martha (Wilson) ^klacCracken. both 
natives of the Keystone state and early set- 
tlers of Brown county, Ohio. During the 
boyhood of their son, John S., the}^ remo\ecl 
to Greene county, this state, and there the 
father purchased land and developed a farm 
in the midst of the wilderness. 

In Xenia Rev. John MacCracken ac- 
cjuired his early education, being a pupil of 
the Rev. Hugh McMillen. He afterward 
eng'aged in teaching for several terms an;l 
th.en continued his own education as a stu- 
ilent in Miami University, wdiere he com- 
pleted the course with the class of 1839 and 
at once entered upon the work of the min- 
istry. His first charge was at Kenton. Ohio, 
where he succeeded in establishing the 
United Presbyterian church, donating one- 
half of his salar\- — which at best was not 
a very large one — toward the erection of a 
church edifice. In 185 1, after an eight 
years' pastorate in Kenton, he rennjxed with 
his family to Oxford, this state, and while 
there \-isited many places which were desti- 
tute of moral instruction — organizing 
churches wherever he was called. He re- 
tained his residence in Oxford for five years 
and thence removed to Greene county, lo- 
cating first ill Cedarville, where he and his 
son both engaged in teaching school for a 
year. The family then came to Xenia and 
it was in this city that the Rev. John S. ^lac- 
Cracken spent his remaining days. 

On the iTth of Xo\-enibcr, 1839, he was 
united in the holy bonds of matrimony to 
Mrs. Eli.za \\'elch and they were blessed 
nith the following children : Henry, who 
i> now chancellor of the University of Xew 
^ork; John Joseph, who fiied in infanc)-; 
George, an attorney at law of Urbana, 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



559 



of Xenia; and one wlio died in infancy. 
]\Irs. AlacCracken was a most intelligent and 
cultured lady. A daughter of James and 
Mary (Hawkins) Dougherty, she was born 
November j, 1810, in Jefferson county, 
Olno. Her father was a native of i\lar}-- 
land and her ninther <if Pennsylvania, and 
both were of Scotch-Irish and luiglish e.K- 
tractinn. They provided their daughter 
with excellent educational advantages for 
those days and she continually added to her 
knowledge by a thorough and comprehensive 
course of reading. She was a student in 
Steubcnville Female Seminarw of which 
Dr. Beatty was ])resident. That institution 
is the alma mater of hundreds of women 
who ha\e blessed and elevated society with 
their presence. She was first married to 
Re\-. Johnson ^\'clch. a graduate of .\lle- 
ghen\- Seminary, win 1 was a recognized 
power in the ministry, and at his death was 
president of Franklin College. Two chil- 
dren were born of this union: James, who 
has devoted his life to the preaching of the 
gospel and in kjoi was moderator of the 
synod of Kansas: and Eliza, wife of Pro- 
fessor A. Al. Llrook's, who became jirincipal 
of the Bettie Stuart Institute of Springfield, 
Illinois. The father of these children i)as.se(l 
away April ^y, 18,^7, and many friends, be- 
sides his immetliate family, mourned his 
loss. Left a widow, Mrs. Welch began 
teaching school, and in Oxford. Ohio, 
founded the ladies seminary which was the 
beginning of the present college at that 
place. After becoming the wife of ]Mr. 
]\IacC"racken the lady continued her acti\'e 
work in the church and was a most able as- 
sistant to her husband. He passed away in 
Xenia on the tst of April, 1863, mourned 
by all who had known him. The poor and 



needy found in him a warm friend, the sor- 
rowing and distressed a comforter. He had 
a deep sympathy which enabled him to en- 
ter into the troubles and sorrows of his 
parishioners. He was also very good and 
kindly and all realized that they had lost a 
true, faithful and generous friend. His wife 
long survived him and ])assed avva\' on the 
nth of January, 1893, at the advanced age 
of eighty-two years. Her infinence had 
been like the perfume of the violet unob- 
trusive, yet ever present, and by her kind- 
nesses and her gracious spirit she induced 
many to follow in the straight and narrow 
])ath. Her children owe her a debt of 
gratitude not only for the personal sacrifices 
which she made that they might obtain the 
best ethicational achantages. l.)ut also because 
she e\er held before them the highest ideals 
of honestx', integritv. puiit\- and service. 



JOSEPH B. V.\X EATOX. 

Joseph B. y-.m Eaton departed this life 
in i8<)8, but he is rememliered by his man\- 
friends as a citizen of worth, as a progres- 
sive farmer and as a loyal s<")ldier in the 
I.'nion army during the Ci\il war. He wis 
born in (ireene count}' upon the t;irni in 
Xenia township where his widow now re- 
sides. His parents were John and Sarah 
(Bigger) \'an Eati>ri. Flis father lived and 
died in Greene county, having come to 
Xenia when a young man. He purchased 
a- farm of one hundred and forty-three acres, 
then a tract of wild land, and with char- 
acteristic energy began its further develop- 
ment and improvement. He erected good 
buildings, placed his land under a high state 



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ROBINSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUXTV. 



of ciiltivation and raised good graded stock, 
being an active representative of agricnltnral 
pnrsnits in Greene connty imtil called to his 
final rest at the age of sixty-four years. His 
widow passed away some years later. In 
their family were ten children, but only one 
of the number is now living. 

Joseph B. \'an Eaton of this review 
spent his boyhood days upon the old family 
homestead and in the district schools of the 
neighlxirhood acquired his education. At 
tlie time uf the Civil war. however, he put 
aside all jicrsonal considerations and busi- 
ness interests in order to aid his country in 
her hoiu" of peril. He enlisted in Company 
D, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Infantry, 
as a private and was commissioned adjutant 
l)efore the recjiment left its first camp, and 
(luring the last year of his service he was 
promoted to the rank of captain in command 
of Company D — the company with which he 
had gone to the front. On the 12th of Sep- 
tember, 1864, he was wounded and in tlic 
winter was discharged on account of his in- 
juries. For several months he lay in the 
hosi-iital anil was for some time unable to 
resume work. After the close of the war he 
returned to his home in Xenia township, 
where he spent his remaining davs living 
the life of an honorable and upright man. 
his attention being devoted to farming and 
stock raising. 

Chi the 15th of March, 1865, Mr. \'an 
Eaton was united in marriage to Miss 
Atartha Jewett Files, a daughter of Sylvanus 
B. and Martha (Janet) Files. Her father 
was a native of Rhode Island and her mother 
of Massachusetts. When a young man Mr. 
Files came to Ohio and was married in Co- 
Inmlnis, after which he removed with his 
wife to (ireene county, where he engaged in 



farming to some extent, but largely li\-ed 
retired from business cares. In the east he 
had engaged in business as a woolen manu- 
facturer. He died in Holland, Ohio, when 
about seventy-nine years of age and his wife 
passed away at the advanced age of eighty- 
three years. 

L'nto Mr. and Mrs. \'an Eaton were 
born two children : Ida, who is now the 
wife of O. K. Putnam, of California, and 
is the mother of three children- — Raymond, 
M. \'irginia and Charles Harry. They 
spent the first year of their marriage in 
California and upon their return to Ohio 
Mr. Putnam's health failed and they again 
went to the Golden state. Harry Bigger, 
born in Xenia township, October 21. 1867. 
died June 12, 1892, at the Children's Hos- 
pital in Pittsburg. He was a graduate of 
the Xenia public schools, also of the West- 
minster College. For a time he engaged 
in teaching school in Darlington, Penns_\l- 
N'ania, and at the time of his death was a 
medical student in the Children's Hospital 
in Pittsburg. He was a young man of 
marked ability and his death was greatly 
mourned. He was an earnest antl discrim- 
inating student, a great lover of books and 
the future seemed bright before him on ac- 
count ot liis superior ability, but death 
claimed him and he was laid to rest in the 
\\ Dodland cemeterv. 

Mr. \'an Eaton, the father, was a Re- 
publican in his political views. A valued 
member of the First United Presbxterian 
church, he served as one of its deacons and 
took a deep and active interest in its growth 
atid upbuilding. His wife is also a mem- 
ber fif tiie church and like him assisted in 
its work. On the 28th of December, 1898. 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



561 



ami his remains were interred in the \\'oo(l- 

land cemetery. In citizenship he was loyal, 
in Iriendship faithfnl, and in his frunilx' lie 
was known as a devoted luisljand and fa- 
ther. Throui^hout his entire lite he com- 
manded the respect of his fellow men by rea- 
son I if his gennine worth, and his loss was 
deejilv monrned througlmnt the comnunnt}'. 



.\LLF.X H, MI.VRS. 

.Mien H. Miars is one of the progressive 
and enter])rising' agricnlturists of Spring 
Valley township, and a glance at his well 
develojied and highly improved jilace in- 
dicates his careful supervision and modern 
methods. There is particular satisfaction in 
re\erting to the life history of the honored 
and venerable gentleman whose name in- 
itiates this review, since his mind bears the 
im])ress of the historic annals of the state 
from early pioneer days, and from the fact 
that l^e has been a loyal son of the republic 
and has attained to a position of distinctive 
prominence in the community where he has 
long resided. He was born in Union town- 
ship, Clinton county, Ohio, April 21. 1828, 
a son of Samuel and Hannah f Haines) 
Miars. The paternal grandparents, Martin 
and Jane ( Summers) Miars. were both na- 
tives of Virginia, and in that state were 
married. The great-great-great-grand- 
motlier was a native of Germany. Martin 
Aliars, accom])anied by his wife and chil- 
dren, came to Ohio in the year 181 1. locat- 
ing iiear Wilmington. Clinton county, where 
he spent his remaining days. His children 
were David. John, Martin, Jacob. Samuel. 
Betsev, Pollv and fane, all now deceased. 



Samuel Miars. the father of our subject, 
was born in Frederick count}-. \'irginia. Oc- 
tober 29. 1799. and in 181 1 accompanied his 
parents to Clinton count\'. Ohio. He pur- 
sued his education in a log sclioolhouse, de- 
voted his entire time to farming throughout 
the years of his manhood, aiul at his death 
owned eight hundred acres of land. When 
he left home he had but four half dollars as 
his entire cajjital, but industry, economy and 
unremitting diligence made him a prosper- 
ous agriculturist. He married Miss Han- 
nah Haines, a native of Clinton county and 
a daughter of Jacob Haines, who with his 
wife came fmm North Carolina to Ohio. 
He secured a tract of wild land in Clinton 
county, erected a log cabin, and cleared six 
acres of land which he planted. Pie was of 
Scotch . descent. Unto the parents of our 
subject were born six children : Allen H. ; 
Mary Jane, the wife of William Oglesbee, 
of Clinton county: Isaac, deceased: Milton, 
of Oklahoma; Martin, who lives on the old 
home farm in Clinton county; and Sarah 
Louise, the wife of Alfred ]\IcKay, of Wil- 
nn'ngton, Ohio. The father died in 1874, 
and the mother passed away four days later. 
Thus the community lost two valued citizens 
of sterling worth. 

Through the period of his youth Allen 
H. Miars attended the district schools in the 
winter months, when the work of the farm 
was practically over for the year. Through- 
out the remaining time he assisted in the 
work of the fields and meadows and thus 
gained that practical experience \vhich has 
been of much value to him in carrying on 
farm work on his own account. He re- 
mained at home until March. 1859. when he 
married Miss Mary Melinda Stump, a na- 
tive of Greene county and a daughter of 



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Jonas and Prudence Stnmp. Her maternal 
grandfather. William Smalley. was born in 
New Jersey in 1761, and when fifteen years 
of age was stolen by Intlians, at Fort Du 
Ouesne and his father was killed by them. 
While with the red men Mr. Smalley was 
obliged to witness their atrocious cruelty as 
they burned several people to death. On one 
occasion he saw an infant torn from its 
mother's arms and thrown into the flames. 
In 1 784 he escaped from his captors and re- 
turned to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. A few 
years later he removed to Cincinnati. He 
afterward participated in military service in 
Harmar's campaign and was present when 
St. Gair was defeated. At that time he 
discharged his musket thirty-five times and 
it is said that twenty-one of the shots took 
effect. He was with Waynes' army, having 
charge of the sharpshooters, and was pres- 
ent when Colonels Lynch and Truman were 
killed. He escaped death by jumping behind 
a tree and telling the Indians that he had 
deserteil the whites. He helped to build one 
of the first houses in Cincinnati and was a 
valued pioneer who contributed much to the 
work of reclaiming the wild district, peopled 
by savages, for purposes of civilization. The 
parents of Mrs. Miars have both passed 
away. The mother, surviving her hu.sband 
for a few years, departed this life in Jan- 
uary. 1902. at the age of ninety-two. 

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Miars 
established their home in Clinton county, 
where he carried on farming for twenty 
years near Wilmington, and then sold the 
property preparatory to removing to Spring 
\'aliey township, Greene county. Arriving 
in 1882, he purchased two hundred and sev- 
enty-eight acres of land, to which he has 
since added thirtv-seven acres. He carries 



on general farming and keeps a good grade 
of stock, and in his business life has pros- 
pered. As the years have passed his income 
has increased, and to-day he is the possessor 
of a very valuable farm, which is the visible 
evidence of his life of industry. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miars has been born 
one son, FreiULint, who attended the com- 
mon schools, was graduated in the high 
school of \\'ilmington. then attended the 
Wilmington College and also spent two 
years as a student in the National Normal 
Uni\ersity. He sjient a year and a half in 
\'irginia. but with the exception of that 
period has always resided with his parents, 
and now largely relieves his father of the 
care and labi>r of the home farm. He was 
married in February, 1893, to Miss Cora 
Bryce, of Spring \^alley, and to them has 
been born a daughter, Mary r^Iargaret. The 
father and son are both stanch Republicans 
and occupy a leading place as representa- 
tive agriculturists of the community. Mr. 
Miars of this review has passed the seventy- 
fourth milestone on life's journev, and well 
does he deserve the uniform respect which 
is extended him. He has faithfully per- 
formed his duties, with due regard for the 
rights of his fellow men, and in this portion 
of Ohio he has a large circle of friends. 



JESSE S. PAINTER. 

.\o history of Greene county would be 
complete without mention of the Painter 
family. An entire century has passed since 
the first representatives of the name estab- 
lished a home in this locality. Great, in- 
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563 



of the count}- at that time tlian what it is 
at tlie present time. Its forests were uncut, 
the trees standing in their primeval strengtli. 
The streams were unliriilged and tliere were 
few Iiouses to inchcate that the pioneer had 
made his wav into this wild region to re- 
claim the land for purposes of civilization. 

The great-grandparents of our subject 
were David and Patsey (Faulkner) Painter, 
whi> were probably natives of \'ir,ginia. 
Emigrating westward, they located in 
W'aynesville. \\'arren county, Ohio, where 
together with other Quaker families tliey 
settled in the spring of 1802. They rode 
on horseback into the township of Caesars- 
creek and settled about one-half mile north 
of Paint ersville. although there was no town 
there at that time and this entire portion of 
the ciiuntrv was known as the Northwest 
Territory. There in the midst of the forest 
the great-grandfather of our subject cleared 
a little patch of ground, planted potatoes and 
corn ami built a cabin. In the fall the fa- 
ther and mother returned but left their chil- 
dren, Jesse and Hannah, in this county. It 
required a close watch to keep the Indians 
fmni stealing the girl because .she was the 
first white child they e\er "saw. In the 
spring, however, the ]3arents returned and 
s])ent their remaining days upon the nM 
homestead which was here developed. Their 
children were Hannah, Jesse, Thomas and 
Jacol). 

Je.sse Painter, the grandfather of our 
sul)ject. was born in Virginia and pursued 
his education in an old time log schoolhouse. 
Pie li'.ed the life of a farmer and passed 
away upon the old homestead Septemlier i^. 
1867. He it was wdio laid out the village 
of Paintersville. the place taking its name 
from its founder. As the years passed he 



laljored to cultivate and improve his land, 
and in course of time developed a good farm. 
Like his father, he had assisted in the work 
of improvement and progress at an earlv day 
and his efforts were of much avail in pro- 
moting the general improxement. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Smitli and unto them were 
lx)rn the following named : Rachel ; David; 
.Samuel, who is living in Henry county, In- 
diana, at the age of eighty-three years; 
Martha; Mordecai : Rebecca: Theressa; Jo- 
seph, who is living in Xewton, Kansas ; and 
Hannah, who married John Lewis and re- 
sides in Clinton county, Ohio. 

Da\id Painter, the father of our subject, 
was born near the town of Paintersville, - 
Greene county. At the usual age he began 
his education and the temple of learning was 
a little log structure, but he ma.stered the 
branches of learning taught in such institu- 
tions and when a young man he became a 
teacher, following that profession until his 
marriage, being employed in this capacity in 
\arious parts of this county. He wedded 
Miss ^lary Frazier and then turned his at- 
tention to farming upon the place which is 
now the home of his son, Jesse S. He erect- 
ed a house and barn, getting out the lumber 
for them himself. As the years passed his 
efforts brought to him an excellent return 
for liis labor. He continued the work of 
plowing, planting and harvesting and in 
course of time his farm l:)ecame a valuable 
uroperty. In his political \-iews he was a 
Republican and both he and his wife were 
identified with the Society of Friends or 
Quakers. In their family were eight chil- 
dren : Deborah S., who is the witlow of 
Mordecai \\'alker and resides in Caesars- 
creek township; Berthena, wife of William 
Davis, of Marion, Indiana; Lydia, deceased; 



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Jesse S. ; ^iary Frances, the deceased wife 
of I^avid Parlott; Moses F., who is living 
in Indiana; Martlia. tiie wife of Samuel 
Faulkner, a resilient of Caesarscreek town- 
ship; and David, who lives in Spring \'al- 
iey township. The father died in 1863 at 
the age of furt}-h\e \ears and the mother, 
long surviving him, passed away in 1897, 
at the age of seventy-seven years, their re- 
mains being interred in the family Inu'ying 
grouml at the h'riends" church, where the 
cjther members of the Painter familv also lie 
buried. Throughout one hundred years con- 
nection with (ireene county representatives 
of the name have been well known agri- 
culturists here, and their labors have re- 
sulted largely to the benefit of the general 
community as well as to their individual 
success. 

Jesse S. Painter, whose name introduces 
this record, was born on the old Painters- 
villc road. December 11. 1S50, an<l has al- 
Avays resided in this county, living on the old 
homestead with the exceptif)n of one vear. 
He pursued his education in the public 
schools and throughout his life has carried 
on farming. In 1874 he wedded Miss Lydia 
Faulkner, who died the following year and 
was laid to rest in Xenia cemetery. On the 
25th of January. 1883. he wedded Irena 
McXair, a native of this county, and three 
children have blessed this union : ^lorris 
E., R(>\- D. and P>ertha L. Both are mem- 
bers of the Methodist Protestant church at 
Paintersville. and in his ])olitical views Mr. 
Painter is a Republican, but has never been 
a pr)litician in the sense of office seeking, pre- 
ferring to give his time and attention to his 
business interests. He has eighty-five acres 
of hue farming land and continues its cul- 
tivation in addition to stock-raising. The 



town of Paintersville stands as a monument 
to the enterprise of the family. Throughout 
an entire century the name has been closely 
interwoven with the county's history as the 
development from primitive conditions to 
the latter-day ]irogress has been made. Mr. 
Painter is a worthy representative of the 
family, and his interest in all that pertains 
to the general good is manifested by his 
active co-operation. 



SA:\IUFL THOMAS ^^TCHELL. A. M. 

Sanuiel T. Mitchell, who became well 
known in educational circles and whose 
work was of great benefit, especially to the 
colored people, attained distinction in the 
line of his chosen profession and was known 
as a man of strong force of character as 
well as of marked individuality and superior 
intellectuality. He was born September 24, 
1851, in Toledo, Ohio, his parents being 
David and Xanc\' A. Mitchell. Between the 
ages of six and thirteen years he pursued 
his education in the public schools of Cleve- 
land. Cincinnati and Walnut Hills. On the 
4th of October, 1864, he entered Wilber- 
force University and on the ist of Febru- 
ary, 1865, he became converted and from 
that time forward devoted much of his time 
to the advancement of the cause of Chris- 
tianity. He aided in organizing and nam- 
ing the Sodalian Society, and advancing in 
his studies he at length became a teacher in 
the university. He attained his education 
in the face of many difficulties and obstacles. 
In order to meet the expenses of his college 
course he \vorked uix»n the farms in the 
\icinity. but was at length graduated with 
the highest honors on the completion of the 
course in June, 1873. 




S. T. MITCHELL, LL. D. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



567 



For tuo years thereafter Professor 
Mitchell engaged in teaching in Wilming- 
tiin. Ohio, and subseqnently became princi- 
pal of the Lincoln Institnte at JetYerson City, 
Missonri. where he was paid two thousand 
dollars annually. He aided in organizing 
the Colored State Teaciiers' Association and 
was its first president. He also drew up 
and secured the passage of a bill which 
opened the dnors in St. Louis, Kansas City 
and elsewhere to colored teachers. In 1875 
Professor Mitchell was licensed by the .Afri- 
can Methodist Episcopal church to preach 
and gave considerable time to the work of 
the ministry in addition to his labors in the 
school room. For five years he served as 
principal of one of the schools of Spring- 
field, Ohio. His work as an intellectual and 
moral educator was so closely interwoven 
from this time forward that it is almost im- 
possible to s])eak of one without the other. 
He served as a lay delegate to the general 
conference at Baltimore, in 1884, and was 
the author of the Endowment Day and gen- 
eral educational scheme under which the 
African Methodist Episcopal church Con- 
nection has since operated. In 1884 he was 
also elected president of Wilberforce Uni- 
versity and filled that position continually 
for about sixteen years. He saw the insti- 
tution double its attendance and also its 
property value, while the endowment was 
likewise largely increased and the animal in- 
come became a gratifying one. Professor 
Mitchell planned and secured under statute 
the organization of the state normal and the 
industrial department at the university, 
which receives liberal support from the state 
of Ohio. 

In 1 88 1 the degree of Master of Arts 
was conferred upon Professor Mitchell by 
his alma mater and he received the honor of 



luu'ing the Doctor of Laws degree conferred 
upon him by the State University of Ken- 
tucky in 1889. He was also oppointcd b) 
L'nited States Commissioner Harris as a 
vice-president of the l^^ducational Congress 
at the Columbian Exposition. Under his 
direction Wilberforce University was repre- 
sented at Xew Orleans, at the New Orleans 
E.xposition ; at the World's Fair in Paris ; 
and at the World's Columbian Exix)sition 
in Chicago, where a special award was given 
him. He was presitlent of the National 
Colored Teachers' Association at the time 
of his death. In June. 1900, on account of 
his health he resigned the presidency of the 
Wilberforce Uni\ersity. He had accunui- 
lated an estate valued at alxnit eighteen thou- 
sand dollars although he started out in life 
a jjoor man. working his own way through 
school and throug-h the world. He had to 
br)rri;)\\ m(ine\- to buy a suit in which to ap- 
pear at the graduating e.xerciscs. but he 
possessed strong determination and indom- 
itable courage and steadily he advanced. Al- 
though a very generous man, .giving freely 
to many causes each year, he accpiired a 
good home and his progress was continuous 
along lines of intellectual and moral develop- 
ment. 

On the 24th of June, 1876. Professor 
Mitchell was united in marriage to Miss 
Mahina Fairfax, and to them were born six 
children: Mrs. Ethel McGee, who has one 
child, Juanita: Charles F.. a corporal in the 
Twenty-fifth Volunteer Infantry, of the 
Philippines: Lottie P.; Bessie Irene; Sam- 
uel L., and O'Neil T. Mrs. Mitchell was 
educated in Avery College in Pennsylvania, 
and at Wilberforce University, and while 
there she married Mr. Mitchell. For about 
nine 3'ears she was a teacher. Professor 
Mitchell passed away April 11, 1901, and 



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ROBINSONS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



was laid to rest in Tarlx)x cemeten.-. His 
life was a noble and upright one. lielpful in 
its influences and leaving its impress upon 
many with whom he came in contact. His 
aid was ever given to movements for the 
general good and for the uplifting of human- 
ity and his entire life was devoted to work 
which proved of great benefit to others. 
Well does he deserve mention in this vol- 
ume and with pleasure we present to our 
readers the life record of one wh<im to know 
was to respect and honor. 



BISHOP BEXJAMIX F. LEE. D. D. 

This eminent scholar and divine, the son 
of Abel any Sarah Lee, was lx)rn in Gould- 
town, New Jersey. September i8, 1841. He 
attended the public schools of his native 
town, where he finished a primary educa- 
tion. In 1865 he made his appearance at 
Wilberforce University in search of further 
knowledge. Being pnor. he did not enter 
as a regular student, but received private in- 
struction from the faculty, in the meantime 
supporting himself by working the univer- 
sity land and taking care of the horses. He 
was a member of the first theological class 
organized in connection with Wilberforce. 
and after a .severe and prolonged struggle 
with poverty and its concomitant hindrances 
graduated in the theological department in 
1872 as valedictorian of his class. During 
his entire course he mainly suppf)rted him- 
self alternating his efforts between manual 
labor and teaching. 

He joined the African Methodist Ei)is- 
copal church in 1862; was licensed to preach 
in 1868 by the Xenia, Ohio, Quarterly Con- 



ference; was ordained a deaciin in 1870 and 
was ordained an elder in Shelbyville. Ken- 
tucky. Thursday. October 3. 1872. The or- 
dination sermon was preached by Bishop J. 
M. Brown from second Corinthians, fifth 
chajrter and twentieth verse. It was an able 
and forceable presentation of the nature, 
dutv and responsibilities of the ministerial 
office. Benjamin F. Lee, Thomas Dimeghy 
and Silas Crawford were ordained elders 
and Robert Turner and Charles B. Harris 
were ordained deacons. 

In 1873 he married Mary A. .\she, oi 
Mobile. Alabama, who graduated with hon- 
ors in that year from \\'ilberforce L'niver- 
sity. In 1873 '^^ ^^'i-'' ai>pointed to the chair 
of i)astoral theolog}-. homiletics and ecclesi- 
astical history in Wilberforce made vacant 
by the resignation of Professor T. H. Jack- 
son. This position he held until 1876. when, 
upon the resignation of Bishop Payne as 
president of ^^'ilberforce L'niversity, and 
on the reconunendation of the general con- 
ference, which met in Atlanta, Georgia, 
1876, he was elected by the trustee board in 
June, ])residcnt, which office he held until 
June, 1884. His administration was wide, 
humane and successful. It was an era of 
peace and goodwill between the faculty and 
students, and no time in the history of the 
university has it enjoyed a greater success 
than during the administration of Benjamin 
F. Lee. 

He was a memlacr of the general con- 
ference in 1876 and 1S80 and at the general 
conference, which assembled in Baltimore, 
May, 1884, \vas elected editor of the Chris- 
tian Recorder. Tie made an excellent re- 
port at the general conference of 1888. at 
Indianapolis. Indiana, and was re-elected 
and continued to edit the paper and reported 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



569 



at the general conference in Philadelphia. 
May, 1S92. 

In 1880 he was associated witli Dr. J- 
(i. Mitchell and Rev. R. A. Johnson to bear 
tlie fraternal greetings of the general con- 
ference of the African Methodist Episcopal 
church to the general conference of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. He was also 
elected by the general conference of 1880 a 
delegate to the Ecumenical conference of 
Alethodists, w hicli met in London, England, 
September isl, and was cliosen by the west- 
ern section of the general Ecumenical com- 
mittee of 1884, embracing the American con- 
tinent and islands, a member of the per- 
manent committee of arrangements. His 
literary productions ha\e l)een extensive. 
He contributed an article to the "W'eslev 
Memorial Volume," a work edited by Rev. 
J. C. A. Gark, D. D., published by Phillips 
& Hunt, of New York. He has also written 
an introduction to "Outlines of our History 
and Government." by Rev. B. T. Tanner, 
D. D. As a linguist, he is the best produc- 
tion of the church's intellectual development, 
being ac(|uaiute(l with six different lan- 
guages. 

Dr. C. S. Smith says, when we come to 
measure the mental calibre of Bishop Lee, 
present and irrespective, we must first take 
into account the massiveness of his brain, 
which in size and weight is far above the 
average antl marked by great frontal ex- 
pansion and prominence. His brain fibres 
are of great firmness and contain but little 
of the sensational elements, while the cells 
of the hardier and more compact form, which 
ex'olve thought processes slowly but substan- 
tialh-. His intellect is of keen, penetrating 
kind that pushes beyond the surface into 
the de]>ths of things, and that strips the 



planes of speculative inipiiry of their fasci- 
nating exterior and foliage and grasps for 
tiie root and ground of their foundation. 
He is a persistent and profound thinker. He 
is strong in logic, clear in analysis, and 
Fucid, though somewhat verbose in expres- 
sion. A wider contact with the keen, cutting 
activities of busy, outside life will give him 
greater terseness of speech. In these whirl- 
ing circles he will acquire the power of 
contraction, which is necessary to balance 
that of expansion, which he now possesses. 
His intellectual development has taken place 
under rather peculiar circumstances. He 
has been measurably shut in from the larger 
scenes and activities of life. He has been 
confined within a circle too narrow to ad- 
mit of a broad unfolding of the genius and 
strength of his native mental endowments. 
The giant forces of his intellect will not ap- 
pear until they have heard the tap of the 
drums that resoiuid in the widening circles 
of inspiring, associated forces. Like the 
resurrected T^zarus, his friends need to 
"loose him and let him go." 

The development of his moral conscious- 
ness has been along the line of true manly 
instincts, and the highest and purest teach- 
ings of moral ethics. He has taken on all 
those higher '.irtues and moral forms that 
are embraced in the one word — Purity. 
Hence his character is unassailable and 
above reproach, and he is a model of chaste 
and upright conduct. 

His social manner is uniformly affable 
and courteous. He is easily approached; of 
a gentle disposition, somewhat passive; a 
ready and interesting conversationalist, and 
always instructive. As a man, a scholar, a 
Christian and a toiler for the elevation of 
the race no words of praise can be bestowed 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



on him tluit are not ileseived. To the young 
and aspiring he is a noble example of what 
can be accomplished by the sheer force of — 
I will. .After years of conflict with extreme 
])overty and nant. and with nothing but his 
own stout heart anil implicit confidence in 
God to cheer anil strengthen him. he has 
turned the oasis of ad\erse circumstances 
into a place that is now fragrant with the 
aroma of his well achieved laurels. It was 
said of ['resident Garfield that he went 
"from the tow-path to the White House," 
and it mav be said of the suliject of our 
sketch that he went from an hostler's place 
to a college president's chair, where he sat 
for eight years the Xestor of all active, col- 
ored, American, Christian educator; distin- 
guished in position: sublime in modesty. 

Such was the tribute of Dr. C. S. Smith 
in 188,4, and we heartily endorse all that 
has been said and trust that the admonition 
and advice to the young will be heeded, and 
call attention to the projihetic portion of the 
tribute paid him. From personal knowledge 
we know that he has more than filled the 
mould during his services as editor of the 
Christian Recorder, and by the success that 
has attended his episcopal labors. Xo words 
of praise can add to his statue of worth 
either as a Christian, educator, reformer or 
Bishop. 

At the general conference, which met in 
May, 1892, Philadelphia, he was elected 
bishop, May 14. and ordained May 19, 1892. 
by Bishops D. A. Payne, \\'. J. Gaines and 
Abi^aham Grant, assisted by EKlers W. J- 
Johnson, of Ohio, J. B. Stansberry, of Phij- 
adel])hia, T. H. Jackson, \\'. H. Brown, of 
Pittsburg, T. C. Denbam, of Texas, and 
A. .\. ^^'illiams, of .Arkansas, and was ap- 
pointed to the tenth l-'.piscopal district, com- 



posed of tb.e Texas, west Texas, northeast 
Texas, central Texas, Louisiana, north 
Louisiana ami California conferences, and 
!)y the autln.ril}- of the general conferences 
organized the Puget Sound annual confer- 
ence. These conferences covered the states 
of Louisiana. Texas. California. Washing- 
ton, Oregon. Xe\'ada and Idaho, and a por- 
tion of British Xorth .\merica. This dis- 
trict emltraced more territory than the king- 
dom of Solomon, and (iod gave the bishop 
liealth and strength to visit his work during 
the Ouadrenninm. By his instructive lec- 
tures and gosiiel ijreaching he aroused the 
people to take a deeper interest in the cause 
of education and temperance, and induceil 
many to join the army of right against 
wrong. The i)resi(ling elders were to him 
what Aaron and Hur were to Moses, they 
held up his hands while executing the law, 
while the pastors walked with him up the 
mount of Transfiguration, where the law, 
gos])el and prophet met together, and the 
voice from the cloud of history were heard 
to say: "These are my beloved sons in 
whom I am well pleased." 

Paul Ouinn College had the benefit o. 
the experience of the presiding bishop. The 
theological department was organized, and 
a system of theological correspondence, cor- 
rcsiKinding with the Itinerant conrse con- 
stituted. 

The men of the district, the peojjle of 
the district had a higher conception of their 
duty tlian they ever had before. The fra- 
ternal relations between the denominations 
were cordial and jjleasant. Conference reci- 
procity was exchanged by bishops and con- 
ferences, and the seed sown during his 
Qu.'idrennium will yield a rich harvest for 
God and the race. 



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571 



The Harper Institute at Baton Rouge 
made a nol^le figlit and succeeded because 
the ministers and niemliers of the Louisiana 
conierence resoKed tliat it should succeed 
and not be lost. 

He is now president of the board of trus- 
tees of Wilberforce University, president of 
Payne's Theological Seminary and president 
of the Corresponding Sciionl of Theology of 
die church, also president of the board of 
education and is now directing and controll- 
ing- the moral and religious forces of more 
men, women and children than any man of 
the race. His past record is a prophecy for 
the future success of the trust reposed upon 
him by the general conference. If he re- 
ceives the hearty co-operation and support, 
Pavne"s Theological Seminary will wicUl an 
influence in the future beyond the most 
sanguine expectation of its founder and 
benefactor. 

At the general conference in ]S()fi. held 
at Wilmington, North Carolina, he was ap- 
pointed to the third Episcopal district, con- 
sisting of the Ohio, North Ohio and Pitts- 
burg annual conferences. It was in this 
border that the first resolution looking to 
an educated ministry was ever passed by an 
annual conference. It was in this celebrated 
district that tlie first school and manual labor 
farm was purchased and organized in 1845 
near Columbus, Ohio. It was in this dis- 
trict that Bishops Payne, James A. Shorter 
and Dr. John G. Mitchell laid the founda- 
tion of our magnificent educational system 
by the purchase of Wilberforce University. 
It is fortunate we ha\e one at the head of 
our educational work and who was raised 
and trained by the leaders of the church and 
race, one who has been able to take the 
pruiciples of African Methodism, and whose 



\ery being is saturated with the hopes of 
our future and inspired by their lives to 
trium[>h over every opposition and bear the 
standard of manhood Christianity on to cer- 
tain victories. 



J. C. SIMS. 

After man\- years of honorable and 
active connection with agricultural pursuits 
J. C. Sims is now living retired in Spring 
Valley. He was born in Mount Holly, War- 
ren county, Ohio, December 8, 1839, his 
parents being (ieorge and Sarah E. 
( Buckles) Situs. The father, who was born 
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, came with his 
parents, John and I'lizabeth Sims, to Ohio, 
the familv becoming early settlers of War- 
ren county. They located upon a farm <^n 
which George Sims was rearetl, but in early 
life he learned the omper's trade in Mount 
Holly, and there carried on business for 
man\ years. He also engaged in huckster- 
ing at the same time. He lived to be more 
thrm seventy years of age and throughout 
his long life commanded the respect and 
confidence of his fellow men. In his fam- 
ily were fom'teen chihlrcn, all of \\hom 
reached years of matm'ity and tweh-e are 
still living. Those who have passed away 
had married and reared families. 

J. C. Sims, whose name iiUroduces this 
record, attended the public schools in early 
life, and when about fourteen years of age 
began working in his father's shop, where 
he was employed until twenty-two years of 
age. From the time of his marriage in 1861 
until 1864 he was employed in the extensive 
coopering department of the large factory 
of Barrett & \\'alton. In the latter vear. 



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however, he put aside Imsiness cares and 
personal considerations and joined the one- 
liunched-day men, enHsting in Company G. 
One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment of 
Oliio X'ohintecrs. The command took part 
in tlie l)attle at Xew Creek, Init during that 
engagement he was sent to a block liouse to 
guard a bridge. After about four months 
at the front he returned to Ohio and again 
entered the e!n|)Ioy of his former firm, re- 
maining tliere for three years. With tlie 
capital he had thus acquired through his in- 
dustry and economy he in\ested in land, be- 
coming owner of seventy-five acres, which 
is still in his possession. 

On the 1 2th of Alay, i86i, Mr. Sims 
was married to Miss Nancy Ellen Smith, of 
Spring \'alley. and unto them were born two 
sons. George, who married .Alice Under- 
wood, by Mhom he has three children, is a 
printer l)y trade, and resides in Spring Val- 
lev. Morris, the younger son, married Min- 
nie Riley, by whom he has one child, and 
Hieir home is also in Spring X'alley. In 
February, 1S70, Mr. Sims was called upon 
to mourn the loss of his wife. He was 
again married, on the i6th of February, 
1871, his second union being with Mrs. 
Frances (Sanders) Byrd, a daughter of 
Jes.se and Cassandra (Bell) Sanders. She 
was born in Bellbrook Jnne 8, 1835, ^"^1 ^^"'is 
first married to Jackson Byrd, by whom she 
had three children: George, of Dayton, 
wedded Flizabeth Smith and has si.x chil- 
dren; F.lla M. is the wife of Thaddeus Al- 
ien, of Spring \alley. by whom she has two 
children : and Mary B. died February 23, 
1888. Mr. Byrd died in Callaway county. 
Missouri, in 1860, having removed to that 
place in 1855. .\fter his death his widow 
returned to Ohio. By the second marriage 



there has been born two children; William, 
who wedded Stella Penn_\\\ it, by whom he 
has two children, Raymond and Leon, their 
home being upon his father's farm; and 
Charles Clifford, who died in his twenty- 
first year. 

In his political aftiliations Mr. Sims is 
a Democrat, voting for the party since cast- 
ing his fir.st presidential ballot for Douglas 
in i860. The fathers of both Mr. and ^Irs. 
Sims were members of the Society of 
Friend, and our subject and his wife have 
become identified with the congregation of 
that denomination in Spring Valley. ^Slr. 
Sims belongs to Byrd Post, G. A. R.. of 
Spring Valley. It was named for William 
H. Byrd. a brother of his wife's first hus- 
band, who was the first soldier of Spring 
Valley who was killed in the Civil war. 
Mr. Sims attended the National Grand 
Army encami)ment in Cincinnati and in In- 
dianapolis. He enjoys the good will and 
friendship of many of his comrades of the 
"nine and is a citizen of worth who well de- 
serves mention in this volume. 



ISAIAH HOLLOW^AY. 

The migratory spirit so strongly notice- 
able in many sections of the country is mani- 
fest in Ohio rather for its absence, for it is 
a remarkable fact that a large portion of 
the native born sons of this state have re- 
tained their residence within its borders 
throughout their entire lives. Such a one is 
Mr. Holloway, whose birth occurred in Jan- 
uary, 1824. in Madison township, Clark 
county, where he lived until he had attained 
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log sclKioUiouse of that locality. His par- 
ents were Isaiah and Sarah ( McOuality) 
Holloway. The father was born in \'i;- 
ginia, and when a young man came to Ohio, 
settling in Chillicothe, where he remained 
lor a ninnl^er of years. He then went to 
Clark county and carried on farming in 
]\Iadison township. His remaining days 
were spent in that county, where lie passed 
away at the age of seventy-six years. His 
religious faith connected him with the Meth- 
odist church, while his political belief was 
in li.-irniony with the princi]5les of the Re- 
])nblican ])art\'. His wife survived him for 
se\cral years and died on the old inmiestead 
in Clark county at the age of seventy-four 
years. She had belonged also to the Meth- 
odist church and was a ladv who possessed 
many excellent traits of character. Unto 
this worthy couple were born seven children, 
of whom two are yet living. Isaiah being 
the second in order of birth. His sister. 
Elizabeth, is now the widow of Le\i War- 
ner, who was a resident of Cedarville, Ohio. 

Mr. Holloway came to Greene count\- 
about if^fi.T. and has since lived upon the 
farm which he yet owns and operates. He 
purchased one hundred and twenty-five 
acres of land which was then partially im- 
proved, but be afterward erected a good 
residence and barn and here he has since 
lived. The place is divided into fields of 
convenient size by well kept fences, and 
everxthing about his farm is neat and thrifty 
in appearance, thtts manifesting the careful 
supervision of the progressive owner. ]Mr. 
Hollowax' has also purchased the old home- 
stead consisting of one hundred and thirty 
acres. 

]\[r. Holloway was imited in marriage to 
Miss Mar\- Tindall, a daughter of Tlninias 



and Sarah (Waller j Tindall, who resided 
in Clark county, but both are now de- 
ceased. Her mother was a member of the 
Methodist church. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hol- 
loway have been born six children, but Or- 
leans died at the age of fourteen years, and 
Clara died at the age of five years. Lander 
is a resident farmer of Nebraska. Howanl 
resides u])on the old home place in Clark 
county. Charles makes bis home at Selma. 
Ilia is yet under the parental roof. 

.Mr. Holloway votes with the Republican 
party, but is content to end his political ac- 
tixitv there. sa\e that he keeps well informed 
on the questions and issues of the da\-. He 
and his wife are members of the ]\retbodist 
church and he is ser\'ing as one of its trus- 
tees. In his life he has manifested many of 
the sterling characteristics of his Scotch an- 
cestry, being thrifty. ])ersevering and en- 
terprising, and to-da\-. as a result of these 
elen;ents in his make-up. he is a well-to-do 
resident of Cedar\-ille township, and has the 
res])ect of the leading people of the com- 
munilv. 



JOHN n. STEELE. 

The nian of wealth is not the one whom 
the American citizens hold in highest regard, 
but he mIio can plan his own advancement 
and accomplish it in the face of competition 
and obstacles that are alwaxs to be met in 
the business world. The "captains of in- 
dustry" are those \\hose business foresight 
can recognize opportunity and whose exec- 
utive force can utilize advantages which are 
not given to one alone, but perhaps encom- 
pass the whole race. The life history of 
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business man wlio owes his advancement to 
close a])plication, energy, strong determina- 
tion and executive ability. He has never al- 
lowed outside pursuits to interfere with the 
performance of business duties or the meet- 
ing of anv business obligations, and thus he 
stands to-day one of the prosperous residents 
of Xenia, strong in his honor and his good 
name. }f e is the secretary and general man- 
ager of the Hooven & Allison Company, and 
many other enterprises of the city owe their 
successful conduct largely to his wise coun- 
sel and business judgment. 

Mr. Steele is a native of Greene county, 
ha\ ing been born in .\lpha. Xove;nl)cr 4. 
1855. his parents being David and Mary 
( Harbine) Steele. His paternal grandfa- 
ther was John Steele, of whom mention is 
made in the historical section of this work. 
He was born in \'irginia in 1809 and with 
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. El^enezer Steele, 
came to Greene county as early as 1830, the 
faniiU' settling in Beavercreek township, 
where the grandfather of our subject en- 
gaged in farming. John Steele also began 
life as a farmer, but after some years be- 
came interested in an oil mill as a member 
of the firm of Steele & Kershner. They car- 
ried on an e.\"tensi\e lousiness in the manu- 
facture of linseed oil. After a time Mr. 
Kershner .sold his interest to John Har- 
bine, the grandfather of our subject, and 
the firm style of Steele & Harbine was then 
assumed. This relation was maintained un- 
til 1871, when the senior partner retired and 
removed to Xenia. where he became one of 
the directors of the First Xational Bank of 
that city. In his jjolitical views he was first 
a Whig, supporting the party until its dis- 
solution, when he joined the ranks of the 
new Republican party. He held member- 



ship in the Reformed church and was one of 
its elders. His wife bore the maiden name 
of ^lary Ankeney, and was a daughter of 
one of the pioneer settlers of Greene coun- 
ty. In the year 1882 John Steele departed 
this life and his wife passed away in 1889. 

Their only child, David Steele, acquired 
a public-school education, and afterward 
spent two years as a student in Oxford Col- 
lege, at Oxford, Ohio. In early manhood 
he was united in marriage to Miss Marv 
Elizalieth Harbine. and soon afterward they 
located in Elotimfield, Davis county, Iowa, 
taking up their abode there in 1856. Mr. 
Steele was interested in farming in the west 
until after the inauguration of the Civil war, 
when he offered his services to the govern- 
ment as a defender of the Union cause> en- 
listing in the" Third Iowa Infantry, in which 
he was made first sergeant. After two 
years' service he was discharged on account 
of ill health and returned to Greene county. 
Ohio. About si.x weeks later, when he had 
sufiiciently recuperated, he organized what 
became Company E. of the Xinety-fourth 
Ohio \'olunter Infantry, and was commis- 
sioned its captain. With his command he 
went to the front and at the l>attle of Stone 
River, on the 15th of December, 1862, he 
was wounded and died from the eflfects of 
his injuries on the 15th of January, 1863. 
His wife had passed away about 1859, leav- 
ing two children: John D., of this review, 
and Augusta F., now the wife of W. T. 
Poagiie. 

John D. Steele, having been left an 
orphan, made his home with his paternal 
grandparents, and in the common schools he 
pursued his preliminary education, which 
was afterward supplemented by study in 
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575 



versity of Woostcr. ;il W'ooster, Ohio, where 
he was graduated in llie class of 1877 witli 
tlie degree of Bachelor of Arts. He also 
took a business course, and later in the same 
year he entered the office of his uncle, J. H. 
Harbine, a dealer in grain and tlour hi 
Xenia, remaining with him until .April, 1S81. 
At that time Mr. Steele entered upon an 
independent business venture, purchasing 
the interest of M. C .Mlison in the whole- 
sale house of Allison, Eavey & Carson, at 
which time the firm name was changed to 
Eavey, Carson & Steele. Another change oc- 
curred in Jul}' of the same year, when the 
business style of Eavey & Company was as- 
sumed, Mr. Steele remaining as an active 
member of the house. An extensive and 
successful business was carried on, to which 
result Mr. .Steele contributed his full share 
until Jul}-, 1 888, when he sold his interest 
and became a member of the Hooven & .Al- 
lison Compan}', of which he was also one of 
the incorporators. He was elected as sec- 
retary and general manager and also became 
a member of the board of directors. This 
compajiy was incorporated for three hundred 
thousand dollars and purchased the old plant 
on West Second street. The business of 
manufacturing cordage was then begun. 
The new company also Ijought out what was 
known as the plant of the Ohio Cordage 
Company and also enlarged and increased 
its capacity. The plant of the Xenia Cord- 
age Company was also added to their enter- 
prise and the company is now operating it 
as a successful commercial twine mill. In 
the various plants employment is fiirnished 
to about five hundred people — the largest 
numljer of employes in the service of any 
one company in Greene county. Thus a 
very successful and extensive business has 
34 



been carried on, the trade constantl}- increas- 
ing, while the output is sent into all sections 
of the country. The main office is located 
in Xenia, with branch offices and warehouses 
at Kansas City and Minneapolis. The firm 
is represented liy locrd agents at different 
points. Until 1901 a factory was also con- 
ducted in Zanesville, Ohio, where one hun- 
dred operatives were employed. Mr. Steele 
has extensive business interests in other 
lines. In 1889 he organized the Steele, Hop- 
.kins & Meredith Company, incorporated, 
and bought the old business of B. F. Funk 
& Company, of S])ringfield, Ohio, since con- 
ducting a successful business there as whole- 
sale grocers. He is also connected with the 
Electric I-ight Company, and in 1896 he 
erected the finest office building in Xenia, 
known as the Steele block. It is a fire proof, 
Steele structure, built in the most modern 
style of architecture and with all of the 
latest impro\ements and acces.sories. Three 
of its floors are devoted to oiilice purposes, 
while the fourth and fifth fioors have been 
leased to the Masonic fraternity. This 
building is a credit to the city as well as a 
monument to the business ability oi the 
owner. 

On the i8th of January, 1893, Mr. 
Steele was united in marriage to Miriam E. 
Yockey, of Xenia, a daughter of the Rev. S. 
B. Yockey, now pastor of the Eighth Avenue 
Ref(irmed church, of Columbus, Ohio. 
Cnto our subject and his wife have been 
born three children : John Daniel ; Mar- 
gare Elinor ; and Florence Miriam. Mr. 
Steele belongs to Xenia Lodge, X'^o. 49, F. 
& A. M.; Xenia Chapter, R. A. M., and to 
the Reformed church of Xenia, in which he 
is serving as an elder. In politics he has 
always been a stanch Republican, btit would 



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never consent to hold office. He lias had 
no taste for political life, even if Iiis l)usiness 
interests would permit him to enter it. hut 
during his active career he has held many 
important relations to the public interest, 
through the lousiness enterprise he has con- 
ducted. He has never sought to tigure per- 
sonally before the public in any light i>r in 
any relation, but has always been deeply 
interested in the social, moral and industrial 
mo\ements of the commiuiitv. 



CAPTAIN MOSES WALTON. 

A new cha])ter has been added to Amer- 
ican history at a recent date and one which 
reflects great credit upon the nation. It 
chronicles the military and naval strength 
of the country and shows that the United 
States has ' won a place among the great 
powers of the world. This result comes 
from the aggregate endeavor of many bra\'e 
men who at their covuitry's call went forth 
to aid in carrying out the doctrine which 
says that no foreign ])0\\er shall encroach 
upon the liberties of the people of the new 
world. Captain Walton certainly won dis- 
tinction through his military service which 
was of great benefit to his native land. 

He was born in what is now the village 
of Spring \'alley, December 2/. 1846. his 
parents being Moses and Rachel ( Ragan ) 
Walton. His boyhood days were sjient in 
the \illage. the father owning a farm there 
upon which the Captain was reared. After 
acfpiiring his elementary education in the 
district schools he later became a student in 
Spiceland Academy of Henry county. Indi- 
ana, an institution which at the present time 



is conducted under the supervision of the 
Society of Friends. After years there 
passed Captain \\'alton returned to his home 
pnd a few months later he and his father es- 
tablished a mill for the manufacture of flax 
tow in 1866. The following year he and 
his father established a mercantile store and 
also continued the manufacture of tow. In 
1869 they extended the field of their labors 
by engaging in the manufacture of bagging, 
successfully conducting all three enterprises. 
From 1868 until 1891 he and his brother 
were also interested in the pork packing busi- 
ness in connection with their father and 
Mr. Barrett. In 1872 they closed their store 
and in 1881 the bagging mill was destroyed 
by fire, and tb.ey did not again assume busi- 
ness alorig that line but continued to engage 
in pork packing. In 1883,. however. Cap- 
tain Walton withdrew from the business and 
went to Trebein to take charge of the wheat 
department until 1 SS~. In that year he pur- 
chased the oil mill in Spring \'alley. con- 
ducting the same until 1897. when he ac- 
cepted a clerkship in the office of the post- 
office inspector at Cincinnati. He was em- 
pinyed in that capacity until the 23th of May, 
1898. when he was appointed captain in the 
quartermaster's department of the First 
Brigade. Second Division. First Army 
Corps, for service in the Spanish-American 
war. and was at Chickamauga and at Camp 
Poland, Knoxville, Tennessee. When the 
army was re-organized he was made quar- 
termaster of the First Brigade of the First 
Division of the First .\rmy Corps. In Oc- 
tober the brigade was ordered to Cancti 
S]iiritus. Cuba, and he was the first quar- 
termaster located in the Santa Clara 
l)r(>vince, where he remained for three 
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577 



an<l lie was ordered to Cienfuegus as assist- 
ant of the cliief quartermaster of tlie 
province of Santa Clara and Matanzas, un- 
der (ieneral John C. Hates. After five 
monihs there passed Captain Walton was 
ordered to Xew ^'ork citv tn go on a trans- 
port as cajjtain, (|uarierniaster and commis- 
sary. He was in the transport ser\ice for 
two years, first as (juartermaster on the 
Di.xie, on which he made a trip from New 
York to Matanzas. Havana and Cienfue- 
gus, returning- thence to Xew York. Later 
he was transferred to the transpnrl liurn- 
side, which was the only large prize captured 
from the Spaniards, it formerly liaxing been 
the transport Rita. He has a very interest- 
ing- relic captured fmui the Spaniards at 
that time which was found in the vessel. 
He was on the transport at the time when 
the teachers in Cuba were brought to Boston 
and in his jiossession has a diar_\- which was 
kept on the voyage by the superintendent of 
the model schools of Ceinfuegiis — Sanfrisc(i 
Castro — which was written in Spanish, but 
has been translated into linglish. Cajnain 
Walton paid the teachers at Cienfuegus f(jr 
two months' ser\ices. This was the first 
money they had recei\cd fnr a ])eriod of 
three years and three months, ;uiil the 
money which was given them on the ist of 
March, icSgg, was gratefully received. They 
we; e ])ai(l in greenbacks, which was the first 
money of the kind thev had ever seen. 

In July, 1900. Captain Walton was 
transferred to the Seilgwick and was in 
connnand until the 21st of October of the 
same year, when he was transferred to the 
Buforcl. remaining in charge of that trans- 
port until the ist of May. 1901. He cros.sed 
the ocean to Gibraltar, niade his way to the 
Island i)f Malta, to Port Said, and through 



the Suez Canal, thence on to Colombo and 
the Isle of Ceylon. At Singapore the ves- 
sel did not anchor because of cholera at that 
i)lace. but continued on to Manila, the trip 
consuming fifty-one days. Captain Walton 
spent over two niMUths in Manila and then 
returned on the Lkifnrd. bringing with him 
the Twenty-seventh United States Regiment 
to San Francisco. Going out, he never lost 
a man. At San Francisco he gave up his 
command and went to Washington in order 
to work u])on his papers. If the history of 
his naval .service was tnl 1 in detail it would 
furnish many an interestins: and e.xcitinsT 
chapter. He is thoroughly familiar with the 
modern methods of naval warfare and 
pro\ed himself a most loyal soldier. 

On the _'5th of September. iSOj, the 
Captain was united in marriage to Miss 
Ellen r>. Hep ford, of Spring Valley. She 
was burn in Uaytui-:, a daughter of J. \V. 
and Elizabeth (Hess) Hepford. The\- mnv 
ha\e seven children : John Edward, a farm- 
er of S])ring \'alley; Bessie R., the wife of 
K. C. \ an \\ inkle, a teacher in the ])ublic 
schools of Sjjring \'allev ; J. T., who in 
1899 becanie justice of the peace, being the 
youngest incumbent that has ever filled that 
office iti Ohio; Rosella, the wife uf .\. E. 
Wright, of Dayton ; Samuel M.. a student in 
Dayton; Joseph H., who is attending .school 
in Spring Valley; and Mary L., who com- 
pletes the fannly. 

The Captain has been a stanch Repub- 
lican since casting his first presidential vf)te 
for Grant in 1868, and has served as a 
men-,l)er of the city council of Spring V^'dley. 
He is a member of the Society of Friends, 
and his people all adhere to that faith. Such 
in brief is the life history of Moses Walton. 
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tlie government ser\ice, in political circles, 
in business or in social relations — he is al- 
ways the same honorable and honored 
gentleman, whose worth well merits the 
high regard which is uniformly gi\"en him. 



FRAXCIS GRIXXELL. 

Francis Grinnell is one of the early set- 
tlers and leading and influential citizens of 
Miami township, and as the qualities of an 
upriglit manhocxl are numbered among his 
salieiu characteristics he well deserves men- 
tion among the representative men of 
Greene county. He was born in X'ew Bed- 
ford, Massachusetts, Xovember 5. 18.21, a 
son of Cornelius and FJiza ( Russell) Grin- 
nell. The father was also born in Xew Bed- 
ford and there spent almost his entire life 
with Ih.e exception of a few years, during 
which he was engaged in business in Xew 
^'ork. His father was a captain in the n^er- 
chant marine service and Cornelius Grinnell 
also engaged in shipping and in the whaling 
trade. He died at the comparatively early 
age of forty years. The mother of our sulj- 
ject had passed away previously and the fa- 
ther iiad married a sister of his first wife. 
The (Irinnell family in religious faith were 
originally Friends. 

P'rancis ' h-innell silent the entire peri::iil 
of iiis minority in tlie place of his nativity. 
He was educated in the academy at South 
Kings-ton, Rhode island, and afterward at 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and for one year 
was a student at \\'ell College at Jamaica 
Plains, near Boston. After completing his 
education he entered the counting room of 
liis lirother at Xew Bedford, but remained 
onlv a sliort time, after which, until twentv- 



one years of age, he traveled from place to 
place, iK-ing employed in various ways. On 
attaining his majority he purchased a farm 
near Xew Bedford. This had formerlv 
been an island, but was dyked in by his fa- 
ther, wiio purchased the land in 1812. Mr. 
Grinnell of this review remained upon his 
farm and continued its- cultivation until 
1855. when he sold that property and came 
to Ohio with his family, settling at Yellow 
Springs, in Miami township. For two years 
he resided there and then purchased a tract 
of land of one hundred anil sixty-eight acres 
in Miami township. This he improved. i)lac- 
ing it under a high state of cultivation. He 
tlien purchased one hundred and forty acres 
more and added to the farm from time to 
time until he now owns something over 
three hundred and fifty acres. In 1862 he 
purchased of ^Mathew Conny the gristmill 
which he now operates. It was built in 1821 
and is therefore one of the landmarks of the 
connnunity. Mr. Grinnell has operated the 
mill and engaged in farming ever since he 
mafle the purchase of the property, and is a 
worthy representative of the agricultural 
and industrial interests of the community. 
In 1846 in \\'ashington, D. C was cele- 
brated the marriage of Mr. Grinnell and 
Miss IMarian Gales Johnson, a daughter of 
Robert and Winifred (Gales) Johnson, the 
former a native of Xorth Carolina. Mrs. 
Grinnell was a de\ out member of the Epis- 
copal cliurch and a most estimable lady. 
Siie died upon the home farm in Miami 
township in 1893. leaving a family of eight 
children, while one had i)reviously passeil 
away. Cornelius H.. who owns a large 
ranch and is extensively engaged in raising 
cattle in Sheridan, \^'yl>ming. married Miss 
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579 



lian W'., now deceased; Joseph and Law- 
rence. .\lt )na Holstein became the wife of 
Bailey Willis, a son of X. P. Willis, the 
poet, and ched leaving one child. Hope. 
Robert J., who is engaged in milling in 
South Carolina, is married and his children 
arc: P.urard. Kate, Reginald, and Ernest, 
who is deceased. Frank, who was born in 
Jvlassachusetts on the home farm, came to 
Greene county with his parents, and liere 
resided until looi, when he removed to Ken- 
tucky, where he is now engaged in farming. 
He married Miss Minnie Robinson, and 
they have one child, Catherine \\'inifred. 
Gales M., who follows farming in Miami 
townshi]), wedded Millie Goe and they ha\'e 
one child, Bailey W. Ernest, born in IMiami 
township, is married and resides in Sheri- 
dan. Wyoming. Xellie W. is at home. 
\\'illiam L., of Portland, Oregon, married 
Ethel Galloway and their children are: 
George and Francis M. Morton R. is as- 
sisting his father on the home farm. He 
married Ksther Kolp and their children are 
Marjorie, Malcolm M.. Ralph and Harold. 
For almost a half century Francis Grinnell 
has resided in Greene county and is well 
known to many of its citizens. He has al- 
ways been an industrious, energetic man and 
in his business affairs has manifested the 
strictest integrity and fidelity to commercird 
ethics. Throughout the community he is 
held in high regard, and as one of the early 
settlers of ]\Iiaini township he well deserves 
menlion in this \'olunie. 



S.AMUEL M. ALLISON. 

Samuel I\L Allison, now deceased, was 

one 01 the most distinguished business men 
of Xenia. He was a representative of that 



ty|)e of .^anerican citi/.ens who contrilnite to 
the general prosperity while promoting in- 
dividual success. Through the establisli- 
ment of important business interests he gave 
employment to a large number of workmen 
and thus the commercial activity was ad- 
vanced. He possessed untiring industrv, 
was (piick of perception, formed his plans 
readily and was determined in their e.xecu- 
tion. He was energetic, prompt and notably 
reliable, and his popularity was well de- 
served, for in him were embraced the char- 
acteristics of an unbending integrity, un- 
abating energy and industry that never flags. 
Few men ccuild be more widely missed than 
Mr. Allison, of Xenia, whose long and hon- 
orable connections with business interests 
made him of wdue here. 

Sanniel McXair .\llison was born in 
Shelby county. Ohio, in May, 1836. his 
parents being Samuel and Mary Allison. 
His early life was spent upon the home 
farm near Sidney and* in the district schools 
11I the neighborhood he acquired his early 
education, which was later supplemented by 
study in Sidnew His father clied when he 
w^as a mere boy, and as soon as he was able 
to take his place in the business world he 
contributed largely to the support of his 
mother and sisters. He has three surviving 
sisters : !Mrs. Rebecca Hench. of Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania; ]\Iargaret R.. who resides 
with her brother; and Hester, the wife of 
J. S. Armstrong, of Xenia. William, wdio 
was a well known insurance agent of Xenia, 
recently died. 

On the 15th of March, 1851, when not 
yet sixteen years of age, Mr. Allison secured 
employment as a clerk in the store of Alli- 
son & Townsley, the senior member being 
his brother, James Allison, while the junior 



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member was T. V. Townsley. Our subject 
appHetl himself closely to mastering- the 
business, becoming a valued salesnian in the 
store, and in February. 1857, was admitted 
to a partnership. Upon the death of his 
brother, James, lie became the head of the 
establishment, the tirm name of Allison & 
Townsley being retainetl until 1889, when 
the firm disst)lved partnership and the en- 
terprise was discontinued. 

Before retiring from the dry-goods trade 
Mr. Allison had extended his efforts into 
other tieKIs of business activity, being one 
of the organizers of the Xenia Twine & 
Cordage Company, which became a i)rofit- 
able concern. In company with others he 
took hold of the Xenia .Mill on the Cincin- 
nati i)il<c and from a small concern it was 
developed under his direction until it be- 
came a flourishing institution. .\t length, 
however. Mr. Allison sold his interest and 
in partnership with Joseph X. l-'icld. now 
a ca])italist in luigland. organized the Field 
Cordage Coni])any. which erected a cordage 
plant in Xenia. The Cordage Trade Jour- 
nal in an obituary written at the time of his 
death ga\e the following account of his busi- 
ness interests: ".Xfter it was operated for 
several years the Field Company's Binder 
Twine factory was leased in January. 1890, 
to the Xational Cordage Company for five 
years at the rental of forty-five thousand 
dollars a year. .At the same time Mr. .\lli- 
son made a contract not to engage in a 
com]ieting business, for which he was to re- 
ceive six thousand dollars per annum. The 
National Company re]nidiated the contracts 
after living up to them for one year, and 
when suit was brought to enforce them the 
Ohio court decided they were null and voitl, 
being in restraint of trade. However, in 



October, 1891. the Xational Company 
bought the Field Company's property for 
two hundre<l and forty thousand d(.)llars. 
^Ar. Allison then became active in opera- 
lions independent of the Xational Cordage 
Company. Joining with Messrs. Hooven 
and C iambi e, of .Miamisburg, Ohio, he helped 
to launch the Hoo\'en& Gamble Company 
in the manufacturing of machinery for the 
manufacture of cordage. Mr. Allison being 
president of the c mipany from its incorp ira- 
tion in 1892 until .\piil, 1900. In 1892 he 
was instrumental in organizing the Xorth- 
weslern Cordage Company, which erected 
a plant in .St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Allison 
was vice-president and general manager, 
and his son, Lewis M. Allison secretary of 
that corporation. This companv was not 
successful, which was partly due to the mis- 
forttmes of imusual description. One of 
these was the falling of a roof that was 
hea\'ily weighted 1)_\' snow, the accident caus- 
ing injuries to a number of employes, several 
of whom recovered verdicts for large sums, 
one being for twentv-eight thousand dollars, 
which was later set aside as excessive. On 
May 19, 1893. Charles S. Rogers, president 
of the Xorthwestern Company, committed 
suicide by jum]iing from the 'high' bridge 
over the Mississippi ri\er at St. Paul. He 
left a letter addressed to Mr. Allison, who 
ontinued an officer of the company until 
December. 1894. In January, 1895, Mr. 
.'vUison applied for the appointment of a re- 
ceiver for the company, alleging that the 
corporation was insohent. <-)wing o\er two 
hundred thousand dollars, while its assets, 
held at three hundred thousand dollars, were 
not worth over fifty thousand. This appli- 
cation was denied, although the company's 
ofiicers admitted that money had been lost. 



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In September, 1898. the property was sold 
to the Northwestern Grass Twine Companx', 
and in March, 1899, the cordage machinery 
was sold to the Hooven & Allison Company 
of Xenia, Ohio, and the Columbian Cordage 
Company, of Auljurn, Xew York, in Sep- 
tern])er, 1897. Mr. Allison purchased the 
Ohio, Xenia and Field Cordage mills in 
Xenia from the reorganization committee of 
[he United Slates Cordage Company, lie 
immediately sold the Ohio mill to the 
Hooven & Allison Company and later he 
sold the Xenia mill to C. X. Lupton. In 
October, 1898, the Field Twine & Cordage 
Com[jany, under the management of Mr. 
Allison, staiteil up the old Field works, mak- 
ing l.'inder iwinc for the McCormick Har- 
vesting Machine Company, and the hard 
fibre machinery has operated steadily since 
then. Mr. Allison plamied to start the 
hem]) twine iilant last July. i)ut his illness 
prevented him from doing so." 

Mr. Allison was certainly a man of great 
business enterprise and of undaunted perse- 
verance and deserved great credit for what 
he accomplished. He looked beyond the ex- 
igencies of the moment to the possibilities 
of the future. He was always looking for 
opportunities and was quick to recognize a 
favorable one and use it. His keen discrim- 
ination, sound judgment, while they contrib- 
uted to his own ad\-ancement, also promoted 
the general prosperit}'. 

Mr. Allison was twice married, On the 
15th of May, 1868, he was joined in wed- 
lock to Miss Julia Myers and they l)ecame 
the parents of three children, who are yet 
liv'ing : Lewis, who assisted his father in 
the conduct of the cordage business : Jeanette 
and Albert. Mrs. Allison died on the ist of 
March, 1892. and for his second wife Mr. 



.\llis(.)n chose Miss Louie Myers, a sister of 
hers for his wife, their marriage being 
celebrated in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 
25th of January, 1894. She still survives 
!ier husband. Like him, she shares in the 
high regard of many warm friends and has 
a large circle of acipiaintances in Xenia. 
Throughout the years of his manhood Mr. 
Allison took a deep and active interest in 
ever_\rhing pertaining to the public progress, 
and his hearty co-o])cration was given to 
many movements for the general good. His 
natural endowments were a quick and strong 
lemiicr and a warm heart, a gentle manner 
and a (|uiet courtesy. To control the first 
and to make his life the flf)wer and expres- 
sion of the other traits was the task which 
nature assigned him. \\'e know nothing of 
the struggle, but were dail\' witnesses of the 
victory. Kindness was the motive of his 
life. He had a well-spring of afifection and 
a quick and generous sympathy which in- 
creased by giving. Like all who walk 
through life on a higher plane than the great 
majority of his fellows, his companionship 
was select, rather than large, but the many 
who looked u]) to and respected hiiu realized 
as fully as did the few who were nearer him 
that a true man had fallen. 



JOHN AMBUHL. 

John Ambuhl. deceased, was a factor in 
business circles in Xenia for many years and 
he had a w ide acquaintance in the city. He 
was born in Switzerland on the 15th of Au- 
gust, 1826. and was one of seven children, 
whose parents were Jacob and Rachel 
(Crup].)) Ambuhl. In the schools of his na- 



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tive land he acquired liis education and when 
a young man he learned the weavers trade 
which he followed for a number of years, 
but he had very little opportunity to advance 
his business in his native country and he re- 
solved to seek a home in the new world. 
having heard favorable rejxirts of the advan- 
tages here given to young men of ambition 
and determination. Accordingly in the year 
of 1854 he sailed for the United States, land- 
ing in Xew York. Later he made his way 
westward, taking up his abode in Greene 
county, and after arriving in Xenia he 
learned the butcher's trade. In 1858 he es- 
tablished a meat market which he conducted 
successfully until his death. He prospered 
in his undertakings for his business affairs 
were creditably managed and he put forth 
ever\- effort to please his customers. His 
prices were also reasonable and his work 
brought to him a good financial return. 

On Xovember i6. 1858. Mr. Ambuhl 
w as united in marriage to Miss Eva Fisher, 
a daughter of Andrew Fisher, who followed 
farming for a livelihood. She was torn in 
Bavaria May 16. 1835, of which place her 
parents were also natives. With them she 
came to America when eight years old. the 
family first settling in Easton, Pennslvania, 
and ab<iut 1854 moving to Xenia. w here Mr. 
Fisher remained until his death. Thev. as 
well as .Mr. Ambuhl. were all members of 
the Reformed church. In the familv were 
six children. By her marriage Mrs. .Am- 
buhl became the mother of seven children : 
William T.. who represents his mother's 
business and is a wide-awake, progressive 
young man; Ida F. : Katie: Fannie B. ; 
Frank .\. : Carrie E., and Ella. The chil- 
dren all reside with their mother and the 
family is a highly respectetl one in the com- 



munity, tiie members of the household occu- 
pying an enviable position in social circles. 
Mr. Ambuhl passed away on the 5th of Sep- 
tember. 1887. He was a member of the 
Democratic party and strongly endorsed its 
principles. He was also identified w ith the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
Improved Order of Red ^len and enjoyed 
the high rearard of his brethren of these fra- 
ternities. He ne\ er had occasion to regret 
his determination to seek a home in the new- 
world for here he found the opportunities 
he sought, winning success in business, gain- 
ing a good home and enjoying the friendship 
ant! '-f^o-ard of a large circle of acquaintances. 



WILLIAM H. BULL. 

It axgiies well for Greene county, its 
opportunities and advantages, that so many 
of its native sons have remained residents 
of this part of the state, and among this 
number is William H. Bull, who was born 
v.ix)n the old homestead farm in Xenia 
township and is still living there. His par- 
ents were James R. and Amelia (Moudy) 
Bull. The father was also born upon the 
farm where occurred the birth of our sub- 
ject. It was called Clark's Run road and 
consisted of one thousand acres of land. It 
had been purchased by the great-grandfather 
of our subject. William Bull, who in 1797 
Ijecaine the owner of this property. He was 
a native of \'irginia and when a young man 
emigrated to Ohio, having bought what 
was known as the old Bull homestead. He 
there spent his remaining days clearing the 
land of the timber and transforming it into 
richly cultivated fields, making there a good 
home for himself and family. He passed 




MRS. WM. H. BULL. 




WM. H. BULL. 



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awav wlieii alioiu seventy }ears of age ami 
was laid to rest in the Stevenson graveyard. 
His son, Richard Bull, the grandfather of 
our suhject, also lived and died upon the 
old homestead, passing away at the age of 
t'.fty-three years. He built a house to re- 
l)iace the old log cabin which had been built 
by his father and he also purchased other 
property, having a valuable farm of two 
hundred and four acres at the lime of his 
death. 

James R. Bull likewise occupied the old 
h.omestead throughout his life. He attended 
the district school which was built upon the 
fanu, the land having been given for that 
purpose by the family. \\'hen his school 
days were ended he turned his attention to 
farming and stock-raising and throughout 
iiis business career carried on those pursuits, 
meeting with creditable success in his under- 
takings. There he died at the age of sev- 
enty-two years and was laid to rest in the 
Woodland cemetery in Xenia. In his re- 
ligious faith he was a Methodist and be- 
longed to the Oldtown church. His politi- 
cal l)€lief was with the Democracy, but he 
was never a politician in the sense of ofifice- 
seeking. His widow is still living and yet 
resides upon the old family homestead with 
her youngest son, Richard. She is a native 
of Maryland and when nine years of age 
came to Ohio with her parents. Peter and 
Xancy (McClain) Moudy. Her father was 
also born in Maryland and on emigrating 
westward took up his alxxle in Beavercreek 
township, Greene county, where he lived for 
aJKHit a year and then removed to Ccdarville 
towiishii). He built the old Moudy lluur 
mill, but shortly after its completion died. 
His wife passed away in i860. Unto Mr. 
and Mrs. Bull were lx)rn five children, the 
eldest of whom is William H. Bull, of this 



ro\iew. Lewis M., who resides in Xenia, 
was for twenty years a grocer of that city 
but is now a traveling man. He is married 
and has one son. James .\mbrose, who was 
engaged in the grocery business and in 
school teaching, died at the age of twenty- 
six years. Ann Sophia died at the age of 
six months. Richard E. resides upon the 
iild home place in Xenia township. 

On the old family homestead, which had 
so long been in possession of the family, 
William H. Bull was reared, and in the 
district schools of the neighborhood he 
mastered the branches of learning usually 
taught in such institutions. He early be- 
came familiar with fanu work and assisted 
his father in the lalx)rs of field and meadow- 
until he was thirty-one years of age. In 
1878 he purchased his present farm of one 
hundred and eighteen acres, all of which is 
under a high state of cultivation. He has 
remodeled the buildings and the place is 
conveniently located upon the Clifton pike 
in Xenia township. During the i)ast nine 
years he has been engaged f(uite extensively 
ii; stock-raising and finds this a profitable 
source of income owing to his capable man- 
agement and his reliable business methods. 
He is to-day numbered among the progres- 
sive farmers and stock-raisers of his com- 
numily and well deserves mention as one of 
the repre.sentative citizens of this localitv. 

On the 28th of March. 1877, in Xenia 
t(5wnship, Mr. Bull was united in marriage 
to Miss Annie L. Stevenson, a daughter of 
Samuel X. and Sarah O. (Keenan) Steven- 
son. Unto our subject and his wife have 
been brjrn three children, but the first born 
died unnamed, in 1889. Annie May is now 
a student in the high school of Xenia. Thev 
also lost their youngest child, W. LeRov, 
who died at the age of seventeen months. 



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h will be interesting in this connection 
to note something of the ancestral history of 
Mrs. Bull. Her great-grandfather. Samuel 
Stevenson, resided in Kentucky until his re- 
moval to Ohio, when he established a home 
in Greene county. His son. James Steven- 
son, was the grandfather of Mrs. Bull. He 
came to what is known as the Stevenson 
neighlx)r]iood. from Kentucky in 1798. lo- 
cating on six hundred acres of land, includ- 
ing the site of \Mlberforce University. He 
married Ann Galloway, a sister of Esquire 
George Galloway, who with his family came 
from Kentuck\- alx)ut the same year and lo- 
cated rt^e miles north of Xenia near the 
Little Miami river, building for the familv 
home a residence just north of the large 
iron l>ridge across the Miami river on the 
Yellow Springs pike. This residence is now 
owned by the Miami Powder Companv, who 
have patriotically preserved it as first built. 
It bears the placard. ''Built in 1801." Upon 
the old family homestead on die 4th of 
-April. 181 6, Samuel X. Stevenson, the fa- 
ther of Mrs. Bull, was torn, and there he 
spent his entire life. He reclaimed almost 
all of his farm of two hundred acres from 
the forest and thereon built a large and com- 
modious home. On the 4th of March. 1846. 
he was united in marriage to :Miss Sarah 
Olive Keenan. who was born in Perry. Som- 
erset county. Ohio, July 30. 1S21. They be- 
came the parents of eight children : Marv 
E.. the wife of Philander Mayne. of Mount 
Carmel, Illinois; Rachel S., the wife of X. 
B. Smaltz. of W'arrenboro. Missnuri : I. 
William, who resides in Cedarville town- 
ship; Ellen L., the wife of Wallace Free- 
man, of M(5unt Carmel. Illinois; Annie L.. 
now Mrs. Bull; Aletha. the wife of Robert 
Bird, of Cedarville. Ohio: Louie, who died 
at the age of twelve years; and Susanna, 



wh(.) died in infancy. All of the living chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson were home 
upon the occasion of the golden wedding of 
th.eir parents, celebrated ilarch 4. 1896. 
The fift_\-fifth anniversary of their marriage 
occurred only a few weeks before the death 
of Mr. Stevenson. 

Throughout his entire business career 
Mr. Stevenson carried on general -farming 
and stdck-raising and as the years i)assed he 
prospered in his undertakings. His life rec- 
ord was ended in death ]\Iarch 23, 1901, 
and he was laid to rest in what is known as 
the Stevenson cemetery. His widow still 
survives him and is now living with her 
tlaughter. Mrs. Bull. In the vear 1837 her 
father joined the Methodist church and 
from that time until his death was one of 
its zealous and active members. For more 
than a half century he served as a class lead- 
er and was ever devoted and loyal to the 
cause of Christianity. His life was indeed 
honorable and upright ; he practiced moder- 
ation in all things, was strictly honest in all 
his dealings with odiers and was noted dur- 
ing all his long life for his cheerful disposi- 
tion and for the self-sacrifice he was ever 
ready to make for the happiness of others. 
His virtues were many ; his faults were \erv 
few, and he was esteemed by all with whom 
he came in contact. 



XEWTON S. :\IcKAY. 

At an early epoch in the development of 
(h-eene county the McKay family was es- 
tablished within its borders, his ancestors 
bearing all the hardships and trials of pio- 
neer life and aiding in laying broad and 
deep the foundation for the present progress 
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began by his ancestors the su))ject of this 
review is still carrying on, and is widely 
known as a progressive and loyal citizen of 
his native county. He was born in Caesars- 
creek township upon the farm that he now 
occupies July 30, 1856, and is a son of Moses 
and Rachel ( Faulkner) McKay. His father 
was born in Clinton county, Ohio, Novem- 
ber 2(), 1823, and his ])arents, George and 
IMary ( Ferguson) McKay, were natives of 
Berkeley count)'. West Virginia. On emi- 
grating westward to this state Mrs. McKa}', 
the granduKitluM", road un burseback. They 
took up their aboile in Clinton c<junty, and 
the grandfather purchased one thousand 
acres of land in the mitlst of the forest, and 
there, with characteristic energy, began the 
develo])nient of a farm. When the estate 
was divi<led at the time of his death, each 
01 his nine children -received one hundred 
acres. 

Moses McKay, the father of our sub- 
ject, pursued his education in a little log 
school house near his home. In the same 
school bis future w ife was a student. She 
was born in Caesarscreek township, Septem- 
ber 12, 1824, and after reaching years of 
maturity they were married on the i6th of 
Novemlicr, 1848. They began their do- 
mestic life upon the farm which is now the 
home of their son Newton, and there spent 
their remaining days. Mr. McKay cleared 
the greater part of the land. He cleared 
one hundred acres and was also the owner 
of one hundred acres of timber land. In 
connection with the raising of the crops best 
adapted to the soil and climate be was ex- 
tensively engaged in thb manufacture of 
maple sirup and sugar. His industry 
was unflagging, his perseverance never 
failing, and to these qualities of his 



manhood he largelv owed the credit- 
able success which crowned his ef- 
forts. Both Mr. and Mrs. IMcKay were 
members of the Baptist church. The latter 
was reared in the society of Friends, but be- 
cause of her marriage outside of the faith 
she was disowned by the church. In his po- 
litical views he was a Republican, the party 
receiving his warm endorsement. Tliey had 
but two children, the daughter, Mary E., 
being now the deceased wife of Freeman 
H. Oglesbee, who is living in Caesarscreek 
township. The father, Moses !McKay, was 
called to the home beyond October 13, 1862, 
and his wife, long sur\iving bim, passed 
away June 3, 1898. Both were interred in 
the old family burying ground on the home- 
stead farm. 

In a manner not unlike that of most boys 
of the ]ieriod, Newton S. McKay was reared. 
At the usual age be began mastering the 
common branches of learning taught in the 
district schools, continuing his education un- 
til eighteen years of age, although during 
the last few years he attended only through 
the winter months. He has known no 
other home than the farm upon which he 
lives, and it is endeared to him through the 
associations of boyhood and manhood. To 
this place he brought bis bride when, on the 
31st of December, 1879, he was married to 
Miss Ella O. Jenkins, whose birth occurred 
in Liberty township, Clinton county, in 
1857. Her parents, Alarsball and Elizabeth 
(King) Jenkins, were natives of that coun- 
ty, but both are now deceased, the father 
having dieil October 28, 1865, at the age 
of forty-five years and is buried in the Bap- 
tist cemetery, Liberty township, while the 
mother passed away December 30, i8gi, at 
the age i:)f si.xt\'-se\'en, and was laid to rest 



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at TipU-n, Indiana. In tlieir family there 
were eight children: James, who lives in 
Kansas; Celeste, the wife of John T. Hemp- 
stead, of Clinton county; Mary, wlio mar- 
ried Thomas Sutherland, of Indiana ; John, 
a resident of Texas; Mrs. McKay : Emmett; 
Anna, the wife of Eugene Hale, of Wil- 
mington : and David, of Clinton county, 
Oh.io. The marriage of our subject and his 
wife has Iieen graced witli three children. 
of whom Zora and Roy B. are at home. 
while I\Iary died in 1893 at the age of thir- 
teen months. 

Mr. and Mrs. McKay have a wide ac- 
quaintance throughout the county and their 
circle of friends is almost co-extensive. 
Their pleasant home is noted for its hos- 
pitality and good cheer. The house was 
erected by Mr. McKay's father the year pre- 
vious to his death. The farm comprises one 
Inuulred and sixty-six acres of rich land, 
the greater part of which is under a high 
state of cultivation. an<l in connection with 
general farming Mr. McKay is engaged in 
tire raising of shorthorn cattle and has won 
a number of prizes at county fairs. His 
wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. The Repulilican party received his 
political endorsement, ;nid he has served as 
trustee of his township. His aims have al- 
wavs been to attain to the best, and he has 
carried forward to successful completion 
whatever he has undertaken. His success has 
lieen the result of honest persistent effort in 
the line of hom^rable and manlv dealing. 



ARTHUR GERL.VUGH. 

Arthur Gerlaugh is a retired farmer liv- 
ing in the northwestern portion of Beaver- 
creek township. He was born Eebruarv 16, 



1819, in an old log house tliat stood within f I 
sight of his present dwelling upon the farm 
which is yet his place of abode. His parents 
were Adam and Catherine (Flaines) Ger- 
laugh. The former was born in Washing- 
ton county, Maryland, in 1786. and the lat- 
ter, a native of the same county, was born 
a few days later. In 1807 Adam Gerlaugh 
liecame a resident of Ohio, accompanying 
Ills father, wln) also bore the name of Adam, 
to Eeavercreek township. Greene county, 
settling upon the farm which is now the 
home of our subject. The family sent their 
goods d(j\vn the Ohio ri\er while they trav- 
eled o\erland by wagons and teams, eight 
weeks lieing constuned in making the trip 
which led through the forests and over poor 
roads, which were often scarcelv more than 
a trail. Some time prior to the arrival of 
the family the grandfather, accompanied bv 
Mr. Haines, made a trip to Ohio, looking 
o\er the land, and after making purchases 
they returned-^o Maryland. The latter never 
afterward came to Ohio, but his family later 
renio\-ed to this state and occupied the land 
which he had purchased. Adam Gerlaugh. 
the grandfather, had become the owner of 
three-quarters of a section, securing a quar- 
ter-section for each of his children. Upon 
Ihe place he erected a log cabin and the 
family began their life in Ohio in that prim- 
itive dwelling. With characteristic energy 
he took to work, clearing the farm and de- 
\-eloping the fields. The land was covered 
by a dense growth of timber. Soon the 
woodman's ax awakened the echoes of the 
forest and in course of time the sunlight fell 
upon the plowed fields and the ripened grain 
which had there been planted by pioneer 
hnnds. .\dam Gerlaugh bore an active part 
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progress, niid aided in laying' the fnuuilatinn 
for the present advanced coiuHtion of Greene 
county, enabling it to take an important po- 
sition in this great conimonwcalth. He died 
between 1820 and 18J5, wlien about sev- 
enty years of age. 

Adam Gerlaugh, the father of our sub- 
ject, became familiar with pioneer experi- 
ences, for his youth was largely passed in 
Greene county before the work of progress 
and civilization had made great changes. 
He married Catherine Haines in the winter 
of 1807-8. Slie had come with her brother 
and his family to the cinuit\- in 1807, mak- 
ing the trip on horseback fruni Maryland. 
They settled upun the laud which had been 
purchased Ijy her father some time before 
when he had come to Ohio w ith the grand- 
father of our subject. Mrs. Gerlaugh was 
born .\pril jj. 1788, and her death occurred 
on the 19th of April, 185 J. She and her 
husband had li\'ed together as man and wife 
for forty years until death separated them, 
their nuuual love and confidence increasing 
as the years passed by. Mr. Gerlaugh be- 
longed to the German Reformed church, 
while his wife held membership in the Lu- 
theran church. Several years after her 
tleath he went to Wisconsin to visit a son 
and while on the return tri]) was taken ill in 
Warren ci>unty, Illinois, and there died in 
the liDUie (if aniither son. in i85(). when se\'- 
enty years of age. This worthy couple were 
the parents of ten children, eight sons and 
two daughters: David, miw deceased, who 
is mentioned on another i)age iif this vol- 
ume; Jacob, who has also passed away and 
his history forms a part of this work; Otho 
and Adam, who have departed this life; 
Kobert, who li\es in A\'arren county. Illi- 
nois; Arthur, of this review; Jonathan, de- 



ceased; Frances, the wife of Benjamin 
Clark, a resident of ^Montgomery county, 
Ohio; Henry, deceased; and Mary Jane, 
now Mrs. Hawker, of Dayton, Ohio. 

At an eaily age Arthur Gerlaugh at- 
teniled school that was held in a littlfe log 
cabin where the furnishings were primtive. 
The methods of instruction were scarcely 
niiire modern than the building. He went 
each morning and night a distance of two 
and one-half miles to and from his home 
in the winter months. He pursuetl his 
studies until he was sixteen years of age, 
and during the siunmer months he worked 
in the fields and meadows, assisting in the 
culti\'ati(in of crops and the care of the stock. 
He gained good practical experience in farm 
work, and throughout his active business c;i- 
reer was identified with the tilling of the 
soil. 

On the 20th of August, 1854, Mr. Ger- 
laugh was united in marriage to Miss Cath- 
erine Elizabeth Kockafield, who was born in 
Dath township, Greene county, a daughter 
of John and Susanna (Cost) Rockafield, 
both of whom were natives of this anmty. 
T\vo sons were born unto our subject and 
his wife: Charles, the elder, married Julia 
A. Hower, and they reside in Clark coun- 
ty, Ohio, where he is extensively and suc- 
cessfully engaged in the breeding of short- 
horn cattle. They have six children — 
.-\rthur, who is pursuing a college course in 
Springfield, Ohio; Hower, Ellen, Bertha, 
Paul and Catherine, at home. John, the 
younger son, married Bertha Scott, a daugh- 
ter of William and Elizabeth (Lutes) Scott, 
and they reside upon the father's farm, the 
operation of which devolves upon John 
(ierlaugh, who is making a specialty of the 
breeding of shorthorn cattle. He and his 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



wife liave no children of tlieir own. but lia\e 
an adopted daughter. Betli Gerlaugli Conley, 
wlio is now a student of the high school. 
In liis business interests John (ierlaugh is 
very successful, and lias taken many prizes 
and sweepstakes with liis herd of shorthorn 
cattle. 

.Arthur Merlaugh of this re\iew is a Re- 
publican in politics and keeps well informed 
on th.e issues of the day, but has never ])een 
an aspirant for office, preferring to de\ote 
his energies to business affiairs. He and 
his wife are members of the United Brethren 
cliurch. in which he is serving as a trustee 
and the cause of Christianity finds in him 
a warm friend. He ever does his part in 
promoting the cause of the church and in 
advancing all interests that tend to benefit 
mankind. To-day he is one of the most 
prcjsperous agriculturists of his community. 
For many years he was closely associated 
with farming interests and well does he de- 
serve the rest from, labor which he is now 
enjoying. His judicious investments, his 
careful supervision of his financial interests 
and his indefatigable energy ha\c resulted 
in making him the owner of nearly eleven 
Inmdred acres of well improved land King 
in Greene and Clark counties. In 1875 he 
erected a fine brick residence upon his farm, 
it is sujtplied with a hot water plant for 
beating, is tastefully furnished and in all 
its appointments indicates the culture and 
refined taste of its occupants. Mr. Gerlaugli 
also has a large barn forty-four bv ninetv 
feet, which was built by his lather. .\s 
years have passed and im])rovements have 
been made in farm machinery he has been 
quick to note those of practical value and to 
bring them into use u])on his place. He has 
added to bis farm all modern ef|uipments 



and accessories and now has one of the most 
desirable countr\- seats in Greene county. 
Of recen.t years he has left the work and 
supervision of the farm to his son and is en- 
joying an honorable retirement from labor. 
It would be difficult to find a man in all this 
count}' who has a wider knowledge of its 
history, its progress and its de\-elopment. 
Throughout life he has resided upon the 
farm which is still his home and no historv 
of Greene county would be complete with- 
out a record of his life. 



JOHX H. THOMAS. 

John H. Thomas ma\' be justlv proud 
of what he has wrought, for his creditable 
position 1!! the business world is the result 
of his own enterprise and well directed ef- 
forts. He resides in Paintersville and it was 
in this village that his birth occurred on the 
12th of February. 1854. his parents being 
James and Catherine ( Gossard) Thomas. 
The father was born in Jefferson township 
and was a son of Arthur Thomas, who came 
to (ireene county during his boyhood, so 
that the family has been identified with this 
portion of the state from pioneer times. 
When but twenty years of age James 
Thomas removed to Paintersville and 
learned the blacksniitlTs trade, which he fol- 
low t-d throughout his entire life. His birth 
occurred .\pri! 25, 1829. and his death May 
21, 1900. at which time he was the olde-t 
resident in the village. His political sup- 
;)ort v.as gi\en the Republican i)arty and 
both he and his wife were consistent and 
e;-.rr.est members of the Methodist Protest- 
ant church. On the 2(1 of Ma\-. 18^14. he en- 
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came second lieutenant of Company H, One 
Hundred and Fifty- fourth Ohio Infantry, 
witli wiiicli he served until lionural)ly dis- 
cliarged on the ist of September following;. 
Jle helnngcd to Lewis Post, G. A. K.. of 
Xenia and was one of its valued representa- 
tives. It was on the 8th of April. 1852, that 
tie wedded Catherine Gossard, who was born 
January 7, 1833. and died Xovember 28, 
1882. lioth being laid to rest in the cemetery 
at Jamestown. They had but two children 
and Ali)ert Pierce died in infancv. 

Jiihn II. Thomas, who was the young'er 
ciiild of the family, pursued his educatiun in 
the district schools of the \illage antl at the 
ajje of seventeen began farming, operating 
his father's land on shares. He now has 
three hundred and fifteen acres of rich and 
arable land in Caesarscreek townshi]i. w hich 
he has jjlaced under a high state of cultiva- 
tion, and each year the sale of his crops 
brings to him a good income. 

On the 23d of December. 1875. Mr. 
Tliomas wedded Miss Laura Bell Ar_\'. who 
was born in Ceasarscreek township, a daugh- 
ter of John and Evaline ( DeVoe) Ary. Her 
father, a native of Greene county, was a son 
of William and Sally Ary. and was educated 
in the common schools, after which he be- 
gan farming on his own accoimt on the ])lace 
now occupied by Mr. Thomas. Here he 
lived and died, passing awav in 1893 "^^ '^'^^ 
age of si.xty-nine years. His widow is still 
living at the age of seventy-five, making 
her home with her daughter in Xenia town- 
shi]i. Mr. Ary gave his political support to 
tlie men and measures of the Republican 
l)arty and was faithful in his allegiance V< 
I)rinciples of the Methodist Protestant 
churcii, of which his widow is also a luem- 
bcr. In their faniih- were ten children ; 



Louisa, the wife nf Lewis Fawcett ; Edith, 
the widow of Sanuiel Curl, and a resident of 
Xenia township ; Lydia, who married Piatt 
E. Mott and resides in Indiana : William, a 
resident of Caesarscreek township; loscph. 
who makes his home in Ceasarscreek town- 
ship; Sally, the wife of Levi Smith of the 
same townshij): Harriet M.. who married 
C. M. St. John and also resides in Ceasars- 
creek townshi]): (ieorge W.. a resident of 
Darke couiUy. Ohio; Laura, now Mrs. 
riinmas: and Granville Moody, who has 
passed away. 

L'nto Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have been 
born three children : Jennie Maude was 
iu;irricd October 21, 1896, to Hebron Bales 
of Ceasarscreek township and they ha\-e two 
children, Reva Bell and Xellie Edith. 
Charles I-'oster. who resides in the same 
liiwnship, was married Xovember 24. 1901, 
to Miss Gertrude Sanderson and they have 
one child. Emma Ethel was married X'o- 
vember 2j. 1901, toJes.se Peterson and they 
reside upon the home farm. Mrs. Thomas 
holds membership relations with the Meth- 
odist Protestant church. Mr. Thomas \otes 
with the Republican party but has ne\'er 
been an as])irant for office preferring that his 
attention lie gi\-en \n his business alTairs, 
whereby he has won creditable success. He 
is a man nf strong determination, self-re- 
liance and undaunted perseverance, and is 
widely known for his sterling honesty in 
business life. 



CHARLES R. EVAXS. 

Charles R. Evans, the proprietor of a 
sale, feed and livery stable in Xenia, is ac- 
C'lunted one of the enterprising young busi- 



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ness men of tlie city. He was liorn in Spring 
\'alley tnwnship, Greene county. November 
14. 1871, and is a son of Isaac and Cather- 
ine M. (Stump) Evans, also natives of this 
county. The father is a farmer by occupa- 
tion and still resides in Spring A'alley town- 
ship, but his wife was called to her final rest 
on the 17th of October. 1897, They were 
the parents of six children : Frank, ^linnie, 
Lou, Alta. William and Charles R. 

In the imblic schools of his native town- 
ship. Charles R. Evans obtained his educa- 
tion and in his early manhood was associated 
with his father in farming pursuits. On the 
1st of February, igoo, however, he came ti> 
Xenia and jiurchased a livery barn of Rol)- 
ert Richardson, since which time he has car- 
ried on the business. He has many fine 
vehicles and good horses and from the pul)lic 
receives a liberal patronage, which is ac- 
corded him in recognition of his earnest de- 
sire to please and his honorable dealings. 
He has always met with creditable success 
and his strong nature, his enterprise and 
resolution, will no doubt bring him greater 
success in the future. 

On the 23rd of August, 1900, ]\Ir. E\ans 
wedded Estelle Luce of Spring Valley, a 
daughter of William V. Luce of that place. 
They now have one child. Alildred Cather- 
ine. Our subject and his wife hold member- 
ship in the Methodist Episcopal church of 
Spring Valley and he belongs to the Spring 
Valley Lodge. No. 302, L O. O. F. ; Junior 
Order of United American Mechanics and 
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 
of Xenia. He is also identified with the Odd 
Fellows Encampment, and his political sup- 
port is given the men and measures of tlic 
Republican part}'. 



M. A. BROADSTONE. 

AI. A. Broadstone, who is filling the 
office of county recorder and is recognized 
as a public-spirited, progressive and valued 
citizen of Greene county, was torn in the 
western part of the county on the 30th of 
October. 1852. His early life was not un- 
like that of most fanner lads of the period 
and locality. He attended the public schools 
through the winter months and in the sum- 
mer and fall assisted in the plowing, plant- 
ing and harvesting. He prided himself on 
being a good farm hand, when he earned his 
living by working in the fields and his thor- 
oughness and reliability have ever been sa- 
lient characteristics in his career. Saving 
his money he supplemented his earlv educa- 
tion as a student in what is now the Xenia 
Female Seminary, boys being admitted to 
the institution at that time. He engaged in 
teaching in Cedar\'ille township and in Su- 
garcreek township, and later entered the Na- 
tional Normal School, at Lebanon, Ohio,, 
and afterwards engaged in the county map 
and history business for eight years as a 
representative of the firm of L. H. Everts 
& Company of Philadelphia. He traveled 
over many of the states of the Union and 
gained broad experience through meeting 
all classes of people. 

On the 8th of March, 1881, Mr. Broad- 
stone was married in Coldwater, Michigan,] 
t(i Miss Ellen Cretors, who at that time was] 
a teacher in the state public schools of Cold- 
water. She is, however, a native of Xenia,] 
a daughter of the late Samuel B. Cretors, 
one of the pioneers of Xenia. a man of highj 
ii'telligence and honesty. Tlie daughter was] 
a student in the Xenia Female Seminaiy at 
tiie same time when Mr. Broadstone was at- 





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tending there and was graduated in that in- 
stitution. Three interesting daughters have 
l^een Ixjrn unto Mr. and Mrs. Broadstone: 
Louise D., Jean and Patti R. 

In March. 1882. our suliject returned 
tc Xcnia and purchased an interest in the 
undertaking business, witli tlie late Juim 
Shrearer. He lias continued in tliat l)usiness 
ever since, l)eing for a sliort time in partner- 
ship with W. M. McMillen and afterward 
witii T. M. M(K)re. in a partnership tliat con- 
tinued for more than eleven years. For five 
years he has conducted the business alnne. 
Being industrious during his leisure hours 
and in the evenings he improved his time by 
studying law and was admitted to the bar 
after passing a severe examination, at Co- 
lumbus, in June, 1895. In 1883 he was 
elected a member of the city council and 
served for five years in that body, being its 
president f<jr two years. For seven years he 
filled the position of county coroner and 
was twice a candidate for probate judge, but 
was defeated by a small majority each time. 
Uix)n the death of S. X. Adams, the re- 
corder of the county, I\Ir. Broadstone was 
appointed to fill the vacancy and was after- 
ward nominated and elected to the office, so 
that he is now serving in that jxisition and 
discharges his duty with promptness and 
fidelity. He is an Odd Fellow of long stand- 
ing and a Mason. He is also a member of 
the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Or- 
der of American Mechanics and belongs to 
the Presbyterian church. He is a gentleman 
well and favorably known throughout the 
countv as a citizen of abilitv and integritv. 



WILLIAM HENRY HOPPING. 

/ William H. Hopping, whose loyalty to 
his country was tested upon southern battle- 
fields during the Civil war and who is ac- 

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Cdunted one of the enterprising farmers of 
S])ring X'alley township, was born in what 
is now Jasper township, Greene county, Oc- 
tober 5. 1836, his i)arents lieing James and 
Juli.'i Ann (Dean) Hopping. His father 
wa.s born in this county June 2, 1809, and 
was a son of David Hopping, who came to 
Ohio from Virginia, but previous to that 
time had resided in Tennessee, having ownefl 
a large number of lots in Memphis. When 
he reached Greene county he purchased laud 
in what is now- Jasper township and li\ed 
thereon until sometime in the '50s when he 
remo\ed to Delaware countv, Indiana, 
where his death occurred. In her maiden- 
hood, his wife bore the name of Miss Guffy. 

James Hopping did not accomi)any his 
father to lndi;ina but was reared to man- 
hood and married in Jasjier township. .\l)out 
1834 he was joinetl in wedlock to Miss Julia 
Ann Dean and they became the parents of 
four children, our subject being the eldest. 
The father was three times married and by 
his first union had four children. After the 
death of his first wife he wedded Mary Ann 
Eckles, iiec Stewart, and they became the 
parents of two children. For his third wife 
he chose Mrs. Margaret (Bull) ^^'inter, 
and there were two children of that mar- 
riage. Se\en of the children born unto 
James Hopping reached years of maturity. 

The suljject of this review was only 
seven vears of age when his mother died. 
His youth was spent upon the home farm 
and in the common schools he became fa- 
miliar with the branches of learning usually 
taught in such institutions. He continued to 
engage in farm work until October 5, 1861, 
when he enlisted in Companv A, Seventv- 
fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantrv. going into 
camp at Xenia, whence the regiment was 
sent to Camp Chase and afterward to Nash- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ville. i:Ie was first under fire at Stone River 
and was witli his command in all the battles 
in which it participated up to Qiickamauga, 
jucluding- the engagement of Mission Ridge. 
The regiment veteranized at Chattamioga, 
but Mr. Hopping did not re-enlist with that 
command and was detailed as a member of 
the First Battalion Pioneers, with which he 
continued for six months. In August. 1864. 
he rejoined his regiment in front of Atlanta 
and continued with the command until the 
expiration of his term of service at the close 
of the war, participating in the liattle of 
Jonesboro. which was the last engagement. 
fie was never wounded or captured al- 
thou.gh he was in the hospital several times, 
suft'ering at one time from typhoid fe\'er. 
After the battle of Stone River he was 
forced to remain in hospital Xo. 15 for 
about two months. He proved a loyal sol- 
dier, however, never shirking any task which 
the rules of military life imposed upon him. 
In 1868 Mr. Hopping went to Illinois 
and purchased land in Clay county, where 
he remained for two years, after which he 
returned to Greene county, Ohio. About 
that time — on the 22nd of December, 1870 — 
he was married in Spring Valley township 
to Aliss Martha C. Lyon, who was tx^rn on 
the farm where they are nnw living, her par- 
ents being James and Mary ( ^IcKnight ) 
LycMi. They removed to Illinois where they 
maintained their home until 1872, when thev 
retiu-ned to (ireene county, taking up their 
abode upon the farm which is their present 
place of residence. This place is owned by 
Mrs. Hopping and contains one hundred and 
f>irty-iivo acres. Mr. Hopping erected a 
giiod residence in 1895 to replace tlie one 
\vhich had been built about 1874 and was 
Ihuiic'I to the ground about twentv-one 



}ears later. He still has an interest in the 
old homestead and is accounted a progres- fl 
sive farmer who readily adopts all new 
methijds w-hich prove of practical value in 
carrying on the work of tilling the soil. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hopping has 
been blessed with tW(T children : Jeanette 
M. and Raymond, both natives of Greene 
county. Mr. Hopping is a Republic- 
an, hut while he keeps well informed 
on the issues of the day, he has 
never sought or desired office. He and his 
family are connected with the Presbyterian 
church of Piellbrook, in which he has ser\'ed 
as elder for about twelve years. Fraternall\' 
he is a Alason, belonging to Xenia Lod,ge. 
X'o. 40, F. & A. M., and also the council and 
chapter, having a dimit from the latter. He 
is a charter member of \Y. H. Byrd Post, 
G. A. R., and for ten years has served as its 
commander. Fle has continuously been a 
delegate to its state encampments and has 
also attended many annual re-unions, the 
first at Columbus and the last at Cleveland. 
He thus maintains pleasant relations with 
his old army comrades and at such times de- 
lights in recalling experiences in the south 
that occurred upon the tented field or in the 
midst of ]>attle. Although he has never 
cared for acti\e political service, he is a \-al- 
ued citizen, owing to his reliability in busi- 
ness affairs and his advocacy of all that 
tends to promote the general welfare. 



FRAXK \\'OLF. 



Frank Wolf is one of the oldest settlers 
of Beavercrcek township and 1)y his many 
frienils is esteemed for his sterlino- worth. 



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599 



liaviiis^' lived an industrious, useful and lion- 
oral)le life. He was horn Xovcmber lo, 
1825, in Bavaria, Germany, liis parents lac- 
ing George Peter and Katherina (Holtz) 
Wolf. The father (hed in liis native coun- 
lr\- \\hcn our sul)iect was aliout sixteen 
years of age. 

Mr. \\\)\i was reared and educated in 
liis natise lantl and in 1850, when twenty- 
five years of age, sailed from Rotterdam for 
the new wt)rld, acconi]ianied by his wife and 
■ me child. They t()ok ])assage in the Lilly, 
a sailing \-cssel. which after a voyage of 
seventy-two days reached the hari)or of Xew 
^^)rk. They had a tempestuous voyage, a 
storm continuing for t\\enty-si.\ days. I)Ut 
at length they arrived at the .Vmerican ])ort 
in safety. Mr. Wolf continued to make his 
home in Xew \'ork city two years, working 
at the locksmith's trade, whicii he had 
learned in Germany, and at other ])ursuits 
which would yield him an honest living. In 
1S5J he came to Ohio, settling first in Cin- 
cinnati, where he remained for two vears. 
On the expiration of that jieriod. he removed 
to Columbia Heights near Cincinnati and 
cultivated a \ ine\ard for nine v'ears. He 
next became a resident of Greene county, 
(^hio, locating on the old town jiike in Xenia 
township, where he rentetl a tract of land 
and engaged in gardening for about four 
years. He afterward removed to the Cin- 
cinnati pike in the same township, where he 
continued to cultivate a rented farm for 
se\'en years. In 1874 he came to Beaver- 
creek township and purchased ninety-eight 
and one-half acres of land, upon wliich were 
good huildings. Here he has since made 
his home and as the years have passed he has 
prospered in his undertakings and now owns 
another farm in this township, comprising 



one hundred and twenty-one acres, which 
he operates him.self. 

Mr. Wolf was married in 1849 ^ Miss 
Margaret Sorg and unto them have been 
born ten children. Katherina, who was born 
in (Germany and is the wife of Andrew Fish- 
er, of Xenia, by whom she has the follow- 
ing children: Elizabeth; (ieorge, deceased; 
Maude and May, twins; Lavina; Charles; 
Harry; Clarence: Klmcr and Fred. The 
.second child died in infancy. Margaret is 
the wife of Milton Spahr, of Beavercreek 
township. Mary is the wife of Charles 
Buck, a resident of Xenia, and their chil- 
dren are: Fdwin: Bertha, deceased; Carl; 
Margaret; and Phillip. Frank, a resident 
of Xenia townshi]). married La\inia K. 
Mackelwain. and the_\' ha\e fi\e children: 
Margaret. I\a\nionil. hrank. Laura and 
Louisa. I'^lizabelh is the wife of .\. .\. 
•Mackelwain and thev reside in Colorado. 
They have four living children — Frank. Ger- 
trude. Andrew, Ruth, and Helen, who 
is now deceased. Clara resides with her 
taihcr and is the seventh memlier of 
the Wolf family. Charles K.. the 
eighth member, was l)orn in Xenia 
township and attended the district schools, 
while later he became a student in 
Xenia College, spending a few years there. 
He also lives at home and largely assists 
with the farm work, lunma is the wife of 
Harr_\- S. Garlough of Dayton, Ohio, and 
the_\ have one child, Hurbert. George, the 
youngest member of the family, died when 
about a year old. 

During the Civil war .Mr. Wolf was a 
member of a company known as the Home 
(iuards. He cast his first presidential vote 
for Fremont but since that time has given 
his political support lo the Democracy. The 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



chiklren as well as Mrs. Wolf are members 
of the Reformed church. Mr. W'ulf has al- 
ways followed general farming and stock- 
raising, making a sjjecialty of chesler white 
hogs. They have been no exciting chapters 
in his life history but he has been a man of 
strong pinpose, honorable, straightforward, 
industrious and energetic and these qualities 
are certainly well worthv of emulation. 



JOSEPH W. HEBBLE. 

Joseph W. Hebble. whose identification 
with the business interests of Xenia made 
him a valued citizen and whose worth of 
character commanded respect and admira- 
tion, was a native of Greene county, born on 
the 5th of December. 1843, while his death 
occurred in the county seat on the 17th of 
June. 1901. His father, Henry E. Hebble, 
was a native of Lancaster county, Penn- 
sylvania, born March 12, 1808. In earlv 
life he learned and followed the carpenter's 
trade and later he became an engineer on 
one of the first locomotives that ran over 
the road in southern Pennsylvania, the 
railroad at that time being owned bv the 
state and leased engines and coaches which 
were owned by a private company. The en- 
gines were then built without cabs, and the 
whole system of railroading was in a ])rim- 
itive condition. For three years the father 
of our subject was connected with rail- 
roading and then turned his attention to 
the building industry, liuilding butli houses 
and bridges. He superintended the con- 
.struction of the solid bridge across the 
Susquehanna river at Columbia. Pennsyl- 
vania, and was connected with manv other 
important building enterprises, but the e.\- 
IX)sure which he had undergone while rail- 



roading, there being no shelter for the en- 
gineer, had undermined his health and from 
the effects of this he suffered nearlv all 
his life. In the year 1841 he came to Greene 
county. Ohio, where he engaged in bridge- 
building and contracting until his death. 
which occurred on the 25th of March, 1886. 
His wife, who in her maidenhood was Miss 
Kramer, was born Xovember 2j. 1810. and 
I'ke her husband was a native of Pennsvl- 
vania and died in Dayton, Ohio, in October, 
1898. They reared a family of ten chil- 
dren, all of whom are living witli the ex- 
ception of our subject and Benjamin F.. 
who died in May, 1897. 

Mr. Hebble of this review spent the davs 
of his boyhood and youth in his parents' 
home and received a good, practical educa- 
tion in the connnon schools of the neigh- 
borhood and at Dayton. F- r manv vears 
thereafter he was one of Greene countv's 
well known teachers, teaching fir'Jt in the 
country schools and later as principal of 
the sch(K)ls at Fairfield and Bellbrook. In 
the meantime, however, he served his coun- 
try in the Civil war. At the age of twentv 
years he enlisted at the president's call for 
aid. becoming a member of Company K. 
One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio \'ol- 
unteer Infantry, which was assigned to the 
Army of the Potomac. They went to \^ir- 
ginia. traversed the F'otomac and Cinnber- 
land valleys 'and Mr. Hebble endured the 
many hardships of army life until the ces- 
sation of hostilities which showed the Union 
was no longer endangered. He also had 
two brothers in the Union ranks. Z. T.. who 
was in the Tenth Ohio Battery, and W. H.. 
a meml>er of the One Hundred and Forty- 
si.xth Infantry. 

On coming to Xenia in 1883 Mr. Heb- 
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wliicli piisitidii he held fcu" a number i.it 
years. lie was then made secretary of tlie 
P'eople's Building and Loan Association 
the duties of which recjuired Init little of his 
time during the early years of the existence 
of the companv, hut later it hccame an im- 
portant enterprise and contrihutetl not a lit- 
tle to the improvement of the city. Mr. 
Ilelihlc possessed excellent business ability 
and sound judgment and his determination 
and force of character enabled him to carry 
forward to successful completion wliate\er 
he undert(i(ik. ilis straightforward business 
policy cnmmeniled him to the confidence of 
all and in financial circles he sustained an 
unassailable reputati( ju. 

( )n the if)tli ijf January. 1X73. Mr. 
}fel>l>le was united in marriage to Miss Fan- 
nie Hamma. of N'ellow Springs. She was 
Ixjrn January 17, 1845, and is a daughter 
of Adam and L'atliarine (Barton) Hamma, 
who for man_\- years was a resident of 
Greene county. Her mother bore the maid- 
en name of Catharine Barton, and was a 
native of Clark county. Ohio. Three chil- 
dren were lx>rn unto our subject and his 
wife, of whom a daughter, P'annie Kate, 
died (in the 27th of February, 1889, at the 
age of about ten years. The others are Roy 
and Mary .Ada. The daughter resides at 
home with her mother, and the son repre- 
sents the firm of W'hitmer & Hebble, gen- 
eral insurance agents of Xenia. The fam- 
ily residence is pleasantly located and is 
the center of a cultured society circle. The 
household is noted for its cordial and gra- 
cious hospitality and the members of the 
family in turn are heartily welcomed into 
the Ijest homes of the city. Mr, Hebble 
found his greatest pleasure in jjrdxiding for 
his family and in promoting their happiness, 
yet his death was not onlv mourned bv 



those of his own household, but bv many 
friends throughout the count v for his ge- 
nial nature and sterling worth made him 
popular. He left to his family not only a 
comfortable competence, but also the price- 
less heritage of an untarnished name, for 
his record was that of a brave soldier, a re- 
liable business man and a stanch friend. 
P'or many years he was a meml)er of the 
Masonic fraternitw haxing joined the order 
at Osborn, Ohio, wiiere he served as secre- 
tary of thei: lodge, and after dimitting to 
Xenia lodge he held the same position here. 
He was also secretary of the Royal Arch 
Giapter at Xenia up to within a short time 

of his death. 

■» ■ » 

ADAM ROUTZOXG. 

Adam Routzong, nr>w deceased, was for 
years a respected and worthy citizen of 
Greene county and it is but justice to his 
memory that his record be given in this vol- 
ume. He was a native of Frederick county, 
Maryland, l)orn December 4. 1806, a son of 
Henry Routzong. whose birth also occurred 
in Frederick county. About 1824 he left 
Maryland and with his family came to 
Greene county, Ohio, settling ujion a farm 
near Fairfield. There he purchased a good 
tract of land and carried on agricultural pur- 
suits for many years, dving at an ;idvanced 
age. tiis wife passed away when the sub- 
ject of this review was quite young and be- 
fore the removal of the family to Ohio. 

Adam Routzong acquired his education 
in the schools of his native state and w'as a 
youth of eighteen when he came with his 
father to Greene county. They were active- 
Iv associated in farm work, the father and 
his three sons. They put all of the improve- 
ments upon the farm and Adam Routzong 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 




continred to remain under the parental roof 
until he was aljout twenty-one years of a9:e, 
when he removed t') a farm in Xenia town- 
ship, which he purchased. It was a tract of 
land on the Xenia and Fairfield road, hut it 
was wild and unimi)rove(l and awaited the 
awakenino- tuucli <<{ the agriculturist to make 
it productive land. Our subject at once be- 
gan its deveIoi)nient and made many excel- 
lent im]irovem.ents upon it. It continued to 
be his home for furty years and a sjreat 
transformation was wrought in the appear- 
ance of the place as it was brought from its 
primitive condition to a high state of culti- 
vation. There thmugh a long period Mr. 
Routzong carried on general farming and 
stock-raising, meeting with excellent success 
in his undertakings. The farm was called 
Shady Bower ami consisted of two hundred 
and fifty-six acres of rich land, l)ut by addi- 
tional purchases the l)oundaries of the place 
have been extended until now it comprises 
tliree hundred and fnrty-six acres, which is 
still in i)ossession i>f the family. In 1872 
Mr. Routzong retired fmui active life and 
with his estimalile wife removed to Xenia. 
where he lived for fifteen years. In 1886 he 
took up his abode on a farm in Xenia town- 
shi]\ which he had |)urchased in 18C11. It 
comprised one hundred and eighty-three 
acres of land, which is now owned by his 
son J- C. Routzong and is occupied by the 
widow and the family of our sul)ject. 

i\Ir. Riiutzong was twice married. He 
first wedded Sarah Cou,gler. who died leav- 
ing two children. Henry, a resident of Yel- 
low Springs, and ^^lathias now deceased. For 
his second wife Mr. Routzong chose Con- 
stant Comfort Cromwell, a sister of Joseph 
Cromwell. She was born in Washington 
coimty, Maryland, near Clear Springs, and 



her parents were also natives of that state. 
By the second marriage of our subject there 
were also two children: Joseph Cromwell, 
who was lx)rn in Greene county, Ohio ; and 
John R., who died at the age of eleven years. 
Adam Routzong died on the idth of 
June. 1887, upon the liouie farm, passing 
away after a short illness, and his remains 
were interred in Byron cemetery. He was 
a public spirited man and though he ne\-er 
held office he took an active interest in every- 
thing pertaining to the general welfare and 
upbuilding of his portic:)n of the state and 
gave his co-operation to the measures for 
the general good. In politics he was a Re- 
publican and in religious faith was a Luth- 
eran, long holding membership with that 
church. He lived a consistent Christian 
life and was held in the highest regard liy all 
who knew him. He was found to be reliable 
in business, loval in citizenship and trust- 
worthy in friendship, and the sterling cpiali- 
ties of his nature gained for him the warm 
esteem of all with whom he was associated. 
His widow still sur\-ives him and now re- 
sides upon the old homestead — one of the 
estimable ladies of tiie community. 

Joseph Cromwell Routzong, the elder 
child of the father's second marriage, was 
born December 18, 1S48, in Greene county, 
Ohio, on the old home place in Xenia town- 
ship. At the usual age he entered the public 
schools and there pursued his education, 
while in the summer months he assisted in 
the work of the home farm. He has fol- 
lowed agricultural jnirsuits throughout his 
entire life and is now living upon the old 
iiome place, which his father purchased in 
1 86 1. He has put a vast amount of im- 
provement here and to-day has one of the 
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603 



countv. He erected one of the best farm 
houses ill this prnticMi i>f the state, it l)eing 
buih about eigiiteen years ago. He also has 
a large l)arn and his farm is a model prop- 
erty in all res])ccts. In addition to the cul- 
tivation of the held he is extensively engaged 
in the raising of Poland-China hogs and 
sh<jrthom cattle and this branch of his busi- 
ness is proving to him a successful enter- 
prise. 

In tS/I Mr. Routzong was married to 
Miss Alice Sn\(ler, a native of Greene coun- 
ty and a daughter of Casi>er Snyder, who 
was a niillwriglit. miller and distiller of 
Xenia township and died at an advanced 
age. He was (^ne of the native sons of 
Greene county antl was classed among the 
\alued citizens here. L'nto Joseph L". Rout- 
zong and his wife have been born live chil- 
dren : Harry M. married .\nnie Commings 
and resides ni)on the home farm; John A. is 
a machinist of Xenia ; Joseph C. died at the 
age of fifteen years : Charles F. is an elec- 
trician by profession but is now assisting in 
the cultis'ation of the home farm; Flora A., 
the youngest, is the wife of William C'line, 
a resident farmer of .Alpha, Ohio. .-\11 of 
the children were born in Xenia t(iwnshiii. 

Joseph C. Routzong exercises his right 
of franchise in support of the men and meas- 
ures of the Republican ]iarty and has been 
honored with some local offices, having 
served as township trustee for six years. 
He belongs to the Reformed church, in 
which he has served as deacon. His entire 
life has been passed in Greene county and 
the fact that many who have known him 
from his boyhood are numbered among his 
stanchest friends is an indication that his 
career has ever been honorable, useful anil 
upright. 



THOM.VS HAVERSTICK. 

Thomas Haverstick, now deceased, was 
a well known citizen of Greene county, and 
when called to his final rest many friends 
mourned his departure. He was born De- 
cember 2. 1S35. in this county, his parents 
being John and Elizabeth ( HoUey) Haver- 
stick. The home farm was his play ground 
in vouth and also his training school for 
life's practical duties. He early became fa- 
miliar with the work of the fields and after 
acquiring a fair common-school education 
he worked as a farm hand, thus gaining 
a start in life. 

On the loth c)f December. i^/2. Mr. 
Haverstick was united in marriage to Miss 
Sarah I. Swigart, who was born on the 
farm where she now lives on the 31st of 
.August, 1 844. Her parents were Joel and 
IMargaret (Hedelson) Swigart, both of 
whom were natives of Greene county, the 
father having been born in Sugarcrcek town- 
ship and the mother in Beavercreek town- 
ship. The 1 8th of Xovember. 1820. was the 
day of the father's birth, and on the 12th 
of January, 1843. he led to the marriage 
altar ]\Iiss Hedelson, whose birth occurred 
Se])tember 13, 1834. Both, however, have 
now passed away, the former dying March 
II. 1891. and the latter on the 28th of July, 
1878. '^h. and Airs. Haverstick began their 
domestic life upon the farm belonging to her 
peo]3le. Five children were born unto Mr. 
and Mrs. Swigart, but three of the daugh- 
ters died in girlhood. The other two ' 
reached womanhood and Elmira became the 
wife of John Fink, but is now deceased. 
She had no children. Thus Mrs. Haver- 
stick was left the only surviving member of 
her parents' famih', and at their death she 



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inherited tlie two farms in Sugarcreek town- 
ship former]}- owned by her father, and npon 
one of these she still makes her home, super- 
intending its control. 

At the time of the Civil war Mr. Ilaver- 
stick manifested his loyalty to the country 
by enlisting as a soldier in the One 
Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio \'olun- 
teer Regiment for one hundred days' 
service. He was out al)out four months and 
became a sergeant, returning at the end of 
that time to his home in Greene county. 
Fraternally he was connected with the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a 
man well known and well liked throughout 
the community. He was kind, good hearted, 
considerate and wherever he went com- 
manded the respect of those with whom he 
was associated. On the loth of September, 
i8gr, his life's labors were ended in death, 
anil his remains were interred in ^b>unt 
Zion cemetery. .Mrs. Haverstick had the 
deep sympathy of all who knew her. for her 
loss was a heavy one. The community also 
lost a valued citizen and many a considerate 
and faithful friend. Mrs. Haverstick has a 
wide acfiuaintance in Greene county and is 
a most estimable la<lv. 



JOHN G. CLEMEXS. 

John G. Clemens, the president of the 
People's Bank of Jamestown, was born in 
Greene county on the old Bell farm in Xenia 
township, on the 2ist of January, 1820, and 
is a .son of John and Susan ( Slagle) Clem- 
ens, who were natives of Augusta countv, 
Virginia. The family is of English lineage 
and was established in this countrv at an 



early day. while the Slagles were of Ger- 
man descent. John Clemens, the father of 
our subject, was a participant in the war of 
18 1 2 and after the close of hostilities he 
settled in Clark county, Ohio, near Spring- 
field, where he followed farming, and in 
1819 he came to Xenia, where he again car- 
ried on agricultural pursuits, and after liv- 
ing for four years on the Xathaniel Bell 
farm he removed to a tract of land on 
Caesars creek in Jasper township, where he 
purchased land upon which he lived until a 
lew years prior to his death. He then pur- 
chased another farm in Xew Jasper town- 
ship and there lived until his death, which 
occurred in 1866, when he was eighty-one 
years of age. His wife passed away at the 
age of seventy-five years. In their family 
were ten children, two of w-hom are yet liv- 
ing, the eldest being John G. Clemens, of 
this review. Susan is the wife of David 
Davis, also a resident of Jamestown. 

John G. Clemens obtained his education 
in an old log school-house with its puncheon 
fioor, slab seats and huge fireplace. He was 
able to attend school only about three 
months each year, for the public funds would 
alli>w the continuance of the instruction no 
longer. After he l>ecame old enough he as- 
sisted in the work of the home farm and 
gained a practical experience and knowledge 
of farm work in all its departments. \\'Iicn 
twenty-four years of age he chose as a com- 
panion and helpmate on life's journey Miss 
Margaret Long, a daughter of \\'illiam 
Long, one of the early settlers of X'ew Jas- 
per township, who died in his ninetieth year, 
and they were married Fel>ruarv i, 1844. 

.Vfter their marriage the young couple 
began farming in Xew Jasper township, Mr. 
Clemens operating his father's farm for 
about eight years. He then purchased a 




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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



607 



fjirm (it one luin<lred acres in tlie same town- 
sliip and there lived until, 1877. when he re- 
moved to Jamestown, where his wife died 
on the 2 1 St of January, 1891, at the age of 
sixty-live years. Unto them were born 
three children : Louisa, who died of typhoid 
fever in her twenty-first year; Mary L., who 
also died in her twenty-first year; and Ger- 
trude M., the wifel of Jesse Taylor, the 
cashier of the People's Bank. 

In his business undertakings Mr. Clem- 
ens was prosperous. To his first purchase 
of land, of one hundred acres, he has since 
added from time to time, making judicious 
investments in real estate until to-day he 
owns twelve hundred acres of land mostly 
in Ross and Cedarville townships. He is 
also the owner of the old family homestead 
and all that he has is due to his own well 
directed efforts. He had no influential 
friends or inheritance to assist him. but he 
has placed his dependence upon the substan- 
tial qualities of self-reliance, determination 
and indefatigable energ^y, and these have 
proved an e.xcellent foundation upon which 
to rear the superstructure of prosperity. He 
was one of the original incorporators of tlie 
People's Bank of Jamestown, became its 
president and has since continued in that 
position. He is also its largest stockholder 
and is interested in other business enter- 
prises which have not only proven of benefit 
tcj himself, but have also advanceil the gen- 
eral prosperity. 

His fellow townsmen, recognizing liis 
worth and al)ilitv. ha\e frequently called 
him to pul)lic office. In his political views 
he was originallv a Whig, and upon the or- 
ganization of the party became a Republi- 
can. He was elected justice of the peace 
and served for alx)ut twenty-six years, or 
until his removal to Tamestown. His deci- 



sions were strictly fair and iiu])artial and 
that he gave universal satisfaction is indi- 
catetl by his long continuance in the office. 
In 1862 he was announced and published as 
a canditlate for county commissioner with- 
out his knowledge ()r consent. He did no 
canvassing, never leaxing home for a day or 
asking any man to vote for him, and was 
elected by a complimentar\- majority. He 
served for one term in that office and then 
retired. He was interested in the Little Mi- 
ami Narrow Gauge Railroad for about three 
}ears and has co-()])erated in many move- 
ments for the general good. In his relig- 
ious faith he is a Methodist. He joined 
that dcniimination on the 23d of April, 
1842. and has therefore been a member of 
the church for sixty years, while for the 
same long period of time he has served as 
one of its stewards, and has also been a 
class-leader. Mr. Clemens has not missed a 
single communion ser\-ice since entering the 
church. For about twenty-six years he was 
recording steward of the church and has 
fre(|uently been a delegate to its conferences. 
He has been chosen administrator and exec- 
utor to settle twenty-six difi'erent estates, a 
fact which intlicates the confidence and trust 
reposed in him by those who know him, and 
it is unnecessary to sav to those acquainted 
with Mr. Clemens that no trust ever reposed 
in him has been betrayed in even the slight- 
est degree. He has traveled quite exten- 
si\ely, visiting twenty different states, in- 
cluding those on the Pacific coast, Califor- 
nia. Oregon and Washington. He spent 
some time in visiting the manv jioints of in- 
terest in that section of the country and he 
has a comprehensive knowledge of his own 
land, its developanent and its history. 

John G. Clemens has now passed the 
eighty-second milestone on life's journey 



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and is one of the okle.•^t native citizens of 
Greene county. No history of tliis portion 
of the state would l)e comjjlete without his 
record for his life has formed an integral 
chapter in the annals of this district of Ohio. 
As the years have advanced he has pro- 
gressed from a humble financial position to 
one of marked affluence, but the acquisition 
of wealth has never warped his kindly, gen- 
erous n.'iturc or led him to cease to feel an 
iriterest in everything pertaining to the gen- 
eral good and to the progress and improve- 
ment of the community. He is known far 
and wide as a man of strong purpose, one 
who has led an honorable and upright life 
and whose example is indeed worthy of em- 
ulation. 

♦-•-•■ 

JOSH L' A ELLIS. 

Joshua Ellis was born September 28. 
1847, in Jefferson township, ui)on the farm 
which is yet his liinne and to-dav he is ac- 
counted one of the intelligent, progressive 
and highly respected agriculturists of this 
portion of the stale. His father, Samuel 
Ellis, was born in Frederick cunntv, Vir- 
ginia, October 4, 1800, and in the year 1807 
accompanied his parents to Ohio, taking up 
his abode upon the farm which is now the 
home of his son Joshua. Here he was 
reared amid pioneer conditions, for at that 
time the work of improvement and develop- 
ment in the county had scarcely been be- 
gun. His father was Christopher Ellis, who 
belonged to an old Pennsylvania Dutch 
family and came from Lancaster, that state, 
to Ohio. His birth occurred in Lancaster 
on the iith of January, 1763. and he died 
in the year 1836 at the age of seventy-three 
vears. He was united in marriage to Miss 



Eliza Carvery, who was born September 5, 
1769, and died September 5, 1822, at the 
age of fifty-three years. On arriving in 
Greene county, Christopher Ellis purchased 
eight Iftnulred acres of land on what is now 
tlie Clinton and Greene comity bciundary line 
and thereon took up his abode. All that re- 
mains of the once thick forest is an old elm 
tree which stands near the spring on the 
farm, and it was near this tree that the 
grandfather built his first Ohio home, which 
was constructetd of logs. At one time he 
was the owner of sixteen hundred acres of 
land anil the oUl homestead is still in the 
possession of Joshua Ellis, his youngest 
grandson. His children born of the first 
marriage were Catherine : Jacob : .Miraham ; 
Isaac: Jnhn: Samuel, the father of our sub- 
ject; William; George; James; Mary; Jo- 
seph; Christopher; and Elizabeth. The 
grandfather afterward married Xancy Over- 
ly and they became the parents of four chil- 
dren : Alartha, Tilden. Angeline and 
Daniel. 

Samuel Ellis, the father of our subject, 
early became familiar with the arduous task 
of developing a new farm. He was three 
times married, his first union being with 
Miss Elizabeth Oglesbee. a native of Greene 
county, and this union was blessed with six 
children : Preston. Mary Ann, Silas, Jo- 
seph, Almira and Isaiah. After the death 
of his first wife Samuel Ellis married Miss 
Keziah Woolman, who was born July 17, 
181 7, and was also a native of Greene coun- 
ty, Ohio. It was on the 25th of January, 
1837, that she gave her hand in marriage to 
Samuel Ellis, and they became the parents 
of seven children : Susan, born September 
I, 1838, was the eldest, Eli. Ixirn Decem- 
ber 19, 1841, was a member of Company B, 
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the Ci\il w ar, and was fatally wounded' at 
Ringgold, Georgia. Sarah Jane, born Jan- 
ii.'irv 19, 1843, was the next of the family. 
Simon Peter and Samuel N., twins, were 
born March 15, 1S45. T^he fonner was a 
member of Company F, Sixtieth Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry, and for eleven months 
was a prisoner in Libby and Andersonville 
prisons. Samuel X. was a member of Com- 
]>any 11, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Joshua, the sub- 
ject of this sketch, is next in order of birth. 
Martha, the youngest, died at the age of 
three years and thirteen ilays. The father's 
thjrd marriage was with Mrs. I'rovidence 
(Scarf) Sewell. a native of Greene county, 
the wedding being- celebrated abruit the year 
1856. Throughout h'is entire life Samuel 
Ellis carried on agricultural pursuits. He 
ilied December 11, 1880. at the age of 
eightv \'ears, two months and sex'en days, 
and thus the community lost one of its val- 
ued pioneer settlers, for from the first dec- 
ade of the nineteenth centur\- he had l)een a 
witness of the growth and developmnt of 
this ix>rtion of the state and had contributed 
in no small degree to its impro\ement and 
progress. 

At the usual age Joshua Ellis entered 
the public schools of Jefferson township, but 
his educational privileges were very limited 
as his services were needed ujiiin the home 
farm, where he was employed in the capac- 
ity of a cook. When thirteen years of age 
he left home in 1859 and went to Bowers- 
ville, where he entered the employ of J. C. 
Early, there remaining until 1861. But he 
could not longer content himself to continue 
at home when the Union was endangered, 
and in the fall of that year he offered his 
services to the government, becoming a 
member of the Thirty-first Ohio Regiment. 



He was, ho\ve\'er, only about fourteen years 
of age and his father, objecting to his serv- 
ing so young, secured his release. He was 
afterward variously employed for two years 
and in 1863 he again enlisted, this time 
under Captain Ary of the Sixtieth Ohio In- 
fantry, to serve for one hundred days. He 
then volunteered on the 17th of February, 
1864, with that regiment for three years' 
service and participated in the battle of the 
Wilderness; Nye River, May 9-10, 1864; 
Spottsylvania, May 12. 1864; North Anna 
River, ]\Iay 25.1864; Bethesda Church. June 
I, 1864; Shady Grove, June i, 1864; Cold 
Harbor, June 3, 5, 6, 1864; and Gains Har- 
bor, 1864. He was also before Petersburg 
on the 17th of June, 1S64. was there at the 
time of the mine explosion on the 30th of 
July of the same year, and later took part in 
the engagements at Weldon Railroad, Aug- 
ust 19, 1864; Yellow House Inn, August i, 
1864; Poplar Grove Church, September 30, 
1864; Pegram Farm, Virginia, Se])tember 
30, 1864; Hatchie's Run, Octol)er 20, 1864; 
Fort Stedman, March 25, 1865 ; the charge 
on rebel works, April 2, 1865 ; and the cap- 
ture of Petersburg. His was the first regi- 
n-.ent that entered that city and was the sec- 
ond to place its flag on the heights. Mr. 
Ellis was in the grand review at Washing- 
ton, D. C, and was discharged at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, August 7, 1865. He was a brave 
and loyal soldier who hesitated not in the 
performance of duty but faithfully dis- 
charged every task assigned to him. 

On his return from the war Mr. Ellis 
worked at farming until his marriage, when 
he located on a part of his father's farm 
and operated it for a year. Later be car- 
ried on farming at different places in this 
county, and subsequently engaged in the 
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at Port William. Ohio, for thirteen years 
with marked success. After his father's 
death he bought the old homestead and is 
now the owner of over two hundred acres 
of well improved and valuable land. Be- 
sides this property he owns a fine residence 
in Clinton county where his son lives. In 
connection with general farming he is en- 
gaged in stock-raising, making a specialty 
of short-horn cattle, and has met with good 
success in all his undertakings. 

On the 2T,d of September. 1867. was cel- 
ebrated the marriage of Mr. Ellis and ]Miss 
Rachel A. Muri)hy, a native of Greene coun- 
ty and a daughter of Jacob V. and Elizabeth 
Murphy. Her father was born in Berkeley 
countv. West Virginia, and lier mother in 
Greene county. Ohio. They liad five chil- 
dren: William A., born February 2, 1840: 
Harvey C. born July 18, 1841 ; Israel A., 
born in 1845; Rachel A., born in 1848; and 
James L.. born August 3. 1837. Unto Mr. 
and Mrs. Ellis were born two children. Har- 
lev and \"cturrah. The son. who is a resident 
of Clinton county, was married December 
24. 1896, to Miss Kate Linkhart. and they 
liave one child. Orville. born November 30. 
1898. Veturrah is the wife of George L. 
Linkhart. a native of Greene county, and 
tliey ha\e one child, Xora A., born October 
31, 1897. 

Fraternally Mr. Ellis is a member of 
Morris McMillan Post. G. A. R., of Wil- 
mington, Ohio, and Port W^illiam Lodge, 
K. P. Politically he is a Republican and his 
religious faith connects him with the Meth- 
odist Episcojial church. The I'lllis family is 
one of ])rominence in the comnuinity where 
they reside an<l the\- enjov the high regartl 
of manv frien-ds. For the past two years 
the representatives of the name have held 
family reunions, the first being held August 



29, 1900. when two lumdred were present. 
The second was held September 4, 1901, 
when three hundred and fifty were present. 
The last runion was held upon our subject's 
farm, where his grandfather. Christopher 
Ellis, had settled in 1807. 



JOSEPH WARREX KIXG. 

Xo history of Xenia or indeed of this 
section of Ohio would be complete without 
mention of Joseph Warren King. He be- 
longed to that little group of distinctivelv 
representative business men who were the 
pioneers in inaugurating and building up the 
chief industries of this section of the coun- 
try. He early liad the sagacity and ]ire- 
science to discern the eminence which the 
future had in store for this great and grow- 
ing country, and. acting in accordance with 
tire dictates- of his faith and judgment, he 
garnered, in the fufFness of time, the gener- 
ous harvest which is the just recompense 
of indomitable industry, spotless integrity 
and marvelous enterprise. He also lalxired 
for the good of the community and his ef- 
forts contributed in no small degree to pub- 
lic ])rogress and sulistantial improvement. 

Mr. King was a native of Connecticut, 
his birth having occurred in Suffield, on the 
31st of August. 1S14. his parents being 
Jolni Bowker and llann;ili ( Xewton ) King. 
His mother was a lineal descendant of Peter 
Brown, who crossed the Atlantic on the 
Mayflower. On the paternal side Mr. King 
was of English lineage, the first of the fam- 
ily coming to this country prior to 1672 as 
he was then a resident of Ipswich. Massa- 
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01 I 



family fouiuled here, one l)eing estaljlislied 
in the south, while James King settled in 
Siitiield. Cumiecticut, in i()~H. John Bmv- 
kcr King was descended fmm James King, 
tln-()Ugli grandfather and father, both of 
wlioni l)ore tlic name of Joseph. Josepli 
King, grand fatiier of our subject, was a 
Revohitionary soldier as was also Jolm New- 
ton, the maternal grandfather. John Bow- 
ker l\ing was a man of good business ability, 
a substantial farmer and an ui)right man. 
He died .May 30, 1^5.^ 

Joseph Warren King spent liis boyhood 
da\s upon his fatlier's farm and in early 
youth attended the district schools near his 
iiome. He accpiired a liberal education for 
those days in different schools in that part 
of the country and before attaining his ma- 
jority desired to start out in life for himself, 
but according to the laws of Connecticut his 
father had a right to his .services until he 
was twenty-one years of age. He therefore 
bought his time of his father and entered 
upon his business career as a took agent, in 
which he was (luite successful. After a 
short time he sought a home in the west, 
locating first in W'estfield (now Leroy), 
Medina county, Ohio. 

In 1838 Mr. King returned to Connecti- 
cut and was there married to Betsey Ken- 
dall, of Suffield. a daughter of Captain 
Simon Kendall and his wife, whose maiden 
name was Elizabeth Kent. The latter was 
a lineal descendant of Governor William 
Bradford, who came to this country in the 
Mayflower and also of Major John ]Mason, 
who won fame in the Pecpiot war and wdio 
was to the Connecticut colony what Miles 
Standish was to the Plymouth colony. After 
their marriage Mr. King and his bride made 
their trip to their western home bv wav of 



the Krie canal and Lake Eric, and began 
their domestic life in a small house, a part 
of which was built of logs. In this they 
had the first cooking stove e\cr brought to 
the comity and it e.xciteil much curiosity 
thr( lughout the countryside. Thus amid pio- 
neer conditions and enduring many of the 
trials which constitute the lot <:>f the settler 
on the frontier, .\lr. King got his start in 
the west. In Westheld he opened a general 
store, carrying all kinds of goods that were 
in demand by the settlers of those days. 
His business ability was soon manifest and 
brought him success, and he was considered 
one of the most ]ironiinent men of a wide 
territorx'. 

h'rom Wcstlicld Mr, King removed to 
Lima, Ohio, seeking a l)roader field of labor, 
and there he carried on business on a nn )re 
extensive scale. He not only engaged in 
general merchandising, but also firganized 
the firm of King & Day, to engage in the 
business of pork-packing. They were 
among the pioneers in inaugurating this in- 
dustrv in Ohio and were \'ery successful in 
the new enterprise. In Lima Mr. King also 
attained to an enviable position in commer- 
cial and financial circles, but again he .sought 
a broader field, and aljout the mitldle of the 
century took up his abode in Xenia, where 
he entered into partnership with Alvin Aus- 
tin, under the firm name of Austin, King 
& Company, in the establishment of a 
powder manufactory. Of this Mr. King 
afterward became sole proprietor, purchas- 
ing IMr. Austin's interest. He then incor- 
porated the business under the name of the 
Miami Powder Company and for more than 
twenty years was the president. Under his 
capable direction the business constantly in- 
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an extensive planl in Dnler to meet the grow- 
ing demands of the trade. At length he dis- 
posed oi his fn-st plant and in 1878 mcor- 
porated King's Cireat \\estern Powder Com- 
pany, of which he was the president. The 
plant was located at King's Station, and the 
volnme of Inisiness there carried on con- 
stantly increased. Mr. King remained an 
acti\e factor in the conduct of the enter- 
])risc nntil his death. A man of resonrceful 
business ability, he was (|nick to recognize 
a favorable business opportunity and his de- 
cision of character led him to take advantage 
of these undeterred by tardy action. He be- 
came an active factor in financial circles, re- 
alizing the need of money exchanges as an 
aid to the business of this section. He was 
one of the organizers of the Citizens Na- 
tional Bank, of Xenia, l>ecame its first presi- 
dent, and continued in that position until 
his death. He was also the owner of the 
Merchants & Manufacturers Bank, of Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, and was its president until 
his life's labors were ended. Many other 
enleqjrises of importance iirofited by his 
financial co-operation and wise counsel. He 
was connected with pork-packing houses in 
Lima and with in.n and paper manufac- 
tories. Intricate business propositions and 
projjlems he seemed to comprehend at a 
glance, and his judgment was rarely, if ever, 
at fault. Like all who are connected with 
important enterprises furnishing employ- 
ment to many operatives and promoting the 
commercial activity of the comnuuiity. his 
labors were of widespread benefit to his fel- 
low men. 

Five children were born unto Mr. and 
Mrs. King during the course of their happy 
married life. Helen, now deceased, was the 



wife of the i\e\'. Dr. \b:)rehead ; Marv is the 
wife of G. M. Peters, of Cincinnati, Ohio ; 
Elouisa is the wife of C. C. Nichols, a 
banker of \\'ilmington, Ohio; and Isadora 
and Emma are at home in Nenia. The fa- 
ther died July 8, 1885, and the mother, on 
the 3d of .Alarch, 189G. Both were earnest 
and acti^'e members of the Baptist church. 
Air. King took a \ery prominent part in its 
work and was its main support for many 
years. Together with another he gave the 
parsonage which is nnw a part of the church 
property, and he usually liore one-third or 
more of the expenses of the church. For 
many years he was superintendent of the 
Sunday-school, and his influence was ever 
on the side of justice and the right. His 
wealth \\as so honorably won and so 
worthily used that the most envious could 
not grudge him his success. He started out 
as do the majority of young men nf the 
country — witln )nt capital — and prospered 
liecause he had the force of character, the 
steady application and the energy which con- 
i|iier all obstacles and steadily advance e\'en 
in the face of opposition. His life work 
was indeed of value to his section of Ohio, 
and as he mastered and controlled extensive 
business interests he also won the confidence 
and respect of his employes and the warm 
friendship of manv whom he met in busi- 
ness as well as soci;d life. Kindness was 
one of the motives of his life. He had a 
well s])ring of affection and a rpiick and 
generous svmpathv w hich increased by giv- 
ing, and the many who looked u]) tn him 
and resi)ected him realized as fully as did 
his most intimate friends and family that 
when death claimed him a true man had 
fallen. 



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JACOB r3ATES. 

For sixty-one years Jacob Bates traveled 
life's journey and throughout the entire 
l)erioil was known to the residents of (Ireene 
county, being one of the prominent agri- 
culturists of Beavercreek township. He was 
i)orn in an old log cabin in this township 
on the 19th of .March. 1827. his parents be- 
ing Jacob and Margaret Bales. The father 
<lied when our subject was only eight years 
of age. and as the family was in somewhat 
difficult straits our subject had to start out 
in life for himself Uhen but a boy. and this 
of course cut oft his educational privileges. 
'rhrnu,i;houl his entire life he carried on 
fanning and prospered in liis undertakings, 
for he manifestetl marked diligence in his 
work. From early morning until late at 
night he could have been found in the fields 
caring for his crops from the tiu'.e uf the 
early spring ])lanting until after the har- 
vests were garnered in the autumn. In 
later years, when he liad attained a consid- 
erable degree of success, he was enabled in 
some measure to retire from farm work and 
left the more arduous duties of the fields to 
others. 

Chi the 25th of Octol^er, 1848, JMr. Bates 
was united in marriage to Miss Catherine 
Sni]je, w ho was lx)rn in Beavercreek town- 
ship July 15, 1830, a daughter of Solomon 
and Mary Ann (Frost) Snipe. Her father 
was a native of Pennsylvania, who, when 
but eighteen months old, was brought to 
Ohio l)y his parents, Rynehavt and Susanna 
Snipe, the former of French descent, and 
the latter a native of Pennsylvania and of 
(jerman lineage. The marriage of Mr. and 
Mrs. Bates was blessed with nine children : 
Sanuiel. a resident of AIontgomer_\' cnunty. 



married Alice Finafrock and they have three 
children — Samuel, Sally and William. Mar- 
garet is the wife of Jacob Goldshot. a resi- 
dent of Beavercreek township, and they 
have a family of eight children — Emma, 
Frank. Charles. Annie. IVIargaret. Jac(ib. 
Etta, and Harry, who was drowned. Jacob, 
a resident of Dayton, married Ann Hotop, 
and has four children — Edward, Viola, Ben- 
jamin and Harry. Franklin P. resides with 
his mother. Catherine is also living on the 
old homesteail. David married Nancy Mar- 
garet McCauslanil and they have four chil- 
dren—John William Le Roy, David I'.lmer, 
-Albert Edward and J<iseph Oscar. 

After his marriage Jacob Bates was en- 
gaged in farming nu rented laud for a time, 
and in 1850 he jnu'chased one-half of the 
l)resent farm upon which his widow is now 
li\ing. and the other h:df he inherited from 
his father's estate. His purchase was a 
tract of woodland, upon \\hicli scarcely an 
improvement had been made. Later he 
added to his ]iroperty a tract of nineteen 
acres, so that the farm comprises one hun- 
dred and seventy-nine acres. For a time 
Mr. and Mrs. Bates resided in a log cabin, 
living in ])ioneer st_\-le, but as his financial 
resources increased he made improvements 
upon his property, erected a house, built a 
barn and added other necessary buildings 
for the shelter of grain and stock. He Iniilt 
his house during the time of the Civil war 
at a cost of about two thousand dollars, se- 
curing the timber upon his own land and 
hewing it bv hand. His marked energy and 
careful management made his farm a good 
one. which returned a golden reward for 
his labors. As his financial resources in- 
creased Mr. Bates also invested in city prop- 
ertv in Da\ton. l;)ut this has been sold since 



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his death. He started nut in life a poor Ijoy, 
working as a farm liand for a time, and at 
length rented land until he was enabled to 
purchase for himself. His life history 
proves that energy and determination are 
effective factors in winning prosperity. 

Mr. Bates died July J. 1888. He was a 
memljer of the German Reformed church, 
in which he held many offices and took an 
active ))art in the work. In politics he was 
a Democrat, but never sought office as a re- 
ward for public fealty, preferring to deVote 
his time and attention to private life, pro- 
viding for his wife and children. His was 
an active and useful career antl therefore 
his memory is cherished by his family and 
many friends. Mrs. Bates still resides upon 
the old homestead. She was an able assist- 
ant through all the years of their married 
life, and he freely acknowledged his indelit- 
edness for her aid. She carefully managed 
the afYairs of the household and reared her 
children, and now she receives the love and 
considration of her sons and daughters. 



GEORGE M. HAGLER. 

Among the farmers of Spring \'alley 
township accounted representative citizens 
of Greene county is George Mallow Hagler, 
wlio was born in the township of Xenia 
on the 9th of August. 1858. his parents be- 
ing \\'illiam and Mary (Scroggs) Hagler. 
His boyhood days were spent upon the 
home farm and in the district schools he 
actpiired a fair English education. To his 
father he gave the benefit of his services 
until he had attained his majority, when he 
began working as a farm hand bv the month. 



and after one season had passed he engaged 
in farming on his own account on land be- 
longing to his paternal grandmother. He 
had good success in the undertaking and 
won a fair start in that way. 

On the 2 1st of Deceml)er, 1882, ^Ir. 
Hagler was united in marriage to !Miss Ruth. 
C. Anderson, of Spring Valley, a daughter 
of Joseph and Matilda (Steinfield) Ander- 
son. For a year after their marriage they 
remained upon his grandmothers's farm and 
then Mr. Hagler rented the St. John farm 
on the Burlington pike, continuing its culti- 
vation for five years. He then removed to 
the place upon which he now resides, leas- 
ing it for a term of five years, and on the 
expiration of that period he purchased the 
farm, becoming the owner of one hundred 
and thirty-three acres. He has a good 
house, substantial outbuildings and many 
modern inipro\ements and etjuipments. He 
has placed about fifteen hundred rods of 
tiling upon his land, transforming it into a 
very rich and arable tract, upon which he 
produces excellent crops. In 1902 he ex- 
tended the boundaries of his place by add- 
ing a tract of sixty-one and one-half acres 
adjoining the original purchase. In his 
farming operations Mr. Hagler is prosper- 
ous, his well directed efforts bringing to 
him good harvests, and in the town markets 
he finds a ready sale for his products. 

The home of our subject and his wife 
has been blessed with five children : Joiseph 
Lewis, who was born in Jasper township; 
Carrie M., born in Xenia township; Ollie 
May, also born in Xenia township; and Al- 
bert .\. and William F., who are natives of 
Spring \'alley township. The family is well 
known in the community, and the hospitality 
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615 



them. Mr. Hauler is a supporter of the 
Re]iuljHcan ]jarty, having been identified 
tlierewith frmn t!;e time he cast liis first 
presidential vote for James A. Garfield in 
1880. He has ne\er sought or desired of- 
iice, liowescr, i)referring to give his time 
and energies to his business affairs. His 
farm is the visible evidence of his life of in- 
dustry and earnest toil, and as the architect 
of his own fortunes he has certainly buildcd 
wiselv and well. 



AXDREW I'.ISIXE. 

.viulrew Bisine, one of Xenia's highly 
respected citizens, has for man\- years been 
a respected resident of this place and his life 
history illustrates the possibilities that lay 
before yoiuig men of foreign birth who 
seek homes in the new world. If they pos- 
sess energy, determination antl enterprise 
they will reap an abundant harvest for their 
labors. This Mr. Bisine has done and is 
now enjoying a richly deserved rest sur- 
rountled by all the comforts secured to him 
through the fruitful <iiit:-on:e of his former 
toil. 

He w-as born in Hesse, Germany, June 
22, 1820, and is one of a family of four 
children, whose jjarents were Conrad and 
Elizabeth ( Hull) Bisine. His father was 
born,, li\ed and died in Germany and there 
engaged in farming for twenty years. He 
was also a soldier of his native country and 
died when comparati\ely a young man, pass- 
ing awa}' at the age of forty-two. In the 
schools I.A his native country Andrew Bisine 
obtained his education and upon his father's 
farm was reared, working in the fields and 

36 



meadows as the years passed by. In 1839, 
when nineteen years of age, he determined 
to seek a hon-.e ar.d fortune in the "'land 
of the free," for he had heard favorable re- 
ports concerning business opportunities here. 
Crossing the Atlantic, he landed in Balti- 
more, where he ren:ained for a short time, 
working at anything that would yield him 
a good living. He afterward resided ia 
Pittsburg and Cincinnati, where he was sim- 
ilarly employed, and from the latter city he 
removed to Dayton, but not finding profit- 
able work there he came to Xenia, walking 
a distance of more than fifteen miles. He 
did not know the English language and Ger- 
man residents of Xenia were at that time 
few, Init he was resolute, ambitious and de- 
termined, and these qualities aided him in 
overcoming obstacles and winning success. 
He found employment in the Grand hotel, 
where he remained for five years, and dur- 
ing that time he became familiar with the 
English tongue. He afterward engaged in 
clerking in a general store for John Ewing 
for ten or twelve years, but when the Civil 
war was declared he could not content him- 
self to remain at home while the Union was 
in danger and enlisted at Richmond as a 
meniljer of Company F, One Hundred and 
Tenth Ohio Infantry, under Colonel Kiver. 
in 1862. The regiment went into camp at 
Piqua, Ohio, and from there proceeded to 
Parkersburg, and on to Clarksville. going 
thence to X'ew Creek and afterward to Win- 
chester, Virginia, where the army remained 
for six months. There Mr. Bisine assisted 
in guarding the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 
He was in the important liattle of Gettys- 
burg, taking part in the thickest of the fight, 
and there he saw half oi his regiment cap- 
tured and destroyed, the wounded and killed 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



amountino' to about five liiindred. He. how- 
ever. n\atle his escape from the enemy and 
prcxreetleil to Harper's Ferry, where lie j(jinecl 
tlie L'niiiii army. He afterward participated 
in many skirmislies and then returned to 
Xew York city, wliere lie remained for 
three weeks. On account of wounds he had 
previously sustained he was obliged to go 
to Alexandria and enter the hospital, where 
he laid for four months in a critical condi- 
tion. In Xovember. 18O3. he was lionor- 
ably discharged on account of disability and 
returned to Xenia. From that time until 
1890 he was an active factor in business 
circles in this city, and through his enter- 
prise a!id capable management won a hand- 
some competence, which enabled him to yut 
aside Inisiness cares in 1890 and retire from 
active pursuits. 

Mr. Risine was married, on the 28th of 
March. 1843, to Miss Susie Carr. who was 
born in Hesse. Germany. Their union was 
blessed with three children, but all are now 
deceased, and on the 28th of March, 1888. 
Mr. P.isine was called upon to mourn the 
loss of his wife. He and his family were 
all men-.bers of the Methodist church, and 
he is still identified with that denomination. 
He resides in a pleasant home at Xo. 123 
A\"e.st Market street and has many friends 
in Xenia. who admire him for what he has 
accomplished in life and respect him for his 
genuine worth. He has now passed the 
eighty-second milestone on life's journev. 
and his has been a useful and honorable ca- 
reer. The hope that led him to leave his 
native land and seek a home in America has 
been more than realized. He found the 
opportunities he .sought. — which, by the 
way. are always open to the ambitious, en- 
ergetic man. — and making the best of these 



he has steadily worked his way u])ward. He 
possesses the resolution, perseverance and 
reliability so characteristic of people of his 
nation, and his name is now enrolled among 
the best citizens of Greene countw 



JAMES B. GREGG. 

L'piin a farm, the patent of which bears 
date 1800. an<l in a stone house which was 
erected in 1832, James B. Gregg is now liv- 
ing. This farm, from the time of its trans- 
fer from the goxernment's possession, has 
l)ecn ownetl by representatives of the Gregg 
family. It was upon this place, which is 
situated in Cedarville township, that our 
subject first o])ened his eyes to the light of 
day, on the 26th of March, 1838. He is a 
son of John and Mary Isabelle (Brown) 
Gregg. His grandfather, John Gregg, was 
a nati\e of Ireland w ho came to the United 
States prior to the Revolutionary war and 
when the colonists, attempting to throw of 
the yoke of British oppression, were engaged 
in the Revolutionary war, he joined the 
army for independence and served for seven 
years with the rank of lieutenant. His 
brother was also in the service and they 
were mustered out at Philadelphia. On that 
day they separated and never heard from 
each other afterward. The grandfather of 
our subject soon went to Kentucky, where 
he remained for some years, and al)out 1804 
removed to Ohio, purchasing from the gov- 
ernment the tract of land upon which our 
subject now resides. Tlis original ]nn"chase 
coni))rised six hundred acres. Here he built 
a log cabin and made a home for himself and 
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617 



this place, wliicli he dexeloped into an ex- 
cellent farm. His death occurred when he 
ha<l reached the acKanceil age of eightv- 
.se\en years, lie was an elder in the old 
Seceder church of which the Rev. Arm- 
stron.sf served as pastor. Plis political sup- 
port was given the W hig party. He was 
(jne of the pros])erous men of his communitv 
and an inlluential and u])right citizen. 

jolm Gregg, the father of our subject, 
was also horn ujjon tlic ol<l homestead which 
is now occui)ied by his son J'lnies H. In 
the district .schools of the neighlxjrhood he 
acquired his education and throughout bis 
entire life carried on general farming and 
the raising of stock, never lea\ing bis l)irtb- 
place. He held membership in the United 
Presbyterian church and died u])ou the old 
home farm at the age of seventy years. His 
wife sur\i\ed him for many years, passing 
a\\ay in 1898, at which tinie she was also 
interred in the WDodland cemeterv of 
Xenia. In their famil_\- were five children : 
David .\., a retired farmer living in Xenia: 
James B. ; Mary Jane, who became the wife 
of James A. Turner, of Miami township, and 
died fifteen years ago; Margaret, the wife 
of I. X. Laughead, of Illinois; and John 
C. who is engaged in teaching in the puli- 
lic schools of Brazil, Indiana. 

James B. <jregg was educated in tiie 
common schools near his home. He was 
early trained to farm work, so that when 
he began work upon bis own account prac- 
tical experience enabled him to carry on his 
labors profitably. As a companion and helj)- 
mate for life's journey he chose ^lary A. 
McCollum, their wedding being celebrated 
fMi the 2')th of August, 1868. The lady is 
a daughter of James McCollum, of Xenia 
township, who was a native of Ireland an<l 



can'.e to the United States in 1856, accom- 
panieil by Jiis family. Choosing Greene 
county as a desirable jjlace of residence, he 
located on a farm in Xenia township, where 
he died at an advanced age. His wife is 
also deceased. When he crossed tlie At- 
lantic to the new world he was accompanied 
by his wife and their eight children. The 
former, also a nati\e of the Green Isle of 
lirin. bore the maiden name of Margaret 
Wright. .Mr. McCollum was tifty-five years 
of age at the time of the emigration, his 
!)irth having occurred in July, 1800. The 
famil\- home was three miles from Cedar- 
\ illc. w here Mr. McCollum purchased a par- 
tially improved farm of seventy-three acres, 
ui)on which be lived for ten years. On the 
expiration of that peiiod be removed to a 
farm in Xenia townsbii). consisting of two 
luindred and ten acres. There he erected 
a large farm bouse, good barns and otiier 
outbuildings and continued to engage in the 
cultivation of the soil until his death, wliich 
occurred July 10, 1875. He w-as a member 
of the Reformed Presyterian church, of 
Cedar\ille, to which his wife also l>elonged. 
She died in 1894 at the age of eighty-one 
\ears, antl lj<jth were buried in Massies- 
creek cemeter}- near Cedarville. In their 
faiuily were ten children, of whom five are 
\et living, and with one exception all were 
Ixirn in Ireland. 

Tliroughout their married life Mr. and 
Mrs. Gregg have lived upon the old family 
homestead of one hundred and eighty-two 
acres which he now owns. It has never been 
out of possession of the family since and is 
endeared to our subject from the associa- 
ti :)ns of bis l^oyhood as well as because it 
has been the residence of his later years. 
In politics Mr. Gregg is a Republican, and 



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he and his wife belong to the Reformed 
Presbyterian cliurcli of Cedarville, in wliich 
he is serving as a trustee. The worthy rep- 
resentative of an honored pioneer family, he 
well deserves mention in this volume. His 
entire life has here been passed and those 
who know him gi\e him their regard be- 
cause of his honorable and straightforward 
career. 



JAMES II. KYLE. 



James H. Kyle, who is now li\ing re- 
tired in Xenia. was born in Greene county. 
Ohio, h'ebruary i^, 1839. and is a son of 
James and Delilah (Gartrell) Kyle, also na- 
ti\'es of Ohio. The father engaged in farm- 
ing and upon the old family homestead 
reared his seven children, but only two oi 
the uumljcr are now lixing, — James H. and 
Samuel, both residents of Xenia. 

Jn the public schools of Xenia township 
James H. K_\le obtained his education, 
spending his boyhood days in the usual man- 
ner of farmer lads of the period, and after 
putting aside his text books he engaged in 
farming for some years. After the inaug- 
uration of the Civil war, however, he jnit 
aside all personal consideration in order to 
aid in the preservation of the Uni(jn. From 
the workshop, the field, the counting rooms 
avid the offices men flocked to the standard 
of the nation, and among the number was 
Mr. Kyle, who, in August, 1862. joined 
Company H, of the Ninety-fourth Ohio, un- 
der the command of Captain Kyle and Col- 
onel Brazil. The latter was killed in the 
first fight in which the regiment participated. 
Assigned to the Army of the Potomac, the 
Ninety-fourth Ohio participated in many 



important engagements, including the bat- 
tles of Perr\ville, Stone River and Mur- 
Ireesboro. INIr. Kyle ser\-ed from 1862 un- 
til 1865, and then with an honorable military 
record returned to his home, for he was al- 
ways found at his post of duty, whether on 
the picket line or the firing line. In 1865 
he was mustered out at Xew York. He lost 
his right arm at Bentonville, North Caro- 
lina, that member being struck by a minie 
ball in such a way as to necessitate am- 
putation. It was on the 19th of March. 
1865. that he was wounded and sent to the 
hospital at Goldsboro, North Carolina, after- 
ward to Charleston. South Carolina, subse- 
quently to New York and then to the hos- 
|)ital on East ri\er, where he remained for 
six months, after which he returned home 
in September. 1865. He went to the front 
as a private, but was jiromoted to the rank 
of cor])oral anc^afterward to sergeant. 

When he h^Bagain taken up his abode 
in Greene coumy Mr. Kyle received the 
nomination for township clerk, and being 
elected continued in that office for seven 
}ears. He w as then appointed by the go\- 
ernment to the position of assessor, and 
afterward was made store keeper at Tre- 
beins. Subsequently he was transferretl to 
Okltown and continued in the government 
service for two years. He was next aj;- 
pointed deputy sheriff and for four years 
acted in that ca])acity in Greene county. He 
then became candidate lor office and being 
elected served as sheriff for four years, re- 
tiring from office as he had entered it with 
the confidence and good will of the entire 
public. ]\Ir. Kyle then purchased his livery 
business, built a fine barn and for twenty- 
six years successfully conducted the same. 
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019 



to him a good return. For some time he 
also conducted a sale stable. Ijut is now re- 
tired from business, residing in his comfort- 
able home at the corner of Market and 
W'hileman streets. 

On the i5tli of April, 1878, :\Ir. Kyle 
was united in in.irriage to Miss Lottie Bru- 
bal<er. of Springfield, Clark county, Ohio, 
her -father. Daniel Brubaker, ha\ing been 
one of the early settlers of that count}'. Mrs. 
Kyle is a menilier of Trinitx- cluu\-h (if 
Xenia and is an estimable lady. !Mr. Kyle 
maintains pleasant relationship with his old 
army comrades through his membership in 
Xenia Post. Xo. -17. G. A. K.. of which he 
was one of the charter members, taking a 
very active part in its organization. He is 
to-tlay as true to his duties of citizenship 
as when upon the southern battle fields he 
followed the nation's starr\- banner. 



JOHN :^I. ?TA\VKER. 

Among the representative farmers of 
Beavercreek townshij) is numbered John 
Martin Hawker, whose birth occurred in 
this township on the 3d of Alay, 1841, his 
parents being Frederick and Sarah Hawker. 
The father was also Ijorn in the same town- 
ship near the Hawker church, while the 
grandfather, Andrew Hawker, was num- 
bered among the pioneer settlers of the coun- 
ty, ha\ing arri\-ed here at a very early day. 
Amid the wild scenes of frontier life Fred- 
erick Hawker was reared. He pursued his 
education at the district schools and his own 
fireside, but his opportunities in that direc- 
tion were quite limited. After arriving at 
\ears of maturitv he married Sarah Ritter. 



and of the union ten children were born, of 
whom one died in infanc\. The others 
were: Simon, who was born March 26, 
1S29, and is living in Illinois; Mary Ann, 
born December 6, 1830, is the deceased wife 
of Samuel \\ iggam : Emanuel, wh<:) was 
!iorn January 28, 1833, and is a resident of 
Illinois; Rebecca, who was born December 
• 5. 1834, and married John Moler. their 
home being in Bea\ercreek township: Sarah 
.\nn. who was born October i. 1837. and 
is the wife of Walter Kerr, a resident of 
California; Andrew, born January i, 1840, 
died in childhood; John ^I.. of this review; 
Perry, who was born .\ugust 4. 1845. '*"*' 
resides in Beavercreek township : Martha, 
who was- born January 25, 1847. ''"'' ^^ ^'^^ 
widow of William ^\'olf, her home being in 
Ciark county, Ohio. The father of this 
family died March t8. 1874. having long 
survived his wife, who passed away in 1853. 
Both were interred in the Hawker cemetery. 
.\fter the death of his first wife the father 
was again married, his second union being 
with Mrs. Mary Kerr. She died in Sidney, 
Ohio, where she was visiting a daughter. 
Mr. Hawker was a Democrat in his political 
\iews and strongly endorsed the principles 
of the party. Both he and his Avife were 
members of the German Reformed church 
.-^.nd iie filled a number of its offices. He 
was a man of strong religious convictions, 
liutting forth every effort to ad\-ance the 
cause of Christianity and several times he 
filled the pulpit in the absence of the reg- 
ular minister. Although his educational 
pri\ileges were limited he gained broad 
knowledge by reading, investigation and ob- 
servation. In his farming operations he was 
verv successful and at the time of his death 
he owned four farms aggregating about five 



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hundred acres of line land. He was alsD tlie 
owner of city proi)erty in Dayton. 

Mr. Hawker, wliose name introduces 
this record, acquired liis education in tlie 
common scliools of Beavercreek township, 
but attended for only a brief period each 
year. He was found in the schoolroom only 
when his ser\ices were not needed upon the 
farm, conse(|uently his education in the 
schoolroom was limited, but by reading and 
observation, coupled with natural ability, 
Mr. Hawker has come to be a man of broad 
general knowledge. He lived at home un- 
til he was thirty-three years of age. when 
he went to Dayton, Ohio, and with his 
brother Emanuel he conducted a livery 
stable upon Fourth street in that city for 
about two years. At the expiration of that 
period he returned to the old homestead and 
resumed farming upon the land which he 
now owns. 

As a companion and helpmate for the 
journey of life Mr. Hawker chose Miss 
Emma Pasco, their marriage being cele- 
brated on the 19th of August, 1870. The 
lady was lx)rn in Daxton, and is a daughter 
of James Elias and .'-iophia (Davey) Pasco. 
The mother died during the early girlhood 
of her daughter. IJoth Mr. and Mrs. Pasco 
were born in England, and on coming to 
this country they took up their abode in Dav- 
ton. They had four children, William 
James, who is now living in Davton ; Emma 
Jane, the wife of our subject: Ida Mary, 
who became the wife of James Latham and 
is now living in Florida: and Luella Sarah, 
the w ife of Clarence W. Clary, also of Day- 
ton. The father afterward married a sec- 
ond time, when Catherine Kuhns became his 
wife. They, too, had four children. In 
1892 Mr. Pasco was called to his linal rest 



and was laid by the side of his hrst wife 
in the cemetery in Dayton. 

The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hawker 
has been blessed with ten children : Clar- 
ence, who was born on Christmas ilav of 
1S71, is living with his father. Bessie B., 
who was born February 11. 1873, died on 
March 7, of that year. Harry, who was 
born January 28, 1 874, is an employe in the 
State Insane Asylum in Dayton. Xoena 
Blanche, who was born April 4, 187^, is 
the wife of Harry Aeter, a resident of ]\Iont- 
gomery county, Ohio, by whom she has one 
child, Harry Frederick. Frederick James, 
who was born December 3, 1878, is operat- 
ing the home farm. Herbert Sanford, who 
was born June 21, 1882, died seven davs 
later. Clara Mabel, who was lx>rn Novem- 
ber 24, 1887, died on the 17th of July, 1888. 
Mary and Martha, twins, were born Sep- 
tember 17, 1889, while Mary died on the 
loth of April, 1891, and Martha is at home. 
Carrie, born May 12, 1891, the youngest of 
the family, is at home. 

Since his marriage Mr. Hawker has re- 
mained u])on the old homestead which is 
now operated by his son, while our subject 
is practically living a retired life. The farm, 
comprising one hundred and sixty-three 
acres, is splendidly developed and improved 
with all modern equipments and accessories. 
In 1893 the home was destroyed by fire. i)ut 
Mr. Hawker and his sons erected a fine large 
residence. He has a lar.ge and very desir- 
able property and everything about the place 
is licpt in .good repair, while .general farm- 
ing and stock raising are carried on very 
successfully. Mr. Hawker votes with the 
Democracy, and he and his family are con- 
nected with the Reformed church, in which 
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in Iiarnidiiy witli its teachings and his belief 
is manifest by tlie honorable relations in all 
the walks (if life. He conmiands the con- 
fidence and respect of his fellow men by rea- 
son of his upright career, and all who know 
hiin entertain for him a warm regard. 



AAROX fRITES. 



Aaron Crites owns and operates a good 
farm of one hundred acres of land in Spring 
Valley township and is numbered among 
the progressive agriculturists of his commu- 
nity, for he follows modern methods of 
farming and a glance at his place would in- 
dicate to the passer-by his careful su])er- 
vision. He was born in Grant county, West 
Virginia, February 23, 1840, a son of Joel 
and Sarah (Crites) Crites. .\lthough the 
parents bore the same family name they were 
not related. The mother died when our 
subject was al)out eleven years of age, and 
was buried uixm the old Crites farm in her 
native state. The following year the father 
came with his children to Greene county, 
Ohio, and a year later removed to Mont- 
gomery county. Illinois, but when two years 
had passed he returned to Ohio. Our sub- 
ject, however, remained in Illinois for a 
year longer and then joined the famil\- in 
the Buckeye state. Joel Crites, howe\er, did 
not continue liis residence here for a very 
long period. When a few years had ])assed 
he went to ncjrth western Missouri, where 
he spent his remaining days. 

Aaron Crites remained in Greene coun- 
ty. From the time the family removed to 
Illinois he had depended upon his own re- 
sources for a living and was employed as a 



farm hand. Uy the tiirc he had reached tiie 
age of twenty-five years he had saved 
enough money to enable him to begin farm- 
ing on his own account. He then rented 
land and his sister acted as his house- 
keeper for a time. Later he was married, in 
this county, to Mrs. Margaret P.abb. nee 
Evans, and unto them were born two chil- 
dren: \\ illirim E., who is now a farmer in 
Spring Valley townshi]) ; and Sarah Mav, 
who resides with \\'illiam. For his second 
wife Mr. Crites chose Miss Mary Thomas, 
who was 1x)rn in Sugarcreek townshi[) and 
is a daughter of George W. and Rachel 
'i'homas. This marriage was celebrated on 
the 22(1 of November. 1899. 

Mr. Crites' first ]iurchase of land con- 
sisted of thirty-three acres, upon which he 
lived for a numlier of years. After his sec- 
' >nd marriage he purchased his present farm 
oi one hundred acres in Spring \'alle\' town- 
ship, and u]3on this he has excellent im- 
l)ro\ements, which he has placed there him- 
self. His fields are well tilled and annually 
rettuMi to him good harx'ests. From early 
boyhood (lei)endent upon his own resources, 
he has steadil\- worked his way upward, and 
his life history illustrates the power of in- 
dustry and enterprise in the business world. 

Mr. Crites holds membership in the 
Methodist Episc(jpal church at Spring \'al- 
ley and is serving as one of its stewards. 
He is also a worker in the Sunday-school, 
in which he has served as teacher for a 
ipiarter of a century. His wife was reared 
in the Baptist faith and both are earnest 
Christian people who are striving to make 
die golden rule the guide of their lives. 
Mr. Crites w-as reared in the Democratic 
faith, but cast his first presidential vote for 
Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and continued to 



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support the Republican party until after 
]88o. when he voted for Garfield. Since 
that time he has been an advocate of Pro- 
hibition principles, and at one time was the 
nominee of the party for sherifif. Frater- 
nally iie was at one time connected with the 
l\ed Men. the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, the Masonic fraternity, the Sons of 
Temi)erance and the Grange, but is not 
identified w ith any of these organizations at 
the present time. The greater part of his 
life has been ])assed in Greene county, where 
he has a wide acquaintance. He is a man 
of unfaltering integrit\- and untiring indus- 
try and iierseverance. 



ROBERT S. SPAHR. . 

Robert S. Spahr, who has recently re- 
moved to Xenia, is now a member of the 
firm of Spahr & Long, who are engaged in 
business at Xo. 45 Main street, handling 
shelf and heavy hardware, stoves, etc. It 
was in July. 1902. that he bought an 
interest in this business, which was an 
old established one. and he now devotes 
his attentiiin to his mercantile inter- 
ests. He was born in Xenia town- 
ship. Ai)ril I. 1843. li'^ i)arents being 
Gideon and Elizabeth (Kyle) Spahr. The 
father was born in Virginia, in 1813, and 
was a son of Edward Spahr. who was a na- 
ti\e of the Old Dominion. He carried on 
agricultural pursuits in his native state and 
in 1S21 came with his family to Ohio, mak- 
ing the trip overland. He settled in Xenia 
township, where he cleared and developed 
one hundred and sixty acres of land. u]K)n 
which he spent his remaining days. His 
death occurred in the '60s and his wife died 



in Cedarville township, in 1875, both being 
buried in the Shook cemetery. 

Of their twelve children Gideon Spahr 
was the eldest. He attended a subscription 
school for a short time in Virginia, and with 
his parents came to Greene county in pio- 
neer days, living with them until twenty- 
one years of age, when he married Elizabeth 
Kyle, a native of this county, and they start- 
ed out in life for themselves. He had 
learned the brickmaker's trade, which he fol- 
lowed for five or six years and then rented 
land, after which he always followed agri- 
cultural pursuits. He was first a \Miig in 
politics and afterward became a Republican. 
Both he and his wife were members of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, in which he 
was also a local preacher, and their influence 
in behalf of Christianity was a potent factor 
in the moral development of the community. 
Gideon Spahr died May 7, 1894, and his 
widow is now living at Clifton at the age 
of ninety years. In their family were thir- 
teen children : Albert, a minister of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, now in Piqna, 
Ohio; John, who died in infancy; Cornelia, 
the wife of Silas Smith, of Van Wert, Ohio ; 
Madison, who was a member of Company 
E. Xinety-fourth Ohio Infantry and died of 
typhoid fever in the service, being buried at 
Bowling Green, Kentucky; Robert S. ; Sa- 
rah, of Clifton, Ohio; Mary and ^^lartha, 
twins, who died in infancy; Julia, the wife 
of Isaac Cummins, of Texas; Samuel K., a 
minister of the ilethodist Protestant church, 
of Tompkins Cove, Xew York; David E., 
a physician of Clifton, Ohio; one that died 
in infancy; and James C, of Clifton. 

Robert S. Spahr attended the puljlic 
schools of the county until seventeen years 
of age. and the following year he enlisted, 
on the 17th of September. 1861, in \Yi\- 




MRS. R. S. SPAHR. 




R. S. SPAHR. 



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627 



•tnington, Oliio. as a member of Company B. 
Fortieth Ohio Vohmteer Infantry, as a ])ri- 
vate, for tliree years. He was promoted to 
tlie rank of corporal and served under Gen- 
eral Sherman until wounded near Atlanta. 
He participated in the battles of Chickamau- 
ga, Chattanooga, Lookout JNIountain and 
Mission Ridge, and was wounded at a place 
called Pumpkin Vine, his injuries necessitat- 
ing his remaining in a hospital for a time. 
He was mustered out of ser\ice at Atlanta, 
Georgia, in October, 1864, and then re- 
turned home. Resuming his studies he spent 
the winter as a student in \s.n Wert, Ohio, 
and in 1866 entered Adrian College, at 
Adrian. Michigan, but on account of his 
health he was obliged to abandon his stud- 
ies. He then began teaching, hut after a 
year his health forced him to leave the 
schoolroom altogether, and he turned his 
attention to farming, believing that the out- 
door life would prove beneficial. For a 
time he worked with his father, and after 
his marriage he rented land for a year. He 
then purchased a small tract in Cedarville 
township, and after two years' residence 
thereon he purchased a larger place, locating 
there in 1880, at wliich time he became the 
owner of seventy-six acres of arable land 
on the Wilmington pike, where he made his 
home until his removal to Xenia in ig02. 

On the 25th of April, 1872, Mr. Spahr 
was united in marriage to ]Miss Martha A. 
Saville, who was born in Cedarcreek town- 
ship, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah 
fKetteman) Saville. The father was born 
in Rockbridge county. Virginia, February 
15, 1 81 5. and was a son of Samuel and 
Anna Saville. the former of French lineage 
and the latter of German descent. When 
ten years of age Joseph Saville accompanied 
liis parents to Xew Jasper township, Greene 



couiU\-, where he entered and cleared a tract 
of land of one hundred acres. Here his 
father and mother died, the former in 185 1 
and the latter in 1872, their remains being 
interred in Boots cemetery. Joseph Saville 
was educated in this county and became a 
cooper by trade, but his later years were de- 
voted to farming. He lived on the old home- 
stead, where his death occurred in 1893, and 
lus wife, who was Ixjrn in Rockingham 
county, \'irginia. October 5, 1819, passed 
away in 1899, their remains being interred 
in Xenia cemetery. Unto them were born 
ten children: Fmeline, the wife of Henry 
C. Fudge, of Caesarscreek township: Mary 
jane, the wife of David C. Conklin, of Clin- 
ton county, Ohio; Martha A., the honored 
wife of our subject; Andrew, who died in 
infancy: John, who also died in infancv; 
Sarah E., tlie wife of Henry Smith, of Xenia 
township; Milton G., who died in childhood; 
Ellen C, the wife of Ira \Vilkins, of Kan- 
sas; and Florence, the wife of Frank An- 
t-.am, of Clinton county. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Spahr has 
been bles.sed with the following children: 
Albert G., who married Luella (joods and 
resides in Xenia; Ralph O., who married 
Anna Hagla,r and resides in Xenia town- 
ship; Joseph Lester, of Xenia; Eloward S., 
Fannie E.. Sherwin G., Frank Blaine, all 
at home; one that died in infancy; Emma 
H., Homer C. and Earle R., all under the 
parental roof. The parents hold member- 
ship in the INIethodist Episcopal church and 
in ills political endorsement Mr. Spahr is 
known as an earnest and unfaltering Repub- 
lican. He is a member of the county com- 
mittee of the indigent soldiers' fund. He 
belongs to Lewis Post. G. A. R., of Xenia, 
and is a valued citizen, enterprising, pro- 
gressive and wide-awake. He takes an act- 



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ive interest in e\er\tliing^ pertaining to the 
general good and in every way possible has 
aided in promoting public progress and the 
stable improvement of this portion of the 
slate. 



TAMES A. KELLY, 



The name of Kelly is well known in 
connection with industrial interests in Xenia 
and he whose name intnjduces this review 
oconpied a leading position in commercial 
circles here, not only bv reason of the bril- 
liant success which he has achie\ed. but also 
of the honorable business methods which he 
put forth. He ])ossessed untiring energy, 
was quick of perception, formed his plans 
readily and was determined in their execu- 
tion, and his earnest application to business 
and excellent management brought to him a 
high degree of success. 

His parents were Robert A. and Cath- 
erine ]\L (Fisher) Kelly, in whose family 
were five children, of whom three are liv- 
ing. Our subject was born in Paterson, 
New Jersey, May 2^. 1863, and there he 
pursued his education and was graduated. 
Immediately after the death of his father, 
who had been extensively engaged in manu- 
facturing twine, James A. Kelly and his 
brothers built the i)lant and equi])ped the 
business in Xenia now known as the R. A. 
Kelly Company, manufactiu"ers of cordage 
and machinery. The trade of this house 
covers the territory that extends from coast 
to coast and from gulf to the northern 
boundary of the United States. Imoui the 
beginning success attended the new enter- 
lirise. The sons under the careful direc- 
tion of their father had become thorou"hlv 



familiar w ith the liusiness. and to them the 
undertaking brought experience as well as 
a laudable ambition and strong determina- 
tion to win prosperitw James .A. Kelly be- 
came the manager of the enterprise and un- 
der his super\-ision the mammoth concern 
l.as been built up, and he successfully con- 
trolled it up to the time of his death, which 
occurred December 19, 1900. 

Mr. Kell}- was united in marriage to 
]\li.ss Josephine Corry, a daughter of James 
B. Corry, one of the substantial and in- 
riuential pioneers of Greene county, whose 
death occurretl on the 15th of December, 
1890. His wife bore the maiden name of 
Xancy Brown and is still living, making her 
home with her daughter, Mrs. Kelly, who 
was one of eight children. By her marriage 
Mrs. Kelly became the mother of two sons, 
James E. and Robert A., aged, respectively, 
fifteen and thirteen years, the former named 
for his father and the latter for his paternal 
grandfather. They are lx)th bright boys 
and bid fair to be an honor to the 
family. Mrs. Kelly, with her mother and 
two sons, resides in her handsome resi- 
dence on Xorth King and Pleasant streets. 
She holds membership in the Methodist 
Epi.sco])al church and is a most estimable 
lady. Since her husband's death she has re- 
tained her interest in the business, her 
brother-in-law, George R. Kelly, managing 
h.er affairs. Hers is a hospitable home, and 
she has many warm friends throughout the 
community. 

Mr. Kelly was ;i ])rominent and con- 
sistent member of the Presbyterian church. 
which he not only liberally supported, but 
gave his time and earnest work for its tip- 
building. It is w orthy of more than passing- 
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629 



office and mills and also fnllv li\ed wyi to his 
professions in his business in thai ([uiet, 
kindly, unostentatious way that carried the 
feelins;' to all who knew him that Mr. Kelly 
was a (genuine Christian. He was well 
known as one of the leading bass singers of 
liie city, having a fine voice, well trained, 
and few musical gatherings were complete 
witliout him. He was also the leading bass 
singer in the Presbyterian choir for twenty 
years. 

Mr. Kelly gave his political support to 
the Re|)ublican party and strongly endorsed 
its principles, but never souglit or desired 
office, his time Ijeing fully occu])ied l)y his 
extensive business interests. He passed 
away in New Mexico, dying of pneumonia, 
l)ut his remains were interred in the Wood- 
land cemeterv of Xenia. He deser\es to be 
placed among the prominent and rejiresenta- 
tive citizens of Greene county, for he be- 
longed to that class of men whose enter- 
prising s])irit was used not alone for their 
own benefit, but in advancing the general 
good and promoting jiublic prr)spcrit\ b\- his 
ably managed individual interests and thus 
places this section of the country on a par 
with other manufacturing cities of the Buck- 
eye state. His courtesy was unfailing, his 
integrity above question and his genial man- 
ner won for him a circle of friends almost 
co-e.N;tensi\e with the circle of his acquaint- 
ances. 

♦-•-• 

WILLI \M GILMORE TAYLOR. 

AN'illiam G. Taylor, who is a representa- 
tive uf the farming interests of Sugarcreek 
township, was born in Ross township, this 
county, March 19, 1832. His father, Isaac 



Taylor, was a nati\e of Belfast, Ireland, 
born about the year 1799. The following- 
year his parents emigrated with their family 
to the new world, locating in Rockbridge 
county, Virginia, where Isaac Taylor was 
reared to manhood and learned the tanner's 
trade. After arriving at years of maturity 
he married I-'rances Gilmore, who was born 
in Rockbridge county and was a daughter 
of John Gilmore, who. when about seven 
years of age, was taken ])risoner by the In- 
dians as was his mother. This occurred at 
the tin-ie of the Indian massacre at Kerr's 
creek in Rockbridge count \-. The mother 
and son were brought to Oldtown, Greene 
county, Ohio, where they were held as cap- 
lives for seven years. Mr. Gilmore and the 
children of the family, with the e.xception of 
John, were all killed. The children's brains 
were dashed out in tl;c presence of the 
mother and their bodies thrown into a burn- 
ing house. The Indians finding that Mrs. 
(jilmore possessed considerable musical 
talent required her to sing for them, and she 
would sing the "Lament of Miriam." .\fter 
seven years a white man escaped from the 
tribe and w^ent back to Virginia, where he 
reported the condition of I\lrs. Gilmore and 
her son. ,V party was then organized for 
their rescue, and they were taken back to the 
Old Dominion. 

Soon after his marriage Mr. Taylor, the 
father of our subject, came with his bride 
to C)hio, residing for a lime in Prelile coun- 
ty, whence he came to (ireene county about 
1830, locating in Ross township upon a 
farm of one hundred and hfl\- acres, which 
he purchased and where he spent his remain- 
ing days, and was accounted one of the lead- 
ing and influential agriculturists of the com- 
munil\'. He act|uired a goiid education and 



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•engaged in teacliiiig in the public schools and 
also conducted a singing school. His in- 
tellectual strength and ability made him a 
leader of pnl)lic thought and action. He 
supported the Democratic party and held a 
numl)er of township offices. He was reared 
in the Presbyterian faith. — a great student 
of the Bible, he became a believer in the 
doctrine of the Christian church, although 
he dill not unite with that denomination. 
His life was ever in consistent harmony with 
Christian principles and he enjoyed the con- 
fidence of all w ith whom he was associated. 
Unto him and his wife were born five sons 
and four daughters and six of the number 
reached mature years : Mary Jane, who be- 
came the wife of Ira Adair and died in 
Greene county ; Magdaline, who married 
Jackson Ballard and resides in this county; 
\\'illium G. : John, who died in this county; 
Daniel, who died in Jamestown, Ohio; and 
Isaac, who passed away in \\'arren county. 
Ohio. 

I'jjnn the old home farm William Gil- 
more Taxlor was Ixirn and reared. At the 
usual age he entered the public schools and 
there mastered the common branches of 
English learning. For some time remained 
at home, for his father was the owner of 
about si.x hundred acres of land, and thus 
there was ample work for the children upon 
the old homestead. In Miami county, on 
the 22d of Decemljer, 1859, Mr. Taylor was 
united in marriage to Miss Mary I. Long, 
who was born in Lost Creek township, 
Miami county, her parents being Thomas 
and Margaret (McMillan) Long. The 
young oiuple began their domestic life upon 
one hundred and twenty acres of the old 
Taylor homestead, which our subject im- 
proved, continuing the cultivation of that 



place until 18C8, when he sold it and pur- 
chased his present home, becoming the own- 
er of one hundred and seventy acres, al- 
though he has since disposed of a portion 
of this, retaining possession of eightv-two 
acres. His farm is well improved with all 
modern accessories and equipments, and his 
labors bring to him good harvests. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor has 
been blessed with fi\e children : Eldorus 
Gilmore, who was born in Ross township, 
January 11, 1861 ; William Vinton, of 
Sugarcreek township, who was born in Ross 
townshi]), Januar}- 22, 1865, and married 
Xellie Cunningham, by whom he has four 
children, Ethel A., Hazel L., W. Virgil and 
Ocy : James Harvey, a resident of Xenia, 
who was born March 30, 1867, and mar- 
ried Ida Seiber. by whom he has twin chil- 
dren ; Erman and Elsie; Ocy Lenore, who 
l>ecame the wife of James Sanders and died 
in Tennessee, leaving two children, Jessie 
and Dena : and Dessie, who is still at home. 

V\'hen age conferred upon Mr. Taylor 
the right of franchise he supported Buchanan 
in 1856, but in 1864 he cast his ballot for 
Abraham Lincoln. He was drafted for 
service in the Civil war at the time of the 
fust draft, but he hired a substitute. Both 
he and his wife belong to the Methodist 
Episcopal church and the latter is a member 
of the Ladies Aid Society, while Mr. Taylor 
is serving as class leader and also as trus- 
tee. His history is largely familiar to those 
who know him, for he has spent his entire 
life in Greene county, and the fact that 
among his friends are many who ha\e 
known him from boyhood is an indication 
that his career has ever been one that will 
bear the closest scrutiny and will furnish 
nianv examples worthy of emulation. 



BOBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



63 1 



PERRY A. ALEXANDER. 

Tlirouglioiit an entire century the Alex- 
ander family lias l^een represented in Greene 
county and the name tigures prominently 
and honrjrably on the paj^es of the county's 
liistor}-. I'Yom pioneer times down to the 
present members of the family have taken 
an acti\ e part in public affairs, and in those 
lines of business which have contributed to 
tlie ujibuilding and staljility of this portion 
of the state. In tl:e year 1803 John and 
Isabella Alexander', the great-grandparenis 
of our subject arrived in Xenia. In early 
life the former had been a school teacher 
and had resided in Butler county, Ohio, be- 
fore coming to Cireene county. Taking u]) 
his abode in Xenia in 1S03. he engaged in 
the practice of law, and was the first at- 
torney of the city. For thirty years he was 
prosecutin.g attornc\- and his reputrition was 
by no means a local one. He also served 
as judge of the common pleas court, rep- 
resented his district in the state legislature 
and wa> for two terms a memlier of con- 
gress. .\ man of strung mentality, of 
marked iiidividuality and superior ability, 
he was well fitted for leadershi]>, and he 
left the impre-s of his thought and labors 
upon the development of the count}' in a 
large measure. His death < ccurred in Xenia 
in 1848. 

\\'ashington .Alexander, the grandfather 
of our subject, was born in South Carolnia 
in 180T, and was brought by his parents to 
this county when only two years old. He 
studied law, but never practiced, turning his 
attention to farming in Spring Valley. In 
1842 he married Miss Rachel Clark, of 
Spring \'alley, and they became the ])arents 
of seven children, of whom the father of our 



subject was the second in order of birth. 
Of the living: Jesse is a resident vi Spring 
Valley; Augustus is an attorney of St. 
Louis, Missouri ; Isabella is the widow of 
William S. Frazier, by whom she had seven 
children, and makes her home in Indianap- 
olis ; Frank is a farmer of Holcomb, Mis- 
souri; and Aurelius is a traveling man re- 
siding in Dayton. John is deceased. The 
father of this fan-.ily became the owner of 
several hundred acres of land, meeting with 
gratifying success in his undertakings. He 
was a member of the P)aptist church and 
died in 1867, while his wife passe.l away in 
1849. 

William J. .\lexander. the father of our 
subject, was born in ."^j)! ing \'aile_\' town- 
ship, June 10. 1827, and after acquiring his 
education in Xenia he engaged in teaching 
school j'ud in farming. Later he took up 
the study of law, was admitted to the bar 
and at once began practice in Spring Val- 
ley. Later he removed to Wilmington and 
subsecjuently opened an office in Xenia. He 
served as justice of the peace for twelve 
years and "won golden opinions from all 
sorts of people." He was also township 
trustee for twenty-two years, and for a sho.rt 
time was superintendent of the Orphans 
Home. His political su"ii])ort was given the 
Democratic party, and his religious faith 
was that of the Baptist church. Fraternally 
he was connected with tlie Independent Or- 
der of Odd Fellows and with the Masonic 
lodge, and when death claiiued him his re- 
mains were interred with the rites of those 
orders. Prospering in his business under- 
taking and making judicious investments, he- 
became the owner of several hundred acres 
of land, all in Spring \"alley township. On 
the 28th of Fe!)ruary, 1850, ^^'iIliam J. Alex- 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORy OF GREENE COUNTY. 



iiixler inarried Elizaht-lh \\ t-llor. lie died 
April iS, i8t;7. luit his widow, wlio was 
lorn in \\ ashingtnn t'>wnsliip, Moiitijomery 
county. Ohio, April 18. 1825, is still living-. 
Three children were horn unto them, hut 
the daughter died in infancy. 

Perr\- A. .Me.vander, the older hrotlic. 
was reared on the home farm, acquired :i 
good education and wa.s married in Spring 
Valley. Xovemher 2S. 1878. to IMiss Ella 
M. El.gin. a daughter of Dr. M. B. and 
Margaret (Craft) Elgin. She was horn ami 
reared in Xew Burlington and was educated 
ill Spring \'alle\\ L'nto Mr. and Mrs. 
Alexander have heen horn six children : 
Laura C. William Elgin. Cantwell J., Ralph. 
^largaret and one now deceased. .Ml were 
born in Spring X'alley township. Laura is 
a graduate of the Xenia high school of the 
cla.ss of 1896. 

Since his marriage Mr. Alexan<ler has 
resided in Spring \'alley. and for the past 
ten years has made his home upon his pres- 
ent farm. He ow ns two tracts of land, one 
of one hundred and eighty-eight acres, the 
other of one hundred and tifty-six acres. 
In his farm work he follows progressive 
methods, has the latest improved machinerx' 
and keeps everything al)out his place in ex- 
cellent order. He \i>tes with the Democracy 
and in 1890 was nominated by the i)arty for 
the office of sheriff, but made no effort to 
secure the election, preferring to give his 
undivided attention to his business interests. 
Socially he is connected with Spring X'alloy 
Lodge, I. O. O. E.. the Elks of Xenia. and 
the Umior Order of American Mechanics. 
Bom in Spring \'alley township. Septem- 
ber 28. 1836, he has spent his entire life 
in this county, and has a large acquaintance, 
which includes many friends who appre- 
ciate his many good c|ualities and give him 



their high regard. He is a worthy repre- 
sentative of an honoreil pioneer faniilv and 
his record casts no shadow upon liic untar- 
nished faniiK name. 



ELI Mil.l.l'.X. 



In the >ear i8_^4 I''li Milieu became a 
resident of Xenia. He is one of the oklest 
as well as t)ne of the most honored citizens 
of lireene coiuit\', his birth ha\ing occurred 
in September, 181 5. He is a native of 
South Carolina, and one of ten children Ixirii 
unto John and Martha ( MoftitO Milieu. 
His father was a typical southern gentle- 
man and had the distinction of giving lib- 
erty to his slaves — twelve in number — be- 
fore the emancipation iiroclamation was is- 
suetl. He was a son of Scotch-Irish ])ar- 
entage. John .\lillcn was brought to this 
country lt\ his father, Robert Milieu, who 
took up his abode in South Carolina. Jolm 
became well known as an extensi\e hnul- 
holder and slave owner. 

I'.li Millen was rearetl upon his father's 
plantation and actiuired a good education in 
the common schools. He was nitieteen vears 
of age when he became a resident of .Xenia 
and therefore the entire period of his man- 
hooil has been passed in this city. He began 
business here in connection with the dry- 
goods trade, and for many years was en- 
gaged in merchandising, meeting with ex- 
cellent success. His store received a liberal 
patronag'e, and he always secured the very 
best of trade b\' his honorable business 
methods, his reasonable prices and his earn- 
est desire to please his customers. .\ man 
of resourceful business ability, he also ex- 
tended his efforts int<i other lines of activitv. 



ROfr^'Cy.^ r i,,--r..,.y .^^r,L,.^t^ y^'j '.%% 



.-* 



ff<r a time he was en^A^er] in r. rV r>;: e^* evf-r. ff:!:^' fr;if t,-» n^^ f,. u Vx-.A t'^,. : 

injf, in which he di<J an extf fience ;: 

Mr. ,\fillen h ^ttill ; th Hf'- hsw *tca4jiy a/l- 

the v...,;-, ( - f ,,, .', 

trk 

vnirce* mcreaMA he ju' \A^cti\ hiii 

nrv>?Te\' in t' 

Ti »>t t 

State. He wums a j?reat many 1, ha.<* taken a deep interest, amf ha 

HfiAi, f ^ ami ' 

ther K then he has grven tree of rent nvsT!\\)atA. amfunff the h'^jwirerl pw.n«er^ and 

t^' ti^e . ' ■ vahierl cTtfzem. 

library a:. . . ..;_,, .. ., 

which they rjccopy. He has always fjeen 

<Ieeply mteresterl in mental cnltore and in ip - V'f/>R. 

• --'-■' • • 'd- 

He has ever taken a very ffcep an*f active Konk of f^. 

interesf in Xcnia"'* L" .rs the strrmjf arwl socceHfol Uwinesw men ot 

'-- - '-- ^ ---- .--{y r;r- ■ 

& Jiailors' r>rphan Home was Ujouerl near [/-, , -•/, r^ the i^rh --.f F'+>nT- 

Xcni^ arv, 1864, arxi i* a sow '>f Dani' za- 

Mr. Mi'" — - - ,' ^ .. , . 

>f i."M Anna . - 

aj^am married, his second cmir>n bein^ with ^> - r,i o«r sobjeet came from Bcf- 

Miss Harriet '' .ter of /<-,- {4^,^ ^ r^recne o 

.^.!o '".-nnahle, ...i.; .^ ----. -^ ..a.., <: of Maasa- ve?.' --..-. 

In 1873 ^^^- ilillen was caJIel tr** 

upon to nioam the Io« of his f<etrmA wife, and fo(I<-AverI farmmsf thro' . •» entire 

who passed away on the s*^""'' ' ' ' Hie. p-' 

t?iat year. f)viT subject gi. - . . . her 

aupprjrt tr> the RepoWkan party and is a an. age ot 

devout member of the United Presbyterian ftttj-^exen years. y were 

ect .>ei;-.g Uie diflat 

his declining years in the midst of all Jesse Taylor acrjuircd his early edaca' 

c->mforts of Itfc that wealth can secure. He tion in riie schoofs of Ro»» township and 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



later continued his studies in Antioch Col- 
lege in Yellow Springs. After the comple- 
tion of his college work he entered the office 
ol Judge T. E. Scroggy, of Xenia. and took 
up the study of law in 1881. He remained 
in that office until December, 1885, when he 
went to W'infield, Kansas, on a visit, and 
l>eing pleased with that section of the coun- 
try he decitletl to locale there. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in April, 18S6. and became 
connected with a company incorporating 
new towns in Kansas. Going to Richfield, 
Morton county, he decided to remain there 
and take up' the practice of law. There 
were but four houses in the place when he 
settled there and the town was fifty-two 
miles from a railroad. In the fall of 1887 
he was elected comity attorne}- and served 
until the succeeding autumn, when he re- 
signed and was elected probate judge in the 
fall of 1888. He resigned that position on 
the 1st of July, 1889, to accept the appoint- 
ment at the hands of President Harrison to 
the-ixisition of receiver of public moneys in 
the United States land office at Garden City, 
Kansas. There he remained until February, 
1894, creditably filling the position. At the 
time of President Cleveland's second ad- 
ministration Mr. Taylor left the office and 
became interested with some Kansas parties 
in mineral lands in northern Arkansas, hav- 
ing the charge of their affairs in that state 
until his return to Ohio in November, 1895. 
He located at Jamestown and on the ist of 
June. 1896. he entered the People's Bank of 
this place as cashier. He has since served 
in that cajjacity and the success of the insti- 
tution is largely due to his efforts, the bank 
having now become one of the reliable finan- 
cial concerns of the county. 

On the 4th of Octoljer, 1887, Mr. Tay- 
Inr was united in marriage to Miss Ger- 



trude M. Clemens, a daughter of John G. 
Clemens, the president of the People's Bank. 
They ha\e a large circle of friends in this 
place and their own home is the center of 
sociability. 'Mr. Taylor is very prominent 
in public affairs, both politically and other- 
wise. He is also interested in farming and 
lias a valuable tract of land near Cedarville. 
Plis political support is given the Rq^ublican 
party and in 1896 he was elected on that 
ticket to the office of mayor of Jamestown, 
in which capacity he served for four years, 
his administration being practical, progres- 
sive and beneficial. In 1889 'Sir. Taylor was 
made a Mason in Kansas, but is now a mem- 
ber of Jamestown Lodge, Xo. 352, F. & A. 
2\I. He also belongs to Xenia Chapter, Xo. 
36, R. A. ^I., Reed Commandery. X"o. 6. K. 
T., of Dayton, and Antioch Temple of the 
^lystic Shrine of Dayton. He also has mem- 
bership relations with Xenia Lodge, B. P. 

0. E., and with Jamestown Lodge, X'o. i8r. 

1. O. O. F. ; Cyclone Lodge, Xo. 548, K. P.. 
and Jamestown Council, No. 311, J. O. U. 
A. M., of which he is past councilor. He is 
a member of the board of trustees of the 
Jamestown Methodist Episcopal church and 
is president of the Anti-Saloon League, of 
Jamestown. His efforts are being put forth 
in behalf of law and order, substantial prog- 
ress and desirable improvement, and James- 
town numbers him among its valued repre- 
sentatives and honored citizens. 



JAMES AI. STEWART. 

The history of a state, as well as that of 
a nation, is chiefly the chronicles of the lives 
and deeds of those who have conferred 
honor and dignity upon society. The world 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



635 



tliose «if its representative citizens and yields 
its tributes i)t admiration and respect for 
the genius, learning- or \irtues of those 
whose works and actions constitute the rec- 
ord of a state's prosperity and pride; and it 
is this record that ofifers for our considera- 
tion the history of men. who in their char- 
acters for probity and benevolence, and the 
kindly virtues, as well as for integrity in 
the affairs of life, are ever aft'ording to the 
young worthy examples for their regard and 
emulation. Therefore it is proper that a 
just celebrity should be given to those men 
who are distinguished in their day and gen- 
eration, that the living may enjoy the ap- 
probation of their contemporaries, as well 
as that of a grateful posterity. 

Judge Stewart is to-day one of the most 
honored and respected citizens of Xenia. 
where he is living a retiied life. He is one 
of a family of ten children born unto John 
T. and Anna (Elder) Stewart. His fatlicr 
belonged to an old Pennsylvanian family, 
which through almost a century has been 
rc])resented in this part of Ohio, for in 1805 
members of the familv established a home 
in what was then Greene county. There the 
father of our subject followed farming for 
many years, making his home three miles 
east of Clifton on the Miami river, where he 
dietl in 1850. His wife long survived him 
and passed away in 1882. The Judge was 
born in Greene (now Clark) county on the 
30th of March, 1828, and spent his boyhood 
days on his father's farm, attending the 
common schools of the neighl.iorhood. In 
the year 1857 he removed to Yellow Springs) 
Greene county, where he established a gen- 
eral mercantile store. He was quite suc- 
cessful in his undertakings and followed that 
pursuit for ten years. In 1867 he began 
larming and was thus engaged until 1884, 
37 



w hen he was appointed deputy probate judge 
of Greene county and remo\cd to Xenia in 
order to enter u])i)n the duties of the office. 
He served as deputy^ for two terms of three 
years each, after whicli he was elected as pro- 
Ijate judge in 1890 and took the oath of 
office in February, 1891. So acceptably did 
he till, the office that he was re-elected in 
1893. holding the ])osition initil 1897, and 
no more capable incumbent has ever filled 
that position. His decisions were strictly 
fair and impartial and in the discharge of 
his multitudinous delicate duties he showed 
that he was a man of well rounded character, 
finely balanced mind and of splendid intel- 
lectual attainments. Since his retirement 
from office he has led a quiet life, being iden- 
tified with no business pursuit save the man- 
agement of his property interests. He is, 
liowever. a director in the Citizens' National 
Mank, of Xenia. 

Judge Stewart was united in marriage 
to .Miss Rebecca J. Jacoby, a daughty of 
Henry Jacoby, one of the leading and influ- 
ential citizens of Greene county. The wed- 
ding was celebrated October 16. 1854, and 
inito them were born four daughters, of 
whom two are living: Ida M., the wife of 
S. B. LeSourd, a wide-awake business man 
of Xenia; and Leila, now the wife of Will- 
iam D. Cooley of Xenia. The Judge and 
his wife have a very pleasant home at No. 
224 East Second street. They are devoted 
and zealous members of the Presbyterian 
church, of which he is the ruling elder. He 
is identified with the ^lasonic fraternitv. 
He also gives his political support to the 
Re]>ul)lican party and is a man of distinctive 
ability and his character is one which is 
abo\'e a shadow of reproach. He has been 
faithful to the high offices in which he has 
been called to serve, and is widelv known 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREEXE COUXTV. 



and respected 1j\- all who have been at all 
familiar with his honorable and nseful 



career. 



CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. GLOT- 
FELTER. 

The home of Captain Glotfelter is pleas- 
antly situated about one mile north of Tre- 
bein, in Beavercreek township. Throughout 
his entire life he has resided in this locality 
and that many who have known him from 
boyhood are now numbered with his friends 
is an indication that his career has ever been 
an honoraljle one. He was born April 21, 
1837, on the old home farm where his 
grandfather and his father lived and died. 
He is a son of George A. and Harriet 
(Smith) Glotfelter. The former was born 
in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania : the lat- 
ter was also a native of the Keystone state. 
The paternal grandfather of our subject was 
John A. Glotfelter, whose birth occurred in 
Lancaster county. Pennsylvania, and who, 
having arrived at years of maturity, mar- 
ried Elizabeth Newman, a daughter of John 
Newman of the same county. Leaving 
Pennsylvania, accompanied by his wife and 
children, John A. Glotfelter traveled across 
the country in a wagon drawn by a team of 
horses. This was in 1815, when George A. 
Glotfelter was a little lad of five summers. 
The grandfather purchased a farm of two 
hundred and fifteen acres, two and one-half 
miles west of Alpha. This he improved and 
cultivated and made for himself a good 
home. He died December 22, i860, at the 
advanced age of ninety years and three 
months, while his wife passed away Febru- 
ary 29, 1830, at the age i>f sixty years, ten 



n";onths and twenty-nine days. He was a 
blacksmith by trade, and followed that pur- 
suit to a greater or less extent until his sight 
failed, although after coming to Ohio he 
gave his attention largely to agricultural 
pursuits. His reliability in all business 
transactions was a matter of general knowl- 
edge and amid the pioneer settlement in 
which he made his home, he was widely re- 
spected for his genuine worth. In his fam- 
ily were eight children, of whom six reached 
years of maturity, namely : John, Solomon, 
George A., Susan, Elizabeth and Nancy. 
The parents were both members of the Ger- 
man Reformed church and both die;l in that 
faith, passing away upon the farm on which 
they settled when the first came to the coun- 
ty. Both spoke the German language and 
j.'ossessed many of the sterling characteris- 
tics of their German ancestors. John A. 
Glotfelter was a Whig in politics. 

George A. Glotfelter, the father of our 
subject, received a common school education 
and never left the old home farm; He was 
there trained to habits of industry and econ- 
omy, and from his early youth throughout 
the period of his manhood he was an active 
factor in tilling the soil. Success crowned 
his efforts and as the years passed he made 
judicious investments in real estate until he 
became the owner of many acres of land. 
He also owned and operated the \\'ashing- 
ton Mill, on the Little Miami river, in Su- 
garcreek township, being associated in this 
eiiterprise with his brother. Solomon. In his 
early life he was also a stock buyer, but in 
later days did not engage in that depart- 
ment of labor. He served for some time as 
cnjitain on the state militia anfl the muster 
vas often held upon his farm. In his later 
vears he was alwavs known bv the title of 



KOBLX SON'S H J STORY OF GREEK E COUNTY. 



637 



Captain Glotfelter. Enterprising and reli- ■ 
alile in business lie was also a faithful friend, 
good neighbor and a popular man. He mar- 
ried IMiss Harriet Smith, and he and his 
wife were active members of the Reformed 
church, in which he held different offices. 
He was one of the leaders in the building 
of Mount Zion church and did all in his 
power to advance the cause of Christianity 
in his community. His wife was a most de- 
voted mother, faithful to every interest of 
h,er home, and her death, which occurred 
June 25, 1859. when she was forty-nine 
years of age, was widely and deeply 
mourned. By her marriage she had become 
the mother of six children who grew to 
r.iaturiiy : Sarah, the widow of Lewis Max- 
well and a resident of Kansas: Margaret C, 
the wife of Henry C. Darst, who is men- 
tioned on another page of this work ; Will- 
iam H., of this review; Martha Ann. the 
widow of Henry M. Ridenour antl a resi- 
dent of Greeneville. Ohio: Marv Ellen, the 
deceased wife of Terry Snyder; and Eanny. 
of Omaha, who completes the family. Two 
children. John and Eliza, died in infancy. 
After the death of his first wife Captain 
George A. Glotfelter married Mrs. Angeline 
( Weller) Ervin. His death iccurred Sep- 
tember 14. 1866. 

Captain William H. Cilotfelter, the im- 
mediate subject of this review, is indebted 
to the district schools for tiie educational 
privileges which he enjoyed. He pursued 
his studies during the winter months until 
he was seventeen years of age. and remained 
at home until the time of the Ci\-il war when, 
his public spirit and i)atriotic instincts 
aroused by the rebellion in the south, he en- 
listed in 1 86 1, for three vears' service. He 
^vent to Camp Dennison. but the company 



which he joined was not organized and after 
remaining there for a few days he w ent with 
some companions to Wilmington, Ohio, and 
there joined Company B, Twelfth Ohio In- 
fantry, under Captain Doane. When this 
company was organized he was made or- 
derly sergeant and later was promoted to 
the rank of second lieutenant. On the iSth 
of .Vpril. 1862, he was transferred to Com- 
pany I, and on the 30th of September of 
that year was promoted to the rank of first 
lieutenant of Company A. He took part in 
man\- of the most important engagements 
and battles of the war and was commission- 
ed captain but was never mustered in with 
that rank. He was jiresent at tlie battles of 
Scurry Creek. Monocacy and Antietani. and 
also participated in the camjiaign against 
Morgan in Ohio. He was wounded June 
17, 1864. in the right ankle, both bcnes be- 
ing shattered. This occurred at 1-ynchbnrg, 
X'irginia, and produced a lameness from 
which he suffered until March 3. uSg". when 
tlie limb had tn be amputated. He was hon- 
orably mustered out August 11. i8f>4. 

After his return from the war Captain 
Glotfelter became a partner in a general store 
in Alpha luidcr the tirm name of Snyder & 
(ilotfelter, with which he was connected for 
one year, when he sold out and removed to 
his present farm. Here he purchased twen- 
ty-two acres of land and he has since added 
to his possessions until he now owns two 
hundred and twenty-seven acres, on which 
he has recentK' erected a griod residence and 
substantial barns. He was married on the 
nth of May, 1865. to Miss Anna Hyland, 
a nati\e of Beavercreek township, born upon 
the farm where she is now li\'ing, her par- 
ents having been Hugh H. and Margaret 
(Snyder) Hyland. Captain and Mrs. Glot- 



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ROBIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GKEEXE COUXTY. 



teller now have two children : Jessie, the 
wife of R. L. Gowdy : and Martlia, who was 
educated in the Beavercreek higli school, 
after which she pursued a two years' course 
in the Columbus University and spent one 
year in Antioch College. She is now suc- 
cessfully engaged in teaching. 

The Captain is one of the prominent Re- 
publicans in this county, and in 187 1 he was 
elected county sheriff, which position he has 
filled for two terms, covering four years. 
In 1889 he was elected county commissioner 
and filled that office for six years and nine 
months. He has been a trustee of Beaver- 
creek township and in that office, as in all 
others he has filled, he discharged his duties 
in a faithful manner that has won for him 
the highest commendation not only of the 
n''en of his own party, but also of the oppo- 
sition as well. He belongs to Lewis Post, 
G. A. R., of Xenia, and the Masonic lodge, 
also to the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows and the Union \'eteran Legion, all of 
Xenia. His wife is identified with the Re- 
formed church and both are held in the high- 
est regard, having many friends. Captain 
Glotfelter comes of an honored pioneer fam- 
ily of Ohio, his record is one which has add- 
ed luster to the untarnished family name. 
His grandfather began the work of progress 
and iiii])rovenient here, which in turn car- 
ried on by his father and has been continued 
by him. The old homestead in its splendid 
development is an indication of the active 
lives of the members of the Glotfelter fam- 
ily. Tliere was no more loyal soldier upon 
the battlefields of the south than he whose 
name introduces this review, who, by rea- 
son of gallant and meritorious conduct won 
promotion from the ranks until he was com- 
missioned captain of the companv. In po- 
litical office he has been true, loyal and pub- 



lic-spirited, and at all times has been faith- 
ful to every obligation of private and public 
life. 



FRAXK E. KXISLEY. 

Frank E. Knislev has not always resided 
in Greene county, but is a native son of 
Ohio and represents one of the honored pio- 
neer families of the state. His paternal 
grandfather, Reuben Knisley, l)ecame one of 
the first settlers of Ross cc.iunty and is now 
living — almost a centenarian. James Knis- 
ley, the father of our subject, was born in 
Ross county, and became a wagon-maker l)y 
trade, but after the inauguration of the 
Civil war he put aside business considera- 
tions that he might aid in preserving the 
Union, enlisting in 1861, as a memljer of 
the Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
He joined the army as a private but was 
promoted to the rank of first sergeant. His 
brother-in-law was captain of the company 
and there were sixteen cousins in that com- 
pany. Mr. Knisley participated in many 
.important battles, including the engage- 
ments of Madrid, luka, Corinth, and "Sher- 
man's ^larch to the Sea." He married 
X'ancy AlcCord, a native of Pike county, 
Ohio. Mr. Knisley is now residing in Bain- 
bridge, Ohio, but his wife has passed away, 
having died in August. 1882, at the age of 
forty-four years, at which time her remains 
were interred in the cemetery at Cynthiana, 
Ohio. In the family were seven sons, of 
whom four are now living: Frank E., of 
this review ; Charles, who makes his home 
in Xenia, where he follows the carpenter's 
trade: Dode. also a carpenter and contractor 
of Xenia : and Edward, a resident of Bain- 
bridge, Ohio. 



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639 



Frank E. Knisley. whose name intro- 
duces this review, was born in Pike county. 
October 12, i860, and in the public schools 
of Rainsboro and llillsb(jr(j. Ohio, he pur- 
sued his education. He afterward cnijajjed 
in teaching school and has folbiwcd that 
profession continuously since, gaining a 
wide reputation as an educator of ability. 
In i(S85 he came to Xenia, where for seven 
years he served as a teacher in the ])ublic 
schools and as a truant officer. He then re- 
signed his position, removing to Lancaster, 
Ohio, where for two years he was a teacher 
in the reform school. On tlie expiration of 
that peril 1(1 he went U> T'lankintiin. South 
Dakota, and accepted the position of assist- 
ant superintendent of the South Dakota Re- 
form School, where he remained until re- 
signing in the early part of 1901. In March 
f)f that vear he again became a resident of 
Xenia and accepted the position of superin- 
tendent of the County Children's Home, in 
which capacity he has since served. His la- 
bors have proved highly satisfactory to the 
lioard of control. He is a gentleman of 
broad humanitarian principles, deeply inter- 
ested in his fellow men and in the progress 
of the race. He has broad sympathy and 
therefore is well qualified to fill his present 
position because of his interest in the chil- 
dren from a physical, moral and intellectual 
standpoint. 

In 1884 Mr. Knisley was united in mar- 
r-age to Miss Flora Canfield, a native of 
Xenia. and a daughter of George C. and 
Anna ( Pierce) Canfield, the former one of 
the pioneer settlers of Springfield, Ohio. 
Mr. and Mrs. Knisley now have two chil- 
dren ; Pierce, who is studying pharmacy ; 
and Bessie, who is attending school in Xenia. 
The parents are consistent Christian people, 
Mr. Knisley belonging to the Alethodist 



church, his wife to the Baptist church. Fra- 
ternally he is connected with the Masonic 
lodge, the Knights of Pythias order, and the 
Sons of Veterans, and has filled all of the 
chairs in the last two. His political sup- 
jjort is given the Republican party and he 
has never wavered in his allegiance to its 
princi])les. 



THOMAS H. HESS. 

Thomas H. Hess, who is engaged in the 
cultivation of the H. B. Stewart farm in 
Sugarcreek township, was born in Monon- 
galia county. West Virginia, on the 21st of 
January, 1852. He is a son of James T. 
and Sarah A. (Hite) Hess. His father was 
a farmer by occupation and died in West 
Virginia in the year 1878. His family were 
strong Union peoi)Ie at the lime of the Civil 
war. Although they did not live in the part 
01 West Virginia where there was any fight- 
ing, their farms were raided and they lost 
some property. They also had to go to the 
mountains with their horses in order to keep 
them from being stolen, sometimes it lieing 
necessary for them to be a\vay from home 
for weeks. Two of the sons of the family 
were soldiers of the Union arm\-. Joseph 
Steenrod Hess joined the army in April, 
1861, at President Lincoln's first call for 
troops and remained at the front until Aug- 
ust, 1865. He was in many battles and was 
wounded at the engagement at W'ytheville, 
where his horse was shot and fell upon him. 
After the starry banner of the nation was 
planted in the capital of the Southern Con- 
federacy he received an honorable discharge 
and returned to his home. He still resides 
in West Virginia. William Hess joined the 
L^nion army in September, 1862, and was at 



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tile front until the close, of hostilities, l:)eing 
wounded at the battle of Cedar Creek. His 
occupation was a carpenter but he now re- 
sides in Warren county. Iowa, where he is 
the owner of three hundred and sixty acres 
of lanil. and is engaged in tlie insurance 
business. During the period of the war be- 
tween the north and the south the father 
vas assistant provost marshal under a ]\Ir. 
Craft from Ohio, and had many exciting 
experiences. He \\as a man without fear 
and was found in his saddle night and day 
fc'r about two years. He was a sutler at 
New Creek and there were people in Greene 
county who knew him there. 

Thomas H. Hess remained at home until 
sixteen years of age when he came to Greene 
county and began earning his li\ing by 
working as a farm hand by the month. Later 
he removed to Delaware county. Indiana, 
and it was during his resilience there that he 
was married on the 19th of October, 1876, 
to Miss Julia A. Gentis. Two children were 
born of this ^ marriage. Soon after their 
marriage tlie yi )ung cf)uple removed to his 
native state, there renting land for three 
years. On the expiration of that period, 
after the death of his father Mr. Hess re- 
turned to Greene county, taking up his 
abode in Sugarcreek township, where he is 
connected with the cultivation of rented 
land. His elder .son, Charles T., was born 
in \\'est \'irginia on the 18th of May, 1878. 
He now resides in Sugarcreek township with 
his little family, having married Anna 
Thomas of that township. In- whom he has 
one daughter — Hattie Belle. The second 
son, Walter, was born Octol)er 8. 1880, and 
is niiw empl(\ved upon a fruit farm in Clark 
county, Ohio. Tlie mother died on the 24th 
of Xevember, 18S3. At that time Mr. Hess 
sold his interest in Greene countv and re- 



turned to his natix'e state, but not liking it 
there he persuaded his mother to come to 
Ohio and keep house for him. His second 
marriage occurred in West X'irginia on the 
nth of December, 1884, the lady of his 
choice liieing Miss Carrie E. Baker, who was 
born in that state, a daughter of John and 
^lary (Reed) Baker. She was reared in 
West \'irginia and by her marriage became 
the mother of five children : Jessie, wlio 
was born in Sugarcreek township. March 
18. 1886; Frank Zell, born April 17, 1888; 
Cora Fay, born Sq^tember 21, 1890: Hazel 
Gladys, born January 22, 1893: and Flor- 
ence, born July 13, 1897. 

Since 18S1 our subject has resided upon 
t!ie farm upon which he now makes his home 
with the exception of a period of our years. 
This property has been owned by four dif- 
ferent people during that time liut all have 
found in Mr. Hess an excellent tenant, reli- 
able, trustworthy, and earnest. In politics 
he is a Republican and has endorsed the 
principles of that party since his boyhood 
days and has given it his ballot since he be- 
came of age. He was reared in the Baptist 
faith but is now a member of the Methodist 
Protestant church at Bellbrook. 



XELSOX A. FULTOX. 

Prominent among tlie energetic, far-see- 
ing and successful business men of Xenia, 
Greene county. Ohio, is tlie subject of this 
sketch. His life history most happily illus- 
trates what may be attained by faithful and 
continued effort in carrying out an honest 
purpose. Integrity, activity and energy 
have been the crowning points of his suc- 
cess, and his connection with various busi- 



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641 



ness enterprises and industries has been a 
decided advantage to tliis section of Ohio, 
promoting its material welfare in no uncer- 
tain manner. 

Nelson A. Fulton was born in Warren 
county, Ohio. November 15, 1839. His fa- 
ther. Dr. Robert Fulton, was a native of 
Baltimore, Maryland, where his birth oc- 
curred December 31, 1810. During his 
boyhood he accompanied his parents to Chil- 
licothe, Ohio, where he was reared to man- 
hood and ol)tained a good literary educa- 
tion, which served as an excellent founda- 
tion upon which to erect the superstructure 
of his professional learning. He took up the 
study of medicine in \\'arren county under 
the direction of Dr. Thacker and began 
practice in Clinton county. Ohio, where he 
also engaged in merchandising. Subse- 
quently he abandoned the commercial pur- 
suit and opened an office in Lynchburg, 
where for thirty years he tlevoted his time 
and energies to the practice of his profes- 
sion. For more than si.xty years he was a 
local minister of the Methodist Episcopal 
church and thus he devoted his life to two 
of the most important callings to which man 
can give his attention. lie was quite noted 
as a pulpit orator antl tilled various official 
positions in his church. He also attained 
prominence as a political speaker, acquiring 
a wide reputation during the struggle caused 
through the admission of Kansas into the 
Union. He belonged to the Odd Fellow fra- 
ternity and at one time was grand chaplain 
of the grand lodge of the state of Ohio. His 
death occurred on the ist of October, 1898, 
in Highland county, Ohio, when he had at- 
tained the very advanced age of eighty- 
seven years. His influence was most marked 
and the impress of his indi\'iduality was left 
on the lives of inanv with whom he came in 



contact. His wife, who bore the maiden 
name of Mary Morgan, was a resident of 
Warren county, Ohio, prior to her marriage. 
She passed away in 1888 at the age of sev- 
enty-four. In their family were eight chil- 
dren who reached mature years and are 
still living, namely : Theodore, who is en- 
gaged in business at Cincinnati and resides 
at Lynchburg: Adelia, the widow of John L. 
West, of Hillslxjro, Ohio; Nelson A.; Theo- 
dosia, who became the wife of W. L. \\'est, 
of Clinton Valley. Ohio, and died December 
^i. 1901 : Mary E., the wife of W. Miller, 
of Martinsville. Ohio: S. O., who resides in 
Milwaukee. Wisconsin, and is manager of 
the Northwestern Adamant Manufacturing 
Company: Laura, the wife of Samuel Peale, 
of Lynchburg: and Robert S.. who resides 
in Germantown. Ohio. 

Nelson .\. l'"ulton of this review spent 
ti;e days of his boyhood and youth under 
the parental roof and in i860, when he had 
attained his majority, became connected 
with the business interests of Cincinnati, 
where he remained until the breaking out of 
the Civil war. In response to President 
Lincoln's first call for seventy-five thousand 
men to ser\-e for three months, he enlisted as 
a member of Company C. Thirteenth Ohio 
\ olunteer Infantry, under the command of 
Captain Don Piatt. Later he re-enlisted for 
three years in Company D. Eleventh Ohio 
\'ulunteer Lifantry, and during the first year 
he was in West Virginia, participating in 
the battles of Cotton Mou;itain and Hawk's 
Nest. In 1862 the regiment went with Gen- 
eral Cox to eastern Virginia and participated 
in the second battle of Bull Run, Monocacy, 
South [Mountain and Antietam. On the lat- 
ter field of battle the Eleventh stormed the 
liridge. their colonel being killed during the 
ch.arge. The regiment was then ordered 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



back to \\'est Virginia and went into winter 
quarters at Sonierville. AV'iiile there they 
were sent one niglit on a iIiirtN'-mile scout 
and succeeded in tlieir attempt to capture a 
rebel outpost. Tlic weatlier turned cold 
very suddenly, the mercury falling to twen- 
ty-four below zero and a deep snow covering 
the ground, many of the Union soldiers were 
badly frozen and they obliged the rebels to 
nm in order to keep them from freezing as 
they were poorly clothed. Both victors and 
vanquished endured great suffering on that 
occasion. . After the battle of Stone Kiver 
the command in West Virginia was ordered 
out of winter quarters and sent to Tennes- 
see in January. 1863. They went by river 
from Kenewa Falls to Carthage. Tennessee, 
on Rosecrans' extreme left. General Crook 
in command of the division. While there 
they had to forage for themselves and horses 
and fight for their supplies every (la\- with 
Wheeler's Cavalry. On April 14, General 
Crook took the entire brigade across the 
river to give Wiieeler battle. A detachment 
of the Eleventh and Eighty-ninth regiments 
Vvcre mounted, and under the command of 
Captain Spears, of the First Tennessee Cav- 
alry, were ordered to skirmish with Wheel- 
er. While on this mission Mr. Fulton was 
captured by the Eleventh Texas Cavalry, 
and after being C(Mifined at Chattanooga. 
Knoxville and Lxnchburg, was finallv sent 
to Libby Prison, where he was detained 
forty days. Seven hundred prisoners were 
then taken to City Point and paroled. There 
they were paid off and sent to their respec- 
tive states. Mr. Fulton came to Columbus 
on parole and, his tenn of service having 
nearly expired, he was discharged June 20. 
1864. From hard service and the poor fare 
which he had while in prison he contracted 



clironic rheumatism which permanently 
crippled him in both feet. 

Mr. Fulton made a most creditable mili- 
tary record as a brave and loyal soldier, who 
was always found at his post of duty. After 
l)eing mustered out he at once returned home 
and acted as chief clerk under Major Starr 
iri a mustering and disbursing office in Col- 
umbus where he remained for eight months. 
He then went to Cincinnati and engaged as 
a salesman in a wholesale dry goods house, 
where he remained for twelve years. In 
1876 he removed to Xenia and engaged in 
merchandising on his own account, being 
numbered among the prosperous merchants 
of this place for thirteen years. He enjoyed 
a liberal patronage for his business methods 
were honorable and straightforward, his 
prices reasonable, and his desire to please 
his customers manifested in all that he did. 
Al length he was appointed postmaster and 
then sold his store to George A. Thompson, 
who had long been in his employ as a sales- 
man. 

In his political views Mr. Fulton has al- 
ways been a stanch Re]niblican but has never 
sought office as the rew ard for party fealty. 
At length, however, he received the ap- 
pointment to the position of postmaster on 
the 6th of Septeml^er, 1889, and was a most 
capable official, his administration winning 
him high commendation. The office is a free 
delivery one. employing twelve clerks. Be- 
lieving firmly in the prijiciples of the Re- 
publican party ^Ir. Fulton has been very 
active in promoting its welfare and for five 
\ears he served as chairman of the Repul>- 
lican executive committee. On his retire- 
ment from the postoffice he engaged in the 
real estate and loan business in which he 
continued until February, 1898. He was 



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643 



tlien appointed superintendent of tlie Sol- 
diers" and Sailors" Orphans" Home and filled 
the position most satisfactorily until May, 
1900, when he resigned to resume his former 
business and is still in the real estate, loan 
and insurance business, having a very large 
clientage along these lines. 

In Highland county, Ohio, in Septem- 
ber, 1863, Mr. Fulton wedded Hannah Gra- 
ham, a daughter of Robinson and Elizabeth 
(Strain) Graham, who owned and operateil 
a large farm upon which ^Irs. Fulton lived 
until her marriage. Unto our subject and 
his wife was born a son, who died in in- 
fancy. Mr. Fulton is an active and valued 
representative of the Masonic fraternity, the 
Grand Army of the Republic, and the Union 
\'eterans" Legion. He is also, with Mrs. 
Fulton, a member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal church. He has made an untarnished 
record and unspotted reputation as a busi- 
ness man. In all places and under all cir- 
cumstances he is loyal to truth, honor and 
the right, justly valuing his own self-respect 
as infinitely more preferable than wealth, 
fame and position. In those finer traits of 
character which combine to form that which 
we term friendship, which endear and at- 
tach man to man in bonds which nothing 
l)ut the stain of dishonor can sever, which 
triumph and shine brightest in the hour of 
ad\-ersity, — in those qualities lie is ro_\'ally 
endowed. 



HEXRY C. DARST. 

Upon a good farm of one hundreil and 
ninety-five acres, Henry C. Darst is now- 
living and has made his home there through- 
out liis entire life with the exception of the 
period of his early boyhood. He was born 
in Dayton, November 16, 1830, and is a son 



of Jacob and Ruhamah (Molcr) Darst. The 
father was born in Frederick county, Vir- 
ginia, while the mother"s birth occurred at 
Harper's Ferry, that state. Mr. Darst was 
a farmer b\- occupation and on coming to 
Ohio purchased land in Greene county, but 
subsequently sold his farm and removed to 
Dayton. He remained Init a few years in 
the city, however, and then removed to a 
farm which he purchased adjoining his old 
place in Beavercreek township, Greene coun- 
ty, making his home thereon until his death, 
which occurred May 28, 1852, when he was 
sixty-six years of age. His wife died Feb- 
ruary 13. 1878. at the age of eighty-one, and 
both were laid to rest in the Beavertown 
cemetery. After the death of her husband 
Mrs. Darst resided with our subject for sev- 
eral years. Both were consistent members 
of the Christian churcii and fre(|ucntly in the 
early days religious services were held in 
their home. The old Darst residence is one 
of the landmarks of the community. It was 
erected in 1832 by the father of our sub- 
ject, and is built of brick. It was one of 
tile largest and best homes in that part of 
Ohio at the time of its building and through 
almost two-thirds of a century it has looked 
forth upon the county, a silent witness of 
its progress and improvement, its substantial 
rp-buikling and its advancement along so- 
cial, intellectual and moral lines. Mr. Darst 
gave his political supix)rt to the Whig party 
and though he never sought ofiice was ever 
a puljlic-spirited and progressive man. Unto 
liim and his wife were born six children: 
Roleigh. who died in April, 1902, in Beaver- 
creek township; Abraham, a resident of 
Dayton ; Henry C. ; Martha, the widow of 
John Kennedy, a resident of Montgomery 
county. Ohio ; and two who died in early 
childhood. 



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NODIXSOX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



Henry C. Darst pursued liis education in 
a little log schoolhouse and after he was able 
to assist in the work of the farm he had the 
opportunity of attending school for only 
three months a year and that during the win- 
ter season when the work upon the farm 
was practically over. He remained upon the 
old homestead with his father until the lat- 
ter's death and has never left the old place 
which is endeared to him through the asso- 
ciations of his boyhood as well as those of 
mature years. 

On October ii, 1855, he was united in 
m.arriage to Miss Margaret Glotfelter. a na- 
tive of Beavercreek township, and a daugh- 
ter of George and Harriet (Smith) Glot- 
felter, both of whom were natives of Som- 
erset county. Pennsylvania, but were mar- 
ried in this county. The Glotfelter family 

. were of Swiss origin, while the Darst fam- 
ily is of German descent. The father of 
Mrs. Darst was twenty-three years of age 
at the time of his marriage and his wife was 
twenty-four. The former was a son of 
John Adam Glotfelter. who married a Miss 
Newman. Unto the parents of !Mrs. Darst 
were born eight children: Sarah, the widow 
of Lewis ]\Iaxwell. and a resident of Grant 
county, Kansas: Margaret, the wife' of our 
subject: Captain W. H.. who is living in 
Beavercreek township : ^Martha, the widow 
of Henry Ridenour. and a resident of Green- 
ville. Ohio; John A., who died in childhood; 
Mary Ellen, the deceased wife of Perry Snv- 

. der; Harriet F., who married Josiah A. Aul- 
abaugh. and resides in Omaha, Nebraska; 
Eliza Jane, who died in childhood. The fa- 
ther of this family was a farmer by occupa- 
tion, following that pursuit until the time of 
his death. He served as a captain in the old 
state militia and was always afterward 
known liy that title. In the old davs the 



militia used to muster upon his farm and 
there drill. Mr. Glotfelter was the owner of 
considerable property and in addition to his 
farming land he at one time owned and oper- 
ated a grist mill in connection with his 
brother. His political support was given 
the ^\'hig party until its dissolution when he 
joined the ranks of the Republican party. 
Both he and his wife were members of the 
Reformed church and his death occurred in 
1S65. while the wife passetl awav June 2^, 

1859- 

The home of Mr. and ^Irs. Darst has 
l>een blessed with five children. Edward 
\V.. who is living in Texas, is engaged as 
a minister of the Christian church. He 
married Miss Minnie Souders. a daughter of 
Doctor Souders of Beavertown, and they 
have one child, Margaret. \\'il!iam H., who 
is living in Beavercreek township, married 
^liss Sarah Sourbray. and they have two 
children. IMary and Louise. j\Iattie died in 
childhood. Mary is the wife of James E. 
Andrew, a resident of Sugarcreek town- 
ship, and they have three living children, 
Herbert, Alma and Ralph, and have lost 
one son, William. Emma R., the youngest 
iremlier of the family, is at home. 

Mr. Darst has devoted his attention to 
farming and stock-raising throughout his 
entire life and is to-day the owner of the old 
homestead place, comprising one hundred 
and ninety-five acres of rich land. He still 
lives in the old brick residence which was 
erected by his father, and little change has 
been made in it save that a porch has been 
added. There is a good barn on the place, 
eighty by forty-five feet, and everything 
upon the farm is in a good state of impro\-e- 
ment and repair, indicating the thrifty and 
enterprising spirit of the owner. Both Mr. 
and Mrs. Darst holil membership in the 



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645 



Cliurch of Christ and are people of sterling 
worth, wiilely known and honored through- 
out the community in which they so long 
resided. They have traveled life's journey 
together for almost half a century and re- 
ceive the warm regard of all with whom 
they have come in contact. Mr. Darst is a 
stanch Republican but has not held office. 



LEANDER SPAHR. 

Leander Spahr, who follows agricultural 
pursuits on the Burlington pike, four miles 
south of Xenia, was born in Spring Valley 
township, January 22, 1852, his parents be- 
ing Elijah and Ann (McKay) Spahr. His 
father was born in Hardy county. Virginia, 
in February, 1816. and died in August, 
1891. He was twelve years of age when he 
came to Ohio, the family settling in Greene 
county, where he learned the wood-worker's 
trade and aided in manufacturing plows and 
fanning mills in the employ of a Mr. Pag- 
ette. After arriving at years of maturity he 
married Mrs. Ann McKnight, nee j\IcKa}', 
a widow of James McKnight. She was a 
daughter of Jesse McKay, and by her first 
m.arriage she had four children, of whom 
two are living, Elizabeth and ^laria. The 
former became the wife of Benjamin Jones, 
by whom she had two children. Her sec- 
ond husband w-as Noah Tremble, and her 
third husband was .\lonzo Cronkhite. with 
whom she is now living in Indiana. Robert 
McKnight was a soldier in the Civil war 
who served throughout the period of hos- 
tilities and died in November, 1S97. Mr. 
and Mrs. Spahr resided upon the McKnight 
farm and it was there that our subject was 
born. Later this place was sold and Mr. 



Spahr purchased two hundred and two acres 
of land upon which his son Leander now re- 
sides. Upon this place he spent his remain- 
ing days, successfully carrying on agricul- 
tural pursuits. His political support was 
givai the Democracy, but he never sought or 
desired office or took an active part in polit- 
ical argument. His attention was given in 
an undivided manner to his farm work. He 
cleared about twenty-four acres of land and 
during the Civil war he built the house 
which our subject now occupies. It is well 
constructed with a heavy frame and black 
walnut weather boarding. Unto Mr. and 
Mrs. Spahr were born seven children : An- 
geline, who died when about tw-enty-two 
years of age; La\ inia, who became the w^ife 
of Philip Peterson, but is now deceased ; 
Leander, of this review ; Rel:)ecca Emeline, 
who died at the age of twenty-five years ; 
]Mattie, who died at the age of twenty-three 
years ; Leroy, who is clerking in Dayton ; 
and Ella, the wife of L. Arthur Babb. 

After acquiring his preliminary educa- 
tion in the common schools, Mr. Spahr at- 
tended the high school at Spring Valley. 
He remained at home and after his father's 
death, according to the terms of the will, 
administered the estate. He is still car- 
rying on agricultural pursuits and his ef- 
forts have been attended with a high degree 
of success. 

Mr. Spahr was reared in the Democratic 
faith and for a time voted that ticket, but 
afterward became a Republican, and is now 
a stanch supporter of the party, although he 
never seeks nor desires office. He has been 
a member of the board of education and the 
schools find in him a warm friend. Since 
eighteen years of age he has been a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal church and 
has long served as superintendent of the 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Sinulay scliool. He has also been trustee and 
class leader of the Richland church and is 
a liberal supporter of its work and does all 
in his power to extend its influence. Fra- 
ternally he is connected with the Junior Or- 
der of American Mechanics. Throughout 
his entire life he has resided upon the farm 
which is now his home, and that many who 
hav'e known him from lx)yhood are num- 
bered among his stanchest friends, is an in- 
dication that his has been an honorable and 
ujjright career. 



DANIEL AI. STEWART. 

Among the prominent residents of Xenia 
is numbered D. AI. Stewart, who owes his 
success not to any fortunate circumstances 
which surrounded him in youth but to the 
qualities of enterprise, determination and 
laudable ambition. He is to-d&y filling the 
position of vice president of the Xenia Na- 
tional Bank, to which otTice he was elected 
in January. 1902. Air. Stewart was born 
on the 17th of Alarch, 1840, upon his fa- 
ther's farm in Greene county. He is one of 
the two surviving children born unto Will- 
iam H. and Esther (AIcAIillen) Stewart, 
both of whom were natives of South Caro- 
hna. The father, who was born in Febru- 
ary, 181 1, became a resident of this countv 
ill 1820. being brought to Ohio by his par- 
ents, who settled two miles from Xenia. In 
the schools of the neighborhood he acquired 
his education and afterward followed farm- 
ing for a livelihood. The later years of his 
life, however, were spent in retirement from 
active labor. He passed away in 1878 and 
his wife was called to her 'final rest on the 
15th of June, 1856. 



Upon the old home farm in Greene coun- 
ty. Daniel AI. Stewart was reared, and the 
district schools afforded him his educational 
privileges. He had almost attained his ma- 
jority when he entered the service of his 
country as a defender of the Union in the 
Civil war. becoming a member of Company 
F. One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry. Immediately after his dis- 
charge he returned to Xenia and again en- 
gaged in farming, his attention being de- 
voted to the tilling of the soil until 1876, 
when he took up his abode in this city, where 
he was engaged in the real estate and life 
insurance business until 1878, when he be- 
came a representative of the real estate in- 
terests of the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe 
Railroad Company Land Grant. He was 
associated with W. R. Linn, with main of- 
fice at Springfield, Ohio, they being general 
agents of tlie company and had cliarge of 
agencies east of the Alississippi river. Our 
subject had supervision of the outside work, 
which necessitated a large amount of travel. 
He continued with the company until the 
sales were made and business closed. Air. 
Stewart invested in lands and developed 
mines in the Joplin district in southwestern 
Alissouri, where for sixteen years he suc- 
cessfully followed mining, his methods be- 
ing such as to make his labors of profit. He 
has disjxjsed of his mining interests, but has 
two fine farms in this county, which are in 
a high degree of cultivation. For five years 
he has been a director in the Xenia N^ational 
Bank and in January, 1902, was elected vice 
president, in which jiosition he is now serv- 
ing. 

In 1877 Air. Stewart was united in mar- 
riage to Aliss Hattie Bonner, a daughter of 
Rev. James Bonner of Shelby county. Ohio, 
who was a minister of the United Presbv- 



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terian cliurch. L'lito our suljject and his 
wife has l>eeii born a daughter. Belle, who 
has recently graduated from the seminary at 
Washington. Pennsylvania, and is at home. 
Mr. Stewart is a member of the Grand Army 
of the Republic and in his political affilia- 
tions is a pronounced RejHiblican. For 
twehe consecutive years he represented his 
ward in the city council of Xenia, exercis- 
ing his official prerogatives in support of all 
measures and movements which he believed 
to be of general good. His efforts in behalf 
of the city have been valuable and far-reach- 
ir.g and his co-operation is never sought in 
vain for the advancement of any movements 
which he l>elieves will cijutriljute to the gen- 
eral welfare. 



DAXIKL MORGAX St. JOHX. 

Among the valiant sons that Greene 
county sent to the front at the time when 
the countr_\- became invoh'ed in civil war 
was Daniel ^lorgan St. John, who is now 
numbered among the successful and well 
known agriculturists of Caesarscreek town- 
ship. He was born in this township June 
13, 1835, and his life has ever been in har- 
mony with an untarnished family record. 
The district schools afforded him his edu- 
cational privileges, and he was identified 
with farming interests until 1864, when he 
offered his services to the Union, enlisting 
at Xenia as a private of Company H, One 
Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry. 
He served with that command until Sep- 
temlier 2. 1864, when he was honorably dis- 
charged at Camp Dennison with the rank 
of corporal, having in the meantime partici- 
pated in the battle of Xew Creek, Virginia. 



Mr. St. John had previously been mar- 
ried and now returned to his family. It 
was on the 28th of January, 1858. that he 
led to the marriage altar Miss Eliza J. Beam, 
a sister of Daniel H. Beam. Ten children 
ha\e been born unto them : Aima Bell, who 
was born May i6, 1859, is the deceased wife 
of David G. Ford, of Kansas, by whom she 
had four children — ^Jessie, Mopsie. Frankie 
and \'esta. .\lva H., Ixirn August 15, 1861, 
married Olive Smith and has one living 
child. Harper. Their home is in Caesar.s- 
creek townshi]). .\letha L., born Septem- 
ber I, 1863, is the wife of David \V. Paint- 
er, of Spring Valley township, antl has four 
children — Orville, Dora, Ethel and Elsie. 
William H., born Xovember 22. 1865, died 
at the age of two years. .\da J., iiorn 
March 11, 1868, is the wife of Alpha Thom- 
as, of Paintersville, and lias one child, Fred. 
Ella D.. born August 28, 1870. is the wife 
of Frank W. Walker, of Xenia, and they 
have four children — Reva, Lora. Karl and 
Paul. Arthur E., born February 2},. 1873, 
married Cora Ellis, and of their three chil- 
dren one is living — Leon. Their home is in 
Caesarscreek township. Glendora, born 
June 26, 1875, is the wife of Oscar Ellis, 
of Xenia, and they have four children — 
Leona, Ernest, Luam and Emmett. Osco 
E., born November 6, 1877, married Nora 
Adams, and resides in Caesarscreek tow-n- 
ship. Bertha E., born September 4. 1885, 
completes the family. 

In the spring of 1858 Mr. St. John set- 
tled upon the farm which he has since made 
his home, bringing his wife a bride to that 
place. Here they have since resided, and 
he has given his superxision to the care and 
cultivation of his three hundred and forty- 
four acres of land. He has placed all of 
the improvements on this farm and it is 



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equipped witli modern accessories and con- 
veniences such as indicate his practical and 
tliorough knowledge of the best methods of 
farming. He is identified with Lewis Post. 
G. A. R., of Xenia, and exercises his right 
of franchise in support of the men and meas- 
ures of the Republican party, on whose 
ticket he was elected treasurer of Caesars- 
creek tow'uship, holding the office for four 
years. He also belongs, with Mrs. St. John, 
to the Methodist Episcopal church, in which 
he is now serving as steward and has been 
trustee. Tliroughout his entire life he has 
advocated progressive measures, tending to 
advance material, social, intellectual and 
moral interests. He is reliable in Inisiness 
tVansactions and faithful in friendship, and 
the qualities of an upright manhood are his. 



ALBERT M GREGG. 

The rich farms of Greene county have 
contributed largely to her prosperity, and 
many of those who are engaged in cultivat- 
ing the soil are classed among the enter- 
])rising and jirogressive residents of this 
portion of the state. Mr. Gregg, who suc- 
cessfully follows agricultural pursuits in 
Spring Valley township, was born in Sugar- 
creek township on the 5th of January, 1850. 
His father, .\aron Gregg, was born in Lou- 
doun county. \'irginia. in 1819. and when 
eighteen years of age came to Ohio, locat- 
ing in Warren county, where he met and 
married Rebecca Kelsey, who was born in 
that county, a daughter of Amos and Mar- 
garet (Blackford) Kelsey. The father of 
our subject came to Greene county about 
1849 ^"fl purchased land in Sugarcreek 
township, where he resided for a few years, 
and then returned to \\'arren county, his 
Avife having died in the meantime. In 1859 



he went to ^^'arsaw•, Kentucky, where he 
engaged in farming for a year, and then pur- 
chased a wharf l)oat and a gristmill, en- 
gaging in the milling business in 1866. Dur- 
ing the Cixil war he was elected on the 
Union ticket to the office of state senator of 
Kentucky, and took an active part in shap- 
ing the legislation of the state during that 
momentous and troublous period. By Presi- 
dent Lincoln he was appointed United States 
marshal for the seventh district of Ken- 
tucky, serving from 1862 until the close of 
the war. In 1866 he removed to Lawrence 
county. Illinois, where he conducted a grist- 
mill and distillery, carrying on business 
along those lines until his death in 1875. 
He was a man of more than ordinar\- in- 
telligence, and while he had received but a 
connnon-school education he was a well read 
man, who kept tln^roughly informed on the 
leading issues and topics of the day. 

Mr. Gregg, whose name introduces this 
re\ iew, received but a limited education ex- 
cept in the school of e.xperience. He was 
about nine years of age when he left Ohio, 
accompanying his father on his various re- 
movals and assisting him in his work until 
his death. When his father had passed 
awa\- Mr. Gregg returned to Ohio, settling 
in Warren county. When -"bout ten years 
of age he had begun to act as engineer in 
his father's mill. He was afterw-ard a lo- 
comotive engineer on the Ohio & Mississippi 
Railroad, and on abandoning that mode of 
life returned to th.e Buckeye state. After 
his marriage he engaged in farming for a 
year and then became an engineer in the 
mill and distillery owned by F. C. Trebein. 
After a few months, however, he resumed 
farming, which he has since followed, op- 
erating one hundred and ninety-one acres, 
which his wife inherited. 



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On tlie 2MI1 111' January, 1879, I\Ir. 
Gregg- niarrietl Miss Sarah E. Wright, who 
was born in Sugarcreek township, a daugh- 
ter of Charles W. and Elizabeth ( \'enard) 
\\'right. The father was born in Lmuloun 
count}-, \'irginia, Xoveniljer 26, 1822, and 
the mother in Warren county, Ohio, De- 
cember 12, 1823. while their marriage oc- 
curred May j6, 1843. They resided for 
many \ears in Sugarcreek township, this 
county, and the father, following farming, 
became the owner of eight hundred acres 
of land in Greene and Montgomery coun- 
ties. He (lied October 2;^, 1886. He was 
very successful in his business pursuits, had 
marked ability as a financier and accumu- 
lated a handsome propert}-. He was a Re- 
pul)lican in jiolitics. and a member of the 
Baptist cluuch. Three children were born 
unto ]\Ir. and Mrs. Gregg: ]\Iary Elizabeth, 
who was born in Warren county, and is tlie 
wife of William F. Holland, of this county, 
their marriage ha\ing taken place Novem- 
ber 27, 1901 ; Charles Aamn, who was born 
August II, 1882; and Florence P., who was 
born in the house in which she is still liv- 
ing with her parents. Mr. Gregg's endorse- 
ment of the fxepublican partv is indicated 
by his ballot \\hich is gi\-en for its men and 
measures, but while he keeps well informed 
on the issues of the day be has never sought 
ot-'fice. his attention being fully occupied with 
the duties of business life, and the pleasures 
of the home. 



w illia:\i d. \\'right. 

\\'illiani 1). Wright is connected with 
merchandising and financial interests in 
Xenia, being senior partner of the present 
firm of Wright & Carruthers and a director 



in tb.e Xenia Xatinnal Bank. He was born 
in Guernsey county. Ohio, on the 9th of 
Xovember, 1844. a son of Thomas L. and 
Margaret .\. I Bear) Wright, whose family 
numbered six children. The father was a 
native of rennsylvania and when about two 
years old was brought to Ohio by his par- 
ents, who located in Freeport, Harrison 
count}-, and afterward removed to Guernsey 
county. It was in the latter place that the 
father of our subject continued to make his 
honie until 1883, wjien he came to Xenia. 
Throughout his business career he carried 
on agricultural pursuits and thus pro\ided 
comfortabl}- for his famil}-. His fleath oc- 
curred in Xenia in 1888. and his widow is 
.spending her declining years in the home 
of her son, William D., having reached a 
hale old age of eighty-four years. 

In the citminon schools Williani D. 
Wright pursued his studies, being a student 
at Xew Birmingham, Ohio. It was in that 
place that he was reared. He learned teleg- 
raphy in Cambridge, Ohio, and at the age 
of twenty years he accepted his first position 
with the ^^'estern Union Telegraph Com- 
pany at Washington. Ohio, where he became 
operator as successor to T. J. Lovejoy. who 
is now secretary of the Carnegie Iron and 
Steel Company. Coming to Xenia, Mr. 
^^'ri■^ilt accepted a position as manager for 
the same corporation and ser\-ed in that 
important position until 1894, when he re- 
signed on account of ill health. He was then 
appointed general luanager of the Miami 
Telephone Company with headquarters at 
Xenia. and filled that position acceptablv for 
four years, during which time the lines were 
practically reconstructed, lint he never re- 
covered from tiie strain which had been 
placed upon him in the ^^'estern Union serv- 
ice, and his physicians advised him to rest 



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for a time, l^ir two years thereafter lie 
was not actively connected with business in- 
terests. In February, 1899, however, he 
purchased an interest in the coal business 
which is now conducted l)y the firm of 
Wright & Carruthers, becoming the succes- 
sor of J. B. Carruthers, who met his death 
in a railroad accident. They deal in both 
anthracite and l_iitumiiiou.>i coal and do a 
wholesale and retail business, their patron- 
age now being quite extensive. In 1895 Mr. 
Wright was elected a director in the Xenia 
National Bank and has since been thus finan- 
cially connected with the instittuion. In his 
political ahiliations he is a Republican. A 
genial, courteous gentleman and a pleasant, 
entertaining companion, he has many stanch 
and admiring friends among all classes of 
men. As an energetic and upright business 
man and a gentleman of attractive social 
qualities he stands high in the estimation of 
the entire communitv. 



SIMOX BLACK. 



Simon Black, a representati\e citizen 
and prominent farmer of Beavercreek town- 
ship, has spent his entire life in Greene coun- 
ty. Ohio, his birth having occurred in Bath 
township in 18,^1. His father. Robert 
Black, was born in western Penns\lvania 
and was a son of Alathew Black, who 
brought his family to this state at an early 
day. and settled in Beavercreek township. 
Greene county. Robert Black received but 
a very limited education, pursuing his stud- 
ies first in a log school house in Pennsylva- 
nia and later in Beavercreek township, this 
county, after the removal of the familv to 
Ohio. At an earlv age he started out in 



life for himself, and engaged in farming 
about one mile below the place where his 
son now lives. After living there a number 
of years, he removed to Beavercreek town- 
ship. He wedded Mary Koogler, a native 
of that township, and to them were born 
nine children, three sons and six daughters, 
namely: Sarah, a resident of Covington, 
Ohio: Simon, of this review: Jonathan, 
whose home is in Ludlow : Rebecca, a resi- 
dent of Beavercreek township : Mary, de- 
ceased; Jacob, a resident of Illinois; Annie 
Maria, of Missouri; Catherine, of Dayton, 
t)hio: and Eliza Jane, wife of Morris Car- 
ter, of Dayton. The father was a self-made 
man, whose success in life was due entirely 
to his own well-directed and energetic 
efforts, for he was entirely without capital 
on beginning his business career. He 
cleared aljout one hundred and sixty acres 
of land, and at his death owned a well im- 
proved and valuable farm of two hundred 
acres. 

Simon Black was educated in an old log 
school house situated about a mile and a 
half from his boyhood home, school being 
conducted on the subscription plan. He 
early acquired an excellent knowledge of 
agricultural pursuits, and at the age of 
twenty }-ears entered into partnership with 
his father in his farming oijerations, re- 
maining under the parental roof until his 
marriage. He then moved one mile north 
of the old homestead and rented a farm of 
one hundred and fifty acres, which he subse- 
quently jjurchased. and later he purchased 
another farm of about one hundred acres in 
the same \icinity. Ui)on his ])lace he raises 
principally corn and wheat, but also gives 
some attention to the raising of cattle and 
hogs. 

Mr. Black was married in 1857 to Miss 
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creek township, this county, and tliey lia\e 
become the parents of three cliildren, two 
sons and one daughter, namely : Robert 
H., Simon D. and EHzabeth, all at home. 
In 1886 Simon D. married Miss Sarah L. 
Reese, of Beavercreek township, and they 
have one child, Doroth)-, who is now four- 
teen years of age and is attending the high 
school of Fairfield. The sons always as- 
sisted their father in the operation of the 
home farm, and they are now engaged in 
farming in partnership. 

By his ballot Mr. Black usually supports 
the men and measures of the Republican 
party, but at local elections when no issue is 
involved he votes for the men whom he be- 
lieves Ijiest qualified for office regardless of 
party lines. He has never Ijeen prevailed 
upon to accept political jxisitiuns of any 
kind as he prefers to give his luidivided at- 
tention to his business interests. He and his 
wife are active and consistent memljers of 
the Reformed church, and are held in the 
highest regard by all who know them. 



JAMES S. :\IcCLURE. 

James S. INlcClure, \\h<i follows farming 
in Sugarcreek township, near Bellbrook, was 
born about a mile south of his present home, 
his birth occurring on the 8th of January, 
1846. He is a son of Cyrus and ]\Iary Jane 
I Dinwiddle) McClure. His paternal grand- 
father, Andrew ]\IcClure, came to Ohio at 
an earl\- period in its de\elopment, and for 
a time resided east of the Miami river, but 
later remove;l to a farm west of the river, 
taking up his abode upon the place which is 
now the home of our subject. There the 
grandfather spent his remaining days, and 

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the property remained in the familv until 
1897. Andrew McClure was a native of 
Virginia, born on the 3d of March, 1773, 
near the town of Charleston. He wedded 
Mary Steele, who was li-jrn January 24, 
1779, and died mi the 3th of November, 
1862. 

Cyrus McClure, the father of our sub- 
ject, was born Septemljer i, 181 1, and 
throughout his entire life carried on agri- 
cultural pursuits, but died in early manhood, 
leaving but one child, the subject of this 
review, who was then about two years old. 
The mother afterward married again, when 
James S. McClure was about fifteen years 
of age. She had removed to Bellbrook soon 
after the death of her first husband, and 
thus James S. McClure remained a resident 
of that city during much of his youth. His 
maternal grandfather, John R. Dinwiddie, 
was a wagonmaker and when our subject 
was not engaged with the duties of the 
schoolroom he was employed at painting 
wagons in his grandfather's shop. Wheni 
fifteen years of age he determined to secure- 
a position, and after working one seasom 
went to the old home farm, where he began 
farming on shares, being thus employed for 
many years after his marriage or imtil 1890.. 

It was in Warren county, Ohio, in 1867,. 
that Mr. McClure was joined in wedlock tc 
.Miss Josephine Murph\- and unto them has- 
been born one child, \\'alter, whose birth; 
occurred on tlie old hoiuestead farm Decem- 
ber 16, 1868. He married Miss Mary Scott 
on the 1 8th of October, 1892, ard is en- 
gaged in the undertaking business in 
W'aynesville, Ohio. He has two children,. 
James E. and Carl .Scott. In 1869 the sub- 
ject of this review was called upon to mounr 
the loss of his wife, who died on the 24tli 
of September of that year. His second mar- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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riage took place in Warren count}-, Ohio. 
May 24. 1 8- 1, the lady of iiis choice being 
Miss Mary Chenoweth. who was born in that 
county August 11, 1852. a daughter of 
George antl Letitia (Cox) Chenoweth. The 
children of the second marriage are: Ida 
May. who was born November 16, 1872, and 
became the wife of Perry M. Kelsey, April 
27, 1896; Samuel C, who was born March 
22. 1873. and was married November 25, 
1897. to L.. Bertha Hatfield; and Mary J., 
who was born February 18, 1878. and is at 
liome. 

Mr. McClure followed in his father's 
])()Iitical fiiotsteps. becoming a stanch Re- 
])ublican. He has served altogether for 
eleven years as a trustee of Sugarcreek 
townsliip. has taken an active and influential 
\r,nl in political affairs and has served as a 
delegate to many conventions. He and his 
wife hold meml)ershi]i in the United Pres- 
l)ytcrian church, and lie contributed largely 
to the erection of the house of worship. His 
sui)i)ort is never withheld from any move- 
ment w hicli he l)elie\'es will advance the ma- 
terial, intellectual or moral upbuilding of 
the comnninitw 



lOHX LL'TZ. 



Earnest and indefatigable later has been 
the secret of the success which John Lutz 
has attained. For more than forty years lie 
has been successfully engaged in l>lack- 
smithing and wagonmaking and is thus a 
well known factor in industrial circles of 
Xenia. He is among the valuable citizens 
that Maryland has furnished to the Buck- 
eve state, his iiirth ha\ing occurred near 
Clear Spring nn the 5th of January. 1829 



The family is of German lineage and llic 
great-grandfather of our subject came from 
Germany to the new world. The grandfa- 
ther. Nicholas Lutz, spent his last years in 
Pennsylvania. Henry Lutz, the father of 
our subject, was born near Millersl)urg. 
Lancaster county. Pennsylvania, in 1802. 
He married Frances Moudy, who was a 
nati\e of Williamsport. Maryland, and unto 
them were born two sijns and three daugh- 
ters, but only two of the number reached 
mature years, John and Mary, the latter be- 
coming the wife of Fj. ^'. Berry, then a resi- 
dent of Xenia. In 1859 the father remmecl 
with his family to Indiana and settled on a 
farm near Fort Wayne, but after resifling 
there for ten years returned to Xenia, where 
he departed this life in 1877, his wife pass- 
ing away about eight years later. 

John Lutz spent the first twenty-four 
years of his life under the ])arental roof. 
His educational ])ri\ileges were somewhat 
meagre but he was well trained in lessons 
of industry and frugality, which proved the 
foundation of his prosperitv in later vears. 
W'lien still a young man he began learning 
the blacksmith's trade, becoming rpiite ex- 
pert in the use of the tools of the smithy. 
Jn Xo\enil)cr. 1833. he arri\ed in (^hio. Id- 
cating in Xenia and for fourteen months lie 
was ill the emi^loy nf James White. He then 
returned to M;u"\-land fur his bride, for ere 
leax'in'.; his nati\'e land he had become be- 
trothed to Sa villa Wolford. The marriage 
was celebrated at her home in Maryland in 
March. 1835. ami the\" began their domestic 
life in Xeiiia. where they have remained con- 
tinuously since. His father acconi])anied 
him on his return to this ])lace and together 
they establislied a liusiness on (. hurch street 
where for four years thev engaged in black- 
smitliing. In the spring of 1831) our sub- 



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655 



jcct purchased tlie wagon works (jf one 'li 
the earl}' settlers and with the exception (•! 
the tirst year lie has conducted tlie lousiness 
alone, covering a period of more than forty 
years. In his work he has ever Ijecn thor- 
ougli and reliable, and his straightforward 
dealings and capabilit}- have secured to him 
creditable success. 

Ill the early part of 1864 Mr. I.utz re- 
sponded to the ciiuntry's call for aid and be- 
came a Union solilier, joining Com])anv E. 
One Hundred and Fifty- foiulh Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry. With iiis regiment he went 
to Xew Creek, Virginia, and he participated 
in the battle at that place, lie tix^k ])art in 
no other engagements but ex])erienced manv 
of the hardshi])s and pri\ations incident to a 
sokliers life. After four months service he 
recei\ed an honorable discharge at Camp 
Dennison, Ohio, in Octol>er, 1864, and then 
resumed the pursuits of ci\il life, lie has 
since been engaged in blacksmithing and 
wagonmaking in Xenia and as the years 
have jiassed he has added to his cai)ital until 
he is now the possessor of a handsome com- 
pence. For a number of years one of his 
sons has been associated with him in the 
conduct of the business. The marriage of 
Mr. and Mrs. Lutz has Ijeen Ijlessed with 
six children of whom the following are liv- 
ing : Jacob H. ; John E. ; Laura B.. now' the 
wife of John F. Sanders: Cora E., and Ida 
S.. the wife of George Sinz. Mr. Lutz and 
his famil\- are members of the Reformed 
church and fraternally he is connected with 
the Independent Order of Odd F'ellows. and 
is a member of Lewis Post. Xo. 347. G. .\. 
1\., while in his political views he is a Re- 
]iublican. His life has been quietly passed, 
not marked Ijy any event of special import- 
ance. \et his history is that of one who has 



e\cr been true and loyal to public and ])rivate 
dut_\'. He is known as an lionor;ible man, 
a ])leasant, sociable compruiion and a fond 
husband and father. 



josiiLW 1; \Kxi:rT. 

In public c)ffice as well as in private life 
Joshua Harnett has shown himself a worthy 
and loyal citizen, devoted to the best inter- 
ests of the comnnmiiy. Throughout his 
business career he has carried on farming 
and has ever been upright and reliable in his 
dealings with his fellowmen. .\mong Greene 
county's nali\e sons he is numbered, his 
birth ha\ing occurred in the northeastern, 
part of Spring Valley township, October 13, 
185-'. his parents being John and Amelia 
( Moody I I'.arnett, both of whom were na- 
tives of Maryland. Soon after their mar- 
riage they emigrated to Ohio, settling on a 
farm in Spring \'alley township, Greene 
County. The father had actpiired a good 
education in his youth and had engaged in 
teaching before he came to Ohio. Here he 
owned a farm of one hundred and fifty acres 
and his labors transformed it into a wduable 
tract, which anntially returned to him a good 
income. LTnto him and his wife were born 
nine children, eight of whom reached mature 
years, while five are still living, namely: 
01i\'er, a resident of Xenia township; Ed- 
ward, who lives on the lower Bellbrook road 
in Xenia townshi]): James, whose farm bor- 
ders the upper Bellbrook road, in Sugar- 
creek township; Virginia, the wife of 
George X^isonger, of Beavercreek town- 
shi]); and Joshua. The father was an ad- 
herent of F\e])ul)lican ]>rinciples and was a 



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member of tlie Methodist Episcopal church, 
Xo event of special importance occurred 
to vary the routine of farm life for Joshua 
Barnett in his youth. Amid work and pla\' 
and the duties of the school room the years 
passed and at the age of twenty-three he en- 
tered upon an in<lependent business career. 
When about twenty-five years of age he 
made his first purchase of land, comprising 
forty-five acres in Spring Valley township. 
He put some improvements upon that farm 
and made it his home for alxnit four years, 
after which he sold it and purchased his 
present farm of se\enty-h\e acres. This 
is a rich and aralile tract of land and an- 
nuall\- he garners good harvests. He has 
splendid impro\einents upon his place, in- 
cluding an attractive home two stories m 
l.eight and containing eight rooms. It is 
tastefully furnished and is celebrated for its 
v\arm hearted hospitality. There is a good 
bank l)arn and other necessary improve- 
ments, and the farm is a monument to the 
enterprise, capable management and business 
ability of the owner. He has gained the 
property through his own well directed 
efforts. 

On the loth of January, 1877, occurred 
the marriage of Mr. Barnett and Miss Caro- 
line Simison, of Spring Valley township, 
a daughter of Milo and Mary (Kelly) Simi- 
son. Their home has been blessed with four 
children: Samuel D., born October 29. 
1877: Ohmer J., lx)rn February 29, 1880; 
Ethel : born September 19, 1882 ; and George 
C, born December 2, 1888. The parents 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, lieing connected with Gladys chapel 
and Mr. Barnett has served as superintend- 
ent of the Sunday-school for several years. 
He is now a trustee of the church, does all 
in his ])ower to extend its influence, and con- 



tributes liberally to its support. In 1876 he 
jjroudly cast his first presidential vote, sup- 
jjorting Ha_\-es. and has since been a stanch 
Republican. In 1902 he was the candidate 
for count\' commissioner. He has served as 
a member of the state board of equalization 
for the counties of Greene, Clinton, Ross, 
Fayette and Highland, and succeeded in se- 
curing a reduction on the assessment for all 
these counties — over one million dollars for 
Greene county alone. He is public spirited 
and progressive and heartily co-operates 
with every movement and measure calcuT 
lated to prove of general good. His worth 
is widelv acknowledged and the circle of his 
friends is only limited by the circle of his 
acquaintances. 



JA.MES WALLACE POLLOCK. 

One of the finest farms in Greene county 
is that owned and occupied by James W'. 
Pollock. It is well located on the Xenia 
pike, a mile and a half from Cedarville, in 
Cedarville township, and it comprises three 
hundred and sixty acres. One hundred 
acres of this adjoins the birthplace of 
W'hitelaw Reid, the Xew York journalist. 
The Pollock family is of Scotch-Irish line- 
age, and the first representative of this 
branch of the family in America was Will- 
iam Pollock, the grandfather of our sub- 
ject, who came from Scotland anil located 
in Washington county, Pennsylvania, where 
he spent his remaining days. In that coun- 
ty J(ihn Pollock was Imrn and grew to man- 
hood. In Westmoreland countv of tlie same 
state lived .\liraham and Jane (Johnson) 
Elder, who were also of Scotch- Irish de- 
scent, and unto them was Ixirn a daughter. 



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Jane. The Elders remosed to Log'an coun- 
ty, Oliio. aljout i8jo and there Mr. Elder 
l>ecanie a man (jf note, his ability making 
him a leader in public affairs. He was 
elected one of the first judges of the coun- 
ty and filled that position for luany years. 
John Pollock also left tiie Keystone state 
and became a resident of Logan count) . 
There he formed the acquaintance of Jane 
EldeV and in 1834 they were m.'u'rieil. 
They located upon a tract of land near 
Huntsville and there they reared their fam- 
ily of eight children, the subject of tliis re- 
view being the third in order of birth. 

It was upon the 12th of January. 1840. 
that James Wallace Pollock first opened his 
eyes to the liglit of day. At the usual age 
he entered the district schools, and after 
studying there for some time he pursued a 
course in a select school near his home. 
Remaining with his parents until after the 
breaking out of the Civil war he joined 
the Union army on the 23d of June, 1862, 
at Huntsville and was assigned to Company 
D, Forty-fifth Ohio Infantry, which was 
attached to the Army of the Cuml^erland. 
He took part in some of the principal en- 
gagements against Ivlorgau, that at Somer- 
set being tlie most imixirtant. At Phila- 
delphia, Tennessee, on the 20th of Octo- 
ber, 1863, he w'as taken prisoner and was 
sent to Atlanta and thence to Liblw prison. 
Not long afterward he w-as transferred to 
Belle Isle, where he was held for four 
months, and later he was conveyed to Pem- 
berton ami then to Andersonville, where he 
spent six months during the worst period in 
all the horrors of that loathsome prison den. 
During his confinement Air. Pollock had 
charge of a mess of one hundred men, for 
whom he drew' the stuff they called rations. 
The commissary sergeant of a small party 



of colored troops was brutallx- sh(tt by the 
guard and the rebels would not issue rations 
directly to the negroes, so it became neces- 
sary for white men to draw their supplies. 
The position was not a pleasant one to fill 
and few cared to undertake it, but Mr. Pol- 
lock volunteered to take charge of the ne- 
groes and did so until his rem(_)\al from the 
place. .\t one time the raiders became so 
numerous and so bold in their depredations, 
— even at times murdering the defenseless 
])risoners, — -that a coiumittee was formed to 
remedv the e\il. Mr. Polloik was one of 
the committeemen and aiiled ni ijriiiging the 
miscreants to justice six of them being hung. 
When captured our subject weighed one 
hundred aiul seventv-ti\e pounds, but imder 
the horrors of prison life his weight was 
reduced to eighty-three jiounds. From An- 
dersonville he was sent to Charleston, 
where a party of prisoners were kept un- 
der guard for si.K weeks until the stockade 
at Florence was completed and they were 
sent there. On the wa\' Mr. Pollock and a 
comrade, Charles Hoffman, of Buffalo, New 
York, made an attempt to escape, jumping 
from the car while it was in motion. A few 
shots were fired at them. l)Ut they managed 
to get away in the darkness, traveling all 
night. The next day, however, they were 
run down by bloodhounds and taken to 
Florence, reaching there only thirty-six 
hours after the others. Air. Pollock still 
bears on his leg the scars left by the bites 
of the hounds. After he had spent ten 
weeks at Florence the prisoners were ex- 
changed in Charleston harbor in 1864 and 
were then sent home on fmiough. Mr. 
Pollock rejoined his regiment on the 5th 
of April, 1865, and was mustered out w'ith 
his command at Camp Parker, near Nash- 
ville, on the 19th of June following. 



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Returning to Logan county he entered 
Duff's Commercial College, from which he 
was graduated the following year. He then 
turned his attention to the drug husiness, in 
which he was engaged for several years, 
during two years of this time carrying on 
a store at Cedarville, while for a consid- 
erable time he was in Xenia. In 1871 he 
removed to his present farm and has since 
carrieil on farming and stock-raising, al- 
ways having thoroughbred cattle at the head 
of his herd. For the past ten years he has 
made a specialty of ix)lled Durham, which 
popular variety he introduced, being the 
first man to own one in the countv. For 
many years he had a thoroughbred Devon 
herd which he exhibited at different state 
fairs in Ohio. Indiana and Illinois, and the 
St. Louis exposition, taking many prizes for 
the herd. He not only met with success but 
did much to better the grade of sttKk in the 
county. At present he has about fifty head 
of polled Durhams. known as the Hill View 
lierd, and considered one of the finest of 
this section of the state. For many 
years his place was known as the Ander- 
son st<x:k farm, but Mr. Pollock has 
changed the name to the Hill \"iew stock 
farm. He is one of the most progressi\e. 
enterprising and j^rospcrous stock raisers 
of the locality and a man of excellent busi- 
ness ability. 

During his residence in Cedarville Mr. 
Pollock was united in marriage to Miss 
Xettie, a daughter of Samuel and Jane 
(Townsley) Anderson, of that place, the 
wedding being celebrated November 4 1869. 
Her father was born on the farm where 
Mr. Pollock is now living, and it remained 
in his p<issession for fifty-six years, but in 
August. 1869, he was called to his final rest. 
He was a son of William Anderson, who 



came to Greene county from Kentucky at a 
very early day and settled upon the tract of 
land which now constitutes the Hill View 
stock farm. Samuel Anderson was born in 
1818 and throughout his life was an active 
and enterprising agriculturist. His widow 
is still living at the age of seventy-seven 
vears, making her home with ]\Ir. and Mrs. 
Pollock. L'nto our subject and his wife 
have been born three children. Edith is 
now the wife of Rev. Pressley Thompson, 
of Washington, Pennsylvania, a minister of 
the United Presbyterian church, and they 
have four children : Wilbur Pollock, Mar- 
garet, Pressley, Jr.. and Donald Bruce. 
Jennie is the wife of Leonard Aitken. who 
is engaged in general mining at Colorado 
Springs, Colorado, and they have one child, 
Regina. Junia, the youngest child of Mr. 
and Mrs. Pollock, is still at home. 

In his jx)litical views Air. Pollock is a 
stalwart Republican, ne\er wavering in his 
allegiance to the party. He has been a 
most active factor in promoting agricult- 
ural interests in this iK)rtion of the state, 
and in addition to his being a member of 
the lx>ard of agriculture he is one of the 
charter members of the American Devon 
Cattle Clul) and one of the founders of the 
Ohio Spanish Alerino Sheep Breeders' As- 
sociation, and was a member of the state 
board of agriculture from 1890 until 1894. 
He was serving as its president at the time 
he retired from the office. His political 
service covers six years spent as coimtv 
commissioner of Greene county, from 1890 
until 1896. He filled the office for two 
terms by election and for one term liy ap- 
P'lintment. Mr. Pollock has always taken 
an active interest in educational affairs and 
served for fifteen years as a member of the 
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has always stood for progressive ideas. He 
gave all his daughters collegiate educations 
at Monmouth. Illinois. He was a member 
of the countv agricultural board for twentv 



president, and did much to l)uil<l up the fair. 
He and his wife are dev(jted and loyal mem- 
bers of the United Presbyterian church and 
for man}- years he has served as one of its 
elders. A man of broad views and libera! 
policy, yet strong in his good name as well 
as in his business ability, James W. Pol- 
lock well deserves mention among the prom- 
inent residents of (jreenc countv. 



ROr.l'.RT r,RIK\'E. 



Robert (irieve is a retired farmer wlio 
makes iiis home in Xenia. His birth oc- 
curred on the old family homestead within 
two jniles of the city. July 2/. 1831. He 
comes of a family of agriculturists that 
through different generations has been con- 
nected with the tilling of the soil. The 
family is of Scotch lineage, the father, 
Archibald (jric\e. luu'ing Ijecn a far- 
mer of county Selkirk, Scotland, where he 
was born in 1775. In the year 1812 be 
crossed the Atlantic to America, landing at 
Xew York, where he remained until 1814. 
He then made his way by boat to Warren 
county, Ohio, and cast in his lot with the pi- 
oneer settlers of the state. He was united in 
marriage to Agnes Stephenson, who was 
born in Roxboroughshire, Scotland, and 
was a daughter of John and Isabella Steph- 
enson. The marriage was celebrated March 
II, 181 1, and a year later they sailed for 
the new world. When Archibald (jrieve ar- 
rived w ith liis familv in what is now Greene 



county, lie bought one hundretl acres of land 
and immediatelv proceeded to clear a suffi- 
cient amount of this in (jrder to erect a 
little log cabin w'hich would ser\e as a shel- 
ter for his family, and the wolves also 
seemed to think that it might ser\ e the same 
purpose for them. It was often necessary 
to bar the door in order to keep out the w iid 
animals. Wild deer roamed through the 
forests and venison was a well known dish 
upon the pioneer boards, if a member of the 
family happened to be a good shot. Mr. 
Grieve proceeded as rapidly as possible in 
clearing and cultivating his lantl and in a 
few years he had a comfortable home, al- 
though in early days the family endured all 
the trials and hardships incident to frontier 
life. He and his wife were members of the 
Seceder church, now known as the United 
Presbyterian churcli, and although the near- 
est place of worship in the earl\- days was 
eight miles distant from their home, it did 
not pre\ent these wortiiy ]5eople from at- 
tending divine services. Archibald Grieve 
and his wife were the parents of nine chil- 
dren, of whom our subject and four broth- 
ers are the surviving members. 

Robert Grieve of this review is the only 
one of the family now residing in Greene 
county. His oldest brother died in the year 
1847. Like most boys of the period Robert 
Grieve attended the public schools during 
the winter months and throughout the re- 
n'lainder of the year assisted in the labors 
of the field and meadow. He was thus en- 
gaged until twenty-one years of age, when 
he put aside his text books and thereafter 
devoted bis entire attention to agricultural 
pursuits. ', In 1867 he purchased a farm 
upon which he long resided — a tract of sixty 
acres which he cultivated and improved, 
transforming it into a \aluable property. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



He still owns this and also has another 
farm of one hundred acres on the border 
line f)l Xenia and Xew Jasper townships, 
which is now managed by his son. For 
many years in addition to the cultivation of 
crops best adapted to the soil and climate. 
Mr. Grieve was extensively engaged in rais- 
ing graded stock, including shorthorn cattle 
and Poland-China hogs, and also bred 
horses. Tlioroughly familiar with the best 
methods of farming and stock-raising and 
directing his efforts along well defined lines 
of labor, he met with a richly merited de- 
gree of success in his undertakings and as 
the years passed accumulated a comfortal)le 
competence, which now enables him to live 
retired. He makes his home in Xenia, en- 
joying the fruits fit his former toil, which 
supplies him with all the comforts and many 
of the luxuries of life. 

Mr. Grieve married Miss Elizalieth 
Crawford in 1856. She was a daughter of 
Robert Crawford, a resident of Xenia, and 
died in 1888, leaving three sons: Archibald, 
who is now on one of his father's farms; 
Rankin, a resident of Xenia, who was sher- 
iff of Greene county for four years ; and 
John, at home. In 1892 Mr. Grieve mar- 
ried Miss Johanna Kyle, wlio died in 1895. 
Religiously he is a member of the Second 
United Presbvterian church. 



IlEXRY H. STAFFORD. 

Henry H. Stafford was born in Bethel 
township, Miami county, Ohio, on the 8th 
of October. 1836, and is a son of AN'illiam 
E. and Harriet Xewell (Steele) Staft'ord, 
both of whom are now deceased. The sub- 
ject of this review is indebted to the common 



school system of his native county for the 
early educational privileges which he en- 
joyed and later on was a student for one 
term in Carlyle Academy. He then re- 
turned to the home farm, living with his 
uncle and guardian until he was married and 
giving to his uncle the benefit of his ser- 
\ices in the care and cultivation of his 
uncle's fields. 

On the 4th of October, 1864, Mr. Staf- 
ford was joined in wedlock to ]\Iiss Sarah 
Ellen Ka1)le. a daughter of Samuel and 
Catherine Kable. who were early settlers of 
Greene count}-. In the year 1867 Mr. Staf- 
ford came to this county, living upon a farm 
which belonged to his wife's mother. They 
made their home there for about six years 
and on the expiration of that period our sub- 
ject purchased his present farm of eighty- 
nine acres in Beavercreek township. The 
buildings and improvements here all stand 
as evidences of his life of industry and enter- 
prise, for all have been erected by ]\Ir. Staf- 
ford, including a large and attractive home 
and a barn, thirty-six by fifty-six feet. He 
carries on general farming and stock-rais- 
ing and the fields are under a high state of 
cultivation, while everything about the place 
is characterized by neatness. 

Unto Mr. and ^Irs. Stafford have been 
born six children : Harriet Catherine is the 
wife of Johnson Engle, a resident of Mont- 
gomery county, Ohio, and they have four 
children — Elberta. Stafford, Paul and Eliza- 
beth. I'ranklin K. is engaged in teaching. 
He is a graduate of the Heidelberg Uni- 
versity at Tiffin, Ohio. Edwin L., Herbert 
S. and Harry FI.. are all at home. The last 
three are graduates of the Beavercreek town- 
shi]) high school : and Harry and Herbert 
are now students in Heidelberg University. 
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66 1 



their cliildren liold membership in tlie Re- 
formed churcli, taking- a very active part in 
its worix. Mrs. Stafford is now serving as 
treasurer of the Indies Missionary Societv 
and .Mr. St.iffonl has been treasurer of the 
church, also deacon, and is now filhng- the 
position of elder. In politics he is a Pro- 
hibitionist and has ever been a strong advo- 
cate of teni])erance principles and of all 
those movements and measures which tend 
to benefit humanity. During his residence 
here, covering more than a quarter of a cen- 
tiu\v, he has become widely and favorably 
known, enjoying in a high degree the con- 
fidence and good-will of his fellow men. 



TOBIAS DREES. 



The name nf Tobias Drees is so closely 
as.sociated w itli the history of Cireeue county 
that this volume would be incomplete with- 
t)ut his life record. For forty-two years he 
figured conspicuously as a representative of 
building interests and his efforts were equal- 
ly ])otent in the moral development of the 
city. His life, so honorable and upright, 
forms an example well worthy of emulation 
by those who appreciate the value of char- 
acter. He realized fully that "Honor and 
fame from no condition rise" and that upon 
the man depends his position in the business 
and social world. To know Tobias Drees 
Avas therefore to honor him, for throughout 
the vears of his manhood he faithfully per- 
formed tlie tasks which devohed upon him 
and his course was so straightforward that 
his record was above reproach. 

It is known that Tobias Drees was a rep- 
resentative of the famil}- in the ninth gener- 
ation. He was born February 19, 1819, in 
the orrand fluchv of Oldenburg, Germanv, 



where his family was an old one. In the 
year 1832 the father started for the new 
world accompanied by his familv. Thev 
took passage on a sailing vessel at Bremen 
and in the month of February arrived in 
Baltimore, Maryland, making their wav to 
Pittsburg, where they remained for six 
weeks. During that time the subject of this 
review acquired a sufficient knowledge of 
the Jinglish language to act as interpreter 
for the party that accompanied the family, 
and it was not long before he was quite fa- 
miliar with the new tongue. He found em- 
ployment as a w aiter in a hotel in Pittsburg, 
From that city the family removed to Min- 
ster, a German village in the northern part 
of .\uglaize county, Ohio, and the father, 
securing a tract of land, began farming, but 
later, in connection^with his son Tobias, he 
secured employment on a canal boat run- 
ning between Tro\- and Cincinnati. 

^^'hen sixteen years of age Tobias Drees 
of this review left home, being allowed the 
privilege of securing work elsewhere on the 
condition that he would return a part of his 
wages for the support of the family, which 
he did for a number of years. On one oc- 
casion while making a trip to Troy he seri- 
ously considered the future and what he 
should make of himself and he determined 
that whate\'er came he would lead a life of 
industry and integrity — a resolution to 
which he always strictly adhered. He first 
worked as a teamster and later was a porter 
and clerk in a hotel. When he had attained 
his majority he determined to learn a trade 
and entered upon an apprenticeship to a 
cooper, but after three weeks he decided that 
the work would never lie congenial and 
sought and obtained a release from his in- 
denture. He ne.xt began learning the car- 
penter's trade under the direction of the 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



firm of Crandall & Bmwn. of Tn>y. (3hio, 
entering- their service in i84_'. They had the 
contract for Ijiiildini^- the Greene county 
courthouse and as the famihes of the two 
])artners removed to Xenia Mr. Drees ac- 
companied tliem and completed his term of 
ap])renticesliip, during which time he he- 
came an excellent workman, having largely 
mastered the builder's art. He then started 
in liusiness on Jiis own account in the same 
building in which the firm of Crandall & 
Brown was located, and though he began 
operations on a \ery small scale he graduallv 
work-ed his way upward as he demonstrated 
his ability to faithfully execute the terms of 
a contract and in a manner highiv satis- 
factory to those who sought his services, 
liis liusiness constantly increased in \-olume 
and im])ortance and he secured the contracts 
for the erection of many of the finest and 
most important structures of the citv. in- 
cluding ])ublic l)uildings and pri\ate resi- 
dences. Notably prompt and reliable he suc- 
cessfully carried an onerations as a con- 
tractor and Iniilder until 1883. when he be- 
came interested in the manufacture of twine 
and assisted in organizing the Xenia Cord- 
age Company, in which he liecame a large 
stockholder and also acted as its treasurer 
until his death. He invested a portion of 
his capital in some excellent farm property 
and for tlie comfort and gratification of his 
family erected one of the finest residences 
of the city. 

On the 31st of December. 1846. Mr. 
Drees was united in marriage to Miss Maria 
Hypes, who was ])oru in Xenia .\pril 2;, 
1825, a daugliter of Henry and Sarah 
( W'riglit ) Hypes, who came to Greene 
county from Virginia in 181 1. He was born 
ill the hitter state. June 11. 1775. and was 
one of six children born to Nicholas Hvpes, 



who came to the United States in 1760. 
\\'lien he emigrated to Ohio Greene county 
was considered a far western district, on the 
very border of civilization. He secured 
some unimproved land, a part of which is 
now included within the city limits of Xenia. 
There he carried on general farming and iit 
<hie course of time, owing to the growth of 
the county, as well as to the imi)ro\ements 
placed on the farm, the land l)ecame very 
\alual)le. The jom'uey westward iiad been 
made overland to the Ohio river, then by 
ilat )x)at to Cincinnati, and thence to Greene 
County. Ujioii his one hundred and twenty- 
five acre farm he erected a log house for 
himself and family and made it his home 
for se\-eral years. He was a ])rogressive 
agriculturist, advocated the introduction of 
modern machinery and did much to promote 
farming interests in this portion of the state. 
W'iien only eighteen years of age Mr. 
Hy])es married Patience Reynolds, of \'ir- 
ginia, who died in 1823, leaving six sons 
and two daugiiters, all now deceased. Later 
he wedded Miss Sarah \\right, a daughter 
of (jeorge and Sophia Wright, who remo\e<l 
from I'runswick count}-, ^'irg-inia, to Xenia. 
Foiu" children were born of the second mar- 
riage of Mr. Hypes, of whom two are living: 
Maria H., tlie widow- of Mr. Drees; and 
San-iuel IT, who is engaged in the fire in- 
surance and real estate business in Xenia. 
The others were \\'. L.. who was pastor of 
tlie Methodist Episcopal churcli ; and 
Fletcher, of the same denomination. Mr. 
Hyi^es cast his first vote for the Democratic 
7)arty. To his surprise that partv electeil to 
the legislature a man who could neither read 
nor write. This displeased Mr. Hypes so 
luuch that he became a \\ hig. He was a 
strong and active member of the Methodist 
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663 



\v his eiijfluictli _\ear and his death was deep- 
ly and widely innurned. He had long been 
a \alued citizen of this county and had en- 
deared hinisell to many friends. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Drees were born six 
children who came to maturity. Charles 
W. has for twcnty-eiijht years been a mis- 
sionary of the Methodist Episcopal churcii 
in Mexico. South .America and Porto Rico. 
Ernest K. is now located in the auditing 
department of the Missouri Pacific Rail- 
road Com])any at St. Louis. Mis.souri. hav- 
ing hlled the position for eleven vears ; Jen- 
nie is the wife of William A. Aiken, whr) is 
a civil engineer and spends most of his time 
in .\ew York city, h'rank B. is connected 
with the .\enia Shoe Factory. Sarah C. is 
now the widow of Edward C. Xesl)itt of 
Xenia. Wilbur I', is also a resident of 
Xenia. 

To whatever ])osition Mr. Drees was 
called he gave to it his conscientious atten- 
tion, and his word was considered as good 
as bis bond. He took a li\ely interest in the 
growth and de\eloj)nient of his adopted citv, 
and was foremost in encouraging the enter- 
prises tending to this end. He served in the 
city council two terms, and officiated as a 
member of the school briard. In all the re- 
lations of life be preserved the same equable 
temperament which constituted him a kind 
hu.sband ami father, a hospitable neighbor 
and a man who ne\er failed to res])ond to 
the call of distress or aid a philanthropic 
enterprise that sought his assistance. Al- 
though born and reared in the Roman Cath- 
olic faith, he Ijecamc converted under the 
preacliing of the Rev. John W. White and 
at once united with the ^Methodist Episcopal 
church, in which for nearly fifty years be 
was conspicuous as a wise leader, liberal sup- 
porter and an exemplary Christian. There 



was no self-reliance, no boasting of great 
attainments, but rather a uniform piety, 
working out practical results, producing 
genuine fruits, forming the character, regu- 
lating the life. His pleasant home was open 
night and day for the entertainment of min- 
isters. As an official member of the church, 
holding at various times the offices of stew- 
ard, trustee, class leader and Sunday-school 
.superintendent, he was always in his place, 
shirking no duty, cheerfully meeting everv 
responsibility. To the great doctrines of the 
Bible as expounded by Wesley, he gave 
whole hearted assent, and though bv no 
means a narrow sectarian he was verv 
strongly attached to his own denomination. 
1 lo was not ordinarily very demonstrative in 
his religious life, but there were times when 
his prayers and his testimonv were accom- 
panied by an unction that was (piite remark- 
able. .\s I'.e consciously drew near to the 
end of his pilgrimage, his testimony in the 
classroom and prayer meeting was given 
with increasing assurance of faith and more 
and n^ore in the tone of a victor. He ].)assed 
away .April M). 1889. but the influence of 
his life is \-ct a potent factor with many who 
knew him. .Along material and moral lines 
bis efforts were of great good to the com- 
munity and his memory remained as a 
blessed benediction to those who knew him 
well. 



ARTHUR L. FISHER. 

-Arthur L. Fisher, cashier of the Bow- 
ersville Bank at Bowersville, Greene county, 
is one of the native sons of Ohio, his birth 
ha\'ing occurred in Clinton county, near 
Wilmington, in 1858. He is a son of Jacob 
and Delphia (Smoke) Fisher, both of 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



whom were natives of Mrgiiiia, but were 
married in Clinton county. Ohio. The fa- 
ther became a resident of that county w lien 
but a boy. He was educated in its public 
schools, worked ujxjn the home farm in his 
youth, and when in his 'teens started out in 
life for himself, working as a farm hand 
until he came to Greene county, Ohio, in 
the year 1859. When the subject of this 
r^'iew was three months old the father 
brought his family to Greene county, set- 
tling in Caesarscreek township, about one 
mile east of Paintersville. There he pur- 
•chased seventy-five acres of land, which he 
still owns and uikhi this farm he has re- 
mained continuously since, being now one 
of the \enerable and respected residents of 
the C( immunity. In his family were eight 
^children, of whom four are living: Ellen, 
who is at home with her father: Thomas 
• and Catherine wln.i died in childhood : James, 
who married Fannie Henry and died leav- 
ing a son, Russell, wdio is living with his 
mother in Clinton county, Ohio; Arthur L. 
and Arbelle h., twins, the latter of wdiom 
•died at the age of nineteen years : Jennie, 
who is living at home with her father; and 
Frank, who married Miss Lydia Faucett, 
and for the past four years has represented 
the Milwaukee Harvesting Machine Coni- 
i)anv in Xenia. The mother of this fam- 
ily died in July, T(joi, at the age of seventy- 
five years, and was laid to rest in Wilming- 
ton. Ohio. The father has long been a 
stanch Democrat, but has never consented 
to accept office, preferring to give his atten- 
tion to his business afifairs. He was for- 
merly identified with the Methodist Epis- 
•copal church, but is now holding member- 
ship relations with the Methodist Protest- 
ant church. Having been born in October. 
1819, he is now almost eighty-three years or 



age. His has been an honorable and an up- 
right life and bis example is in many re- 
spects well worthy of emulation. 

Arthur L. Fisher pursued his early ed- 
ucation in the schools of Paintersvil'e. and 
later in the Faucett tlistrict in Jefferson 
township, continuing his studies thcie until 
twenty-two years of age. In 1882 he be- 
came a student in \\'ilmington College and 
in 1883 'i^ began teaching in Jefferson town- 
ship. Greene county, at the Thomas school, 
continuing his work as a teacher in Greene 
county for thirteen years. In December, 
1S96, he was elected cashier of the Bow- 
ersville Bank at Bowersville, the only bank 
in the village, one year after its organiza- 
ti(_)n. He has since filled that position with 
credit to himself and satisfaction to the 
institution. A general banking business is 
carried on and already the enterprise has 
won success that many an older institution 
might well desire. 

On the 14th of June, 1887. Mr. Fisher 
was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth 
Carpenter, a daughter of Nathan Carpenter, 
who resides in Jefiferson township, and they 
now have one son, Herbert. Both Mr. and 
Mrs. Fisher belong to the Methodist Epis- 
co]>al church of Bowersville, taking an ac- 
ti\-e and helpful part in its work and for 
the past thirteen years he has been super- 
intendent of the Sunday school. During the 
erection of the new church in 190J he was 
one of the building committee, and is also 
one of the trustees of the church. He also 
belongs to the Odd Fellows" Society and 
lias passed all of the chairs, being now the 
di.strict deputy for hi^ district. He was 
elected clerk of his township in April. 1888. 
and held that office for three consecutive 
terms, while in 1899 he was elected town- 
ship treasurer and is still iilling that posi- 



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665. 



tion. discharging liis duties witli promptness 
and fidelity. He votes with the Democracy 
in general elections. In igoo he was elected 
a member of the town council, in which he 
is serving for the second term. Mr. Fisher 
is well known in this county, having come 
here at an early day. He is regarded as 
reliable and trustworthy in business, while 
in social circles his friendly and genial na- 
ture has made him pojmlar. 



GEORGE R. GORDON. 

There is i)articular satisfaction in re- 
verting to the life history of the honored 
and venerable gentleman whose name init- 
iates this review, since his mind bears the 
impress of the historical annals of the state 
of Ohio from the earl\- pioneer days, and 
from the fact that he has been a loyal son 
of the Republic and has attained to a posi- 
tion of distinctive prominence in the thri\'- 
ing county where he was born and where 
he has retained his residence until the pres- 
ent time, being now one of the revered pa- 
triarchs of the community. 

.\ native of Sugarcreek township, Greene 
coimt}-, George R. Gordon was born there 
upon his father's farm October 11, 1815. 
He is the second son in a family of eight 
children, whose parents were George and 
Agnes (McDonald) Gordon. The family 
was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The great- 
great-grandfather AIcLean, whose grand- 
daughter ]\Iar\- became the wife of George 
(jordon. the grandfather of the subject of 
this re\iew, had obtained consider-abk' 
knowledge of the sea, jn fact, he 
was so well versed concerning differ- 
ent channels leading from England to 



vari(.)us sections of the world that the 
discoxered that when in mid-ocjnn that the 
captain of the ves.sel in which he had taken, 
passage for America was not following the- 
American course and, believing that he in- 
tended to take the passengers to the Medit- 
erranean and sell them to the Turks, ordered 
the captain to change his course if he did not' 
want to be killed. At the same time Mr. 
McLean drew his sword and forced the 
captain to remain in the hold of the ship, 
until it had reached the American harbors. 
George Gordon, the grandfather of our sub- 
ject, was numbered among the soldiers of 
the Revolutionary war. He removed from. 
Kentucky to Ohio in 1802 and .settled in 
XN'arren county, where he died at the age of 
sevent_\'-one years. 

George Gordon, the father of our sub- 
ject, was l>_)rn in PennsyKania in 1786 and 
came with the family to Ohio in 1813, ar- 
ri\ing in Greene county, in the month 
of March. Through the succeeding for- 
ty \ears he carried on agricultural pur- 
suits in this county and in 1853 he took up 
his abode in Xenia, locating in the residence- 
in which our subject now makes his home. 
He first resided in Sugarcreek township, 
which was then an almosi unjjroken wil- 
derness, inhabited by Indians, the work of 
progress and civilization having been scarce- 
ly begun. After removing to Xenia Mr. . 
Gordon lived a retired life until called to 
his final rest in December, 1879. His wife- 
had passed away in the year i860. Their 
oldest son, John M., de\oted his life to the 
work of the gospel as a minister and died at 
St. Louis Springs, Michigan, in December, 
1871. The maternal grandfather of our 
sul>ject, John ^McDonald, wa.s one of the 
heroes of the Revolutionary war, holding 
the rank of lieutenant colonel. Although he- 



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scr\-c(l thri,u^lii)Ut the entire stniggie lie did 
not recei\e a scratdi. l)iit afterward lost an 
eye tiiroivgh an accident, lieing hit with a 
spike l)y his lirotlier. 

In tiie priniiti\e schools wliich existed 
in Greene county in [lioneer days George R. 
Gordon piu'sued his early education, com- 
pleting his studies in Xenia. When he had 
attained to man's estate lie began farming 
on his own account and later he engaged in 
teaching school in Xenia and in the district 
schools as well from 1840 to 1847. He was 
employed as a salesman in a general store in 
Xenia, and then with the money which he 
had saved from his earnings he embarked 
in general merchandising on his own account 
in connectit)n with his brotlier William I. 
This partnershi]) was maintained from the 
fall of 185J until the summer of 1858, when 
Mr. Gordon of this re\ie\v withdrew from 
the firm and resumed farming, which has 
claimed his attention continuously since. At 
one time he and his brother made a sjiecial- 
ty of the cultivaticju of potatoes and in a 
single season sold between eight and ten 
thousand bushels. Mr. Gordon has led a ver\- 
busy, useful and active life, and although 
he is past the eighty-sixth milestone on life's 
journey in the year 1901 he put in fifty acres 
of wheat, as well as the cultivation of other 
fields, and also gave his attention to the 
care of three horses. Old age is not neces- 
sarily the synonym of weakness or inactiv- 
ity, and it need not suggest, as a matter of 
years, helplessness or want of 'occupation. 
The business career of Mr. Gordon should 
put to shame many a young man of much 
younger years who relegate to others the 
burdens that he should bear. As the \ears 
have passed Mr. Gordon has prospered and 
has ever been accounted one of the most 
honorable and straightforward farmers of 



this ixtrtion of the state. He comes of a 
long-lived race and one that has e\er\ right 
to claim honesty and industry as among 
their sterling characteristics. Mr. Gordon 
has ne\er failed to vote for a president since 
attaining his majority, and has alwavs been 
a stanch advocate of the Whig and Repub- 
lican parties. He is identified with the 
United Presbyterian church, to which he 
contributes generously and at all times he 
has been in hearty sympath\- with move- 
ments and measures which contribute to 
tl:e general good. For eighty-seven years 
he has been a witness of the progress and 
development of this portion of the state. In 
his youth he experienced the hardships and 
privations of pioneer life incident to the 
establishment of a home on the frontier. 
As the years have passed great changes were 
wrought and in the work of progress he 
ever bore his part as a good and faithful 
citizen. To-day he is -respected and es- 
teemed for his sterling worth and his life 
history well deserves a place in the annals 
of the countw 



SIMON SPARKS. 

The subject of this review is a self-made 
man who. without any extraordinary fam- 
ily or pecuniary advantages at the com- 
mencement of life, has battled earne^stly and 
energetically and by indomitable courage 
and integrity has achieved both char- 
acter and fortune. By sheer force of will 
and untiring effort he has worked his war 
upward and is numbered anione the leadine 
business men of Dayton, Ohio. 

For some time Mr. Sparks was asso- 
ciated with the business interests of Bell- 



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667 



brook, ( ireene CDunty. and is a nati\e of this 
count}-, liis birth ha\ing' occurred on his ta- 
tlier's farm a few miles from tlie village of 
iiellbrook on the 24th of .\])ril. 1832. His 
parents were lliihraim and Marv ( Elwell ) 
Sparks, in whose family were eight chil- 
thxn, all of whom reached maturity, namely : 
Simon: Abigail; Hannah: John: Sarah 
-Ann: Lvdia : Ella, and William E., who was 
state senator from Dayton two terms. In 
1806 the family was established in this por- 
tion of the state, the name figuring on the 
pages of Greene county history from pioneer 
times. The father of our subject was born 
only a few miles frcjm Bellbrook in 1809. 
and in early life learned the blacksmith's 
trade Init devoted the greater ])art of his 
lime and attention to agricultural pursuits. 
The mother, though l)orn in New Jersey, 
came to Greene countv when a small child 
in company with her ])arents and located 
near Yellow S]3rings. in the Jersey settle- 
ment. 

On tlie old famil\- homestead Sinn in 
Sparks of this review was reared and in his 
youth he assisted in the labors of the fields. 
He received but six years education and dur- 
ing that time mastered such branches of 
learning as were taught in the little lo.g 
school house near Clifton, Ohio. On leav- 
ing the parental roof at the age of nineteen 
years he went to Springfield, Ohio, where 
he learned the machinist's trade in the 
threshing machine shop of John A. Pitts. 
and remained there until coming to Dayton 
in 1832 with the railroad company, being in 
their employ until i8()i. During the fol- 
lowing twelve years he was superintendent 
of the Robinson Machine Works at Rich- 
mond. Indiana, and also did the drafting 
and planning for that ci impan}-. ~Sl-. Sparks 



was su])crintendeiit i>i the Wuodsum Ma- 
chine Company of Dayton, Ohio, for twelve 
years and then formed a partnership with J. 
E. Perrine in 1883 and purchasol the shop 
and machinery at Dayton. Ohin. wbicli is 
still owneil Iw them, business I^eing carried 
on under the firm st\le of Daytt^n Engine 
Works. Their plant is located on New- 
market street, between Sears and Webster, 
and is a large shop, occupying the full space 
l)etween those streets. It is sujjplied with 
the latest improved machinery l)oth for mak- 
ing traction engines, which arc their spe- 
cialty, and also portal)le ami gas engines. 
The firm also does the usual repair work 
connected with a large shop, including tlie 
repairing of locomotives. Mr. .Sparks is 
superintendent of the works as well as a 
member of the llrtn. being a i)ractical ma- 
chinist, and the success of the enterprise is 
principally due to his w ell directed and ener- 
getic efforts. The firm stands prominent 
among the leading representatix'es of indus- 
trial interests in Dayton and the vnlunie of 
their business is now extensive. Certainly 
oar subject deserves great credit for what 
he has accomplished, for he started out on 
his own account when yoinig without ca])- 
ital. placing his dependence only upon the 
substantial qualities of determination, laud- 
able ambition and perseverance. 

On the 25th of December. 1855 Mr. 
S])arks was united in marriage to Miss 
Elizabeth J. \\'iggim. who was born and 
leared in Dayton. Ohio. Her father, Hugh 
\\'iggim. was a native of Ireland.' lint dur- 
ing his infancy was brought to Davton, 
where he became a prominent business man, 
carrying on a steam cooperage. The union 
(if ViY. and Mrs. Sparks was blessed with 
six chililren. Init two died in infanc\'. Those 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



living are Albert F., now general manager 
and superintendent of the James Leffel 
WHieel Company of Springfield. Ohio ; Rose, 
the wife of H. K. Smith, of Dayton ; Grace, 
now Mrs. J. O. Foss, of Dayton ; and Frank 
S.;' of Springfield. The wife and mother 
passed away on the 8th of May, 1890. 

Mr. Sparks holds membership in St. 
Paul's Methodist Episcopal church of Day- 
ton, of which he was one of the founders, 
and has l^een steward since its organization 
and recording steward of the quarterly con- 
ference for twelve years. He is associated 
with both branches of the Independent Or- 
der of Odd Fellows, l)elonging to ^^'ayne 
Lodge, Xo. 10, of which he is past grand, 
and IS also past chief patriarch of the en- 
campment Xo. 2. and was president of the 
Odd Fellows Aid Association for many 
years. He is a member of the Improved 
Order of Red Men. and has been president 
of the Gem City Bellbrook Club from the 
time of its organization. His political sup- 
poit is given the Republican partv Mr. 
Sparks has always taken a deep interest in 
JBellbrook affairs and has in his possession 
many historical papers, including the first 
rough map of Bellbrook. He has written 
nian\- able articles on both the Ocld Fellows 
society and the sports of the countryside. 
Throughout life he has made good use of 
his opportunities, has prospered from year 
to year, and has conducted all business mat- 
ters carefully and successfully, and in all his 
acts displays an aptitude for successful man- 
agement. He has not permitted the ac- 
cumulation of a competence to effect in anv 
way his actions tfnvard those less success- 
ful than he, and has always a cheerful word 
and i)leasant smile for all with whom he 
comes in contact. He has pas.sed into his 



sevent\-first }ear. yet is in good physical 
condition ; was never sick until the last two 
years. Being a strict temperance advocate 
he attributes his long life and good health, 
to adhering to these principles. He was 
made a member of the old original W'ash- 
ingtonians in 1840, and to this day has never 
violated its pledge to abstain from all spirit- 
ual liquors as a beverage. 



RICHARD GALLOWAY. 

Richard Galloway is an honored veteran 
of the Civil war and a native son of Greene 
county, where he has spent his entire life- 
with the exception of the period passed upon- 
the battlefields of the south in defense of the- 
Union. He was born on a farm in Xenia 
township, now included within the city lim- 
its of Xenia, Ji^'ne 7. 1830. and remained at 
home until after he had attained his major- 
ity. He is a son of Samuel and Elizabeth 
(Collins) Galloway, both of -whom were de- 
scendants of Scotch ancestry, their resi>ec- 
tive families having l>een founded in Amer- 
ica at an earl\- dav. The father of our sub- 
ject was a native of Kentucky and came to 
Ohio in 1797, before the admission of the 
state into the Union. He took up his abode 
in Greene county and as a pioneer settler 
aided in laying the foundation upon which 
lias been builded the present prosperity and 
progress of this portion of the state. He en- 
gaged in farming and milling for many 
years, but at length his mill was destroyed 
by fire. It was one of the early milling 
plants of the countv and settlers came for 
miles to secm-e his services in grinding their 
grain. 

In earlv manhood Samuel Gallowav was. 




RICHARD GALLOWAY. 



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671 



united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Collins, 
who was a native of Pennsylvania and came 
ti) this County in 1816. For more than half 
a century the father resided in this county, 
passing away in 185 1, at tlie age of sixty- 
six years. His widow, long surviving him, 
passed away January 29, 1S85, at the ad- 
vanced age of eighty-nine years. They were 
members of the United Presbyterian church 
and respected people of the cumnninily. The 
father was a hard-working, energetic man. 
He took an active interest in all public im- 
provements tending to l:)enelit the countv 
and became one of the first stockholders ni 
tlie Little Miami Railroad. In his church 
he filled the office of deacon and when his 
country became engaged in the secnnd war 
with England he joined the American army, 
serving with the rank of corporal. In his 
family were five children : Richard, of this 
review; Lydia, who became the wife of A. 
A. Gordon, of Holton, Kansas, and died 
leaving one child, George A., who is now 
extensively engaged in stock-raising in Hol- 
ton; James C., who died of scarlet fever, in 
Xenia, at the age of four years; Rebecca, 
who lives with her brother Richard; and 
one that died in infancy, unnamed. 

In his youth Richard Galloway attended 
tl:e public schools and assisted in the work 
of the home farm until after the beginning 
of the Civil war, when aroused by a spirit of 
patriotism he responded to the call for aid 
and enlisted in September, 1862, as a mem- 
ber of Company D, Seventy-fourth Ohio 
Infantry, with which he remained for five 
months. He was wounded at the battle of 
Stone River and so disabled that he was 
honorably discharged on the 28th of Feb- 
ruary, 1863. He is now a member of the 
Grand Amiy of the Republic. 

After receiving his discharge Mr. Gal- 
39 



Icway returned to his home in Xenia, where 
he has resided continuous!}^ since. The first 
year after his return he was elected county 
treasurer of Greene county and discharged 
his duties so acceptably and promptly that 
he was re-elected and filled tlie position for 
a second term. He retired from ofifice as 
he had entered it — with the confidence and 
.good will of all concerned — and when his of- 
ficial ser\ice was ended he turned his atten- 
tion to farming and also engaged in the lum- 
ber business in connection with Captain A. 
McDowell, liut after continuing in that line , 
of commercial activity for some years he 
finally sold out to his partner and is now 
living a retired life at his pleasant home upon 
the old family farmstead. The [jresent large 
house was erected by him in the f:Ul and win- 
ter of 1858. 

In early life Mr. Galloway endorsed the 
men and measures of the old Whig party but 
since its dissolution has given his sujjport 
to the Republican party. He is a member 
of the First United Presbyterian church in 
which he was deacon for fully twenty years, 
until that order was discontinued, since 
v.hich time he has served as trustee, and is 
a worthy representative of an honored pio- 
neer familv of his native countv. 



WALTER HAGAR. 



It is not the men who occupy prominent 
political positions or who win distinction in 
military circles that are the real founders of 
a cit\- but they who establish business en- 
terprises, promoting the commercial activity. 
Among the prominent and honored resi- 
dents of Xenia. connected with industrial 
and financial circles was Walter Hagar, the 



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ROBINSON S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



originator df the paper industry of this place. 
He advanced to an honorable and conspicu- 
ous position in commercial circles, winniiii^' 
prominence entirely through his own efforts, 
yet by no means were his energies devoted 
entirely to trade. Family, friends, church 
and society claimed his attention and he was 
widely known as an earnest worker for the 
advancement of all that lends to promote the 
interest of city and coimtry. He discharged 
everv church and social obligation with a 
tidelity above ((uestion. He was a ])leasant 
genial gentleman, whose cordial (|ualities 
endeared him to many friends. 

Walter Ha.gar was Ijorn on the 4th of 
March, 1823, and was one of a family of ten 
children, wliose ]3arents were Isaac and 
Eunice (Steadman) Hagar. His father was 
a native of Massachusetts and for sometime 
was identified with manufacturing interests 
of that state. His death occurred in i8j8 
and his wife, long surviving him. passed 
aAvay in 1854. 

When fifteen years of age Walter Hagar 
entered u]ion his business career as an em- 
ploye in the paper mills of his nati\'e town 
— Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As 
the years passed he steadily advanced in his 
chosen vocation until he was familiar with 
all the departments of the business. In the 
year 1857 he removed to Kentucky and for 
two years was superintendent of the paper 
mills near the city of I'-rankfort. where 
sla\e labor constituted half the force em- 
ployed prior to the Civil war. yiv. Hagar 
came to Ohio and entered into a business 
compact with the firm of Bachelor. DeCamp 
& Company, of Cincinnati, to superintend 
their mills at Lockland. For six years he 
remained at that place and then remm-ed ti^ 
Day ton. where for three years he liad the 
management of a pa]ier mill of that city. 



Later he spent six years in Clifton, Greene 
county, where he was engaged in the manu- 
facture of paper under the firm name of 
King & Hagar. The company w^as then dis- 
solved and Mr. Hagar removed to Enon, 
Ohio, where he superintended the construc- 
tion of the paper mills of the Springfield Re- 
]niblic Company and when the plant was 
completed assumed its management. After 
eight years there he came to Xenia and for 
man\' years was a very active factor in in- 
dustrial circles of this place. Probably no 
other Inisiness interests ha\'e had as 
important a liearing upon commercial 
actix'ity in Xenia as has the man- 
ufacture of paper. The company was 
organized in ]May. 1881. with a cap- 
ital stock of t\\ent\- tlwusand dollars. 
The officers of the company were Hon. John 
Little, president; F. C. Trebein, vice presi- 
dent : C. C. Shearer, secretary ; John S. An- 
keney, treasurer; \\alter Hagar. superin- 
tendent. Mr. Hagar was the jirime iiKiver 
of the enterprise. He formed the plans and 
then secured the assistance of ■Mr. Ankeney. 
the cashier of the Second Xational Bank. 
At first the plant was about one-half its 
present size. It was, however, supi)lie(l with 
excellent machinery, capable of producing 
^ix tliousand ]iounds of paper dail_\'. Later 
the buildings were enlarged and by increas- 
ing the speed and also doubling" the amount 
of machinerj' used, the cpiantity of ]iaper 
produced averaged about thirty thousand 
l)ounds daily. The success of the enterprise 
was attributable in a very large measure to 
the broad exjierience and 1)usiness executixe 
ability of ^Ir. Hagar. Some changes in the 
offices later occurred, the members of the 
board bein,g: Hon. John Little, president; 
F. C. Trebein. \ice president: Edwin W. 
Hagar, treasurer; Horace Ankenev, secre- 



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673 



tary ; am! Walter llai^ar superintendent and 
manager. Throughout liis entire business 
career Mr. II agar was connected with paper 
manufacturing. At the time of liis death, 
lie was tiie president and the heaviest stocix- 
holder in the ilagar Strawhoard ]'a])er 
Coniijany of Cetlarville, Greene county, 
the ])resent president being Edwin W. 
Hagar. 

On I'Y'bruary 13. i<'^47. Walter Hagar 
was united in marriage to Miss Martha Ful- 
ler, a daughter of Harvey and Almeda 
(P'iske) I'ldler, both natives of Massachu- 
setts. To Mr. and Mrs. Hagar was born six 
children, of whom four are still li\ing: 
Sarah I'..; Mary (i. : Edwin \\'., who takes 
his father's jilacc in industrial circles: and 
Albert F., a \ery prominent attornev of Xew 
York city. 

Mr. Hagar was identitied with the I'^pis- 
copal church, to which his famil\- also l)e- 
long, and in politics was a stanch Repub- 
Hcan. His life record covers seventy-five 
years. He passed away on the 11th of .\u- 
gust, iS'qS, respected by all who knew him. 
With the capacity and experience that would 
enable him to fullill any trust to which he 
might have been chosen, he never sought to 
advance himself in office, but was content 
to do his duty, where he could and lea\"e the 
self-seeking to others. Viewed in a per- 
sonal light he was of a stn)ng mind, of ex- 
cellent judgment, firm in his views, yet 
strong in advancing ideas that he l)clieved 
to be right, and in his relations with his fel- 
low men he was highly honorable, and his 
integrity stood as an unquestioned fact in 
his career. Though severe at times toward 
men and measures deserving criticism, he 
was nevertheless a generous friend and a 
warm advocate of those who are battling 
for the right and of principles and policies 



for the public good. He was recognized by 
tho.se who knew him as a man of most 
kindly heart, of sterling worth and integrity 
pure and incorruptable in all his business and 
social relations. 



JOSICIMI R. SMITH. 

Joseph R. Smith, who is engaged in 
farming on Bull Skin pike in Spring Val- 
ley township, was born in this township on , 
the 4th of b'ebruary, 1850, his jwrents being 
James and Elizabeth (Caine) Smith. The 
father was a blacksmith. During his early 
boyhood Joseph K. Smith resided with his 
parents in the village of Xew Burlington, 
l.ut when he was about fourteen years of nge 
his father began agricultural pursuits on the 
I'oague farm near Roxanna, where he leased 
land for fifteen years. 

Mr. Smith, of this re\iew, re;nained un- 
der the ])arent;d roof until about twenty-two 
Ncars of age. In his youth he acquired a 
good common-school education and was 
early trained t<i habits of industrv, economv 
and integrity, which have proven valuable 
factors in his success in later life. As a com- 
panion and helpmate for life's journey he 
chose Miss Elizabeth Huffman, of Mt. 
Holly, Warren county, Ohio, where she was 
born, her parents Ijeing Edward and Almira 
( Loy) Huffman. The marriage was cele- 
brated on the 4th of January, 1872, and then 
Mr. Smith rented a farm and began agri- 
cultural pursuits on his own account. Seven 
years ago he came to the place upon which 
he is now living. The farm belongs to his 
brother. J. W. Smith, who is employed as a 
bookkeeper in a dry-goods store of In- 
dianapolis, Indiana. Om* suliject devotes 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNT V. 



his attention to the cnltivation of the crops 
best adapted to tlie soil and chmate, and liis 
efforts have brought to him a good income. 
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Smith have l)een 
born two children : Mellie, the wife of Bert 
Bost(_in. I)y whom she has three chilch'en — 
Fred, Harry and Lucille; and Clara, who is 
tniployed as a typewriter and bookkeeper in 
Xenia. The parents hold memljership in the 
Methodist Episcopal church of New Bur- 
lington, and Mr. Smith has exercised his 
right of franchise in support of the men 
fend measures of the Republican party since 
casting his first presidential vote for U. S. 
Grant in 187.3. 



EDWWKD R. WALTON. 

Edward R. Walton, who is engaged in 
farming at Xew Burlington, is numbered 
among the native sons of Greene county, 
his hirtli having occurred in Spring Vallev 
township (in the 5th of January, 1832. The 
\\ altons came to America at an early dav 
and settled on the Schuylkill river. Though 
they came from England thev were of 
Welsh lineage. In the party were four 
brothers and one of the number remained 
in Pennsylvania, while the direct ancestor 
of our sul>iect removed to \*irginia, and 
two of the brothers went to other parts of 
the south. His father, Samuel Walton, was 
born in Frederick county, Virginia, March 
26. 1804. while the grandfather. Edward. 
was born in the same countv on the 3d of 
January. 1777. There the latter lived un- 
til after his marriage and two children were 
f:r>rn unto him in the Old Dominion. In 
1806 he emigrated westward to Ohio, pur- 
chasing land where the town of Spring Val- 



ley now stands. In 1808 he removed his 
famil_\- to his new home and became an ac- 
tive factor in the early development and 
progress of this .portion of the state. He 
was a miller by occupation but he never fol- 
linved that trade here, his attention being- 
given to agricultural pursuits. He had the 
land surveyed and laid out the village of 
Spring Valley and contributed in large 
measure to the pioneer development and im- 
provement of Greene county. Through 
more than half a century he maintained his 
residence here, passing away in 1867. In 
his family were eight children, of whom si.K 
reached years of maturity, namely : Samuel, 
Elizabeth, Moses, Eunice, John. Hannah. 
Edward and Mary, who died in infancv. 

Samuel Walton, the father of our sub- 
ject, was but four years old when brought 
by his parents to Greene county. Here he 
was reared amid wild scenes of frontier life 
and at an early day he followed farming and 
teaming. As he acquired some capital he 
invested in land and became the owner of 
one hundred and twentx-thrce acres near 
the village. Intending to engage in mer- 
chandizing he plaiuied to have a store build- 
ing erected but died before it was completed. 
He had married Catherine Mendenhall. who 
was born in North Carolina, and they be- 
came the parents of six children, of whom 
our subject was the third, .\fter the hus- 
band's death the mother kept tiie children 
together, pro\iding for them as best s'.ie 
could. 

Edwar<l R. Walton ac(|uired a good 
common-school education anil when about 
twenty years of age began teaching, which 
lie followed for three terms. He was first 
employed in that capacity in Spring Valley 
under Robert E. Doan. Later he went to 
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Madison county. He spent two years tliere 
and purcliased tliree hundred and twenty 
acres of land in Adair county. Iowa, for 
one dollar and a quarter per acre, entering 
it from the government, and twenty dol- 
lars i)er acre for eighty acres. This he 
placed under cultiwuii in. putting many im- 
[jroNements u])on it, and retained it in his 
possession for many \ears. 

Returning to Greene county, however, 
he was here married on tiie 2d of March, 
187:. He took his bride to Iowa, but 
when a year liad passed again came to Ohio. 
The ladv bore the maiden name of Alice 
Compton, and was a daughter of John anil 
Rebecca (Steddon) Com])ton. Her father 
gave her two iuindred and twenty-seven 
acres of land, and being a we^dtby man also 
had a house erected upon it. It was upon 
this farm that Mv. and ]\Irs. Walton took 
up their abode on their return from low'a. 
In 1H59. however, he started for Pike's 
Peak in order to dig gold and also on ac- 
count of his health. On reaching his des- 
tination he decided to continue his journey 
to California, arriving in the Golden state 
ninety-two days after leaving Omaha. He 
was with a shepherd's train until he reached 
Salt Lake, where the train dixided, the other 
section being afterward al! massacred by 
the Indians. ]\Ir. Walton spent live years 
in California, remaining for some time in 
the mines and also engaged in the dairy 
business, in which he met with good suc- 
cess, selling cheese from thirty-five to thirty- 
seven cents per pound and butter from sev- 
enty-five cents to a dollar a pound. ' He 
went through the usual experiences of life 
in the mining camps and upon the frontier, 
and had considerable triiuble with the In- 
dians, who stole his horse and bed. After 
leaving California he went to Xe\'ada, w'here 



he obtained an interest in some silver mines, 
the stock of which he still retains as a sou- 
venir of his western trij). After ten years' 
absence Mr. Walton returned to Ohio. He 
had spent one winter in Salt Lake City, 
where he often heard the leading Mormons 
preach, and had learned U> talk with the 
Indians. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Walton have been 
born four children : Ruth Etta died in 
childhood on the 26th of December, 1878; 
Rebecca C, born May 14, 1874, died on the 
29th of December, 1878; and Anna D., 
born September 11, 1876, died on the 20th 
of December. 1878, the three deaths occur- 
ring within nine days, all caused by diph- 
theria. Hettie. bjrn January 24, 1880, is 
now the wife of George McPherson, and is 
the only surviving member of the family. 

In his political \-iews Mr. Walton has 
always been a Republican and cast his first 
presidential vote for Fremont, in Iowa, in 
1856. He has since been a stanch advocate 
of the party and for seventeen years has 
served as trustee of his townshii>, while for 
nine years he was justice of the peace. He 
had many cases brought before him, and 
succeeded in effecting compromises in all 
but two, except in a few tliat went by de- 
fault and were appealed to a higher court, 
but none of his decisions were ever re- 
versed. Mr. Walton is a birthright mem- 
ber of the Society of Friends, as were liis 
parents and his paternal and maternal grand- 
father. He has been a minister of the gos- 
pel for a number of years in the Friends' 
church, and has occupied many offices in 
the same, having been a member of the 
associate committee on Indian affairs. Many 
exciting and interesting- events form a part 
of his history. He aided in the pioneer 
development of Iowa, went through all the 



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experiences incident t<j the mining camps of 
Calif(jrnia in tlie days ot tlie early discover}- 
of gold there, and knew something of In- 
dian warfare and modes of life. He was 
also familar with Salt Lake City a half- 
century ago. Xo\\- he is devoting his life 
tc the quiet pursuits of the farm and is ac- 
counted one of the valued and leading men 
of Greene countv. 



'i'iXSLEV H. BELL. 

Tinsley H. Bell, who is engaged in the 
real estate and loan business in Xenia and is 
filling the office of notary public, is num- 
bered among the native sons of the county, 
for his birth occurreil on the old family 
homestead in Xenia township April 6, 1855. 
His i)arents were Erasmus V. and Martha 
F. (Watson) Bell. His father is one of the 
most highly respected and well-to-do farm- 
ers of this portion of the state. He was born 
in Xenia township, in Decemljer, 1829. and 
is still living. His wife passed away on the 
13th of April. 1S88, at the age of fifty-five 
years. 

in the district schools Tinsley H. Bell 
ac(|uired his early education, which was sup- 
plemented by study in Smith's Seminary, 
and when he had put aside his text books 
he gave his entire attention to agricultural 
pursuits for several years. Li 1895. how- 
ever, he removed with his family to Xenia 
and has since engaged in the real estate and 
loan business, negotiating many important 
realty transfers and ])lacing many loans. 
He now has a large clientage, so that his 
Inisiness success here is large. 

Mr. Bell was united in marriage to Miss 
Jennie M. Brant, a daughter of Joseph H. 



and Amanda ( Wheeler ) Brant, the latter a 
daughter of Xoah Wheeler. The marriage 
of our subject and his wife has been blessed 
with three children : Edna L., Brant L'. and 
Adah F. The family are membeis of the 
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. 
Bell is also identified with the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. In his political 
affiliations he is rather independent, carry- 
ing out his honest \iews without fear or 
favor. In business he has gained success 
through untiring industry, sound judgment 
and honorable effort and in his private life 
he has gained that warm personal regard 
wiiich arises from true worth of character. 



TOHX BIGGER. 



The influence of each life works for the 
weal or woe of the communitv in which the 
individual resitles. but in a review of the 
history of John Bigger we find little that is 
not ^vorthy of the highest commendation 
and his fellow citizens speak of him as one 
who lived an u]iright and honorable life 
worthy of high regard. He was born De- 
cember 7. 1825. about seven miles south- 
west of Dayton, in Montgomery county, 
Ohio. His father. John Bigger, removed 
from Kentucky to this state, being but a boy 
at the time he came to Ohio. His mother. 
Mary (Bradford) Bigger, was born in 
Montgomery county. Ohio. In their famiiv 
were four children : Thomas. Joseph, 
James an<l John, each of whom became own- 
ers of farms in Montgomery county and 
their re.spective tracts of land adjoined. 

The subject of this review was reared to 
manhood ujion his father's farm and ac- 
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li\cil at home until liis marriage, wliicli oc- 
curred Fel)riiary 28, 1854, the lady of his 
choice heing- Miss Louisa Cathcart, of Mont- 
gomery comity. She was born in that lo- 
cality, three miles north of Dayton, and was 
a (latighter of Thomas M. and Elizabeth 
(McCandles) Cathcart. She was only two 
and one-half years old when her mother died 
and was but a maiden of nine summers when 
left an orphan by the death of her father. 
She made her home with her guardian, 
William Bradford, with whom she contin- 
ued until she was able to earn her own liv- 
ing. She became an exjjert dressmaker and 
secured a liberal patronage ak^ng that line. 

in the meantime the father of our sub- 
ject had purchased the farm in Sugarcrcek 
township. (Ireene county, upon which Mrs. 
Bigger is now living, and had given to his 
son an interest in the place to the value of 
three thousand dollars. Mr. Bigger pur- 
chased the remainder and with his bride re- 
moved to the new home on the 4th of April, 
185-I. For a number of years they resided 
in the old house, which was then torn down 
and rebuilt. Mr. Bigger also made other 
im])rovements of a modern character, built a 
new toluicco shed and other necessary out- 
buildings and energetically carried on the 
work of the farm for many years, his lal)ors 
bringing to him a richly merited success. 
His business methods were enterprising, 
practical and progressive, and thus be ac- 
quired a good profit. At the time of the 
Civil war he was drafted for service, l)ut 
hired jojin Inglewright to ser-ve as his sub- 
stitute. 

Mr. Bigger was always a stanch Re]Hib- 
lican in politics, kept well informetl on the 
issues and cjuestions of the day and ne\'er 
wa\ered in his allegiance to the party, but 
did not seek or desire office. He was a con- 



sistent and faithful member of the United 
Presbyterian church at Sugar Creek, served 
as a deacon for many years, did all in his 
power to advance the church \\ork and was 
a liberal contributor for the erection of the 
house of worship. His noble Christian life 
was ended in death on the ist of January, 
1890, and his remains were interred in the 
cemetery at Bellbrook. 



JOHX O. BARXETT. 

J<jhn (). iiarnett, who makes his home 
in Xenia township, was born April 21. 1833, 
in Sjjring X'alley township, this countv, his 
parents being John and Amelia Ann (Mow- 
dyj Barnett. His parents were born, reared 
and married in the state of Maryland and 
the mother was of German lineage. The 
father was reared upon a farm and after his 
marriage became overseer of a jilantation, 
being thus employed until his removal to 
Greene county. Ohio, in 1830. He made the 
trip overland with his wife and children. 
They were also accompanied b\- a family 
l)y the name of Cromwell, who were rela- 
ti\-es, and they tra\-eled in a wagon drawn 
by a six-horse team. After reaching their 
destination they took up their abode in 
S])ring Vallev townshii). where the father 
spent his remaining days. He was a son 
of Henry Barnett. who about two and one- 
half years after the arrival of John Barnett, 
also sought a home in Ohio, taking up his 
abode near the village of Jamestown. In 
the cemeterv of that place his remains are 
now interred. The father of our subject 
was a Democrat in his political views in 
early life, but later he renounced his alle- 
giance to that party and became a stanch 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Republican. His wife passed way Oc- 
tober 13. 1864, and was buried beside her 
Inisband in tlie cemetery at Xenia. In 
tlieir family were eleven children. Those 
living are as fi>llows: Jnhn Oliver is the 
oldest of these. Edward, a resident of 
Xenia township, entered the service of the 
Union army as a corporal of Company C, 
Seventy-fi)urth Ohio Infantry, and came out 
as second lieutenant. James resides in 
Sugarcreek township. Joshua makes his 
home in Spring Valley township. Virginia 
Ijecame the wife of George Xisonguer, of 
Beavercreek township. Daniel W. Barnett, 
an older brother of our subject, was educat- 
ed for a physician and was practicing at 
Burlington, Iowa, on the breaking out of 
tlie war, when he entered the service as a 
physician in the reserve corps. He died at 
Burlington, Iowa. Henry, another lirother. 
was a farmer of Xenia, where his death 
occurred. Mary, deceased, also reached ma- 
ture years. The parents of this family were 
both members of the Methodist church and 
their lives were in consistent harmonv with 
Christian principles. 

John Oliver luirnett pu:sued a ccimmnn 
school education and remained with his par- 
ents until about twentv-siNi vears of age. 
He was married January 5, 1859, to Miss 
]\Iary Holmes, who was born in Sugarcreek 
tf)wnship, a daughter of William and Xancy 
(Finney) Holmes. The father was born in 
Pennsylvania and the mother in Hamilton 
county, Ohio, where they were married. Mr. 
Holmes was a blacksmith by trade, but spent 
the latter years of his life as a farmer. In 
his jKilitical views he was a Republican and 
both he and his wife belonged to the United 
Tresbyterian church. Both have now passed 
away and four of their seven children are 
also deceased. Those still living are: Xan- 



cy, who resides with her nephew in Xenia 
township; James, a resident of Columbus; 
and Mary, the wife of our subject. Unto 
Mr. and Mrs. Barnett have been born seven 
children : John William, who resides upon 
a farm adjoining his father's and who mar- 
ried Anna Kyle, by whom he has two chil- 
dren, Joseph Wright and Rachel Mary; Sa- 
rah Etta, who married Albert Ferguson, of 
Greene county, by whom she has three chil- 
dren, W' illiam, Paul and Robert ; Edward ; 
and Rosa Cora, at home; and three who 
died in early childhood. 

After his marriage IMr. Barnett rented 
different farms until 1870, when he leased 
a farm which adjoins his jiresent property 
and there engaged in the cultivation of the 
soil for twenty-three years. In 1893 he pur- 
chased his present home, comprising one 
hundred and thirtv-six acres. It is a tinelv 
improved tract of land, rich and arable, up(in 
which stands a pleasant residence, good 
barns and other modern equipments. Mr. 
Barnett votes with the Republican party and 
he and his wife are connected with the First 
I'nited Presbyterian church of Xenia. He 
has alwa\'s made his home in this county 
and has a wide acquaintance. Among those 
who know him he has many warm friends, 
for his career has ever been in harmony 
with honorable and upright manhood. 



GEORGE ENGEL. 



In an analyzation of the character and 
hfe work of George Engel we note many 
of the characteristics which have marked the 
German nation for many centuries — the per- 
severance, reliability, energy and uncon- 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



679 



that has Ijeen marked out. It is these ster- 
ling qualities which have gained for Mr. 
Engel success in life and made him one of 
the substantial and valued citizens of Greene 
county. He is to-dav recognized as one of 
the leading nurserymen of southern Ohio, 
having successfully engaged in this line of 
business in Xenia since the spring of 1878. 

Mr. Engel spent the first twenty-five 
years of his life in the fatherland, having 
been born in the grand dutchy of Hesse- 
Darmstadt on Christmas day of 1848. His 
parents were Philip G. and Catherine (New- 
man) Engel, but the mother died during the 
boyhood of our subject, while the father 
passed away in 1880. They had but two 
children, George and his brother Ludwig. 
The father followed the florist business for 
manv vears and thus in his youth George 
Engel became familiar with that pursuit. 
He remained under the parental roof during 
his l)oyhood and in accordance with the laws 
of his native land, he was placed in schocil 
when a lad of six years, pursuing his stud- 
ies continuously until fourteen years of age. 
Like his father he was trained to habits of 
industry and economy and this added to the 
natural traits which he inherited from a 
worthy ancestry provided him with the sur- 
est qualities by which to attain success in 
life. 

In 1873, however, he determined to try 
his fortune in the new world and sailed from 
Bremen to the West Indies, but he did not 
find the oportunities which he there sought, 
and in the fall of 1874 he came to the Uni- 
ted States, landing in Brooklyn, New York, 
where he made his home for two years and 
was employed in a greenhouse. Later he 
spent about eighteen months in Louisville, 
and from that city, in the spring of 1878, 
he came to Xenia. which has since been the 



place of his abode. Here he purchased a 
greenhouse of T. G. Wilson in the western 
part of the town and from a modest begin- 
ning he has steadily increased his business 
until it has now assumed extensive propor- 
tions. He has gained the reputation of be- 
ing one of the leading nurserymen of south- 
ern Ohio and at the same time has won sub- 
stantial success. His ground covers nine 
acres, upon which he has a modern two- 
story house, and he constantly employs 
tl'.ree men to assist him in carrying on the 
business. 

Air. Engel was united in marriage to 
Miss Fredericka Siefirt, and unto them has 
been born one child, Georgia E. The family 
are identified with the Lutheran church and 
in his political views Mr. Enge! is a stanch 
Republican. While in his native land he 
served for a year and a halt in tiie Hessian 
army, participating in the Franco-Prussian 
war. He was under the command of Gen- 
eral ]\IantofeI and met the enemy in several 
hard fought battles. His bravery and fidel- 
ity to duty were such as to secure him the 
respect of his comrades and the approval of 
his superiors, and at the close of the con- 
flict he was granted an honorable discharge 
— his discharge papers being still in his pos- 
session. In 1 88 1 Mr. Engel became identi- 
fied with the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows in Xenia and is still a worthy ex- 
emplar of that fraternity. He is also con- 
nected with the Knights of Pythias and the 
Knights of Honor and belongs to the Im- 
proved Order of Red Men. The hope that 
led him to leave his native land and seek a 
lnnne in America has been more than real- 
ized. He found the opportunities he sought 
— which by the way, are always open to the 
ambitious, energetic man — and making the 
best of these he has steadilv worked his wav 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



upward. He possesses the resolution, perse- 
verance and reliability so characteristic of 
people of his nation, and his name is now en- 
rolled among the best citizens of Greene 
county. 



SAMUEL HOWER. 

The life record of Samuel Hower closed 
October 20. 1899, and in reviewing his his- 
tory we find that there is much in his career 
that is worthy of commendation. He lived 
an honorable, upright life and was consid- 
ered in all liis relations with iiis fellow men 
trustworthy in business, and loyal and de- 
voted to his family. He was born in ^lary- 
land. March 20, 1829, his parents l^eing John 
and Mary (Bovey) Hower, both of whom 
were natives of Maryland, and in the year 
T834 came to Greene county, Ohio, casting 
in their lot amid its early settler"^. They 
journeyed across the country and took up 
their abode near Trebein, where they lived 
in a little log cabin, experiencing all the 
hardships attendant upon pioneer life. Sub- 
sequently they removed to Beavercreek 
town.ship just east of the home farm of 
Mrs. Jennie Hower, the widow of our sub- 
ject. 

Samuel Hower obtained but a limited 
education for his services were needed upon 
the home farm. He lived with his father 
until his marriage, which important event in 
his life occurred on the 2d of December. 
1858, the lady of his choice being Miss Bar- 
bara Heddleson, a native of Beavercreek 
township. Her death occurred in 1877 and 
slie was laid to rest in Union cemeterv in 
Byron, Ohio. The children of that union 
are John Lewis and Xettie, but the latter is 
now deceased and is also interred in L'nion 



cemetery. For his second wife Mr. Hower 
chose Mrs. Jennie Miller, their wedding be- 
ing celebrated on the 26th of January. 1882. 
She was born in Bath township, and is a 
daughter of Harrison and Eliza (Miller) 
Le Van. The parents were natives of Penn- 
sylvania, and at an early date came to this 
county, living in Bath township, and later 
iii Bea\'ercreek, where thev died. Unto ilieni 
w ere born five children, the eldest l)eing Mrs. 
Hower. ofi this review. The others are : 
Mabel, the wife of William Schauers. a resi- 
dent of Bath township ; Samuel, who is liv- 
ing in Osborn ; William, who resiiles in 
Beavercreek township : and Lee. who makes 
his home in Clark county. Ohio. The parents 
are both deceased and were laid to rest in 
the cemetery at Fairfield. Ohio. Through- 
out his life the father had carried on agri- 
cultural pursuits. 

Mrs. Hower was first married February 
14. 1877. to Samuel Miller, a native of Bath 
township, who devoted his energies to agri- 
cultural pursuits. His parents were John 
and Ann (Reece) ^Miller. The married life 
of the young couple was not of long dura- 
tion, for on the iith of October,. 1877. Mr. 
Miller was called to) his final rest. One 
child was born of that union, Bessie, now 
the wife of Basil Greene, a native of Beaver- 
creek township and a son of Michael and 
Elizabeth (Hower) Greene, the latter being 
a sister of Samuel Hower whose name intro- 
duces this review. Michael Greene was a 
native of Greene coimty, Ohio, and was 
one of the pioneer settlers of this county. 
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hower was 
blessed with three children : Anna Laura, 
who is now attending the Beaxercreek high 
school: Samuel H., also attending school; 
and Jennie Belle, who completes the family. 

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took up Iiis abode upmi the farm wliere his 
\vid(_)\v now resides. He erected good l3uild- 
ings there, made excellent improvements 
and dveloped a splendid farm, owning about 
five hundred acres of the rich land of this 
county. His labors were attended by a grat- 
ifying degree of success for his work was 
ever directed by sound judgment and strict 
business principles. He held membership 
with the Lutheran church and his life was 
in harmony with Christian principles and 
teachings. In politics he was a Republican, 
but never sought office, preferring to devote 
his attention to his business atf'airs. Well 
may he be classed among the self-made men 
of Greene county, for, dependent entirely 
upon his own resources from an early age, 
he steadily worked his way upward and his 
persistent resolution, comliined with untlag- 
ging energy, made him one of the substan- 
tial residents of his neighborhood. He died 
October 20, 1899, and was laiti to rest in 
Union cemetery, in E'.yron. Ohio. His 
widow- is a member rif the UnitCkl Brethren 
church. She still resides upon t!ie old home- 
stead in Beavercreek townsliip and in that 
localitv is widelv and fa\-oraljl\' known. 



ALEXANDER C. KYLE. 

An honored \-eteran of tlv; Civil w ar and 
for many years a resident farmer of Greene 
county, now living a retired life, was born 
in Cedarville township, near the village of 
Cedarville, August 7, 1839. The family is 
an old and prominent one of this locality, 
having been established here in pioneer 
times. Samuel Kyle, the grandfather, was 
born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and 
with his parents emigrated to Kentucky, the 



family settling near Cynthiana. When about 
twenty-three years of age he was married 
to a Aliss Mitchell and unto them were born 
six childraT. She died about 1813 and in 
181 5 Samuel Kyle married Rachel Jackson 
and fifteen children were born of this mar- 
riage. He followed farming and was one 
of the leading agriculturists of his commun- 
ity. He was also prominent in public af- 
fairs, filled the office of associate jndge, and 
was the promoter of many movements for 
the general good. He gave the land upon 
which the school-house was built in which 
the subject of this review pursued his ed- 
ucation. 

Joseph Kyle, the father of our subject, 
was born upon his father's farm in Cedar- 
ville township, June 10, 1809. He alwavs 
followed farming and to some extent he en- 
gaged in stock-raising, his lalxirs bringing 
to him a comfortable living. He was a 
strong Republican in his political sentiment 
and held some of the minor offices in his 
township. He was a member of the old Se- 
ceders church, afterward the United Presbv- 
terian church, and for many vears served 
as one of its elders. When about tw-enty- 
one years of agie he married Ann Cassel, 
\\ho was also a member of the Seceder 
church. She died about 1844, when forty 
. years of age, and the father of our subject 
died August 28, 1881, upon the old family 
homestead where he had so long resided. 
Their burial place is in the cemetery of 
Xenia. In the family were five children, of 
whom three are yet living. Mary died at 
the age of seventeen years. Ruth Ann was 
married January 18, 1882, to A. R. Bickett, 
of Xenia township. Joseph is the next 
younger. Jane E. is the wife of J. W. 
Hicks, a farmer and stock-raiser of Mitchell 
countv, Kansas, and thev have five sons and 



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one daughter. Samuel A., the youngest of 
the first family, enlisted in 1862 for service 
in the Civil war as a member of Company 
F, Thirty- fourth Ohio Infantry, and was 
taken prisoner at Cedar Creek in 1864. He 
was brought home by his fatlier and died 
soon afterward, his death really resulting 
from starvation, because of lack of food in 
the southern prison. He was only twenty- 
one years of age when he thus laid down 
his life on the altar of his country. After 
the death of his first wife the father of our 
subject was married in 1849 to Mrs. Hadas- 
sah Hunter, nee Kennedy, a native of Ire- 
land, and they became the parents of four 
children : Joseph, who is now a professor in 
the Xenia Theological Seminary; John K., 
who died upon the old home farm in 1877; 
Leah M., who died August 10, 1881, at the 
age of twenty-five years ; and Rachel, the 
wife of Andrew H. Cresswell, a farmer of 
Cedarville township. The mother of these 
children died June 14, 1898, at the home of 
her son-in-law, 'Sir. Cresswell. 

As before stated Alexander C. Kyle pur- 
sued his education in a school standing upon 
land gi\-en by his grandfather for the pur- 
pose. His business training was that of the 
farm, wliere he early became acquainted 
with the duties of field and meadow. He 
continued upon the old homestead until after 
the inauguration of the Civil war, when on 
the 25th of July. 1861. he enlisted in Com- 
])any F. Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer In- 
I'antrv. with which he served for three vears. 
He then re-enlisted in the United States 
Volunteer service, continuing with the army 
until December 22, 1865. He was in the 
department nf West Virginia, participating 
in the Lynchburg campaign in 1864. In 
May. 1862, at Princeton. \\'est \'irginia. he 
was wounded, but except when injured he 



was always found at his post of duty, val- 
iantly defending the nation's starry banner. 

After the close of the war ]\Ir. Kyle re- 
turned home but a little later went to Kan- 
sas, where he remained until 1878, when he 
again came to Ohio, wdiere he has since 
lived. In Cedarville township, Greene coun- 
ty, he operated a farm of one hundred and 
twenty acres, until within the last two years, 
when he retired, ha\'ing put aside the more 
arduous duties of field and meadow, and 
built him a pleasant home in Cedarville, 
where he now resides. 

On the 25th of November, 1896, at Ce- 
darville, Mr. Kyle was united in marriage 
to Mrs. Sarah J. McCollum. a daughter of 
Samuel and Eliza Cresswell. Both ^Ir. 
and !\Irs. Kyle are members of the United 
Presbyterian church and throughout the 
community they are held in warm regard by 
reason of their sterling worth. Mr. Kyle 
is to-day as true to his duties of citizenship 
as \vhen he followed the stars and stripes 
upon southern battlefields, and is deeply in- 
terested in all measures tending to promote 
the welfare and impro^■cment of his county. 



WILLIAM A. SHAPPEE, M. D. 

In tracing the career of a successfuj 
physician it is usually found that he pos- 
sesses certain marked characteristics in ad- 
dition to having a thorough knowledge of 
the healing art and good financial ability. 
There must be a ready sympathy and the 
power of entering into the feelings of others, 
united to that self-poise and conscious 
strength which naturally emanate from a 
strong self-reliant soul. Dr. Shappee is for- 
tunate in being gifted with many of the 
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cheerv lielpful optimism is a source of lielp 
and comfort in many a home siiadowed by 
sickness and suffering. For twenty-seven 
years he has practiced in Xenia. where he 
lias (il)tained a high reputation in his cliosen 
calhng. 

Tlie Doctor's father, Thomas B. Shaj)- 
l)ee, was born and reared in the state of 
New York, where he followed farming for 
a Hveliliood, for a number of }ears. passing 
away tliere about 1897. lie married JuHa 
Anieigh. and they became the jjarents of 
seven children, of whom the Doctor is the 
eldest. He, too, was born in the Empire 
state on the old homestead near Elmira, his 
natal day being June 14. 1S48. In the com- 
niciu schools he acquired his early education 
and when but a boy of sixteen years he en- 
listed for service in the Union army as a 
member of Company A, Eighty-tirst Penn- 
s_\dvania Volunteer Infantr}-. He had been 
at the front a little less than a year when he 
Idst his right leg at the battle of I'arniville, 
X'irginia. and on this account was honor- 
ably discharged, June 18, 1865. 

Immediately after the Doctor entered the 
State Normal school in Mansfield, Pennsyl- 
\ania, where he was graduated and later he 
pursued a course in the scientific department 
of the same institution, completing his stud- 
ies by graduatiiin in 1872 with the degree 
of B. S. He then engaged in school teach- 
ing, which he followed for a few years with 
good success, giving his leisure time and 
evenings to the study of medicine until he 
was at length graduated in 1875 from Pulte 
Medical College, Cincinnati. He afterward 
made his home with Dr. J. E. Lowes of 
Dayton, Ohio, and in 1875 he took up his 
abode in Xenia, where he has been engaged 
in practice continually since. In 1889 and 
again in 1891 he pursued a post-graduate 



course in Chicago and has e\er kept in 
touch with the progress made in the profes- 
sion. He is a member of the American In- 
stitute of Homeopath}- and the Ohio State 
Homeopathy Society, the Miami Valley 
^Medical Society and the Dayton Homeo- 
pathic Medical Society, and through the 
interchange of thought which is one of the 
features of these institutions, he keeps thor- 
oughh- informed concerning the advance- 
ments that are being continually made by 
members of the medical fralernitv. 

The Doctor was married to Miss Har- 
riet Close, a daughter of Peter Close, who 
belonged to a ])rominent Pennsylvanian 
family. Her mother bnre the maiden name 
of Lucinda Holmes and by her marriage be- 
came the mother of eight children. The 
Doctor and his wife have a pleasant resi- 
dence at No. 127 East Main street, where 
his ofiice is also located. He affiliates with 
the Republican ])artv and socially he is con- 
nected with the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows and the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic. He and his wife are very devout and 
active members of the Methodist Episco])al 
church and in their lives exemplify its teach- 
ings and beliefs. He is a man of broad hu- 
manitarian principles and readily responds 
to every call for his services even when he 
knows that no financial return will be re- 
ceived. He has spared neither time nor ex- 
pense in perfecting himself in his chosen 
calling. His offices are ecpiipped with all 
modern devices known to the medical pro- 
fession and he has himself invented a num- 
ber of useful instruments that have proven 
of value in the medical practice. His jxit- 
ronage is now very extensive and is con- 
stantly increasing and widely is he recog- 
nized as a most prominent and capable prac- 
titioner of Greene coimtv. 



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LAWRENCE H. McCARTXEV. D. O. 

Among tlie worthy citizens that Penn- 
sylvania has furnished to t'ne Buckeye state 
if- Dr. Lawrence H. McCartney, of Xenia. 
He is the only child of John H. and Marada 
(Graham) McCartney. His fatlier was also 
a native of the Keystone state but removed 
to Kansas, where for a number of years he 
successfully followed farming, carr} ing on 
agricultural pursuits, and where he still lives. 
IVIrs. ]\IcCartney died in 1892. 

The Doctor was born in Mercer county. 
Pennsylvania, February 17. 1874. and ac- 
quired his literary education in the schools 
of Kirksville, Missouri, where he was grad- 
uated. He afterward engaged in teaciiing 
with good success for three years but did 
not find that profession entirely congenial 
and took up the study and practice of osteo- 
pathy, entering the American School of Os- 
teii])at]iy at Kirks\ille, from which he grad- 
uated in the fall of 1898 and upon receiving 
his diploma in August of that year imme- 
diately located in Xenia, where he began 
practice, continuing until May, 1899. -^t 
tliat date he removed to Kansas but after a 
sliort time returned to Xenia in the spring 
of 1900, and has since been a practitioner 
of this place.' Deep research and numerous 
experiments concerning the cause and cure 
of disease led tn an understanding of the 
profession of osteopathy and it is sufficient 
to say that no discovery connected with the 
healing art has lieen more widely accepted 
cr been of greater benefit than this in recent 
years. Dr. McCartney now has a very large 
practice, which indicates his success. 

July 9, 1899. was celebrated the mar- 
riage of the Doctor and Miss Eva Percival, 
a daughter of \\'illiam O. Percival of Kan- 
sas. They are members of the First Meth- 



odist Episcopal church and he gives his po- 
litical support tti the Republican party. On 
the 7th of December. 1901, he was elected 
treasurer of the Ohio Osteopathic Society, 
V hich was recently incorporated. His office 
comprises a suite of two rooms and is lo- 
cated in the Steele block. 



CHRLSTL\X S. WEAVER. 

That so many of iier nati\e sons have 
continued their residence in Greene county, 
is an indication that this portion of the state 
affords good opportunities for business ad- 
\ancement. Mr. \\>aver is among those 
who, born here, have always lived within 
the borders of the countv and by the exer- 
cise of good busmess abilitv and sound judg- 
p.ient, he has advanced to a position among 
tlie successful agriculturists of his commun- 
ity. He was born in Caesarscreek township, 
January 29. 1840, his parents being George 
and Hannah (Font). \\"eaver, who were na- 
tives of Virginia and became early settlers 
of this localit}'. h\ their family were seven 
cliildren, of whom six are vet living, as fol- 
lows: John H.. a resident of Indiana; 
Christian S. ; James H.. who makes his 
home in Illinois : Robert, of Caesarscreek 
townshii): Mary, the widow of Joseph WJiit- 
tington, of the same township; and Frank, 
who resides in Bellbrook. 

To the district schools near his home 
Christian S. Wea\er is indebted for the ed- 
ucational privileges which he enjoyed in his 
youth and which fitted him for life's prac- 
tical duties. He was married on the 2^f\ of 
March, 1866, the lady of his choice being 
Miss Mary Powers, a native of Caesars- 
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and Susan ( P.urrell ) Powers. Her father 
was 1)1 irn in C'lintnn cimnty, Ohio, and dur- 
ing his early boyhood came to Greene 
county, wliere he met and married Miss 
Burrell. whose birth liere occurred. They 
had si.x cliildren : Allen, who resides in 
Tennessee; Mrs. Weaver; .\niel. a resident 
of Caesarscreek townsliip; I^llen, the wife 
of Harvey Hunrston, of Xcnia. Ohio; Har- 
land, now deceased; and Eli. a resident of 
Dayton, Ohio. 

Mr. and Mrs. Weaver began their do- 
mestic life n])on a farm adjoining their pres- 
ent home, and when a number of years had 
passed came to the place which is now their 
residence. Their home is one of the largest 
and most attractive in this portion of the 
county; the farm comprises one hundred 
and sixty-four acres of ricli land and each 
spring the fields give promise of golden liar- 
vests. In the pastures are found good 
grades of stock and upon the place are all 
modern equipments and accessories which 
facilitate farm work and result in bringing 
n greater financial return. Industry and en- 
terprise liave ever been numbered among the 
sterling characteristics of Mr. Weaver, who 
is accounted one of the leading agriculturists 
of central Ohio. 

The home of our subject and his wife 
has Ijeen lilessed with eleven children : 
Charles, who married Sylvia Turner, and 
resides in Caesarscreek township ; Alfred, of 
New Jasper township, who married Ida 
Thomas and has two children, Floyd and 
Cleavill ; Samuel, a resident of Missouri; 
Harland, who married Luella Smith and 
with their daughter Elma resides in Caesars- 
creek township; Lodema, deceased; Ann and 
Effa, twins, the former the wife of ^^'alker 
Fugat, of Clinton county, by wdiom she has 
two children — Ralph and Fred, while Etta 



i:^- the wife of Jasper Tlujmas of Jefferson 
township and has one child, !\Iyrlle; Wil- 
bur, Butl, Walter and Clara, all at home. 

Mr. Weaver espoused the cause of the 
Democracy and his fellow townsmen, recog- 
nizing his worth and ability, have several 
times elected liim to the office of township 
trustee. Though always a man of activity, 
he is thoroughly domestic in his tastes and is 
not identified with any clubs or societies. 
To every enterprise' calculated to advance 
the prosperity of Greene county he gives his 
strong endorsement and is accounted one of 
its popular citizens. 



CHARLES E. \\TLLTAMSON. 

Charles E. Williamson is engaged in the 
operation of a gt)od farm situated on the 
Dayton and Waynesville pike in Sugarcreek 
t(.wnship. Greene county. He was born on 
tlie farm which he now owns and thus it is 
endeared to him by the associations of his 
lioyhood as well as those of later years. His 
birth occurred December 7, 1865, his par- 
ents being Joseph C. and Mary Eleanor 
(Cramer) William.son. The father was 
born in the same townshi]) in the year 1827 
and died January 10, 1898. at the age of 
seventy-one years. His wife passed away 
in the same year when about the same age. 
The \\'illiamson family was founded in 
Ohio l)y Eleazer \\'illiamson, the grandfa- 
ther of our subject, who was brought to 
Ohio by his parents when a small boy. For 
a time the family lived in Cincinnati, or upon 
the site of the present city, for at that time 
the metropolis of to-day had hardlv been es- 
tablislied. Subsequently both the grandfa- 
ther and the great-grandfather of our sub- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ject came further m-rtli. The iVirmer was 
married in this state and settled near the 
place upon wliidi Cliarles E. \\illiamson 
now lives. Later he removed across the line 
into Montgomery county to the farm upon 
which Alexander Williamson is maintaining 
his residence and there he died at the age 
of sixty-seven years, his remains being in- 
terred in Bellbrook cemetery. 

For a time Joseph C. Williamson, the 
father of our subject, resided in a log house. 
but about 1864 the pioneer dwelling was re- 
placed l)y a good frame residence. He car- 
ried on agricultural pursuits throughout his 
entire life. In Iv.s political views he was a 
Republican but was never an aspirant for 
office. He belonged to the Presbyterian 
clnirch and was most loyal to its teaching 
and belief. In the family were six children : 
William Calvin, who lives in Sugarcreek 
township; Robert E.. who married !May Al- 
len and resides in Montgomery county, 
Ohio; Joseph A., a resident of Montgomery 
county, who married Mav Elliott : Charles 
E., the subject of this sketch ; Thomas E., 
who married Jennie Bradford and makes his 
home in Montgomery county ; and ^laggie 
E., who became the wife of Howard \\"ood, 
and died in Montgomery county, leaxing a 
son, Herman W. 

Upon the old home farm in the county 
of his nativity, Charles E. Williamson was 
reared, early becoming familiar with all the 
duties and labors that fall to the lot of the 
agriculturist. He acquired a fair common 
school education and assisted his father 
until he had attained his majority, when he 
started out upon an independent business 
career. He then rented land of his father 
and has since devoted his time and energies 
to the cultivation of the crops best adapted 
to this soil antl climate. He now owns the 



old homestead of one hundred and five acres, 
a part of which he inherited, while he pur- 
cliased the remainder of the other heirs. The 
fields are well tilled and bring to him a gold- 
en tribute for his labors. His efforts are of 
a progressi\'e and practical nature and as 
llic years pass he is enabled annually to add 
to his competence. 

On the 22(1 of February, 1893, Mr. 
Williamson was married in Spring Valley 
to Miss Xellie Z. Fulkerson, a daughter of 
Amos and Susan (Beck) Fulkerson. She 
was born and reared in Spring Vallev and 
pursued her education in its schools. By her 
marriage she has become the mother of one 
son, Xe\-in Amos, who was born on the 
home farm. December 24, 1894. Mr. Will- 
iamson exercises his right of franchise in 
support of the men and measures of the Re- 
publican party, but is not an active political 
worker, giving his entire attention to farm- 
ing interests. He is widely known through- 
out the county of his nativity and his warm- 
est friends are those who ha\e known him 
from bovhood. 



JOHX F. HAVERSTICK. 

The spirit of enterprise and progress, 
which has been such a potent factor in the 
rapid development and upbuilding of this 
country is manifest in the career of John F. 
Haverstick. a wide-awake business man who 
is now serving as general manager of the 
Central Union Telephone Company of 
Xenia. He is numbered among the native 
sons of this city, his parents being Frederick 
and Leah (Zellers) Haverstick. The par- 
ents -were born and reared at Hagerstown, 
Maryland, coming to this county with their 




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parents before their marriage, and through- 
out the years of his business career the fa- 
ther followed farming, but for twenty years 
prior to his death was an invalid. He 
passed away in 1888. In the family were 
four children. 

Like the others, Mr. Haverstick of this 
review, attended the public schools of 
Greene county, acquiring a good education 
which well fitted him for life's practical du- 
ties. He laid aside his text-books at the 
age of sixteen years and entered upon his 
business career, learning the trade of a car- 
riage trimmer, which he followed until 
1882. He then entered official life, for nine 
years filling the position of deputy county 
clerk. In the year 1890 he was elected coun- 
ty clerk and served in that capacity to the 
satisfaction of all concerned until 1900, 
when no longer desiring political office he 
retired to private life and accepted the posi- 
tion of general manager of the Central 
Union Telephone Company, which had been 
tendered him. He assumed charge on the 
3d of December, 1900, and is proving his 
capability by the excellent manner in which 
he controls the affairs of the company. 
He superintended the construction of the 
present plant, which was substituted for the 
old plant of the Miami Telephone Company. 
It was erected at a cost of seventy-five thou- 
sand dollars and is equipped with the west- 
ern electric method, the most improved tele- 
phone system known to the business. When 
Mr. Haverstick took charge and put in op- 
eration the new plant, there were onlv two 
hundred and thirty subscribers. Two years 
have not yet passed, and yet the number has 
l3een increased to six hundred and fifty sub- 
scriljers. Mr. Haverstick is also in charge 
of the ;\Iiddleto.wn plant which is operated 
by the same company and has an office in 

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Xenia, employing seven operators. There 
are two switchboards, three men and two 
assistants in the accounting room. Mr. 
Haverstick is thoroughly familiar with the 
telephone business and his capable control 
has resulted in advancing- the financial sitc- 
cess O'f the company and in giving entire sat- 
isfaction to his patrons. He is also vice 
president of the Home Building & Loan As- 
sociation of Xenia. 

On Christmas day of 1876, Mr. Haver- 
stick was united in marriage to Miss Anna 
M. Bosler, a daughter of Thomas Bosler, 
and unto them have been bom a daughter, 
Edith M., now the wife of W. L. Reynolds, 
of Dayton, Ohio. The family home is at 
441 North King street. Fraternally Mr.- 
Haverstick is connected with the Benevo- 
lent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights- 
of Pythias, the Knights of Honor, and the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while- 
politically he is a Republican. He never 
wavers in his allegiance to the party. He- 
is alert to business opportunities and pos- 
sibilities ; is also deeply interested in the de- 
velopment and upbuilding of his native city,, 
and throughout Xenia and Greene county 
enjoys the esteem of a large circle of friends.. 



WILLIAM TOBIAS. 

Not many men who have passed the age 
of four score years and are residents of 
Greene county can claim this portion of the 
state as the place of their nativity, but Will- 
iam Tobias is a native son of Greene coun- 
t)-, his birth haA'ing occurred in Beavercreek 
township, March 14, 1821. There is a par- 
ticular satisfaction in reverting to the life 
h.istory of the honored and venerable gentle- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



man wiiose name initiates this review, since 
his mintl l^ears the impress of tlie liistorica! 
annals of the state of Ohio from the early 
pioneer days, and from the fact that he has 
been a loyal son of the Republic and has at- 
tained to a position of distinctive prominence 
in the township where he was horn and 
where he has retained his residence until the 
present time, being now one of the revered 
jjc'.triarchs of the community. 

Mr. Tobias is still an acti\e factor in agri- 
<:ullural circles in Beavercreek tnwnship. He 
was born March 14. 1821. his parents being 
Samuel and Elizabeth (Hanney) Tobias, 
both of whom were natives of Schuylkill 
county. Pennsylvania, and were of German 
lineage. In pioneer days they started west- 
war<l and took up tlieir abode in Greene 
county, driving across the country from 
Pennsylvania. Ltxating in Zimmerman, the 
fr.ther purchased twenty-five acres of land 
and erected a log cabin which is still stand- 
ing although it has been remodeled. His 
<leath occurreil when his son William was 
about seven years of age, and the mutber 
afterward became the wife of Michael Swi- 
gurl. Her death occurred about 1871 when 
she was seventy-si.K years of age. By her 
first marriage she bad three sons and three 
<laughters : Lydia. who became the wife of 
William Kirkpatrick. but both are now de- 
ceased; Margaret, who married Xoah Enr_\'. 
but both died in Illinois: William, of this re- 
view; Daniel, who resides near Troy. ]\Ii- 
ami county: Samuel, deceased; and Cather- 
ine, who married W'allev Haines, hut both 
are now deceased. 

When a little lad William Tobias mad.e 
bis way from home to the little log school- 
bouse of his district, where sitting upon a 
rude bench, he conned his lessons, becom- 
ing familiar with the common Engli.sh 



branches of learning. After he was eight 
years of age he went to live with Peter Swi- 
gart. a brotlier of his stei>-falher. with whom 
he remained until twenty-two years of age. 
After his marriage he began farming upon 
rented land and when several years had 
passed he purchased a tract of land in 1870, 
becoming the owner of ninety-six acres. He 
remodeled the house, built a good barn, and 
successfully carried on general farming and 
stock-raising. 

Oil the 24th of December. 1846. Mr. 
Tobias wedded Sarah Swigart. and unto 
them were born two children: Martin Lu- 
ther, now a resident of Beavercreek town- 
ship, married Christine Peoples, and they 
have two children, Edgar and Clara. The 
mother died and Martin afterward wedded 
Mary Barnhart, by whom he had three chil- 
dren, Eva, Grace and John. Samuel, the 
second son of the family, married Emma 
John and resides in Daytt)n. They haxe 
three children. Homer, Howard and Harold. 
The first wife of William Tobias died in 
183 1 when about twenty-four vears of age 
and was laid to rest in Mount Zion ceme- 
tery. On the 19th of June. 1852, he was 
again marrie<l. his second union being with 
Jane Miller, wln) was born near Cincinnati, 
in Hamilton county, Ohio, a daughter of 
James and Elizabeth (Wheeler) Miller. 
Her mother was born in Marxland. her fa- 
ther, Willerson Wheeler. l)eing a ])lanter 
and slave owner until he liberated his slaves 
and mo\ed to Baltimore, where he lived 
until his daughter Elizabeth was fourteen 
years of age, when they went to Pennsyl- 
vania, where she met the gentleman who be- 
came her husband and who was a nati\e of 
Center county, that state. Three times tlie_\- 
came to Ohio, locating hrst in Columbus, 
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state. Their third trip was made by water 
Ic Cincinnati. Mr. Miller was a soldier of 
tb.e war of 181J. ser\ing under (ieneral 
Harrison. He died in 1840, and was laid 
to rest in the Byron cemetery, while his wife 
passed away in 1854 in Dayton. Unto Mr. 
and Mrs. Tobias ha\'e lieen Ijorn the follow- 
ing children : William, of Beavercreek 
township, who married Jennie Alice Gar- 
loiigh and has one child, Emerson D. ; Cath- 
erine, the wife of John \V. Barney, of Day- 
ton, by whom she has four children, Dora, 
Bertha, Eugene J. and Ralph ; Elizabeth, 
who is the twin sister of Catherine and is 
at htmie with her parents; Daniel and Cal- 
\in, now deceased ; (>r\ille, of Bea\ercreek 
t(;wnship. who married P2fifa Miller, l)y 
whom he has one child, Raymond ; one who 
<lied in infanc\- : Xewton W'., of Obio. who 
married May Kenij) and has one child, Viv- 
ian G. 

In his political views Mr. Tobias is a 
Republican, wiio has long endorsed the prin- 
ciples of the party, but has never been an 
office seeker. Both he and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Reformed church. During his 
long residence in the county he has wit- 
nessed much of its growth and development, 
has seen many changes and has taken an 
active and helpful interest in its progress 
iind improvement. 



JOSEPH KYLE. D. D. 

Although Dr. Kyle has been a resident 
of Greene county for only a few years, he 
has l>een so closely and prominently connect- 
e(' with the educational and moral interests 
of the county in that time that no histcirv of 
tlie county would be complete without the 



record of his career. It is widel\- acknowl- 
edged that the most important profession 
to which a man can direct his energies is 
that of teaching, whether it be from the 
pulpit, from the lecture platform or from 
the schoolroom. Its primary object is ever 
tlie same. — the development of one's latent 
powers that the duties of life may be bravely 
met and well performed. The intellectual 
and moral natures are so closely allied that 
it is difficult to instruct one without in a 
measure influencing the other, and certainly 
the best results are accomplished when the 
work goes hand in hand. Christian instruc- 
tion is having an influence over the world 
that few can estimate, for it is in youth that 
the life of the man is marked out, his fu- 
ture course decided and his choice as to the 
good or e\il ma<le. Dr. Kyle is devoting his 
time, energies and thought to educational 
work and in former years engaged in 
])reaching the Won! from the pul])it. He 
is now professor of systematic theology in 
the Xenia Theological Seminary. 

Dr. Kyle is a nati\e of Greene county, 
his birth having here occurred on the 20th 
of November. 1849. He rejjresents a fam- 
ily that for almost a century has been con- 
nected with this portion of the state. His 
father, Josepli Kyle, Sr.. was born in this 
C( unty, June 20, 1809, and followed farm- 
ing for a livelihood. After arriving at years 
of maturity he married Ann Cassil, who at 
her death left five children, and later he 
married Mrs. Hadassah Hunter, a daughter 
of John Kennedy, of County Derr}-. Ireland. 
Of this union four children were born, of 
whom Dr. Kyle of this review is the oldest. 
The father dietl on the 28th of August, 1881, 
and the mother passed away on the 15th of 
June, 1898. 

The Doctor pursued his early education 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



in the common schools of Greene county 
and afterward attended the IMonmouth Col- 
lege, where he was graduated with the class 
of 1 87 J, with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. Later he pursued a theological course 
in the Xenia Theological Seminary and then 
became connected with the mission field nf 
Nebraska, where he remained for four 
months. On the ist of January. 1877. he 
located in Springlield, Ohio, anil accepted 
the pastorate of the United Presbyterian 
church, where he was ordained and installed 
April 24. 1877, there remaining until the 
1st of September. i8gi. While there the 
new church edifice was erected and dedicat- 
ed, in August. 1887. He was then called to 
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in charge of the 
I'liurth L'nited Presbyterian church, cmitin- 
uing as its pastor for eight years. On the 
expiration of that period he came to Xenia, 
in Se[)tember. 1899, and is now professor 
of systematic theology in the Xenia Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

Dr. Kyle has been twice married. He 
first wedded Miss Ella M. Barnett, a daugh- 
ter of William .\. Barnett, the wedding be- 
ing celebrated on the 14th of October, 1880. 
The lady died on the 25th of October, 1897, 
and cm the 7th of June, igoo, the Doctor 
was again married, his second union being 
with r^liss Marion L. Brown of Allegheny, 
Pennsyhania, a daughter of Mrs. Jane 
Brown. This union was blessed with one 
child but it died in infancy. The Doctor 
and his wife reside on North King street 
and tlicir home is the center of a cultured 
society circle. It is noted for its hospitality 
and the cordial and kindly feeling which al- 
ways exists there in the entertainment of 
their nianv friends. The Doctor is a strong 
advocate of the Prohibition party. He takes 
a deep interest in everything pertaining to 



the welfare and progress of the community 
along all lines of advancement. He is a 
man of strong force of character, unequivo- 
cal in his championship of all that is right, 
and yet there is in him an abiding charity 
which' has won for him the respect, confi- 
dence and high regard of all with whom he 
has been associated. 



ALLEN FAULKNER. 

Allen Faulkner was born July 29, 1824, 
in Caesarscreek township im the farm which 
is yet his home, his parents being Thomas 
and ]\Iary (IMcGuire) Faulkner. The fa- 
ther was a son of Robert Faulkner, a native 
of Berkelev countv. \\ est \'irginia. In his 
'family were four children : Susanna, 
Thomas, David and Elizabeth. 

Thomas Faulkner was born in Berkeley 
county. West \'irginia. November 8, 1787.. 
and as his mother died when he was about 
seven years of age he went to live with his 
grantlniother. His grandmother was a most 
pious and devout Christian woman, and 
fiom her he receivetl his early religious im- 
pressions which proved of benefit to him in 
moulding his character in later life. In 1810 
he wedded Mary McGuire. a daughter of 
Jiinathan antl Catherine McGuire. They 
were members of the }\lethodist Episcopal 
church and tlie mother died when Mrs. 
Faulkner was quite young. She, too, was 
reared by her grandmother, from whom she 
received Christian training. Thomas Faulk- 
ner had been reared in the faith of tlie so- 
ciety of Friends, but because he married out- 
side of the church he was disowned by the 
denominatiiin. Feeling it his duty, hnwex'er. 
tX' be working for Christianity, he became 
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after careful thought and dehberation, lie 
juined the Methodist Episcopal church, of 
which his wife had become a member when 
sixteen years of age. In 1828 they left that 
denomination and became identified with the 
Methodist Protestant church, in whicli Mr. 
Faulkner served as class leader for many 
years. In 1806 he had removed from \'ir- 
ginia to Ohio and two years later liis wife 
came to the Buckeye state. He had about 
■one hundred dollars in currency when 
he sought a home in Greene cnunty. 
In 1808 he took up liis alxxle in 
Caesarscreek township on Painter run and 
there rented a farm for five years. He was 
drafted for service in the war of 181 2. but 
shortlv after his marriage he obtained his 
release from the army on the payment of 
one hundred dollars. In 1816 he purchased 
a farm with money saved entirely from his 
own earnings and upon this place spent his 
remaining days. It was a tract of one hun- 
dred and thirty acres covered with a dense 
forest at the time he came into his posses- 
sions, but he cleared and developed it and 
the house which he built is still occupied by 
our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner be- 
came the parents of eight children, of whom 
two died in infancy. The others were Jon- 
athan, who lived and died in Iowa; Mrs. 
Elizaljeth Conklin, of Lumberton, Ohio: 
David, deceased; Lucinda, the deceased wife 
of Samuel Painter : Allen : and Mary, the 
deceased wife of Thomas ^^'ay, who is now 
in Georgia. The father of this family voted 
with the Whig party and served as trustee 
of his township. He died April 16, 1871, 
at the advanced age of eighty-three years, 
fi\'e months and ten days, and his wife 
passed away July 5, 1873, at the age of 
eighty-three. 

In an old time log school-house Allen 



Faulkner pursued his education, but attend- 
ed school only when the weather was so bad 
that he could not work upon the farm, this 
being largely through the winter months. 
He always remained on the old family home- 
stead and when his father was unequal to 
the task of caring for the place, its manage- 
ment and operation devolved upon our sub- 
ject. This farm comprises two hundred and 
twenty-seven acres of land, all of which is 
cultivable and is now well improved. 

On the 1 8th of July. 1847, Mr. Faulk- 
ner married Ablona Hartsock. who was 
Iwrn in Berkeley county, West Virginia, in 
1828. a daughter of Elijah B. and Elizabeth 
( Steidley ) Hartsock. The father was born 
in Maryland. February 28. 1798. and re- 
moved to \'irginia, in 181 1. There he was 
married in 1820 and ten years later he came 
to Ohio, settling on Price run. in Caesars- 
creek township, where he spent his remain- 
ing days. He and his wife were devoted 
members of the Methodist Protestant church 
and took a very active interest in its work, 
and for a long period he served as class lead- 
er. His death occurred in 1864 when he 
was sixty-six years of age, and his wife 
passed away fifteen years afterward. Their 
cliildren were: Washington, now deceased; 
William Harrison, who lives in Iowa; Fran- 
cis Marion, who has also passed away; Eliz- 
abeth A., now Mrs. Faulkner; James Fred- 
erick, a resident of Caesarscreek township ; 
Andrew Jackson, who makes his home in 
Nebraska; and Mary Catherine, who is the 
widow of Rev. O. P. Stevens, formerly a 
pastor of the Methodist Protestant church 
of Xenia. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner have been 
born eight children : Jonathan R.. who died 
in infancy ; Franklin K., who is also de- 
ceased ; Lydia Catherine, the deceased wife 



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of Jesse Painter; Cordelia j.. who married 
William Bales, a resident of Clinton county, 
Ohio, by whom she had five children. — Em- 
ery, Thomas, Allen, now deceased, Lorenia 
and Flo; Louisa Elma, tlie wife of Eli 
Haines of Caesarscreek township, by whom 
she had three children. — Lizzie Mary, 
Homer Harvey, deceased, and Bernice; 
Thomas, who married Minnie Peterson, a 
daughter of C. C. Peterson, and by whom 
he has three children. — Howard P., Law- 
rence T. and Dorothy, all living with Mr. 
Faulkner of this review on the home farm; 
James, a resident of Xenia. who married Ola 
Peterson, a daughter of C. C. Peterson ; and 
Cora, who has passed away. 

Our subject and his son Thomas are 
stanch Republicans and both have served as 
trustee of Caesarscreek township. Mr. and 
Mrs. Faulkner are niemliers of the Method- 
ist Protestant church, while Thomas and 
his wife ])elong to the Society of Friends, 
and James and his wife are connected with 
the Reformed church. The family is one 
of prominence in the communitv for its 
members are recognized as i:)eople of genu- 
ine worth, closely associated with agricul- 
tural interests and reliable in all life's rela- 
tions. The success of Mr. Faulkner's life 
is not due to any happy succession of advan- 
tageous circumstances, but to his own sturdy 
will, steady application, tireless industry 
and sterling integrity! 



HON. JOHN H. COOPER. 

An enumeration of the men who have 
been honored by Greene county and have in 
turn conferred honor and dignity ujwn pub- 
lic otYice there would be incomplete were 



there a failure to make prominent reference 
to the Hon. John H. Cooper, who served 
for six years as judge of the probate court. 
He was a son of the Rev. Eljenezer Cooper 
of the Reformed church. His father was 
born in South Carolina in 1792 and al- 
though that state was his place of residence 
during his youth he was educated in New 
^'ork city and pursued his theological stud- 
ies in Philadelphia. Upon completing ihe 
course he returned to the south to enter the 
ministry there, first liecoming pastor of the 
church at Fayettexille. Tennessee. Later he 
accei)ted the pastorate of a church in Fay- 
ette C(junty. Indiana, where he continued his 
ministerial labors until he lost his health. 
He then resigned and gave up all connec- 
tion with the work of the church as a pas- 
tor but never lost his deep interest in the 
cause of Christianitv and its promulgation. 
Removing to Cedarville, Greene county, 
Ohio, he here spent his remaining days and 
his influence was widely felt for good 
throughout the community. After complet- 
ing his education Mr. Cooj^er was united in 
marriage to Miss Jane McMillan of South 
Carolina, who survived him until 1888. 
They reared a family of six sons and one 
daughter. 

Judge Cooper, whose name introduces 
this review, was born in Favette county, 
Tennessee, January 13, 1831, and when a 
\ Duth of sixteen years came to Greene coun- 
ty, Ohio, with his maternal grandfather, 
Daniel McMillan, a pioneer settler of this 
portion of the state. The lad attended 
school in Xenia with his uncle. D. ^IcMil- 
lan. the famous cattle man of this county. 
\\ hen he had completed his educational 
training he entered the store of James C. 
McMillan, for whom he engaged in clerking 
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ness on liis own account as a member of the 
firm of Stark, Lytle & CoojK^r. dealers in 
gaieral dry goods, groceries, Ixxjts and 
shoes, car])ets and otiner liouseliold commod- 
ities, that ciinnectinii beint,'- maintained until 
1861. Mr. Cooper next entered into part- 
nership with W. C Hutchison & Company 
as an active meml)er of the firm of Cooper 
& Hutchison until 1879, when by ix>pular 
sufifrage he was called to the position of the 
county treasurer, and so capably did he 
serve that he was re-elected for the second 
term, filling the jxysition until chosen pro- 
bate judge of Greene county. It was in 
1884 that he was elected to that position for 
which he (lualitied on the ijlb of February, 
1885. On the e.xpiration of a three years' 
term he was re-elected and discharged his 
duties most creditably and honoralily. win- 
ning the high commendation of a large ma- 
jority of the citizens of (ireene county. 

On the 19th of October. 1859. in Xenia. 
Judge Cooijer was married to Miss Julia 
Platter, a daughter of Christian Platter, who 
was born in Ross county October 19. 1840. 
Five children graced this marriage but three 
of the number died of scarlet fever at ages 
varying from four to eight years, while 
Belle died in 1888 at the age of seventeen 
years. The surviving member of the fam- 
ily is Emily P., who is still living with her 
mother. 

The Judge was a leading and active 
member of the Republican party, believing 
that its principles would best conserve the 
national welfare. He was a man of excel- 
lent business and judicial ability. He long 
held membership in the Presbyterian church 
of which for many years he was a ruling 
elder. On the 27th of I\Iay. 1892, he was 
called to his final rest and his remains were 
interred in Woodland cemeterv. His widow 



and daughter still survive him. He left to 
them not only a comfortable competence but 
the priceless heritage of an untarnished 
name. A man of great natural ability, his 
success in business, from the beginning of 
his residence in Xenia, was uniform and 
rapid. His life was an example in all re- 
sjjects and he ever supjxjrted those inter- 
ests which are calculated to uplift and ben- 
efit humanity, while his own high moral 
worth was deserving of the highest com- 
mendation. 

. «-►> 

JOHN' M. HILL. 

John M. Mill, who is a factor in agricul- 
tural circles in lliis county, was born in 
W'avne county. Indiana, September 11. 
1 85 J, bis ])arents being Elijah and Rebecca 
(Mlills) Hill. On the maternal side the 
ancestry can be traced back to Jose])h Mills, 
the great-grandfather of our subject, who 
was lK)rn in the parish of Tamaho. Kildare 
county, Ireland, on the ist of May. 1736. 
His father was a native of Wayne county. 
Indiana, while the mother of our subject 
was Ixirn in Preljle county. Ohio. They 
were married in the former county and took 
up their abode in the latter county when 
Mr. Hill of this review was a youth of 
twelve summers. There he remained until 
he was about seventeen years of age. in 
which year his mother died. He spent the 
following year in Wayne county and then 
came to Greene county, Ohio, but after a 
year passed returned to Preble count}-. His 
father died Januarv i. 1873, at the age of 
fortv-six vears and eleven months. 

Mr. Hill of this review acquired a good 
common school education. In February, 
1873. he once more came to Greene county. 



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where he has since remained, with tlie ex- 
ception of six years wliich he and his wife 
spent in Preble county. He married Miss 
Mary A. Compton. whose birth occurred in 
Clinton county, Ohio, August 12, 1856, the 
wedding taking place May 21, 1879. Mr. 
and Mrs. Hill enjoy the high regard of 
many friends in this portion of the state. 
The) are identified with the Society of 
PViends. and Mr. Hill gives his political sup- 
port to the Republican party. 



^^ 



JESSE CO^H'TOX. 

Jesse Compton is a retired farmer resid- 
ing near X'ew Burlington. The greater part 
of his land is in (jreene county, but his home 
is situated across the line in Clinton coun- 
ty. He is, however, so widely and favor- 
ably known throughout this portion of the 
state that he well (leser\es representation in 
this volume. He was born in the township 
of Spring Valley on the 12th of January, 
1825, his parents being Samuel and Allie 
(Thatcher) Compton. The ancestry of the 
family can l)e traced back to Samuel Comp- 
ton. tlie great-great-grandfather of our sub- 
ject, who emigrated from England to North 
Carolina. The great-grandfather also bore 
the name of Sanuiel and came to Ohio before 
our subject's grandfather, making the trip 
in tSg^. He settled just south of the Greene 
rmd Warren county line about one mile west 
of the northeast corner of Warren county, 
and when his death occurred his remains 
"were interred upon the old farm there. He 
died l-ebruary 6, 1805. His wife, who bore 
the maiden name of Elizabeth Lewis, died 
May 17, 182 1. It is probably that the first 
of the name in America left England be- 



cause of the persecution of the Quakers in 
that country, and when the Comptons left 
the south it was because they were opposed 
to slavery. 

Samuel Compton, the father of our sub- 
ject, was a W hig and a very strong anti- 
slavery man, whose home became a station 
on the underground railroad, and thus he 
often assisted the refugees on their way to 
freedom. He was a native of South Caro- 
lina, born in 1796, and with his father, 
Amos Compton, came to Ohio in 1805. The 
grandfather took up his abode on the west 
bank of Caesars creek across the road from 
where another Amos Compton now resides. 
He secured land, comprising a part of the 
military tract, at a very low figure, having 
nearly four hundred acres, and upon that 
place he spent his remaining days, de\'elop- 
ing a good farm. He married Rebecca 
MiWbouse, who was born August 11, 1767. 
Both were natives of South Carolina and 
were married in that state. Amos Comp- 
ton passed away September 14, 1824, at the 
age of fifty-four years, his birth having oc- 
curred on the 9th of July. 1770. In the 
family of this worthy couple were eight chil- 
dren : Betty, born in South Carolina March 
3. 1794; Samuel, the father of our subject; 
Mary, born Deceml^er 21, 1798; Rebecca, 
born November 6, 1800: Lydia. born Jan- 
uary 20, 1803; Sally, who was born in 
South Carolina February 13, 1805, and died 
August 31, 1823; John, who was born in 
Greene county, Ohio, March i, 1807, and 
died March 26, 1893, at the age of eighty- 
six years and twenty-five days ; and Ann, 
Ixjrn January 13, 1812. 

Samuel Compton, the father of our sub- 
ject, was only about nine years of age when 
he accompanied his parents to Ohio. Here 
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.ginia, w lience slie came to the Buckeye state 
during her early childhood to make her 
Jiome with her grandmother at Wilmington. 
It was there that the parents of our subject 
became acquainted. Samuel Compton re- 
moved to the western portion of liis father's 
farm, where he built a hewed-log house and 
log barn. The former is still standing, but 
is weather-boarded and transformed into a 
modern dwelling. Throughout iiis remain- 
ing days he carried on agricultural pursuits 
•and as the years passed transformed his 
farm into a very valuable property. His 
■death occurred March 12, 1861, and his wife, 
who was l)orn March 10. 1804, died .Vugust 
14, 1885. at the advanced age of eighty-one 
years. In their family were eight children : 
Jesse; Rebecca, lx)rn October 8, 1826: 
Nancy, who was born Octoljer 2. 1828, and 
<lied May 2, 1899, at the age of seventy 
years and si.x months : Aoios. born Decem- 
ber 19, 1830; John ^L, who was born May 
6, 1833, and died on the 9th of August fol- 
lowing: Samuel T.. who died in infancy: 
Martha who was born April i, 1840, and 
died on the 22d of Decemlaer. 1841 : and 
Lydia. born December 16. 1842, and now 
deceased. 

In his youth Jesse Compton acquired a 
common-school education and remained at 
home until his marriage, which occurred 
when he was about twenty-three years of 
age. the date of this important event being 
October 12. 1848. He married Esther 
Sprav. who was born near her present home 
in Clinton county, a daughter of Jesse and 
Mary (Cook) Spray. Her parents were na- 
tives of South Carolina, but came to Ohio 
with their parents and were married in this 
state. All were by birthright Friends. Her 
mother was a daughter of Charity Cook, 
who w^as born July 28, 1799. Her son, 



Joseph Cook, a preacher in the Friends so- 
ciety, made a number of trips back to Eng- 
land. Mrs. Spray was born June 3, 1803, 
and died May 4, 1844. Mrs. Compton's fa- 
ther, Jesse Spray, was a son of Samuel 
Spray, who was born in Pennsylvania, re- 
moved to South Carolina and afterward to 
Ohio. Jesse Spray was born February 5, 
I So I, and lived to be almost eighty years of 
age, while his wife was only about forty 
years of age at the time of her death. The 
grandfather, Samuel Spray, was a recorded 
minister of the Friends church, born March 
-3- ^75^- while his death occurred on the 
20th of March, 1836. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Compton were lx)rn 
seven children : Uriah, who was born in 
Greene county, September i, 1850, was mar- 
ried to Sanianriiaj Harris, and lived in 
Ashland, Ii>A\-'a, until hiis death. He left 
five children. Martha, born in Warren 
county, Ohio. April 13, 1852, is at home. 
John, lx)rn in Greene county July 7, 1854, 
married Jennie Morris and lives in Spring 
Valley township. They ha\e one child. 
Mary A., born in Clinton county, Ohio, Au- 
gust T2, 1856, was married May 21, 1879, 
to John M. Hill. Lydia J., l)orn in Clinton 
county November 28, 1858, became the wife 
of Joseph H. Hill and has one child, Jesse 
E., born in Greene county April 8, 1887. 
Elizabeth A., born August 21, 1869, married 
Oscar Shambaugh, of this county, and has 
two children. Miriam N., born January 30, 
1877, is the wife of Earl Steele, of Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota. 

Mr. Compton has always given his po- 
litical support to the Re])ublican party. 
Throughout his entire life he has resided in 
this portion of Ohio, and those who know 
him are familiar with his honorable record. 
He has always been a man of strong prin- 



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ciples, markeil individuality and force of 
character, and throughout his entire Hfe, 
covering more than seventy-seven \ears. lie 
has ever commanded and enjoyed the re- 
spect of his fellowmen. 



RILY. 



o.wii) .Mac-dill, a. m. 

LL. I)., L. H. D. 



I). D. 



Xo compendium such as the pro\ ince of 
this work defines in its essential limitations 
will serve to ofifer fit memorial to the life 
and accomplishments of the honored sub- 
ject of this review — a man remarkaljle in 
t!ie breadth of his wisdom, in his indomit- 
able i^erseverance and his strong indi\idual- 
ity, and yet one whose entire hfe has not 
one esoteric phase, being an open scroll, in- 
viting the closest scrutiny. True his have 
been "massive deeds and great" in one sense, 
and yet his entire life accomplishment but 
represents the result of the fit utilization of 
tiie innate talent which is his. and the di- 
recting of his efforts in those lines where 
mature judgment, rare discrimination and 
a broad \iew of life has led the wav. 
Throughout the years of his manhood his 
efforts have been given to the uplifting of 
his fellowmen, to the dissemination of truth 
and to the study of the laws of life and of 
eternity that he might be a power for good 
in the world and yet his acts have ever been 
in harmony with the mandate "Let vour 
light shine before men that others seing your 
good works may glorify your Father, which 
is in Heaven." 

Dr. MacDill was born .\ugust lo. 1826. 
in Preble county, Ohio, and completed his 
literary education in Center College, of Ken- 
tucky, in the class of 1849. He .studied 



theology at O.xford and Allegheny, and was 
licensed to preach on the 7th of April, 1852, 
by the First Ohio Presbyter}-, lieing or- 
dained at Chillicothe September 8. 1853. I'^ 
early manhcxxl, in fact in the year of his or- 
dination, he was married to Miss Martha E. 
Gordon, of Xenia. and the years have wit- 
nessed their co-operation in a work for their 
fellow men that has had a most widespread 
influence for good. 

in September. 1853. Dr. MacDill ac- 
cepted the pastorate of the church of his de- 
nomination at Cherr}- Fork. Ohio, where he 
remained until June i. 1876. He was then 
m charge of the church in Henderson. Illi- 
nois, from March 3. 1877. until June i. 1884, 
and in the meantinie he had become an 
active factor in the work of Christian edu- 
cation. He served as professor .of philos- 
ojihy in Monmouth College, of Monmouth, 
Illinois, from the ist of September. 1876, 
until 1885. and has been professor of apolo- 
getics and homilectics in Xenia Theological 
Seminary since September. 1885. He has 
not only engaged in pastoral and educational 
Work, but is also widel\- kn(jwn as an author 
of works bearing upon theologv-. His first 
jnil)lication. howexer. issued in 1863. was a 
Life of Judge Morrison. In 1881 he brought 
forth a volume entitled Secret Societies and 
afterward The Bible, a Miracle. Among 
his more recent publications are Mosaic 
Authorship of the Pentateuch. Pre-Millen- 
ialism Disctissed. and Common Sense and 
L(igic -Applied to Darwinism and Theology. 

So xaried has ben his work, so extended 
its influence that it is almost impossible in 
a brief review to give a complete idea of 
the e.xtent and scope of his labors. He is a 
man of strong force of character and en- 
dowed with rare qualities of leadership. He- 
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He was a jiioneer worker in his (lennniiiia- 
tion in the matter of conductinj^ series of 
meetings in order to win men to the church 
and to Christ. He believed tliat some such 
prejjaration was necessary before the pente- 
cost could come. In the days when many 
public debates upon religious questions were 
held he did his full share of thai work, nnd 
while never seeking a contest of any kind 
lie did not hesitate when called upon for 
such a labor, and his strong logic, sound rea- 
soning and incontrovertible evidence were 
the means many times of not only setting at 
naught the defense of his opponent, but also 
of convincing many auditcjrs. 

In the dark days of the Ci\il war Dr. 
MacDill had more than one opi)ortunit\- to 
display his loyalty and courage, .\lthough 
he was not found uixm the battle-field he 
was a most earnest worker for the Union 
cause at home, and spoke in behalf of the 
Union when it had many enemies north of 
the Ohio and denounced slavery when the 
system had its advocates and apologists 
north as well as south of the Mason and 
Dixon line. When the invasion bv south- 
ern troops was threatened he was made lieu- 
tenant of the home guards in his commu- 
nity, and when the famous Morgan raiil 
actually occurred the Doctor was taken pris- 
oner and sa\'ed the life of a friend and 
neighbor at that time by resolutely refusing 
to disclose his hiding place. The man in 
question had fired on the advance guard of 
Morgan's men and had he been caught 
would doubtless have been executed without 
trial or ceremony. But neither threats nor 
cajolling could induce Dr. MacDill. while a 
])risoner, to lietray his friend, and Dick ^[or- 
gan found that at least one man in .\dams 
county could keep a secret. Truth telling 
has ever been a fixed habit with him, but 



he felt that there were certain questions 
which he had no right to answer before such 
a court ot in(|uir}-. Release followed before 
he had long been a pri.soner, and the Doctor 
returned home with honor unsullied to glad- 
den the hearts of anxious friends aud 
parishioners. 

But the time came ere lon.g when the 
community realized that Dr. MacDill be- 
longed to the whole church and to the coun- 
try as well as to .\dams county. A man 
with !iis ,gifts could not long keep in the 
i)ackground, so after more than a score of 
years spent in his rpiiet country home, de- 
voted to the woik of the church and to- 
broad and comprehensive studv he was 
called to occupy the chair of philosophv in 
Monmouth College, and from that intel- 
lectual center his fame spread abroad. He 
remained in Monmouth until the demand 
for his ser\ices in a more in;portant field 
were made, he being called to the chair of 
homiletics and apologetics in Xenia Theo- 
logical Seminary. In his present position 
his business is chietly to defend the Bible, 
and few men are better prepared for the 
^vork. He has not only been a close and 
discriminating student of the Word, but also 
of the history of the countries with which 
had to do at the time of its compilation. 
Xot only have students profite<l by his lec- 
tures upon the subject, but as an author he 
has published some valuable works along 
those lines, w hich have caused deep thought 
among student and which present incontro- 
vertible fact and logic that is unanswerable. 

But while Dr. MacDill has ever shown 
forth strong- intellectual ami remarkable 
mental strength in his work it is probably 
his characteristics of kindliness, charity, 
helpfulness and brotherly love that have so 
endeared him to those with whom he has 



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come ill contact. His talents are crowned 
witii character. He holds friendship and 
•conlidence inviolable and has the ability of 
readily understanding the disposition and 
situation of others, and thus is enabled to 
extend to them the counsel of help needed. 
He has passed the Psalmist's span of three 
score years and ten. but the evening of life 
is not to him a period of inactivity. His 
labors are yet felt as a moving force in the 
realm of thought, his usefulness has in- 
creased rather than diminished. As he ad- 
vances he seems to see more clearly the great 
principles which govern life and to under- 
stand more thoroughly the great plan of 
Christian salvation, "to feel eternal spring 
within his heart." and to give more freely 
-out of the rich stores of his learning and 
•experience. 

Dr. ]^IacDill received the degree of A. 
]\I. from Center College and also the degree 
of LL. D., while Miami University con- 
ferred upon him the degree of L. H. D., and 
Monmouth College the degree of D. D. He 
has been honored by the ministn*- of his 
church, being elected moderator of the sec- 
ond synod of Ohio and as moderator of the 
genral assembly which met in Allegheny, 
Pennsylvania, in 1892. and he has taken a 
prominent part in general assemblies held 
in dirferent parts of the country from the 
east to Oregon. His influence is always 
found on the side of progress and his voice 
did nuich toward bringing about a change 
in the church laws, allowing instrumental 
music in the churches. Under Governor 
^IcKinley tlie Doctor was appointed a trus- 
tee of Miami University and re-appointed 
under Covernor Xash, each term being for 
nine vears. and he will deliver the charge 
to Dr. llenton when lie is inaugurated presi- 



dent of ^liami University September 9, 
1902. 

We hereby acknowledge our indebted- 
ness for most of the material for this sketch 
to Dr. Scouller's Manual of the United Pres- 
Ijvterian church. 



WILLIAM H. BICKETT. 

U^pon a farm two miles east of Xenia on 
the Jasper pike William Harvey Bickett now 
resides, there carefully carrying on agricult- 
ural pursuits, whereby he is winning a most 
comfortable competence. He is a worthy 
rei)resentati\e of an honored family of 
Greene county and well deserves mention in 
this volume. His birth occurred December 
6. 1835, on the old family homestead, just 
a short distance north of his present place 
of residence, his parents being William R. 
and Isabella (Alexander) Bickett. He be- 
gan his education in the sul)scription schools, 
such as were common at that day, and later 
continued his studies in the free district 
schools of the county. His training at farm 
labor was not meager, for he early began 
the work in the fields and continued at home 
with his parents until the ist of May, 1864, 
when in response to his country's call for aid 
he offered his services to the government 
and joined the boys in blue of Company D, 
One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment of 
Ohio Volunteers. He was mustered in at 
Camp Dennison. went to the front, and for 
four months was engaged in defending the 
old flag, largely in garrison duty. On the 
expiration of that period he was mustered 
out at Camp Dennison and after his return 
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Guards, liaving- i)re\iinisly enlisted lor five 
years in tliat military organization. Like 
the other members of tlie family, he per- 
formed his share of the farm work, and the 
practical experience which he gained in his 
youth has been of value to him in the con- 
duct (jf his own farming interests in later 
life. 

On December 9, uS68, Mr. P>ickett was 
joined in wedlock to Miss Margaret J. 
Stoops, a nati\e of this county and a daugh- 
ter of John and Betsey (Simpson) Stoops, 
Mrs. Bickett being their only child. The 
mother died and was buried at Monmouth, 
Illinois. Mr. Stoops was a native of Vir- 
ginia, but at an early day came to Ohio. He 
was three times married, and b\- his first 
luiion had four children, while of the third 
marriage there were two children, but both 
died in early life. 

Mr. and Mrs. Bickett began their do- 
mestic life upon a farm locatec'. between Jas- 
per and Jamestown i)ikes, where thev re- 
mained for about fifteen years. (3n the ex- 
piration of that period our subject purchased 
his present farm about 1883, and has erected 
all of the buildings upon it. This includes a 
fine modern residence, large barns .'uid all 
the necessary shelter for grain and stock. 
He also has the latest improved machinery, 
has had many rods of ditching dug and his 
entire place of eighty-three acres is well im- 
proved. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Bickett has 
been blessed with four children. Frank 
Simpson is a bookkeeper of Xenia. He was 
educated in the township and public schools 
of X"enia and is not only a successful busi- 
ness man. Imt is \-ery prr)minent in church 
work. He is the secretary and treasurer of 
the Sabbath-school of the Second United 
Presbyterian church of Xenia, having filled 



those oftlces for a number of years. lames 
R., the second son, operates the home farm 
and makes a specialty of the raising of Lin- 
colnshire sheep, having taken man\- prizes, 
at count}- and state fairs. Jennie Ma\- died 
at the age of two years. Warren, wha 
comjjletes the family, is attending school in 
Xenia. 

In politics Mr. Bickett is a Kepulilican, 
and both he and his wife are members of 
the Second United Presbyterian church of 
Xenia. Their two eldest sons belong to the 
\'oung People's Society of that church, of 
w Iiich Frank is now serving as correspond- 
ing secretary, while James is serving on the 
membershi]) committee. The name of 
Bickett has never been associated w ith an\-- 
thing dishonoral)le, but is synon\nious with 
good citizenship and with upright conduct 
in all the walks of life. 



ARCiiiBALi) J. Mcelroy. 

' Archibald J. ^IcElroy has reached the 
eighty-third milestone on life's journey. He- 
is a native of Ross county. Ohio, Ifis birth 
having occurred on the 14th of July. 1819. 
His grandfather, Daniel McElroy. was a 
native of Ireland and on coming to the 
United States becan:e one of the earl\- set- 
tlers of Virginia, where he spent the re- 
mainder of his life. The parents. Daniel 
and Grizelle (Johnson) McElroy, came to 
Greene county about 1824 and settled on 
land about two miles east of Cedarville. The 
father was a nati\-e of \^irginia and removed' 
to Ohio when a young man. He was a 
millrigbt by trade and followed tliat Inisi- 
ness luitil niiddle life, when he turned his 
attention to farming, and his last davs were 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



spent u])iiii the farm <in wliich he hicated on 
coming' to tliis county. He nwned nne hun- 
dred and twenty-three acres of land, which 
for many years was known as the McElroy 
farm. He served in the war of 1812 and at 
aU times was as loyal to his country as 
when he wore the nation's uniform. His 
wife, who was born in Xova Scotia, in 1794, 
died upon the old homestead in Cedarville 
townshi]). at the age of hfty-five years. By 
her marriage she became the mother of ten 
children, five of whom are yet living. 

In a log school house of Cedarville town- 
ship .\rchilxi!d J. McElroy pursued his edu- 
cation, while his business training was re- 
ceived on his father's farm, where he re- 
mained until about i860. He then renio\ed 
to a farm just north of Cedarville, where 
he remained for a short time and then pur- 
chased a farm south of the town, compris- 
ing one hundred acres of improved land, on 
which he lived for six years. His next 
home was in the village, but after a short 
time he purchased his farm at the edge of 
the town, consisting at first of thirt\-two 
acres, to which he has since added until he 
now has tifty-two and a half acres. Upon 
this he has since lived and here he has al- 
ways engaged in general farming and stock- 
raising from the time he first made the 
place his home. 

In 1855 Mr. McElroy was married, near 
Xenia, to Miss Mary Ellen Little, a daugh- 
ter of John and Mary 1 McCoy) Little, na- 
tives of South Carolina, who came to Ohio 
at a \ery early day in the history of this 
coimty and spent the remainder of their 
lives near Xenia. Her father was a promi- 
nent farmer, but both are now deceased. 
Mrs. McF.lrov was called to her finrd rest 
in i88i, when about fifty-five years of age 
She was a member of the Reformed Pres- 



byterian church and a most estimable ladv. 
and though her remains were interred in 
Massies Creek cemetery her memory is still 
enshrined in the hearts of all who knew her. 
She left two sons. John R., the elder, is a 
stationary engineer residing in Dayton. 
Ohio. He married Miss Morris, of Illinois, 
who died leaving one child. Daniel, and 
later he wedded Miss Minnie Cline, of 
Cedarville, l)y wlunn he has a son, Kenneth. 
Daniel \\'., born August jo. 1861, in Cedar- 
\ille. was educated in the schools of Cedar- 
\ille and in the collegiate institute in Pax- 
ton, Illinois. He has engaged in farming 
upon the home place all his life and is a 
progressive and practical farmer. He be- 
longs to the Reformed Presbyterian church. 
It is in that church that Archibald Mc- 
Elroy holds membership, and its principles 
have been the guiding spirit of his life. In 
his political views he has always been a 
JJemocrat. He has w itnessed the mar\elous 
growth and development of Greene county 
through many years, and his aid and co-op- 
eration ha\e never been withheld from any 
movement or measiu"e which he believes will 
contribute to the general good. He has now- 
reached the evening of life, but he yet main- 
tains an active interest in i)ublic affairs. His 
honorable career, embracing the strong traits 
of an upright manhood, ha\e gained for him 
respect and veneration in his declining years. 



C. \V. McBEE. 



With the farming interests of Sugar- 
creek townshi]) C. \V. McBee is identified, 
having jiurchased his present home in 1887. 
He here owns sixty-eight acres of land, 
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ROBINSOXS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 703 



fiiltivatiiiii, and its neat and thrifty appear- 
ance indicates his careful superxision. Mr. 
McBee is a native of what is now Grant 
county, West Virjjinia, but was then Hardy 
county, liis birtli having occurred on tlie 3d 
of July, 1852, liis parents being William and 
Mary ( Gouldizen ) McBee. His boyhood 
days were spent upon the mountain farm 
where they raised cattle and sheep, and thus 
lie became familiar with the best methods 
for caring for st(Kk, si)ending many a day 
in herding. He acquired a fair common- 
school education and in Januarv, 1S73. <-"^iiic 
t') Greene county, being then a xoung man 
of twenty-one years. Here he worked as a 
farm hand bv the nmnth for a short time, 
after wliich he returned to \\'est X'irginia. 
wiiere he continued for a year and a halt, 
iKit, believing that he might have better busi- 
ness (ipporiunities in the Buckeye state, he 
again came to Greene county in March. 
1875. Seeking employment as a farm hand, 
he worked by the month until his marriage, 
which impiirtant e\ent in his life occurred 
on tiie 27th of December. 1876, the lady of 
liis choice being Miss Jane Turner, who was 
born in New Jasper township, Greene coun- 
ty, a daughter of Elijah and Frances ( Bales) 
'J'urner, also uatix'es of this county. She 
acquired a good common-school education 
and has proven an able assistant to her hus- 
band I in life's inurnex'. 

Mr. and Mrs. McBee began housekee])- 
ing im land which belonged to Mr. Turner, 
remaining there for about three years, after 
which they went to Clinton county and pur- 
chased land. Eight years were passed in 
that locality, at the end of wdiich time Mr. 
McBee sold his property there and in 1887 
returned to Greene county, since which time 
he has resided upon his present farm, a tract 
of sixty-eight acres, which is well improved 



and there are gond m<idern buildings upon 
the place, together with the machinerv which 
facilitates farm work. 

Two children have come to bless the 
home of our subject and his wife: Bertha, 
who was born on tlie i ith of .April, 1878. 
and Raper, born July 19. 1875. Both are 
still witii their parents. Mr. McBee votes 
fur tlie l-tepublican ])arty. He faithfully 
performs his duties of citizenship and is in- 
terested in public measures tending to ad- 
vance the general welfare. His chief at- 
tention, however, is gi\en tn his business af- 
fairs and his labors have brought to him 
creditable success. .Ml that he possesses is 
the result of his own efforts, and as the 
architect of his own fortunes he has builded 
wiselv an<l well. 



ROBERT LVTLE. 



There may be found in almost all .\mer- 
ican communities ijuiet, retiring men who 
never ask for public office or appear promi- 
nent in pulilic affairs, \-et who ne\-ertheless 
exert a wi lel_\- felt intluence in the comnui- 
nity in which the}' li\e and help to construct 
the proper foundation upon which the social 
and political world is built. Such a man is 
Robert L}tle. who is now engaged in the 
real-estate, loan and insurance business. His 
enterprise, amliition. activity and resolution, 
as luanifest in his business career, are most 
commendable characteristics, and have 
brought to him the prosperity which he is 
now enj(jying. 

Mr. Lytle is a native of Hinitingdon 
county, Pennsylvania, his parents being 
James and I-"annie (Smart) Lytle, both of 
whom were natives of the Keystone state. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Tlie tatlier was liorn in Cumbeiiaml county 
and was a farmer by occupation. In 1843, 
accompanied by his family, he started by 
wagon for Greene county. Ohio, reaching 
his destination after twenty-three days upon 
the road. He settled in what is now the 
western part of Cedarville township, and 
after about four years purchased land. He 
followed farming throughout his acti\'e busi- 
ness career and died at the age of seventy- 
three vears, while his wife passed away at 
the age of seventy years. They were the 
parents of six children, of whom four are 
yet living. 

Robert L\tle. however, is the only mem- 
ber of the family now in Greene county. 
He obtained his educatiim in the country 
schools and assisted his father on the farm, 
remaining at home until 1853. when he 
came to Xenia. Here he began clerking for 
J. C. McMillan & Ci)mi)any, reiuaining in 
the employ nf that firm until after the com- 
mencement of the Civil war. when he joined 
the boys in blue as a member of Company 
1), Twelfth Ohio \'ohmteer Infantry, of 
w hich he was made ca])tain. He served un- 
til September. 1861. when he was mustered 
out at Ci:)luml)us. Ohio, and tlien returned 
home. 

In i8()4 ]\lr. Lytle accepted a ])osition as 
bookkeei)er in the Second Xational Bank of 
Xenia and was ])romoted from time to time. 
filling the position of teller uj) to 1884. when 
it was found that the bank was seriously 
involved. Against his wishes, he was elect- 
ed cashier and in that capacity made a de- 
termined effort to ]nit the bank on a sound 
financial liasis. This, however, he was un- 
able to do, and the liank was forced to 
close in 1888. He then embarked in the 
real-estate, loan and insurance business, and 
has since carried on operations along that 



line, doing a good Inisiness in each tlepart- 
ment, placing many loans and negotiating a 
large number of im]X)rtant real-estate trans- 
fers, in addition to writing considerable in- 
surance. 

On the 12th of January, 1881. Mr. Lytle 
was united in marriage to ]\Iiss Elizabeth 
^bjnroe. a native of Greene county and a. 
daughter of George and Martha Monroe, of 
Xenia. Our subject and his wife are mem- 
bers of the Third United Presbyterian 
church and he also belongs to Lewis Post, G. 
A. K.. of which he was one oi the incor- 
porators, hi ptjlitics he was formerly a 
Whig, but on the dissolution of that party 
he joined the ranks of the new Republican 
party, the i)rinciples of which he has since 
endorsed, although he has never sought i>r 
desired office. Almost sixty years have 
passed since he accompanied his parents to 
Greene county, and throughout the inter- 
vening years he has been a \alued and pro- 
gressive citizen of this portion of the state 
and a business man whose integrit\- and 
trustworthiness are abo\e question. 



GEORGE X. PERRILL. 

George X'. Perrill, whose connection 
with the business interests of Bowersville 
has contributed largely to the commerical 
activity and consec|uent prosperity of the 
\illage. is the president of the Bowersville 
Bank and the owner of the grain elevator 
there. He was born near what is now Mil- 
ledgeville. Fayette county, Ohio, on the nth 
of August. 1856, a son of John and Marga- 
ret J. (Sparks) Perrill. The former was 
born near Cvnthiana. Pike countv. Ohio, 




G. N. PERRILL 



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and after attaining liis majority lie removed 
to Fayette county, where he followed farm- 
ing until his death, which occurred in the 
year 1898. His wife was born in Kentucky, 
and with her parents came to Fayette coun- 
ty. Both Mr. and Mrs. Perrill were con- 
sistent and faithful member.s of the Method- 
ist R])iscopal church and the former gave 
Iiis political supix)rt to the Republican party. 
In their family were eleven children, nine of 
whom reached years of maturity. 

George N. Perrill, the eldest, began his 
education in the district school and later 
pursued his studies in the high school of 
Washington Court House, Ohio. He was 
early trained to the work of the home farm 
and to habits of industry and self-reliance, 
and they have been salient features in his 
successful career. He remained on the old 
homestead until his marriage, which oc- 
curred March 14. 1878. the lady of his 
choice being Miss Elizabeth \',-mniman. of 
Bowersville, a daughter of Stephen and Re- 
becca Jane (Early) \'anniman. who were 
pioneer settlers of this part of the county. 

After his marriage Mr. Perrill purchased 
a farm of one hundred acres in Jefferson 
township and conducted that farm for 
twelve years. He then purchased another 
farm of one hundred acres south of the 
town, whereon he lived for two years, after 
which he turnetl his attention to the grain 
tiade when the railroad was built through 
this part of the county and duis aiYtjrded 
shipping facilities. He leased the inrst ele- 
\ator in the place, conducting it for three 
months, when it was destroyed 1)_\- tire. At 
that time he was the senior member of the 
firm of Perrill & Lewis, which connection 
was continued for six years, since which 
time Mr. Perrill has been alone in his grain 
operations. His business interests have 

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been very successfully conducted. He is 
not only the owner of the elevator and suc- 
cessfully and e.xtensively deals in grain, but 
has extended iiis efforts to other lines. He 
has added to his land until he now owns 
two hundred and seventy-seven acres, con- 
stituting a very valuable tract south of the 
town. He was also instrumental in organ- 
izing the Bowersville Bank, and was its 
president from the beginning. It was cap- 
italized for twenty thousajid dollars, has 
g(X)d deposits and undivided profits and is- 
regarded as a sound and trustworthy finan- 
cial concern. Mr. Perrill has owned con- 
siderable real estate here and is also a stock- 
holder in the Commercial I'ank at Washing- 
ton Court House. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Perrill li.ive Ijeen 
born two children: Edith, who was ed- 
ucated at Cedarville College; and Arthur, 
who finished his education at .\da, Ohio. 
The daughter is now the wife of Luther 
Chitty. of Bowersville. and they have one 
:hild, Donald Perrill. Our subject and his 
wife hold membership in the Methodist 
Protestant church, in which lie is serving 
as a trustee. He contributes liberally to. 
ts support, and takes an active interest in 
all public matters pertaining to the general 
progress and improvement along social, in- 
tellectual, material and mdral lines. He 
is a member of the Methodist Protestant 
camp meeting board, and is serving as a 
du-ector of the County Agricultural Society. 
P^ir three years he filled the office of town- 
ship trustee, but has ne\-er been a politician: 
in the sense of oiiice-seeking, i)referring to 
ilevote his time and energies to his busi- 
ness affairs, which ha\e been so wisely 
planned and carefully conducted as the 
years have passed by as to win for him very 
gratifying and honorable success. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Or^LAXDER B. La FOXG. 

Orlander B. La Fong. now deceased, 
milked among the old and highly respected 
citizens of Beavercreek township. He was 
a man who, in every relation of life, com- 
manded the confidence, good will and re- 
spect of those with whom he was associated. 
His word was as good as any bond e\er 
solemnized by signature or seal. Not only 
in Inisiness, but in every situation in which 
he was placed he was known for his integ- 
rity and for his fidelity to everything which 
he believed to be right. 

Mr. La Fong was a native of Virginia, 
his birth having occurred in Botetourt coun- 
ty on the Jist of October. 1817. He was 
a son of George B. and Casander ( Lovell ) 
La Fong. the latter a native of England. 
The father was born and reared in Virginia, 
but his father came from France. During 
his boyhood Orlander B. La Fong accom- 
panied his parents on their removal from 
\irginia to Ohio, the family settling on 
Ludl<iw creek in Beavercreek township, 
Greene county. About 1840 they removed 
to the farm upon which Mrs. La Fong, the 
widow of our subject, is now living. The 
parents spent their remaining days upon this 
place and when called to their final rest their 
reirains were interred in the Hawker ceme- 
tery. 

Mr. La Fong. whose name introduces 
this record, pursued his education in the 
public schools of his township. While yet 
a young man he took charge of the farm, 
and upon his father's death purchased the 
property comprising two hundred and seven 
acres. Ye^v after year he continued the 
•work iif dexelopment and improvement un- 
til he was the owner of one of the best 
farms in this part of the state. As a com- 



panion and helpmate for life's journey he 
chose ^liss Reliecca Black, their wedding be- 
ing celebrated on the 14th day of June, 
i860. The lady is a native of Beavercieck 
township and a daughter of Rt>bert and 
!Mary ( Koogler ) Black. Her father was 
born in Pennsylvania and her mother in 
Greene county. Ohio. The former came to 
Ohio when a boy and took up his abode in 
Bath township, Greene county, but in the 
spring of 1836 he removed to Bea\'ercreek 
township. By his marriage he became the 
father of nine children: Sarah, now Mrs. 
Frederick, a resident c )f Aliami county. Ohio : 
Simon; Jonathan, wdio is living in Beaver- 
creek township; Mrs. Rebecca La Fong; 
Mary, deceased ; Jacob, who makes his home 
in Illinois; Ann ]\Iaria, now Mrs. Simpson, 
of Missouri ; Catherine, who resides in Day- 
ton, Ohiii; and Mrs. Jennie Carter, also of 
Dayton. The father died in 1872, at the 
age of sixt\-five years, while his wife passed 
away in 1888, at the age of seventy-nine, and 
was buried in Hawker cemetery. The home 
oi Mr. and Mrs. La Fong has been blessed 
w ith four children : Aletha is now the wife 
of J-. F. Harshman, of Greene county. 
Sarah is the wife of Isaac N. Kable and 
thev reside in Beavercreek township with 
their children — Oscar. Pearl, Clay and Etta 
Marie. Oscar B., a resident farmer of 
Beavercreek township, married Efta Tru- 
bee. They have three children — Anna 
Lo\ell, Orlander and Robert. Rebecca is 
the <leceased wife of John F. Shoup. and at 
her death left one child. Forest, who is li\- 
ing with his grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca La 
Fong. 

Mr. La Fong gave his political support 
to the Democracy and was firm in his ad- 
vocacv of its principles. Both he and his 
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fonneil churcli, wliich relatiuii the latter at 
present sustains. He always devoted his en- 
ergies to farming and displayed splendid 
business ability in conducting his affairs. 
His life was at all times upright and hon- 
orable, and he was officially connected with 
his church. For some time before his death 
he was ill, but he bore his sufferings with 
Christian fortitude. To his family he left 
not only a comfortable property, but also the 
priceless heritage of an untarnished name. 
His loss in his household is an irreparable 
one. His wife is still living upon the home 
place, althdugh she is renting the farm. She. 
too, is widely known in this county, and the 
circle of her friends is an e.\tensi\e one. 



JOHN .\. STULL. 

I'erhaps every state in the I'nion has fur- 
nished some citizens to Ohio, and Maryland 
has sent a large quota of enterprising, hon- 
orable men who have become active factf)rs 
in business circles here, .\mong the num- 
ber is John A. Stull. of Beavercreek town- 
ship, who was born in Frederick ctnuity. 
Maryland. December 7, 1834, his parents 
being Joseph and Margaret (Havener) 
Stull. The father was also a nati\-e of Fred- 
erick county, Maryland, but the mother was 
born in Germany. Joseph Stull carried on 
agricultural pursuits in his native state un- 
til 1858, when he brought his family by rail 
to Ohio, settling in Bea\-ercreek township, 
w here he spent his remaining days, passing 
away in 1884 at the advanced age of eighty- 
two years. His wife was also eighty-two 
years old at the time of her death, which 
occurred March 30. 1890. They were laid 
to rest in Beavercreek cemeterv. where also 



slee]) tw(j of their sons, lii their family were 
the following children: John A.. Horatio, 
Mary. Henry and Joshua, and Henry, 
deceased. Mary is the widow of 
George Bovvers iuid resides in Lew- 
isburg, Ohio. Joshua became a mem- 
ber of the comi>an\' that was organ- 
ized at Alpha and joined the Seventy-fourth 
Ohio Infantry. He was with Sherman on 
his famous march to the sea and died in 
Xew York city of typhoid fever while in 
the service. Roth the parents were memljers 
of the Lutheran church and Joseph Stull was 
a Whig in ante-bellum days. l)ut when the 
Republican party was formed he joined its 
ranks. He came to Ohio a poor man, but 
was (|uite successful in his business under- 
takings, and steadily and ])ersistently carried 
on his labors until he had acipiired a com- 
lortable competence. 

In his parents' home John A. Stull spent 
the days ot his boyhood and \-outh. He was 
educated in the common schools of Mary- 
land and with his father and the family came 
to Ohio. Here he worked by the month for 
two years, receiving fifteen dollars per month 
the first year, and sixteen dollars per month 
the second )ear. He then rented a farm and 
for three years his parents li\ed with him, 
his mother keeping house. Altogether he 
o])erated rented land for eight years, and in 
i8r)9 he innxhased one hundred acres, to 
which he has since added ten acres. All 
t'le improvements upon the place have been 
built by our subject, including a good resi- 
dence and substantial barns. His fields are 
richly cultivated and he is now successfully 
engaged in stock raising and in general 
farming- He has made a specialty of the 
cultivation of tobacco, which crop annually 
brought to him a good financial return. 

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married Miss Harriet Freese. wlio was burn 
in Xenia townsliip, a daughter of Jacob and 
Harriet (Babb) Freese. natives of Fred- 
ericiv county. Virginia, where they were 
reared and married. Fight children have 
been Ixjrn unto Mr. and Airs. Stull : AHce, 
the wife of Henry Toms, a farmer of Spring 
Valley township, liy wiiom she has three 
children. Cmy, Hazel and Charles; Carrie 
Belle, who became the wife of James San- 
ders and died leaving one son. Ernest; 
Qiarles W., who is now the farmer at the 
countv infninary; Ida M.. who married Jo- 
se])h Michaels, of Alpha: Ralph Babb. who 
is at home; John Edward, who married 
Margaret Casey and is now in the employ 
of the National Cash Register Company, of 
Dayton; Pearl, the wife of Thorburn Char- 
ters, of Xenia, by whom she has one child. 
Marguerite; and Mabel, who died at the age 
of thirteen years. The parents hold mem- 
bershi]) in the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and Mr. Stull votes with tlie Republican 
])arlv, having hrm faith in its principles, yet 
never seeking or desiring public office. 



}\CC)r, 11. !l ARBIXE. 

lie whose name heads this lirief sketch 
bekmgs to one of the first families of Ohio, 
and ranks among her most favorably known 
and prosperous citizens. Mr. Harbine. sec- 
ond son of JoJin and Hett\- ( Herr) Har- 
bine. was born December 3, 1832. He ob- 
tained a rudimentary education in a cmn- 
try school, then attended the Xenia high 
school, and later pursued his studies in 
Miami I'niversity at Oxford, Ohio. Mr. 
Harliine"s life has been an open book, known 
and read of all men. In business he ex- 



j)erienced from the beginning unusual suc- 
cess and his htuiest and honorable dealings 
with his associates have left him singularly 
free from personal enemies. His beautiful 
home at Harbine Station. Ohio, attests the 
quiet elegance of Air. Harbine's tastes. His 
is one of those retiring natures that prefer 
seclusion to publicit}'. the quietude of the 
home to the noise and confusion of the 
forum. 

His present biographer would fain say 
a few of the many creditaljle things that 
might be said of Air. Harbine, though they 
could not add to the respect and esteem in 
w liich he is held by all who know him. Air. 
Harbine, howe\er, modesth' liut tirndv pro- 
tests, desiring rather that his daily life stand 
as his highest encomium while he lives; the 
memory of that life as his most fitting monu- 



ment when life is dcme. 



REV. SAAIQEL \MLSOX, Al. D. 

Re\-. Samuel Wilson well deserves men- 
tion in tlie history of Greene county, for he 
was an active factor in the moral and in- 
tellectual development of this portion of the 
state. Through more than a quarter of a 
century from 1830 until iS^h he served as 
pastor of the Associate, now tlie Second 
United Presbyterian, church of Xenia, and 
from 1855 luitil 1877 he was professor of 
llebrew and theology in the United Presby- 
terain Theological Seminary. He also 
servd as the first professor of Hebrew in the 
theological department of Wilberforce Uni- 
versity of this vicinit}-. For a time, more- 
over, he conducted a private academy. 

Dr. Wilson was born Alay 5. 1806, in 
.Mleghenv countv. Pennsylvania. His fa- 



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ther, William ^\'iIson. was born in the north 
of Ireland, of Scotch ancestry, and came to 
Allejjheny county, Pennsylvania, settling 
there in ijgr. He was the first enrolled 
theological student on the American con- 
tinent. He entered the Associate Seminary 
established at Ser\ice, Pennsylvania, in 
1794, and therein [)ursued the regular theo- 
logical course, de\-oting his entire life to the 
work of the ministry in Alleghenv county, 
Pennsylvania. For some time he was lo- 
cated at Xoblestown, and afterward at Mon- 
tour, the latter church constituting the pres- 
ent congregation of Clinton and Robinson. 
At the time of his death he was serving as 
pastor of the church in Robinson. In May, 
1842, he was called to the home beycMKl. 

Rev. Samuel Wilson pursued his educa- 
tion in Jelterson College, from which he was 
graduated in 1824, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts. Having determined also 
to devote his life to the Christian ministry, 
he then entered the United Presbyterian 
Theological Seminary at Canonsburg, Penn- 
sylvania, of which the Xenia Seminary is 
the successor. He completed his course there 
and was licensed to preach on the T6th of 
August, 1829, by the Muskingum Presby- 
tery, and on the 27th of April, 1831, he was 
ordained by the Miami Presbytery. He lo- 
cated in Xenia. as pastor of what was then 
the Associate church, and conducted an ac- 
tive pastorate there for a quarter of a cen- 
tury, at the end of which time he resigned in 
order to give his entire attention to the work 
of teaching Hebrew and theology in the 
Xenia Theological Seminary. At length he 
laid aside that work in 1877, because of the 
infirmities of age. Under his direction the 
church of which he was pastor had made 
lapid and satisfactory progress, and when 
he entered the educational field he proved 



one of the most capable instructors ever 
connected with the institution. 

Dr. Wilson was united in marriage to 
Miss Mary Cunningham, of Xenia, March 
6, 1832, and unto them were born nine chil- 
dren : William H.; Elizabeth, the wife of 
Rev. J. P. L)tle, D. D. ; Margaret, the wife 
of Ale.xander Caskey; Rev. James C, of 
Erie, PennsyKania. upon whom also has 
been bestowed the degree of Doctor of Di- 
vinity; Martha; Frances, the wife of Rev. 
J. M. French ; John Wallace, of Kansas 
City, Missouri ; Ella, the wife of L. D. Cain, 
of Hot Springs, Arkansas; and Samuel S., 
a medical practitioner of Xenia. The father 
of this family died September 5, 1887. His 
wife passed away in 1889. 

Dr. Wilson was prominently connected 
with the early abolition movement, being 
one of its leaders in Greene county. He was 
converted to the movement by reading a 
small book, called Jay's Inquiry, and the 
Liberator, published in Boston by William 
Lloyd Garrison. At that time he was not 
aware that there was another abolitionist in 
the county, but soon discovered that there 
were four others: Re\-. Mr. Hoague. of 
Clifton; Thomas Steele, David Monroe and 
Joseph Harbison, of Xenia. By means of 
agitation they succeeded in exciting a suf- 
ficient amount of interest to justify them in 
calling a convention, but the question of a 
place of holding the meeting proved to be 
an important one, as they were barred from 
every church or public building in Xenia. 
There was no alternative but either to aban- 
don the project of holding the convention 
or to hold it in the yard of one of the agi- 
tators, and Dr. Wilson was the only one of 
the number who dared to offer his home for 
the purpose. .\ platform for the speakers 
was erected in his vard directlv under the 



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point where the pulpit of the First United 
Presbyterian church now stands. During 
that meeting a mob collected on what is now 
the s/^>utheast corner of Market and Collier 
streets and was only prevented from attack- 
ing the meeting by the inter\ention of an 
old blacksmith and pumpmaker by the name 
of John McOellan, who with a club in hand 
dared any man to cross the street and molest 
his preacher. This was the first anti-slaver)- 
convention held in Greene county, and from 
it developed the Anti-slaven,-, the Free-soil 
or the Liberty party, as it was at different 
times called, to which the Whigs very soon 
attached themselves. The intense opposi- 
tion to this movement was manifested in the 
fact that Dr. Wilson's own church door 
was closed against him when he requested 
the use of the church for the meeting pre- 
viously referred to, but it was not long after- 
ward that he ventured to introduce the sul>- 
ject into the pulpit and he continued to 
preach anti-slavery d'xrtrines in spite of the 
fact that he drove from his congregation 
quite a number of influential memliers. 
Among those who remained] there were 
many who o[>]>osed the (kxtrine but who 
accorded to him the privilege of preaching 
his views and were faithful in defending 
him while so doing. He was alwavs a 
stanch advfx:ate of the rights of the colored 
man. and was materially interested in manip- 
ulating the underground railroad. 

^Vt this prjint it would Ije almost tauto- 
lo;^ical to enter into any series of state- 
ments as showing the Doctor to have been 
a man of broad intelligence and genuine pub- 
lic spirit, for these traits have been shad- 
owe<l forth' within the lines of this review. 
Strong in his individuality, he never lacked 
crnirage. Init there were, as dominating ele- 
ments in his personality, a lively human 



sympthy and an abiding charity, which, as 
taken in connection with the sterling integ- 
rity and honor of his character, have nat- 
urally gained for Dr. Wilson the respect and 
confidence of men. 



SAMUEL S. WILSON, M. D. 

Dr. Samuel S. Wilson, who is engaged 
in the practice of medicine in Xenia, was 
lx)rn in this city February 5, 1853, ''"^ ^.t 
the usual age entered the public schools. 
He afterward continued his studies in the 
high school and later entered the Ohio Cen- 
tral College at Iberia. He was also a stu- 
dent in Westminster College of Pennsyl- 
vania, and he determined to devote his life 
to the alleviation of human suffering through 
the administration of the remedial agencies 
known to the medical profession. He be- 
gan reading under the direction of Dr. D. 
D. Mo<^jre, of Xenia. He afterward became a 
student of the Miami Medical College of 
Cincinnati and was graduated from that in- 
stitution on the 4th of March. 1880. He 
then took a comj^itive e.xaminati<jn which 
he successfully passed and entered Mercy 
Hospital of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, as 
house jjhysician. in whidi capacity he 
server! for f>ne year. He then opened 
an office in Xenia, where he has 
since been in active practice. In 1896 
he estaJjlislvetl a private hospital in 
order to give l.»etter care to his surg- 
ical cases, and has successfully a>ntin- 
uel this since. He is a close, earnest and 
discriminating student, and in iHtj^ he pur- 
sued a |x»st-graduate course in the Polyclinic 
of .\'ew York. He is a memlier of the 
Greene Countv Medical Society, the Ohio 



ROBIXSOy'^S HISTORY OF GRF.FVE 



Scare Medical Scietv and the American 3mtfa*5 trsde and also 



iii^* ■ . . . ... 

James Harper. D. D., LL. D^ rhen pr-' fes<:r sdbjea now resides. He 

- - ^ --v of rhe Xenia Theo 

been bom two dnidren: Ijois Harper and He erectE"; a frame Incase and was reEarded 

Frclerick Harper. T - - cres=ive aaricaitarTSB of 

berj '.">£ the Sec-jtui . . 

cirnrch. of which tiie DocTDr is nii: , -re arm C . n 

In podtics he is a Repntrfiran. ami ior t&e spent hI::^ 5 »"rf acqmreri a com- 

— . . . ... . ... . _ a 

high character, an indnstriotis. and 

strident and a gtfte»l ?crge»jn. . .1 

e 



TFas ■m the e a stern s&ure of 
OLr\"ER WHTTSOX. -3 

ii 

One of the brave ioidier boys who while . -_-. 

;et in his "teens went nzTth t>j barce wr the whert alnn.st a first the trot^ps were or- 

V": n ami now an enterpris ing ni.- -zc Later he 

- , , - ^ 

.ireerre countr and dns portion of 1 ^erere nsht. There his i was 

His hiTme is on the Bu- , r in rr. 



25^ i&lS-- his parents- faeing^ 5oi<3nion an<i aitEr a - '^on. and Mf'Hg x navy ri^ 

\ ■ - - ^ _ - -^ 

;. ^"-c ■ .- . ^ iT of St':- =n 

_ , "on^ who drwre across tiie ojtoi- '^rdiered xd sei •in 3. borse. bar presexoied 



\ r JJ3. and 

-•ame fn.nn tiw same section of the south ami iifcercr. Thev ~bor at inm ar 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



fouiif! a few other Union men, and under 
cover of the night tliey made their escape, 
going to Harper's Ferry and passing directly 
through the Rebel camp. Mr. \Miitson was 
at the front for a little more than four 
months and never received a scratch. 

-After his return home he began earning 
his own living, hut continued to live on the 
old homesteail, and at the time of his fa- 
ther's death fell heir to forty-eight and a 
half acres of land. In 187 1 Mr. Whitson 
was married to Miss Josephine Hurle}-, of 
New Burlington, and imto them were born 
three children : Lea. who lives in Dayton ; 
Lizzie, the wife of Alfred Peterson, of 
Xenia, In- whom she has one child. \'esta: 
and Osy, the \\iife of Edward Gano, by 
whom she has two children, Myrtle and 
Lea. The wife and mother died in 1886, 
and two children had died in infancy. On 
the _'8th of November, 1888, Mr. Whitson 
married Mrs. Eva Hurley, nee Lemar, of 
Clinton county. Ohio. They have two chil- 
dren. Hazel and Clarence. 

In T889 Mr. \\'hitson went to Webb 
City. Missouri, to handle stable horses. 
From l)oy]ioo<l he had had a fondness for a 
horse and the first one \\ hich he ever owned, 
— making a trade for it.— won the first race 
in which he ever ran. it being at Jamestown, 
where he did his own driving in a sulk\- that 
\vei,ghed alxiut five hundred pounds. He has 
both bred and raised colts to train and has 
owned some very \aluable fast horses, in- 
cluding Red Hal tliat made a mile in 2:07, 
but afterward went lame. He now has 
Legal Hal. which he has raised and which 
has made a record as a fixir-year-old of 
2:i9'4. He also raised Lady Hal, a full 
sister to Legal Hal, and she luade the fastest 
yearling record ever made in the world, pac- 
ing a half-mile in i 107. Mr. Whitson re- 



mained in the west but a year and after re- 
turning to Ohio located in Fairfield, where 
he conducted a hotel and handled fast horses. 
He next took charge of the Greenlaw n Stock 
Farm, owned by Dr. D. W. Greene, of Day- 
ton, remaining there five years. He now re- 
sides in the old family home, where he is 
engaged in farming and in breeding and 
training fast horses, having gained more 
than a local reputation in this way. He is 
an excellent judge of a fine animal and al- 
ways has some splendid roadsters. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican and was appointed 
to fill a vacancy as township trustee, and 
has been twice elected, proving a capable of- 
ficer and public-spirited citizen. 



WILLIA}^! L. HAGLER. 

Upon an excellent farm about five miles 
southeast of Xenia resides William Leonard 
Hagler, who is accounted one of the progres- 
sive and wide-awake agriculturists of his 
community. He was born al>3ut a mile east 
of his present home in what is now N^ew- 
Jasper township, his natal day being May 
8. 1827. His father, Samuel Hagler, was 
born in Hardy, \'irginia, August 7, 1794, 
and after arriving at years of maturity he 
was married in Warren county, Ohio, to 
.\nna Fudge, also a native of the Old Do- 
minion. He was of German descent and 
was a son of Leonard and Mary (Peterson) 
Hagler, who had a large family. His wife, 
Anna Fudge, was born in Augvista county, 
Virginia, and was a daughter of Jacob 
Fudge. In early life he emigrated west- 
ward and cast in his lot with the early set- 
tlers of Warren county, Ohio. After a year 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



715 



his family to tlie new liome. His father, 
Leonard Hagler, died in 1834. He liad 1)ut 
two sons, wlio reachefl _\-ears of maturity, 
Eli and Samuel. The latter, the father of 
■our subject, at once hegan work here, and 
with characteristic enerjj)- cleared and de- 
A'eloped one hundred and fifty acres of land, 
placing the tract under a high state of cul- 
tivation. As his financial resources increased 
he also added to the property, and at the 
time of his death owned a valuable tract of 
two hundred acres, which each year returned 
to him golden harvests. His deatii occurred 
August 7, 1880, when he was eighty-si.x 
years of age, and his wife passed away in 
1884. at the age of eighty-four, Ixith being 
laid to rest in the family burying ground 
U])on the home farm, where a fine monu- 
luent marks the place of their interment. 
"Both were members of the German Re- 
forme:] churcli. and Mr. Hagler was a Whig 
"in his early political views, supporting that 
■party until its dissolution, when he joined 
the ranks of the Republican party. Unto 
them were born fifteen children : Elizabeth 
Ann, who became the wife of Mathew 
'Smith, but both are now deceased; Mary 
.Amanda, who is the widow of Gideon Spahr 
and resides in Bellbrook ; Sarah Jane, who 
is the widow of Philip Sutton and makes 
her hcime near the powder mill in Xenia ; 
William Leonard, of this review ; Henry 
•Qiristian, deceased: Martha Eddy, the 
widow of William Sutton, of Jamestown; 
Catherine Charlotte, the wife of Austin 
Long, of New Jasper township; John Mil- 
ton and Moses Allen, both of whom are de- 
ceased ; Clarissa Rebecca, the widow of Dur- 
ban Long and a resident of Jamestown ; 
Hannah Minerva, who is the widow of 
David Dean, and is living in Xenia ; Emily 
Louisa, who is the widow of John Dean and 



resides in New Jasper township; Samuel 
Harrison, who died in childhood; Anna 
Samantha, who is the widow of Jacob Peter- 
sou and makes her home in Xenia; and 
Harriett Rosaltha. who died in childhood. 

William L. Hagler, of this rexicw, re- 
ceived but limited educational ])ri\ileges, at- 
tending to some extent the subscription 
schools near his home. His training in farm 
work, however, was not meager, for he 
early became familiar with the work f)f de- 
\eloping and im]>r<iving a farm. Wlici: 
twenty-six years of age he was united in 
marriage on the 24th of September. 1851. 
to Miss Mary Lyon Scroggs. who was born 
ii: Belmont county, Ohio. January 4. 1831. 
a daughter of Alexander and Mary (Lyon) 
Scroggs. Her father was a native of Penn- 
sylvania, and in his boyhood became a resi- 
dent of Jefferson. Ohio, and afterward re- 
moved to Belmont couuty. In 1855 Mr. 
Hagler purchased the farm upon which he 
now resides, comprising one hundred and 
thirty-three acres. The barns and other out- 
buildin,gs upon the place ha\'e all been erect- 
ed bv him. and are indications of his life of 
acti\ity. industry and usefulness. He also 
l)laiUed an <irchard when he first located 
here, which is now in good bearing condi- 
tion. He has used excellent machinery in 
carrying on the farm work and is widely 
known as a progressive agriculturist, who in 
connection with the tilling of the soil is en- 
gaged in the raising of Jersey cattle and 
Poland China hogs-, and also has fine black- 
top merino sheep. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hagler have been 
born seven children ; Lottie Jane, the eld- 
est, is the wife of David Livingston, who 
resides near Columbus and is a member of 
the LTnited Presbyterian church. They have 
five children — Paul, Ralph Hagler, Frank 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Alexander, Klla Xorii ami Jenette Lee. Pilo- 
ses Allen married Martha Wead and re- 
sides in Xenia township. Charles Franklin, 
also a resident of Xenia township, wedded 
Jennie Crawford and they lia\-e two lix'ing 
children — Mary Jane and Charles Crawford. 
George Mallow married Catherine Ruth An- 
derson and their home is in Spring \'allev 
to\vnshi|). where they reside with their six 
children — Joseph Lewis. Carrie Margaret. 
Ollie May. Albert Alji jah. Fred William and 
an infant son. Fmily is the wife of John 
Galloway, of Xenia. and tiiey ha\"e one child, 
Mildred llagler. William is deceased. 
Anna M. is the wife of Ralpli Spahr and 
they reside on the old home farm, Mr. Spahr 
having the management of the farm work, 
which he ably conducts. Mr. Hagler has 
now passed the se\enty-tifth milestone on 
life's journey and receives the veneration 
and respect which should ever be accorded 
to those who have reached the evening of 
life, and whose record has ever been blame- 
less and honorable. 



JOSEPH DeVOE. 



Joseph DeVoe, who is engaged in gen- 
eral farming and stock raising, owns and 
cultivates a farm of one hunrlred and eight 
acres in (."aesar.screek township. He was 
born in Jefferson township. Greene county. 
March 7. 1850, and is a son of David and 
Mary (Ary) DeVoe. The paternal grand- 
parents were Joseph and Abby fOglesliee) 
l)e\"oe. and the former was a son of David 
De\'oe, who was of l-"rench descent. His 
father died in his native land. France, but 
the mother afterward came to this countrv. 
David DeVoe spent his days in \'irginia and 



it was in that state that Joseph De\'oe. the 
grandfather of our subject, was born and 
reared, spending his youth near Winchester. 
He married Miss Abby Oglesbee. also a na- 
tive of that localit}-, and about the year 1817" 
he sought a home in Ohio, taking up his 
abode near what is now the village of 
Tainters\'ille. In his political support he was 
a \\ hig. and Imth he and his wife were Meth- 
odists in religious faith. In their family 
^vere six children : David J., now deceased ; 
E\aline. who is the widow of John Ary and 
resides in Caesarscreek township : George 
W. : Ephraim. who has passed away; Sarah 
Jane, who became the wife of Nathan Fisher,, 
but both are now deceased ; and Asa. who 
has also departed this life. Joseph DeV'oe. 
the grandfather of our subject and the fa- 
ther of this family, was called to his final 
rest in i860, and his \\ife passed away in 
1858. Both were laid to rest in the SalenT 
burving gn^und. 

Da\id De\'oe, the father of our subject, 
was born in 1822. and after arriving at 
years of maturity he \\eflded ]Mary Ary. who 
was born August 13, 1825. The marriage 
was celebrated in Jefferson township, and 
in 1868 they removed to Painters ville, where 
the father of our subject purchased a farm, 
upon which he spent his remaining days, 
passing away on the 23d of January. 1899. 
at the age of seventy-six years. His widow 
still survives him and is now living in Paint- 
ersville. Like her husband, she belongs to 
the Methodist Protestant church. He was 
a Republican in political views and as a busi- 
ness man was reliable and energetic, while 
as a citizen he was ever loyal to the best in- 
terests of the community. Unto him and 
his wife were born eleven children: Eliza 
Jane, the wife of Thomas Bone, of Illinois; 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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Jefferson townsliip: Lucinda. the wife of L. 
V. Johnson, of Jefferson township; Joseph, 
our subject; William, who is livinj^ in Jef- 
ferson township; Aaron, a resident of 
Caesarscreek township; Margaret, David 
■ and George, who died in childhood ; Eliza- 
beth, the wife of I. Mason: and Jesse, a resi- 
dent of Xenia township. 

In the public schools of Jefferson town- 
ship Joseph DeVoe was reared and educated. 
He lived with Jiis father until his marriage, 
which occurred March 28, 1872, the lady of 
his choice being Miss Caroline Faulkner, a 
daughter of David and Emily J. (Musset- 
ter) Faulkner. Her father w^as born near 
Paintersville, October 7, 1819, and his par- 
ents were Thomas and Mar)- (McGuire) 
Faulkner. He was educated in the district 
schools and remained upon the home farm 
until Septemlier, 1838, when he was mar- 
ried. He then rented land from iiis father 
for a time and afterward purchased a tract, 
carrying on agricultural pursuits until his 
life's labors were ended in death, lie had 
become the owner of one hundred and nine- 
ty-four acres of well developed land, im- 
proved with all modern accessories and 
e(|ui|iments, and in hi'; lousiness undertak- 
ings he was quite successful. Seven chil- 
dren were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Faulk- 
ner, all of whom are \et living, namely: 
Marv. the wife of Francis Linkhart. of 
Xenia. by whom she has four children ; Har- 
vey C. ; Caroline, now Mrs. DeVoe : Sam- 
uel P., who married Martha Painter; Elijah 
B., a resident of West Carlton, Ohio; Har- 
riet M., who became the wife of Thomas B. 
Linkhart. a resident of Lumlaerton, Clin- 
ton county, Ohio : and Elizal)eth Catherine, 
the wife of John Anderson, a resident of 
Clinton county. Ohio. The parents held 
membership in the Methodist Protestant 



church, and for many years Mr. Faulkner 
ser\ed as a class leader. He took a deep 
interest in religious work and labored earn- 
estly and effectively for tiie upbuilding of 
the cause of Christianity. His i»litical sup- 
port was gi\en tlie Republican party, and 
for several terms he served as trustee of his 
township. His death occurred in 1896 and 
his wife passed away in 1900, being laid by 
his side in the cemetery at Jamestown. 

.'\fter- his marriage Joseph DeVoe re- 
moved to the farm which is now his home. 
He has erected all of the buildings upon the 
place and they stand as monuments to his 
enterprise and capable management. He 
carries on general farming and stock-raising 
and the well tilled fields return to him a 
golden harvest for his labors. He is ener- 
egtic, progressi\e and persevering, and tlie 
success which he has ac(|uired is the ulti- 
mate result of these characteristics. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. DeVoe has. 
been blessed with three children: Annie B., 
the wife of Stacey Wilson, of Caesarscreek 
township, by whom she has one child, 
Goldie; Mollie, the wife of James Sessler, 
of Silvercreek township; Ida May, the wife 
of Oscar Gordan, of Caesarscreek township, 
bv whom she has two children, Forrest and 
Everett J. Elmer Strickle, a son of Mollie 
by a former marriage, is also a member of 
the DeVoe household. Mr. DeVoe exercises 
his right of franchise in support of the men 
and measures of the Republican party, and 
upon that ticket he has been elected to the 
office of township trustee and to other local 
positions. In the ^Methodist Protestant 
church he and his wife hold membership, 
and he is also serxing as one of the trus- 
tees of that organization. In manner he is 
courteous and pleasant, winning friends by 
his genial disposition and honorable char- 



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ROB INS OX'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



^cter wliicli ci>niman(ls the respect of all. 
He is public spirited in an eminent degree, 
and through ail the years of his life ha.s 
^iven his support to \vhate\er is calculated 
to promote the general welfare. 



IR.V W. BALDWIX. M. D. 

Dr. Ira \^'. Baldwin devoted his life to 
.a profession calling for much self-sacrifice 
as well as for strong mentality, close appli- 
cation and unflagging energy, but in the 
rank of his chosen profession he won dis- 
tinction and throughout tlie count}- in which 
he made his home he was widely and fa- 
vorably known. His birth occurred on a 
farm in Greene county on the Clifton pike. 
October t i. 1838. There were two children 
born unto David Y\ and Julia Baldwin, of 
whom he was tlie elder. His earlv educa- 
tion was accjuired in the common schools 
and later he continued his studies in Antioch 
College. His leisure time was given to the 
study of medicine, and he afterward entered 
the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. 
Avhere he completed a course by graduation 
in the year 1867. Immediately afterward 
he located in Rnon, Ohio, where he opened 
an office and remained for two years. He 
then removed to Clarksville, Iowa, where he 
practiced successfully for the same length of 
time, but having a stronger preference for 
his native state than the one of his adoption 
lie returned to Spring Valley, Ohio, and 
thence came to Xenia. He afterward spent 
eight years as a medical practitioner of 
Yellow S])rings, and also engaged in farm- 
ing, but his last days were passed in Xenia, 
where he tlied on the 2d of February, 1902. 

The Doctor was a very prominent and 
influential man. whose many excellencies of 



character were worthy of commendation and 
of emulation. He was a nieml3er of the Six- 
ty-sixth Illinois Infantry during the Civil 
war, but owing to disability he received an 
honorable discharge. Later, however, he re- 
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fiftv- 
third Ohio \'olunteer Infantry. For nine 
years he was identified with the United 
States pension board of Greene county, and 
for four \ears he served as postmaster at 
Yellow Springs, having been appointed un- 
der President Cleveland, his administration 
being highly satisfactory to all concerned. 
The Doctor was also actively and prominent- 
ly connected with journalistic interests for 
a considerable period. He was the founder 
of the Greene County Democrat and after- 
ward ])urchased the Xenia Democrat Xews, 
consolidating the two papers, both of which 
have since been merged into the Xenia Her- 
ald. He was the founder of the Saturday 
Morning Post and continued his newspaper 
career until 1882. He was one of the most 
prominent and influential Democrats in the 
count}' and his laliors were effective in pro- 
moting the growth and success of Democ- 
racy. He l)elieved most firmly in the prin- 
ciples of the party and his influence was ever 
exerted on its behalf. It was in the year 
1899 that he returned to Xenia, continuing 
his residence in this city until called to the 
home beyond. 

In 1869 the Doctor was united in mar- 
riage to Miss Josephine Allen, the only 
daughter of the late John C. Allen. Unto 
them were born three children : Benjamin, 
John and Minnie, who are still at home with 
their mother. Mrs. Baldwin was also one 
of a family of three children, but is now the 
onl}- survivor. Her parents were J. C. and 
Mary ( Arnold) Allen, the latter a daughter 
of Jesse Arnold. Mr. Allen was one of 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



7 J 9' 



Greene county's well-to-do and progressive 
farmers and died in Greene countv Julv 4. 
1890. His wife had passed away when Mrs. 
Baldwin was only five years of age. 

For many years Dr. Baldwin was identi- 
fied with the Methodist church as a leading 
and faithful member. He also ser\'ed as one 
of its trustees, filling that ])i)sitinn at the 
time of his death. He took a very deep and 
active interest in church affairs and his ef- 
forts for the uplniilding of the church were 
not without results. In manner he was 
genial and jovial, and his personal character- 
istics were such as to make him a popular 
citizen. Public spirited, he co-oi)erated with 
e\ery mo\ement for the general good and 
iived an upright, honorable life commending 
him to the confidence and respect of all. The 
funeral services were held in the First Meth- 
odist Episcopal church and ci inducted by the 
Rev. A. C. Turell, assisted by Rev. Hamil- 
ton, of Cetlarville, and Rev. Elliott, of Yel- 
low Springs, the remains being interred in 
W'oodland cemetery. 

"His youth was innocent, his riper age 
Marked with some acts of goodness 
e\ery day, 
And watched l>y eyes that love him. calm 
and sage, 
Faded his late declining years away. 
Cheerfulh' he gave his being up and went 
To share the holy rest that waits a life 
well spent." 



WILLIAM H. LUMPKIN. 

\\illiani H. Lumpkin, who is engaged in 
the operation of the ]\Iendenha!l farm in 
Spring Valley township two miles northeast 
of Xew Burlington, was born in Wayne 



county. Indiana, September 6, 1862, his par- 
ents being Silas II. and Sarah E. (Thorn- 
burg) Lumpkin. When our subject was but. 
si.\ years of age the father removed to Dal- 
las county, biwa, where the family lived for 
ten years and then took up their abode in 
the town of Stewart, Ciuthrie county, Iowa. 
It was there that William H. Lumpkin was 
reared to manhood. 

He acf|uired a fair common-school ed- 
ucation and afterward worked as a farm 
hand by the month. When but twentv vears 
of age he secured a position in a n mud house 
at Stewart and on attaining his majoritv he 
leceived an offer from Edward Walton, who 
owne<l land in Iowa, to come east and en- 
ter his employ. This Mr.-Lumpkin agreed 
to do. and for three years remaineil in the 
service of Mr. Walton. At that time he be- 
came acquainted with Miss .\mv H. Men- 
denhall. and their friendship ripening into 
love, they were married September 28, 1886. 
The lady is a daughter of John and Eunice 
' Compton ) Mendenhall, both of whom are 
living in Sjjring \'alley township. For a 
\-ear after his marriage Mr. Lumpkin re- 
sided in Spring Valley, and then began 
larming in the township upon land owned 
by Mr. .\nderson. He continued its culti- 
vation for four years, but for the past de- 
cade has resided upon the Mendenhall farm, 
which he has placed under a high state of 
cultivation. 

Five children have l.)een Ixjrn unto our 
subject and his wife: Albert J-, born in 
Spring \'alley township February 14, 1888, 
Edward R., who was bi-)rn in the same town- 
ship June 16, 1890, and Lawrence, born No- 
vember 17, 1901, are still living, while two 
children are deceased, Elmer T., who died 
at the age of one year and nine months, and 
Mabel, who died at the age of one year and 



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ii\'e months. The parents hold membership 
witli the Society of Friends, and since 1884 
]\lr. Lumpkin has supported the men and 
measures of tlie Repuhlican party, liut has 
ne\er l)een an aspirant for office, preferring 
to give liis time and attention to his busi- 
ness affairs, in which lie is meeting with 
treditablc success. 



^\ILLI.\M D. PETTIGREW. 

\\ iUiam D. Pettigrew, now deceased, 
was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio. June 17, 
1832, and was one of the four children of 
William and Margaret ( Carruthers) Petti- 
grew that reached years of maturity. In 
1he country schools he acquired a good prac- 
tical education, and when a young man he 
learned the trade of carriage painting, which 
he followed for a number of years. At the 
"time of his father-in-law's death he assumed 
the mana'^-ement of the undertaking business 
Avhicli had been established by Mr. Metsker, 
and was connected with that enterprise until 
liis life's labors were ended. 

Mr. Pettigrew was united in marriage 
to Miss Metsker, a daughter of David M. 
Metsker. who came of a family of German 
lineage. His parents were Joseph and Eliz- 
abeth ( Templeton) Metsker, who were 
farming peojile. respected for their genuine 
worth. Mr. Metsker. the father of Mrs. 
Pettigrew, became one of the foremost citi- 
zens of Xenia and possessed many character- 
istics that endeared him to all with whom 
he came in contact. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
Pettigrew were born six children: Eliza- 
l>eth, now the wife of X. Snider; Mrs. H. 
C. Carr. of Dayton, Ohio; Carrie, the wife 
of Mr. IJebb, of Xenia; Elsie, the wife of 



H. Jolie, of dreene county; and William D. 
and Sarah. A\ho resides with their mother. 

Mr. Pettigrew affiliated with the Repub- 
lican ]5arty and kept well informed on the is- 
sues of the dav, but never sought or desired 
office. He was a Mason in high standing, 
having taken the degrees of the command- 
ery, in which he was made a Knight Temp- 
lar. His death occurred at his home at Xo. 
21 Church street, April 16, 1891, and his 
remains were laid to rest in Woodland cem- 
etery. His entire life was passed in this state 
and he was widely known as a man who 
could be trusted, who was reliable in busi- 
ness and honest in all his relations with his 

fellow men. 

♦-•-• 

JOHN O. COLLINS. 

When the rebellion in the south threat- 
ened the stabilit)' of the L^nion, there flocked 
to the standard of the nation men from 
all wal|ks of life. They came from the 
workshops, the counting rooms, the offices 
and the fields, all permeated with the one 
unconquerable determination to save the 
Union at the cost of their lives if need be. 
Among the loyal men of Ohio who wore the 
blue was John O. Collins, who experienced 
many of the hardships of war but never fal- 
tered in the performance of duty until 
wounds unfitted him for further service. 
He is now numbered among the enterpris- 
ing farmers of Spring Valley townshi]i, li\'- 
ing on the lower Bellbrook pike, four and 
a half miles southwest of Xenia. 

Mr. Collins was born in Xenia township, 
six miles north of the city. April 4, 1841, 
a son of Samuel and Rebecca ( McClellan) 
Collins. The father, born in York county, 
Pennsylvania, in 1804, came to Greene coun- 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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ty witli his parents in early boyliood. 'Ihe 
grandfather, William Collins, settled on 
i\'Iassies creek, and after a few years removed 
to the locality in which our subject was 
ixjrn. He spent his remaining da\s upon a 
farm and was one of the worthy pioneer 
settlers of this portion of the state. He 
had ten children, all of whom reached ma- 
ture years, and reared families of their own 
with one exception. The family is of Scotch 
lineage but representatives of the name re- 
moved to Ireland and thence to America. 
'Samuel Collins was the fifth in order 
of birth in his father's family. He accjuired 
a good common-school education and for 
one year engaged in teaching. In iS^f) in 
Spring Valley township he was married at 
the home of John McClellan, the father of 
the bride, and the ne.xt day the young coup- 
le went to the home of Mr. Collins' father, 
where a reception was held, and on the 
same day Mr. Collins" sister was married. 
The mother of our subject carried all her 
possessions to her new home in saddle bags. 
The father had already purchased a piece 
of land and had erected a stone house, a part 
of which is still in use. It was in that house 
that our subject was born. The father suc- 
cessfully followed farming for many years 
and at the time of his death owned over 
five hundred acres of land. He died sud- 
denly of apoplexy at the age of fifty-four 
years. He was a \\'hig and strong anti- 
slavery man ; was a warm friend of the 
cause of education, and was a consistent 
worker and faithful member of the As- 
sociate church. In his family were eight 
children: Xancy E.. who became the wife 
of John H. Jobe, and died in Greene county ; 
William H., of this county ; John O. ; Ly- 
dia, deceased: James Martin, of this county: 
Mary Jane, the wife of John D. I\I. Stew- 
art, of Xenia; Isabella, the wife of S. K. 



Williamson, of Cedarville; and Anna Re- 
becca, the wife of R. W. Moore, of Xenia. 

On the old homestead farm John L. 
Collins spent the da)-s of his boyhooil. at- 
tending the district schools of the neigh- 
borhood in the winter months and working 
in the fields through the summer. He was 
twenty years of age at the time of the out- 
break of the Ci\il war and on the 9th of 
October, 1861, he enlisted in Company D, 
Seventy-fourth Ohio Infantry. After about 
two months' drilling in the camp at Xenia 
the regiment went to Camp Chase and in 
April. 1S62. proceeded to Xashville, taking 
part in the battle of Stone River on the 
,31st of December of that year. There Mr. 
Collins ha<l the bone in the left lower limb 
shattered. He was soon afterward taken 
prisoner and remained in the hands of the 
rebels from Wednesday until the following 
Monday, when the Confederates retreated 
anrl left him to the Union soldiers. He re- 
mained in the hospital at Murfreeslx)ro for 
about three weeks and on the Jist of Jan- 
uary. kSA^, on account of his injuries, was 
honorably discharged and returned home. 
For six months thereafter he was confined 
to his home and for a number of years was 
lame. 

On the 6th of March. 1866. Mr. Collins 
was marriefl in the First United Presliyte- 
rian church in Xenia, to Harriet A. Far- 
cpier, a native of Greene county, Ohio, and 
a daughter of John and Sarah (Finney) 
Farquer. Her mother died in 1863. her 
father in 1865. and thus she was early left 
an orphan. John Farquer was a nati\-e of 
Kentucky, born April 5. 1790. and removed 
withi ihis parents to Warren county, Ohio, 
when quite young. In 18 13 he enlisted for 
service in the war of 1S12 and after being 
discharged resumed farming in Warren 
county. He later removed to Xenia, Ohio, 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



where his tleath occurred. In February 
preceding his marriage Mr. Collins pur- 
chased ninety-two acres of land where he 
now lives. He at once began the work of 
cultivation and tiniprove|nient and his la- 
bors soon wrought a great change in its 
appearance. He now has a splendid home, 
heated with furnace and tastefully furnished 
and his farm is under a high state of culti- 
vation. He has jjlaced six liundred rods 
of tiling upon it and the fields now return 
to him an excellent income. He has piped 
water a distance of forty rods for his cat- 
tle, and has secured ample barns for the 
shelter of grain and stock. He has a tel- 
ephone connection with the city and his 
place is modern and well equipped through- 
out. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Collins have been 
born three children. Pearl, who was grad- 
uated in Xenia College in 1886 and in West- 
minster College, at New Wilmington. Penn- 
sylvania, in 1887, is now the wife of T. 
Dales Kyle, of the Citizens National Bank, 
and has two children — Lois and Philip Col- 
lins. Mabel is at home, and the third child 
died in infancy. Mabel completed the high 
school course in Xenia with tlie class of 
1893. 3"^' ^^'^s graduated in the college at 
Tarkio. Missouri, with the class of 1895. 
The family are identified with First United 
Presbyterian church of Xenia. in which Mr. 
Collins has been a very active worker and 
liberal supporter. For ten years he has 
served as a teacher in the Sunday-school. In 
1864 he proudly cast his first presidential 
ballot as a supporter of Lincoln. He has 
since voted the Republican ticket, and is 
deeply interested in the growth and suc- 
cess of the party, believing its principles 
most conducive to the national good. In 
his business atifairs, his private life and in 



all relations in which he has been placed he 
has shown himself to be an honorable and 
upright man, true to manly principles and 
a high standard of ethics. 



ADAM R. BICKETT. 

Adam Reynolds Bickett is one of the 
honored citizens of Greene county, who has 
passed the seventy-third milestone on life's 
journey. His career has ever been such 
as to command the respect and confidence 
of men and he is a worthy representative 
of an honored pioneer family. His home 
is located about three miles east of the city 
of Xenia and upon the farm adjoining this 
place he was born June 24, 1829. his par- 
ents being \\'illiam R. and Isabella (Alex- 
ander) Bickett. The ancestry can be traced 
back to Ireland, where Adam Bickett. the 
grandfather of our subject, was born. At 
length detennining to try his fortunes in 
America he crossed the Atlantic and after 
a long voyage of thirteen weeks took up his 
abode in Peimsyhania, where he spent his 
remaining days. He married Elizabeth 
Reed and amtjng their children was William 
R. Bickett. who was born in Coaquilla Val- 
ley, Pennsylvania, about 1796. In 1818 he 
started with his motlier and the other mem- 
bers of the family — the father having pre- 
viously died — for Ohio. The journey was 
made with a six-horse team and during the 
first winter the familv lix'ed with Rol)ert 
Hamell. a brother-in-law of \\'illiam R. 
Bickett. who had located in Greene county 
the previous year. In the spring of 1819 
the family purchased one hundred and fifty 
acres of wood land and William and his 
brother John built a log house, which re- 




A. R. BICKETF. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



725 



niained the liuine of tlie faniilv fur many 
years. Pioneer conditions existed and tliey 
experienced all the hardships and difficult- 
ies incident to a settlement upnn the fr(.)nt- 
ier. Venison was a common dish upon 
their table, as was wild turkey and other 
game. After arriving at years of maturity 
W'illiam R. Bickett was niarrieii in 1827 
to Isabella Alexander, and they became the 
parents of six children : Adam R., of this 
review; Matliew A., a well known farmer 
of the county ; Mary Jane, w ho became the 
wife of Solomon Foust, who died a few 
months later, leaving a son, Edward ; 
Elizabeth Isalaella; Lydia Ann, who died 
when twenty years of age; and Harvey. The 
parents were devoted members of the United 
Presbyterian church. The father was a 
very active and influential man in his com- 
munity, and at his death many friends 
mourned their loss. He passed away in 
1865 and his wife died April 4. 1883. at 
the advanced age of eighty-three years, and 
was laid by his .side in the cemeterv at Xenia. 

In the subscription schools Adam Rey- 
nolds Bickett began his education and re- 
mained at home assisting in the develop- 
ment and cultivation of the farm until 1864, 
when lie abandoned the plow and took up 
the rille in defense of his country, becom- 
ing a member of Companv D, One Hun- 
dred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry as a 
private. He was at the front for four 
months and was mustered in and out at 
Camp Dennison. returning from the front 
in August, 1864. He had previouslv he- 
longed to the national guards and had en- 
listed for five years. 

After his father's death Mr. Bickett as- 
sisted in the operation of the home farm 
until his marriage, which important event 



in his life nccurred on the 9th of Decem- 
ber, 1867. the lady of his choice being Miss 
Mary ;\.gnes Wright, who was born near 
Oldtciwn. (jreene count}', a daughter of 
Jf)hn B. and Sidney (Simj)son) \Vright. 
'{"he young couple began their domestic life 
upon tiie farm which is now the home of 
Mr. Bickett. He has made excellent im- 
provements here antl now has a valuable 
and desirable property. He erected a good 
residence, large and substantial barns and 
conuno<lious outbuildings, his place being 
now well equipped with all modern accesso- 
ries and con\enicnces. Within its borders 
are comprised one hundred and ninety-six 
acres and the land is highly cultivated. The 
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bickett was blessed 
with three children : Clinton Wright, now 
deceased: Mary I'elle, who is with her fa- 
ther; and Lydia S., who died at the age of 
sixteen years. The mother passed away 
in 1879 at the age of forty-two years and 
was laid to rest in the cemetery at Xenia. 
She was a member of the United Presbyter- 
ian church and a most estimable lady. 

On the 18th of January, 1882. Mr. 
Bickett was again married, his second union 
being with Ruth Anna Kyle, 'a daughter of 
Joseph and Anna ( Cassill ) Kyle. Her fa- 
tlier was a native of this count\-, horn near 
Cedar ville, and a son of Judge Samuel Kyle,, 
who was born in Kentucky but removed tO' 
(ireene county at a very early date and be- 
came one of the distinguished and influen- 
tial pioneer settlers here. Unto the parents 
of Mrs. Bickett were born five children : 
Mary, who died in childhood; Ruth Anna, 
the wife of our subject ; Alexander C, who 
served in the Civil war as a member of 
Company F. Thirty-fourth Ohio Infantry, 
and is now living in Cedar\ille: Jane Eliz- 



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726 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ahetli, the wife of J. \V. Hicks, of Kansas; 
and Samuel A., who was also a member of 
Company F, Thirty-fouuth Ohio Infantry. 
He was on picket duty with ( General Sher- 
idan in the Shenandixah \'alley at the time 
that gallant otticer made his famous ride. 
At Salisbury. South Carolina, he was tak- 
en prisoner and was the only one of the 
■company captured at that time that returned 
alive. His death, however, occurred a verx' 
short time after he had reached home, as 
the result of star\-ation in the rebel prison. 
The mother of this family passed away 
September 30. 1845, ^^ the age of forty 
years. The father afterward married Mrs. 
Haddassah Hunter and they had four chil- 
dren : Joseph, who is now a member of the 
faculty of the Theological Seminary, at 
Xenia, Ohio; John Kennedy and Leah M., 
who are deceased; and Rachael, the wife of 
Andrew Cresswell. who is living near Ce- 
darville. Mr. Kyle died August 28, 1881, 
at the age of seventy-two years and his sec- 
ond wife passed away June 14 1898, at the 
age of eighty-one. 

Mr. Bickett and his present wife are 
leading and influential members of the 
Second United Presbyterian church of 
Xenia, of which he has been an elder for 
•eighteen years, and are people of die high- 
■est respectability and worth. Throughout 
the years of his manhood he has carried on 
agricultural pursuits and his enterprise and 
thrift have ever 'been manifest in the neat 
and attractive appearance of his place. His 
business methods, too, are above question, 
for he is ever honorable, straightforward 
and progressive. The many excellent qual- 
ities of heart and mind, which characterize 
■our subject and his estimable wife have 
gained for them a circle of friends which is 
almost co-extensive with their circle of ac- 
quaintances. 



W'ARREX HAMILTON GLOTFELTER 

Warren Hamilton Clotfelter is a self- 
made man, who from an early age has de- 
pended upon his own efforts for a liveli- 
hood. His strong purpose and indefatiga- 
ble industry have brought to him the suc- 
cess which he is now enjoying. He is ac- 
counted one of the well-to-do farmers of 
Sugarcreek township, where he has a good 
tract of land. His birth occurred upon the 
farm where he now lives, his natal day be- 
ing August I, 1855. His parents were Sol- 
omon and Lydia (Gerhard) Glotfelter. His 
father was born in Pennsylvania, August 
24, 1804, and was a son of Adam and Eliz- 
abeth Glotfelter. About 181 6 his grandpar- 
ents started westward with their family and 
cast in their lot with the early pioneer set- 
tlers of Greene county, Ohio, making their 
home in Beavercreek township. There the 
grandfather secured a tract of wild land 
which he transformed into a good farm, 
making his home thereon throughout his re- 
maining days. 

Solomon Glotfelter spent the first twelve 
years of his life in the state of his nativity 
and then accompanied his parents to Ohio. 
Here he assisted in the arduous task of de- 
veloping a new farm and experienced all the 
hardships and trials which come to those 
who establish a home upon the frontier far 
from the comforts which are had in an older 
civilized district. When only eighteen years 
of age he was first married, his wedding be- 
ing celebrated on the 8th of April, 1824, the 
lady of his choice being Miss Sarah John. 
Unto them were born six children, but Will- 
iam is the only one now living. When last 
heard from his residence was in Menier, 
Tazewell county, Illinois. After the death 
of his first wife Mr. Glotfelter was again 
married, his second union being with Lvdia 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



727 



Cierliard, who was Ixjrii in Liberty town- 
sliip. I*"rc<lcrick county, Maryland. July g. 
1S15. Mr. (ilotl'clter took uj) his alxxle 
upon the farm un whicli our subject nt>w re- 
sTdes. It was a tract of forty acres of land 
and u|)i>n it was a log house and lofj barn. 
The original cabin now forms a part of the 
residence, but additions have been made to 
it and it has been nvxlcrnized, transforming 
it into a good comfortable residence. Mr. 
Glotfelter also erected a good barn and made 
many other improvements. He devoted bis 
attention to the cultivation of the fields and 
tlic years brought to him good iiarvests. By 
his second marriage there were three chii- 
<lren. Henry Clay, the eldest, born August 
J J. 1844. married Catherine I'.cnham and 
resides in Dayton. lie enlistctl for one 
hundrc<l days' service in the ( )nc Hundred 
and Fifty- fourth Ohio Regiment iluring the 
Civil war and was corixiral. RuHina is the 
wife of Samuel Benham of (ioshen. Indiana, 
and lias two living children, while (Mie son, 
Jesse A., died Deceml>er _>i. 1901. Solo- 
mon Glotfelter, the father i>f our subject, 
was called to his final rest .\ugust 7. 18S0. 
As the years passed he had |)rospered in his 
imdertakings and he extended the boundary 
of his forty-acre farm until it comprise<l 
about two hundred acres, a fact which indi- 
cates that his life was one of industry. His 
|)olitical support was first given to the Whig 
party and ujjon its dissolution be joined the 
ranks of tlie new Republican party. He and 
his wife were consistent members of the 
Cierman Reformed church. Mrs. CdotfeUer 
survives her husband in a \'i\yc old age and 
makes her home with her son. Warren H., 
on the old homestead. 

Xo event of special im|)ortance occurred 
to vary tiie routine of farm work for War- 
ren II. (ilotfchcr in his xoutli, lie cnio\cd 



the pleasures of the play grouml, performed 
the duties of the schoolr<K>m and assisted in 
the lalH)rs of field and meadow. When 
alKJUt nineteen years of age he Umk charge 
of the home farm and cared for his father 
and mother. His previous training well fit- 
tetl him for this ex|)erience and he is kiiown 
as an enterprising agriculturist. 

On the 3rd of October, i88j. in Alpha, 
Ohio, he was married to Miss .Anna S. Volk- 
anand, by the Rev. David Winter, D. D. 
The lady was born in Alpha, February 20, 
1836. and is a daughter of Herman and 
I-;iizabeth ( Hroat ) X'olkanand, knh of 
whom were natives of Germany, and there 
reached years of maturity. The father came 
to America when alMHit twenty-three years 
of age an<l located near Xenia, being em- 
ployed for some time at <litTerent places. 
The mother afterward cros.sed the Atlantic 
and they were married in Greene county, 
Mr. X'olkanand continuing to work as a day 
l.'djorer for some years until be had acquired 
sufficient capital to enable him to purchase 
a small tract of land on the Miami river in 
Heavercreek townshi]). He has added to 
this tract and is now the |K«sessor of two 
farms. His life has been one of toil and 
l)erseverance and now he can enjoy the 
fruits of his former labor. In his family 
were seven children, of whom six are yet 
living, and Mrs. Glotfelter is the second in 
order of birth. By her marriage she has be- 
ci)me the mother of four children : Herman 
Ray. who was born in Sugarcreek township, 
July 16. 1883: Clay Roy, born in the same 
township, July 26, 1883: Katie May, born 
August 10, 1887: and Frank McKinley, 
bom on the 20th of April, 1893. 

When age gave to Mr. Glotfelter the 
right of franchise he indicated his ix)litical 
preference hy casting his first presidential 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



vote in 1876 and since that time he has never 
wavered in his allegiance to the Republican 
party. His wife is a member of the German 
Reformed church and he formerly belonged 
to Tabor Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Xenia. and 
he now holds membership relations with 
Magnetic Council. No. 231, J. O. U. A. 'SI.. 
at Bellbrook. It has often been said that 
the greater majority of failures are caused 
by a lack of persistence of purpose, by the 
turning aside from a given course into other 
fields of activity and that if more men would 
persevere in carrying out the work which 
thev first undertook they would be more 
prosperous. Mr. Glotfelter has always fol- 
lowed farming, having never sought a vari- 
ation of labor, and he has found that in the 
cultivation of the field he can gain not only 
a living but can secure each year some sur- 
plus which in the aggregate has made him 
the possessor of a comfortab.'-e competence. 



ROBERT W. DOUGLAS. 

Robert W. Douglas is engaged in the 
practice of law in Xenia and is meeting 
with success as a representative of the pro- 
fession, owing to his thorough preparation, 
close application and marked devotion to 
his client's interests. He is one of a family 
of eight chiklren who were liorn unto John 
P. and Adeline ( McLaughlin) Douglas. 
The father was a native of Columbiana 
county, Ohio, and there acquired his ed- 
ucation. He was a valued am! trustworthy 
citizen and for nine years filled the posi- 
tion of county clerk to the satisfaction of 
all the residents of Pike couniy. In the 
meantime he taught scho(.>l during the win- 
ter and during vacations, though he made 



farming his life work and through the till- 
ing of the soil he was enabled to provide 
his family with a g-Qod home. He died in 
the vear 1894. His wife was a daughter 
of Samuel McLaughlin, who also folkjwed 
farnnng for a livelihood. She still survives 
her husband and is now living in Waverly, 
Ohio. 

The snljject of this review was born in 
Scioto, county, Ohio, December 18. 1858, 
and when five years of age accompanied his 
parents on their removal to Pike county, 
this state, where he acc|uired his education 
in the common schools and made his home 
until coming to Xenia, in 1886. When 
quite a voung man he received the appoint- 
ment of government ganger, continuing to 
serve in that capacity until 1889. While a 
resident of Waverly he also served as both 
\'illage and county school examiner. He 
had devoted considerable of his leisure time 
to the stud}- of law and after remoxing to 
Xenia he gave his entire time to mastering 
the principles of jurisprudence under the di- 
rection of Judge Scroggy, being admitted 
to the bar in 1891. In 1899 he was licensed 
to practice before the supreme court. 
Through the past eleven years he has prac- 
ticed in the county seat and has been con- 
nected with much important litigation. He 
has won a number of cases, exciting wide- 
spread interest, and has gained a liberal cli- 
entage. In 1896 he was elected justice of 
the peace in a Republican township and 
received a large majority, although he is a 
stanch Democrat. This fact certainly indi- 
cates his personal popularitv and the con- 
fidence reposed in him by his fellow towns- 
men. For three years he filled the office in 
a most creditable manner. ])ut he has ne\-er 
sought political preferment t(_i anv extent, 
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tirely to his practice. For pastime he has 
cll,t,^^^C(l in the l)reediiig and raising of fine 
pacers and trotters. Me is an excellent 
judge of horses and always owns a tine 
roadster, taking great delight in driving a 
fine horse. 

Mr. Douglas was united in marriage to 
Miss KUa OgIesl)ee. the accomplished 
ilaughter of Reece Ogleshee. (Hie of the 
most progressive and enterprising men of 
Clinton county in his time, but who dietl 
when Mrs. Douglas was a small chilrl. The 
wedding ceremony was |)erformcd Deccm- 
her 10. 18S7, and their union has heen 
blessed with one child. Reece O. The fam- 
ily have a very attractive home on Mon- 
roe street. Oicnt Hill, and Mr. Douglas 
occupies double ofiiccs in the .\llcn block, 
where he attends to the legal interests en- 
trusteil to his care. 



JOHN M. TARBOX. 

John M. Tarlxi.x. one of the '"captains 
of industry" in Cedarvillc, long connected 
\vith the milling interests here, was a native 
of York county. Maine, born December 3. 
1829. liis ])arents l>eing J<.>hn and Lucy 
(Merrill) Tarbox. The father served his 
country as a loyal soldier in the war of 
18 1 J. and in his business career carried 
on general farming and stock-raising. He 
and his wife were also natives of York 
county, Maine, and there Ix^th spent their 
entire lives, the former passing away when 
about fifty-six years of age, our subject be- 
ing then a youth of ten, while Mrs. Tar- 
box had died two years l)ef<jre. Both 
were members of the Congregatoinal church 
and were w.ideh' and faxnrablv known in 



the community in which they made their 
home. In their family were seven children 
but John M. is the only one yet living. 

In the public schools of his native county 
John M. Tarbox. the youngest of the fam- 
ily, pursued his education and there re- 
mained until 1849. when he determined to 
make his home in Ohio an<l came to Cedar- 
villc. He had ])reviously learned the car- 
l)enter"s trade, which he followed for a 
short time after coming to dreene county, 
and then turned his attention to farming, 
cultivating a tract of land near Cedarville 
for four or \\\c years. He then began the 
o|x;ration of a sawmill in Cedarville town- 
ship on the old McFarland place, there re- 
maining for fifteen years, when the water 
power bcvame exhausted. He then built his 
present mill in Cedarville and has since con- 
tinued its operation. In the manufacture of 
luml)er he has found a goid business, and 
his industry, capable management and i>er- 
severance have resulted in bringing to him 
a comfortable competence. 

In the year 185 J. in Cedarville. Mr. 
Tarljox led to the marriage altar Miss Ra- 
chel Xichol. a daughter of Jt)hn Xichol. of 
this place. Her father came to Cedarvillc 
about 1840 and was long a worthy and val- 
ued citizen but is now deceased. Mrs. Tar- 
box died in February. 1901. and thus the 
couple, who had traveled life's journey hap- 
pily together for almost a half-century, 
were separated. She was a devoted member 
of the United Presbyterian church. By 
her marriage she became the mother of six 
children, four of whom are yet living. Lucy 
J. is the wife of William H. Barber, a far- 
mer of Cedarville township. Maria is the 
second of the family. Merrill died at the 
age of a vear and a half. Elizabeth died at 
the age of ten nioiuli^. William f. is en- 



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gaged in the sawmill business with his fa- 
ther. He wedded Mary Harbison, and they 
have three children living, — ^Janet, Rachel 
and Ellen. Thomas X., who is the post- 
master at Cedarville, married Miss Maggie 
McMillan, a daughter of Harvey MclNIillan, 
deceased, of Cedarville township, and their 
children are May, Eula and Eva. 

Mr. Tarbox exercises his right of fran- 
chise in supjxart of the men and measures 
of the Republican party, and has served for 
two terms as a member of the village coun- 
cil. He is a member of the United Pres- 
byterian church and resides in a pleasant 
cottage in Cedarville, having many friends 
in the town and throughiiut the surrounding 
district. 



W. HUXTER BULL. 

W. Hunter Bull, who is serving as su- 
perintendent of the Woodland cemetery of 
Xenia. is one of the native sons of Greene 
county, his birth having occurred in East 
Point district. Xenia township, on the 29th 
of June. 1846. His father, \\"illiam Bull, 
was born in this county, Xovember 5. 1805, 
his birthplace being near \\'ilberforce. He 
represented one of the old pioneer families 
of this portion of the state. His parents 
were James and .\nn (Gowdy) Bull, whose 
marriage was the first celebrated in Greene 
county, and it is said that at least one hun- 
dred guests were present. The children 
born of this union were William, the father 
of our subject : John, who died in 1834: .Su- 
sanna, the wife of James Turnbull : ^Lirga- 
ret, the wife of James Hopping : James Law ; 
Robert Scott; Amos: and Rankin. William 
Bull, the father of Hunter Bull, was educat- 
ed in the primitive schools of the times and 



throughout his entire life followed farming. 
He married Abigail Kyle, a daughter of Jo- 
seph Kyle, who was also an agriculturist and 
engaged in the tilling of the soil until called 
to the home beyond. Mr. Bull died in Feb- 
ruary, 1886, while his wife passed away in 
April. 1888. 

.\t the usual age W. Hunter Bull began 
his education in the common schools near 
his home and later continued his studies in 
the Cedarville high school. L'nder the par- 
ental roof he spent the days of his Ixnhood 
and youth and, when not occupied with the 
duties of the schoolroom and after complet- 
ing his education, he ga\-e his attention tO' 
farming. He thus engaged in the work of 
culti\-ating the crop best adapted to this cli- 
mate until 1888, when he took up his abode- 
in Xenia, where he established a grocery 
store, successfully carrying on business 
that line until 1892, when he sold out and 
accepted the position of superintendent of 
the Woodland cemetery, in which he now 
served most acceptably for ten years. X'eat 
and orderly is everything within the grounds 
and the silent city is made a beautiful one 
under his care. 

On the I2th of February, 1873, Mr. Bull 
v.as married to Miss Anna A. Corry, a 
(laughter of William R. Corry-. who was 
boirn in Peimsylvania, but when four 
years of age was brought to this coun- 
ty, •where he resided until his death, 
which occurred in October, 1887. His 
widow still survives him. The mar- 
riage of Mr. and ^Irs. Bull has been 
blessed with four children: Charles L., 
Kitty E.. Carrie j\L and \Villiam C. 

^Ir. Bull has ever been a progressive and 
jniblic-spirited citizen and at the time of the 
Civil war he manifested his loyaltv to the 
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pany A, One Hundred and Eighty-tiftli 
Oliio Volunteer Infantry, ji^ining; the army 
in February, 1865, wlien unly eighteen years 
of age. He then served witli the Army of 
the Potomac until the close of hostilities, 
\\hen he was honorably discharged. The 
family u> which he belongs has been remark- 
able for its ])atri()tism for generations, his 
jiaternal great-grandfather, Richard lUill. 
being a soldier of the Rex'olution, and the 
grandfather, James JjuII. ha\ing served in 
the war of i8ij. William Bull, the father, 
while not in the war himself, sent four sons. 
On the maternal side, Joseiih K\le was a 
soldier of the war of 181J, and is buried in 
W'ootUand, while his father, who was buried 
at Massies Creek cemetery, where both 
Richard and James Bull were buried, was 
also a soldier of the Revolutionary war. It 
is also worthy of notice that the son of our 
subject, Charles L. P>ull, is captain of the 
Xenia company. Ohio National Guard, 
which he was instrumental in raising and 
organizing. Mr. JUill has always been a 
strong Republican and has twice been the 
candidate of his party for county sheriff. 
He and his family are members of the Pres- 
byterian church. He is straightforward in 
all his dealings, reliable in all life's relations 
and has manv friends beyond fireene county 
as well as within its borders. 



DANIEL H. BRAAI. 



Daniel H. Beam, deceased, was for many 
years a leading and representative citizen of 
Caesarscreek township, wdiere his birth oc- 
curred on the 2nd of February, 1833. his 
parents being Daniel and Anna (Haines) 
Beam. The fatlier was bijrn in Penns_\l\'a- 
nia and the mother in Augusta county, Vir- 
ginia, where their marriage was celebrated. 



They became residents of Caesarscreek 
township, settling near the stream which 
gives the townshi]) its name, and there they 
remained thrtiughout the residue of their 
days, the father carrying on agricultural 
pursuits. In their family were seven chil- 
dren, but Mrs. Jane St. Jojni is the onlv one 
now living. Daniel H. was the fifth in order 
of liirth. 'I'he otiiers were: William. .Silas, 
John. .Mary and Julia, all of whom died 
with typhoid fever in 184C. as did the fa- 
ther, the si.x deaths occurring within five 
weeks. The mother long survived her hus- 
band, ])assing away in 1882 at the age of 
eighty-one years. 

Daniel H. Beam, whose name introduces 
this record, liad such educational priv- 
ileges as the common schools of that day 
afforded and at the early age of thirteen 
years the burden of the responsiljilit\- of the 
care of the tamily devolved upon him, owing 
to his father's death. Throughout his en- 
tire life he carried on agricultural pursuits 
and was a progressive and enterprising 
farmer, whose well directed ettorts returned 
to him a good income. He became quite 
well-to-do, owning three hundred and fifty 
acres of land at the time of his death. 

On the 21st of Decenilier, 1834. Mr, 
f-Seam was united in marriage to Miss Susan 
Keiter, who was born in Caesarscreek town- 
ship, and was a daughter of Frederick and 
Mary (Weaver) Keiter, l)oth of whom were 
natives of Hampshire county, \*irginia, 
where their marriage was celebrated. They 
came to Greene county, Ohio, taking up their 
abode on the Wilmington pike in Caesars- 
creek township, where they spent their re- 
maining days, Mr. Keiter passing away 
August 10, 1870. at the age of seventy-five 
years, while his wife died December 18', 
1876. also at the age of seventy-five. Both 



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were devoted members of the Baptist church 
and took a very active part in reHgir)iis work. 
In tlieir family were twelve children : Eliz- 
abeth. Harrison and John, all now deceased: 
Marv. the wife of B. Middleton of Iowa: 
Margaret, the wife of Elisha Bales of Sil- 
vercreek township ; Xancy, deceased : Mrs. 
Beam: George, of New Jasper township: 
Jane, the wife of Joseph Buckwalter of Ce- 
darcreek township; James and Edward. 
twins, the former in Arkansas, and the lat- 
ter in Clinton county. Ohio: and Sarah, the 
wife of Asa Haines of Caesarscreek town- 
ship. 

Bv their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Beam 
became the parents of eleven children, but 
their first born died in infancy. W'iJliam, 
the second, resides in CHnton county. (!)hii}. 
He married Sarah Peacemaker and they 
ha\e two children. Clyde and Jennie. H. 
.\iva. bcirn Augu.st u. 1858, was educated 
in common schools and resides on the home 
farm. Emma is the wife of Charles Hurley 
of Sugarcreek township and has one child, 
Leona. Addie died at the age of eight years- 
Luretta is the wife of Thomas Boyd of 
Spring \'alley township and has three chil- 
dren. Marv. Ruth and Samuel. Frank, of 
Clinton count\'. married Elizabeth Johnson 
and has five chiklren, Paul, Edith. Howard, 
Alva and Flora. Mary is the wife of Frank 
Woods of this county and has four children. 
Opal. Beam, and Clarence and Clark, twins. 
Frederick died in childhood. Albert Dean, 
born March 2, 1873, resides on the home 
farm and is now .serving as justice of the 
peace of Caesarscreek township, being the 
youngest man to liold that office in the coun- 
tv. F'lora is tlie wife of Clarence McKay 
of Clinton county. Oliici. and has two chil- 
dren. .\lbert and Eva. 

Mr. P.eam was called to the home l)e\ond 



September 2j. 1893, at the age of sixty 
years. He belonged to the Methodist Epis- 
copal church, took an active part in its work 
and served as steward. His wife is also 
identified with the same denomination. In 
politics he was a Republican and was ever 
If.yal and true to tlie principles in which he 
believed. He was widely known for his un- 
swerving integrity and strong purpose, for 
his fidelity to the duties of home and citi- 
zenship, and wherever known he was held 
in high esteem. 

Like his lather, Albert D. Beam is a Re- 
jiublican and in the year 1900 was elected 
justice of the peace so that he is now serving 
ill that office and in the prompt and faithful 
discharge of his duties he has won high 
commendation. He is also active in relig- 
ious work and is serving as trustee of the 
]\Iethodist Episcopal church. Having re- 
ceived a good practical educatior h< success- 
fully engaged in teaching school for six 
years, and he is a well known and highly 
esteemed young man. In connection with 
his brother Aha he is now operating the 
home farm, which comprises four hundred 
acres of valuable land. The house was 
erected in 1878 by their father and is a large 
and attracti\e residence. They are exten- 
sively engaged in stock-raising and dealing. 
The family needs no introduction to the 
readers of this volume, for through many 
years it has been a prominent one and those 
who bear the name ever sustain the family 
reputation for allegiance to all that is honor- 
able and upright. 



EDGAR ADDISON STORY. 

Edgar Addison Story is identified with 
the building interests of Bowersville and 
w ith real estate dealing there. He is a rep- 



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735 



resentalive of that class of citizens wliu, 
while ail\ancin.<( indixiilual success, also 
promote the pul)lic welfare. He was born 
in Jefferson township, (ireene county, about 
one mile southeast of the village in which 
he makes his home, the date of liis birth be- 
ing May i6, 1857. His parents were Fienrv 
and Ann Eliza (Brown) Story. The fa- 
ther was burn in Jefferson townshi]), .\ugust 
■9, 1835. and died of iieart disease the 1st of 
March, 1898. His parents were Alfred and 
Elizal>eth Story, natives of Virginia, whence 
they came to Ohio in the year 1835. arriving 
in Greene county in the month of August, 
after an overland trip. They settled in the 
southeastern part of Jefferson townhi]) near 
where nur subject now resides. The grand- 
father purchased two hundred acres of tim- 
ber land for fifty cents per acre and at once 
began to dear away the meadows and plant 
the fields. It was an arduous task to cut 
down all of the trees and prepare the land 
for cultivation and so dense was the for- 
est that he even had to fell some trees Ix?- 
fore there was space enough in which to 
build a cabin home. He erected what is 
called a double log house and upon the farm 
which he there develo])ed spent his remain- 
ing days, being one of the substantial and 
respected agriculturists of the community. 
Both he and his wife were devoted memjjers 
of the Methodist Episcopal church, their re- 
ligious belief forming part of their daily 
lives and molding their relations with their 
fellow men. In the early days Alfred Story 
was a Democrat in his ixilitical views, but 
just prior to the Civil war when the De- 
mocracy largely favored secession he joined 
the ranks of the Republican party which 
^stood as the defender of the Union. In 
his family were ten children, seven sons and 
three daughters. 



Henry Story, the father of our subject, 
was the youngest of the family that reached 
mature years. His birth occurred a few 
days after the arrival of his parents in this 
county, and here he spent his entire life. 
The children all died under the age of 
twenty-six years, with the exception of Rob- 
ert, who was the eldest of the family, and 
Henry. The former died in Greenfield, 
Oliio, in March, 1896. In the common 
schools of Jefferson township Henry Story 
pursued his education, although his privil- 
eges in that respect were somewhat limited, 
as his services were needed uj^on the home 
farm, he being there employed until his 
marriage. On tlie 2d of June, J 856, he 
was joined in wedlock to Miss .\nn Eliza 
I5rown, and unto them were btirn five chil- 
dren : ICdgar .\.. whose name introduces 
this review ; Walter G., who for fourteen 
years has been in the employ of the Meth- 
odist Book Concern in Bellevuc, Kentucky; 
William .\.. who is a l)iiokkee]>er in the 
employ of tlie Union Central Life Insurance 
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio; Elmer E., a 
school teacher, having for eight years liad 
charge of the children's department of the 
Greene County Infirmary ; and Clara Ro- 
berta, who married Harry Wilson, an en- 
gineer on the Cincinnati & Muskingum Val- 
ley Railroad, now a part of the Panhandle 
system, residing in Lancaster, Ohio. When 
the father of our subject was married the 
grandfather gave him a small tract of land 
and upon it he began his domestic life, add- 
ing to it as the years passed until at one time 
he owned one hundred and eighteen acres. 
This he cultivated and improved until after 
the inauguration of the Civil war, when he 
could no longer content himself at home, 
his country being endangered. Accordingly 
in August, 1 86 1, he enlisted at Xenia, Ohio, 




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ROBIXSOiVS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



in Company A. Xinety-fourtli Oliio In- 
fantry, as a private, to serve thmusjliout tlie 
entire year, or for three years. In 1864 he 
was honorably discliarged in Columbus, 
having faithfully aided the Union troops 
through three years. He then returned to 
his home and remained up<in the old home 
plr.ce until 1873, when he sold that prop- 
erty and purchased another farm that is 
now owned l)v G. X. Perrill. This he oj)- 
erated until 1891, when he sold his land and 
remo\ed to Lancaster. Ohio, which was his 
place of residence until September. 1896. 
At that date he came to Boweisville, where 
he spent the residue of his day?, passing 
away on the 1st of March, 1898. In pol- 
itics he was a Republican, and had served 
as trustee and in other township offices. 
An earnest Christian man. he was a very 
active and influential member of the IMetli 
odist Episcopal church and had filled many 
of its offices. His widow still survives him 
and is living in Bowersville at the age of 
sixty-five years. She was the daughter of 
William G. and Elizabeth Brown, natives 
of Virginia, where Mr. Story was also born. 
Her fatlier and his family came to Clinton, 
Ohio, about 1838. and the fcillnwing spring 
took up their alx)de in Jefferson township, 
where Mr. and Mrs. Brown remained until 
the\- were called to their final rest, the for- 
mer passing away in 1884. at the age of 
eighty-two years, while his wife died in 
1862. at the age of sixty-one years. 

Air. Story, whose name forms the cap- 
tion of this record, pursued his studies in 
the district schools of Jefferson township, 
until he had mastered the common branches 
lit Ivnglish learning and in 1875 he ma- 
triculated in the Western Uni\ersity at 
Delaware, Ohio, where he remained for a 
year. He then returned home, living with 



his parents until 1880. when he made prep 
aration for a himie of his own by marriage, 
the lady of his choice being Anna S. Wil- 
son, one of the native daugiiters of Jeffer- 
son township. Her parents, David L. and 
]\Iahala (Aldridge) \\'ilson, both died in 
the \-illage of Bowersville. The home of 
our sul)ject and his wife have been blessed 
with si.x children : Fred Rosebrook, Jessie, 
Audra. Paul and Harry, all of whom are 
under the parental roof, and one child now" 
deceased. 

In the fall of 1875 Edgar Addison Story 
began learning the carpenter's trade and has 
followed it continuously since, being now 
actively associated with buikling interests 
in Bowersville. He has erected a number 
of houses here and also a business block in 
tlie town, and deals extensively in real es- 
tate. He buys land on which he erects a 
residence, then sells the property. In this 
way he has contributed to the improvement 
of the village as well as to his individual 
success. In politics he is a Republican, and 
at the time of the incorporation of Bowers- 
ville, he was elected its clerk, which posi- 
tion he has since filled. A member of the 
Odd Fellows' Society, he has three times 
filled all of its offices. His wife belongs to 
the Methodist Protestant church, and both 
are widely and favorably known in the 
community. Mr. Story belongs to one of 
the oldest pioneer families of the county. 
Tw(_i-thirds of a century ago his grandfa- 
tlier became identified with the work of 
progress and improvement here, and this 
work is now carried on by our sul)iect. who 
is known as a relial)le and honorable busi- 
ness man. having a good kn<iwledge of the 
\()cation which he has chosen as a life work 
and living faithfullv up to the terms of his 
contract. 



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737 



CLIXT F. LOGAN. 

Clint F. Logan, who is filling the posi- 
tion of city clerk in Xenia and is a popular 
resident of this place, was born in Poland. 
Ohio. April 26, 1849. ^he family is of 
Scotch-Irish descent and the paternal grand- 
father of our subject was born on the iMiier- 
ald Isle. Init \\hen a young boy he left that 
land and. w ith an older sister and her hus- 
band, took passage on a westward bound 
sailing vessel, from which he landed on 
American shores. His l>ri)ther-in-la\\ then 
l)ound him nut until he became of age, and 
after he had attained man's estate he fol- 
lowed farming for a lixelihood, making that 
l)ursuit his chief occupatinn until his death. 

His son, William Logan, the father of 
our subject, was born in Virginia, May 11. 
1806, and when he became connected with 
the l)usiness world he fullnwed contracting 
on an e.xtensive scale, making a specialty of 
the construction of large l)uildings, such as 
courthouses and churches. He gained a 
wi<le reputation for liis skill and ability 
along those lines and many important struc- 
tures in Ohio were erected bv him. He was 
brought to this state bv his jiarents when 
only six years of age, the family |r)cating in 
Polanfl. where he spent many years. He 
married Miss Mar\- .\nn McKnabb. a 
daughter of Patrick McKnabb. who was 
l)orn in Scotland and died in the L'nited 
States. The father of our suliject departed 
this life in t8qo and the mother jjassed away 
the following year. In their family were 
ten children, of whom fi\'e are still lix'ing. 

Born and reared in Poland, Ohio, Mr. 
Logan of this review there acquired his edu- 
cation, and being anxious to earn his own 
livelihood he accepted a clerkship in a hard- 



ware store in Youngstown, Ohio. He after- 
ward worked for the Illinois Central Rail- 
road Company, remaining in that eiuploy 
until 1869, when he became connected with 
the Xew York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Rail- 
road Company as telegra])h operator at i iub- 
bard, Ohio. .After a year, however, he 
turned his attention to the coal business in 
Kentucky, where he remained for three 
years, and in 1877 he took u\> his abode in 
Xenia, Ohio, where he has remained since. 
He engaged in the iilumbing business as a 
member of the firm of Karons & Logan, a 
partnership which exi.sted until 1891. when 
Mr. Logan was elected city clerk on the Re- 
publican ticket. He is still serving in that 
capacitv and bis course has been one which 
has gained for him high commendation. 
He was also tendered the position of secre- 
tary of the Woodland cemetery by the board 
of directors and accejjted it. and he is like- 
wise secretary of the workhouse. 

Mr. Logan was united in marriage to 
Miss Am1>er R. Barnes, a daughter of 
Henrv Barnes, of Xenia. who was a ])roiui- 
nent and influential citizen. He served for 
four years as county treasurer and four 
years as sheriff of Greene county. The 
wedding of Air. and Mrs. L')gan was cele- 
brated X'ovember 18, 1879, and four daugh- 
ters have been 1x)rn unto them : Mary R., 
who in June, 1901, became the wife of C. 
Wharton; Henrietta T. ; Sabra AI. and 
Elizabeth J. The family are memliers of 
the Alethodist Episcopal church and have a 
pleasant and attractive home at X^o. 4. Col- 
umbus avenue. Fraternall_\- Air. Logan is 
connected with the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protec- 
tive Order of Elks and the National Union. 
In his political affiliations he is a Repub- 




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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



lican, and warmly endorses the principles 
of the party. It was nn that ticket that he 
was chosen to his present position as city 
clerk, in which capacity he is now capab'y 
serving, discharging his duties with prompt- 
ness and fidelity. 



ADO XI TOXES. 



Adoni Jones, a well known farmer of 
"Spring Valley township, residing on the 
Cincinnati pike, was born in Colerain town- 
ship. Hamilton county. Ohio, Xo\'ember _'. 
1846. On the ]iaternal side he was of 
Welsh and (lerman lineage. His parents 
were William F. and Ann (Heath) Jones, 
the former born in Butler county. Ohio. 
March 13. 1809, and the latter in Leicester- 
shire. England. April 12, 1820. ]Mrs. Jones 
was a maiden of twelve summers when her 
parents. William and Sarah Heath, crossed 
the Atlantic to America, taking up their 
abode in Hamilton county, Ohio, where she 
became acc|uainted with 'Sir. Jones, their 
marriage being celebrated in October, 1841. 
The father of our subject was a cooper by 
trade and followed that pursuit fi>r some 
years, but sul)se(|uently abandoned it and 
purchased a farm in Hamilton county, there 
spending his remaining days. 

Upon the old homestead in that county 
tlie subject of this review was reared to 
manhood, assisting in the labors of the 
fields and meadows during the periods of 
vacation, w-hile in the winter months he at- 
tended the common schools. In 1881 he 
came to Spring X'alley township and was 
here married on the 24th of May. of that 
vear. to Miss Esther Ferguson, the esti- 



mable daughter of Edward and Ann SI. 
(Medskere) Fergiison. Her father was 
born in Frederick county. \'irginia. June 
2, i8og, and when twenty-one years oi age 
came to Greene county in company with 
his parents, Sanuiel and Mildred (Garri- 
son) Ferguson. The grandfather of Mrs. 
Jones. Samuel Ferguson, was a native of 
Scotland, and at an early date located in 
Virginia. His wife was of Irish extrac- 
tion. Mrs. Jones was born and reared in 
Spring Valley township, and the farm upon 
which she and her husband are lixing was 
left t') her 1)\- her aunt Esther, or Hettie. 
as she was usuall_\- called. She had mar- 
ried Ivy Mendenhall. who died September 
20, 1875. leax'ing no children. Mrs. Men- 
denhall reared a sister of Mrs. Jones. Lu- 
cinda C. Ferguson, who became the wife of 
Thomas Worlev and now resides near 
^lound Valley. Kansas. For some time Mrs. 
Jones made her home with her aunt, and 
upon the death of the latter inherited the 
old homestead according to the terms of 
the will. Mr. Jones has since remodeled 
the barn, has erected other buildings and 
lias enclosed the i)lace with a modern iron 
fence. Neatness and thrift characterize 
everything about the farm and indicate tlie 
careful supervision of our subject. 

Three children have been born unto Mr. 
and ]\Irs. Jones: Pearl Anna, who is a 
student in Jacob's Commercial College in 
Dayton : Myrtle M. and Iva Luella. The 
parents are members of the Baptist church 
at Mercer's Run. and Mr. Jones is serving 
as one of the deacons. He exercises his 
right of franchise in support of the men 
and measures of the Democratic party. 
Both he and his wife are held in high es- 
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lives Iia\e ever lieeii sucli as to coniniend 
them tO' tlie cnnticlence and <;-iiii(l will 
of all. 



WILLIAM C. CLIXE. 

W illiani L. C'line. now deceased, was 
one of the well known farmers of Bea\er- 
creek township, his home being near Alplia. 
He spent almost his entire life there, and 
his splendid characteristics wmi him the re- 
spect of all with wiiom he came in contact. 
He was born in Beavercreek township De- 
cember 20, 1829, his parents being Adam 
and Barbara (Herring) Cline. His father 
was a native of Pennsylvania, while his 
mother's birth occurred in Germany. Thc}- 
became pioneer settlers of this county, tak- 
ing u]) their abode just north of Aljilia 1 m 
the farm that is now owned by Airs. Cline, 
the widow of our subject. There they spent 
their remaining days and were laid to rest 
in the Bea\ercreek cemeter\-. They held 
membership in the Reformed church, and 
died in that faith, the father passing away 
February 2, 1854, while the mother's death 
occurred on tlie 7th of May, 1865. at the 
age of sixt_\'-nine years. 

^\'illiam C. Cline pursued his education 
in the comnK>n schools of his native town- 
ship and early was drawn to the work of 
the farm, remaining with his parents until 
his marriage, which important event in his 
life occurred on the 3d of August, 1858, 
the lady of his choice being Miss Xancv 
Ann Harner, who was torn in Beavercreek 
township October 12, 1834, and is a daugh- 
ter of John and Alagdalene ( Haines) Har- 
ner. Her father was a native of Bath 



township, (ireene ccmutv, while her mnther 
was born in Bea\-ercreek township. The 
paternal grandparents of Mrs. Cline were 
John and Sarah | Koogler) Harner. Their 
son. John Harner. pursued his eilucation 
in Uath township, and for a time resided 
in that locality, but after his marriage re- 
mo\ed to Beavercreek township, where he 
spent several years. He afterward resided 
for several years near the village of Bell- 
brook, Ohio, and the last few years of his 
life were passed in Beavercreek township. 
Both he and his wife were laid to rest in 
Beavercreek cemetery. His death occurred 
on the 6th of April, 1873, when he was 
si.xty-seven years of age, while his wife 
was called tu her final hunie on the <>\h of 
June, 1876, at the age of si.xty-eight years. 

Cnto Mr. and Mrs. Harner were born 
IweKe children, of whom six are now liv- 
ing: !~;imi)n, who resides in Michigan; 
John, who makes his home near Xenia; Cal- 
vin, who is also li\ing in Michigan; Mrs. 
Margaret Wolf, who makes her home in 
Bath township; Xancy, the widow of Will- 
iam C. Cline; and Miss Catherine Harner,. 
who resides with her sister, Mrs. Cline. 
The parents were consistent Christian peo- 
ple, holding memljershi]) with the Reformed 
church, and Mr. Harner was a Republican 
in his political views. One of the brothers 
of Mrs. Cline, \\'illiani Harner, was a mem- 
ber of the One Hundred and Tenth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, becoming an officer in 
that division of the army. He proved a 
li)yal soldier, and at length he laid down 
his life on the altar of his country, being 
killed in the battle of the Wilderness. 

After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. 
Cline they began their domestic life upon 
the farm north of Alpha, where thev re- 



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maineil tMr a miniljer of vears. and in iSbS 
tliey took up their alxjde in the village, 
Avhere Mr. Cline lived a retired life through- 
out his remaining days. He had purchased 
a nice home in Alpha and there he enjoj-ed 
a well earned rest. For a numl:>er of years 
lie was actively associated with agriculturil 
pursuits and through his careful manage- 
ment and unfailing diligence he won a com- 
petence which enabled him to put aside busi- 
ness cares. The home of Mr. and ]\Irs. 
Cline was blessed with the following named 
children : Lina, who married Horace 
Ankenex' anrl has seven children, Florence, 
Samuel. Alfred, Elizabeth, \\'illiam M., 
Herman C. and Rachel H. ; Jessie, the de- 
ceased wife of Lewis Ankeney, by whom 
she had six children, Fred C, William Nel- 
son, John Blaine, Catherine, Lewis and 
Jessie L. ; ^Liggie, the wife of Thomas Leh- 
man, a resident of Dayton. Ohio, by whom 
she has three children, Jonathan Cline, 
Honora and Thomas C. : \\ illiam. who re- 
sides with his mnther and married Miss 
Flora Routzong; Maud, also at home: and 
John, who has departed this life. 

At the time of his death Mr. Cline 
■owned about li\e hundred acres of valuable 
land. He was very successful in business 
affairs and was thus enabled to leave his 
family in comfortable circumstances. He 
died October fi. 1875. when more than se\- 
enty-hve years of age, his birth having oc- 
curred December 20, 1829. He was then 
laid to rest in Reaver cemetery. Tn politics 
he had been a Republican, and had ever 
lieen an upright, honorable man who en- 
joyed in a high measure the warm regard 
of his friends. The estate is still owned 
l>y Mrs. Cline. who capably superintends 
her business affairs. She is a member of 



the Reformed church and is widely and fa- 
vorably known in Greene county. The life 
record of Mr. Cline proves that success is 
not a matter of genius, but can be won 
through earnest and indefatigable eiifort. 
His example is one well worthy of emula- 
tion and his life record well deserves a 
place upon the pages of the history of his 
native county. 



JAMES L. RAXEY. 

After years of activity and honorable 
connection with agricultural interests James 
L. Raney retired to private life and took 
up his abode in Xenia, where his last days 
were passed. He was one of a family of 
ten children born unto James and Martha 
(Siler) Rane_\-. His birth occurred in \'ir- 
ginia, but when only a year okl he was 
brought by his parents to Greene county, 
Ohio, the family settling near Cedarville. 
where the father died. In his vouth our 
subject worked in the fields through the 
summer months and in the winter season 
attended school. His childhood was passed 
on the home farm, and after he had com- 
pleted his education he engaged in teaching 
school, a profession which he followed for 
two and one-half vears after his marriage. 
He then turned his attention to agricultural 
pursuits, and in addition to the cultivation 
of the croiis best adapted to the climate he 
engaged in raising stock. In all his busi- 
ness undertakings he was enterprising and 
progressive, and he also possessed strong 
resolution and untiring energy, which en- 
abled him to carry forward to successful 
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1892 his health hegan to fail, and ha\ing 
acquired considerable means he purchased 
property in Xenia and renioxed to this city, 
where he lived in retirement until called 
to his t'mal rest. 

Mr. Raney married Miss Mary J. Mc- 
Coy, a daughter of Robert and Xancy 
(Davis) McCoy. Mr. McCoy learned the 
carpenter's trade in early life and through- 
out the years of his manhood followed it 
as a source of income. He died about i860. 
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Kaney was 
blessed with two children, who are yet liv- 
ing — William E. and Anna B., and they 
also lost four children, one of whom, Joseph 
H., died at the age of eigiiteen years. The 
two will) still sur\i\-e are yet at liome with 
the mother in a pleasant residence at Xu. 
331 East Market street. Mrs. Raney has 
in her possession an old chair w hicii she 
jirizes \ery highly, it having jjclonged U> 
her grandfather, to whom it was gi\en Ijy 
W'hitelaw Reid's mother. Mr. Raney was 
a meni])er of the Presbyterian clmrch, to 
which his family also belongs. He was 
called to his final rest August 9, 1900. His 
life was ever upright and honorable. He 
had served as an elder in his church fi>r 
many years and had taken an active interest 
in all that tended to promote the welfare 
of his CDmnumit}- along material, social, in- 
tellectual and moral lines. In politics he 
was a Republican and as ev^ry "^'-ue Amer- 
ican citi7en should do kept well info'^med on 
the (juestions and issues of the (hn-, but he 
ne\'er sought or desired oflice. Through- 
out the years of his manh(jod he was true 
to the principles that tend to develop an up- 
right character. Men of sterling worth 
recognized in him a kindred spirit and he 
enjoyed uniform regard by reason of his 
fidelity to Christian principles. 



EDWARD M. SMITH. 

Edward M. Smith is one of the most 
popular and widelx' known citizens of Xenia. 
For many years he stood as a defender of 
tlie rights and liberties of his fellow towns- 
men, both as a member of the police force 
and as chief of ])olice. Energetic, prompt 
and notably reliable in the discharge of his 
duty, he proved a most capable officer, win- 
ning the commendation of all law aljicling 
citizens. 

He is one of Xenia's native sons, his 
birth having occurred on the 3d of June, 
1S59, his parents ])eing .\dam L. and Sarah 
(Cano) Sniiili. The father was a native of 
I'.dinburgh. Scotland, and after ac(|uiring 
his education there learned the painter's 
trade. When he had reached the age of 
nineteen he determined to trv his fortune in 
.\merica, and crossing the Atlantic took up 
his abode in Clifton, Ohio, where he fol- 
lowed his chosen occupation for a number 
of years, after which he remoxed to .Xenia, 
where he resided until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1899. His wife passed away in 
i<)Oi. They were the parents of nine chil- 
dren. 

Cnder the parental roof the subject of 
this re\iew s|)ent the clavs of his boyhood 
and you.th, and in the common and high 
schools pursued his education. He learned 
tiie molder's trade, which he followed for 
se\'eral years, and then became a member 
of the ]iolice force of the cit\', acting in that 
capacity for fourteen years, when his faith- 
fulness and abilitv won him promotion to 
the rank of chief of police. At that time 
he was presented with a handsome gold 
star, about the size of a silver dollar and 
artistically engra\'ed with the letters "E. 
AI. S." and "Presented by the citizens of 



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Xenia. .May 20, 1898." In the center of 
the star is a large beautiful diamond, pure 
wliite. and weighing more than a caret. 
This was given to him in recognitinn of his 
faithful service as an officer and was also 
a tribute to liis personal worth and popu- 
larity from friends who had known him 
long and intimateh' and respected him for 
his sterling worth and repoiced in iiis ad- 
vancement. 

Mr. Smith was united in marriage to 
Miss Mary Crumbaugli. a daugliter of Sam- 
uel Crumbaugh, and unto them have been 
born the following children : Ferol Erma, 
Leon, Bernice. Mary and Ruth. Mr. Smith 
is a member of the Baptist churcli. his wife 
of the Methodist Episcopal cliurch, and his 
children all belong to the Presl)yterian 
church. In his political views Mr. Smith 
is a stalwart Republican and takes a deep 
interest in the growth and success of his 
party. He belongs to Xenia Lodge, Xo. 
49, E. &• -N. M. : Xenia Chapter. Xo. 36, R. 
A. M.; the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows, and the Benevolent and Protective 
Order of Elks, and is regarded as a valued 
representative of these organizations. His 
loyalty in citizenship, his fidelity to public 
duty, his reliability and his sterling worth 
make him one of the esteemed and valued 
citizens of Xenia. 



JUUCiE THO^LVS E. SCROGGY. 

As a distinguished member of the bar, 
as an honored veteran of the Civil war, and 
as a judge on the bench, Thomas E. Scrog- 
gy is so well known that he needs no intro- 
duction to the readers of this \-olume. His 



career has ever conferred honor and dig- 
nity upon the profession and civic organi- 
zations with which he has been associated, 
and there is in him a weight of character, 
a native sagacity, a far-seeing judgment and 
a fidelity of purpose that command the re- 
spect of all. 

The Judge was born in AN'arren county, 
Ohio, on the 18th of March, 1843, and is a 
son of John and Lucy ( Xorthrup) Scroggy, 
the former a native of X"ew Jersey and the 
latter of Connecticut. The father was born 
February 5, 1780, and in earlv life learned 
the miller's trade, working both as miller 
and millwright in connection with agricult- 
ural i)ursuits. Emigrating westward he 
took up his aljode in Alount Holly, Ohio, 
^vhere he opei^ated a sawmill for a number 
of years. Subsequently he removed to Can- 
bytown, Ohio, where he built a mill, con- 
ducting it for some time. He afterward be- 
came a resident of Harveys])urg. Warren 
county, and it was there that our subject 
was I)om. John Scroggy was twice mar- 
ried, and by each union had eight children, 
but none are li\ing in Cireene county with 
the exception of the Judge. The father 
died on his farm, near Harveysburg, at the 
age of seventy-seven years, and the mother 
passed away while visiting her son. Judge 
Scroggy, in Xenia, in 1872, when sixty-six 
years of age. 

In the schools of Harveysburg the Judge 
obtained his early education and when a boy 
of fourteen years Ijegan learning the car- 
riage-maker's trade. He was eighteen years 
of age when the Civil war was inaugurated. 
Aroused by a spirit of patriotism, he of- 
fered his services to the govenunent in Mav, 
1861, responding to the first call for seventh- 
five thousand volunteers. He became a 
member of Company B, Twelfth Ohio In- 




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745 



fanti"}', l>ut wheii the time came to lie mus- 
tered into the United States ser\-ice he was 
rejected on account of liis youth. There 
liaving; been forty-nine volunteers in excess 
of the quota the older and larger men were 
accepted. In July, however, he again en- 
listed and became a member of Companv H, 
Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, being mustered 
in at Camp Dennison, near Milford. The 
regiment was assigned to guard the North 
Missouri Railroad, being stationed at Mex- 
ico, Macon City and Utica, Missouri. From 
Utica the Union troops were ordered to the 
relief of Mulligan, but when within six 
miles of Le.xington that commander sur- 
rendered to Genera! Price. The Confeder- 
ates — a force of six thousand men — then 
crossed the Missouri river and the regiment 
was almost captured, but managed to escape 
and went into camp near sundown on Pros- 
pect Heights, from which point they could 
see the Confederate flag floating over Lex- 
ington, and thus knew that Colonel Mulli- 
gan had surrendered his post. About i 
o'clock at night, having been aroused by 
the rebel advance, they started io Liberty, 
where they remained until the afternoon of 
the following day. In the meantime. Gen- 
eral Sturgis sent to Kansas City for trans- 
ports, and as the Confederates were in pur- 
suit, the troops with whom Judge Scroggy 
was connectetl went from Liberty to Lib- 
erty Landing, a distance of four miles, 
which they made in double-quick time, 
throwing awav all their baggage except the 
knapsacks ami their personal belongings, 
even to the cooking utensils. Thev were met 
by transports at Liberty Landing and when 
they had proceeded up the Missouri ri\-er 
for a distance of a mile and a half, the ad- 
vance Confederate troops could be seen dis- 
tinctly at the landing. From Kansas City 

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they pToceetled to Springfield, Missouri, and 
on to Sedalia and Syracuse, guarding the 
Missouri Pacific Railroad at its western ter- 
minus. They spent the winter at the latter 
point aiiid in the spring pn.iceeded to St. Louis 
and thence to Commerce, down the Missis- 
sippi river and on to New Madrid, where 
the Judge took part in his first regular en- 
gagement. He also participated in the cap- 
ture of prisoners at Island No. lo, and from 
there went tO' Fort Pillow and on tO' Pitts- 
burg Landing by transports on the Missis- 
sippi and Tennessee rivers. Proceeding to 
Corinth witii his command he participated 
in the siege of the city and the Thirty-ninth 
Oliio was the first regiment to enter the 
works there. On to Booneville and to 
Caimp Clear Creek, from there to luka. 
Alississippi, w4iere the rebel forces under 
General Price came upon them so that the\- 
fell back to Corinth, such was their next 
move. Under General Rosecrans thev 
marched back to luka. where they met and 
defeated the Confederate forces in battle. 
Later the Thirty-ninth Ohio participated in 
the battle of Corinth, facing the desperate 
charge of the Confederates under Colonel 
Rogers of the Second Texas on Fort Robin- 
ett. Judge Scroggy participated in every 
engagement in which the Thirty-ninth Ohio, 
took part until the 4th of July, 1864, when, 
in an assault on the rebel fortifications at 
Nicojack Creek, he was shot through the 
right lung. For three months afterward he 
lay in the hospital at ]\Iarietta, Georgia, and 
then started northward, but had to remain 
for a time in the hospital at Nashville. He 
had forty-two pieces of bone taken from his 
Ijody. His brother was summoned to what 
all supposed would be the death-bed of tlie 
Judge. It was found practfcable, however, 
to remove him to his home, but for six 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



months tliereatter lie was confined to his 
l)e(l. After being able to lea\e hi>me he re- 
ceived his discharge and was mnstered out 
at Camp Dennison. 

When he had somewhat reco\ered from 
his injuries Mr. Scroggy secured a clerkship 
in a dry-goods store in his home town of 
Harveysburg. In June. 1865. he arrived in 
Xenia, where he engaged in the grocery 
business, which he conducted until January, 
1866. He then entered into partnership 
with his father-in-law in the millinery busi- 
ness and was thus engaged until 1S71. In 
the meantime he read law under the direc- 
tion of Hugh Carey and Judge C. C. Shear- 
er, then constituting the firm of Carey & 
Shearer. While a law student he was 
elected to the office of justice of the peace 
of Xenia township in 1869, and served in 
that capacity for three years. On the 8th 
of September, 1871, he was admitted to the 
bar and at once entered upon practice, since 
Avhich time he has given his attention to 
his legal work, being an active practitioner 
until 1 89 1, when he was elected judge of 
the court of common pleas. His diligence 
.and energy in the preparation of his cases, 
as well as the earnestness, tenacity and cour- 
age with which he defended the right as he 
understi)oil it. challenged the highest ad- 
miration of his associates. He invariably 
sought to present his argT.nTient in the strong, 
clear light of common reason and sound, 
Jogical principles. His record on the 
bench has been in harmony with his record 
as a man and a lawyer, his decisions being 
strictly fair and impartial, and his course 
being such as to uphold the dignity of his 
profession. He has ne\er been a politician 
in the sense of office-seeking, although he 
has served for three terms as city clerk and 
for three terms as city solicitor. 



In January. 1866, the Judge was mar- 
ried to Steela Ledbetter, a daughter of 
Robinson and Keziah Le(ll)etter. They be- 
came the parents of one son. Earl, who died 
at the age of ten months, and Mrs. Scroggy 
died December 14. 1887. On the 4th of 
February. 1892. the Judge wedded Mary 
Bloom, of Xenia. a daughter of Wendell 
and Margaret Blnom. and in this citv they 
have a very pleasant and attractive home, 
whose doors always stand hospitably open 
for the reception of their many friends. 
Fraternally the Judge is connected with 
Xenia Lodge, Xo. 49, F. & A. M. : Xenia 
Chapter. Xo. 36, R. A. M., and to the Coun- 
cil, having been identified with the order 
since 1866. He likewise belongs to the 
Grand Army Post of Xenia, of which he is 
a charter member, and of the Union \'et- 
eran Legion, and the Xenia Lodge of 
Elks, and is an honoran,- member of 
the Juni(jr Order of American Mechan- 
ics, He has traveled quite extensively in 
Euroi)e and in the United States from coast 
to coast. He has ever occupied a prominent 
position in the foremost rank of the legal 
practitioners of the Buckeye state. His life 
has been nne of untiring acti\ ity. and has 
been crowned with a high degree of success, 
yet he is not less esteemed as a citizen than 
as a lawyer, and his kindly impulses and 
charming cordiality of manner have ren- 
dered him exceedingly jxipular among all 
classes. The favorable judginent which the 
world passed upon him in his early years 
has ne\er been set aside nor in any degree 
modified. It has, on the contrary, been em- 
phasized by his careful conduct of im])ortant 
litigation, his candor and fairness in the 
presentation of cases, his zeal and earnest- 
ness as an advocate, and the generous com- 
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747 



temp(3raries, wIht unite in bearing testimimy 

as to his high character and superior 

mind. 

* » » 

WILLIA]\I HARVEY OWEXS. 

One of the residents of Cedarville, num- 
bered among the nati\e citizens of that 
place, is W'ilham Harvey Owens, whose 
birth tliere occurred on the 7th of April, 
1848. He is a son of Henry and Eleanor 
Jane (Crawford) Owens. The father was 
a native of \'irginia, born near W'incliester, 
who when a voung man came to Ohio, set- 
tling in Greene county near Cedarville, 
where he followed the blacksmith's trade 
which he had previously learned. He con- 
tinued his work in the smithy until 1859, 
when he removed to a farm in Cedarville 
township, thereon making his home until 
his death. He devoted his energies to the 
tilling of the soil and to the raising of 
stock, and his place, which was located about 
a mile and a half south of Cedarville on 
the Jamestown pike, became one of the well 
improved properties of the locality. Mr. 
Owens ser\-ed as a member of the school 
linard fur a number of years, and was a 
citizen deeply interested in the general wel- 
fare. He voted with the Republican party, 
and in his religious faith was a Methodist, 
and for a number of years served as steward 
of the church to which he belonged, 
passed away in 1900, at the advanced age 
of eighty-five years, and thus a long, use- 
ful and honorable career was ended. His 
wife passed away upon the old home farm 
seven vears -ago. She was born near Cul- 
])eper. Virginia, and both are liuried in 
Cedar\ille township. In their family were 



twelve children, seven are yet living upon 
the old home ]jlace, the subject of this re- 
view being the eldest. The others are : 
Martha, Thomas, Charles, Marietta, Calvin 
and Reid. Those who have passed away 
all died in early life. 

At the usual age William H. Owens be- 
came a student in the public schools in" 
Cedar\ille. He remained upon his father's 
farm until about twenty years of age and 
during that time assisted in the work of 
lield and meadow, but just before he at- 
tained his majority he began learning the 
blacksmith's trade in Cedarville and has 
since followed that pursuit in this town. 
He is an industrious and energetic work- 
man and his capable and honorable dealings 
have secured to him success in his under- 
takings. As a companion and helpmate 
upon life's journey Mr. Owens chose Miss 
Harriet R. Iliff, of Cedarville, a daughter 
of Wesley Iliff, who was a lime burner, but 
is now deceased. The wedding was cele- 
brated on the nth of April, 1876, and the 
marriage has been blessed with two chil- 
dren, Mabel, who was born in Cedarville 
tow^nship ; and Harry, who is now a stu- 
dent in the Cedarville College. 

Mr. Owens is identified through mem- 
bership relations with the Methodist church 
and takes a deep interest in the growth and 
de\-elopment of this denomination. Fra- 
ternally he is connected with the Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to 
the lodge in Cedarville, in which he has 
filled all the chairs. At the present time 
he is serving as one of its trustees. He 
votes with the Republican party and has 
been honored with a number of local offices. 
For three terms he has served as a member 
of the school board, for two terms was a 



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member of the village council and at the 
present time he is serving as township treas- 
urer, having filled this position for two 
years. He is well known in the commu- 
nity in which he lias always lived, having 
a wide circle of friends here. 



CHARLES F. HAGLER. 

Charles F. Hagler resides about four 
miles southeast of Xenia and is accounted 
one of the wide-awake, intelligent and pro- 
gressive farmers of Xenia township. He 
was born on the old family homestead in 
this township. July 24. 1856. his parents 
being William Leonard and Mary L. Hag- 
ler, who are represented on another page 
of this work. Xo event of s])ecial import- 
ance occurred to vary the routine of farm 
life for him in his boyhood and youth. He 
performed the duties of the school room, 
enjoyed the pleasures of the play ground 
and assisted in the work of field and mead- 
ow. He remained at home until thirty-two 
years of age, but prior to this time he op- 
erated rented land, and in partnership with 
his brother, Moses A. Hagler, he ])urchased 
one hundred acres and afterward an addi- 
tional tract of one hundred and eighteen 
acres. Eventually they dissolved ])artner- 
ship. our subject taking the last tract i)ur- 
chased. 

On the jth of .\pril, 1887. Mr. Hagler 
chose as a companion and helpmate on lifes 
journey Miss Jennie Crawford, a daughter 
of Robert and Jane (Cherry) Crawford. 
Her father was born in Comity Tyrone, 
Ireland, and was a son of James and .\ancy 
(Harper) Crawford, the t\)rmer also a na- 



tive of the northern section of the Emer- 
ald Isle, while the mother was of Scotch 
lineage. They had sailed from L<m- 
donderry in an old man of war called 
John Bushman and commanded by Captain 
Ward. After a voyage of five weeks, two 
of which were spent upon a sandbar off the 
coast of England, they arrived at Phila- 
delphia, and from there made an overland 
trip with a wagon and six horses to Pitts- 
burg, proceeding thence down the Ohio 
river by lx)at to Cincinnati and by wagon 
across the state to Xenia. In the family 
were six children, but only two are now 
living. Alexander and Harper, who arc resi- 
dents of Xenia. Robert Crawford, the fi- 
ther of Mrs. Hagler. died January 30, I^02^ 
at the age of seventy years, and his wife 
passed away Xovember 30. 1891. at the 
age of seventy-two years, the remains of 
both being interred in Xenia cemetery. In 
their family were five children : Elizabeth, 
whf) resides in Washington. Ohio: James 
.\ndrew. also a resident of Washington ; 
Mrs. Hagler: Delia, the wife of J. H. 
Lackey, of Jamestown : and Emma, who 
died April 25, 1873, at the age of fifteen 
years. The parents were both members of 
the I'nited Presbyterian church, and Mr. 
Crawford was a stanch Republican and held 
the office of township trustee for a number 
of years. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Hagler was 
blessed with four children, but two of the 
number died in infancy. Those still living 
are Mary Jane and Charles Crawford. 
After their marriage they removed to their 
present home, and Mr. Hagler has made 
many substantial ini])rovenients which ad<l 
to the value and attractive appearance of the 
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749 



publican. I)ut has never 1)een an aspirant for 
office. Botli he and his wife are members 
of the F"irst United Presbyterian church of 
Xenia, and tliroughout tlie community they 
have a wide acquaintance, ha\ing long re- 
sided here. 



JOHN D. COLLINS. 

John D. Collins, of Sugarcreek town- 
ship, was born in \\ arren county, Ohio. 
December 3, 1863. and is a son of James 
W. and Martha ( \\hittington ) Collins. 
His paternal grandfather. Henry Collins, 
was the first of the family to come to Ohio 
and located upon the farm where Miami 
City, a suburb of Dayton, now stands. This 
was a few years before the Civil war. and 
soon after the John Brown raid James W. 
Collins also arrived in Ohio, remaining for 
a time in Dayton, after which he removed 
to Warren countv. He was born near 
Charleston, West Virginia, as was the 
mother of our subject, his natal day being 
in October, 183 1. Their marriage was 
celebrated in West Virginia and thence they 
came to Ohio. The father remained in 
Warren county until our subject was about 
thirteen years of age. when with his family 
lie removed to Centerville. He always 
rented land, but is now living retired in the 
•city of Dayton. His wife passed away 
when our subject was about eighteen years 
■of age. Tn their family were seven chil- 
dren, namely: Richard H.. who married 
Margaret Allen and died in Centerville: 
Anna, a resident of Dayton; Franklin L.. 
Avho married Florence Troen and resides in 
Montgomery county with his wife and two 
•children; John D. : Charles, of Dayton, who 
married Isaphine Schank and resides in 



Dayton; Harry C. who wedded Caroline 
Worth, by whom he has one child and also 
makes his home in Dayton ; and Eden S., a 
resident of the same citv. 

In the jjublic schools John D. Collins be- 
came familiar with the branches of English 
learning which fit one for life's practical 
duties. About the time of his mother's 
death he started out in life on his own ac- 
count, and for seven years he engaged in 
cultivating land on shares, making a spe- 
cialty of the raising of tobacco. This he 
followed in Montgomery and Warren 
counties. 

On the 7th of June. 1888, Mr. Collins 
was united in marriage, on the farm on 
which he now resides, to Miss Alice J. 
Owens, who was born near Greencastle, 
Indiana. Decemljer 4. 1867. a daughter of 
Ira S. and Malinda (Middleton) Owens. 
She was only about two years of age when 
her mother died, and afterward her father 
returned from Indiana to Ohio, going to 
the home of his mother in Yellow Springs. 
Mrs. Collins then lived with her grand- 
mother until her father married again. 
After the marriage of our subject he Ijegan 
cropping and raising tobacco in different 
places until he rented the farm upon which 
he now resides. In i8gi he purchased this 
pro]5erty. at first becoming owner of forty 
acres, while later he added to it a tract of 
thirty acres. He has succeeded in his un- 
dertakings, for he had no inheritance or in- 
iluence to aid him, but has had to depend 
entirely upon his own resources. He has 
three children : Harry Everett, born May 
8, 1892; Bessie O.. born December 23. 
1S95; and Hazel C, born March 30. 1897. 
All were born in the house which is yet their 
home. 



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Since casting his lirst presidential vote 
for Benjamin Harrison in 1888 Mr. Collins 
has been a stalwart Republican. He and 
his wife hold membership in the United 
Brethren church at Beavertown and are 
people of the highest respectability who en- 
joy the warm regard of all with whom they 
have come in contact. I'raternallv he is 
connected with Oregon Lodge, Xo. 351, K. 
P., of Dayton. His life has been quietly 
passed in the faithful jierformance of the 
duties which have devolved upon him in 
connection with his business interests. 



JOHN LEAMAN. 

John Leaman scarcely needs an intro- 
duction to the readers of this volume, for 
through a long period he was numbered 
among the most ])rominent and progressive 
merchants of Xenia, and although eleven 
years have passed since he was called from 
the scene of earthly activities he is yet re- 
membered for what he accomplished in be- 
half of the city along lines of progress, de- 
velopment and improvement. 

.\ native of Lancaster, rcnnsylvania, 
Mr. Leaman was born on the 26th of Au- 
gu.st, 1815, being the eldest of the six chil- 
dren of Peter and Margaret (Shingle) Lea- 
man. The parents were married in the year 
1811 and the father engaged in the manu- 
facture of pottery in the Keystone state. 
Coming to Greene county, he was a resident 
of this section of the state for five years 
and was then called to liis final rest. In 
the place of his nativity John Leaman. of 
this review, acquireil his education, and in 
the year 1836 he arrived in Greene county, 



being at that time twenty-one years ot 
age. Soon afterward he became a factor 
in mercantile circles of Xenia, entering intc^ 
partnership with John Hivling. They es- 
lablisiied their store on the present site of 
the Xenia X'ational Bank, and there for 
many years Mr. Leaman carried on l)usi- 
ness; having a large and complete slock, 
his store was one of the best in the city 
and he received a \ery liberal patronage, 
which came to him in recognition of his 
reasonable prices and honorable dealing. 

On March 26. 1845, Mr. Leaman was 
united in marriage to Miss Joanna Gowily 
Hi\iing, a daughter of his fomier partner. 
The lady was lx)m July 22, 181 5. and 
was one of a family of ele\-en daugh- 
ters and two sons. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
Leaman ha\e 1>een ,lx>rn two children. 
Martha J. was married October 21. 1869. 
to Dr. Samuel AL Kelso, who was one 
of a family of twelve children born unto 
Benjamin Kelso, of Xoblestown, I'ennsyl- 
vania. Mr. and Mrs. Kelso had si.\ children, 
three sons and three daughters, four of 
whom are still living. Sohpia was killed by 
tiie cars when twenty years old, after hav- 
ing graduated at the high school, and was 
one of Xenia's cultured young ladies, and 
Lytle died at the age of two years. Those 
living are Sara, wife of Rev. E. G. Bailey, 
of Belle Center, Ohio; J. Leaman, of Xenia: 
Charles M., of Dayton; and Joanna, at 
Jionic. Dr. and Mrs. Kelso, together with 
their family, are members of the hirst 
United Presbyterian church. They resitle 
with Mrs. Leaman, and the Doctor is one 
of Xenia's intluential and leading citizens. 
In ])o!itics he is a Republican and stanchly 
ad\-ocates the ])rincii)les of the party, but 
has never sought or desired office. Sally, 



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the }■! >uni^"ei" daughter of Mrs. Leaman, is 
now the wife of Rev. A. S. Zerbe, D. D., 
who is a professor in the Heidelberg Uni- 
\ersity of Tiffin, Ohio. 

Mr. Leaman exercised his right of fran- 
chise in support of the men and measures 
of the Republican party and was a sup- 
porter of the Reformed church, with which 
hi.s wife is identified. He was a director of 
the Woodland cemetery, and for forty-one 
years ser\-ed as its treasurer. He also lie- 
longed to the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and largely assisted in the uplniild- 
ing of Xenia along many lines of develop- 
ment and substantial improvement. His co- 
operation was ne\-er sought in vain in sup- 
port of any movement or measure for the 
general good. For more than a half cen- 
tury he continued his residence in Xenia and 
belonged to that class of typical American 
citizens who. while advancing indi\-idual 
success, also contribute to the general prog- 
ress. His life record was characterized by 
many sterling qualities that constitute an 
upright manhood, and he thus enjoyed uni- 
form confidence and good will of those with 
whom he was associated. He passed away 
on the 1 6th of October, 1891, at the age 
of sevent\--six years. His widow^ still sur- 
vives him and is yet li\ing at their pleasant 
home. She is a well preser\-ed lady for 
one of her years, for she has passed the 
eighty-sex'enth milestone on life's journe)-. 



ALBERT ANKENEY. 

Albert Ankeney is a well known factor 
in agricultural and church circles in Beaver- 
creek ti)\vnshi]) and his influence in each is 



marked and beneficial. He was born in 
Bea\ercreek townsliip December 15, 1846. 
His father. Samuel Ankenev, was a native 
of Maryland, his birth having occurred near 
Hagerstown, his parents being David and 
Elizabeth Ankeney, both of whom were na- 
tives of Washington county, Maryland, 
where they were reared and married. In 
the _\ear 1830 they emigrated westward, lo- 
cating near South Charleston, Ohio, and in 
August of that year the grandfather pur- 
chased a farm of about two hundred and 
ten acres near Alpha, which our subject now 
owns and on which he resides. When it 
came into his possession a log house con- 
stituted the only building, and almost the 
entire tract was covered with a dense 
growth of forest trees. David Ankeney 
was only permitted to enioy his new home 
for a very short time, as he was called to 
his final rest on the 2d of Xovember, 1830. 
He died in his chair while at the supper 
table, suffering from a paralytic stroke. He 
was then forty-two years of age and his 
wife passed away December 23, 1852. at 
the age of si.xty-two years. 

In their family w'ere ten children, includ- 
ing Samuel .\nkeney, who accompanied his 
])arents to the west and was married in 
Greene county to Miss Margaret Gettard, 
whose birth occurred in Warren county, 
Ohio. Thev began their domestic life 
in a log cabin, but eventually built the 
brick house in which their son Horace 
is now living. Throughout his entire 
business career the father carried on ag- 
ricultural pursuits and his unflagging in- 
dustry and perseverance were the means of 
bringing to him creditable and desirable 
success. Both he and his wife were mem- 
bers of the Reformed church, took an active 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



interest in its work and Mr. Ankeney served 
as an elder. His political views in early life 
were in accord with the principles of the 
Whi,£j party and later he joined the ranks 
of the Republican party. His death oc- 
curred in 1867. when he was fifty-nine years 
of age. but his wife long- survived him. i)as.s- 
ing away in 1898. at the age of eighty-five. 
Both were buried in the Beaver cemetery. 
In their family were four children: Mrs. 
J'lan Trebein: i^lizabcth. the wife of Rev. 
W. (i. Morehead. D. D.. of Xenia: Albert, 
of this review ; and Horace, who is a resi- 
dent nf Greene county and is representing 
his district in the state legislature. 

.\t the usual age Albert Ankeney began 
his education, attending the district schools 
of the township, but later his i)reliminary 
mental training was suiiplemented by a 
course of study in the Miami Uni\ersity. at 
Oxford, Ohio, where on the co;ni)lction of 
a classical course he was graduated in 
1868 with the degree of A. B. He then 
returned home and has since been a promi- 
nent and worthy representative of agricult- 
ural interests in this county. He follows 
general farming and stock-raising, making 
a s]>ecialty of short horn cattle. 

On the 5th of November. 1868. Mr. 
Ankeney was married to Miss .Mice Stod- 
dard, a native of Butler county, Ohio, her 
parents being Professor O. \. and Eliza 
(Wheeler) Stoddard. I5otb are now de- 
ceased and were buried at W'ooster. Ohio. 
The marriage of our subject and his wife 
has been blessed with eight children, four 
S(jns and four daughters, but three of the 
number are now deceased. Those still liv- 
ing are Mary B., the wife of Dr. J. L. 
riiythian. of Newport. Kentucky; Horace 
]VIcLain, who married Myrtle Sayre. and 



since her death has made his home with 
his parents: Helen, Josephine and .\lbert 
Stoddard, who are still under the ])arental 
roof. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Ankeney are mem- 
bers of the Reformed church and Mr. .\n- 
keney is serving as one of the elders in the 
congregation with which he is identified. 
He withholds his sujjport from no move- 
ment or measure wliich is calculated to 
prove of general good along any lines of 
progress. He is a generous friend and 
warm advocate of those who are battling 
for the right and of principles and policies 
for the public good. He is recognized by 
those who know him as a man of most 
kindly heart, of sterling worth and honor, 
and pure and incorruptible in all his busi- 
ness and social relations. 



WILSON CO^H'TON. 

Wilson Comiiton is now a retired farmer 
residing in Sjiring Valley and well does he 
deserve and merit the rest which he is en- 
joying. He was Ixjrn about a mile and a 
(juarter northeast of the village on the 7th 
of September. 1841. his parents being 
Henry and Catherine ( M(Kk) Compton. 
The father was a native of North Carolina, 
and was seven years of age when he came 
to (ircenc county with his jiarents. Stephen 
antl Dina (Millhouse) Compton. They 
journeyed there with wagons, crossing the 
mountains which at times were so high that 
though the sunshine was bright in the 
hea\ens they could sometimes see rain fall- 
ing below them because they were above 
the clouds, and thev could also see the 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



753 



lightning and hear tlie thunder. The grand- 
fatlier settled near where now stands the 
mill at Xew Burlington, and it was upon 
the farm there that Henry Compton grew 
to manhood. In his youth he obtained a 
good English education in the common 
schools and later followed farming. For 
his own convenience he also worked in both 
wood and iron, having much natural me- 
chanical ingenuity. He was twice married, 
his tiist union being with Mary Harner, by 
whom he had three children, all of whom 
reached mature years, were married and 
had families of their own. but Martin Comp- 
ton. of Earlham, Iowa, is the only one now 
living. By the second marriage there were 
four children, namelv: Eljer. who died in 
Spring Valley township; Amos M., who 
resides near the Richland church; and 
Cynthia, the widow of James Daugherty 
and a resident of Xenia. For some years 
after his marriage Henry Compton resided 
upon his father's land and then purchased 
one hundred acres, to which he afterward 
added until he owned more than two hun- 
dred acres in the homestead. He owned in 
all about four huntlred and seventy-five 
acres in Greene county and six hundred 
acres in Fayette count}', Ohio. His first 
tract was in the midst of the forest and was 
covered with a dense growth of trees, but 
he cleared and improved the land and trans- 
formed it into a good farm, thereon spend- 
ing his remaining days. He passed away 
in iS8o. and the mother of our subject died 
about ten years later. His political sup- 
port was given to the Whig party, and upon 
its dissolution he joined the ranks of the 
new Republican party, but was never an 
■office seeker, although ever a loyal and pro- 
gressive citizen. He was a birthright mem- 



ber of the Society of Friends, and at one 
time his wife belonged to the Methodist 
Episcopal church. 

Under the parental roof Wilson Comp- 
ton was reared to manhood and in the 
schools of the neighborhood acc|uired his 
education. He was married, January lo, 
1867, to Miss Rachel A. Gaddis, who was 
born near Harveysburg, Clinton county. 
Ohio, her parents being Allen and Ann 
(Mershon) Gaddis. the former a native of 
Fayette county. Pennsylvania, and the lat- 
ter of Kentucky. With their respective par- 
ents they arrived in Ohio in childhood and 
were married in Kenton. They were both 
of the Baptist faith and enjoyed the high 
regard of all with whom the_\- came in con- 
tact. Mrs. Compton was reared to woman- 
hood in Clinton county, and there acquired 
her education. By her marriage she has 
become the mother of two children. Rosa 
G., the elder, married F. B. Smith, of 
Spring ^/alley. and has one daughter, 
Rachel Smith, who was born in Spring Val- 
ley July 27, 1893. Birdie, the younger 
daughter, is still at home. 

Mr. Compton inherited the old home- 
stead of two hundred and two acres and 
made that his home for some years. Man}' 
improvements he placed upon it, and his 
labors resulted in securing excellent har- 
vests. He also increased the boundaries of 
the farm by adding to it a tract of thirty- 
five acres. For many years he continued an 
active factor in agricultural circles, but is 
now living a retired life. In 1889 he pur- 
chased his present home. Oakhill, where he 
has made many improvements and has a 
very fine residence. Upon the place are 
two fish- ponds, which he has stocked with 
fish, one with carp and the other with bass. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Ill his political views Mr. Conipton is a Re- 
publican and cast his first presidential vote 
for Lincoln in 18O4. In 1890 he served as 
real estate appraiser in Spring Valley town- 
shij). but has never been an office seeker. 
His life has been characterized by principles 
of upright manhood, and throughout the 
county of his nativity he has a wide ac- 
quaintance and many warm friends, who 
esteeiu him highly for his genuine worth. 



EBEXEZER C. FLEMING. 

If the history of this gentleman was to 
be read only by those personally acquainted 
with him it would be unnecessary to speak 
of his character, but in a volume which is 
to descend to future generations it is but 
just to give an account of not only his work, 
but of the salient features o^ an ui)rigln 
manhood. He made many friends by his 
straightforward conduct, his kindliness of 
heart and his interest in e\ery gootl word 
and work, and it was for this reason that 
when the news of his death spread through 
Xenia it was met with expressions of re- 
gret from all with whom he had ci»me in 
contact. To know Ebenezer C. Fleming 
was to honor and respect him. He had a 
very wide acquaintance, not only in (ireene. 
but in adjoining counties as well, and was 
widely recognized as one of the leading 
merchants of this portion of Ohio. He 
achieved success in business, but his claim 
to respect is based upon the enduring qual- 
ities of character and the manner in which 
he adhered to an honorable career from the 
time of his settlement here until he was 
laid to rest. 



Mr. Fleming passed away on the sixty- 
sixth anni\ersar\' of his birth. He first 
opened his eyes to the light of day on the 
2 1st of February. 1S36, in Westmoreland 
county. Pennsylvania. He was one of a 
family of si.x children, whose parents were 
]Mr. and Mrs. ilathew Fleming. In his 
early youth he accompanied his mother and 
father to Carlisle, Ohio, where he acquired 
his early education, afterward supplemented 
by study in Lebanon. Ohio. When he had 
com])letefl his education he engagetl in 
teaching for a time. Three times he at- 
tempted to enter the Union army during 
the Civil war. but was rejected each time 
upon examination. His loyalty, however, 
was manifest, not only by these attempts to 
enlist, but also l)y every effort which he 
could make in behalf of the Union at home. 
In the fall of 1861 he engaged in the drug 
business at Franklin, and in the fall of 1863 
he established a drug store in Xenia, where 
his active connection with mercantile inter- 
ests continued until 1902. covering a longer 
consecutive period than, that of any other 
merchant of the city. .\s a business man 
he was more than ordinarily successful, and 
left to his family a fine estate. 

Mr. Fleming was twice married. He 
first wedded Miss Rachel Cory, the mar- 
riage being celebrated on the i6th of April. 
1863. Unto them were born the following 
children : • M. C. Fleming, an attorney of 
Xcw York : and ^Irs. L. H. Brundage, of 
Xenia. In 1897 Mr. Fleming was called 
upon to mourn the loss of his wife, and 
later he married Mrs. Georgia Bigger. This 
ceremony took place on the 7th of Decem- 
ber, 1 90 1. The lady is the only living child 
of .\mos B. Kingsbury, of Monm()Uth. Illi- 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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\erni(int. and tlie father was a contr;ictor 
and hnilder. He is now living with Mrs. 
Fleming, who is the only survivor of his 
six children. 

Mr. Fleming was identified with the 
Presbyterian church and was widely known 
as a conscientious Christian man. During 
his business career in the city of Xenia his 
lionesty was never (|uestioned or liis busi- 
ness methods called into account. He was 
a man universally respected and his death 
came as a shock to the entire community as 
well as to his beloved wife. He passed 
away on the 21st of February, 190J, and 
two days later the funeral services were held 
at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. L. H. 
Brundage. A large concourse of people in- 
dicated in what a high degree of respect he 
was held. He possessed in imusual meas- 
ure those traits of character which make 
one popular with both young and okl. He 
was affable, generous and high minded, and 
no man could point to an unworthy act in 
his life. He was conscientious and his 
whole career was shaped l)y lofty ])rinciples. 



D.VVID .\XKEXEY. 

Da\id .\nkeney, now deceased, was a 
self-made man, who through resolute pur- 
pose and untiring industry became the 
owner of a fine farm. He was born in this 
county upon the farm now owned b\' Albert 
Ankeney. near Alpha. Ohio, his natal day 
being June 8, 183 1. His parents were 
David and Elizabeth Ankeney, both of 
wliom were natives of Washington coun- 
ty, Maryland, where they were reared and 
married. In the year 1830 they emigrated 
westward, locatino- near South Charleston, 



Ohii). and in August of that year the grand- 
father purchased a farm of about two hun- 
flred and ten acres near Alpha, upon which 
Albert Ankeney now resides, paying nine 
hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-six 
cents for the property. Upon this place he 
and his wife spent their remaining days. 
When it came into his possession a small log 
house constituted the only building and al- 
most the entire tract was covered with a 
dense growth of forest trees. David An- 
keney was only permitted to enjoy his new 
home for a verv short time, as he was 
called to his final rest on the 2d of Xo- 
vember, 1830. He died in his chair while 
at the supper table, suffering from a para- 
lytic stroke. He was then forty-two years 
of age. His wife passed away December 
23, 1 85 1, at the age of si.xty-two years. In 
their family were ten children, including 
David Ankeney. 

Our subject was educated in the com- 
mon schools of P)ea\ercreek township and 
remained at home until his marriage, which 
was celebrated on the 22d of August. 1852, 
the lady of his choice being Elizabeth Var- 
ner, a daughter of John A'arner, a repre- 
sentative of an old pioneer family of this 
county, who came to this count;- from 
Washington county, Maryland. Her par- 
ents died during her early girlhood. She 
was born and reared in this county and 
after her marriage accompanied her hus- 
band to the farm which is now occupied by 
Daniel Oberholser. There they lived for 
about twenty years. Mr. Ankeney pur- 
chased two hundred and ten acres of land, 
where his widow now resides, the greater 
part of which was then covered with a 
dense growth of forest trees, but in the 
course of time the monarch of the forest 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



fell before his sturdy strokes and ihe land 
■was cultivated and improved. He also 
added to his property from time to time un- 
til at his death his landed possessions com- 
prised about six hundred acres. I'nto our 
subject and his wife were horn two chil- 
dren. Alice Elizabeth l^came the wife of 
Lawrence F. Beck and lives with lier moth- 
•er. She has two children. Fnmklin and 
Charles. Edward H.. who makes !iis home 
west of Alpha, where he carries on farm- 
ing, married Rosa .Ashbaugh. and they have 
one child. Lena. 

Mr. Ankeney died June 13, 1H98, and 
Avas buried at Woodland cemetery. Xenia. 
He gave his political .support to the Repub- 
lican party from the time that John C. Fre- 
niunt was its first jjresidential candidate un- 
til his death. He took an active part in pnli- 
lic affairs, served as trustee of his township, 
and also as the clerk of the school board. 
During the last few years of his life he 
lived retired in the enjoyment of a well 
earned rest. He had started out in life on 
his own account as a poor man. but he be- 
came a well-to-do citizen, prospered in his 
undertakings, and gained an excellent com- 
petence and also an untarnished name. He 
left to his family a fine home and a well im- 
proved farm. He was honest and upright 
In all his dealings, reliable in all transac- 
tions, was faithful in friendship and a de- 
■voted husband and father. 



HARLEY \V. OWEXS. A. M. 

The true measure of success is deter- 
mined by what one has accomplished and. 
as taken in contradistinction to the old ad- 
age, that "a prophet is not without honor. 



save in his own country." there is partic- 
ular interest attaching to the career of the 
.subject of this review, since he is a native 
son of the county where he has passed his 
entire life, and so directed his ability and 
energ}- as to gain recognition as one of the 
re])resentative citizens of Xenia. He is ac- 
tivelv connected with lines of industrial ac- 
tivity, having important bearing ujx>n the 
improvement and stable prosperity of the 
community. His }X)pularity in business cir- 
cles is well deserved as in him are embraced 
never flags. He is also public-spirited and 
tlie characteristics of an unbending integ- 
rity. unal)ating energy and industry that 
thoroughlv interested in whatever tends to 
promote the moral, intellectual and mate- 
rial welfare of the city. 

Mr. Owens was born March 1, 1858. in 
Xenia township, the home place bordering 
the Wilmington pike. He is a grandson of 
Thomas C. Owens, who bore a \ery prom- 
inent part in the pioneer work of this 
county, filling many public offices in a most 
creditable manner, and also conducting his 
private business affairs in a way that addetl 
to the general advancement and prosperity 
of this portion of the state. He came to 
Ohio from Virginia and located near Union 
church, in Greene county. For many years 
he filled the office of county surveyor and 
for a long time was county recorder and 
countv auditor. The trust rejKJsed in him 
was never betrayed in the slightest degree 
and he proved a most reliable public serv- 
ant. A devout and active member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, he was en- 
gaged in local ministerial work, and did 
everything in his power to promote the 
cause of Christianity and secure its adop- 
tion in this locality. He was widely known 
throughout the county, with whose history 




H. W. OWENS. 



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759' 



he was so closely identified and well does 
he deserve mention among the honored 
pioneers. 

His eldest son. Alfred H. Owens, was 
born May 31, 1835, in Greene count)-, near 
Xenia, and reared upon the old home farm. 
He continued to engage in agricultural pur- 
suits for a few years after attaining his ma- 
jority. He then began contracting and 
building, making his headquarters in Xenia, 
and for about twenty years continued his 
connection with mechanical work. He be- 
Icnged to the First Methodist Episcopal 
church of this city, and his character and 
ability were appreciated to such a degree by 
his fellow townsmen that the_\- bestowed 
upon him various official positions in the 
township. He wedded Aliss Alary J. Eichel- 
berger, who was born in Germantown, 
Ohio, January 10. 1839, the only daugh- 
ter of Henry and Sarah Eichelberger. This 
worthy couple became the parents of seven 
children : Harley W. of this review ; Charles 
S., born May 12, 1861 ; Thomas C., born 
July 24, 1864: Laura B., born February 2j. 
1867: Pearl E., born March 8, 1872; Ralph 
A., born August 4, 1876: antl Maud E., 
born June 16, 1879. The father continued 
liusiness as a contractor and builder up to 
the time of his death and was very success- 
ful in his undertakings. For many years he 
was assistant county surveyor and was also 
road superintendent for many years. He 
passed away October 10, 1879, and his wife 
died on the 13th of March, 1883. 

After acquiring his preliminary educa- 
tion in the schools of the neighborhood Har- 
ley W. Owens of this review continued his 
studies in Xenia College, in which he won 
the degree of Master of Arts, in 1876. 
After leaving the school room he engaged 
with his father in contracting and after his 



death, in 1879, continued tiie Inisiness al(jne. 
He has greatly extended the field of his op- 
erations, and now does the largest business 
in contracting in the county. He has taken 
and executed contracts for many of the 
mijst important ^structures erected in the 
county in recent years, and fine buildings 
stand as monuments to his enterprise and 
thrift. He has shops and yards at No. ^;^t, 
South Detroit street, where he makes a 
specialty of plans and specifications. He 
has erected numerous buildings in and 
around Xenia, and it was under his super- 
vision that the Allen block was built. His 
wood-working shop is splendidly equipped 
with the latest improx'ed machinerv for turn- 
ing out high-grade work and he employs 
fifteen men in the mill, turning out a busi- 
ness annually that amounts to fifty thousand 
dollars. 

At the home of the bride, near Xenia, 
on the i6th of June, 1880, Mr. Owens was 
united in marriage to Miss Anna L. Saylor, 
a daughter of John S. and Isabella Saylor, 
who in early girlhood was brought to this 
place, where she grew to maturity, obtained 
an excellent education and has won many 
friends by her graces and virtues. Unto 
Mr. and Mrs. Owens h^ve been born se\'en 
daughters and a son, as follows : Lorena 
May, born May 3, 1881 ; Lulu Jane, January 
31, 1883 ; Ida Mabel. August 9, 1885 : Hazel 
Kirke, November 11. 18S7; Harold Plun- 
ger, November 19, 1890; Marguerite Al- 
len. February 2^, 1894; Isabel Ruth, No- 
\'ember 2^, 1896; and Janice Helen, March 
12, 1901. 

In 1 901 Mr. Owens served as land ap- 
praiser of three of the city wards of Xenia. 
and in 1902 he was made the candidate of 
the Republican party, with which he has al- 
ways affiliated, for the office of director of 



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tlie cciunty intirniary. He thoroughly en- 
joys lionie life and takes great pleasure in 
the S(x:iety of his family and friends. He 
is always courteous, kindly and affable and 
those who know him entertain for him high 
regard. .\ man of great natural ability, his 
success in business has been uniform and 
rapid. He has persevered in the pursuit of 
.a persistent purpose and has gained the 
most satisfactory reward. 



ISAIAH MASON. 



The ])leasant home of Isaiah Mason is 
situated one mile southeast of Paintersville 
in Caesarscreek township, Greene county, 
Ohio. He is one of the native sons of this 
county, his birth having occurred July 7. 
1856. His parents were Gideon and Han- 
nah ( Mullen) Mason. The father was 
horn near Flushing, Belmont county. Ohio, 
and was a son of John and Mary (Bivens) 
Mason. The Mason family is of Scotch- 
Irish extraction. The grandfather was a 
captain in the war of 181 2. With his wife 
he removed from Winchester, Virginia, 
where they were married, to Belmont coun- 
ty, Ohio, where they resided until 1840, 
when they came to Caesarscreek township, 
Greene county. They were the parents of 
eight children : Owen and Stacey. both de- 
ceased ; David, who lives in \\'arren coun- 
ty, Ohio, at the age of eighty years : Lydia. 
wdio became Mrs. Jacob Ellis, but is now 
deceased; Gideon, the father of our sub- 
ject, but who has passed away ; Catherine, 
who married Eli.sha Beal ; John B. ; and 
Susan, who married Jacob Seamans and re- 
sides at Wilmington, Ohio. The father of 



this family died in li^/f), at the ripe old 
age of eighty years. For many years he 
served as justice of the i)eace and was fa- 
miliarly known as Squire Mason. His wife 
passed away in 1877, at the age of eighty 
years. 

Gideon Mason, the father of our subject, 
was born and reared in Belmont county, 
Ohio, remaining at home until about three 
years prior to his marriage, when he went 
to Paintersville and made his home with 
his sister. After his marriage he turned his 
attention to farming upon the land that now 
constitutes the farm of his son Isaiah. 
Throughout his remaining days he was 
identihed with agricultural interests and 
thongh he started out in life for himself 
a poor boy he steadily worketl his way up- 
ward, and the years have witnessed his ac- 
cumulation of a comfortable competence. 
He became the owner of about four hun- 
dred acres of tine farm land. His political 
support was given the Democracy, and for 
ten or more years he served as trustee of 
his township. As a citizen he was loyal to 
every interest for the public good. In busi- 
ness he sustained an unassailable reputation 
for reliability, and in his home was known 
as a kind and considerate husband and fa- 
ther. He married Hannah Mullen, a daugh- 
ter of James and PlKtbe (Ellis) Mullen. 
Her father was born in Paintersville about 
181 1, and when a boy of tweKe years be- 
gan learning the blacksmith's trade under 
the direction of James Painter, the founder 
of the village that bears his name. For a 
few years thereafter Mr. Mullen carried on 
blacksmithing, aiul then turned his atten- 
tion to merchandising, establishing a gro- 
cerv st<ire winch he conducted for some 
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twenty-live yeai's or until a short time prior 
to his death. In his family were eight chil- 
dren : Hannah, the mother of our suhject; 
Mary, now Mrs. Conklin, who resides at 
Port William. Ohio; Isaiah, who is at the 
Soldiers Home at Dayton, Ohio ; Eliza, who 
became Mrs. Ary; James, a resident of 
Alpha, Ohio; one who died in infancy; 
Henry, who lives in Ohio; and Ella, now 
Mrs. Reard. The father died in 1875 ^"'^ 
his wife passed away in 1892, when she 
was laid by his side in the New Hope cem- 
etery. His political support had been given 
the Democracy and he did all in his power 
to promote the growth and insure the suc- 
cess of his part)-. Fourteen children came 
to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mason, 
of whom eleven reached years of maturity. 
They are : Catherine, who married Will- 
iam DeVoe and lives in Jefferson township ; 
David O., a resident of Jefferson township, 
Greene county ; Burrell ; Isaiah : Stacey. who 
lives in Clinton county, Ohio; Phcebe. the 
wife of Charley Armentrout and resides in 
Caesarscreek township; Mary, now de- 
ceased ; Ella, the wife of Stephen Powers 
and makes her home in Jefferson township; 
Gideon, who resides in Columbus, Ohio; 
Fannie, the wife of Lucian Powers, a resi- 
dent of Clinton county, Ohio; Samuel, now 
deceased ; and Laura, the wife of Joseph 
\Vood, of Xenia, Ohio. The other two 
children died in infancy. Gideon Mason 
was called to his final rest in 1892, at the 
age of sixty-three years, and his wife died 
in the same }-ear at the age of si.\ty-one, 
their biuMal place l)eing the cemeter}- in 
Port William. 

Isaiah Mason remained with his parents 
until their deaths, and in the common 
schools near his home he pursued those 



branches of learning usually taught in such 
institutions. He was married in 1883 to 
Miss Elizabeth DeVoe, a native of Jeft'er- 
son township and a daughter of David and 
Mary DeVoe, the former now deceased and 
the latter a resident of Paintersville. Five 
children grace the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Mason : Bertha, Charles, James, Russell 
and Cleophas, all of whom are yet under 
the parental roof. 

The home farm is located upon a rich 
tract of land of one hundred and forty- 
three acres, and the green fields of summer 
give promise of golden harvests in the 
autumn. Mr. Mason has erected a new 
house, a good ban; and has fenced his place. 
He uses the latest improved machinery in 
tlie cultix'ation of his land and his methods 
are progressive and practical, showing that 
his work has been the means of bringing to 
him satisfactory success. He carries on 
both farming and stock raising and his life 
history ])roves how potent are enterprise, 
capable management and unfiagging indus- 
try ill the business affairs of life. His wife 
is a member of the Methodist Protestant 
church and both are held in warm regard. 



HORACE L. SMITH, B. A., LL. B. 

Horace L. Smith, well known in connec- 
tion with the Greene county bar, was. born 
in Loganville, Logan county, Ohio, on the 
28th of August, 1853. His father, Clinton 
Smith, was of English ancestry and was 
born in Dublin, Franklin county, Ohio. Pre- 
paring for the practice of medicine, he de- 
voted liis entire life ti) the noble work of 
alleviating human suffering. He wedded 



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Mary Davidson, who was of Irish ancestry 
and was Ijorn in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania. 
In 1855 the parents renK)ved with their fam- 
ily to Bl(jomingburg, Fayette county, Oliio. 
In their family were three children : Dr. 
Homer Smith of \\'esterville, Ohio; Dr. Eva 
Smith, of Middletown, Ohio; and Horace 
L., of this review. The father passed away 
November 9, 1879, but the mother is still 
living. 

Horace Lee Smith began his education 
in the C()mmon schools and later attended 
the Bloomingburg Academy. He next ma- 
triculated in the W'ooster Uni\ersity of 
W'ooster. Ohio, where he was graduated in 
June, 1872, with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. With a good literary education to 
serve as a foundation upon which t(j rear 
the superstructure of professional learning, 
he took up the study of law in the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, and was graduated in 
March, 1875. ^^'t'l the degree of LL. B. In 
April of that year he was admitted to prac- 
tice by the supreme court of Ohio and estab- 
lished an oftice in Xenia. where he was not 
long in securing a large and growing client- 
age. He remained a practitioner at the bar 
until Fdiruary. 1889. In Xovemljer of the 
preceding year he had been elected judge of 
the court of common pleas of the third sub- 
division of the second judicial district of 
Ohio and in the succeeding February, took 
his place upon the liench to serve for a term 
of fi\e years. The public confidence in his 
ability was manifest by re-election in No- 
vember, 1893, and he remained ujion the 
bench until the 9th of February, 1899. when 
after ten yeafs' service, he resumed the pri- 
vate practice of law in Nenia. 

The Judge was married in April, 1875, 
to Miss Mary A. Jones, of Bloomingburg, 
Fayette county. She died in 1885, leaving 



two sons who are yet living, while two chil- 
dren, a son and a daughter, died in infancy. 
In January, 1887. the Judge was again mar- 
ried, his second union being with Mrs. May 
Loughry, a daughter of John Orr, who for 
eighteen years was clerk of the court of 
common pleas. The Judge lielongs to the 
Masonic fraternity and to the Knights of 
Pxthias Lodge, and in liis political views is 
a Republican. 



FRANKLIN M. H.W'ERSTICK. 

Franklin M. Ha\erstick, a practical and 
progressive agriculturist residing in liea- 
\ercreek township, one mile west oi Zim- 
merman, is a natixe of (irecne count v. his 
birth ha\ing occurred in Xenia township, 
on the 14th of January, 1843. His father, 
John Haverstick, was a native of Penn- 
sylvania and a son of Daniel Haverstick, 
Vvho spent his last davs in this county, dy- 
ing at the home of his .son in Xenia town- 
ship. In early life John Haverstick removed 
to Virginia, where he married Elizabeth 
Halley. who was born cither in that state 
or Maryland. Her father was a soldier of 
the war of 1812. and her grandfather had 
an invitation to attend (jeneral Washing- 
ton's funeral, and was present. At an 
early day Mr. and Mrs. Haverstick came to 
Greene county. Ohio, and were identified 
with the pioneer development of this lo- 
cality. He died in 1853, at the age of forty 
years, and his wife passed away in 1882. the 
remains of both being interred in W'lxidland 
cemetery, Xenia. 'Jliey were earnest and 
consistent members of the Reformed church. 
In the family of this worthy couple were 
eight children, namely: John, a resident of 



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MRS. FRANKLIN M. HAVERSTICK. 




FRANKLIN M. HAVERSTICK. 



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Sugarcreek township, this county ; Thomas, 
deceased, who was in the service of his 
country (hiring the Civil war, being a mem- 
ber of the One Hunch-ed and Fifty-fourth 
Oliio \'(>hnUeer Infantrx- : WiUiam, a res- 
ident of Dayton; Maria, wife of Daniel Eck" 
man, of Dayton; Frank M. of this review; 
Christopher, a resident of Montgomerv 
county : and Millie and Mathias, both de- 
ceased. 

The subject of this sketch was quite 
}'oung when he removed with the family to 
Beavercreek township and he is indebted to 
its schools for his educational privileges. 
Being left fatherless at the age of ten years 
he was early thrown upon his own resources 
for a li\-elihood and worked for others by 
tlie month until he entered the army during 
the war of the Rebellion. On the 14th of 
August, 1862, he enlisted at Alpha in Com- 
pany E, Ninety-fourth Ohio X'olunteer In- 
fantry, under Captain David Steele, and 
went with his command tO' Washington, 
D. C. He was wounded in the right thigh 
at Chattanooga, and though ofif duty for a 
time did not go to the hospital. ^At amither 
time he had his cartridge box shot off. Af- 
ter ser\ing nearly three years and seeing 
much active service under General Sherman 
he was mustered out at Columbu;., Ohio, on 
account of the close of the war, in June, 
1865. 

Returning to Greene county at the close 
of the war Mr. Haverstick was here married 
April 9, 1867, to Miss Catherine Coy, a 
daughter of Nicholas and Charlotte 
( Shoup ) Coy, and a granddaughter of 
Moses Shoup. Her father was born near 
Alpha, in Beavercreek township, and was 
there reared and educated. Being a car- 
penter by trade he assisted in the erectinn 

of many buildings in that localitv which are 
44 



still standing, and he also engaged in farm- 
ing. He was a man of unusual strength and 
of fine physique, and took a delight in his 
work. After his marriage he purchased the 
farm of one hundred and sixty acres where 
our subject now resides, but at that time 
a log cabin constituted the only improve- 
ment and but five acres of the land had been 
cleared. He placed the greater part of it 
under cultivation, clearing from two to five 
acres every winter. Politically he was a 
Republican, and both he and his wife were 
earnest and consistent members of the Ger- 
man Baptist church, and took a very active 
|jart in religious work, especially during Iiis 
latter years, when he took especial delight 
in attending divine services. In his family 
were nine children, namely : Moses, who 
died young; Elizabeth, wife of J. P. Engle, 
of Zimmerman; Benjamin, a resident of 
Beavercreek' township ; Sarah Jane, wife of 
William Knisley, of Indiana; Aaron, a res- 
ident (jf Beavercreek township; Mary Cath- 
erine, wife of our subject ; Martin, who died 
at the age of scA-enteen years ; and Oren 
and Ellen, who' both died young. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Haverstick were 
born eight children, as follows : ( i ) De- 
lila is now the wife of John Lewis Hower, 
of Beavercreek township. (2) Martha is 
the wife of Edward Snyder, of Bath town- 
ship, and they have five children : Frederick. 
Irene, Mamie, Harry and Edward D. (3) 
Charlotte is the wife of Frank Koogler, of 
Bea\^ercreek township, and thev have five 
children : Homer. Joseph, Chester, Delila 
and Esther. (4) Joseph is now in the em- 
ploy of the Dayton, Springfield & Urbana 
Railroad. (5) Elizabeth; (6) Harry; (7) 
Herbert; and (8) George, are all at home. 

In September, 1868. Mr. and Mrs. Hav- 
erstick removed to Indiana, but the folhiw- 



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ing si)ring returned to Oliio. and located 
upon a farm aliout a mile from their present 
home. It was in 1S74 that they took up 
their residence upon the farm of ninety-tive 
acres Mrs. Haverstick had received from 
her father's estate, and there they have 
since made their home. Our subject carries 
on general farming and stock-raising quite 
successfully, and is regarded as one of the 
most useful and valued citizens of his com- 
munitv. He is a Republican in poltics, and 
both he and his estimable wife are active 
and faithful members of the German Bap- 
tist church, in which he is now serving as 
<leacc>n. 



JOHX W. M.AXOR. 

Each life \ields an influence for good or 
ill. It has a bearing upon the material, 
social and moral de\-elopment of a commu- 
nity and its intluence is detrimental or bene- 
ficial. When a life rec<M-d is ended it is 
customary to review the important events of 
the history, and pass judgment upon what 
has been accomplished. The concensus of 
opinion in the case of Mr. Manor is that 
Xenia ])rotited by his labors and that his 
genuine worth gained for him the good will 
and confidence of all with whom he came 
in contact. He was numbered among the 
])ioneer settlers, and when he entered upon 
his business career his work as a contractor 
and builder ])ro\ed of sul)stantial aid in pro- 
moting the welfare of his communitv. 

Mr. Manor was torn near Winchester, 
in 1-rederick county, Virginia, on the 24th 
of .\ugust, 1824. His father, Benjamin 
Manor, was a native of Berkeley county. 
West N'irginia, and was there united in 



marriage to Catherine March. They re- 
sided in Berkeley and Frederick counties 
until 1828, in which year the father brought 
his family to Ohio, establishing his home in 
(jreene county. He was accompanied by 
bis wife, eight st)ns and three daughters, 
and the entire journey was accomplished by 
team and wagon, camping out along the 
roadside at ni.ght, and resuming their jour- 
ney at the break of day. At length they 
reached their destinatirm. arriving in 
Xenia, which at that time contained a pop- 
ulation of about one thousand inhabitants. 
Other portions of the county were but 
sparsely settled and the work of improve- 
ment and progress largely lay in the future. 
The family lix-ated first on Main street, but 
on the 1st of March, 1829, removed to a 
farm on the Dayton pike, the place being im- 
piiived with a log house and barn, while a 
small ])iirticin nf the land had been cleared. 
Mr. Manor at once began the work of 
further development and spent his time 
thereon throughout his remaining days, 
becoming a progressive and influential ag- 
riculturist of the community. He died in 
i860, at the age of seventy-two, while his 
wife passed away in 1874, having reached 
the ripe old age of eighty-si.x years. In 
their faniil\- were twelve children, eight of 
whom reached years of maturity. 

John W. Manor, the subject of this re- 
\iew, comi)leted his education in Xenia, 
where he learned his trade f)f a carpenter 
luid builder. He began working on his own 
account when he had attained his majority 
and was numbered among the builders of 
Xenia until 1859, when he returned to his 
father's farm, of which he had the man- 
agement for two years, lie was then ap- 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY. 



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continued in that p(.isition until 1868, lacing' 
reappointed each year, a fact which plainly 
indicated his etticiency, fidelity and prompt- 
ness in the discharge of his duties. He 
then came to Xenia, where he worked at 
his trade until 1871. when he hegan con- 
tracting. He took and executed the con- 
tracts for many important huildings in Xenia 
and throughout the surrounding county. 
He was well known as a master of his 
chosen profession and early established a 
reputation for reliable workmanship and 
for the honorable fulfillment of his contracts. 
On the 1 2th of June, 1844, Mr. Manor 
was united in marriage to Miss Margaret 
A. Scott, who was born in Beavercreek 
township. Greene county, December 27. 
1824, but was reared to womanhood in 
Xenia. Her father, James A. Scott, was a 
native of Pennsylvania, and in 1814 took 
up his abode in Greene county. The fol- 
lowing fall he returned to his nati\-e state 
and there married Miss Elizabeth Shannon, 
bringing his bride to his new home. He 
continued his residence in Beavercreek town- 
ship until 1S27, when he removed to Xenia, 
where he remained until his death, which oc- 
curred August 12, 1881. His wife survived 
him only a few weeks, passing away Octo- 
ber 24, of the same year. In the family 
of Mr. and Mrs. Manor were nine children, 
eight of whom are living: David T., now 
of Hartford City, Indiana; William A., of 
Xevv Albany, Indiana; Samuel H., of 
Xenia; Asbury L., of Hartford City, Indi- 
ana: Kate, now Mrs. Henry C. Bankerd, 
of Xenia township; Nettie, remaining with 
her mother; Benjamin L., of Connorsville, 
Indiana, who died January 2, 1902; James 
S., of Muncie, Indiana; and John E., a tele- 
graph operator of Xenia. 



At ditterent times Mr. Manor was hon- 
ored with public office. About 1845 '"i^ 
served as count}' coroner, and later was 
elected a director of the infirmar5', in wdiich 
capacity he served for three years, and in 
1884 lie was again elected to that position, 
being the oldest director on the board. A 
prominent advocate of the Republican party, 
he served as a member and chairman of 
the county central committee for two years 
and was also chairman of the executive 
committee. He was identified with the In- 
dependent Order of Odd Fellows, belong- 
ing to both the subordinate lodge and the 
encampment. He held membership in the 
Reformed church, and its teachings perme- 
ated his life. He passed away on the 2d of 
December. 1897, at his home in Xenia. 
Throughout the long years of his residence 
here his fellow townsmen had come to know 
him as a man of genuine worth, of re- 
spectability and fidelity to principle. The 
city thus lost one of its \-alued representa- 
tives, but he left to his family the priceless 
heritage of an untarnished name. His 
widow still survives him and is living in a 
cijmfortable and attractive home at No. 126 
East Second street. 



xMATTHEW V. MORRIS. 

Matthew V. Morris, who follows farm- 
ing in Sugarcreek township, his home be- 
ing near Bellbrook, is a native of the local- 
it}- in which he resides. Here he was born 
March 2^, 1836, one of the children of Will- 
iam and Priscilla (LeCompt) Morris; the 
former a native of Maryland and the latter 
of Delaware. They were married in her na- 
tive state and in the '20s came to Ohio, re- 



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siding for a time in Franklin. Delaware 
county, above Columbus. Subsequently they 
again came to Greene county, apd conducted 
a iiotel in Beilbrook. after which the father 
Ijecame tlie owner of a half-interest in the 
Washington mill near Beilbrook. When he 
sold that he retired to the farm upon which 
our subject now resides, making it his home 
throughout his remaining days. He had 
about one hundred and seventy acres of land 
in that place and his landed possessions alto- 
gether aggregated six hundred and twenty 
acres, for as his financial resources had in- 
creased he had made judicious investments 
in [)roperty. He became a prosperous man. 
yet all that he had was acquired after he 
came to Ohio. His parents had died in the 
east and as he was the eldest of the family 
lie cared for the children. ])roviding for their 
support. He also brought them with him to 
Ohio and thus a heavy burden devolved upon 
him. but he bore it uncomplainingly. Strong 
resolution and determination at length en- 
abled him to o\ercome all the difficulties and 
obstacles in his path and gradually he 
worked his way upward to prosperity. In 
addition to the operation of his mills he con- 
ducted a distillery and marketed his prod- 
ucts in Cincinnati. .\t the time when An- 
drew Jackson vetoed the national bankrupt 
bill, the money stringency which followed 
this measure caused him to become a bank- 
rupt. He was one of the two most exten- 
sive business men in the county and his ef- 
forts resulted not only in promoting his own 
success but proved of value in promoting the 
general welfare. He bad been a Democrat 
up to the time of Jackson's administration 
but never afterward voted that ticket. While 
lie did not become identified with any church 
after his removal to Ohio, he Ijelievefl in the 
Bajnist faith. Although he suffered finan- 



cial disaster, his honesty was never called in 
question and it was well known that he 'was 
a man of his word and did the best that he 
could. In his family were eight children 
who reached maturity and of whom Mr. 
Morris of this review was the seventh. They 
were as follows : Thomas, who married Jo- 
hanna Stipp, died in Xenia. leaving one 
cliild. Sarah owns the old homestead. Will- 
iam, of Xenia township, married Rebecca 
Wilson and has one child, Frances is de- 
ceased. James, who married Sarah Earl of 
Xew York, liy whom he has one child, now 
makes his home in Liberty. Indiana. Mary 
resides in Columbus. Matthew V. is the 
next younger. Carrie is the wife of F. Ben- 
jamin Atkins, of Columbus, and has one 
son. George bas passed away. The death 
of the father occurred April 21, 1875, ^""^^ 
the mother died Xovember 19, 1876. He 
bad served his country as captain in the war 
of 181 2 and was ever loyal to the best inter- 
ests of county, state and nation. 

At an early age Matthew \". Morris 
took his place in the fields, working at the 
plow through a long period. When winter 
came and the crops had all Ijeen harvested, 
he entered the common schools, there ac- 
quiring his education. He remained with 
his father most of the time until his mar- 
riage. A period of three years was passed 
in West Jefferson, Ohio, where he owned 
and o])erated a sawmill. He also purchased 
land there which is now under a high state 
of cultivation. His iKjme farm comprised 
sixty acres of land, on which is a good resi- 
dence and moilem improvements that stand 
as monuments to his enterprise and indus- 
try. 

On the 19th of October. 1871. Mr. Mor- 
ris was married to Miss Laura \'. Clements,^ 
who was born on a farm near Ingieside. in 



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Queen Anne county, Maryland, a daughter 
of Joel and Louisa ( Jarrell ) Clements. Mrs. 
Morris was reared in the state of her nativ- 
ity and after attending the common schools, 
continued her education in the W'esleyan 
Female Seminary in Wilmington, Delaware. 
In i86g she came to Ohio where she formed 
the ac(|uaintance of Mr. Morris, but their 
marriage was celebrated at her home in 
^Maryland. They hnve two sons: Herbert 
Earl, born on the liowe. farm, September 
2g. 1872: and Cliarles Clements, born Sep- 
tember 5. 1874. The forn;er is a graduate 
•of the home school of the class of 1891 and 
at the age of eighte<^n years enteretl Antioch 
College. The latter completed the high 
school course in Bellbrook with the class of 
1 89 1 and when si.xteen years of age entered 
Antioch College with his brother. He spent 
two years in the preparatory department and 
one year in the collegiate department. The 
elder brother became a student in the State 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 
the fall of 1894 and was graduated with the 
class of 1898. He then remained upon the 
liome farm for a year and in the fall of 1899 
entered the Ohio IMedical College at Cin- 
cinnati where he will graduate with the class 
of 1903. After leax'ing Antioch College 
the younger son taught school for a year and 
in the fall of 1895 matriculated in the State 
University of Michigan where he was grad- 
uated with the class of 1899. The same 
year he accepted the seat of mathematics in 
the I\b3unt Herman Boys' School at Mount 
Herman, Massachusetts, in which capacity 
he is still serving. Mr. Morris exercises his 
right of franchise in support of the men and 
measures of the Republican party, and he 
and his wife and their son Earl are mem- 
Isers of the Methodist Protestant church, in 
■which he has ser\-ed as trustee, steward and 



Sunday-school superintendent. Their son 
Charles is a charter member of Mount 
Herman University Congregational church, 
which was established in memory of Moody 
in the year of the death of that great evan- 
gelist. The sons are both young men of 
excellent ability and strong mentality, of 
whom the parents have every reason to be 
proud. Mr. Morris has set them an excel- 
lent example, for throughout life he has 
been true to manly principles and has con- 
scientiously performed every duty that has 
de\olved upon him. 



JEREMIAH KREPPS. 

Jeremiah Krepps, who is a retired black- 
smith and well known farmer of Greene 
county, living in the township of Xenia, on 
the Cincinnati pike, was born in Washington 
county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1831, and is 
a son of George and Nancy (Baughman) 
Krepps. Our subject was about five years 
of age when his parents drove across coun- 
try with a team and wagon and settled in 
Xenia, where the father, who was a black- 
smith by trade, entered the employ of Sam- 
uel Harry. Later he removed to what was 
known as Trebein, and built a shop there, 
conducting business on his own account un- 
til about 1845, when he took up his abode 
about two miles and a half out on the Fair- 
field road, there carrying on business until 
about 1850. He then purchased a farm in 
Spring Valley township, comprising one 
hundred and seventy-seven acres of land 
known as the John Scarff property. He took 
up his abode thereon in the winter of 1852 
and made it his place of residence through- 
out the remainder of his davs. Unto him 



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and his wife were l)orn nine children; two 
sons and seven daugliters. The eldest, Mary 
A., became the wife of J. \V. Ferryman, and 
is now deceased. Our subject is the second 
in order of birth. Eli died of typhoid fever 
when about twenty-seven years of age. Hen- 
rietta is living in Xenia. Ann R. is deceased. 
Magdaline is also living in Xenia. Sarah 
E. became the wife of D. R. Sinnard, and 
died leaving two children — Marietta and 
Anna Jane. Eliza A. is the wife of J. A. 
Stillings. a resident of Xenia, by whom she 
has four living children. Xancy A. is the 
wife of W. L. Fulkei son, a resident of Xenia 
townshi]), and they have six children. Mr. 
Krepps, the father of our subject, was a 
life-long Democrat in his political views, and 
while he never sought office he was earnest 
and loyal in his supjxirt of the party. He 
held membership in the Methodist Episcopal 
church and took a strong interest in its work 
and served as class leader and trustee. When 
al>out se\enty-two years of age he was called 
to his final rest and his remains were in- 
terred in the Xenia cemetery by the side of 
his wife, who had jiassed away in 1856. Al- 
though he had recei\ed only a common 
school educatiiin he had become a well in- 
formed man. and was a valued citizen of his 
community. 

Mr. Krepps, whose n:mie introduces this 
record, spent his boyhood days under the 
jwrental roof. He received but a limited ed- 
ucation, his privileges l)eing few in that re- 
spect, for at the early age of twelve years 
he began working in his father's blacksmith 
shop. He was then so small that he had to 
stand uix)n a three-inch platform in order 
that he might be tall enough to strike the 
anvil. But always being strong, at eighteen 
years of age he was able to do a man's work. 
He had determined to stay with his father 



until he had attained his majority and had 
told his father of his resolution. The latter 
about that time had decided to abandon 
blacksmithing, however, and did so when, 
our subject was twentj^ years of age, they 
then removing to a tract of rented land, and 
later the farm was purchased by Mr. Krepps. 
The son then continued with his father until 
he was twenty-five years of age, assisting in 
the work of field and meadow. 

At that time Mr. Krepps was united in 
marriage to Miss Diana Moi>re, of (Irant 
county. Indiana, who was born in Spring- 
\'alley, Ohio, and was a daughter of John 
and Lana (Quick) Moore. Unto Mr. and 
Mrs. Krepps have been born four children : 
Emma, who became the wife of David An- 
derson, and died leaving a daughter. Ber- 
tha ; Xancy Olive, the wife of L. J. Crumley,, 
a resident farmer of Spring Valley town- 
ship. l)y whom she has one child, \V. Albert; 
Lana. the wife of L. L. Hickman, who re- 
sides upon a farm in Jay county, Indiana; 
and Diana C, who died in infancy. After 
the death of his first wife Mr. Krepps was^ 
again married, his second union being on 
the 31st of March, 1866. when Miss Har- 
riet A. Stillings became his wife. She was 
born and reared in Greene county and is a 
daughter of James and Lana (Fisher) Stil- 
lings. She pursued a common school educa- 
tion and remained at home until her mar- 
riage. She is now the mother of two chil- 
dren — Ada J., the wife of G. W. Fudge, who 
resides upon her father's farm, their chil- 
dren being three in number — Lela. Erma 
Mildred and Everet K. ; and Marietta, whO' 
married Joseph E. Lyle and also resides 
upon the old homestead. They have one 
child. Laurence Edgar. 

After his marriage Mr. Krepps took his 
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until about 1892, when he removed to his 
present place of residence in Xenia town- 
ship. Here he has about two hundred acres 
of land, upon which are good buildings, in 
fact, he has one of the model farms in this 
portion of the state, the place being connect- 
ed witli the city by telephone, while all mod- 
ern equipments and accessories are found in 
the home and in the fields, thus facilitating 
the labor of cultivating the soil. Mr. Krepps 
was in early life a Democrat and cast his first 
presidential vote for Pierce, in 1852, but in 
later life has become a Prohibitionist, having 
been identified with the latter party for the 
past twenty years. He and his wife have 
long been members of the Methodist Episco- 
pal church, his relations therewith continu- 
ing since he was fifteen years of age, while 
liis wife became a member at the age of sev- 
enteen. She was first identified with the 
Methodist Protestant church, but after her 
marriage changed her membership to the 
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Krepps 
has served as class leader and Sunday-school 
superintendent and is now steward of the 
church at Richland. By his life he indi- 
cates his Christian faith and belief. At all 
times has he been deeply interested in every- 
thing pertaining to man and to the benefit 
of the race. As a citizen he is also inter- 
ested in all movements calculated to promote 
the general welfare. His upright career has 
won for him the friendship of a large circle 
of accjuaintances. 



HENRY S. BUCKLES. 

Among the eminent men of Greene comi- 
ty whose life record forms an integral part 
of the history of this portion of the state. 



was Henry S. Buckles. In his death the 
community lost one of its most prominent 
business men and loyal citizens. As the day 
with its morning of hope and promise, its 
noontide of activity, its evening of completed 
and successful effort ending in the grateful 
rest and quiet of the night, so was the life 
of this honored man. His career was a long, 
busv and useful one, marked by the utmost 
fidelity to duties of public and private life. 
His name is now interwoven with the annals 
of Greene county, with its past development 
and its stable progress, and his memory is 
cherished as that of one who has made the 
world better for his having lived. He was 
born in this county in the year 181 5 and re- 
sided here continuously up to the time of his 
death, with the exception of the period of his 
residence in Urbana, Ohio, from 1848 to 
1865, and his remains now rest in A\'ood- 
land cemetery. 

Mr. Buckles was one of nine children 
born unto John and Elizabeth Buckles, both 
of whom were natives of Virginia. In the 
year 1804 they emigrated westward, taking 
up their abode in Greene county, Ohio, 
where they spent their remaining days. 
Henrv S. Buckles was reared to manhood 
amid the scenes of pioneer life, for this por- 
tion of Ohio during the period of his youth 
was just emerging from frontier conditions. 
He bore all the hardships and trials which 
fell to the lot of the early settler and also 
enjoyed many pleasures which were common 
at that time but are unknown at the present 
day. He acquired his education in the early 
schools and became widely and favorably 
known throughout the county as a reliable 
and public-spirited man. He was also a suc- 
cessful mechanic who spent the greater part 
of his earlv life in the village of Bellbrook, 
after which eighteen years were passed in 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Champaign county, and on his return to this 
county he resided in Xenia. Througliout 
tlie years of his manhood he followed car- 
pentering and building and attained to prom- 
inence along this line. His e.xcellent work- 
manship and fidelity to the terms of a con- 
tract won him a liberal patronage and he 
thus became interested in the erection of 
manv of the finest structures of the county. 
In the vear 1837 Mr. Buckles was united 
in marriage to Miss Ellen Thomas, a daugh- 
ter of .Archibald and Catherine Thomas, 
who were also natives of Greene county. 
Eight children were born of this unif)n. but 
four of the number are now deceased, name- 
ly : James \\'., Mary E., Archibald T. and 
Xavinah P. Those who still survive are 
Eliza J., William M., Emma \'. and .\rthur 
S. Mr. Buckles was a man who enjoyed to 
a very high degree the confidence and re- 
spect of those with whom he was associated. 
His high moral and religious character was 
\^•ell worthy of emulation. He endorsed 
e\ery movement and measure which he be- 
lieved would contribute to the general good 
and promote the development of his fellow- 
men. He was identified with the Independ- 
ent Order of Good Templars and with the 
Methodist Episcopal church of Xenia. He 
served as one of the class leaders of his 
church and in his life exemplified his Chris- 
tian faith. Although he never sought dis- 
tinction along political lines he yet won 
prominence through his business ability and 
tb.rough the possession of these sterling 
characteristics which in every land and in 
every clime command respect. He was also 
an honored pioneer who witnessed much of 
the growth and development of his county 
from primitive times to a period of modern 
im]irci\ cment and progress. He left to his 
family ilie ]>riceless heritage of an untar- 



nished name and the memory of his upright 
life still exerts an influence over those who 
knew him well, 

William M. Buckles, a son of Henry S, 
Buckles, is now a leading citizen of Zenia 
where he is occupying the important posi- 
tion of chief of the fire department. He was 
born in Champaign county, Ohio, on the 
iith of March, 1850, and his education was 
received in the public schools there. For 
eighteen years he has l:)een identified with the 
Xenia fire department, his connection dating 
from 1884, In April, 1898, he was elected 
its chief and has since served in that capac- 
ity. The department is well organized and 
is doing effective work under his supervi- 
sion. 

On the 20th of October, 1869, Mr. Buck- 
les was united in marriage to Miss Isabella 
Knox, a daughter of Brice Knox, and unto 
them has been born one child. They are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church 
and Mr. Buckles is a very prominent Repub- 
lican, noAv serving as chairman of the Re- 
publican central committee of Greene coun- 
ty. He takes a very active interest in polit- 
ical affairs and his efforts in that direction 
have" been effective in promoting his party's 
welfare. He has numerous friends, both in 
and out of the party because of his amiable 
disposition and genial manner, qualities 
which make him popular with all classes. 



IDA C. WOOLSEV, M. D. 

There is no field of intellectual activity 
iiUo which woman has not made her wav, 
demonstrating her ability to cojie with man 
in the "learned professions." She has 
asked f^r no assistance because of her .sex 




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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



777 



hut lias proven that the most strenuous de- 
nianfls made upon the representatives of the 
difYerent calhngs she can meet. She has 
been particularly successful in the practice 
of medicine, her ready sympathy. deHcacy 
of touch and quick insig'lit, supplanenting 
lier intellectual strength in such a way as 
to render her services of great benefit in the 
medical profession. Dr. W'oolsey of this 
review is tlie only lady physician in Greene 
county and the extent and importance of her 
patronage is an indication of the confidence 
reposed in her. 

The Doctor resides with her sister Mar- 
tha and is highly esteemed in social as well 
as medical circles. She is one of the nine 
children born unto \Villiam M. and Hannah 
(Hall) W'oolsey, but only herself and sister 
are now li\'ing. Her paternal grandfather 
was Jeremiah A\'oolsey. Her maternal 
grandmother. Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, was one 
of the founders of the Cincinnati Orphan 
Asylum and was widely known for her be- 
nevolent and helpful spirit. The Doctor's 
father belonged to one of the most prom- 
inent families of Trenton, New Jersey, and 
tliere he spent his boyhood days, supple- 
menting a thorough classical education by 
the study of medicine, .\fter receiving the 
•diploma which entitled him to practice, he 
opened an office in New Jersey, where he 
remained for several years and then came 
to Hamilton, Ohio, where he conducted a 
drug st(ire in connection with his medical 
practice. After a time he sold his store 
there but re-entered the drug trade in Cin- 
cinnati, where he was connected with mer- 
cantile pursuits until his death, which oc- 
curred in 1883. His wife survived him 
about four years. 

Dr. Woolsev of this review was born in 



Evansville. Indiana, in December, 1852, 
where she remained until her father em- 
barked in business in Cincinnati, when the 
family removed to that city. She acquired 
her preliminary education in the common 
schools and afterward took up the study of 
meflicine, reading broadly and assimilating 
what she read. Afterward, in 1892, she 
was graduated in both the regular and 
homeopathic departments of the University 
of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, where she spent 
four years, making a specialty of the treat- 
ment of diseases of women and children. 
Immediately thereafter she began practice 
in Xenia, where she has since remained and 
she has the distinction of being the only 
lady physician in Greene county. She now 
has a large general practice as well as along 
the line of her specialty and is accorded a 
place in the foremost rank of the capable 
and successful physicians of the county. 
She keeps thoroughly informed concerning 
the latest theories and discoveries in con- 
nection with the profession and her efforts 
toward alleviating human suffering have 
been of marked benefit. She is identified 
with the Second Presbyterian church and 
her residence and office are located at No. 
1 1 8 W. Main street. 



JOHN KYNE. 



John Kyne, a progressive farmer living 
on the Cincinnati pike where he has fifty 
acres of land, is one of the leading agricul- 
turists of this portion of the state. His land- 
ed possessions aggregate altogether about 
seven hundred acres lying in Spring Valley 
and Sugarcreek townships. Mr. Kyne is 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



one of the worthy citizens that Ireland has 
furnished to America. He was torn in 
County Galway. in September, 1824, his 
parents being John and Xora (Flynn)Kyne. 
The former died when our subject was a 
young lad an<l tlic mother died when he was 
about twenty-one years of age. Upon the 
home farm. John Kyne was reared while in 
the public .schools near-by he acquired an ed- 
ucation, but believing that he might have 
better business ojJixtrtunities in the new 
world, he sailed for America in Xovemljer. 
1848, in a ves-sel which weighed anchor in 
Liveqjool. In the fullowing January he 
landed at New Orleans. The trip was a 
most stormy one and the vessel was driven 
out of its course as far as the West Indies. 
Stx>n after reaching the Crescent City, 
Mr. Kyne made his way north to Ohio and 
for a time was employed in Clark county by 
the innnth. For live years he followed farm- 
ing in that way. during which time he 
gained some capital. He was marrieil on 
the 4th of April. 1853. to Miss Elizabeth 
Byron, who was born in cijuntx- Limericl:. 
Ireland, and came to America with her 
brothers and sisters. She was a daughter of 
Anthony Byron. Soon after their marriage 
Mr. Kyne purchased five acres of land uiK)n 
which his house now stands. At that time 
there was a log cabin uixjii the place which 
is yet a feature of the landscape. For se\- 
enteen years he resided here and during that 
time followed various occupations that 
would yield him an honest living. Saving 
his money he added a tract of si.xteen acres 
til his original purchase. Finally he sold 
and bought one hundred and one acres near 
Paintersville, making his home thereon for 
four years. He afterward purchased one 
hundred and forty acres west of the village 
of .Spring \^allev and is still the owner of 



that propertv. It was the lirst farm that he 
e\er ()])erated in Greene county and upon 
which he made his home for a number of 
years. His ne.xt investment brought to him 
one hundred and thirty acres and later he 
bought eighty acres and again one hundred 
acres in Sugarcreek townshi]). In April, 
1 901. lie again purchased the old home place 
which he had first owned and where he now 
resides. Owing to the ill health of his wife 
he removed to Spring Valley and there she 
died in January, 1898, her remains being in- 
terred in the Catholic cemetery in Xenia. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kyne have been born 
six children, of whom four are still living: 
Thomas. William and Charles, all of whom 
are resident farmers of Spring \'alley : and 
I-"rank, who is married and resides with our 
subject. Mr. Kyne was reared in the Cath- 
olic faith and was confirmed in Ireland by 
Bish(jp Kale. In politics he is independent, 
\()ting for the men whom he thinks best 
(jualified for office without regard to party 
ties. His life history proves most conclus- 
ively w hat excellent opportunities are afford- 
ed in the new world to young men of energy, 
strong purp(.)se and resolute will. He came 
to this country empty handed and during his 
early years here his life was one of arduous 
toil. Economy and industry at length 
brought to him some capital and through 
judicious investments he has since added to 
his ])r(ii>erty until his landed interests are 
now \ erv extensive and valuable. 



THOMAS KYXF. 



Tlionnas K\ne is the owner of an excel- 
lent farm in Spring Valley township and 
manv of the improvements thereon are as^ 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



779 



iT'anagement. He was Ijorn near his present 
home, May 31, 1854, his parents being John 
and Elizabeth (Byron) Kyne. He spent his 
early boyhood davs upon the home farm near 
the village of Spring Valley and attended 
the school at Gladys. When about sixteen 
years of age his father removed to Xeed- 
niore. on Caesars creek, where he purchased 
a farm, making it his home for four years, 
and during tliat time our subject attended 
school through the winter months. When 
alx)ut twenty-two years of age he began to 
earn his own lixing, working as a farm hand 
by the month for two years in Spring \'alley 
townsliip. Saving his money, he then pur- 
chased a team and rented land of his father 
in order that he might begin farming on his 
own account. For seventeen years he leased 
land and then with the capital which he had 
acquired through his own efforts, purchasetl 
one hundred and fourteen acres in Spring 
\'alley township on Caesars creek in what is 
known as the McKnight settlement. 

As a companion and he]])mate for the 
journev" of life Mr. Kyne chose Miss Mary 
Andrews, of Jamestown, near which place 
she was born. The wedding was celebrated 
in Xenia, October 12. 1881. The lady is a 
daughter of Patrick and Winifred (Man- 
gan) Andrews. Her father died near James- 
town, September 2Ti, 1889, at the age of 
si.xty years, and his widow is still living in 
that neighborhood, at the age of sixty-five 
years. Both were natives of Ireland and the 
former had attained to man's estate when he 
came to America, while the latter was about 
twelve years of age when with her parents 
she crossed the Atlantic. Mrs. Kyne ac- 
quired a good common school education. 
By her marriage she became the mother of 
two children : John Francis, who was born 
in Spring \'allev township, August 26, 



1882: and ^lary Pearl, born in the same 
township, December 13, 1886. 

In the year 1896 Mr. Kyne became the 
owner of t!ie farm upon which he now re- 
sides. He has ninety-one acres here and a 
tract of fifty-three and one-half acres in an- 
other farm which he and his brother pur- 
chased in 1900. He carries on general farm- 
ing and als(i makes a specialtv of the raising" 
of tobacco. His enterprise and industry are 
bringing to him creditable success. 

Politically Mr. Kyne is a Democrat who 
has supported the party since casting his 
first vote for Tilden in 1886. He has served 
as a school director and is a warm friend of 
the cause of education. He has, however, 
never been an aspirant for political honors 
or offices, preferring to devote his entire 
time and attention to his business aftairs. 
Both he and his wife belong to the Catholic 
church and were confirmed in the same class 
by Rev. Thomas Blake, Mr. Kyne being six- 
teen years of age and his wife fourteen. 
They are worthy people, enjoying the warm 
regard of many friends, and throughout the 
communitv are widely known. 



HAL HUMSTO'N. 



Hal Humston, a member of the firm of 
Humston & Grottendick, of Xenia, proprie- 
tors of a livery stable here, was born in 
(ireene county, Ohio, on the 22d of May, 
1868, and is a son of Harvey and Ellen 
( Powers) Humston, both of whom were na- 
tives of Ohio, the furmer born in Clinton 
county, the latter in this county. Through- 
out the greater part of his life the father 
followed the occupation of farming, but is 
now li\ing" retired iu Xenia. He and his 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



wife are well kmnvn ]jei>])le of the city and 
enjoy the high regard of man\' friends. 
They have two children, the younger being 
Jessie L., the wife of E. A. Tliomas, of the 
Beehive store of Xenia. 

Mr. Humston. whose name introduces 
this review, attended school in Caesarscreek 
township and later was a student in Xenia 
College. Afterward he entered the Xational 
Normal University at Lebanon. Ohio, and 
after completing his education embarked in 
the lumber business in Caesarscreek town- 
ship, where he conducted a sawmill for eight 
or nine \ears. On the expiration of that 
period he began training horses and break- 
ing colts, conducting a public training sta- 
tion, in which business he continued for a 
number of years. In fact he has been an 
excellent trainer of horses from boyhood, 
and is a lover of fine stock. On the 9th 
of Xovember. 1901. he entered into partner- 
ship with Mr. Grottendick and purchased the 
liver\- business of Frank Paukett. which they 
have successfully conducted, also havine a 
sale stable and feed yard. They have a lib- 
•eral patronage and their business is proving 
a profitable source of income. 

On the nth of February. 1892, Mr. 
Humston was united in marriage to Miss 
Minnie Semans. of Clinton county. Ohio, a 
daughter of Jacob Semans of the same coun- 
ty, who had formerly resided in Greene 
countv. Mr. and Mrs. Humston have one 
child. Glenn, who was born .\ugust 9. 1893. 
and is now in school in Xenia. Socially he 
is identified with Xenia I^xlge, No. 52. I. O. 
O. F., and with Shawnee Encampment. Xo. 
20, of the same (^rder. in lx)th of which he 
has passed all of the chairs. He is a pro- 
■gressive and enter])rising young man who 



has already won success in business and who 

will doulnless ad\ancc still further on the 
road to pros])erity in the future. 



HENKV C. BANKERD. 

There is no resident of Greene coiuity 
who is more widely or favorably known, 
who more greatly deserves the esteem of his 
fellownien than does Henry C. Bankerd. an 
honored \eteran of the Civd war who is 
now serving as su])erintendent of the coun- 
t\ infirmary. He was born in Baltimore, 
Maryland. September 17. 1846, his jmrents 
being Peter and Hannah iGriner) Bank- 
erd. The father was born in Morgan coun- 
ty. West \'irginia. in 1816. and his wife 
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1818. 
Her father was a native of Germany, while 
his wife was born in Boston. Peter Bank- 
erd became a glass blower by trade and 
when our subject was still a young man the 
father removed with his family to Lenox. 
Massachusetts, where he continued to fol- 
low his chosen pursuit until 1863. That 
year witnessed his arrival in Greene county. 
Ohio, and he purchased a farm in Xenia 
township, near the city of Xenia, on which 
he took u\) his abode. In 1864, however, 
he returned to Lenox, where he worked for 
a year at his trade and in 1866 he removed 
to Xew Albany, Indiana, where he occupied 
the responsible ]X)sition of manager of a 
large ])late glass factory for a year. On the 
expiration of that period he returned to his 
farm in Xenia township, where he has since 
remained and he has now attained the very 
advanced age of eighty-five years. His 
wife is also living and is now eighty-three 




H. C. BANKERD. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



78 3-- 



years of age. Four of tlieir cliildren also 
survive: ^^largaret. the wife of D. S. 
Heath, a resident of Missouri; Henry C, 
of tiiis review: JMary, who married John 
C. Andrews and resides in Xenia : and 
Georgia, the wife of Joseph S. W'ade, of 
Xenia township. The fatlier of this family 
is a Methodist in religious faith and in his 
])olitical views is a Repuhlican. 

Henry C. Bankerd accoinpanied his par- 
ents to Massachusetts and in that state he 
acquired a portion of his education, while 
for one }ear he was a student in the acad- 
ejny at Cla\-erick, N^ew York. He remained 
in the Bay state until eighteen years 
of age and then came with his parents to 
Xenia township, (jreene countv, Ohio. He 
had previously learned the glass-cutter's 
trade in Massachusetts, but now a differ- 
ent line of work claimed liis attention. He 
had hardly taken up his abode here when iie 
joined the brave boys in blue that Ohio sent 
to defend the Union. In February. 1864, 
he enlisted as a private for one year's ser- 
vice in Company D, One Hundred and 
Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, go- 
ing with the command to Georgia. He as- 
sisted in garrisoning the towns that were 
captured during the Georgia campaign, and 
was mustered out of service at X'asln'ille, 
Teimessee, in February, 1865. 

Mr. Bankerd then returned to Xenia 
and went with iiis father to Massachusetts 
w here he worked at the trade of glass-cut- 
ting until the removal of the family to X'ew 
Albany, Indiana. He was also employed 
in a similar line of work in that place for a 
_\ear, since which time he has made his 
home in Xenia township, Greene county, 
and for sometime was associated with agri- 
cultural interests. 



Jn his political views Mr. Bankerd al- 
wa}-s was a Republican and has been hon- 
.jred v,-ith several l«:ai offices, the gift of his 
fellow townsmen, who recognized his worth 
and ability. For several terms he was 
supervisor and in 1896 he was appointed 
superintendent of the county infirmary by 
the infirmary board. Dtiring his incum- 
bency he has made many improvements. 
The main building is a large three-story 
brick structure with basement. It was be- 
gun and 1865 and completed in 1867. The- 
farm comprises one hundred and four acres 
and under the supervision of Mr. Bankerd 
has been placed in excellent condition. 
Everything about the farm in its neat and 
thrifty appearance indicates his careful 
management and sound judgment, and he 
has given excellent satisfaction to all con- 
cerned by liis capable control of the in- 
firmary. Prior to being appointed to the 
infirmary Mr. Bankerd had managed his 
father's farm, the senior Mr. Bankerd hav- 
mg practically retired from active labor. 

Mr. Bankerd was married in 1867 to 
Miss Catherine Manor, a daughter of John 
W. and Catherine Manor. Her father is 
now deceased but her mother is living in 
Xenia. Five children have been born of 
this union. Rosa, who died at the age of 
eleven years: Esther, the wife of Parker J. 
Wilson, a resident of Xenia. by who-n she 
has two children, Ra\-mond and Frederick 
M.; Mary, who resides with iier father; 
Peter, who resides on the farm which once 
belonged to his grandfather, and who mar- 
ried Belle McCarthy, by whom he has one 
child, Virginia C. ; and Myrtle, the wife 
of Charles Faulkner, of Columbus. Ohio, 
and the mother of one daughter, Helen. 
The parents hold membership in the Ger- 



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man Reldnnecl church and Mr. Bankerd 
takes an active and helpful interest in fra- 
tern;;! organizations, belonging to Lewis 
Post, Xo. 347, G. A. R., and to both the 
subordinate lodge and encampment of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He 
has tilled all of the offices in these three or- 
ganizations and enjoys in high measure the 
regard of his brethren of the fraternities. 
Patriotism has ever been numbered among 
his salient characteristics. It was manifest 
upon the field of battle and has been dis- 
played by his faithful performance of pub- 
lic duty in civil life. He is a man of broad 
sympathies, of excellent executive and Inisi- 
ness ability and his worth is widely ac- 
knowledged throughout the county in which 
he is long made his home. 



ADAM GERLAUGH. 

One of the most highly respected citizens 
that has ever been connected with the agri- 
cultural interests of Greene county was 
Adam Gerlaugh. who, from pioneer times 
down through the greater part of the nine- 
teenth century, was numl^red among the 
\ alued residents of his community. He was 
identified with agricultural pursuits and his 
life was so honorable and upright that his 
name is a synonym for integrity. 

He was Ijorn in Beavercreek township 
up<jn the farm now owned by his brother, 
Arthur Gerlaugh, the date of his birth being 
August 6, 1814. His parents were Adam 
and Catherine (Haynes) Gerlaugh. The 
fonner was born in Washington coun- 
ty. -Maryland, in 1786. and the latter, a 
native (if the same county, was Ixirn 
a. few days later. In 1807 .Xdaiu Ger- 



laugh became a resident of Ohit>, ac- 
companying his father, who also bore the 
name of Adam, to Beavercreek township, 
Greene county, settling ufxin the farm which 
is now the home of our subject. The fam- 
ily sent their goods down the Ohio river, 
while they traveled overland by wagons and 
teams, eight weeks being consumed in mak- 
ing the trip which led through the forests 
and over poor roads, which were often 
scarcely more than a trail. Some time prior 
to the arrival of the family, the grandfather, 
accompanied by Mr. Haynes. made a trip to 
Ohio, looking over the land, and after mak- 
ing purchases they returned to Maryland. 
The latter never afterward came to Ohio, 
but his family later removed to this state 
and occupied the land which he had pur- 
chased. Adam Gerlaugh. the grandfather, 
had become the owner of three-quarters of a 
section, securing a quarter section for each 
of his children. Upon the place he erected 
a log cabin and the family began their life in 
Ohio in that primitive dwelling. With char- 
acteristic energ)- he took to work, clearing 
the farm and developing the fields. The 
land was covered by a dense growth of tim- 
ber. Soon the woodman's ax awakened the 
echoes of the forest and in course of time 
the sunlight fell upon the plowed fields antl 
the ripened grain which had there l>een 
planted by pioneer hands. Adam Gerlaugh 
biire an active part in the work of primitive 
development and progress and aided in lay- 
ing the foundation for the present advanced 
condition of Greene county, enabling it to 
tc^ke an important ptisition in this great com- 
monwealth. He ilied between 1820 and 
1825. when about seventy years of age. 

.Vdam (ierlaugh, the father of our sub- 
ject, became familiar with pioneer experi- 
ences for his youth was largely passed in 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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and civilization had made great changes. He 
married Catlierine Haynes in the winter of 
1807-8. She had come with her brotlier and 
his family to the county in 1807. making the 
trip c)n hijrseback from Maryland. They set- 
tled upon the land which had been purchased 
by her father sometime before when he had 
cotne to Ohio with the grandfather of our 
subject. INIrs. Gerlaugh was born April 22, 
1788, and her death occurred on the 19th of 
April. 1S52. She and her husband had lived 
together as man and wife for fort_\' years 
until death separated them, their mutual 
Idve and confidence increasing as the years 
jjassed by. Mr. Gerlaugh belonged to the 
German Kefi.>rmed church, while his wife 
held membership in the Lutheran church. 
Several years after her death he went to 
Minnesota to visit a son and while on the 
return trip was taken ill in Warren county, 
Illinois, and there died in the home of an- 
other son, in 1856, when seventy years of 
age. This worthv couple were the parents 
of ten children, eight sons and two daugh- 
ters : David, now deceased, is mentioned on 
another page of this volume. Jacob has also 
passed away and his history forms a part of 
this work. Otho and Adam have departed 
this life. Robert lives in Warren county, 
Illinois. Arthur is a farmer of Beavercreek 
township, whose name appears on another 
page of this volume. Jonathan is deceased. 
Frances is the wife of Benjamin Clark, a 
resident of Montgomery count}-, Ohio. 
Henry is deceased. Mary Jane, now Mrs. 
Hawker, resides in Dayton, Ohio. 

Adam Gerlaugh pursued his education in 
the early schools of his district and worked 
upon his father's farm, de\'oting his time be- 
tween the duties of the schoolroom and the 
kibors of the field, also enjoying the pleas- 
ures that the playground afforded. On the 



25th of January, 1848, he was united in 
marriage to Eliza Dutoid, who was born in 
Indiana, a daughter of Eugene and Lytlia 
(De Fray) Dutoid, both of whom were na- 
tives of Switzerland. In order to give their 
children better educational advantages they 
removed to Dayton and the father purchased 
a farm in what is now called East Dayton, 
between Third and Fifth streets. He made 
it his place of residence until his death A\hich 
occurred about 1868. when he was seventy- 
six years of age. His wife survived him 
about eleven years, passing away at a very 
advanced age at her home in Shakerstown, 
Ohio. Both were interred in Woodland 
cemetery. 

.-\fter his marriage. Mr. Gerlaugh of this 
review, rented a farm from Mr. Harshman 
and continued its cultivation until 1857. He 
had inherited a part of the old homestead 
and from the other heirs he purchased their 
iriterests and made his home upon that place 
throughout his remaining days. The barn 
tliere was built by his father. Inn the present 
fine residence which stands upon the place 
has been erected by Mrs. Gerlaugh, since her 
husband's death. Si.x children were born 
unto our subject and his wife. Lydia be- 
came the wife of George Buvinger, a resi- 
dent of Dayton, and their children are: 
Perry, Ruth, Edith, John, Lydia. and 
Aaron. Catherine is the deceased wife of 
Horton Tippy, a resident of Fairfield. Ohio, 
and their children were: Everett. Pearl and 
Ralph. Eugene, who is living in Montgom- 
ery county, O'hio, married Elizabeth Tippy, 
and they have four children — Laura, Lucy, 
Adam and Daniel. Charles is a resident of 
Clark county, Ohio. Charlotte is the wife 
of William H. Lenz. who is operating the 
home place for her mother. He was born in 
Dayton. Ohio, March 13, 1852, and is a 



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son of William ami Elizalieth ( Kline) Lenz. 
both of whom were natives of Germany, and 
died in Dayton. Unto William H. Lenz and 
his wife have been born tliree children : Ber- 
tha, the wife of Andrew O'Hara, of Alpha, 
Ohio. l)v whom she has two children. Lenz 
and Mosco; Elizabeth, the wife of Rush 
Huston, a resident of Sugarcreek township; 
and Mav Flora, at iiome. Phoebe Ellen, the 
youngest of the family, is the wife of John J. 
Reeder. a resident of Dayton, and their chil- 
dren are Fred Wells and Robert. 

Mr. Cierlaugh was a Republican in his 
political views, and he served as trustee for 
a number of years. He regarded a public 
office as a public trust and was therefore 
ever loyal and faithful to his duty. He 
owned and operated one hundred and sixty 
acres ofc good land, carrying on general 
farming and stock-raising and by the care- 
ful control of his business afifairs he won 
creditable success, beconiing a well-to-do cit- 
izen. He pas.sed away in May, 1883. and 
was laid to rest in Mnunt Zion cemetery. 
Throughout the community his loss was 
widelv and dee])ly mourned for he had many 
friends. He was a loyal and progressive 
citizen and a devoted husband and father. 
and although he never sought public honors 
or notoriety he yet won that unqualified re- 
gard which is freely accorded to sterling 
worth in every land and clime. Mrs. Ger- 
laugh still resides uixm the old home place, 
and in 1887 she erected a fine farm residence 
there. She is a member f)f the German Re- 
formed church and is a most estimable lady, 
enjoving in a high degree the esteem and 
confidence of those with whom she is asso- 
ciated. So long has she resided in this coun- 
ty that she is known either personally or in- 
directly to most of the citizens of this sec- 
tion and well does she deserve representation 



ii". this volume in connection with the life 
h.istory of her honored husband. Adam Ger- 
laugh. 



WILLI. \M D(^DDS. 



(jreene county is fortunate in ha\ing a 
good class of men in her offices, men who 
ha\e a deep interest in the county and its 
welfare, and who do not sacrifice the pub- 
lic good to self-aggrandizement, .\-mong 
this number is William Dodds. who is 
auditor-elect and who has filled other posi- 
tion in a creditable and able manner. Mr. 
Dodds is . a native of Scotland, his birth 
having occurred in that country on the 6th 
of June, 1830. He is the youngest of the 
six children who were born unto George 
and Lsabel (Taylor) Dodds. also natives of 
Scotland, where the father followed farm- 
ing for a livelihood. He died when his 
voungest child was but an infant and the 
mother passed away a few years later, so 
that our subject was left an orphan when 
quite young. 

William Dodds acquired his early edu- 
cation in the schools of his native land and 
comijleted his studies in night schools of 
this country. When sixteen years of age, 
in company with a sister and his oldest 
brother. Andrew Dodds, he embarked for 
the L'nited States, landing in Xenia in the 
fall I if iHh(). It was here he learned the 
trade of marble ciUting. being employed by 
his brother, the business relation between 
tlieni being maintained until 1882 when our 
subject was induced to join the fire depart- 
ment, but after three months he again be- 
came connected with the marble business. 
Later he became a member of the police 




WILLIAM DODDS. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



789 



force ancl continued in that position until 
appointed court bailiff. He afterward served 
as deputy sheriff under Mr. Linkhart. and 
in the year 1890 his previous faithful ser- 
vice secured his election to the office of 
sheriff of Greene county. In that capacity 
he remained for four years, having been 
re-elected in 1892, discharging his duties 
without fear or favor. In Septeml)er, 1895, 
he returned to the police force, where he re- 
mained tintil February 26. 1901. .\bout 
that time he was nominated and elected 
auditor of Greene county by a large maj(ir- 
ity, which office he will enter in October. 
1902. He lias always been a warni ad\o- 
cate of Republican principles and has la- 
bored for their adoption, l>ut has friends in 
the ranks of the opposing party. 

Mr. I.)od(ls was united in marriage to 
Mary E. Kno.x. a daughter of Brice Knox, 
formerly a resident of Xenia, where he car- 
ried on tlie harness and saddlery business. 
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Dodds has been born 
one child, Oliver A. Mr. Dodds and his 
son, under the firm name of Dodds & Son, 
are the owners and proprietors of one of the 
most complete livery stables in the city, hav- 
ing a line brick stable on Whiteman street 
l)etweett Main and Market streets. The 
family are identified with the Pres1>yterian 
church and he has always contributed to 
the support not only of religious work but 
of all interests tending to benefit the com- 
munity and upbuild the county in which he 
makes his home. 



CHARLES C. SHEARER. 

Charles C. Shearer is actix'cl}' connected 

with the profession which has important 

bearing u]ion the progress and stable pros- 
45 



perity of any section and community. This 
profession, when clothed with its true dig- 
nity, purity and strength must rank first 
among the callings of man : for law rules the 
universe. The work of the legal profession 
is to formulate, to harmonize, to regulate, to 
adjust, to administer those rules and princi- 
ples that underlie and permeate all govern- 
ment and society and control the varied rela- 
tions of men. There is no profession wdiich 
demands closer application, stronger mental- 
ity, keener insight and clearer judgment, 
than does the legal profession, and therefore 
when one attains prominence in its ranks it 
is an indication of ability which enables the 
possessor to pass from the ranks of the many 
to stand among the successful few. 

Judge Shearer was torn in Xenia, 
Greene county, and is a son of John and 
Mary Ellen (Fuller) Shearer, the former a 
native of Franklin county. Pennsylvania, the 
latter of Clinton county, Ohio. The Shearer 
family is of German lineage and the great- 
grandfather of our subject was Solomon 
Shearer, who came from Germany to the 
new world, establishing his home in Frank- 
lin county, Pennsylvania, at an early period 
in its development. He was a farmer by oc- 
cupation. After taking up his abode in the 
Keystone state he was married and his son 
Abraham was one of thirteen children, ten 
sons and three daughters. Abraham Shear- 
er was the grandfather of the Judge. He 
followed farming' throughout his entire life 
and married a Miss Myers. They became 
the parents of two sons and two daughters, 
of whom John Shearer was the eldest. After 
arriving at years of maturity he married 
Miss Fuller, a daughter of \\'illiam Fuller 
and a granddaughter of Benjamin F. Fuller, 
wiio was a Revolutionarv soldier. The Ful- 
ler family is of English origin. Init repre- 
sentati\'es of the name removed to Dublin. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



Ireland, and theiice came to America. Will- 
iam Fuller, the grandfather of our subject, 
served under General Jackson in the war of 
1 8x2. l)el<)nging to a Tennessee regiment. 
They were within sound of the guns when 
Jackson won the battle of Xew Orleans. 
Jolin Shearer learned the trade of cabinet- 
making and followed that pursuit for many 
years in connection with the undertaking 
and furniture business. He was for many 
}ears an active factor in industrial and com- 
mercial circles in Xenia. having become a 
resident of this city in 1834 when twenty- 
two years of age. He continued business 
luitil about ten years prior to his death, 
Avhidi occurred on the 23d of May. 1899, 
when he was eighty-seven years of age, his 
<lcath being the result of an accident caused 
l)y slipping and falling. Unto him and his 
wife were born four children, of whom three 
are living, the eldest being Judge Shearer of 
this review. Frank, the second son, became 
first sergeant of Com])any H. Xinety-fourth 
■Ohio Infantry, during the Civil war and 
died at the battle of Resaca, Georgia. Al- 
1)ert F. is an attorney of Cleveland, Ohio; 
and .Mary F.lizabeth is the wife of the Rev. 
])r. Watt, i)astor of the First Presbyterian 
church of Columbus. Oliio. 

In the schools of Xenia Judge Shearer 
.ac(|uired his education and at the age of 
twenty-two years he entered the office of 
Hugh C"arey. under whose direction he read 
law for a time. When his money was ex- 
hausted he became bookkeeper and accoun:- 
ant in a large general store and after thu< 
replenishing his exhausted exchequer, he 
once more took up the study of law and o'l 
the 26ih of May. 1866. was admitted to the 
bar. Soon afterward he entered upon ])rac- 
tice and bis advancement was continucnis 
imd creditable. He began the work for 



which the previous years of studv had been 
a preparation, becoming a meml>er of the 
bar where sham re])utation and empty i)re- 
tense were of no avail in the forensic com- 
bats. The young lawyer, in his contests 
with older and experienced men. whose rep- 
utation and patronage were alreadv assured, 
found it a hard school, but it afforded ex- 
cellent training, antl as he measured his 
strength with the best his mind was devel- 
oped, his intellectual powers were quickened 
and strengthened, and he acquired a read- 
iness in action, a fertility of resource and a 
courage under stress tliat have been essential 
factors in his successful career. 

On the 1st of January, 1870, Judge 
Shearer entered into partnership with Hon. 
John Little, a re'atii:)n which was maintained 
until the 1st of January. 18S7. when their 
relation as members of the bar was discon- 
tinued but a financial partnershi]) e.xisled be- 
tween them until the summer o) 1898. 

On the 3d of January, 1867, Judge 
Shearer was united in marriage to Miss 
Margery Kuchanan Dunlaj), of Ltica, Obi... 
She died F^ebruary 25, 1869, and on 'he 22i\ 
of February, 1872, the Judge was again 
married, his second union being with Miss 
Fmma Juliet Weakley, of Dayton, a daugh- 
ter of the Rev. Dr. Weakley, a presiding 
elder of the ^lethodist Episcopal church. 
They had two children : Helen, born on the 
5th of June, 1873. is now the wife of the 
Rev. Charles Thomas Walkley, assistant 
rector of Grace church. Xew York, whom 
she married on the 22d of April. 1896: and 
Frank Wayne, who died March 2/, 1892. 
Mrs. Shearer departed this life on the 9th of 
April. 1901. and was laid to rest in Wood- 
land cemetery. The Judge has a large cir- 
cle of friends throughout Cireene county, 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



791 



plary niemher ot the JNIasonic lodge of 
Xenia, in «hicli he served as master for five 
years. He has also taken the degrees of the 
chapter, council and commandery, being a 
Knight Templar of Reed Commandery, of 
Dayton. He was formerly a member of the 
Knights of Pythias fraternit}- and of the 
Knights of Honor. Many important busi- 
ness concerns have enjo}-ed the benefit of his 
wise counsel and sagacity in business affairs. 
He was one of the incorporators and organ- 
izers of the Xenia Paper Company, now ex- 
tinct, and served as its secretary and treas- 
urer. He also occupied similar offices with 
the Field Cordage Company, which has 
likewise gone out of business. However, he 
is also a stockholder in many business en- 
terprises here, was secretary and treasurer of 
tlie Miami Telephone Company in the '80s, 
and in January, 1901, was elected president 
•of the Xenia Xational Bank, and has since 
been at the head of that institution. In poli- 
tics he has always been a Republican but 
has never sought or desired office outside the 
direct line of his profession. For five years 
in the '70s he was prosecuting attorney of 
Xenia and in the fall of 1886 he was elected 
to the bench of the second Ohio circuit, 
where he served for twelve years. He was 
presiding' judge of the court for six years 
and chief justice of t^ie state for two years. 
During that time the suit that rose out of 
the controversy between the liberals and se- 
ceders of the United Brethren church came 
up before him and his decision was sustained 
by the supreme court. This case excited 
considerable attention throughout all parts 
of the United States and Canada. Judge 
Shearer has made the practice of law his real 
life work, and at the bar and on the bench 
he has won marked distinction. A man of 
unimpeachable character, of unusual intel- 



lectual endowments, with a thorough under- 
standing of the law, patience, urbanity and 
industry, the Judge tonk hi the bench the 
very highest qualifications for the most re- 
sponsible office of the state government, and 
his record as a judge has been in harmony 
with his record as a man and a lawyer, dis- 
tinguished bv unswerving integritv and a 
masterful grasp of every problem which has 
presented itself for solution. 



COXRAD GILLAUGH. 

Conrad Gillaugh was born in Germany 
on the 24th of August. 1824, but from the 
age of five years has been a resident of the 
United States, ha\-ing come to this country 
with his parents, Albert and Catherine (Mil- 
ler) Gillaugh, both of whom were natives of 
the fatherland. The former served as a sol- 
dier of the German army and upon coming 
to the new world he took up his home in 
Cumberland county, Alaryland, about thirty 
miles from Baltimore. There he worked in 
the mines for a year, after which he turned 
his attention to farming, which he followed 
for a number of years in that county. There 
his death occurred \\hen he was seventy- 
three years of age and his wife passed away 
in the same locality. 

Conrad Gillaugh well remembers the 
voyage to America, which was made upon a 
sailing vessel, twelve weeks having passed 
ere anchor was dropped in the harbor of 
Baltimore. He lost his mother when about 
ten years of age. His education was pur- 
sued in the schools of Cumberland county, 
Maryland, and in his youth he worked upon 
a farm in the home neighborhood. About 
fifty-three years ago he came to Ohio, first 



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settling in Clark cuunty. near Springfield, 
where he was employed as a stone quarry- 
man and in tlie lumber districts. He after- 
ward engaged in farming near Oshorn. 
'I'wentv-tiiree years ago he took u[) his al)ode 
in Cedarville township, Greene county, 
where he purchased forty acres of land on 
which he has since made many improve- 
ments. There he engaged in general farm- 
ing and stock-raising, continuing upon that 
place tintil about seven years ago when he 
removed to the town of Cedarville in which 
he is now living a retired life. His business 
career has been one in which he has closely 
followed honorable principles, manifesting 
marked diligence and perseverance in all his 
work. 

Mr. Cillaugh was united in marriage to 
Ann E. Alexander, who was born in Penn- 
svlvania. October 22. 1825. and died .August 
30, 1870. upon the home tarni in C.reene 
countv. Eight children were born of that 
union. Kate is the wife f)f Charles W. 
Crouse. a butcher, of Cedarville. Ohio, and 
thev have two cliildren : Charles and Ethel, 
the latter he'mg the wife of Sydney Smith, 
who is employed in the pai)er mill at Cedar- 
ville. John .\.. the second member of the 
family, is a resident farmer of Greene coun- 
ty. He is married and has three children: 
George D.. Anna and Lawrence. Ella, the 
third in order of birth, is deceased. Horace, 
who resides upon the old home place, mar- 
ried Sarah McKay. Emma Jane is the wife 
of Ered Eraver. of Xenia. Ohio, and their 
children are: Xcllie. William and Dora. 
Sallie is the wife of Wallace Barlier. a car- 
])enter of Dayton. William is in the employ 
of the freight hou.se at Xenia. Charles is 
engaged in the grocery business at Cedar- 
ville and married Rosa Hoover, by whom 
he 111- i\\. 1 children. Pauline and Hubert. 



For his second wife Mr. Gillaugh chose 
Mrs. Mary Kramer, widow of Peter Kra- 
nier. of Clark county, by whom she had one 
child. Sarah Ellen, now the wife of Oscar 
Raber. of Springfield. Ohio. She had pre- 
viously been the widow of Jacob W. Lefifel, 
and by her first marriage she had si.K chil- 
dren : Daisy. Harry. Cleve. Lula. Lawrence 
and Henry. By his second marriage Mr. 
Gillaugh has one son, Frank, who is en- 
gaged in the grocery business with his 
brother. 

In his political views Mr. Gillaugh is a 
Democrat and in religious faith is ccinnected 
with the German Reformed church. There 
is no native born citizen of America who is 
more loyal to the interests of this land than 
our subject, who throughout the years of his 
residence here has taken a helpful interest 
ill many measures for the general good. He 
has also improved his business opix)rtunities 
antl enter])rise and determination have been 
strong characteristics of his successful 
career. 



THOMAS 15. \\'.\DE. 

Thomas B. \\ ade has from an early day 
been a resident of Greene county and is 
classed among its citizens of worth and 
\alue. He was l)<)rn in Frederick county. 
\'irginia, June o. 1814. and came tf) Ohio 
w ith his parents, John and Mary ( Butter- 
field ) Wade, both of whom were natives of 
the Old Dominion. The father followed 
farming throughout his entire life and about 
1817 he brought his family to Ohio, taking 
up his abode in the city of Xenia, where he 
remained until he purchased a farm near 
\\ hat is now Selma. His first purchase was 
a tract of land in Clark countv and there he 





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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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and his wife resided until they were called 
to their rinal rest, his demise occurring in 
1833, when he was sixty-two years of age. 
The mother sur\-ived him for eleven years, 
passing away in 1844. In their family were 
eight children of whom two are still living- 
Thomas B., and Hamilton, a resident of 
Ciark county. 

Thomas B. Wade gained his earlv edu- 
cation in the district schools of Clark county 
and remained upon the old home farm until 
1857, when he came to Greene county, lo- 
cating in Ross township. He has lived upon 
his present farm of se\-enty-four acres since 
1866, and is one of the wide-awake, enter- 
prising and progressive agriculturists of his 
communit}-, halving added to his possessions 
until he now has over t)ne hundred and fifty 
acres. As a companion and helpmate for 
life's journey he chose Miss Mary Butcher, 
their marriage heing celebrated in 1838, 
near Selma, in Greene county. Her parents 
were Joseph and Mary Butcher, who re- 
sided in this county, but both are now de- 
ceased. In 1883 Mr. \\'ade was called upon 
to mourn the loss of his wife, who died at 
the age of sixty-eight years. In their fam- 
ily were five children : Ruth. Elizabeth. 
Julia A., and John being the surviving mem- 
bers of the family. The son resides in 
Springfield. Clark county, where he is em- 
ployed as a stationary engineer. He mar- 
ried Eliza Gibson, of Greene county, and 
they have five children : Homer G.. Raper 
Carl. Eva, Grace and Clark. 

Mr. Wade was reared in the faith of the 
Society of Friends and has never been con- 
nected with any denomination in Greene 
county. In early life he supported the old 
Whig party and upon its dissolution joined 
the ranks of the new Republican party and 



has since marched under its banners. He is 
now eighty-eight years of age, having trav- 
eled thus far on life's journew Through- 
out the entire course he has followed the 
straight and narrow path, his life being 
characterized by honesty, by fidelity to duty 
and by strict adherence to those characteris- 
tics which in every land amd every clime 
command respect. He has witnessed to a 
great extent the development and progress 
of this portion of the state, is one of the 
\'enerated partriarchs of his community, and 
as such deserves mention in this volume. 



WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM. 

In a record of the successful and prom- 
inent agriculturists of Sugarcreek township 
is William Cunningham, whose birth oc- 
curred in the village of Bellbrook, Septem- 
ber 17, i860, his parents being James and 
Sarah (Stratton) Cunningham. The fa- 
tlier was also born in Bellbrook, September 
15, 1818, and his death occurred January 
24, 1884. In early life he learned the coop- 
er's trade and for several years he carried 
on that business in his native town, emplov- 
ing a number of workmen. He was married 
ii. Bellbrook, April 18, 1844, to Sarah Strat- 
ton, whose birth occurred in Frederick coun- 
ty. r^Iaryland, August 19, 1826. When quite 
small she came to Ohio with her parents and 
kcated two miles south of Bellbrook. Her 
death occurred a half mile east of the village 
on the 9th of December, 1867. After fol- 
lowing the cooper's trade for several years, 
Mr. Cunningham abandoned that occupatiojj 
and removed to the farm owned Isy Matthew 
Berryhill, continuing the cultivation of the 
land for some time. While living there his 



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first wife died. Tliere had been ten children 
born of that marriage. F. P., the eldest, 
born April 6, 1845. resided in Xenia for 
many years but is now a practicing attorney 
of Clarksville, Ohio. Mary -\ngeline, born 
November 25, 1846, is living in Dayton. 
Robert A., bom July 28, 1848, died in in- 
fancy. Charles E.. born September 2j. 1S50, 
was a musician in the regular army for five 
years and is now living with his eldest broth- 
er. Martha, born Januarj- 24, 1853, is the 
wife of John S. Turner. Elizabeth, born 
May 18, 1858, died at the age of fourteen 
years. J. C. born December 19, 1857, mar- 
ried Grace Jefifries and lives in Sugarcreek 
township. William is the ne.xt of the family. 
Nellie M.. born June 3. 1863, is the wife of 
Victor Taylor. Minnie L., born November 
22. 1865, is the wife of William Stephenson. 
The father had good educational privileges, 
completing the high school course in Xenia, 
and throughout his entire life was an exten- 
sive reader. He read law for his own amuse- 
ment and instruction and was also a great 
Bible student. For over forty years he 
served as an elder in the Presbyterian 
church, filling that office up to the time of 
his death. He cast his first presidential vote 
for Harrison and on tiie dissolution of the 
Whig party liecame a stanch Republican. 

William Cunningham was educated in 
the common schools and at the age of six- 
teen went to Xenia where for three years 
he was employed as a clerk in a store, return- 
ing then to the home farm. In Sugarcreek 
township, ^larch 3. 1887. he was married to 
Miss Jeanette Thorp, who was Ixirn in Day- 
ton, a daughter of William and Ellen (Mac- 
Hatty) Thorp. The young couple began 
their domestic life on the old home east of 
Belllirook where they remained until 1899. 
when they went to live witii Mrs. Angeline 



Berryhill, the widow of Matthew BerryhilU 
who was a great-uncle of our subject. Mr. 
and Mrs. Cunningham have no children of 
their own, but have recently adopted a little 
girl, Nellie Friermood, who was born near 
Stringtown, January 2Ti, 1891. 

Mr. Cunningham is a Republican and 
for one term was township trustee, while as 
a member of the school board of Bellbrook 
he has labored earncsllv in the cause of edu- 
cation. He served as a delegate to both the 
state and congressional conventions in 1902, 
and keeps well informed on political issues. 
He and his wife arc members of the Presby- 
terian church and he was one of the building 
C(jmmittee that planned for the erection of 
the fine edifice there, contributing freely to 
the cause. Socially he is identified with the 
Junior Order of American Mechanics, of 
which he is a trustee. His farm comprises 
one hundred and thirty-two acres of very 
\aluable land and his home is one of the 
best in the county. All of this has been ac- 
quired through his own earnest efiforts and 
his life history proves conclusively what a 
pi>tent element in the business worlfl is un- 
tlagging industry. 



SILAS B. Li- SOL'RD. 

That the plentitude of satiety is seldom 
attained in the affairs of life is to be con- 
sidered a most grateful and beneficial de- 
piivation for where ambition is satisfied and 
every ultimate aim realized, if such is possi- 
ble, — there nuist follow individual apathy. 
Effort will cease, accomplishment be pros- 
tiate and creative talent waste its energies 
in supine inactivity. The men who have 
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been tlmse to whom satiety lav e\'er in the 
future, and they have labored consecutively 
and have not failed to tind in each transition 
stage an incentive for further effort. Mr. 
Le Sourd is accounted one of the most enter- 
prising and progressive business men of 
Xenia where he is widely known as a real 
ettate, insurance and loan agent. 

He was born in Butler county, Ohio, 
February 9, 1850, and is a son of Xicholas 
and Eleanor (Gorsuch) Le Sourd. His pa- 
ternal grandfather, Peter Le Sourd, was a 
native of France and accompanied Lafayette 
to America when that brave French gentle- 
man and his men volunteered to aid in the 
establishment of the American republic 
through the force of arms. The family name 
was then spelled La Seur, but has since been 
changed to its present form. The grandfa- 
ther was an officer of the French army, but 
instead of returning to his native country at 
the close of the war for independence, he 
decided to remain and take up his abode in 
Maryland, where he first followed farming 
and afterward became a large railroad con- 
tractor. In this country he was inarried and 
tl'en removed to Butler county, Ohio, mak- 
ing the journey by wagon in 1835, accom- 
panied by his wife and eight children. His 
remaining days were spent in this state and 
he was activeh- associated with the early 
pioneer development of the community in 
which he took up his abode. 

Xicholas Le Sourd, the father of our 
subject, was born in Maryland and with his 
parents came to this state. He acquired his 
education in the common schools and when 
he entered upon his business career followed 
the occupation of farming, to which he had 
been reared, extensively operating land in 
Butler county for a number of years. He 
ne\er left that lr)calit\- but spent his remain- 



ing days there, passing away in 1884 at the 
age of sixty-eight. His wife was called to 
her final rest in 1874. They were the par- 
ents of six children, but only three of the 
fainily are now living. One brother, J. T. 
Le Sourd, is a resident of Xenia, where he is 
also engaged in the insurance, real estate and 
loan business. 

In the common schools S. B. Le Sourd 
pursued his early education which was sup- 
plemented by a course in the Lebanon State 
X'^ormal. He also pursued his studies in the 
Monroe Academy at IMonroe, Ohio, and 
later he engaged in teaching school in But- 
ler for a time. In the fall of 1878 he came 
to Xenia and established a real estate and 
loan business on a small scale. In 1880 he 
admitted F. E. McGervey to a partnership 
that has since Ijeen maintained and gradually 
their business has grown in volume and im- 
portance. As insurance agents they write 
a large business each year, their policies rep- 
resenting many thousands of dollars. Mr. 
Le Sourd is also adjuster for the Ohio 
Farmers" Insurance Company of the south- 
ern district of this state. He has also hand- 
led considerable real estate, negotiating 
many important property transfers anil is 
an assistant secretary of the Home Building 
& Savings Association of Xenia. 

On the 30th of March. 1876, Mr. Le 
Sourd was united in marriage to Miss Ida 
M. Stewart, a daughter of Judge J- M. 
Stewart, and unto them ha\'e been born five 
children : Harry, who is a graduate of Del- 
aware L^niversit}- and also of the Cincinnati 
Law School ; Florence, who completed the 
course in the Ohio ^^'es]eyan L'niversitv, at 
Delaware: Gertrude, who died at the age of 
six years ; Rebecca, who is a student in the 
Xenia schools: and Mabel, who died at the 
age of a year and a half. Fraternallv ;\Ir. 



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Le Sounl is connected with Xenia Lodge. 
No. 49. F. & A. M.. and Xenia Chapter. R. 
A. M. He also Ijelongs to Talx>r Lodge, 
No. 315. L O. O. F., of which he is pa.st 
grand and in politics he is an earnest Repub- 
lican, liaving firm beHci in the principles of 
the party. He also has membership rela- 
tions with the Methodist Episcopal church 
of Xenia, of which he is a steward. His life 
has been one of continuous activity, in which 
has been acc<jrded due recognition of labor; 
and today he is numbereil among the sub- 
stantial citizens of his county. His interests 
are thoroughly identified with those of the 
northwest, and at all times he is ready to 
lend his aid and co-o|)eration to any move- 
ment calcnl;ited to benefit this section of tlie 
countrv or advance its tNonderful develoj)- 
nient. 



J. DARWIX I-:i)\\ARDS. M. P. 

Death often removes from a community 
one whom the citizens feel that they can ill 
afiford to lose and such was the case when 
Dr. J. Darwin Edwards departe<l this life, 
yet he accomplished great good in tlie years 
allotted to him and through a long period 
maintained a prominent and distinctive po- 
sition as one of the most skilled and capalile 
physicians of Greene county. His labors 
here covered a period of more than a quarter 
of a century, during which time his honor- 
able manlKKKl. as well as professional abil- 
ity won him the confidence and esteem of 
all. He was also associated with business 
enterprises of importance and both directly 
and indirectly his labors proved of benefit 
to the comnumity. 

Dr. Edwards was born September 16, 
i8jo. in Bethel, Clermont countv, Ohio. His 



father. Caleb Edwards, was born in Xe\»- 
Jersey about the year 1772 and married 
Miss Betsey Meeker. In 1806 they left the 
east, remoxing to Ohio, and in Clermont 
county they were nuinbere<l among the 
early settlers. The father of our subject 
hewed t)Ul a farm in the midst of the for- 
est, working hard to clear enough land in 
order that his lalxjrs as an agriculturist 
might provide comfortably for his family. 
Throughout his remaining days he devoted 
his energies to the work of tilling the soil, 
and in 1859 his lalx)rs were ended in death. 
His widow survived him until 1876 and five 
of her children were li\ing at the time of 
her demise. 

I^r. Edwards spent the first fifteen years 
of his life on the old home farm and then 
left the jjarental roof in order to learn a 
trade. He had ac(|uired a good education 
in his youth, displaying special aptitude in 
his studies and in learning his trade he also 
progressed rapidly and became proficient. 
To a man of strong mentality such as Dr. 
Edwards possessed it was but natural that 
professional life should have stronger at- 
tractions for him than industrial pursuits, 
and desiring to acquire proper knowledge he 
e\entually entered Augusta College, in 
which he was graduated with the class of 
1839 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
For a short time he engaged in teaching, 
but soon took up the study of medicine with 
Dr. Eilwards, of Greenfield. Indiana, as his 
l)receptor. He also attended medical lect- 
ures at Cincinnati, and was there accorde<l 
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Enter- 
ing upon the practice of his profession, he 
devoted much of his remaining life to the 
alleviation of sufifering and the restt)ration 
of health. 

In the vear i8:;o. however. Dr. Edwards, 




J. D. EDWARDS, M. D. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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•attracterl Ijy tlie discovery of gold in Cal- 
ifornia, crossed the plains, making his way 
from St. Joseph, Missouri, by way of Salt 
Lake City, to the EI Dorado of the West. 
He traveled with mule teams and accom- 
plished the journey from the Missouri river 
to Sacramento in ninety days. While en 
route he passed no town or habitation of 
white people e.xcept at Forts Bridger and 
Kearney. Dr. Ediwards first located at Sac- 
iramento, ibut afterward resided at different 
times at Michigan Bar. Stockton and An- 
gels. He became interested in mining, but 
also conducted a drug store and ])racticed 
his profession. He there won a large cli- 
entage and his services were in almost con- 
stant demand. Prospering in his work he 
was enabled to purchase a cjuartz mine 
which had some very rich pockets. For 
about nine \ears he remained upon the Pa- 
cific coast and in 1859 again came to Ohio, 
intending, however, to spend only a short 
period here, but changed his mind and made 
a permanent location. It was about this time 
that he received his diploma from the lued- 
ical college and was married to Mrs. Ruth 
McFarland, a daughter of Robert and Mar- 
_gie (Mylie) Chapman. Her father was a 
native of Pennsylvania and removed from 
that state to Ohio. The marriage of the 
Doctor and his wife was celebrated in 
'Greene county, February 2, i860. He had 
pr^\-iously married Dorcas Edenfield, but 
she died lea\nng one son, Frank. 

In the year i860 Dr. Etl wards locateil 
for practice in Xenia and for a quarter of a 
•century was an acti\-e, influential and suc- 
cessful member of the profession here. As 
he demonstrated his skill and ability to suc- 
cessfully cope with the intricate problems 
■presented by disease, his patronage grew 
until his business has assumed extensive pro- 



portions, his professional ser\-ices having 
been sought at many distant points as well 
as in Greene county, and during seasons 
when illness was very prevalent, there have 
been weeks at a time when he was unable 
to obtain a complete night's rest. The first 
enterprise with which he became connected 
in Xenia outside of the strict path of his 
profession was the Citizens" National Bank, 
which he aided in organizing. It opened its 
doors for business on the 13th of Novem- 
ber, 1 88 1, with J. W. King as president and 
Dr. Edwards as vice president, and upon the 
death of Mr. King, in July, 1883, the Doc- 
tor was elected as his successor and served 
continuously as the president (if that reli- 
able institution until his owai death, which 
occurred on the 19th of X^ovember, 1896. 
As the years passed the Doctor made invest- 
ments in mining stock and through his pro- 
fessional labors and through his ownership 
of mining property, he accumulated a hand- 
some competence. 

He was honored with the vice pres- 
idency of the medical society and for many 
years was president of the Greene County 
Medical Society and the Xenia Academy of 
Medicine. He was deeply interested in 
everything" which tended to bring to man 
the key to that mystery which we call life, 
and by constant reading and investigation, 
he always kept abreast with the advanced 
thought of the times. From his youth hz 
Delonged to the Republican party and was 
one of its active and earnest workers, al- 
though he was ne\-er an aspirant for polit- 
ical honors. Much against his desire he 
was made a member of the cit}- council and 
for two years represented the second ward. 
The Doctor possessed an artistic nature and 
had a decided talent for reproducing in dif- 
ferent forms his ideals. His skill in manip- 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ulatinu;- day is demonstrated in a ven- line 
bust wliicii lie modeled from clay taken out 
of his cellar and which shows in a marked 
degree his artistic ability. Perhaps the most 
wonderful work which he accomplished in 
this direction is a little study three-fourths 
inches high and weighing six grains. It 
was cut from the pith of a cornstalk and is 
called the Catholic Missionary Presenting 
the Cross to the Heathen. It represents a 
man in priestly garments holding out a 
cross. Ever\- detail of the work is perfect 
and the pose of the figure as viewed from 
every side is easy, natural and graceful. 
This wr>nderful little work of art receive! 
\erv fa\orable mention from artists at the 
Ohio Centennial in Cincinnati and was pro- 
nounced by all to be nearly perfect. 

When the Ohio law was inaugurated 
compelling the practicing physicians to reg- 
ister. Dr. Edwards took this opportunity to 
retire from the profession and spend his re- 
maining days in quiet and in the enjoyment 
of his well earned rest. Throughout the 
long years of his residence here he had 
gained a very wide acquaintance and his 
sterling characteristics were such as to com- 
mend him to the confidence and respect nf 
all. His aged widow is now spending her 
declining years in a very handsome home on 
Main street, living widi her n-ece. Like her 
liusband she has shared in the esteem of 
manv friends and is widelv known in Xenia. 



J.\COB LEWIS PETEKSOX. 

In a history of the agricultural interests 
of (ireene county Jacob Lewis Peterson well 
deserves mention, for he is an enterprising 
farmer, his home being on the Peterson 



road in Caesarscreek township. He was 
born in .\enia to\\nshi]j May u. 183O. his 
]jarents being Eelix and Mary ( Weaver) 
Peterson. The father was born May 18, 
1809. in Virginia, and was only four years 
of age when brought to Ohio in 1813 by 
liis father. Jacob Peterson, who lixated 
temporarily in Ross county, whence he re- 
moved to Greene county, settling in Xenia 
township. Here he ])urcliased a large tract 
of land, and the farm upon which our sub- 
ject now resides, comprising two hundred 
and ten acres, was a part of the original 
tract. Mr. Peterson had learned the wagon- 
maker s trade, but subsequently gave his at- 
tention to fanning. The father of our sub- 
ject was reared to manhood on the old home 
place and accjuired but a limited education. 
His training in the work of the fields, how- 
ever, was not meager. He was married, 
December it. 1833, in this county, to Miss 
Marv Weaver, and then took u]) his abode 
upon his father's land, having inherited one 
hundred acres. Subsequently he became the 
owner of about seven hundred acres owing 
to judicious investment and careful manage- 
ment. L'nto him and his wife were born 
nine children, seven of whom reached years 
of maturity, while five are yet living: 
Martha, bom September 13, 1834. liecame 
the wife of David I'oots, and unto them 
were born three children, while later she 
married William Smith, by whom she also 
liad three children. Jacob Lewis is the next 
member of the family. Catherine J., born 
October 24. 1838. became the wife of S. M. 
Fuilge and died leaving three children. 
James S.. born j.innary 30, 1841. is resid- 
ing in \ew I'.urlington and has seven chil- 
dren. John W.. born March 22. 1843, is 
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born P'eliriiary 14, 1845. resides in Kansas 
and has three children. Ezra M., laorn 
Octoijer 26, 1848, is now deceased. Isaac 
C, born October 23, 1850, died in child- 
liood. William ^I. also passed away in 
childhood. The father of this family died 
on the 9th of April, 1874. and his wife 
passed away April 8, 1900. their remains be- 
ing interred in Woodland cemetery. He 
was a Whig in early life and later became 
a Republican, while his religious faith con- 
nected him with the German Reformed 
church. 

The boyhood days of our subject formed 
a period of hard toil. He worked on the 
farm, receiving but limited educational priv- 
ileges, but he was \erv fond of reading, ana 
in this way and through experience he great- 
ly l^roadened his knowledge. He was mar- 
ried December 4, 1879, to ]\Iiss .Lizzie 
\\"hitson, of .Arcanum. Darke county, Ohio, 
whose birth occurred in Butler county, Xo- 
\'ember 5, 1856. Her parents were Israel 
and ^larv (Barger) W'hitson. the former a 
nati\e of Schuylkill count}-, Pennsylvania, 
while the latter was born in the Buckeye 
state. During childhootl they came with 
their respective parents to Ohio and were 
married in Butler county. Mrs. Peterson 
was only twelve years of age when her 
parents reinoved to Darke county. Three 
years later she formed the acquaintance of 
the gentleman who afterward became her 
husband. They have one son, Calvin, who 
was born December 15, 1880, and is at 
home. 

At the time of the Civil war our sub- 
ject manifested his loyalty to the Union 
cause by enlisting in Company D. one Hun- 
dred and Tenth Ohio Infantry, and was 
sent to the camp at Piqua. Ohio. In Oc- 



tolser he was sent to the fn.jut and srjon 
afterward became so afflicted with rheuma- 
tism that he was forced to return home, 
where lie remained through the winter. In 
1863, ho\ve\er, he rejoined his regiment 
and took part in the battle at Locust Grove. 
He was afterward in the battle of the W^il- 
derness and in the engagements at Spottsyl- 
vania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Mon- 
ocacy. At the last named he was wounded 
in the left ankle and the wound has never 
healed. He received an honorable discharge 
February 9, 1865, after having been in sev- 
eral hospitals, first at Baltimore and then 
in ^^■estchester, near Philadelphia. He was 
a bra\e and loyal soldier, never faltering i.i 
the performance of his dutv. 

Mr. Peterson is a Republican and since 
v(jting- for Lincoln in i860 has supported 
the men and measures of the part}-. He is 
a member of the German Reformed church 
at I\laple Corner. He inherited some land 
from his father and has since purchased one 
hundred and fourteen acres, so that he now 
has a valuable farm of three hundred and 
twenty-four acres, which is w-ell improved 
w-ith modern equipments that he has placed 
there himself. As a citizen he is as true 
to-day to the duties which devohe upon 
him as when he follow-ed the old flag on 
southern battle-fields. 



ELIAS QUINN. 

Elias Quinn belonged to the little group 
of distinctively representative men who 
have been the pioneers in inaugurating- and 
building, up the chief industries of this sec- 
tion of the countrv. Evervwhere known 



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ROBIX SON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



he commanded tlie res])ect and confidence 
of his fellow men. He was horn in Greene 
county on the 8th of January, 1827. being 
one of the three children of Amos and Jane 
(Goe) Ouinn. The father was called upon 
to serve as sheriff of (ireene county and 
also represented his district in the state leg- 
islatu'^e. wiiere he gave to every question 
uhich came up for consideration his earnest 
thought, and when once he had determined 
upon a course as right, neither fear nor 
favor could swerve him from it. 

During his early l^iyhood our subject 
was left an orphan, liut tliroughout life he 
made the most of his opportunities and ad- 
vanced to a prominent position, not only in 
business circles, but also in the regard of 
all who knew him. For many years he was 
identified with industrial and commercial 
interests in Xenia as one of its leading lum- 
ber dealers. At an early date he estal)- 
lished his lumber yard there and through 
many \ears enjoyed a large patronage, 
which brought to him an excellent financial 
leturn. His business methods were such as 
would bear the closest investigation. He 
was ever honorable and straightforward 
and all who knew him res])ected him for 
his genuine worth. His reliability in trade 
transactions was proverbial, and he contin- 
ued to successfully conduct his lumljer yard 
until about eight or ten years prior to his 
death. He then retired from business cares 
to enjoy a well merited rest. 

On the 26th of .April, 1859. Mr. Quinn 
was united in marriage to Miss Margaret 
Andrews, a daughter of James and Eliza- 
beth (Scott) .\ndrews. Her father was 
born in South Carolina and was later a well 
known farmer of this county. Of this mar- 
riage the following children were born : 



Leila E., who is now a teacher in public 
schools. of Xenia: Elizabeth J., the wife of 
John .\. Cooper, of Xenia: W'illa M. and 
Ralph. The family are members of the 
L'nited Presbyterian church, both Mr. and 
Mrs. (}uinn being connected witli that 
church from the time of the union of the 
Seceder and Associate Reformed churches. 
Mrs. Ouinn survives her husband and with 
two daughters is residing in a pleasant home 
at Xo. 102 East Market street, Xenia. 

In his political views Mr. Ouinn was a 
Republican, and was interested in the 
growth and success of his party, but he 
never held or aspired to office. In May, 
1864, he enlisted in Company E, One Hun- 
dred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry and .served throughout the term of 
his enlistment, afterward becoming a meiu- 
ber of Lewis Post. G. A. R. On the 15th 
of April. 1900, he was called to his final 
rest when se\enty-three years of age, and 
his remains were interred in Woodland 
cemetery. Mr. Ouinn was widely and fa- 
vorably known, though in character he was 
of a very mild and unassuming nature, and 
though shrinking from public life he was at 
all times actuated by a fidelity to his coun- 
trv and her welfare. 



GEORGE DODDS. 

Often rlo we hear it said of those who 
have attained distinguished success that thev 
were men who rose to eminence through ad- 
vantageous circumstances, and yet to such 
carping criticisms and lack of appreciation 
tliere needs l)e made but the one statement, 
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nearly ever}' man at some stage in his ca- 
reer, hut the strong man and the successful 
man is he who realizes the intrinsic value 
of minor as well as great opportunities, who 
stands read}' to take advantage of circum- 
stances and who even molds adverse con- 
ditions until they serve his ends. George 
Dodds is a nian who has known when the 
opportunity for accomplishmeiit was pre- 
sented and has impro\'ed it. Although he 
came from Scotland to America when a 
young man without capital, he to-day stands 
among the successful and prominent men of 
central Ohio, lieing successfullv engaged in 
the marhle business in Xenia. He was born 
in Roxboroughshire, Scotland, on the 19th 
of Feljruary, 1H37, his parents being George 
and Isabel (Taylor) Dodds. who \vere al- 
so natives of the same localit}'. In that 
countr}' they silent their entire li\es. The 
father was a farmer by occupation and b}' 
following that piu'suit prfivided for his fam- 
ily, numbering liis wife and se\'en children. 
George Dodds, who was the hftli in 
order of birth, oljtained a common school 
education and remained in his native land 
until seventeen years of age. In the mean- 
lime, his brother Andrew had come to 
America and was foreman in a marble shop 
in Madison, Indiana. He sent for his 
Ijrother George to join him and learn the 
trade, so taking passage upon the steamship 
Glasgow July 11. 1854. and after a rough 
\'oyag'e of sixteen days, George Dodds 
landed at New York. He made his way 
direct to Madison, I)y way of Cincinnati, 
proceeding by boat from the latter point. 
In the shop where his brother was foreman, 
he learned the trade of marble caT\'er and 
letterer. being emploved there for four 
vears. In the meantime, his briither had 



left Aladison and removed to Yellow 
Springs, Ohio. Here George Dodds joined 
him in 1859 and going to Antioch they con- 
ducted a small marble shop, carrying on 
business there until 1864. when Andrew 
Dodds joined the Union army for four 
months service. The business was ordwingf 
rapidly and upon his return the brothers 
concluded to remove to Xenia. so that the 
firm of A. & G. Dodds became an active 
factor in the industrial and commercial life 
of this city. In the spring of 1866. the elder 
partner went to Scotland, where he \)\\r- 
chased a large amount of Scotch granite,, 
siiipping it to Xenia so that the firm of 
A. & G. Dodds became the first importers of 
Scotch granite west of New York city. The 
])artnership was continued until 1867. but 
in the meantime they had established a 
house at St. Louis, and Andrew Dodds took 
cliarge cif the Imsiness there, while George 
Dodds remained as proprietor of the Xenia 
business. The partnership was thus dis- 
solved and oiu- suljject continued alone until 
1 87 1 when he admitted Alexander Caskey. 
After two years, however, this relation was 
discontinued. Mr. Caskey becoming owner 
of the Pittsburg branch of their business 
which they had established in 1872. From 
1873 '•intil 1897 Mr. Dodds was alone, but 
in the latter year he admitted his soil J. C. 
to a partnership. The firm of George Dodds 
& Son makes a specialty of granite monu- 
ments and ornamental stone x'erandas. 
They also do a large business in preparing 
and selling cut stone and the}' put in the 
large stone veranda at the Dayton State 
Hospital, at Dayton, Ohio. They formerly 
conducted a large wholesale business in 
granite tliroughout the western states and 
they are now doing a \erv large retail busi- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ness in tliis portion of Ohio, their patronage 
having reached extensive proportions which 
brings them annually a splendid income. 

On the !ith of October, 1861, Mr. 
Dodds uas married to Elizabeth I. Fer- 
guson, of Madison. Indiana, who died Au- 
gust 20, 1865. leaving two children. George 
Fremont, tlie elder, is carrying on the marble 
business in London. Ohio, and married 
Stella Corns, by whom lie has a daughter, 
Dorothy Day. The other child died in in- 
fancy. On the 1 6th of October, 1866, ]\Ir. 
Dodds wedded Mary E. Brown, of Xenia, a 
<laughter of Hiram and Rebecca Brown. 
Her father was an architect and builder who 
had come to Xenia to erect the old court- 
house of Greene county. His son, William 
K. limwii. is widely known as a designer 
<)t line churches and has gained considerable 
renown as an architect, having headquarters 
in Chicago and Cincinnati. Unto ISIr. and 
Mrs. Dodds were born eight children : Car- 
rie B. is the widow of Rev. George H. Geyer, 
who, during his college course, was min- 
ister of Hope chapel, Boston, for three years. 
He was a pastor for three years at Ironton, 
Ohio, and died while in charge of the King 
Avenue Methodist Episcopal church of Co- 
lumbus. June 25. 1900, and his widow, who 
has three children, is imw making her home 
with her father and mother. Frank W.. 
who lor eleven years was connected with 
P>. F. Jacol)s. the well known real-estate man 
of Chicago, is now located at Columbus, hav- 
ing graduated from the law department of 
the Ohio State University in 1902 as class 
orator. He married Clara C. Elliott and 
lias one child. Leslie J-. who is connected 
with the firm of Wil.son Brothers, of Chi- 
cago, makes two trips each year to Europe 
in order to buy goods for that house. He 



married Miss Lulu Frame and has one child. 
J. Charles is associated with his father in 
business. Earl C. who wedded Mary 
Hutchison, is now connected with the whole- 
sale house of the Columbus Shirt Company, 
in Chicagr). Ralph is a resident of Chicago, 
with Charles A. Stevens & Brothers. ^Lary 
Alice died at the age of one year. Jessie 
K., the youngest, is at home with her par- 
ents. 

P'or a number of years Mr. Dodds was 
a member of the Good Templars Society, has 
always been a recognized leader in temper- 
ance work in this section of Ohio, and is 
a stanch Prohibitionist in politics. He is 
now president of the board of visitors ap- 
pointed to visit the various reformatories 
and correction institutions of the county. 
Like him, his wife is an active temperance 
worker and is now president of the Women's 
Christian Temperance Union of Xenia. 
They hold membership in the First Meth- 
odist Episcopal church here and lor twenty 
years Mr. Dodds has been its recording 
steward. As a business man he has ever 
been conspicuous among his associates, not 
only for his success, but for his probity, firm- 
ness and honorable methods. His life has 
been one of continuous activity in which 
has been accorded due recognition of lalxjr, 
and to-day he is numbered among the sub- 
stantial citizens of his countv. 



GEORGE TALBERT. 

George Talbert. a well known farmer of 
Spring Valley township, was boni August 
><. 1837. in Sugarcreek township, of the 
marriage of Addison and Elizabeth (Schnel- 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



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lileg) Talbert, tlie father a native of Fau- 
([uier county, Virginia, born in August, 
]8ii. He was about eighteen years of age 
when he came to Greene county. A few 
years pre\'iously his parents, Jolm and Lucy 
(Bowenj Talbert, had emigrated to this 
state and tlie former had become owner of 
about six hundred acres of land on the Little 
jNIiami river, just east of Belllirnok. Tliere 
he remained until his death, which occurred 
in 1873. when he was eighty-eight years 
of age. The father of our subject attended 
school in Xenia after coming to Ohio and 
ijecame a well educated man. For a number 
of years he engaged in teaching school and 
was thus connected with educational inter- 
ests in Bellbrook at the time of his death, 
which occurred in 1848. He had been mar- 
rietl in 1836, and of this unii.m four sons 
and a daughter had been born, the latter 
dying in 1859. After her husband's death 
Mrs. Talbert kept the family together un- 
til her own demise in 1858, when the home 
was br()ken up. 

To the common schools of the neighbor- 
hood George Talbert is indebted for the ed- 
ucational privileges he enjoyed. When 
eighteen years of age he began to learn the 
carriagemaker's trade, serving an appren- 
ticeship of three years, during which time 
he received thirty-six dollars the first year 
together with his board ; sixty dollars the 
second year, and one hundred dollars the 
third year. He afterward worked as a 
journeyman and in 1862 he engaged in 
teaching school in Sugarcreek and Beaver- 
creek townships. Li 1864 his patriotic spirit 
was aroused and he became a member of 
Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth 
Ohio Infantry, with which he was at the 
front for about four months, during which 



time he participated in the loattle of New 
Creek. His younger brother, John, had en- 
listed in 1 861 as a member of the Twenty- 
seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was 
taken prisoner in Missouri, near Kansas 
City. Later he was paroled and sent home 
to Ohio, and after that he never returned 
to his regiment. Jn 1864 he became a 
meiulier (if the Ohio National Guard, rais- 
ing a company of which he was made cap- 
tain. He was also out with the one-hun- 
dred-dav men, being connected with the 
One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, 
during which time he participated in the 
battle of Monocacy. He was there taken 
prisoner, l)ut after an hour was released, 
and is now li\ing in Jackson county. Kan- 
sas, where he has made his home since 1868. 
He was married in Clinton county. Ohio, 
to Margaret Terry, and they have three chil- 
dren, two born in Ohio and one in Kansas. 
James, another brother of our subject, was 
also in the one hundred days' service, and 
he died near (Glasgow, Missouri, in 1866. 
x\ddison, who enlisted in March, 1864, in 
the Seventy-fourth Regiment, was killed at 
Peach Tree Creek, July 20. 1864, being shot 
in the forehead while on the skirmish line ; 
thus all four of the sons were in the service 
in the year 1864. 

After the close of his military career 
George Talbert engaged in the lumber busi- 
ness at Wilmington. He was married in 
the home in which he now lives, June 4, 
1874, to Miss Martha Stump, a daughter 
of Jonas and Prudence ( Smalley) Stump, 
the latter a daughter of William Smalley, 
who was captured by the Indians and held 
as a prisoner for five years. His captors 
were members of the Delaware tribe, and 
by them he was taken to Upper Sandusky. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



.\lter liis iiianiafi^e Mr. Talljert resided in 
Wilmington until 18S4. when he removed 
to his present place of residence in Spring 
Valley township, and has since devoted his 
energies to the cultivation of the cereals 
best adapted to this climate. The farm com- 
prises two hundred and twenty acres of 
land and is under a high state of cultiva- 
tion, owing to the industrious and persever- 
ing efforts of Mr. Talbert. In his jxtlitical 
views our subject was a l\e]jul)lican for 
some years from the time he cast his first 
presidential vote for Lincoln until 1884. 
when he gave his sujjport to Cleveland. 
.\t one time he was identified with the Ma- 
sonic fraternity of Xenia and later with the 
lodge in Wilmington. Whether in mercan- 
tile or agricultural life he has e\er been 
found to be a relial)le business man who 
possesses the enter])risiiig spirit so char- 
acteristic of America. He has made the 
most of his opportunities and as the archi- 
tect of his o\\ n fortunes he has builded wise- 
Iv and well. 



BE.\J.\.\!IX W. ARXETT, D. D.. LL. 1). 

"I'.arii tin- reward : the gods give naught 
to sloth,"' said the sage Epicharmus, and the 
truth of this admonition has been verified 
throughout the ages which have rolled their 
course since his clay. There are few men in 
America that have more truly earned the 
position to which they have attained than 
has Bishop Arnett. He has been designated 
as "churchman, statesman and orator." and 
he stands to-day as one of the most distin- 
guished divines of this land, and yet few 
men have a more accurate or comprehensive 
knowledge of the political and social condi- 



tions of the country, or have a broader out- 
look upon the world's work and the trend 
of e\ents. There has hardly been an idle 
moment in his entire career from the time 
when with earnest purjjose he set to work 
to master the daily tasks assigned him in 
the schoolroom. Since then he has labored 
to ameliorate the conditions of his own race, 
to uphold his nation's honor and promote 
her usefulness and to extend the influence of 
Christianity until its mighty principles shall 
find exemplitication in every walk of life. 
Although the following is but the briefest 
outline of his work, he who will read be- 
tween the lines will gain recognition of 
the unending activity which has made 
Bishop Arnett distinguished in church, in 
state and in society, although distinction 
would be the last thing for which such a 
man would seek, his entire career having 
been permeated with the one idea of helping 
his fellow men. 

Benjamin William Arnett, D. D., LL. 
D., was lx)rn March 6, 1838, in Brownsville, 
Fayette county. Pennsylvania. \\ hen six 
months old he was baptized by Rev. Sam- 
uel G. Clingman, of the Ohio Annual con- 
terence. He was convicted under the 
jireaching of Rev. Jeremiah Lewis. February 
ID, 1856, and converted February 14th. He 
was received into the .African Methodist 
Episcopal church February 17th, by Rev. 
Lc\en Cross (jf the Ohio .\nnual conference. 
He was licensed to preach March 30, 1865. 
by Rev. J. D. S. Hall, of the Baltimore 
Annual conference, at Washington. D. C, 
and recommended to the traveling connec- 
tion by Rev. William B. Lewis, of the Ohio 
Annual conference, at Lexington. Kentucky, 
receiving his first appointment at Walnut 
Hills, in Cincinnati. Ohio, April 19. 1867. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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He was ordained a deacon April 30, 1868, 
by Bishop William Paul Ouinn, at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and as an elder by Bishop Daniel 
A. Payne. ]\Iay 12, 1870, at Xenia, Ohio. 
In additiiin to his pastora/1 work Bi.sho'p 
Arnett received a license to teach school De- 
cember 19, 1869, and taught at different 
times until December, 1871. During his 
ministerial work he has filled the following 
appointments: 1867-8-9, Walnut Hills, 
Ohio; 1870-1-2, Toledo, Ohio; 1873-4-5, Al- 
len Temple, Cincinnati. Ohio: 1876-7, St. 
Paul African ^Methodist Episcopal church, 
Lh"bana, Ohio; 1878-9, St. Paul African 
Methodist Episcopal church, at Columbus, 
Ohio. He was elected as ministerial dele- 
gate from the Ohio Annual conference to the 
general conferences of 1872, 1876 and 1880, 
and served as assistant secretary in 1872 and 
as general secretary in 1876 and 1880. At 
the general conference of 1880. held in St. 
Louis, Missouri, he w^as elected the financial 
secretary of the general conferaice and re- 
elected in 1884 at the session held at Balti- 
more, Maryland. The Bishop was a mem- 
ber of the National Equal Rights League, 
of Syracuse, New York, October 4, 1864, 
Frederick Douglas, president ; a member of 
the Er|ual Rights Convention, held at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, Hon. John M. Langston, presi- 
tlent : secretary of the National Convention, 
at Washington, D. C, December, 1866, 
Hon. John AT. Langston, president ; chaplain 
of the National Convention of Colored ]\Ien, 
September 2, 1882, held at Louisville, Ken- 
tucky, Frederick Douglas, president; a dele- 
gate to the national Young Men's Oiristian 
Association convention, at Washington, D. 
C, in 1 87 1, Hon. John Wanamaker, presi- 
dent ; foreman of a jury, where all were 
white, at Toledo, Ohio, in 1872 ; he was fore- 

46 



man of a jury composed of all colored men, 
in the spring of 1872, at Toledo, Ohio; he 
was chairman of the committee on resolu- 
tions of the congressi jnal convention in 1872 
held at Toledo, Ohio, composed of five coun- 
ties, having been nominated by L R. Sher- 
w-ood ; appointed recruiting agent by special 
order No. 178 of the war department, Au- 
gust 24, 1863, by General L. Stearns, major 
and assistant adjutant general of the United 
States Vokmteers : he was fraternal delegate 
to the Miami convention of United Brothers, 
held August 12, 1872, at Pleasant Ridge,. 
Ohio. 

Bishop Arnett's connection with societies 
began wth the organization of the Sons of 
Hannibal, at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 
1859. He organized the Sisters of Protec- 
"tion in June, 1859, at Brownsville, Pennsyl- 
vania. In August, 1S59, he organized the 
Mutual Aid Society, composed of men. In 
T863 he organized the Brothers and Sisters 
of Love and Charity, at Brownsville, Penn- 
sylvania. He was a delegate to the Na- 
tional Guard tabernacle, in 1S63, at Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. In 1864 he organ- 
ized the Faith and Hope League of Equal 
Rights, at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and 
one at Uniontown. ^^'ashington, Mononga- 
hela City, Allegheny and Pittsburg, Penn- 
sylvania, respecively. In 1865 he was a 
member of the State Equal Rights League, 
of Pennsyh'ania, acting as western solicitor- 
of the same, having charge of tw'enty-one 
counties. In 1865 he organized a joint stock 
company and started a store, preparing the 
charter w'hich passed through the legislature. 
In June. 1865, he organized the Grand 
L'uited Order of Odd Fellows, at Browns- 
ville, Pennsvlvania. and he has organized 
lodges of this order at Toledo, Cincinnati, 



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KOBINSUX'S HISTORY OJh' GREENE COUNTY 



Walnut Hills. Ur])ana, Ohio; Covington and 
ll;in<"lsl)iir_o-. Kentucky. He was a mcin- 
her of tlie (."(jnimittee of Sub-nianasjenient. 
in i^jO, of the Grand United Order of Odd 
Fellows. Jn 1874 lie was grand orator of 
the ("lood Samaritan, and tlie Daughters of 
Samaria, for the states of Ohio and Indi- 
ana, and a life member of the same. He 
was a member of the Corinthian Lodge of 
Free and .\ccepted Masons, at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, being raised to the degree of Sublime 
Master Ma.son, August 13, 1875. He was 
arched in Decemter, 1877. in Gustava Chap- 
ter, nt L'rbana. Ohio; lie was grand orator 
at the Biennial Movable Committee of 
Grand United Order of Odd I'ellows, of 
Cincinnati. Ohio, October 15, 1884; he was 
grand oratur of tlie Grand Lodge in 1879; 
grand chaplain of the Royal Arch Chapter 
of the state of Ohio in 1879: a member of 
the Knights of Wise Men of the W odd. at 
Xasli\ illc. Tennessee, in 1882. and grand 
lecturer of the same: also grand lecturer of 
the councils of the Indeiiendent Order of 
linniaculates. at Nashville. Tennessee, in 
1883; a member of the Independent Order 
of Good Templars in 1884: he was district 
master of the Sons of 'i"cm])erance. in 1872. 
at loledo. Ohio: and ;i member of the 
United Brothers of Friendship. The Golden 
(iate Loilge of San Francisco and the Grand 
United Order of Odd Fellows gave him a 
rt'cci>iiiin in October, 1886. The Central 
Republican Club, of San Francisco, gave him 
a fare^vell meeting at the \\'igwani, Oc- 
loljer iq, 188^1: he was vice-president of the 
ReiiuliHcan State Convention in 1878: de- 
livered one of the ratification speeches in 
Music Hall, Cincinnati: he was a member 
<>i liie (^liio State Sundav-school convention. 



at Xorwalk, Ohio, in 1878, and was elected 
\ice-president of the same : he was also elect- 
ed a delegate to the international Sunday- 
school Uni(jn, at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1878, 
and at Toronto, Canada, in 1881 : was elect- 
ed by tlie Sunday-school Union oi Ohio to 
represent them at the Robert Raikes' Cen- 
tennial in London, England, in 1880: elect- 
ed to rq)resent the Inter-Deiioniinational 
Sunday-school Union of South Carolina at 
the World's Comention, London, July 2, 
1889: was a member of the reception com- 
mittee which welcomed Hon. J. G. Blaine 
to Greene county in 1886-7: he was the 
author of the bill al)olishing the "Black 
Laws" of the state of Ohio, and t(j pro\ide 
for teaching scientific temperance in all the 
schools. 

The literary work nf Bishop .\rnett is 
mainly statistical and historical. He has 
furnished his race and church more historical 
data and statistics than any man in the 
United States. He and Bishop J. C. Hart- 
zell, of the Methodist l-!piscoi)al church, are 
nearl\- alike in this respect. For ten years 
he compiled and edited the Budget. The 
combined editions of this publication ag.gre- 
gatetl thirty-nine thousand \-olumes. with a 
total nunvi)er of tliirteen million, fi mr hun- 
dred and thirty thousand pages. Bishop 
.\rnett is now engaged on a history of the 
race and the .\frican Methotlist Episcopal 
church, which will doubtless surpass all 
others in accuracy and interest, for he is 
eminently (|ualihed to .so prejiare it. The 
church and race will not be disappointe;l 
with his labors. 

Bishoi) .\rnett was unitetl in marriage 
May 2~,. 1858, to Mary Loui.sa Gordon, at 
Brownsville, Pennsvlvania, and their cliil- 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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(Iren are as follows : Alonza. Benjamin \\'.. 
Jr.. Heni}- \'.. Anna L., Alphonso T.. Flos- 
sie G. and Daniel A. 

yiay 25, 1890, Bishop Arnett responded 
to the address of welcome of Hon. James 
A. Beaver, governor of Pennsylvania, at the 
International Sunday-school convention at 
Pittsljurg. Pennsylvania. He was elected 
and was one of the vice-presidents of the 
International Snnday-school convention, fill- 
ing that office until 1893. He delivered an 
address by invitation before the Repnblican 
■State con\ention, of Denver, Colorado, Sep- 
tember 28, 18S6. He was one of the invited 
guests and delivered several addresses at the 
Centennial Celebration of the First Settle- 
ment i)f the Northwest Territorx. April 7, 
1888. at Marietta, Ohio. He delivered the 
oration at the Jubilee of Freedom, held Sep- 
tember 23. 1888, at the Centennial Exposi- 
tion, of Columbus, Ohio. He deli\ered an 
address in the Flouse of Representatives, in 
the state of Georgia, before the Colored 
Teachers' Association, December 11. 1883. 
He Avas a member of the Centennial confer- 
ence of Methodists, held at Baltimore, ]\Iary- 
land, December 24, 1884, at which time he 
delivered an address entitled; "The Mis- 
sion of Methodism to the Extremes of So- 
cietv." He delivered the annual address be- 
fore the college societies of W'ilberforce Uni- 
versitv. June 19. 1877. He delivered the 
annual address before the college faculty, 
students and friends of Claflin University 
and the Claflin College of Agriculture and 
Mechanical Institution, May 22. 1889, at 
Orangeburg, South Carolina. He delivered 
the address of welcome at the Sub-Tropical 
Exposition, at Jacksonville, Florida, to Hon. 
Frederick Douglas, in behalf of the toard 
of directors and citizens, cm A]iril 4, 1889. 



He was chaplain of the National Republican 
convention, in 1896, at St. Louis, Missouri, 
with J. \l. Thurston, president, that nom- 
inated Hon. William McKinley as candidate 
for president of the United States. He pre- 
sented President McKinlev with the Bible 
upon which he took his oath of office, in be- 
lialf of the African Methodist Episcopal 
church. He was a member of the World's 
Parliament of Religions, delivered six ad- 
dresses and received a gold medal from the 
African Alethodist Episcopal church for the 
jjart he took in behalf of his church. He 
has been one of the speakers at the Inter- 
national Christian Endeavor meetings since 
1895. He was present at the laying of the 
corner-stone of the government building in 
Chicag'o and was one of the guests of the 
city. October 9, 1899. In August, 1900, lie 
was a guest of the Grand Army of the Re- 
pulilic, in Chicago, and delivered an address 
before the veterans. He was a delegate to 
the Ecumenical conference of London, in 
1901, and was chairman of the Statistical 
committee and reported the statistics for the 
Western Hemisphere, and on the 7th of Sep- 
tember of the same year presided in the 
Wesley chapel, at City Roads, London, Eng- 
land. At the present date he holds the fol- 
lowing offices: Secretary of the bishop's 
c )uncil, African IMethodist Episcopal 
church; historian of the African Methodist 
Episcopal church ; trustee of the Archaeolog- 
ical and Historical Society of Ohio ; vice- 
president of the Anti-Saloon League of 
America; \ice-president of Educators of 
Colored Youth ; trustee of Wilberforce Uni- 
\ersity ; director of Payne Theological Sem- 
inarv. at Wilberforce, Ohio ; trustee of the 
United Society of Christian Endeavors; 
irustee and \ice-president of the Normal and 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Jndustrial Board; secretary of Ecumenical 
conference for the western section from 1891 
to 1901. Since his election as bishop of the 
African Methodist Episcopal church he has 
had charge of the following Episcopal dis- 
tricts : 1 888- 1 892 he had charge of Florida, 
East Florida, Columbia. South Carolina, 
and South Carolina conferences; in 1892 he 
had charge of Mississippi, middle Mississip- 
pi, Arkansas, South Arkansas and West Ar- 
kansas. In Xoveml>er, 1893, Bishop Daniel 
A. Payne died, and Decemljer last, 1893, he 
took charge of the Third Episcopal district, 
consisting of Ohio, north Ohio and Pitts- 
burg conferences, and held it until the (ier- 
nian conference of 1896. In 1894 Bishop 
\Va\-man died, and he was appointed to In- 
diana, Illinois and Michigan until tlie gener- 
al conference of 1896 when he was returned 
to Indiana. Illinois. Michigan and Iowa con- 
ferences. At the general conference of 1900 
he was appointed to the third Episcopal dis- 
trict, consisting of Ohio, north Ohio, Pitts- 
burg and California conferences. At the 
time of his api)ointment to the third Eiiis- 
copal district the upper part of the Universi- 
ty at Willierforce was not plasteri .1. and as 
chairman of the building and grounds he 
had the upper part of the building finished. 
He was chairman of the building and 
ground when the new State Department was 
established, also in founding Payne Theo- 
logical Seminary, lie drew the plan of 
O'Xeill Hall, of the combined Normal and 
Industrial departments. When the new tlor- 
mitory was built he was also chairman of 
the building and grounds, and in a great 
measure sui)erintended the new building, 
named by the committee as Arnett Hall, 
which was built at a cost of forty thou.sand 
dollars. 



It will be interesting in this connection 
to note many of the characteristics of the 
man, and of his power as a speaker — a power 
that has swayed hundreds and thousands of 
people throughout the country and ranked 
him with the orators of the land. The Bos- 
ton Herald, in speaking of his address de- 
livered before the Christian Endeavor con- 
vention, at Boston, Massachusetts, said ; 
first speaking of the man and then of his 
oration : 

■"His head is as fine and as strongly 
modelled as that of a typical Roman em- 
peror. In countries like France, where the 
black complexion is a real recommendation 
to popular interest and admiration. Bish- 
op Arnett would cut a noble figure. He 
would be an ideal bishop of some ancient and 
powerful diocese. He would be no less ideal 
in the ivory chair of some historic senate. 
Bishop .-\rnett opened slowly, gravely, elab- 
orately. He sways his audience, he knew 
its temper instinctively down to its least sig- 
nificant elements, and he was sure of his 
al.ility to interest and comman'I it. From or- 
atorical stateliness he ])assed to a more pas- 
sionate utterance with liberty and the hopes 
and aspirations of his race for his theme, an 
element of humor being constantly on the 
alert to guard against any descent into 
pathos. His gestures were perhaps the most 
graceful used by any of the convention 
orators, his figures of speech were sometimes, 
of great a])tness, and even beauty, indeed, 
no one during the whole week achieved a 
greater triumph than Bishop .\rnctt. if one 
takes into consideration the inevitable diffi- 
culties of his position." 

Another omiment comes from the Xew 
Orleans 1 'icayune : 

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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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have occurred to tlie thoughtful student, a 
more wonderful freak of nature, of inspira- 
tion, of native melody of speech — it is hard 
to classify the occurrence or to explain it — • 
than a speaker, very manifestly speaking ex- 
temporaneously, with only the outline of 
what he wanted to say in his mind when 
he rose, speaking unconsciously for five or 
six paragraphs at the close of his speech in 
blank verse, and the most precise, euphoni- 
ous blank verse. This occurred when 
Bishoi) Arnett was bringing his talk to a 
close, and it is entirely likely, in fact it is 
positi\-e, he himself did not knr)\v it. It was 
as much the swinging melody of his speech 
as its substance which brought his auditors 
to their feet, their handkerchiefs in the air, 
their canes upon the floor in wildest demon- 
stration. The occurrence was simply mar- 
velous. The lordly master of English, In- 
gersoll, often had recourse to this trick of 
combined oraton,' and imagination, but with 
him it was premeditated and the result of 
ripened scholarship in additiju to liis mar- 
velous genius. But in this instance it was 
simply the music of speecli welling up in 
the colored man, and the severest critic could 
not ha\"e failed to feel his power of analysis 
slipping froin under him and his wonder pos- 
sessing his faculties to see the very vehe- 
mence and yearning for fullness of expres- 
sion in this colored man falling into precipi- 
tate and inspired blank verse, as the easiest, 
completest vehicle of his thought and feel- 
ings. .Vnd so natural was it that it was only 
Avhen the peroration was closed that one re- 
membered the rythm of the speech and per- 
ceived tlie secret of its subtle force and 
music." 

Has there Ijeen any movement in thought 
or action bearing upon the world's history 



in the nineteenth century which has not 
elicited the attention and thoughtful consid- 
eration of Bishop .\rnett? From the fore- 
going it \\ould seem not. He seems to have 
studied — and studied closely — every subject 
having a close connection with humanity and 
with the uplifting of the standard of the 
human race. His life has proved that mind 
and character rise above all environment, ajl 
traces of prejudice, and command the atten- 
tion and respect which is tlieir due. 



GEORGE H. WOLF. 

The name of Wolf is closely linked with 
tlie history of Greene county and has figured 
prominently on the pages of those annals in 
connection with the work of development 
and substantial improvement. George H. 
Wolf, now deceased, was a worth v repre- 
sentative of this worthy pioneer family. He 
was born in Beavercreek township about 
two miles north of the place on which his 
widow is living, his natal day being Oc- 
tober TO, 183^. His parents were David 
W. and Catherine (Hamer) Wolf. The 
father was born in Bath township, Greene 
county, in 1804. Prior to this time the 
grandparents of our subject had taken up 
their abode within the borders of this coun- 
t\', casting in their lot with the early pio- 
neers. From that time to the present rep- 
resentatives of the name have been promi- 
nent in business and public afifairs in this 
section of the state. The father of our 
subject died June 1, 1879, at the ripe old 
age of seventy-five years. 

George H. Wolf pursued his education 
in the schools of his township and lived 



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ROBL\SO^"S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



willi his father until lie was twenty-twn 
years of age, when lie made preparation for 
a home of his own by his marriage on the 
1st of February, 1855, to Miss Hannah 
Fry, who was born in Shenandoah county, 
Virginia, a daughter of Michael and Cath- 
erine (Lindamood) Fry. Her father was 
born May 14. 1800. and her mother on the 
30th of September, 1794, in Shenandoah 
county, Virginia, where they resided until 
after their marriage. Mr. Fry followed 
the occupation of farming. He was a son 
of Jacob Fry, who was also a native of 
the United States, the family having been 
established in the new world in early co- 
lonial days. When the colonists could no 
longer endure the yoke of oppression and 
resolved to throw off allegiance to the 
mother country Jacob Fry joined the co- 
lonial forces and was a valiant soldier in 
the war of the Revolution. It was in May, 
1838, that Michael I'Vy, the father of Mrs. 
Wolf, left V'irginia with his family and 
came to Greene county, Ohio. The daugh- 
ter spent her girlhood days under the par- 
ental roof, living at home mitil she gave 
her hand in marriage to Mr. Wolf, who at 
that time rented a tract of land. In 1869 
he removed with his family, to what is now 
known as the old Wolf homestead, from 
Missouri, where he had lived for three years 
prior, having- removed to the western por- 
tion of that state in 1866. The W'dli home- 
stead in Greene county was a rich tract of 
land, com])rising one hundred and tifty-six 
acres, and upon this he spent the remainder 
of his days, clearing the greater part of the 
farm. This land was once the i)roperty of 
his father, who owned four hundred acre-; 
in Greene county and two hundred acres in 
Missouri. l'"rnm the lime he took up his 



abode here until his death Mr. Wolf gave 
his attention imdividedly to the work of 
cultivating the crops that brought to him a 
good financial return and his diligence and 
unfaltering perse\erance resulted in gain- 
ing for him \ery creditable prosperity. 

Unto ^Ir. and Mrs. Wolf were born 
eleven children, but three of the number are 
now deceased. William R., the eldest, is 
residing in Beavercreek township. He mar- 
ried Ollie Ferguson, now deceased, and 
they had si.K children — Sylvia, Roy, Grover, 
George, .Samuel and one who died in in- 
fancy. Daniel Webster died at the age of 
two years. Jacob .\. married Emma Can- 
ada, and their children were — Jessie, 
Bertha, Fred, Mary, Blanche and two others 
who are now deceased. The mother passed 
away and Jacob afterward married Betty 
Smith, their home being now in Dayton. 
Qiarles E., who resides near the old home- 
stead, wedded Minnie Harner. Their chil- 
dren are — Daniel : Minnie, deceased : Lora ; 
and Marie. Joseph married Lizzie Cjroober. 
who resides in Dayton, but he was acci- 
dentally killed. Adeline is the wife of 
Michael Trout, who lives in Xenia town- 
ship, and they had four children — Joseph. 
Pearl, Ethel, and William, deceased. Me- 
linda .\. is the wife of \\'illiam Strawsburg. 
;.n(! resides in Cham])aign county. Ohio, and 
they have three children — (loldie. Josephine 
and AN'illiani. By a former marriage to 
John Simmons she had three children. Fred- 
crick. Carrie and John. Walter, who is liv- 
ing in Beavercreek township, married Elsie 
Shambles, and they have three ciiildren — 
Curtis, (ieorge antl Clara. Mary is the wife 
of William Kytcr. of Dayton, Ohio, and 
they have two children— Benjamin and 
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wife of Leota Sliepp and at her death left 
one child, Orlo. wlio resides witli Mrs. 
Wolf, the graiidnlother. Michael, a resi- 
dent of Bea\'ercreek township, married Ola 
Linkhart, and thev had four children — • 
Hazel, nijw deceased, Ada, William, and 
Raymond, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf 
also had rin adopted daughter. Florence 
Brown, whose parents, Charles and Ada 
Brown, were deceased. She grew tn 
womanhood in the home of ^Nlrs. \\'olf, and 
is now the wife of James ]\IcCune, of Day- 
ton, liv whi.im she has <>nt child, Charles 
Clifford. 

Mr. \\ olfs death resulted from acci- 
dent. He was killed liy a discharge of 
dynamite used in Ijlowing out stumps, pass- 
ing away on the 21st of October, 1901. His 
remains were interred in the Union cem- 
etery and the ciimmunity thereby lost one of 
its \alued citizens, his neighbors a faithful 
friend and his family a devoted husband 
and father. In political views he was a 
Democrat and was long a member of the 
Reformed church, joining the Union church 
near Byron in 1857. Mrs. Wolf still re- 
sides upon the old homestead, which is now 
operated under her supervision, and she pos- 
sesses excellent business and e.xecutive abil- 
ity. She is a lady of sterling worth, en- 
joving in a high degree the confidence and 
esteem of her Irix-ing friends. 



JOHN \\'. FUDGE. 



Greene county figures as one of the most 
attractive, progressive and prosperous di- 
visions of the state of Ohio, justly claiming 
a high order of citizenship and a spirit of 



enterprise which is certain ti.) conserve con- 
secutive development and marked advance- 
ment in the material upbuilding of the sec- 
tion. The county has been and is signally^ 
lavorcd in the c'as , cf men who haxe con- 
trolled its atifairs lu official capacity . and in 
this connection the subject of this re^"iew 
has ser\ed the county faithfully and well 
in positions of trust and responsibility. He 
is now chairman of the board of county 
commissi(jners. a position which his grand- 
father fillefl a half century ago — the family 
ha\'ing been established in this countv many 
years ago. 

His ixiternal grandijarents were John 
Katherine Fudge, farming people and early 
settlers of the community. A leader in pub- 
lic thought and action in his neighborhood 
Mr. Fudge was chosen a member of the 
board of count\' commissioners in 1850 and 
during his .services the old courthouse was 
built. Joseph H. Fudge, the father of our 
subject, was bi.irn February 15. 1824. in 
Greene cmintv, and after arriving at years 
of maturity married Cinderella Sutton, who 
was Ixirn in this county, August 17, 1826, 
a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Sutton. 
Joseph H. Fudge began to devote his ener- 
gies to agricultural pursuits in early man- 
hood and in that way always provided for 
the support of his familw He passed away 
.\pril 26, 1S8S, and his wife died on the 
loth of Fel)ruary. 1891. 

Upon his grandfather's farm in New 
Jasper township, on the 23d of ]\Iarch, 1846, 
Mr. Fudge was Ixirn and in the same town- 
ship was reared and educated. He early be- 
came familiar with the work of improving 
the fields and throughout his business ca- 
reer has carried on general farming. He 
still ow-ns land to the extent of two bun- 



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ROBIXSON'S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY. 



dred and sixty-three acres and through the 
cultivation of liis fields he has won a hand- 
some competence, numbering him among 
the substantial citizens of the community. 

(Ill the 26th of June. 1866, Mr. Fudge 
was united in marriage to ]\Iiss Amanda J. 
Smitii. a daughter of Xelson Smith, who 
was also a farmer of Xew Jasper township. 
Their uiiinn has been blessed with five chil- 
dren, Ml' whom four are still living: Will- 
iam J.. James R., Charles X. and Kay S. 

Fraternally Mr. i'"udge is connected 
with the Improved Order of Red Men and 
also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal 
church. In politics he is a stanch Repub- 
lican and has long been accounted one of 
the active, leading and influential members 
of the party. He served as a trustee of Xew 
Jasper townshi]) for fourteen years and in 
1S90 was elected real estate appraiser, while 
in 1891 he was elected infirmary director, 
serving in that office for three years. In 
1895 ''^ ^^'^^ chosen by popular ballot to the 
ofllice of county commissioner and dis- 
charged his duties so capably that he was 
re-elected in 1808 and became president oi 
the hoard which built the new courthouse 
in Xenia, tearing down the old one which 
his grandfather had aided in building while 
en the board of commissioners more than a 
half century liefore. The new structure was 
erected at a cost of two hundred tliousanJ 
dollars and Mr. Fudge made several trips 
to Xew "S'ork city and other places in search 
of information anil knowledge that would 
prove beneficial in the erection of the new 
temple of justice. His political record has 
ever been commendable. In office he is 
prompt, reliable and accurate in the dis- 
charge of his duties and he has won the a]i- 
l)roval of not only his ow 11 party but many 



of the opposition as well. He still has fann- 
ing interests in the county and is accounted 
one of the progressive and representative 
farmers and citizens of Greene county as 
well as a worth}- member of an honored 
jiioneer famil\-. 



GEORGE F. ROBIXSOX. 

BY PROF. GEORCE S. ORMSBV. 

Had the history of Greene county 
l)een written si.xty years ago. the writer 
of it could have talked with the men 
who came here when the country was 
an unbroken wilderness, and when the 
Indian was the most numerous inhabitant. 

In the year 1846 Henry Howe wrote a 
brief Iiistory of this county for his Historical 
Collections of Ohio. At that time some of the 
earliest pi( neers were yet living and related 
.some of the stories of the earlier days. In 
1880 aniother history of Greene county was 
CMiipiled. in which the writer of this brief 
notice pre]KU-ed the history of the \'irginia 
-Military District of which this county 
formed a part, — the courts. C( int-houses and 
jails; also, quite a full political and financial 
liiston*- of the county. At that time there 
were a few men living who in their younger 
ycai-s ha<l listene<l to the stories of the earl- 
iest pioneers and who could give much oral 
history of the earliest times. But when Mr. 
Robinson began his history, the most volum- 
inous and most complete yet written, all the 
old men of the olden time had passcW away 
an<l he found his index facts on tombstones 
and in ofiicial records that ha<l been buried 
in the dust of almost a centur)-. 

The history of a quiet individual, born 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



823 



and reared in a quiet neightorliood. uncon- 
nected witli anv great state or county affair, 
must necessarily I>e brief, and such is the 
histoiy of George F. Robinson. 

He was lx)rn in Xenia, Greene count}", 
Oliio, on the 8th of :\Iay, 1838. He was 
the only son of William C. and Sarah (Fo- 
glesong) Robinson, who canie to Xenia 
from Lebanon, Ohio, prior to 1830. George 
F., with four sisters, constituted the entire 
family of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Rob- 
inson. 

In tlie year 1838 Martin \''an Buren had 
been in the presidential chair two years, .and 
hard times were becoming harder ever}' 
month. The country was full of useless 
bank paper ; and shin-plasters, so-called, were 
about the only fractional currency, and no 
one knew at night whether or nut his shin- 
plaster currency would be current in the 
morning. The year 1840 ushered in what 
was called the hard cider and log cahin cam- 
paign, the most remarkable i)resitlential 
campaign that has ever occurred in this 
countr\-. at the close of which William Hen- 
ry Harrison was electetl to the presidency 
of the United States. \A'illiam C. Robin- 
son, the father of George, was a prom- 
inent \Miig. and in this year was elected 
sheriff of the county, an office which 
he held until his death, in 1842. In 1840 
George was old enough to see and to be de- 
lighted with tlie log cabins on wheels, drawn 
sometimes Ij}- ten and twehe yokes of oxen, 
the hard cider barrel widi gourd hanging by 
it, the coon skins, and the coons themselves 
climlMng over it. but scarcely old enough to 
wonder at or appreciate the wonderful pag- 
eant. How much his childhood, his youth 
and early manhood were influenced b\- these 
scenes we do not know : how much the twig 
is bent none can tell; but we do know that 



when twentv-one years later the husband of 
a \-oung wife and the father of his first child, 
now the wife of C. E. Arlxjgust, of Xenia, 
he heard the echoes of the guns at Fort 
Sumter; saw the cities and homes of the 
north as part of one great military camp ; 
saw the starr}- flag unfurled over everv pa- 
triot hamlet; when he saw this great dra- 
matic pageant and saw the real peril of his 
native land he counted personal comfort, 
safety, social and domestic ties as light, 
when weighed in the balance with duty. He 
at once ga\-e himself and his life to the gov- 
ernment. He enlisted in the Seventv-fourth 
Regiment. Ohio \'olunteer Infantrv, Octo- 
ber 10, 1 86 1, and was apijointed corporal 
in Company D, December 30, of the same 
}ear. Austin McDowell was his captain and 
Granville Moody, the celebrated Methodist 
clerg\nian. was his colonel. The late au- 
tumn and early winter were passed at Camp 
Lowe, in Xenia. Subsequently the regiment 
was ordered to Camp Chase, at Columbus. 
In the early spring of 1862 it was ordered to 
the front and moved -from Camp Chase to 
X^ashxille. Tennessee. 

During the time of Mr. Robinson's serv- 
ice in the regiment there were neither battles 
nor skinnishes, but there were such severe 
marches and drills as intensified a natural 
weakness in one of his limbs and rendered 
him unaible tO' perform the duty recjuired. 
He was, therefore, on the surgeon's certifi- 
cate, discharged frtiui the service Jul}- 10, 
1862, nine months after his enlistment. 
There 'are those whose enlistment to real 
military service is simply an entrance to a 
grand frolic. They conceive of no danger 
till they hear the booming of cannon and 
the shriek of shell. Xot so with a man of 
I\Ir. Robinson's temperament. When he en- 
tered in the service and gave his life for 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY Of GREENE COUNTY. 



tlie time being to the go\emmeiit. he saw 
clearly all the ]x>ssibilities of that act. He 
saw the carnage of battle, "garments roUetl 
in blniKl." jxissibly a desolate hume, a wid- 
owed wife and fatherless child. The man 
who neitiier turns liack nor hesitates at the 
view of such a picture is a hero. Such Avas 
George F. Robinson. — a hero though he 
saw neitiier a real skirmish m r a battle. 
At all times and under all circumstances he 
took a great deal of interest in everything 
tliat ai)i)ertained to the soldier. He was 
at the tiiue of his death, whicli <x-curred 
Mav I". 190 r, and had been for fifteen 
years, chaplain in Lewis Post. G. A. R. 

Mr. Robinson's school education was ol> 
tained in the public schools of Xenia. He 
l)assed through the lower grades and spent 
tw(~) vears in the high school. A schoolmate 
and ]ife-l( ng friend was the milliduaire luni 
ber dealer. Mr. Thomas B. Walker, now of 
Minnea]x>lis. Minnesota. So far as prop- 
erty is concerned, the two Ijoys were about 
c(|ual during their school life: but that fin- 
ished. Mr. Walker found abundance of gold 
ir. the pine trees of the northwest and Mr. 
RoImusou foiuid silver in small cpiantities at 
the carpenter's l>ench until about a year bc- 
ff)re the war. when he engaged in farming. 
He left the farm to join the arm\ . and after 
his discharge from the army he worked 
again at his trade, and continued this until 
he l>egan compiling the work, '"Roster of 
Greene County Soldiers." In (;rder to make 
this roster complete he maile a diligent 
seardi in the cemeteries for names of forgot- 
ten ]jeople. It was while thus searching that 
he conceived the idea of compiling that 
which has proved to l>e a monumental work. 
"The History of Greene County." 

Xi^ sooner did he conceive the thought 
than the thought possessed him. Xo more 



firmly, constantly nr rigorously did task- 
master ever hold slave to his work than this 
thought held Mr. Robinson to his, with this 
siuiide difference, that Mr. Robin.son's work 
was ti> him a great delight. His daughter 
says of ihim : "He had a genius for this 
work ; pkxlding day by day, iKitiently. si- 
lently, earnestly, he worked, diving deep 
into the old rubbish left bv time, to ob- 
tain his precious treasure. With great fond- 
ness and ])ride would he survey his work 
when finished, relating to us Imw he ob- 
tained the smallest details. He simply 
would never give uj). He would walk miles 
and hunt for days for a single fact. He sac- 
rificed everything, even his health ami life 
tc! obtain the facts ]>elonging to this history. 
He was intensely interested, and his energies 
were kqn at their highest taision from the 
beginning to the entl. Often he could not 
sleep until he had obtained the infnrmation 
desired. Often he wouhl get up in the night 
and make a note of some thought that had 
occurred to him and frec|uently on such oc- 
casions he would write for twn or three 
hours." 

The w riter, as l)efore stated, having writ- 
ten a cha])ter in (jreene county hist<iry, had 
on that account many interesting conversa- 
tions with Mr. Robinson. He found him 
always so full of his subject, and so intense- 
ly intersted in it. that it was very difficult 
for liim to find any place to put a |ieri'id ti> 
the conversation. 

In the chapter of history referred tn the 
writer had (xxasion to describe the original 
northern l)oundani- of Hamilton county, 
which then contained all the territorv of 
Greene county, as extending from "Staml- 
ing StiMie I'orks." or branch of the Big 
-Mian'.i ti> the Little Miami. But he was 
unable to locate "Standing Stone Forks." 



ROBINSO\^'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



825. 



He mentioned the difficnlty to Mr. Robin- 
son, and the latter, after a few months' hunt- 
ing", definite!}' located the landmark. 

Mr. Robinson was a member of the Unit- 
ed' Presbyterian church, and was one of the 
first Sabbath school teachers in the O. S. & 
S. O. Home. He was la man of simple, 
childlike faith, of a happy, jovial disposi- 
tion, generous to a fault, and would gi\e the 
last he had to one in need. ^Meeting with 
disappointments and losses, he was ac- 
custi.imed tO' sav : "It will all come 1 ut 
light: God knows best." He was twice 
married. His first wife was Miss Jennie 
Currie, wlm died July S, 1873. Four cf 
her children are still li\ing. His secc_>nd 
wife was Miss Mary Kyle. To them were 
born three children, all of whom are living. 

It has lD€en intimated that Mr. Robinson 
\\as a quiet man in a rpiiet neig^bborhood, 
but he will be remembered after the names 
of manv who have made more noise and 
l)luster have i)assed into oblivion. His his- 
tory is an enduring monument. It will rest 
in the relic room of the new couit-house, 
which the commissioners have, at his ear- 
nest solicitation, set apart for the preserva- 
tion oif matters of historic interest ; and thith- 
er the generations to come will \'isit. to read 
the story that the patient writer fikl after 
having rescued the materials and the facts 
from the dust if the centur\". 



AXDREW JACKSON TOBIAS. 

W ith the agricultural interests of Beav- 
ercreek township this gentleman has long 
been actively identified, and has materially 
aided in its upliuilding and development. 
He was born near Zimmerman, in that 



township, in 1832, a son of Jacob and Mary 
( Miller) Tobias, who were both natives of 
Schuylkill county. Pennsylvania. There the 
father passed his boyhood and youth and 
attended school, his education, however, be- 
ing in the German language and very 
limited. In early life he learned the shoe- 
maker's trade, which he followed after com- 
ing to Ohio. In 1820 he took up his resi- 
dence in Beavercreek township, this county, 
and there he continued to make his home 
throughout the remainder of his life. He 
had seven children, four sons and three 
daughters, namely : Peter, John and Dan- 
iel, all now deceased: Andrew J., of this 
re\iew ; Betsv and Catherine. Ijoth deceased : 
and Susan, a resident of St. ]\Iary's, Ohio. 
Andrew J. Tobias acquired his early 
education in the schools of Auglaize county^ 
where the familv remo\e(l when he was only 
three \ears old, and where the father en- 
tered eighty acres of land. Our subject 
pursued his studies in the subscription 
schools taught in old log cabins so common 
at that da}-. On lea\ing school at the age 
of sixteen vears he returned to Greene coun- 
tv, where he worked as a laborer for some 
time and then followed the carpenter's 
tratie for twenty-two years, erecting many 
houses and barns in the locality where he 
now li\-es. He subsefpiently turned his at- 
tention to farming and in 1884 purchased 
the fine farm of two hundred acres in 
Beavercreek township, where he now re- 
sides, and to its cultivation and improve- 
ment he has since devoted his energies, hav- 
ing retired from carpentering. He raises a 
good grade of stock, making a specialty of 
Jersev cattle, and in his herd are se\'eral 
registered animals. He also raises con- 
siderable corn, wheat and oats, and is meet- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY 01' GREENE COUNTY. 



ing w itli most excellent success in liis farm- 
ing operations. 

In 1863 Mr. Tobias was united in mar- 
riage witli Miss Saraii E. Harsiiman. who 
was also born in Beavercreek townsliip anil 
reared cm a farm ad ji lining that on which 
she now lives. She is a sister of J. !•". 
Harshman whose sketch appears elsewhere 
in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Tobias have 
two chililren. one son and one daughter, 
namelv : Samuel ]•'. who resides on his 
father's farm, is carrying on a gun .shoj) and 
is one of the finest workmen in that line in 
the slate. He married Jennie Bates, and the 
children horn to them are Blanche L.. Rimer 
Fav, Elsie ?klay. Congress. Winifred and 
an infant daughter. E. Xora. daughter of 
■our subject, is the wife of Lewis Coy. a 
grocer of Davton, and thev have two chil- 
(Iren : I-ithel May and Herbert. 

For manv years Mr. and Mrs. Tobias 
have been members of the Reformetl church 
of ]'.eavcr Creek and are people of the high- 
est respectability, whose circle of friends 
and acquaintances is extensive. In political 
sentiment he is a Democrat, but at local 
elections \otes for the man best qualified for 
office regardless of party lines. He has 
never cared for political honors, though he 
takes a deep interest in public affairs as every 
true .\merican citizen should. 



HUGH HARVEY McMILLAX. 

A retired farmer now living in Cedar- 
Tille. Hugh Harvey McMillan is a native of 
South. Carolina, his birth having occurred in 
Chester county, that state. February 20. 
183 1. As the name indicates the family is 



of Scotch lineage. Hugh McMillan, the 
great-grandfather of our subject, was among 
those who Hed from Scotland at the time of 
the religious persecution, lie was ctinnected 
with John McMillan, who organized the so- 
cieties known as the Peoples Society. Hugh 
McMillan. Sr.. removed to County Antrim, 
Ireland, where the grandfather, who also 
bore the name of Hugh, was born in 1750. 
He married Jane Harve>- and their first son, 
Daniel, was born in 1776. Owing tf) the re- 
(luirement of the government wiiich com- 
pelled people of all denominations to pay for 
the support of the established church of 
England — the Episcopalian — he left Ireland 
for America in company with .\le.\ander 
Kell. the father oi Rev. John Kell, William 
Rock and one or two others, in 1797, and 
l.mded at Charleston. South Carolina, after 
a three months voyage. They made their 
way to Camden, Kershaw district, and re- 
mained there for some months. Learning 
that there were a few families of Covenant- 
ers locatetl on Rocky creek, in Chester dis- 
trict, about thirty miles distant, all went 
there and located. During that year they 
sent for their respective families, whom they 
were to meet at Charleston. All arrived 
safely after a voyage of nine weeks. Daniel 
McMillan was then about ten years of age. 
Mary. John. David and Ga\in were the other 
children of Hugh McMillan who crossed the 
Atlantic from Ireland, while James and 
Hugh were afterward born on the farm 
which the grandfather first bought and on 
which he li\ed and died, four miles west of 
the old brick chinch, near which he was 
buried. He passed away in 181 8. 

John McMillan, the father of our sub- 
ject, was lx5rn on the Emerald Isle and when 
five years of age was brought to America, 




H. H. MCMILLAN. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



829- 



the family settling in Chester county, South 
Carolina. He came to Ohio in 1832 and 
remained in Cedarville township, upon the 
old home farm, which he ptu'chased. until 
his death. He bought three hundred acres, 
nearly all of which was wild land, but this 
he improved, erecting good buildings and 
cidtivating his fields, so that the tract soon 
became productive. This farm is still known 
as the McMillan property and is now owned 
by our subject. John McMillan married 
Martha Chestnut, a daughter of James 
Chestnut, \vho was an officer of the Revo- 
lutionary war. He had two brothers, Alex- 
ander and \\'illiam, and their mother bore 
the maiden name of Jannette Brown. \\'hen 
the colonies attempted to throw off the yoke 
of British oppression James Chestnut joined 
tlie Colonial army, and during the war he 
■was captured and sentenced to be hung by 
the Tories, the place and time of the execu- 
tion were fixed upon, but before the deed was 
done a company of General Washington's 
soldiers came along and succeeded in cap- 
luring a number of his captors. After the 
war he married Esther Stormont, of Little 
Rocky Creek, and settled about eight miles 
north of Rocky Creek, where he spent bis 
remaining da3's. He was a member of the 
Reformed Associate church, and his wife be- 
longed to the Reformed Presbyterian 
church. They had four children, one son 
and three daughters, but James died in early 
life. The three daughters became members 
I f the Reformed Presbyterian church. Jan- 
nette married Daniel McMillan about 1807, 
and Martha became the wife of John i\Ic- 
Millan, February 15, 1809. Esther re- 
mained single and after her father's death 
went to live with her sister Martha. 

Unto John and Martha Mc^Millan were 



born nine children, of whom two died in in- 
fancy, while our subject and his sister 
Martha Ann are the onlv ones now livine 
She is Mrs. J, D. ^Villiamson, of Cedar- 
ville, her husband being a prominent retired 
farmer. The parents were consistent mem- 
bers of the Reformed Presbyterian church, 
and when called to their final re:;i; were in- 
terred in Massie's creek caneterv. The for- 
mer was a Whig in his pohlical affiliation.s. 
and throughout his business career he car- 
ried on general farming and stock-raising. 
He died upon the old homestead in Cedar- 
ville township in 1881, and his wife passed 
away January 3, i860, at the age of sixty- 
eight years. 

Reared under the parental roof and early- 
becoming familiar with the work of the 
farm, Hugh H. McMillan assisted in the 
labors of field and meadow when his atten- 
tion was not given to acquiring his educa- 
tion. He was a student in the district 
schools for some years and spent one win- 
ter as a student in the Xenia high school. 
Pie then turned his attention to agricultural 
pursuits, and was thus engaged upon the old 
homestead place until his retirement from 
business life. By purchase he added to his 
property, which he greatly improved bv the 
erection' of a new residence and other im- 
provements of a substantial nature. In 1887 
he put aside the plow and took up his abode 
in Cedarville, where he has since rested from 
his labors in a very pleasant home. 

Mr. McMillan was married December 
24, 1 85 1, to Abigail J. Winter, a daughter 
of Joseph and Margaret Winter, who were 
early settlers of this county and here lived 
and died, the father following the occupation 
of farming. Mrs. McMillan departed this 
life on the old farmstead in 1881. She was 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



llie mother of five children: Anna L., the 
wife of Kev. Smiley, of Sparta. Illinois; 
John C, who died in 1890; a daughter who 
died in infancy; James C, who is in the tele^ 
phone and furniture business in South 
Charleston, Ohio; and Gavin R., who mar- 
ried Minnie Alexander, o: Clifton, and re- 
sides at home, his attention being given to 
the farm work. He has three children, 
Ethel. Harvey Alexander and Wilbur. On 
the 4th of March, 1884. Mr. McMillan was 
again married, his second union being with 
Mrs. Sarah M. Jackson, a daughter of John 
Hammond, who was a native of Pennsyl- 
vania, and came to Ohio in 1808, living in 
Harrison county. Both he and his wife died 
tiiere at an advanced age. 

For many years Mr. McMillan has been 
a member and elder of the Reformed I'res- 
byterian cluuxh. He is also the treasurer of 
the Cedarville College. He is now serving 
as a member of the building committee un-, 
der whose direction a new house of worship 
is being erected, and he gives a great deal 
of time and attention to the church work 
and is a liberal contributor to its sujiport. In 
his political views he is a Prohibitionist. 
He is an honorable and upright man, who 
has li\ed at peace with liis fellow men. He 
lias never had a law suit or been sued, but 
has paid his debts promi)tly. met all ol)liga- 
tions fully, and by genuine worth has com- 
manded the respect anil good will of all w ith 
wlii>m he has been brought in contact. 



THE St. JOHX F.\^IILY. 

]ohn and Xoah St. John, two brothers, 
wlio were of iM-ench parentage, came from 
F.ngiand to .\merica prol)ably about tlie 



middle of the eighteentii century, and set- 
tled in Dutchess county. Xew York. In 
1770 John St. John married .\nna L<x-k- 
wood in Dutchess count}'. A few years later 
when the country l)ecame involved in war 
w ith Fngland in an attempt to sever all al- 
legiance to the British crown, he joined the 
army and aided in winning .American inde- 
pendence. Some time between 1788 and 
1798 he and his wife came to Ohio, settling 
first in Hamilton county, and in 1803 re- 
moved to Warren county, this state, locat- 
ing on a farm near I'ort .\ncient. Unto 
them were born ten children : Job, who died 
in childhood ; Ann ; Bethiah. w ho married 
a Mr. Huron and removed to Hendricks 
county, Indiana: Jojin. who spent his life 
near Lebanon, Ohio; Mary, who l)ecame the 
wife of Samuel Tliomas and lived near 
.South Charlestown. in Clark county, Ohio: 
Sarah; James, who settled near Morrow. 
Warren county. Ohio, and some of his de- 
scendants are yet living, including ex-(j(iv- 
ernor St. John, of Kansas ; Seth ; Nathaniel ; 
and Joseph, who spent his life on the old 
home farm near Fort .\ncient, Ohio, where 
his father first located. He had six chil- 
dren, of whom three are now living. 

John St. John, the fourth member of 
the family, who.se record has just been given 
above, was born Xovember 28. 1778. and 
married Klioda Wood. They became jhe 
parents of nine children. Daniel, the eld- 
est, married \W\7.a. Bone and removed to 
Greene county, Ohio, in 182S. He located 
in Caesarscreek township, where his de- 
scendants are still living. He had eleven 
children: Cyrus. Joseph. John. William, 
^lorgan. .\nn, Charles, Jeniah, Jane, Wilson 
and Kaper. Of this family Cyrus married 
I )()rothv llicknian and li\ed in Jav countv. 



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831 



Indiana, where he reared a family of nine 
children: Milton, ^^'esley, Kate, Loranso, 
Josephine, Raper, Morton, Lillian and 
Frank. Joseph, the second memher of the 
family, married Julia McXair and they had 
four children : Ward, IJaniel. Kate and 
Pearl. John, the third member of the fam- 
ily of Daniel St. John, married Phoebe 
Hiney and they had eleven children : Thom- 
as, Alartha, Morgan, Lavina, Frank, Emma, 
\\'illiani. Grant, Alva., Lavona ( w Im died in 
infancy I and Oscar, \^'illiam. the fourth 
son of Daniel St. John, married Elizabeth 
Smith, and their children were Eva, Al- 
fred and Maggie. Morgan, the fifth mem- 
ber of the family of Daniel St. John, mar- 
ried Eliza Beam and they had ten children : 
Anna, who died after becoming" the wife of 
Da\"id h'ord; Alvah; Lodema; William, who 
ilied in childhood; Ada; Ella; Arthur : Dora : 
Everette and Fiertha. Ann became the wife 
of James McNair and lived at Dtmkirk. In- 
iliana, and the_\- had three chiklren : Martha. 
Emma and Anna. Charles, the seventh 
member of the family, married Martha 
Peterson and they had eight children : Es- 
tella, whu died in infancy: Belle: Otis; 
Pline\-; Lillie, who died in childhood ; .E1- 
merj^ Daksy, who died after reaching voung 
womanhood ; and Jennie. Jeniah married 
Mary Hook and they had nine children : 
Clarence; Lewis; Walter; Mina ; Amy; Rob- 
ert, who died in infancy ; James ; Maude and 
Clara. Jane, the youngest daughter of 
Daniel St. John, became the wife of Frank 
Peterson and lives near Coffey^•ille. Kan- 
sas, and their children are ILffie; Ann; Orie, 
who died after becoming the wife of Frank 
Day: Carrie; \\'ilson and Edward. Wil- 
son, the tenth memlier of the fanhh' of 



Daniel St. John, married Corilla Hook and 
lived at Dunkirk, Indiana ; their children 
were Olive; ]Mary; and Oscar, who died in 
infancy; Burnice, wlm died in girlhood: 
Solon ; Eunice ; Homer, who died in boy- 
hood ; and Howard. Raper, the youngest of 
the family, married Alice Smith, and unto 
them one daughter was l>orn, Myrtle. Of 
the family of Daniel St. John there are now 
living one hundred and fifty-two descend- 
ants, including nine children, fifty-nine 
grandchildren. se\enty-hve great-grand- 
children, and nine great-great-grandchil- 
dren. 

Jeniah F. St. John, to whom we are in- 
debted for the history of the family, was the 
eighth child of Daniel \V. and Eliza (Bone) 
.St. John, and was born June 27, 1842, upon 
the farm which he now owns. He was ed- 
ucated in tins count}- and, has always re- 
sided here with the exception of the time 
which he spent in the arm\'. In October, 
1861. he enlisted at Xenia as a private of 
Company A. Se\enty-fourth Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantr)', for three years' service. He 
participated in the battles of Fort Henry, 
Nealcy's Bend. Xashville. Stone River, 
Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge 
and was with Sherman on the celebrated 
march to the sea and also present at the 
time I if the surrender of Johnston. He was 
mustered out of the service at Camp Denni- 
son, in July, 1865, as first sergeant and then 
returned to his home. 

Mr. St. Ji)hn resumed farming upon the 
old family homestead, where he has since 
carried on agricultural pursuits. He was 
married August 23, 1866, to Miss Mary E. 
Honk, a native of (ireene county, and a 
daugh.ter of Louis and Minerva ( Lloyd) 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Hook, lx)tli of whom died during the early 
girlhood of their daughter. In their family 
were five children : Mrs. Mira Stowe ; 
Thomas, who joined the Union army as a 
private of the Seventy-fourth Ohio Infan- 
try and came out as sergeant major, and 
died in 1900; Mrs. St. John; John, who is 
living in Indiana; and Martha, who died 
in 1901. Slie was the wife of Wilson St. 
John, who served in Company A, of the 
Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 
the Civil war. Mr. St. John is a Republican 
in his political views and for six years served 
as trustee of his township. He is an hon- 
ored member of Lewis Post, G. A. R., of 
Xenia, and l)oth he and his wife are devoted 
memliers of the Methodist Episcopal clnnch. 
of which he is now one of the stewards. 

Unto Jeniah St. John and his wife have 
been born nine children : Clarence S., a con- 
tractur and 1>uilder i»f Dayton. Ohio, who 
married Daisy Heaton, of that place; Lewis 
E., an attorney at law at Piqua, who mar- 
ried Nora Wilkinson; Walter C, a resident 
of Silvercreek townshij), Greene county, who 
married Cora Sutton and has two children. 
Edith and Elbert; Mary E. and Amy, who 
are residents of Xenia ; Robert, who died in 
infancy; James, a resident of Caesarscreek 
township. wh<i married Ona Milburn ; 
Maude and Clara, at home. The farm com- 
prises one hundred and three acres of good 
land, oil which .Mr. St. John is carrying on 
general farming and stock-raising. The 
house and liarn upon the place he has erected 
himself, the former in 1897 and the latter 
in 1892. There are excellent improvements 
and equipments upon this place, which in its 
neat and thrifty appearance indicates the 
careful supervision of the owner. 



GEORGE J. SINZ. 

George J. Sinz, who is now deceased, 
lived an honorable and upright life and won 
that untarnished name which is rather to be 
chosen than great riches. He was one of 
four children of Bernhardt V. and Kresen- 
zia ( fmmler) Sinz. His father was born in 
Kinnelbach, Germany, on the 14th of Feb- 
ruary, 1830, and on crossing the Atlantic to 
tlie United States located in Greene county, 
Ohio, where he took up his abode in the fall 
of 1853. Here he was engaged in farming. 
He had previouslx- learned the baker's trade, 
and after carrying on agricultural pursuits 
for some time he removed to Xenia, where 
he purchased a home and established a 
bakery. In the conduct of that enterprise 
he met with success, carrying on business 
there for a number of years. He thus ac- 
cumulated considerable wealth and was ac- 
counted one of the enterprising merchants of 
the place. He died on the 31st of January, 
1885, leaving a widow and four children, 
who yet survive him. 

Mr. Sinz, whose name introduces this 
record, was born in Xenia in the year 1S62, 
and acquired an excellent education, which 
he pin-sued in the common and high schools 
of this city, while later he pursued a com- 
mercial course in the Dayton Business Col- 
lege. Immediately thereafter he entered 
unon his business career, accepting a clerk- 
ship in a grocery store, where he remained 
for several years, during which time he 
gained a thorough knowledge of that branch 
of business. In 1885 he established a gro- 
cery on his own account and Ijecame a model 
merchant. His store was neat and attractive 
in ajjpearance, his business methods were 




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835 



straip;litfor\vard and above suspicion, and 
owing to his lionorable dealing and earnest 
desire to please liis customers he secured a 
large patronage. Successfully did he carry 
on business until 1889, when on account of 
ill health he disposed of his stock and re- 
tired to priw'ite life. 

jMr. Sinz was united in marriage on-the 
')ih of October, 1885, to ]\Iiss Ida Savilla 
Lutz, a daiig-hter of John and Savilla ( W'ool- 
fordj Lutz. The father, John Lutz, is one 
of the honored pioneers of Greene county, 
and has long been connected with industrial 
interests of Xenia. Li 1855 1^^ began lousi- 
ness here as a wagon and carriagemaker and 
conducted his shop for many years. Both 
he and his wife were of German lineage. 
Her grandfather, however, was born in 
Lancaster count}', Pennsylvania, near Alil- 
lersbiu'g, in 1802. In the spring of 1826 he 
married Frances Moud^-, a native of \\'ill- 
iamsport. ^larvland, and at an earlv epoch 
in the development oi Greene countv, Ohio, 
they became residents of this portion of the 
state. Mrs. Sinz was one of a family of six 
children. In 1895 she was called upon to 
mourn the loss of her husband, who de- 
parted this life on the 15th of March, his 
remains being interred in the Woodland 
cemeterw ]Manv friends were left to mourn 
his loss, for during the vears of his business 
career in Xenia he had formed a wide ac- 
quainiaiice and gained the high regard of 
all with whom he had been brought in con- 
tact. His worth was widely acknowledged, 
and his life record contains nian\- elements 
that are worthv of emulation. 

Since the death of her husband Mrs. 

Sinz has engaged in the millinery business. 

embarking in this line of activity on the 17th 

of March, 1897. Her store is located in the 

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Steele building on the site formerly occupied 
b\' her husband's grocerv prior to the erec- 
tion of the present building. By her perse- 
verance, good taste and weA selected stock 
she has secured an excellent trade and is 
without doubt recognized as the leading mil- 
liner of Xenia. Her home is at Xo. 333 
West Market street. In the management of 
her store she displays excellent business and 
e.xecutixe force as well as excellent taste, and 
her labors are being crowned with a richly 
merited success. 



KEA'. \MLLIAM S. McCLURE. 

For five years the Rev. \\'illiam S. Mc- 
Cltu'e has been pastor of the Third United 
Presbyterian church of Xenia. This de- 
nomination is a particularly strong one in 
this portion of Ohio and its influence is be- 
ing constantly extended through the zealous 
efforts of capable preachers of the word, 
such as Rev. McClure. Broad intellect- 
ually, a ready sympathy and consecrated 
effort have made his labors a potent force in 
promoting the growth of the church and the 
moral de\-elopment of the communitv and 
throughout Xenia his labors are appreciated 
by all who h^xe regard for truth and right. 

Re\-. McClure is a representative of an 
old and prominent family of Pennsylvania. 
His grandfather. Dr. Robert McClure, of 
Wasliinglon. that state, was of Quaker ex- 
traction, and a practitioner of medicine. 
His skill and ability won him confidence and 
his practice extended throughout the west- 
ern counties of Pennsylvania and through 
eastern Virgi.iia and Ohio. He made long- 
trips ou horse back, often traveling as much 
as fiftv miles in a single night. 



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JWBIXSOXS HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Koliert 15. McGure. the father of "vw 
sul)ject. was tlie eldest son of Dr. McChire 
and was l)orn in Wasliing^ton county, Penn- 
sylvania. January ii. iSiS. There he ac- 
quired his early education and later com- 
pleted a course in the Washington and Jef- 
ferson Collejje. lie was one of the oldest 
anil most hiuhh' esteemed citizens of West 
Middletown, Pennsylvania, and for thirty- 
five vears he held the office of justice of the 
peace and also held other official positions. 
.\s a puhlic official he made it his aim to 
keeji all cases out of the courts if the dift'er- 
ences could possibly be settled otherwise. 
i4e had the distinction of building the first 
threshing and cleaning machine manufac- 
tured in the L'nited States, the work being 
executed in West Middletown. where he 
for one-half a century manufactured his 
machine on account of which he was widely 
known. His activity in commercial and 
political circles made him a leading and val- 
ued resident of that portion of the state. 
Vox \ears before his death he had held 
membership in the United Presbyterian 
church of West Middletown. He married 
Letitia 1 empleton and they became the par- 
ents of eleven chiUlren. of whom nine are 
living. Mrs. McClure died October 30, 
iX7_^. and Mr. .McC'lure on the 20th of 
.\])ril. 1^99. 

Rev. McClure of tliis review was born 
in West Middletown. lVnn^ylvania. Sep- 
tember 4, i!^53. and acquired his literary 
education in Westminster College of Law- 
rence county. Pennsylvania, from which he 
was grailuated in 1X77 with the degree of 
bachelor of Arts. In 1880 he was grad- 
uated fri>ni the .Mlegheny Theological 
Seminary, and later took a jxist graduate 
course at the Theological Seminarv of 



Xenia, Ohio. lie was licensed to preach in 
April, 1880, and on the 4th of January. 
1881, was (jrdained and installed as pastor 
of the Sugar Creek congregation. Xenia 
Presbytery, where he remained unld .\prii. 
1893, his work there being very successful. 
He then accepted the pastorate of the United 
Presbyterian church at Greeley, Colorado, 
w here tlie following four years w ere passed. 
At the end of that time he returned to Xenia 
as pastor of the Thirtl United Presbyterian 
church, and has now been in charge of the 
work of that congregation since 1897. Dur- 
ing this i)eri(jd the church has grow n along 
many lines and he has the confidence and 
love of his own people and the high esteem 
of those of other denominations. He is now 
financial secretary of the board of managers 
of the Xenia Theological Seminary. The 
degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
upon .\lr. McClure by Monmouth College 
of Monmouth. Illinois, at a recent meeting 
of the senate. 

On the 14th of August. 1883. Rev. Mc- 
Clure was united in marriage to Miss Xan- 
nie I. Imbrie, a daughter of De Lorme Im- 
brie. a pniminent attorney of Heaver. Penn- 
sylvania, and two children, Margaret Car- 
man and M.iry Letitia ha\e come to bless 
their home. 



JOIIX II. KOOGLER. 

This well known farmer of (ireene 
ctninty and honored veteran of the Ci\il 
war was born in Beavercreek township 
on the 16th of July. 1842. ajid there 
has s])ent almost his entire life, his time 
and attention being jirincipally devoted 
to agricultural pursuits. His father, Sol- 



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S37 



•omoii K. KoO'gler. was also looni in 
Beavercreek township'. February 18. 1813, 
near Byron, and as the schools in the lo- 
cality were very few and poor during liis 
boyhood his educational advantages were 
necessarily limited. At an earl}' age he 
worked three months for Henry Jacoby. of 
Xenia township, and subsequently worked 
off and on at the carpenter's trade with his 
brother for a time, but later gave up that 
trade entirely and turnetl his attention ex- 
clusi\elv to farming. He recei\'ed fiftv acres 
•of land from his father's estate, it being the 
place now occupied by our subject, and he 
gradually added to it until he had one hun- 
dred and forty acres. He gave his attentiim 
principally to the raising of cereals, and for 
a few years was also interested in stock-rais- 
ing, keeping cattle, hogs and a large num- 
ber of sheep. On the 3d of September, 
1S40. he was united in marriage to Miss 
Catherine Jones, a native of Xorthumber- 
land county. Pennsylvania, and to them were 
born foiu" sons, namelv : Jobii H.. of this 
review; George \\'.. deceased, who married 
IMartha Vancleff. 1 if Beavercreek township : 
Thomas J., who married Sarah West fall and 
li\'es not far from our subject's home: and 
Jacol) X.. who died October 10. 1888. 

John H. Koogler acquired his early edu- 
cation in the district school located one mile 
east of where he now lives, and there he pur- 
sued his studies for three months during the 
winter until he reached the age of twenty 
years. During the remainder of the time he 
gave his father the benefit of his labors in 
operating the home farm until his marriage. 

In the meantime the Civil war broke out. 
and in 1862 "Sir. Koogler enlisted in Com- 
panv E. Xinety-fourth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantr\-, which was assigned to the Army of 



the Cumberland, and with which he partici- 
pated in many important engagements^ in- 
cluding the battle of Chattanooga : Perry- 
\ille. October 8, 1862; and Stone River, 
which was fought on the last day of the 
year, the rebels leaving there on X^ew Years 
day. The next engagement in which our 
subject took part was at Hoover's Gap, Ten- 
nessee, in the spring of 1863; the battle of 
Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; 
Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain above the 
clouds and ^Missionary Ridge. He was with 
Sherman at Dalton, Georgia, and on the 
famous march to the sea, and participated 
in the grand review at W'ashington, D. C, 
at the close of the war, being mustered out 
of ser\ice in that city in 1865. 

Mr. Koogler was married June i, 1871, 
to Miss Christina Warner, a native of Bath 
tiiwnship. this count)-, where her parents, 
Henry and Harriet ( Casad ) ^^'arner. were 
also born. She is the third in carder of birth 
in a family of ten children, the others being 
as follows: George and Fairfield, both resi- 
dents of Greene county : Paul P., who lives 
at the olfl home about two miles north of 
where our subject now resides; Henry 
Grove, a resident of Beavercreek township; 
Sophia C wife of Samuel Dellinger, who 
lives near Fairfield: Mary, deceased: Eliza- 
Ijeth Jane, wife of Benjamin Xichols, of 
Darke county, Ohio; .\nn. wife of John 
Welsh, of pjath township ; and Aaron and 
John, both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Koogler 
ha\e no children. 

After his marriage 'Sir. Koogler rented 
a farm of one hundred and twenty-eight 
acres and successfully engaged in farming 
on his own account, operating that place six 
years. He then removed to Dayton, but 
SI " m returned to the old neighborhood. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



where he remained three years, and in 1883 
located upon his present farm. After rent- 
ing" the place for four or five years his fa- 
ther gave him seventy acres, and to the im- 
provement and cultivation of that tract he 
has since devoted his energies with marked 
success. He has remodeled the house. l)uilt 
a barn and made many other useful improve- 
ments, which add greatly to the vahie .uid 
attractive appearance of the place. He is a 
thorough and systematic farmer and a man 
highlv respected and esteemed by all who 
know him. .Vt national elections he votes 
the Democratic ticket, hut is not bound l)y 
party ties at local elections where no issue 
is involved, but suppiirts the men whom he 
believes best qualified for office. 



RICHARD j. I-0\VLER. 

Richard J. Fowler, one of the early set- 
tiers and highl}' respected citizens of Cedar- 
villc township, was born in Union county, 
South Carolina, on the 14th of March. 1842, 
and is a son of Edward Fowler, his parents 
having lived and died in that state. Our 
subject was left 'an orpli.in when a small 
boy. and was then bound out, remaining in 
his native state until he was twenty-one 
years of age. He began learning the mill- 
wright's trade, but did not follow it to any 
great extent, for he found agricultin-al ]iur- 
suits more congenial. 

On attaining his majority Richard J- 
Fowler came to Ohio, settling in Cedarville 
township, Greene county, where he was em- 
ploved as a common laborer until the year 
i8C)7, when, desiring to engage in Inisiness 
on his own account that his labors might re- 



dound to his own prosperity, he rented a 
small farm in the same township and began 
agricultural pursuits for himself. For seven 
years he remained upon that property and 
then purchased land at sixty dollars per acre. 
He is still living upon his original purchase. 
Tiie first tract that he owned comprised only 
five acres, but as his financial resources in- 
creased he has added to this from time to 
time until he now owns seventy-eight acres 
in the home faini. He remodeled the house, 
wliich is now a large stone residence neatly 
furnished, making a verv comfortai>le resi- 
dence. Upon the place are commodious 
barns and good outbuildings, and Mr. 
Fowler is successfullv engaged in general 
farming and stock-raising. In addition to 
the home property he owns a farm of seven- 
ty-six acres on the Columlms i)ike. known 
as the John 1'. Squires farm. This has also 
a good set of buildings upon it and the land 
is all imder cultivation. He has continuous- 
ly carried on his farm work since coming to 
this county with the exception of tlie ])eriod 
of his service in the Civi' war. He was a 
member of the Ohio militia in 1863 and was 
called out with his company at the time of 
trie Morgan raid in this state. The com- 
mand was encamped at Camp Chase for ten 
<lays. but did not take an active part in any 
warfare, for Morgan did not continue his 
plan to invade this section of Ohio. Mr. 
Fowler then returned to his home, resuming 
the work of the farm. 

In 1870 was celebrated the marriage of 
our subject and Miss Martha Ellen Silva. a 
native of Greene county. Ohio, and a dau.gh- 
ter of ^^'illiam and Elizabeth ( Jeffre\s) 
Silva. both of whom are now deceased and 
were laid to rest in Cedarville township. 
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839 



followed farming during much of his active 
life. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fowler have heen 
born ten children, all of whom are yet liv- 
ing- : yiavy Elizaheth, at home ; Robert Mc- 
Millan, Avho married Regenia Spencer, of 
Buffalo, New York, and is in the employ of 
a railroad company, living in Buffalo ; Laura 
Ellen, at home; Annie M., who is secretary 
of the mission school conducted by the Pres- 
byterian church in Augusta, Georgia ; Jen- 
nie Ethel, who is a teacher in the graded 
schools of Columbia, Missouri ; William 
Leonard, who is now attending college; 
Clarence Edward ; Carrie, Helen and How- 
ard Sprowl, who are all attending school; 
and Edith Irene, at home. All of the chil- 
dren ^\■ere Ijorn in Cedarville township, and 
ha\e enjoyed the advantages afforded liy the 
public schools. 

yir. Fowler is a member of the Reformed 
Presbyterian chiu"ch. with which he has been 
identified for thirty-five years, and is now 
chairman of the board of trustees. In his 
political views he is a Republican, and. while 
he stronglv endorses the principles of the 
party, he has never sought or desired office, 
preferring to give his entire attention to his 
business affairs in which he has prospered 
as the -^ears have eone bv. 



WILBUR F. TRADER. 

>\'ilbur I'". Trader, who for several years 
bas l)ee!i engaged in the practice of law in 
Xenia, was horn in that city on the 27th of 
December, 1847, and he is one of a family of 
nine children, whose parents were Alfred 
and Lucinda ( Robinson) Trader. Of this 
number seven grew to maturity, while five 



are yet li\ing. Tiie parents were numbered 
among the representative citizens of Greene 
county, and the former was born in Ross 
township, the latter in Sugarcreek township. 
She was a granddaughter of the Rev. Joshua 
Carman, one of the first Baptist ministers of 
this portion of the state, while the grand- 
father of our subject on the paternal side 
was one of the first representatives of the 
Methodist ministry to preach in southern 
Ohio. Moses Trader, the grandfather, was 
irorn in Virginia in 1787, and came to 
Greene county prior to 1800. In connection 
W"ith his ministerial work he carried on mer- 
cantile business in Xenia and also engaged 
in farming until 1838. Two years later he 
remo\ed to Missouri, where his death oc- 
curred. 

His son, the father of our subject, ac- 
quired his early education in the public 
schools, and in his \ounger years engaged in 
farming. He afterward embarked in mer- 
chandising in Xenia, where he carried on 
business until 1838. In 1840 he was elected 
county treasurer and filled that position for 
twelve consecutive years, a fact which in- 
dicates that the trust reposed in him was 
ne\er betrayed. Immediately after his re- 
tirement from office he was made cashier of 
the Xenia Branch Bank and for two decades 
filled that position, the success of the insti- 
tution being attributable in no small degree 
to his efforts. He at length resigned his po- 
sition in the bank and lived retired until his 
death, which occurred in March, 1883. His 
wife survived him a short time, passing away 
January 27, 1887. 

Wilbur F. Trader, the subject of this re- 
view, acquired his education in the schools 
of Xenia, and took up the study of law un- 
der the direction of Judge Munger, being 



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admitted to the bar in 1877. since whicli 
time lie lias engaged in active practice. He 
has also lieen an active factor in public af- 
fairs. In 1880 he was elected mayor of 
Xenia ; four years later was again chosen to 
that oflice; and was once more elected in 
1886. In 1888 he was elected prosecuting 
attorney and rilled that position for two 
terms. 

Mr. Trader was united in marriage to 
Miss Katharine E. Short, a daughter of A. 
A. Short, a physician of Franklin county. 
Ohir). They have one daughter. Olive. The 
parents h<ild membership in the Methodist 
church an<l in his pf)litical views Mr. Trader 
has always been a Rei)ublican. unswerving 
in his allegiance to the party. 



IIRXRV COXKLIX. 



One of (ireene countv's most prosperous 
farmers and highly respected citizens was 
Henry Conklin, who was a resident of this 
locality for thirty-fi\e years and was prom- 
inently identified with its agricultural devel- 
opment. .\ native of Xew York, he was 
born in Rensselaer county, on the .20th of 
January, 18 17, and is a son of Abraham and 
lluldah (C'arniichael ) Conklin, the former 
of Holland and the latter of Scotch descent. 
'i"he father was also born in ihe Empire 
state antl spent his entire life within two 
nriles of the 1 ludson ri\er. By trade he was 
a slii]) carpenter and assisted Robert Fulton 
in building the tirst steamboat that was e\er 
constnicted, but his later years were devoied 
t( farming. I le died at the advanced age of 
eighty-six \ears, while his wife, who passed 
away some xears ])revious. died at the age of 



>eveniv-iwo. They were the parents of nine 
children, of whom our subject was the third 
in order of birth. Four of the numl)er are 
still living. John C. Conklin, the oldest son, 
was a member of an Illinois Cavalry regi- 
ment during the Civil war and was killed in 
an engagement in Virginia. Edward B., an- 
other son, now living a retired life on a fruit 
farm in California, followed school teaching 
in earlv n>anhood, and later engaged in 
hanking. He also took quite a prominent 
part in jniblic iiffairs and was at one time a 
meml>er of the California senate. Volney 
B. Conklin. another son of .\braham, is a 
r.a])tist minister residing with his family in 
Minnesota. 

Until twenty-six years of age Henry 
Conklin of this review remained in eastern 
Xew York, and wias indebted to the common 
schools of that state for his educational ad- 
vantages. He assisted in the operation of 
the home farm until seventeen years of age. 
and then commenced learning the trade of 
a wagon maker, which he followed during 
the succeeding nine years in Xew N'ork. 
Coming to Ohio in 1843, 'i^ hi'st settled in 
Eiunberton, Clinton county, where he 
worked at his trade for five or six years, 
and then turned his attention to farming. 
lliirtv-tixe years ago he removed to Greene 
ci unty and pinxhased a farm in Xenia town- 
ship, which is a \alu;jble place of live hun- 
dred and thirty-three acres on the Columbus 
])ikc. \\'hen it came into his possession, 
howe\'er. it was only ])artialiy improved, but 
he mridc it one of the most desirable farms 
in the county, ])lacing the land luider excel- 
lent cultivation and erected thereon g(x>rl 
and substantial buildings and remodeled the 
residence. Here he carried on general farm- 
ing and stock-raising, and met with most 
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In 1847 i" Greene county was celebrated 
tlie marriage of Mr. Conklin and JMiss Mary 
Davis, a daughter of W'iiliafn Davis, wlio 
was an early settler of this region, liaxing 
come from Pennsylvania, when this county 
was almost an unbr(_iken wilderness. Here 
he spent tire remainder of his life, dying at 
tlie ag'c of eightv-two -sears at his home in 
Xenia. where he was then living a retired 
life. L'nto Mr. and ^Irs. Conklin were born 
nine children, five sons and four daughters, 
as follows: (i) Mar\- Elizabeth married 
Mathew H. Corrv. now deceased, who was 
a farmer of Xenia township, and she died at 
the age of thirty-six years. (2) Volney. a 
farmer of Jefferson townshij). this county, 
married Elma Johnson of Bowersville. a 
daughter of Robert Johnson. (3) James 
A.. b(.)rn in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1852, 
aids in the operation of the home farm, 
where his entire life has been passed with 
exception of ten years spent in Xebraska. 
(4) Edward L. married Flora Haughev and 
is now living in Illinois. He is aJso an ag- 
riculturist. (5) Ella married Howard Cor- 
rv. of Jefferson township, this county, and 
died lea\'ing two children. Herman C. and 
Ernest E. (6) Sarah I. is the widow of J. 
E. Lowry, of Cedarville. Greene countv. and 
has one child. Hazel Virginia. li\ing witli 
her mother on the farm. ( 7 ) Roscoe re- 
sides with his nKJther on the farm. (8) Ar- 
th.ur. a farmer and stock-raiser li\'ing (_)n the 
C(jlumbus pike, married Xancy Eilson. and 
has one son. Earl Henry. (9) Eva Estella 
is the wife of Harry Steele, who li\-es on a 
farm near the old homestead. 

Although a public-spirited and progress- 
i\e citizen, Mr. Conklin never cared for po- 
litical office but took an acti\-e interest in all 
that tended to advance the welfare or im- 
prii\e the ci;>mmunit\' in wliich he lived. His 



life was e\'er such as to command the confi- 
dence and respect of all with whom he was 
brought in contact, and he had a large circle 
of friends and accjuaintances throughout his 
adopted county. In his death, which oc- 
curred Jul}- 14. 1902, the community real- 
ized that it had lost one of its best and most 
\alued citizens. 



THE XEXIA REPUBLIC AX. 

The Xenia Republican was founded in 
1879 by Warren Anderson, Esq.. formerly 
mayor of Xenia, and subsecjuently superin- 
tendent of the Miami Telephone Company. 
In 1880 ]\Ir, J. M. Milburn became associ- 
ated with Mr. Marshall in the pui)lica,tion of 
the Republican, and in the folIoAving vear 
Mr. John A. Beveridge, who' had just dis- 
posed of his interest in the old Xenia Torch- 
light, succeeded Mr. Milburn. I*"rom that 
time until the death of i\Ir. Beveridge, in 
May. 1900, a period of nineteen years, the 
business was continued under the lirm name 
of Marshall & Beveridge. A few months 
afterwards the interest of the deceased was 
sold tc). the surviving partner, and the es- 
Udrlishment has since been conducted under 
thiC name of the Marshall & Be\eridge Com- 
pany. 

The Xenia Repulilican is pul)lished e\ery 
Tuesday afternoon. It is a nine-cnlumn fo- 
lio, and. as the name imports, is devoted to 
the principles of the Republican party, with- 
out, at the same time, subordinating- an inde- 
pendent expression of views upon all sub- 
jects that' do not jeopardize party unity, 
which, to be right, must proceed from the 
largest latitude of discussion. In connec- 
tion with the newspaper office is a complete 



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and efficient job printing plant, supplied 
with all modern equipments and the latest 
designs in type, which enables it to guaran- 
tee service in that line which can not be ex- 
celled by any office located in cities of pro- 
portionate size. The Women's Missionary 
Magazine of the United Presbyterian church 
is also published in connection with this of- 
fice, and has a circulation in nearly e\er\ 
slate in the Union. 



HUGH A. ALEXANDER. 

Tpiin the farm wliere liis birth (iccurred 
nn the 20th of ;March. iSij, Ilu^ii .\. .\lex- 
ander still resides. His parents were Jacob 
and Margaret (Alexander) Alexander, and 
both were natives of Pennsylvania, whence 
thev removed to Kentucky at an early day. 
The jjaternal grandfather of our subject was 
Hugh Alexander, who about 1811 pur- 
chased one thousand acres of land in Greene 
CountN', ( )hio, a pnrtidn of which is now the 
beautiful homestead of Hugh A. Alexander. 
About 1817 the father of our subject came 
to this county and located on the land which 
his father had previnusly bought. He here 
erected a log cabin and made for himself a 
good home in Miami township. It was here 
that he met the lady whom he afterward 
married, and upon this place, in the first 
cabin which was erected by Jacob .Vlexan- 
der, the subject of this review was born. The 
farm at this time consisted of about two 
hundrctl and se\ent)-ti\e acres of land. 
which .\ir. Alexander partially improved, 
but he died at a comparatively early age, 
passing away in 1S38. He was a Demo- 
ciat in politics and a man of genuine worth. 



Mis widow survived iiim vmW ;.^66 and 
died upon one portion of the original old 
liome place at the age of over .seventy years. 
She w as the mother of ten children, of whom 
our subject is the sole survivor. 

Hugh A. Alexander was reared upon the 
home farm and here has spent his entire life. 
He is indebted to the public schools of the 
county for the limited educational privileges 
he enjoyed, the parents of the scholars hav- 
ing to |)ay a ))ortion of the tuition in money, 
while each had to furnish a proportionate 
amount of the stove wood. Since taking 
charge of the farm he has made many im- 
])rovements, including the erection of a large 
and substantial building. In his fields are 
seen good cnjps and in his jiastures stock of 
high grades. Everything abnut the place is 
neat and thrifty in appearance, indicating the 
careful supervision of a progressive owner. 

In i860 Mr. Alexander was united in 
marriage to Caroline Stahl, who \\as born in 
Germcmy and came to the United States 
when a small child with her parents. They 
resided in Daylim, Ohio, where the father 
died, but the mother is still living. Unto 
Mr. uid Mrs. Alexander have been l3<irn 
eleven children, of whom ten are still liv- 
ing. John, an insurance agent residing in 
Toi)eka. Kansas, is married and has five chil- 
dren. Cynthia is the wife of Jacob Johnson, 
of Yellow Springs. Margaret is at home. 
Jacob, now a fanner of Oklahoma, wedded 
Miss Merrell and they have two children. 
Ennnct and Wiley. Hugh, who operates the 
home farm, married Flora Raney and thev 
have one child. Eleanor. Minnie is the wife 
of Riley McMillan and they have three chil- 
dren, label. Harvey and \\'ilber. .\nna is 
at home, .\bbie is the wife of S. .\. Rahn. 
a merchant of Yellow Springs. Ohio, and 




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845 



they liave une child, Ralph. \\'illiam is a 
merchant of Yellow Springs. Arthur is still 
under the parental roof. Walter died at the 
age of eleven years. All of the children were 
born upon the home farm and all in one 
house. jNIr. Alexander has witnessed nearly 
all of the improvements made in Greene 
county and has done his share in making the 
county what it is to-day. He is now living 
a retired life, having through many years 
been identified with agricultural pursuits 
vvherebv he has gained a comfortable com- 
petence that enables him to put aside all 
labor. 



\MLLIAM C. WILLIAMSON. 

William C. Williamson is a well known 
farmer of Suganoreek township, intelligent, 
enterprising' and progressive. His Ijirth oc- 
curred in this towmship January 20, 1857, 
liis parents being Joseph C. and Mary El- 
eanor (Cramer) Williamson. The father 
was l)iirn in Washington township, Greene 
county, August 22, 1827, and was a son of 
Eleazer and Susannah (McNutt) William- 
son, who were among the early settlers of 
the Buckeye state, the grandmother being 
tVie first white woman to cross the Ohio 
river at Cincinnati. Amid the wild scenes 
■of frontier life Joseph Williamson was 
reared, and after arriving at yeairs of matur- 
it\- he was married in Greene county bv the 
Rev. Stewart, on the ist of January, 1856, 
tr- Miss Mary E. Cramer, who was born 
June 24, 1829. He followed fanning in 
Sugarcreek towaiship, Greene county, and in 
Montgomery county, his farm lying on both 
sides of the division line. He had about two 
hundred and thirtv acres of land and was a 



representative agriculturist of the commun- 
ity. He passed the psalmist span of three 
score years and ten, passing away January 
10, 1898, while his wife died on the 29th of 
November of the same year. Our subject 
was the eldest of their family, the others 
Ijeing Robert E., of Montgomery coun- 
tv, wliM married }*Lary Allen and has 
two children: Joseph A., of the same county, 
who wedded May Elliott and has one child ; 
Maggie E., who became the wife of How- 
ard Woods and died in Greene county, leav- 
ing one son, Herman ; Charles E. of Greene 
county, whO' married Nellie Fulkerson and 
has one child ; and Thomas A. of Montgom- 
erA- countv, who married Jennie Bradford 
and has one child. Mr. and Mrs. William- 
son held membership in the United Presby- 
terian church and politically he was a Re- 
publican but was never an office seeker. 

Upon the home farm \\'illiam C. Will- 
iamson spent his boyhood days, working in 
the fields and meadows from the time of 
early spring planting until after the crops 
were harvested in the autumn. During the 
winter months he pursued his education in 
the puljlic schools. He remained with his 
father until twenty years of age when he 
began farming on his own account on his 
father's land, and as a companion and help- 
mate for the journey of life he sought Miss 
Lucy Morris, their wedding being celebrated 
in Sugarcreek township, December 24, 1885. 
The lady was born in this township, a 
daughter of William S. and ]\Iary fPaice) 
Morris, whose sketch appears elsewhere in 
tliis volume. Unto Mr. and Mrs. William- 
son have been born a son, Calvin IMorris, 
whose birth occurred October 19, 1899. 

Mr. Williamson fully realizes the duties 
and obligations of citizenship and rightly be- 
lie\'es that even' man should gi\e an earnest 



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su])\)t>n u> the political party wliich embod- 
ies, in liis opinion, the best forms of govern- 
ment. Since casting liis first vote for Gar- 
field in 1880 be has l)een a Repul)lican. He 
belongs to tbe l^resl)yterian cliurcli and his 
wife to tile Christian or Disciples' church, 
and be lias l)een su])erintendent of the Sun- 
dav-school and also a leader of the music 
of the Sundav-sclioi.'l in the Clivi-tian church 
in Sugarcreek township. Both take an act- 
ive interest in church work and their efforts 
have been effective in its advancement. Mr. 
Williamson belongs to the < irange at 
W'aynesville. In his farming operations lie 
is i)ersevering, diligent and honorable and 
well does he merit the success which has 
Conic b I liini. 



WILLT.\M S. MOURIS. 

William Spinning Morris was born near 
Lebanon. Warren county. Ohio. l-"ebruary 
17, 181 1, a son of Benjamin and Mary 
(Spinning) Morris. The ^b)rris family 
came originally from England. Isaac Mor- 
ris, the graiidf<tther of our subject, lived in 
Morristown, Xew Jersey, prior to and dur- 
ing the Revolutionary war. and during that 
contest he served <'is a private with the min- 
ute men of the Morris counly, .\'e\\ Jersey, 
militia. He married Rel>ecca Hathaway and 
they became the parents of live sons and 
two daughters, of whom Benjamin, born 
1-cIiruary 20. 1774. was the second child. 
At the close of the Re\(>lutionary war the 
family removed to the Xorthwest Territory, 
as Ohio was then called. The route chosen 
was by way of I 'cnnsyh ania. and several 
w eeks were refjuircd in making the overland 
journey through the wilderness and over tbe 
mountains to Redstone, near Pittsburg. 



After tarr\ ing there for a few months they 
embarked on a flatboat with all their jxis- 
sessions and floated down the Ohio river, 
landing at Columbia, near Cincinnati, in 
the vear 1790. This site was afterward 
abandoned because of the frequent overflow 
of the river, and they went north ten or 
twelve miles to a place called l\ound Bot- 
tom, on the Little Miami ri\er. In order to 
pri>tect tliemselves against the Indians they 
at once began the erection of a fort. Benja- 
min Morris, then si.xteen years of age. as- 
sisted in its construction. .\ small patch of 
ground was cleared and such grain as they 
had brought with them was planted. \\ bile 
at work, whether sowing or reaping, two 
men were ke|)t on duty as sentinels, yet the 
settlement suffered from occasional attacks 
by the Indians until after (General Wayne's 
successful cami)aign in 1795. To add to 
their hardships smallixix broke out among 
them and carried off .several of their num- 
ber, inchuling the young wife and infant 
child of Benjamin Morris. He had mar- 
ried a Miss Tichener. 

Jacob, the eldest son of Isaac Morris, 
joined St. Clair's forces against the Indians 
and was among the victims of that awful 
defeat. When General Wayne was organ- 
izing his army Benjamin Morris removed 
from the fort and enlisted as a pack-horse 
man, thus taking part in the campaign. .\f- 
ter i>eace had been established Isaac and 
Benjamin Morris removed from the fort. 
The former purchased a tract of land about 
four miles west of Lebanon. Warren county. 
He died in his eighty-eighth year. He was 
a man of small stature and somewhat orig- 
iral in his religious views. 

lienjamiii Morris Ijought a farm a short 
distance north of that purchased by his fa- 
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ii!g (la\'S. He wedded, for his second wife, 
Mary Spinning, a daughter of Matthias and 
Hannah (Haines) Spinning, who liveil 
about two miles west of Lebanon. The 
Spinnings trace their ancestry to Humjihrey 
Spinning', who came to America in 1639 
with the Puritans. He was one of the foun- 
ders of Ehzabeth. Xew Jersey, in the }ear 
ifif)5. He was married Octolier 14. 1O37, 
tc Abigail, daugliter of George and Mary 
Hulj'bard, and his death (Occurred in i()8y. 
He wasS tlie father of nine chikh'en. six sons 
and three daughters, inchiding Edward, 
the father of Matthias Spinning. Tlie hist- 
named was born in the year 1750 and (bed 
in 1830. He had tiiree brothers and two 
sisters, inchuHng Judge Isaac Si^inning, of 
Montgomery county, Ohio. Mattliias Spin- 
ning was a quiet and peaceable man of ster- 
ling wiirth. He served in the Re\'(.lutionarv 
war as a private minute man of the Esse.x 
county. New Jersey, militia, and sufYeved 
much for the cause of American libert}-. He 
and his brother Isaac were captured and 
carried to Xew York, where they were con- 
fined for several months within the loath- 
some walls of what was called the Sugar 
House, famous as a place of confinement for 
the .\merican prisoners of war. 

The children of Benjamin and Mary 
(S])inning) Morris were ten in number-- 
five sons and five daughters, of whom the 
subject of this review was the eighth in or- 
der of birth. The father died in i85i at 
the home (if this son, near Belllirook, (jrecne 
county, whither he had come on a visit. Af- 
ter the death of his wife, Mary Spinning, 
he had married again, the third union be- 
ing with Sarah Weaver, of White county, 
Tennessee. 

The subject of this sketch was born on 
his father's farm, where his bovhood davs 



were also spent. His educalii)nal prixileges- 
were tliose afforded by the common schools. 
The first schoolhouse in v.hich he was a 
student was a log structure with slali seats. 
Sections nf the logs were cut out and the 
apertures covered with greased paper, whichi 
served as windows. \\'riting desks were 
made of slabs laid on jjins driven into the 
wall. Only cjuiil pens were used. His early 
education was afterward supplemented by 
stud\' in the schools of Lebanon, ( )hio. ]\Ir. 
Morris was a good stuilent in all branches. 
Init showed particular aptness in mathemat- 
ics and geography. He began teaching school 
at the age of twenty years and followed 
that profession for eleven }ears, mostly in 
Warren and Butler counties, Ohio, with a 
short period in Richmond, Indiana. During 
that time he also studied ci\il engineering 
and land surveying, and in the former ca- 
pacity was employed on the Warren county 
canal for about three years, .\bout 1838, 
in connection with others, lie surveyed the 
road from Lebanon to Dayton, also from 
Dayton to Springfield. 

On the 1st of December. 1844. Mr. ;\ [or- 
ris was united in marriage with Mary Pence,, 
a daughter of William and Martha (Hunt) 
Pence. He then gave all of his attention 
to farming and land surveying. In 1858- 
he ])m'chased a farm of one hundred and 
se\'enty acres near Belll>rook, Greene county,, 
to wdiich place he and his family removed 
the same year and on which he spent his re- 
n:aining days. Politically he was first a 
Whig and then a Republican. In early life 
he became a member of the Church of 
Christ, or Disciples' church, as did his wife, 
and throughout the years of his Christian 
life he was deeply interested in church work 
and much devoted tO' the denomination of 
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.c]eix>rlineiU he was gentle ami gmxl. anil 
also showed firmness and resolution. He 
was the father of twelve children, of whom 
two sons, William Haydcn and Benjanjin 
Franklin, died in infancv. while <>ne daugh- 
ter. Lucy Elvira, died in early childhood 
and two others, Clara and Abbie. died in 
young womanhood. Two sons and five 
■daughters grew ti> maturity. I'l'r these he 
made every necessary .sacrifice to educate 
and make useful men and women i>f them. 
In all this he was ably seconded by his wife, 
who was ever reaily to surrender her own 
I)ersonal comfort liiat iier children might 
equi]) themselves as th<iroughly as possilile 
for the battle of life. 

Through his declining years Mr. Morris 
S])ent much oi his time in reading. At 
eighty-seven his mental faculties remained 
unim]iaired and he was interested not only 
in things pertaining to the welfare ot his 
■own neighlx)rho(xl but shared with intelli- 
gent appreciation in the larger interests of 
the country and humanity. He died April 
3. 1S98. antl his wife died Octi>I)er 19, 
1886. Their surviving chiUlren were: 
Olive and W'icklift'e Campl>ell. wlu) reside 
on the old home place, and the latter has 
two daughters. Bertha Lucile and I'rances : 
Martha, who l^ecame the wife of Samuel E. 
Raper. of Dayton. Ohio, and died June 7, 
i8()(), leaving one son. \\'illiam Morris 
Raper; Mary Alice, who became the wife of 
J. Wilbur Fulkerson, of Spring Walley. 
Ohio, and died Octo1)er 13, 1901. leaving 
an infant son, Morris A. Fulkerson; Lucy, 
the wife of \\'. Calvin Williamson, who re- 
sides near Bellbrook, and by whoan she has 
a son, Calvin I^Iorris ; Clara Jerusha. the 
wife of Frank C. Thomas, who resides near 
Spring \'alley. and b\- whom she had four 



children — Olive, now deceased. Homer 
]\Iorris, George Huber and Margaret; 
William Spencer, of Dayton, who married 
Luella A. .'^cartY and has two sons, William 
Staidev and Howard Laverne. 



TOHX 15. .\LLEX. 



Honored and respected by all for many 
years. John B. Allen occupied a most en- 
\iable ])osition in the business world of 
Greene county, becoming one of its wealthy 
citizens, yet commanding respect not alone 
because of his success, but also because of 
the straightforward, honorable policy he 
ever followed. Although the history of his 
])ublic career is largely known to residents 
of Ohio, it is but just to say in a history that 
will descend to future generations that his 
business record was ever one that any man 
might lie proud to possess. He advanced 
steadily step by step until he occupied a po- 
sition of prominence and trust reached by 
very few men. Through his entire business 
career he was ever looked upon as a model 
of integrit}' and honor, never making an en- 
gagement that he did not fulfill and stand- 
ing as an example of what determination 
and force, combined with the highest degree 
of business integrity, can accomplish for a 
man of natural ability and strength of char- 
acter. But it was not his success alone that 
made him one of the leading citizens of 
Greene county. He was honored and re- 
spected for his sterling qualities of manhood 
which in every land and every clime com- 
mand respect. He was kindly, generous and 
upright, freely assisted those who needed aid, 
was quick to encourage merit and at all 





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times g-ave his influence to the true, the good 
and the beautiful. He was also a leader of 
public thought and action and was honored 
with liig-h political preferment. 

John B. Allen was born August 5, 181 6, 
near Mount Jackson, Shenandoah county, 
Virginia, and from August, 1836, until his 
death, in the latter part of the century, he 
was identified with the interests of Greene 
county. He was a son of John and Cath- 
erine ( Holker) Allen. The family was of 
English origin, but through several genera- 
tions representatives of the name had been 
numbered among prominent and influential 
people of Virginia, and John Allen \vas the 
owner of a large estate there, but died when 
John B. Allen was only a year old. The lat- 
ter was given liberal educational ad\-antages, 
attending the college at Gettysburg, Penn- 
sylvania, and about the time he attained his 
majority came to Xenia, where his sister, 
Mrs. John Walton, had previously located. 
He e.stablished a private bank in this city, 
and it was soon demonstrated that he had 
superior ability as a financier as well as the 
power of readily wmning friends, whom he 
drew closer to him as the years passed. In 
all that he undertook he was successful, 
owing to his enterprise, keen discrimination 
and straightforward business policy. At the 
time I if his demise he was serving as the 
l)resident of the Xenia National Bank, which 
hail become one of the most important and 
reliable financial institutions in this part of 
the state. Mr. Allen was united in marriage 
to Miss Sarah Ann Nunnemaker, the wed- 
ding being celebrated on the loth of De- 
cember, 1839. They became the parents of 
two daughters, who are yet living : Mrs. 
^lary A. Kinney and Clara. Mrs. Allen 
died April 30. 1902. Mr. Allen was a man 



of strong domestic tastes who found his 
greatest happiness at his own fireside and 
counted no personal sacrifice too great that 
would promote the welfare of his loved ones. 
In his home he showed a genial nature and 
an interest that was always awake to every- 
thing pertaining tii the happiness of his wife 
and children. 

In his political views he was a stalwart 
Republican, unswerving in his advocacy of 
the part)-, and while not an aspirant for of- 
fice he served his city and county faithfully 
in the different official positions that came 
to him. He was a member of the city coun- 
cil for many years, and for some time was 
its president, and his well known financial 
judgment was of much value to the city. He 
also was a member of the board of county 
commissioners for a number of years. In 
1891 he was elected a member of the state 
legislature and w^as again elected in the fall 
of 1893, '^"t his death occurred on the 21st 
of December of that year, before entering 
upon his second term. 

Mr. Allen had a very deep and sincere 
interest in young men, and often assisted 
them to gain a start in life, aiding them not 
onl\- bv wise council and experience, but 
also with financial support. The poor and 
needy found in him a warm friend who 
riever sought his help in vain. He had the 
reputation of being a very liberal man, yet 
he was entirely uncstentatious in his giving. 
He never cared for public approval upon his 
benevolent actions, content in having done 
his duty toward his fellow men, and often 
even those who were the recipients of his 
bountv knew not from whence came their 
aid. Churches and charitable institutions 
benefitted by his liberality, and his wealth 
was so worthily used that the most envious. 



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could not fjrudge him his success. In his 
Inisincs? affairs lie prospered — and who de- 
serves [)rosj)erity more than such a man .' 
His hanking interests were attended with 
success and also his investments, and he left 
his family in very comfortahle circumstances. 
He regarded himself, however, only as the 
steward in charge. Few men have realized 
more fully how much got)d can Ije accom- 
plished for the puhlic welfare, hut Mr. Allen 
was continually alert to the opportunities 
for assisting those around him. The best 
thoughts and efforts of his life were wrought 
into Xenia's prosperity. He stood in his 
■old age, when clothed with the honor of 
• wealtii <in(l the regard of hosts of friends his 
life work had won, just where he stood fifty 
years before when a young man beset with 
flifHculties — for the best elements of Chris- 
tian progress, for education, for temperance, 
for absolute justice, for the dignity of man- 
ual labor and for tlie Bible. Such a life 
record is well worthy of study and of emula- 
lion. The story of his achievements .should 
inspire all young men with a truer estimate 
of the value and sure rewards of character. 



JOHX Cll.KRLES DODDS. 

John Qiarles Dodds is well known in the 
business circles of Xenia as the junior mem- 
ber of the firm of (leorge Dodds & Son. 
dealers in marl)le. He was liorn in Xenia. 
January 24. 1874, and in the public .schools 
ac(|uired his education. When about si.\- 
teen vears of age he entered upon his busi- 
ness career, at wiiicb time he began learning 
the trade of a marble cutter, carver and en- 
graver in the employ of his father. For him 



he worked on a salary for seven years, dur- 
ing which time he mastered the business, be- 
coming an e.\pert in that line. He was then 
admitted into the firm, which since 1897 has 
been knowti as (ieorge Dodds & Son. Their 
patronage is extensive, covering a wiile ter- 
ritory and the excellence of their work in- 
sures a liberal continuance of a large trade. 

On the 23rd of June, 1897, Mr. Dodds 
was united in marriage to Elizabeth S. Ste- 
phens, of Xenia and a daughter of Rev. O. 
P. and Mary C. Stephens, both of whom 
were natives of Ohio. Her father was a 
minister of the Methodist Protestant church 
and is the father of Qiancellor D. S. Ste- 
phens. D. D.. of Kansas City University. 
He was very well known in his denomination 
and for some time ser\ed as a ])astor of a 
clnu'ch in .Xenia. His iniluence was of a 
superior order for his work proved \ery ef- 
fecti\e in ]>ronioting the moral developmeiit 
of tiie county, lie died during the infancy 
of his daughter Mrs. Dodds who was the 
youngest of six children. Her mother now 
makes her home with (»ur subject and his 
wife, whose marriage has been lilessed with 
two children; John Charles, who was born 
on the 1 2th of July, 1898, and Mary Kath- 
erine, born April 22. 1902. 

In politics -Mr. Dodds is an independent 
Prohibitionist. He is a member of 
Xeiria Lodge. Xo. 49. F. & .\. M. 
I'oth he and his wife are members 
of the First Methodist Episcopal church 
of Xenia. and teachers ol" the Sunday- 
school and for three vears he was jjresitlent 
of the h'pworth League. Their infiuence is 
widely felt in cluircii circles and their efforts 
are effect i\e in |)romoting the cause of Chri.s- 
tianity. They arc now occupying a fine resi- 
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No. 218 Hill street and their home is noted 
for its gracious hospitality. 'Sir. Dodds is 
•one of the young business" men of Xenia, 
possessing the enterprise and progressive 
spirit so characteristic of this land. His 
laudable ambition, keen business sagacity 
-and strong determination ha.ve been salient 
factors in promoting the success attending 
the firm of Dodds & Son. The house bears 
an unassailable reputation and its prosperity 
is well merited. 



ALBERT F. HERING. 

For over a century the Hering family 
has i)een prominently identified with the 
agricultural interests of Greene count}", and 
have taken a very active part in its ileveloj;- 
ment and upbuilding. The subject of this 
sketch was born in Beavercreek* township, 
December 16, 1845, and is a grandsnn of 
Jacob Hering, one of the honored pioneers 
(;f the county, who caane to America fmni 
Switzerland, and in 1795 settled in Greene 
ciiuntx", Ohio, about two miles south of 
where i)ur subjpect now lives in Beavercreek 
township. He was married to Miss Bar- 
bara Richenbach Palerm, a natixe of Swit- 
zerland, and tO' them were born four chil- 
dren, one si>n and three daughters, namely : 
Elizabeth, Margaret, Barbara and Jacol), all 
now- fleceased. 

Jacob Hering, the father of ov.v subject, 
was born on the old homestead in Beaver- 
creek township, in 1808, and amid ])inneer 
scenes he grew to manhood, his education 
being obtained in an old log .school house 
east of the farm. In later years he built a 
schoril liouse upon his own land which he 



donated to the district. He remained with 
his father until the death of the latter, and 
after attaining his majoritv they engaged in 
farming in partnership. He cast his first 
presidential vote for William Henr\- Harri- 
son, and continued to support the Whig 
party until its dissolution, when he Ijecame a 
stanch Republican, and always took an active 
and prominent part in local politics. For 
twelve years he ser\ed as treasurer oi his 
township, was trustee a ninnl)er of years, and 
school director most of his active life, always 
taking a great interest in educational affairs. 
Fraternally he was a member of the Odd 
Fellows Lodge. Xo. ^2. of Xenia, and Ixith 
he and his wife held membership in the 
Reformed church of Beavercreek township. 
In 183! he wedded Miss Mary Steele, a na- 
ti\'e of that townsJiip, and to them were born 
nine children, six sons and three daughters, 
as follows: Amanda, a resident of Bea\'er- 
creek townshi]K libenezer, John William, 
Nanc}" .\nn and Angeline and Da\id W .. all 
five deceased; Henrv Harrison, who was 
born in 1840, and is now a physician of Min- 
nesota : John Jacob, deceased: and A. F.. of 
this review. In i8i')i. at the opening of the 
Civil war, Henry H. Hering enlisted in 
Company E, .Seventy-fourth Ohio \^)lunteer 
Infantr}-. of which he was made first lieu- 
tenant, and after ser\ing four }ears was 
mustered out with the rank of cai)taiii. His 
brother, John J. Hering, was commissioned 
first lieutenant of Comi)an\- F. ( )ne Hundred 
and Fifty-fourth Oliio \'olunteer Infantry, 
but was later transferred to Company A and 
was made adjutant of the regiment. After 
ser\ing three months he contracted t\'phoid 
fever and was sent home, where he died in 
October, 1864. 

During his boyjiood and }'out]i .A.. F. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Herino^ attended the public schools of his na- 
ti\e township and completed his education in 
the schools ot Xenia. At the age of twenty 
years he commenced farming for his father 
upi)n tlic liome place, and remained under 
the parental roof until 1892. when he pur- 
chased the farm on which he now resides, 
consisting of aljout <Mie hundred acres in 
Beavercreek township. Here he is now en- 
gaged in general farming and stock-raising, 
and is acknowledged to lie one of the best 
and most successful agriculturists of his 
community. Although he raises cattle and 
hogs, he makes a specialty of horses, and is 
a good judge of the nolile steed. 

In 1874 was celebrated the marriage of 
Mr. llering and Miss ;Matilda Munger. a 
daughter of Harris and Elizabeth Munger, 
well known farming people of Beavercreek 
townshi]). .iltiiough previously residents of 
Montgomery county, Ohio, where Mrs. Her- 
ing was l>orn. She is a first cousin of Judge 
Munger. of Xenia. To our subject and his 
wife have been bom live children, namely: 
Clarence F. marrieil .Mice Wilson, of Lon- 
don, Ohio, where they now live : E. Russell 
is a resident of Hamilton. Ohio; Jacob Earl 
still lives at home and is now attending a 
commercial school in Dayton; Mary E. and 
Harris M. are also at home. 

Tn his political views Mr. Hering is a 
stalwart Keiniblican. but has never l)een 
prevail<.'d u])l^n to accept political hon- 
ors. He takes, however a deep in- 
terest in educational affairs, and lias 
been a member of the school Ix^ard 
for a number of years. He and his 
wife and four children are members of the 
Reformed church, and the family is one of 
])rominence in the community where thev 
reside. 



EDWARD O. GERLAUGH. 

With the agricultural interests of Beav- 
ercreek township Edward O. Gerlaugh has 
long been prominently identified, and is ac- 
counted one of the most skillful and success- 
ful farmers of his community. A native of 
Ohio, he was born in Montgomery county, 
l-'ebruary 27. 1846. and there spent the first 
si.\ years of his life, but since that time has 
made his home in Greene county. 

Jacob Gerlaugh, the father of our sub- 
ject, was born in Beavercreek, this county,, 
in 1810, and was a brother of .\rthur Ger- 
laugh, who.se sketch appears elsewhere in 
th.is volume. The former grew to manhootl 
upon the old homestead in Beavercreek 
township, and was a student in an old log 
school house which stood alxiut three-quar- 
ters of a mile below the farm. It was a 
primitive structure, light being admitted 
through oiled paper instead of glass, and 
seated with slab benches. At that time the 
early settlers shelled their corn by the horses 
tramping over it. Jacob Gerlaugh assisted 
in the work oi the home farm until thirty 
years of age when he was united in marriage 
to Miss Anna Miller, who was born in Vir- 
ginia, and on coming to Ohio made her 
home with an uncle in Montgomerv countv, 
until her marriage. Thirteen children 
blessed this union, namely: William, de- 
ceased; Oliver, who died in infancy: Lydia 
.\nn. who marrieil Jacob R. Black and lives 
in Illinois; Edward O., of this review; Tav- 
lor, also a resident of Illinois: Mai'v Jane 
and Martha Ellen, twins, the former of 
whom is living in Dayton, and the other on 
the old home farm in Bath township, this 
county; Haines, a resident of Illinois: Hat- 
tie, the wife of Charles \\eiffenbach, of Bel- 
laire, Michigan: .Mice, who died in infancv ; 




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Jacf >1>. who makes liis home in Illinois ; 
Henry, deceased ; and Saraii Belle, wife of 
Frank Weiffenbach of Dayton. Of this 
family \\'illiam' Gerlaugh w-as among the 
brave boys in blue during the dark days of 
the Civil war. being a member of Company 
E, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. He left Alpha on the 
1st of May, 1864, but was soon taken pris- 
oner by the rebels at Moorfield, and was 
starved to death in Salisbury prison. North 
Carolina, dying February 15. 1865. The 
mother of our subject died in 1893. and the 
father passed away in Februan% 1897. 
Throughout life he successfully engaged in 
general farming and stock-raising, his crops 
being principally corn, wheat, oats and bar- 
ley. He kept good grades of horses and 
cattle, making somewhat of a specialty of 
the best Leicester sheep and short horn cat- 
tle, and he took great pride in his stock, be- 
ing a lover of all dumb animals which have 
become so useful to mankind. Air. Ger- 
laugh was a man of high moral character 
and had the confidence and respect of all 
who knew him. 

Edward O. Gerlaugh was educated in 
district school No. 4 of Bath township, 
where he continued his studies until seven- 
teen years of age, and then Ujok his broth- 
er's place on the farm where he now lives, 
the latter having died in the service of his 
country. He now owns two hundred and 
eighteen acres of highly improved and pro- 
ductive land, it being considered one of the 
best and most desirable farms of its size in 
the county. The old house was destroyed b}- 
lire in 1887, and he has since erecterl a more 
modern and pleasant residence, and made 
many other useful and valuable improve- 
ments, the place being supplied with all the 
conveniences and accessories found upon a 

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miodel farm of the present day. Mr. Ger- 
laugh has made a specialty of breeding and 
raising Hereford cattle and has registered 
stock at the head of his herd. He was one 
of the first to introduce this variety in the 
County. He is a member of the Hereford 
Breeders' Association and is interested in a 
high grade of cattle. 

In 1870 Mr. Gerlaugh married Miss 
Martha Ellen Harshman. a native of Beav- 
ercreek township, and to them were born 
seven children, as follows: William and 
Anna, both now deceased ; Edward, a resi- 
dent of Dayton; Oscar, Luella and Jacob, 
all at home; and Earl, who^ is attending high 
school. In politics Mr. Gerlaugh is inde- 
pendent, voting for the men and measures 
th.at he believes will best advance the public 
welfare. He withholds his support from no 
enterprise calculated to promote the moral, 
social or material welfare of his community. 



MARTIN PETERSON. 

For almost a century the Peterson fam- 
ily has been identified with Greene county, 
its representatives contributing their full 
share to the development and substantial up- 
buildmg of this portion of the state, and the 
work which his ancestors began Martin 
Peterson is carrying steadily forward for 
he is accounted one of the loyal and pro- 
gressive men of his section. He now follows 
farming in Spring Valley township, where 
he has a pleasant home and a valuable prop- 
erty, it was upon this farm that he was 
born, first opening his eyes to the light of 
day on the 9th of May. 1836, his parents be- 
ing Jonas and Susan (Coiner) Peterson. 
His great-grandfather came from Switzer- 
land to America and probably settled in Vir- 
ginia. Martin Peterson, an uncle -of our 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



subject, served as a soldier of tlie war of 
i8iJ. 

JDiias Peterson was liorn in Berkeley 
county West Virginia, and his wife in Au- 
gusta county. Virginia, and bf)th came with 
their resjiective families to Greene county 
aljout 1806. The paternal grandfather of 
our subject resided f(jr a time in Ross coun- 
ty, Ohio, and later spent a year nr two near 
Columbus, but for some time made his home 
in this county. Later he removed to Mont- 
gomerv county, Indiana, where he purchased 
land and carried on farming in connection 
with blacksmithing, having learned his trade 
in early life. The dual pursuit was his 
means of livelihood throughout the years of 
his manhood. He died in Indiana at a ripe 
old age. The father of our subject also 
learned and followed the blacksmith's trade, 
and farming claimed a portion of his atten- 
tion. He operated a smithy on the farm 
where tlie brother of our subject is now liv- 
ing. As the years passed he made extensive 
investments in real estate until he was the 
owner of about one thousand acres of land 
Iving in Spring Valley and Cedarcreek town- 
shijis. In his political views he was a Demo- 
crat and was long a faithful member of the 
(Jerman Reformed church, in which he 
served as an elder for many years. He died 
up<Mi the home farm, and the mother of our 
.subject has also passed away. In their fam- 
ilv were ten children who reached mature 
years: lane, who married John Huffman 
and at her death left four children: John, 
who made his home in Spring Valley and at 
his death left five children : David, who died 
at his home in Montgomery county. Indi- 
ana: Hannah, who became tlie wife of John 
Mallow and died leaving three children: 
Paris, of this county, who left three chil- 



dren : I'.lizabeth. who married Philip Paget 
and died leaving four children : Sarah, the 
wife of Silas DeW'itt, of Dayton, by whom 
she has four children; Martin, of this re- 
\iew : Jonas, wlm lives in Spring X'alley: 
and Christopher C. also of Spring Valley. 

Upon the home farm our subject si)ent 
his boyhfX)d days, receiving but a limited 
education for his services were needed in 
the cultivation of the fields. When about 
twenty-three years of age he was married 
to Miss Catherine Shook. Their son, Ly- 
sander, is manager of the stockyards of Day- 
ton. He is married Init has no children. On 
the f)th of June, 1869, Mr. Peterson was 
again married, his second union lieing with 
Miss Nancy J. Evans, who was born in 
Spring X'alley townshii). a daughter of Rob- 
ert and Sarah ( Coppock ) Evans. They 
have one son, J. R. Albert. 

The first land which Mr. Peterson ever 
owned was a tract of ninety-si.x acres which 
he purchased of his father. To this he has 
atlded as his financial resources have in- 
creased until he now lias two hundred acres 
of valuable and arable land that returns to 
him a good living as the result of his labors. 
The many improvements uix)n the place are 
nmnuments to his thrift and enterpri.se. In 
former vears Mr. Peterson voted with the 
Democracy, but becoming disgusted with 
l)olitical methods does not vote ait all now. 
Both he and his wife are consistent members 
of the ("lermaii Reformed church and he is 
a deacon of the church. 



ROBERT L. GOWDV. LL. B. 

K()l)crl L. Gi)wdy is one of the younger 
members of the Greene county bar but has 
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older practitioner miglit well envy. He was 
born in Xenia township, this county, on the 
24th of October, 1865. and is a son of Rob- 
ert and Emily (Manor) Gowdy. His fa- 
ther was bom in the city of Xenia. where 
the grandfather. Robert Gowdy. located in 
]Moneer days, having come here from \'ir- 
ginia in 1812, accompanied by his three 
l)rothers, John, Ryan and Samuel. They 
were the early owners of much of the land 
on which the business portion of Xenia is 
now located. The family is further men- 
tioned in the historical part of this work. 
The grandfather served as a captain in the 
war of 1812. 

Robert Gowdy. the father of our subject, 
was ai farmer and throughout his entire 
life carried on agricultural pursuits, own- 
ing a valuable tract of land adjoining the 
city of Xenia. During his later life he 
joined tlie ranks of the Republican party. 
On three different occasions he served as 
director of the county infirmary. He mar- 
ried Emily Manor, also a native of Xenia. 
His death occurred October 26, 1894, when 
he was seventy-tive years of age, and his 
wife passed away in 1883 at the age of fifty- 
three years. Both were faithful and con- 
sistent members of the Presbyterian church 
of Xenia, in which Mr. Gowdy served as 
elder for many years. 

Rol^ert L. Gowdy, of this review, ac- 
quired his preliminary education in the city 
schools of Xenia and later was graduated in 
the high school, after which he assisted his 
father in the work of the home farm until 
he entered upon the study of law as a stu- 
dent in the Cincinnati Law School, now a 
department of the L'niversity of Cincinnati. 
He completed the full course and was grad- 
uated in the class of 1889 with the degree 



of LL. B. In June of the same year he was 
admitted to the bar and then opened an office 
in Xenia. where he has since practiced. Like 
all men who enter the profession, he had to 
begin at the very bottom round of the ladder 
and work his way upward. He has gained 
an enviable reputation and the zeal with 
which he has devoted his energies to his 
profession, the great regard evinced for the 
interests of his clients, and an assiduous and 
unrelaxing attention to all the details of his 
cases have brought to him a large business 
and made him very successful in its conduct. 
His entire time is given to his law practice 
and his devotion to his clients" interests is 
proverbial. The past few years he has oc- 
cupied a pleasant suite of rooms in the Allen 
block. 

Mr. Gowdy was united in marriage to 
Jessie M. Glotfelter, of Trebeins, Ohio, a 
daughter of ^^^ H. Glotfelter, an old resi- 
dent of that place. The wedding was cele- 
brated on the 1st of X'ovember, 1893, and 
has been blessed with one son, \\'illiam H. 
The parents are members of the Presby- 
terian church, and Mr. Gowdy is a Repub- 
lican in politics, but has never been a poli- 
tician in the sense of office seeking although 
he serveil as city solicitor for two terms, 
filling the position from 1895 until 1899. 
He is a member of Xenia Lodge X^o. 49, 
F. & A. M. His social qualities render him 
popular, while his marked ability has given 
him prominence in his profession. 



SYLVESTER GEORGE LAFONG. 

Svlvester G. Lafong, now deceased, was 
throughout life one of the leading farmers 
of P.ea\ercreek township, as well as one of 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



its most liiglily respected citizens. A native 
of the Old JJominion, he was torn in Spott- 
sjlvania county, Virginia. May 2^. 18J4, 
but was quite young on coming to Greene 
county, Ohio, witli liis father, George Ber- 
nard Lafong, the family locating on Lud- 
low creek, in that locality he receixed his 
education, and after leaving school worked 
for his father a number of years. He then 
engaged in farming on his own account, 
but still continued to reside with his father 
for some time. 

On February 19, 1852, Mr. Lafong was 
united in marriage to Miss Barbara Lantz, 
a native r)f Washington county, Maryland, 
and a daughter of John and Catherine Lantz, 
the former of whom was lx)rn in Virginia, 
the latter in Maryland. She is the oldest in 
a family of six children, two sons and four 
daughters, the others being John Daniel, 
a resident of Bea\ercreek township: Cath- 
erine Jane, deceased ; Jacob Louis, who 
lives about a mile from Mrs. Lafong; Mary 
Elizabeth, deceased : and Ellen, who lives 
below Xenia. Xo children were born to 
our subject and his wife. 

After his marriage Mr. Lafong con- 
tinued to work for his father for a number 
of years, and later engaged in farming in 
Beavercreek tnwnship 011 the farm where 
his widow now resides and which she pur- 
chased after the death of her husband. It 
consists of one hundred and sixty-two acres, 
which is under a high state of cultivation 
and improved with good and substantial 
buildin,gs. Mr. Lafong carried on general 
farming quite successfully, raising all kinds 
of grain, and also gave considerable atten- 
tion to the raising of cattle, sheep and hogs. 
The Democratic party always found in him 
a stanch supporter of its principles, but at 



local elections he voted for the men he 
thought best qualitied for the positions. He, 
with Mrs. Lafong. were long active and 
faithful members of the Lutheran church, 
in which he served as elder for a number of 
years, and at his death, which occurred in 
187S, the community realized that it had 
lost one of its most reliable and trustworthy 
citizens as he commanded the respect anil 
confidence of all with whom he came in 
contact either in business or social life. His 
estimable wife still survives him and is held 
in the highest regard by a large circle of 
friends and acquaintances. She has shown 
much business ability, having purchased the 
farm and carried on l)usiness success fullv 
manv \ears. 



DA\"Ii) R. BREWER. 

David R. Brewer, who resides in Xenia 
township, was born in Miami township on 
the i^tii of Fel)ruary, 1846, and has always 
lived in Greene county. His parents were 
John (i. and Sarah ( Miller) Brewer. The 
paternal grandfather was a native of Xew 
Jersey and died in tliat state at the age of 
ninety-eight years. The father was born 
near Trenton, Xew Jersey, and there lived 
until he had attained his majority, when he 
came to Ohio, the state being largely an un- 
hmken wilderness at tliat time. The year 
1 81 7 witnessed his arrival and he took up 
his abode in Greene county near Yellow 
Springs, where he worked at his trade of 
wa,gonmakin.g and carpentering. He also 
engaged in farming and continued to make 
his home at the first place of his residence in 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



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to Xenia and leased a farm known as the 
iucas property. There he carried on agri- 
cultural pursuits until his retirement from 
business life. He was a prosperous and 
progressive man, his business interests being 
capably conducted. In politics he was a Re- 
publican after the organization of the part}- 
and prior to that time he gave his support 
to the old Whig party. He held membership 
in the Presbyterian church, and died in diat 
faith in 1S84 at the age of ninety-three 
years. The mother of our subject departed 
this life in 1880 at the age of eighty-four 
years. She was a native of Rockbridge 
county, Virginia. Her father died wdien he 
was very young and in 1805 she became a 
resident of Ohio. Unto the parents of our 
subject were born nine children : George 
A., who resides at W'esterville, Franklin 
county, Ohio, where he is engaged in car- 
pentering; \Mlliam, a farmer of Clifton, 
Ohio: Rebecca, who died about 1856: Paul- 
ine, the wife of C. H. Winters, a veteran of 
the Civil war, who is now .living retired at 
Yellow Springs; Charles E., who was a 
farmer of Xenia township and died in 1893 ; 
John G., a resident of Clifton, Ohii); Sarah, 
the wife of D. S. Dixon of Cedarville town- 
ship; Martha L.. the wife of J. D. Heller, 
who is living in \\'est Main street in Xenia ; 
and Da\id R. of this review. 

The last named obtained his education 
in the common schools and in Antioch col- 
lege, where he remained as a student for two 
years. Ori the expiration of that period he 
returned to the home place and has since de- 
voted his energies to farming and stock- 
raising, his well directed efforts in this di- 
rection bringing to him creditable success. 
The only interruption to his labor came in 
1864, when, in response to his country's call, 



he joined Company A, of the One Hundred 
and Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry for service 
in the Union army. He remained with that 
command for five months and then re-en- 
listed, becoming a member of Company K, 
One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Ohii.) In- 
fantry, with which he continued until the 
close of the war, w hen he was honorably dis- 
charged at Xashville, in September, 1865. 
During his services he participated in the 
battles of Moorefield, West Virginia, and of 
Xew Creek. He had three brothers who 
were also soldiers of the war, \\4lliam H., 
John and Charles. John was a member of 
Company C, Seventy-fourth Ohio \'olunteer 
Infantry, and Charles served in Company F, 
One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, which was attached to the army of 
the Potomac. The family therefore has a 
most creditable record for loyalty and fidel- 
ity to the country. 

In 1884 Mr. Brewer was united in mar- 
riage in Xenia to Hannah A. Currie, a 
daughter of James Currie, now deceased. 
He was a farmer of Sugarcreek township 
and was born in Greene county. In 1901 
Mr. Brewer was called upon to mourn the 
loss of his wife who died on the 27th of 
May of tliat year at the old homestead and 
was buried in Woodland cemetery, being at 
that time fifty-seven years of age. Two 
sons had been born of this marriage : Fred, 
who at the age of sixteen years is a student 
in the high school of Xenia; and Robert, a 
}Outh of fourteen years. Both were born in 
the Lucas farm in Xenia township. 

In his political views Mr. Brewer is a 
Republican. He has never been an office 
seeker yet has served for eight years as 
county bailiff under Judge Smith. He holds 
membership in the First United Presbyter- 



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iaii church of Xeiiia, and is a citizen of 
worth, taking a deep interest in progress and 
improvement of the county along all lines 
of substantial development. 



JOllX HAROLD STORMOXT. 

From Irish ancestr\ Ji>lin II. Stormont 
is descended. Representatives of the name 
came from the Emerald Isle to the new 
world and the family was established in the 
snutli. Jolm Stormoiit. the grandfather of 
our sul)ject. was born in South Carolina, 
and early in life engaged in teaching school. 
Emigrating westward he took up his abode 
in Cedarville township, Greene county, 
Ohio, where he engaged in fanning. His 
S(.>n, James C. Stormont. was born in South 
Carolina. July 17. i<S3i, and by his parents 
was brought to Oliio when only a few 
months old. ?Ierc he was reared amid the 
wild scenes of frontier life, and after attain- 
ing his majority he turned his attention to 
agricultural jjiu^suits. ]mrchasing all of the 
Stonnont farm as it is at present with the 
exception of twenty-five acres which he in- 
herited. He lived in Cedarville township 
throughout the remainder of his days and 
there was accounted a successful and pro- 
gre.ssive agriculturist. He erected a large 
and handsome residence, which is now oc- 
cupied by his widow, and made other sub- 
-stantial imprmements upon his place. He 
married Jane Bradfute. a daughter of John 
and Eliza (Laughead) Bradfute. both of 
whom spent their last day.s in Miami town- 
ship, Greene county. Unto Mr. and Mrs. 
Stormont were liorn two children. John H. 
and Lida. who died in 1887, at the age of 



twenty years. The father was twice mar- 
ried. On the J4th oi March. 1857, he wed- 
ded Agnes McOuiston. :uk1 it was after her 
death that he married the mother of our 
subject. He was a \ery prosperous and en- 
terprising farmer and at the time of his de- 
mise was the owner of considerable prop- 
erty, all of which had been accumulatetl 
through his own efforts. Prominent and in- 
fluential in ])ublic affairs, he served for a 
imunber of years as a meml)er of the school 
lx>ard, and was dee])ly interested in every- 
thing jieitaining to the general gixxl. He 
died Octoljer 27,. 1877. With his wife Mr. 
St(jrmont was a member of the Reformed 
Presbyterian church, of which he was a 
tnistee. 

John Harold Stormont, of this review, 
was born in Cedarville township, on the old 
homestead, October 26, 1863, and to the 
district school systenx he is imlebted for the 
early educational privileges which he en- 
joyed. Later lie became a student in the 
high school of Cedarville and through the 
months of summer he assisted in the work 
of the home farm. He still resides upon 
the old home place with his family and with 
his mother. Here he owns eiglity acre.-; of 
rich land, and also has charge of and op- 
erates the old home farm of one hundred 
and five acres, all of which i<; under a high 
state of cultivation, the fields annually re- 
turning to him golden harvests for the care 
and labor he l)estows upon them. Mr. Stor- 
mont has made the breeding and raising of 
red polled cattle a specialty and has about 
twenty head of registered animals in his 
herd. He was among the first to introduce 
them in this section of the state. 

Mr. Stormont was united in marriage 
on the 20th of Octoljer, 1887, to Miss Ida- 



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Creswell, a daughter of Samuel and Eliza 
Creswell. Four children graced this mar- 
riage: Bertha, Edna, Mabel and Meryl, 
all of whom were born on the old honite 
farm, and the family circle yet remainsi un- 
broken by the hand oif death. Both our 
subject and his wife hoild membership in 
the Reformed Presbyterian, church, in 
which he has served as trustee for a num- 
ber of years. In his political views he is in- 
dependent, preferring to devote his time 
and energies tO' his business affairs without 
entering political life. He takes am active 
interest in educational affairs, however, and 
is noAV serving hisi second temi as a member 
of the township board oif education. He is 
still a young man and possesses strong en- 
ergy and laudable ambition. Erom his boy- 
hood days he has been connected with the 
work of cultivating and improving the 
property which is now his home, and is 
■widely recognized as one whose labors are 
bringing to him a comfortable competence.. 



PROF. WILLIAM S. SCARBOROUGH, 
A. M., LL. D. 

William S. Scarborough, now vice- 
president of \\'ilberforce University. Wil- 
berforce, Ohio, and professor of Greek and 
Latin in the same institution, was born in 
Macon, Georgia, February 16, 1852. He 
received his early education in his native 
city before and during the Civil war. In 
i86g he entered Atlanta University, where 
he remained two years in preparation for 
Yale University, but, instead, entered 
Oberlin Ccllege, O'berlin, Ohio, in 1871, and 
was graduated from the department of 



philosophy and the arts with the degree of 
A. B. in 1875. He spent a part of the fol- 
lowing year in Oberlini Tlieological Semi- 
nary in special study of the Semitic lant- 
guages and Hellenistic Greek. 

In 1877 Professor Scarboroa:gh was 
elected as head of the classical department 
in Wilberforce University. In 1881 he pub- 
lished, through A. S. Barnes & Cimpany 
(New York), a Greek text-book — "First 
Lessons in Greek" — the first and only 
Greek book e\-er written, liy a negro. This 
book was wi(lel\- used by bodi the white and 
colored .schools of the country, especially in 
the north. Professor Scarborough has also 
written a treatise entitled "The Birds of 
Aristophianes — a Theorv of Interpretathm. 
aside from numerous tracts and pamphlets, 
covering a \-ariety of subjects — classical, 
archaelogical. sociological and racial. He 
has written many papers for various so- 
cieties to which he belongs. In 1891 he 
was transferred to the chair of Hellenistic 
Greek, Payne Theological Seminary. In 
1897 he was again re-elected as professor 
of Latin and Greek in the university and 
vice president of the same. 

He has contributed largely to the press 
of the conntry, including the leading maga- 
zines. He is one of the editors of the Afri- 
can Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school 
publications, having filled that position for 
a number of years. He is a memlier of a 
number of -associations : American Philo- 
logical. American Dialect, American Social 
Science, Archaeological Institute of Amer- 
ica. American Spelling Reform. American 
Folk-Lore. American Modern Language, 
American Political and Social Science, the 
Egyptian Exploration Fund Association 
and the American Negroi Academy, of 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



which he is first vice president. He has 
several times been one of the orators at the 
Lincoln League han(|uet ( f the state of 
Ohio. .\t a conference lielcl hy the leaders 
of the race in the city of Columlxis. Ohio, 
he was elected president of the .\fn>- Amer- 
ican State League, designed to further the 
interests of the negro throughout the coun- 
trv. Professor Scarborough has traveled 
extensively ii> Europe. He was a delegate 
to the Ecumenical ^Methodist Conference, 
held in London in 1901, representing the 
African Methodist Episcopal Church. 

We take the following from the "Xew 
York .\ge," of July 18. 1902: 

"While in Bo.ston Professor W. S. Scar- 
borough, of W'ilherforce University, was 
delightfully entertained by the coUired grad- 
uates of Harvard L'niversity an<l .Amherst 
College at a recei)tion given in his honor at 
the home of Mr. (1. W. Forbes, a graduate 
of .\mherst. Speeches were made by 
Messrs. Forbes, Morgan. Trotter, Lewis, 
Williams and others eulogistic of the life 
and services of the professor in Ijehalf of 
his race. The professor replied, thanking 
them for the honor conferred upon him. 
Ne.\t year it will \i€ twenty-five years since 
Professor Scarborough first l)ecame con- 
nected with Wilberforce University as its 
classical professor and he intends to mark 
the event by publishing a \olume of his 
philological! papers'. Tliese papers have all 
been read before the American Philological 
AssiK-iation at its various annual sessions. 
Twenty years ago Professor Scarborough 
was first elected to membership in this lx)dy 
at Harvard I'niversity. This year the as- 
sociation again met at this venerable seat of 
learning and by way of commemorating the 
€\ent Professor Scarborough read a paper 



on Thucydides. It is some of these papers 
that the professor intends to put into more 
tangible form for future use." 



R. HARVEY NASH.. 

R. Harvey Nash, who is filling the office 
of county commissioner in Greene county, 
and is a well known farmer of Cedar\-ille 
township, was born on the 20th of March, 
1851. his parents being John R. and Mary 
( Jackson) Xash. At an early epoch in the 
history of this county the Xash family was 
founded here, and the father of our subject 
was here born. His parents were Hugh and 
Rebecca Xash. the former a native of Penn- 
sylvania and the latter of Ohio. Through- 
out his entire business career, the former 
followed the occupation of farming and at 
an early day established his home ujwn a 
tract of land in (ireene county, which he 
transformed into a valuable property, be- 
coming one of the pioneer agriculturists of 
this portion of the state. It was upon the 
old homestead that John R. X^ash first 
opened his eyes to the light of day on the 
-'Stli of May. 1828. and there amid the wild 
scenes of the frontier he wa.'. reared to man- 
ho(xl, early becoming inured to the hard 
labor of developing a new farm. After ar- 
ii\ ing at years of maturity he was joined 
in wedlock to Miss Mary Jackson, who was 
Ixirn in this county, January 28. 1832. a 
daughter of Roljert and Miner\a Jackson, 
the former Ijorn in Pennsylvania and the lat- 
ter in this state. Her father learned the 
miller's trade and also carried on farming. 
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Xash began their do- 
mestic life upon a farm and throughout his 




R. H. NASH. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



867 



active business career the father of our sub- 
ject continued to devote his energies to the 
tiUing' of the soil. 

Under tlie parental roof R. Harve_y Nash 
spent the days of his boyhood and pursued 
his education in the schools of Xenia. The 
occupation to which he was reared he has 
.alwa}'s made his life work and his energy 
and diligence have resulted in bringing to 
him very desirable prosperity, while the neat 
and thrift}' appearance of the place indicates 
to the passerby the careful supervision of 
the progressive owner. The lady who pre- 
sides over his Jiorne was in her maidenhood 
Miss Agnes G. Watt and their marriage was 
■celebrated on the 28th of November, 1876. 
Mrs. Xash is a daughter of William Watt, 
one of the representative farmers of Greene 
county, who served for six years as county 
commissioner and was widely recognized as 
the leading and influential citizen. In earlv 
life he learned the carpenter's trade, but in 
iater years carried on agricultural pursuits, 
devoting his attention to the work of the 
farm until his death. The home 'of Mr. and 
Mrs. Nash has been blessed with five chil- 
dren, of whom four are yet living: Herb- 
ert A\'., Walter L., Charles E. and William. 
H. The family are members of the First 
United Presbyterian church of Xaiia and 
in his political affiliations Mr. X^ash is a 
Republican, having always supported that 
party since attaining his majority. On its 
ticket he was elected to the ofifice of county 
commissioner on the 6th of November, 
1900, and is therefore serving in that capac- 
ity at the present time. As a public official 
he is true to his promises and is most active 
and earnest in supporting every movemait 
and measure which he believes will contrib- 
ute to the general good. 



HARVF.Y R. McCLELLAN, M. D. 

For almost fifty years Dr. Harvey R. 
McClellan has engaged in the practice of 
medicine, the greater part of which time has 
been passed in Xenia. He is one of the hon- 
ored pioneer physicians and has the love, 
confidence and respect of many households 
throughout this portion of the state. In the 
early days of his professional career he 
would drive for miles across the country, 
undeterred by summer's suns or winter's 
cold and always ready to render assistance 
to those who needed the physician's aid and 
never stopping to ask whether his services 
would receive financial remunerations'. He 
is now" engaged only in Oififice practice, but 
still has the skill and ability which ranks 
him foremost among the leading physicians 
and surgeons of Greene county. 

The Doctor was born November 27, 
1827, in Woostei-, Wayne county, Ohio, his 
parents being John and Nancy (Elder) Mt- 
Clellan, both of whom were natives of 
Pennsylvania. The McClellan family is of 
Scotch-Irish lineage, while the mother was 
of Scotch descent. John McClellan, Sr., 
the grandfather of our subject, served in 
the war of 18 12 and for many years was an 
enterprising farmer of Westmoreland coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania. John McClellan, Jr., the 
Doctor's father, became an agriculturist of 
Wayne county, Ohio, although at an early 
date he learned the blacksmith's trade. In 
183 1 he removed to Greene county, loi- 
cating in Xenia township, where he engaged 
in farming for many yearsi. He reached 
the advanced age of eighty-five years, and 
his wife passed away at the age of eighty- 
eight. In their family were eleven children, 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



of wlicjin three are yet living: Reljecca 
Collins, who is the wiilow of Samuel Col- 
lins and is residing in Xenia at the age of 
ninety-one years; C. B., a retired dry goods 
merchant, who resides in Oskaloosa, Kan- 
sas, at the age of seventy-nine; and Harvey 
R.. i)f this review. 

In the district scIk oIs the Doct(,r gained 
his early education, which was supple- 
mented hy study in tlie Sliawnee Academy, 
of Xenia, where he t(X)k a course in class- 
ics and higher mathematics. On completing 
his literary education he Ijegan teaching 
school in Beavercreek township, hut after 
a short time commenced tlie study of medi- 
cine, and in 1852 he entered the office of 
Dr. Samuel Martin, who directed his read- 
ing for tiiree years. During the winter 
months he attended lectures in Starling Col- 
lege, of Columhus. Ohio, completing the full 
course, and was graduated with the class of 
1854. lie then Ijegan practice in Cedarville. 
but after two years came to Xenia. where 
he has remained for forty-six consecutive 
years. He has been alone during the 
greater part of the period. However, he 
admittei! his son. Dr. Baijamin R. Mc- 
Clellan. to partnership, and when his son 
retired from the firm Dr. W. T. Firley l)e- 
came lii-i jjartner and was ass<xiated with 
him in Inisiness for eight years. Our sub- 
ject now gives his attention to office prac- 
tice while his son, Dr. B. R. McClellan. at- 
tends to the outside practice. In 1898 the 
fnnner founded a hospital in Xenia. whicli 
he has since conducted, making a specialty 
of surgical work. A perfect master of the 
construction and functions nf the com- 
ponent parts of the human Ixxly, of the 
changes induced in them by the onslaughts 
of disease, of the defects cast upon them, as 



a legacy by progenitors, of the vital ca- 
pacity remaining in them throughout all 
vicissitudes of e.xistence, — this knowledge 
has made Dr. McClellan a most skilled and 
capable physician and surgeon. He suc- 
ceeded l^ecause he tlesires to succeed. He 
is great l)ecause nature endowed him l)i;unti- 
fully, and he has studiously, carefully and 
con.scientiously increased the talents which 
were given him. For many years he also 
CDUilucted a drug store in Xenia and se- 
ciu'eil for himself a very profitable incume. 

In ()ctol)er, 1855. the Dix:tor was mar- 
ried to Ruth Sheperd Xieukirk. a native of 
Ohio, although born of Xew Jersex i)arent- 
age. They became the parents of six chil- 
dren. i)f whom three are yet living: Charles 
Lee. wh(3 is manager of the opera house in 
Xenia: Benjamin R.. a successful practicing 
physician here; and Frank Wiley, who is a 
tlerk in the freight office of the Cincinnati. 
Hamilton iJv: Dayton Railroad at Xenia. 
Tile mother died on the ist of June. 1894. 
and on the 29th of October, 1899. ^'^^ Doc- 
tor was united in marriage to Miss Martha 
Rader, of Xenia. 

The Dixtor holds memliership in the 
Presbyterian church and for many years 
was one of its officers. In ]X)litics he is a 
stalwart Republican, but has never given 
his consent to accept office. He has been 
identified with the State Medical Society 
for many years and is the only surviving 
charter member of the Greene County Med- 
ical Society. During the Civil war he was 
a contract surgeon in the amiy and was 
stationed at Pittsburg Landing. Xashville 
and for two months was in the Cumberland 
hosi)ita! and also had charge of the Ex- 
change Barracks in Xashville for a month. 
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S69. 



rendered valuable service in alle\iating the 
sufferings of those who were woiuided upon 
the field of battle. Alany have reason to 
feel very grateful to him for his skill as a 
practitioner in Greene county. In a paper 
which he read before the Greene County 
Medical Society upon the experience of 
early physicians, he said that he estimated 
that he had driven a distance which would 
be ec|ual to a threefold trip around the 
world, covering seventy-three hundred 
miles each year. Dr. ]\IcClellan has wit- 
nessed much of the growth and develop- 
ment of Greene county and is a public-spir- 
ited citizen, deeply interested in its progress 
and welfare. His life has been a busy, use- 
ful and honorable one. commending him to 
the confidence and regard of all, and no his- 
tor of this portion of the state wduld be 
complete without his record. 



GEORGE \V. BRAXDT. 

.\ native of Germanv, George \\ . Brandt 
was born on the i6th of February, 1850, 
and is now a resident of Beavercreek town- 
ship where he follows the occupation of 
farming. He is a son of John and ]\Iary 
Brandt. The father came to this country 
prior to the arrival of his wife and children, 
making his way to Cincinnati, where he re- 
mained for two weeks, then came to Bea\'er- 
creek township, Greene county, Ohio. Here 
he li\'ed for a year and in that time was 
ioined bv his family. On the expiration of 
that period he removed to Mis.souri, but 
spent only si.x months in that state, because 
of the drought. The future prospects in that 
state did not appear very bright and he re- 



turned to Ohio and todk u].) his abode upon 
the farm which is now the home of our sub- 
ject. His residence was a little log cabin 
which he occupied for a few years. In the 
fall of 1S60 he purchased forty-si.x acres of 
land and to this he added from time to time 
as his financial resources were increased, un- 
til he had about one hundred and fifty-six 
acres and had accumulated some nmney be- 
side. He certainly deserves great credit for 
what he accomplished for when he left the 
fatherland he had to borrow mone\- with 
which to make his passage to the new world. 
He possessed resolution and determination, 
however, and throughout his entire life of 
active business engagement he overcome 
every obstacle and difficulty in his path b_\' 
reason of his strong purpose and indefatig- 
able industry. Thus he won success and 
left to his family an example well worthy 
of emulation as well as a good property. He 
died in December, 1897, at the age of se\en- 
ty-eight years and his wife passed away in 
1893. They had two children : George W. 
and Alary, but the latter died in 1874. The 
father was a Democrat in his political afiilia- 
tions and both he and his wife were earnest 
Cltristian people belong^ing tO' the Reformed 
church. Their remains were interred in 
Mount Zion Park cemetery. 

George \V. Brandt, whose name intro- 
duces this record, pvirsued his education in 
the schools of Bea\-ercreek township and 
always remained under the parental roof. 
He was content to assist his father in the 
culti\'ation of the fields and thnjughout the 
}ears of his manhood has carried on farm- 
ing, becoming one of the prosperous and sub- 
stantial citizens of his community. He was" 
married January 10, 1889, to Miss Lottie 
Englc, who was born in Beavercreek town- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ship and is a daughter of John and Ehzabeth 
(Coy) Engle. Her father was born in 
Maryland and is now living in Zimmerman, 
Greene county. Mrs. Engle was a daughter 
of .Nicholas Coy. Our subject and his wife 
have a pleasant home in Beavercreek town- 
ship where Mr. Brandt owns a fine farm of 
two hundred and sixteen acres. He has re- 
cently erected a good residence, large and 
•commodious, and has good barns and cribs. 
The work on the farm is carried on in an 
energetic manner and as the years have 
passed Mr. Brandt has added to his capital, 
his success coming to him in return for his 
indefatigable labor. 



JOliX MEXDEXHALL. 

John Mendc'.ihall is one of the highly 
respected and honored residents of Spring 
Valley township. He has passed the psalm- 
ist allotted span of three-score-years-and- 
ten. having almost reached the seventy- 
fourth milestone on life's journey. He re- 
sides upon a farm in Spring \'alley town- 
ship, two miles northeast of the village of 
Si)ring \'alley. and it was here that he was 
born on the JLth of December, 1828, repre- 
senting one of the pioneer families of the 
county. His parents were William and 
Betty (Walton) Mendcuhall. The father 
was l)orn in Guilford county. North Caro- 
lina, October 25, 1799, his parents being 
John and Ruth (Brown) Mendenhall. The 
grandfather of our subject was born March 
6, 1759. probably in North Carolina, and his 
wife's birth occurred on the 4th of Aprd, 
1767. With their family they removed vo 
Ohio, settling in Spring Valley township 



about one mile east of the farm up(jn which 
our subject now resides. This was in 1805. 
The district was an unbroken wilderness and 
in the midst of the forest the grandfather 
developed and improved a farm, upon which 
he spent his remaining days, being laid to 
rest in the Cedar Creek burying-ground by 
the side of his wife, who had passed away a 
few years previously. 

William Mendenhall was a little lad of 
six summers when brought by his parents to 
Ohio and here amid the wild scenes of pio- 
neer life he was reared and assisted in the 
arduous task of ileveloping a new farm. He 
married Betty Walton, who was probably 
born in Frederick county, Virginia, Octo- 
Ijer 15, 1805, her ])arents being Edward 
and Deborah (Allen) Walton. The i)arents 
of our subject were married November 2, 
1825, and began their domestic life on the 
old Mendenhall homestead, where their tirst 
three children were born. When our sub- 
ject was about five years of age the father 
jiurchased ninety-nine acres of the farm upon 
which John Mendenhall is now living. A 
jjortion of it had been cleared and a log cabin 
had been built that now forms a part of the 
present residence which stands on the place. 
It has been weatherboarded, however, and 
otherwise greatly improved. Unto Mr. and 
Mrs. Mendenhall were born ten children: 
])eborah, the wife of Abijah Steddon, of 
Richmond, Indiana; John; Ann, the wife 
of Amos Compton, of Warren county, Ohio; 
Hannah, the wife of Elihu Si)ray. of Leaven- 
worth county, Kansas; E'dward, who mar- 
ried Ann Fryant and died in W'ayne county, 
Indiana; Samuel, who married Elizabeth 
.\tkinson and died in Clinton county near 
New Burlington; Ruth, deceased; Catherine, 
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Valley: Margaret, the wife of F. Marion 
Burnett, of Clinton county ; and William Al- 
len, who married Ida Shepherd, and died in 
Spring Valley. Samuel was a soldier of Com- 
pany D, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry, aind ser\'ed for three veairs. 
He participated in many battles but was 
never wounded or captured. He took part 
in the engagements at Winchester and Get- 
tysburg and in the Richmond campaign, to- 
gether with many other of the important 
movements and battles of the great war. 

The boyhood days of our subject were 
quietly passed on the home farm. Probably 
the first important event of his life occurred 
March 6, 1856, in Warren county, at which 
time he was married to Miss Eunice Comp- 
ton, who was born in Spring Valley town- 
ship just west of New Burlington, Augtist 9. 
1834. her parents being John and Rebecca 
(Steddon) Compton. Her paternal grand- 
father was Amos Compton. Her father was 
born (in the farm where Mrs. Mendenhall 
also opened her eyes to the light of day. He 
was a well-to-do man and 1)ought a farm of 
two hundred acres in Clinton county upon 
which our subject and his wife resided for 
fourteen years, when they removed to their 
present home in Spring Valley township. 
Our subject inherited it after his mother's 
death and he jiurchased fifty-seven acres ad- 
joining. 

Nine children have been born unto our 
subject and his wife : Alice S., the wife of 
Chillis T. Johnson, of Spring Valley town- 
ship, by whom she has one child, Rosa Eu- 
nice; William H., who lives in Greene coun- 
ty and married Emma Stubbs, by whom she 
has two children. Edith A. and Everett J. ; 
Morrow, who married Anna Bradford and 
has one livino- child, Erma M., and has lost 



one; Anna R., who was born July 4, 1863, 
and died February 2, 1876; Amy B., the 
wife of William H. Lumpkin, by whom she- 
has three children ; Albert J., Edward R. and 
Lawrence Leon ; Mary C, who was born in 
1868 and died in 1879; Orville John, who- 
married Caroline S. Bradford and lives in- 
Spring Valley ; Amos C, of Spring \'alley, 
who wedded Luella A. Anabee and has one- 
child, Mildred; and Jennie E., who married 
Isaac O. Peterson and resides in Spring 
Valley. 

Mr. Mendenhall was brought up an op- 
ponent of slavery and in 1852 voted for 
Scott, -while in 1856 he voted for John C. 
Fremont, the Republican party having been 
formed to prevent the further extension of 
slavery. He has since been one of its advo- 
cates, but has never been an oi^ce seeker. 
Both he and his wife are birthright members 
of the Society of Friends and attend the ser- 
vices of the church in Spring Valley. 



HENRY KYLE. 



L^pon a pleasant farm property in 
Cedarvil'le township resides Henry Kyle. 
This is his native township, his' birth hav- 
ing occurred within its borders on the 20th 
of February. 1832. His parents were Sam- 
uel and Rachel (Jackson) Kyle. The ma- 
ternal grandfather, Robert Jackson, was the- 
third child of David and Elizabeth Jack- 
son, and was born in 1758, at Newtown, 
Limavady, Coimty Derry, Ireland. With 
his father he came to America in the year 
1762. Samuel Kyle, the father of our sub- 
ject, was born in Pemisylvania and when 
quite young accompanied his parents on- 



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their reniuval tu Kentucky, tlie family set- 
tling near Lexington, where he remained 
until some years after his marriage. He 
wedded Ruth Mitchell and unto them were 
lx)rn six children, all Ijeing now deceased, 
but after the death of the wife and mother 
tlie father was again married, his second 
union being with Rachel Jackson, the 
mother of ovir subject. In 1804 he came 
to Ohio, settling south of Cedarville, on 
what is no\v knowni as the Silas Murdoch 
farm, there spending his remaining days 
and transforming the land into a highly im- 
pro\ed property. He was a prominent 
member of the old Seceder church, serving 
-as one of its elders. He also took a very- 
prominent part in civic life and for many 
years served as associate judge, his decis- 
ions proving so fair and impartial that he 
was long retained in the office and enjoyed 
in the highest degree the ccmfidence and re- 
spect of his fellow men. He passed away 
in March, 1856, his widow surviving him 
for one year, when she died upon the old 
home farm at about the age of seventy. 
She had also Ijeen a meml)er of the Seceder 
<hurch at one time but later joined the As- 
sociate Reformed church with her husband, 
in which he also served as elder. In the 
family of this worthy ccxiple were fifteen 
children, but only five of the nimiljer are 
yet living, as follows: Thomas, the eldest, 
is a surveyor residing in Champaign, Illi- 
nois, and was a cajjtain in the Civil war. 
Henry is the next. .Martha is the widow of 
Thomas Kennedy, and resides at College 
Springs, Iowa. Roaland is a resident farm- 
er of Cedarville township, and Mary is the 
wife of John MurdtKh, of Cedarville. 

Henry Kyle si>ent his boyhood and 
youth upon the old home place. At the 



usual age he began his education, pursuing 
his studies in a log schoolhouse in his town- 
ship, while later he became a student in the 
high school of Cedarville. then conducted 
by James Turnbull and Andrew Amyx. 
His father's farm compriseil nearly a thou- 
sand acres and the sons had ample training 
in the methods of cultivating the fields 
there. In 1859 our subject removed to his 
present farm in Cedarville township, and 
here he purchased one hundred and sixty 
acres of land, to which he has since added 
another quarter section. He put all of the 
improvements upon the property, remodeled 
the house and erected a large and substan- 
tial bam. Here he has since lived, being 
largely engaged in st(x:k raising. He 
makes a specialty of polled Durham cattle, 
Xumian horses and Poland-China hogs. 
In his business operations he has met with 
creditable and deserved success, and is now 
the possessor of a handsome competence. 
In the spring of 1858 Henry Kyle was 
united in marriage to Harriet D. Colver, a 
daughter of Standish and Elizabeth Colver, 
who were residents of Union county, Ohio, 
but Ixith are now deceased. Mrs. Kyle was 
a devoted member of the United Presby- 
terian chuixh, was a faithful wife and 
mother, and a friend to b? trusted at all 
times. She died at her home in Cedarville 
township in 1893, at the age of sixty-two 
years, and was laid torest in Massies Creek 
cemetery. She was the mother of si.x chil- 
dren, all <:f wIkmu survived her: Charles 
C, a minister of the United Presbyterian 
church, now living in southern Illinois, mar- 
ried Lid I Mitchell. They have one daugh- 
ter. Helen. H. Jeroe resides at Qiurch- 
ville. New York, and is a LTnited Presby- 
terian minister. He wedded Elizabeth 



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Chambers, and their children are — James, 
Christina and Harriet. John M. resides 
upon the old home farm. VictcT, a min- 
ister oif the United Presbyterian church, re- 
siding in Alexis, Illinois, wedded Mary 
Porter. Don and Clara are still at home. 
All of the children were born in Cedarville 
township in the present home of Mr. Kyle. 
As has been indicated, the religious faith 
of the family is that of the United Presby- 
terian church, and Mr. Kyle belongs to the 
organization of that denomination at Clif- 
ton. For many years he has served as one 
of its elders and has put forth every effort 
ill his piiwer to promote the cause of Chris- 
tianity along these lines. Pie has ^en-ed as 
ruad suiiervisor, and in his political views 
was a Republican in early life, but is now 
a Prohibitionist. Although he has reached 
the age of three score years and ten. he has 
spent his entire life in the county and has 
\\itnessed the greater part of its develop- 
ment, for it was largely a wild region in his 
childhood days. His father built the first 
brick house in Cedarville township. Mr. 
Kyle carried on the work of improvement 
and development begun by his father, and 
has co-operated in many movements for the 
general good. His life history is largely 
familiar to his many friends in this localit}' 
and all know him to be a man worthy of 
public trust aud confidence and one deserv- 
ing of representation in this vO'lume. 



JOHN F. PCTERBAUGH. 

Among the well known farmers of 
Beavercreek township whose enterprise and 
indefatigable labors have been salient feat- 
ures in their success, is numbered John F. 



Puterbaugh, whose birth ocurred on the 4th 
of December, 1878, on the farm which is 
still his home. He is a son of Samuel and 
Harriet (Davis) Puterbaugh. His father 
was born January 14, 1844, in Greene coun- 
ty, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel Puter- 
baugh, Sr. The mother of our subject was 
born in Beavercreek township, April 30, 
1S48, and the marriage of the parents was 
celebrated on the nth of November, 1869. 
Three children came to bless their union : 
.Samuel, who was born December 28, 1870, 
died on the 5th of January, the following 
year; Ida May, born June 20. 1872, died Oc- 
tober 16, 1881; so that the subject of this 
review is the only surxiving member of the 
family. The father died on the i8th of 
March. 18S0, and on the 25th of October, 
1882. Mrs. Puterbaugh became the wife of 
John G. Ernst, but she, too, is now deceased, 
ha\'ing been called to her final rest on the 
23rd of June, 1886. Throughout his entire 
life the father of our subject iiad carried on 
agricultural pursuits, with the exception of 
the period of the Civil war, when, feeling 
that his duty was to his country he put aside 
liusiness cares and joined the Union army. 

In the schools of Xenia, John Franklin 
Puterl^augh was educated. His father died 
when he was only two years of age and after 
his mother's deatli he li\-ed witli his aunt, 
Mrs. George Moore, remaining with her un- 
til he was eighteen years of age. He after- 
ward worked for two years upon a farm and 
then continued his education as a student in 
Scio college in Harrison county, Ohio, wliere 
he remained for two years. The first year he 
devoted his attention to the mastery of the 
studies of a commercial course and during 
the second year pursued English branches. 

On the 27th of December, 1899, Mr. 



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Puterbaugh was joined in wedlock to Miss 
Mary V. Tliompson, who was born in Car- 
roll county, Ohio, a daughter of Robert and 
Sarah J. Thompson, who resided in London 
township, that county. Tliey are still liv- 
ing and are well known people of the com- 
munity. Mr. and Mrs. Puterbaugh began 
their domestic life upon the farm which they 
now occupy, this land having been in pos- 
session of the family through three or four 
generations. Their home has been blessed 
with the presence of one son, Robert Samuel. 
Our subject owns and operates two hundred 
and tifty acres of the rich farming land of 
Ohio and is giving his attention to the culti- 
vation of the ground and the raising of stock. 
He is also well known as an agriculturist, 
has a s])lendid i)each orchard containing 
nearly nine luuulrcd trees and is thoroughly 
conversant with the best methods of caring 
for his land and improving his crops and his 
fruit and raising of stock, and in all branches 
of business he is meeting with creditable and 
gratifying success. He exercises his right 
of franchise in support of the men and 
measures of the Rejiublican party ; but has 
never sought or desired office. Both he and 
his wife belong to the United Presbyterian 
church of Sugarcreek township. He is yet 
a young man and his business ability has 
been manifested in his capable control of his 
excellent property. 



R. A. KELLY. 



No history in Greene county would be 
complete without mention of R. A. Kelly, 
w ho contributed in a very large measure to 
the upbuilding and prosperity of Xenia by 



the establishment of one of its most import- 
ant industries. "Peace," said Charles 
Sunuier in one of his most eloquent ora- 
tions, "hath its victories no less rencAvned 
than war." The man whose enterprise has 
included within its grasp the traffic of dis- 
tant lands and the protluction of many and 
\arious commodities has really achieved a 
greater triumph than the warrior who has 
led conquering hosts over desolate homes 
and amid ruins of sacked cities; and if this 
peaceful hero uses his wealth wisely, and by 
his enterpri.se and beneficence makes thou- 
sands happy and cnntenteil, his \ict()ries are 
greater than those of the martialed hosts 
"whose garments are stained with bl<x)d." 
"He that ruleth his owni spirit is greater 
than he that taketh a city." Among such 
heroes R. .\. Kelly is entitled to a high place 
of honor. During a long and successful 
commercial life, characterized by enterprise, 
he ever maintained an enviable reputation 
for the highest honor and principle: and no 
unworthy deed or word ever linked itself 
with his name: and no citizen in Ohio made 
better or more unostentatious use of his ac- 
cumulations. 

R. A. Kelly was a native of Ireland. He 
was lx)rn in Guilford. County Down, on the 
ir>th of October. ICS38. In his early youth 
he bec;uiie an employe in a flax and linen 
concern of Dunbar, McMasters & Com- 
pany. He left his native land in 1855 and 
entered the employ of Finlayson, Bonsfield 
& Coni])any. manufacturers of linen thread 
at Johnston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, — but 
the broader business opportunities of the 
new world attracted him and he sought a 
home in America. It was in 1839 that he 
crossed the .Atlantic, taking u]) his abode in 
Paterson, Xew Jersey, where he entered the 
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i77 



pany. He was also there engaged in tlie 
manufacture of machinery for making flax, 
sisal and manila rope. His efficiency in this 
line of work led him to be chosen in 1864 
b}- the firm of Todd & Rafferty to erect and 
superintend their works at Delaware, Ohio, 
where they were establishing a new enter- 
prise under the name of the Delaware Man- 
ufacturing Company. During the remain- 
ing yeairs of the Chn\ war they manufac- 
tured twine and seamless bags and after- 
ward converted the flax mill into a, bagging 
mill for the manufacture of bagging for 
covering cotton. Mr. Kelly built in Dela- 
ware, Ohio, the first five machines for lay- 
ing and finishing hemp twine and in the fall 
of 1876 he brought these machines toi Xenia, 
placing them in the factory of the Hooven 
& Allison Company. 

This company with whose history Mr. 
Kelly wa,s thereafter connected up to the 
time of his death, was organized in 1869 for 
the purpose of making what is known as 
hand-made twine. He had worked with the 
American hemp fibre and had experimented 
c|uite largely with this, in the hope of pro- 
ducing twine by machinery — and his exper- 
iments were prosecuted so successfully that 
in the spring of 1876 he laid his plans before 
the firm of Hooven & Allison, explaining to 
them his methods until they became con- 
vinced that a better and cheaper twine could 
lie made by machinery than by the hand 
process which they had been using. Busi- 
ness arrangements l)etween them were per- 
fected and the firm, with Mr. Kelly's co- 
operation, at once set to work to secure ap- 
propriate machinery for the purpose of man- 
ufacturing machine-made twine. The first 
twine made in this way was put upon the 
.spools on the evening before Christmas, 

1876. From that time to the present, the 
49 



Inisiness has constantly grown until it has 
assumed extaisive proportions. The plant 
is large and equipped with the most modern 
and complete machinery' for doing the work. 
Mr. Hooven died in 1881, after which 
Mr. Kelly entered into partnership with M. 

C. Allison, the firm, name of Hooven & Alli- 
son being retained until the death of the 
latter on the 3d of May, 1888. Two months 
thereafter, a stock company was organized, 
the incorporators being Jacob Harbine, J. 

D. Steele, W. B. Harrison, R. A. Kelly and 
Mrs. Fannie Allison. The capital stock was 
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and 
the officers were : J. H. Harbine, president ; 
W. B. Harrison, vice president ; J. D. Steele, 
secretary ; and R. A. Kelly, superintendent. 
Throughout the life of Mr.. Kelly, these offi- 
cers retained their positions, controlling a 
business which furnished employment tO' 
from two hundred and twenty-five to twO' 
hundred and fifty operators. The company 
manufacture hemp, jute, manila and sisal 
goods, as well as cotton goods, aird ship, 
their product to all parts of the United 
States. The splendid success of this great 
enterprise is due in a very large measure to 
Mr. Kelly, whose thorough understanding 
of the business in every department aiabled 
him to so conduct the operations of tlie fac- 
tory that it brouglit a splendid financial re- 
turn. 

On August 14. 1862, Mr. Kelly was. 
united in marriage tO' Miss Catharine L. 
P'isher of Paterson, New Jersey, who^ died 
in January, 1878, leaving three sons, James 
A., George R. and William B. His young- 
est child, Fred C, is the son of his second 
wife. Miss Alice Charters, of Xenia, Ohio, 
who died September 10, 1897. 

Mr. Kelly died on tlie 14th o.f August, 
1892, and was widelv moiu-ned. He was 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



so jiisl and fair in his ireatmcnl <<( his em- 
ployes that he had tlieir respect and confi- 
dence in an nnusnal degree. In Inisiness 
circles he was a man of unswerving honor 
and sterling wortli : but was called away at 
a time when he had consummated new busi- 
ness arrangements and planned and adorned 
a most happy home. 

The following beautiful tribute written 
bv Professor George S. Ormsb\- at the time 
<<i Mr. Kelly's death sets forth his character 
ill ;i very clear light. Mr. Ormsby says: — 
"Know ye not that there is a prince and a 
gre;it man fallen this day in Israel ?" "These 
words. sj)oken by King David, in reference 
to Abner. who had been treacherously nuu-- 
dercd by Joab. apply in all their meaning 
and force to our friend R. A. Kelly, who 
has so suddenly left us, and whose Ixxly this 
day has been laid to quiet rest. Many a 
leader from the king's army might have been 
slain, and many a great man have fallen, 
and yet not drawn forth the regretful and 
sad exclamations of the king. So many a 
jirominent man might have suddenly passed 
away without leaving so wide a gap in the 
community as is made by the death of Mr. 
Kelly. 

"More than a successful business man. 
he was a skilled mechanic ; his hand could 
execute what his mind conceived. He could 
invent the machine, construct it. jiut it in 
<)l)eration — manufacture the, fabric tor 
which it was intended and lind for it a mar- 
ket. Conscious of his own power, and hav- 
ing an abiding faith in his abilitv to per- 
form what he nndert(H)k, he engaged in and 
carried to successful termination enter])rises 
in which (^ther men would have failed. 

"Had be entered the jxilitical field he 
would have risen to distinction there. Had 
he chcisen the ]>rofession of arms he would 



have had a f(jllowing like Sheridan and 
would have been numbered among the great 
leaders whom the countr}- holds in high 
honor. Had he been a Stanley or a Living- 
stone he would have been in no degree be- 
hind them in enterprises of perilous adven- 
tures. 

"Mr. Kelly was for many years one of 
my most intimate and trusted friends. I 
ha\e been at his home at almost all hours, 
sat at his table and conversed in his iwrlor. 
His frienilship was wholly true and sincere, 
and he who enjoyed it could not have a truer 
friend. To me his death is a persona! loss. 
It is the sundering of a more friendly tie 
than bound me to anv other man, and I am 
sure that all who sustain a similar relation 
to hinv will feel as I do: each has sustained 
a personal loss. 

"But looking into that inner circle, the 
holiest of all, the fajnily. what shall 1 say? 
A kind husband and indulgent father? This 
language is common and tame. Here he 
was intensive as in his business relations. 
He could not be negati\ e anywhere, but was 
positive e\erywhere — not a tyrant, but a 
crowned ])rince. — the loving companion and 
faithful husband of a noble woman who 
most gladly would have laid down her own 
life if the sacrifice would have purchased his. 
To his .sons he was at tnice father, brother, 
counsellor, comiianion and friend, combin- 
ing all that was go(Kl in each of their rela- 
tions. His command was law. but it was 
the law of a counsellor and friend and lov- 
ingly it was obeyed, and this in a large meas- 
in"e accounts for the nolile manhood of the 
boys of whom the father was justly proud. 
"Of him it iTiay be fitly saitl : 
"Life's work well done; 

Life's race well run; 

Life's crown well won." 



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879 



HON. JOHN LITTLE. 

A deep feeling of sadness spread 
throughout Xenia wlien it was aamounced 
that John Little had passed from this life, 
hut while those who' knew him remain on 
this earth his memory will be cherished, 
not so much for the splendid success which 
he achiieved in his profession, not because 
lie contributed so largely lo the improve- 
ment of the city, not because of his states- 
manship, although he was a colleague of 
many of tliie most eminent men of the na- 
tion and his efforts contributed to the coun- 
try's welfare, but l3ecause of his life of help- 
fulness, of good cheer, of broad sympathy 
and his deq> interest in and lalxvrs for the 
benefit of his felloiwmen. He won and well 
merited high honors, but in Xenia, where 
he was well known, his nature was so kindly 
and geiial, that he gained not merely re- 
gard, but thait deeper feeling which, call it 
friendship or lo\'e, binds man in close re- 
lation to his fellowinien in ties which naught 
■can sever. Thus it was that Xenia has sel- 
dom so widely and sincerely mourned one 
■of her resiidents, but for more than a half- 
■century he was closely associated with the 
liistorv' of Greene county and many of his 
friends in thought have breathed the senti- 
ment : 

"He was a man. Take him all in all 
I shall not look upon his lake again." 

John Little was boni in Ross township, 
Greene county, on the 25th of April, 1837, 
and hiis early youth was that of the aver- 
age farmer boy who attends the country 
schools through the winter months and in 
the summer w^orks in the fields, but he de- 
sired miore than an ordinarv district school 



education, and in 1856 became a student in 
Antioch College, then under the presidency 
of Horace Mann. He was graduated from 
that institution in 1862 and for manv years 
w as a member of its board of trustees, hold- 
ing that position at the time of his death. 
In tlie autumn following his graduation he 
came to Xenia and entered upon the study 
of law under the preceptorship of Judge 
\\'inaiis. The elemental strength of his 
character was early shown forth, for though 
he had not the means to pursue in consec- 
utive miainner his education, he would not 
accept aid and b}- teaching rq>lenished his 
e.xliausted excltequer. In 1865 he was ad- 
mitted to practice in the courts of Ohio, 
and opened an office in the city of Xenia, 
and it wias on the 19th of October, of the 
saine year, that he married Miss Barbara 
Jane Sheets, who with their two children, 
George and Mary, survived him until May 
31, 1902, when she, too, passed away. The 
son is now an active memljer of the Xenia 
bar. 

Perhaps no better history of his busi- 
ness and public career can be given than that 
given b}- Judge Shearer, long his intimate 
friend and associate, who, in a memorial 
meeting held for Mr. Little by the bar asso- 
ciation, spoke as follows : 

"For a short time he was associated with 
James E. Hawes, afterward judge of the 
ccurt of common pleas. At the time of his 
admission to the bar he held the office 
of mayor of the city. Afterward in 1866 
he was elected prosecuting attornev and re- 
elected in 1868. Before the expiration of 
his second term he was elected to represent 
his county in the Fifty-ninth general assem- 
bly and resigned the prospcutorship. At 
this time he associated himself in the prac- 
tice with C. C. Shearer, that partnership 



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continuing for seventeen years, until Jan- 
uary I, 1887, at which time Mr. Shearer re- 
tired, having been elected judge of the cir- 
cuit court for the Second judicial circuit, — 
C. L. Spencer succeeding Shearer in the 
firm, tlie name of which then became Little 
& Spencer — and continued until the death 
of Mr. Little. In 1871 he was re-elected 
to the general assembly. He rendered \al- 
uaWe service to his constituents and to the 
state at large as member of the judiciary- 
committee of the house and of otlier impor- 
tant committees. His ability as a lawyer 
and legislator attracted wide attention and 
he l)ecame the candidate of his party for the 
office of attorney general and was elected 
in tire fall of 1873, and for a second term in 
1875. His opinions were clear, concise, 
able and, as a rule, passed the scrutiny of 
the courts. 

"During his first term there were strikes 
and riots among the miners of northeastern 
Ohio, and Mr. Little was requested by 
Governor Hayes to accompanv the adjutant 
general as his advisor to the scene of 
disturlmnce. His wise, temperate counsel 
averted tiie threataied bloodshed and re- 
stored order. 

"At the expiration of his term he re- 
turned to Xenia and gave his attention to 
the practice and to the promotion of busi- 
ness enterprises until 1884, when his con- 
stituents again calletl him to their aid by 
electing him as the representative of his 
district in congress. Although he served 
but one term, he, by reason of his ability, 
took a prominent position in the house and 
was chosen to conduct tlie investigation of 
the cliarges of briberv- in connection with 
the election of Senator Payne. The marked 
ability with which he discharged this duty 
at once established for him a national repu- 



tation. At the close of his term he again 
returned to the practice and to tlie man- 
agemait of his large business interests which 
he conducted with distinguished success. 

"In the yeair 1889 his services were 
again called for. From time to time treaties 
for the settlement of claims of citizens of the 
L'nited Stales against tlie Republic of Ven- 
ezuela liad l^een made l)etween the two coun- 
tries, and commissions appointed to hear and 
detemiine the same: but. through the dila- 
toriness of these tribunals, awards failed to 
be made within the liniitations prescribed by 
tlie several conventions and the treaties be- 
came inoperative. The last treaty limited 
tlie time for tlie detemiination of thes claims 
to one year. President Harrison asked Mr. 
Little to become a memlwr of the commis- 
sion authorized by this treaty, and he ac- 
cepted. Upon the organization of the com- 
mission, which consisted of Mr. Little, Hon. 
J. \'. L. Findlay. of Maryland, and Senor 
.\ndrade, then minister to the United States 
from Venezuela. — Mr. Little was chosen 
president. 

"Mr. Little, with his accustomed habit 
of mastering ever\- subject with which he 
dealt, set to work to learn the Spanish lan- 
guage and to familiarize himself with tlic 
civil and international law. He acquired 
sufticieiit knowledge of the Spanish lan- 
guage to enable him to read for himself the 
documentary evidence written in lliat tongue 
and he l>ccanie also a master of international 
law. Many questions, conmion to all cases, 
arose, — among them the construction of the 
rule of prestTi])tion being the ecpiivalent of 
the law of limitation under the common law. 
'i'lie preliminary opinion written l)y Mr. 
Little, settling these (piestions. is a mon- 
ument to his mental grasp and power of 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



881 



work within the period prescribed by the 
treaty, wliich, it is said, was never done Ijy 
any prior similar commission. 

"Among the pubHc services of Mr. Lit- 
tle was that rendered on behalf of President 
Hajj'es, before the Florida returning board. 
He was at thati time attorney genei-al of 
Ohio. The friaids of Hayes aroused him 
at midnight and told him he must go to 
Tallahassee, and prevent, if possible, an un- 
fair decision. He said : 'This is mighty 
short notice; but I'll go." The next train, 
which left before daylight, bore Mr. Little 
through' his home town en route to Florida. 
His family's first knowledge of his where- 
abouts was derived from the newspai>ers' 
mention of the cotmsel who were in attend- 
ance upon the heairing before the returning 
■board. So zeaJous was he, so absorbed in 
this important mission, that he forgot to 
inform his family of his intended journey or 
of his arrival at the capital of Florida. The 
masterful argument which won the case for 
Hayes, although delivered by another, was 
written by Little. 

"Another important position held by our 
friend was upon the Ohio State Board of 
Arbitration, to whicli he was appointed b_\- 
Governor McKinley, and which he held con- 
tinuously through succeeding administra- 
tions to the day of his death. For the work 
assigned to this board Mr. Little was pe- 
culiarly fitted. His even temper, his spirit 
of conciliation, his sense and love of justice, 
enabled him to see both sides of controver- 
sies between emplo\-er and employe, and in 
the exercise of manly courage to cast his 
vote for the right. 

"The last public service of Mr. Little 
w^as as a member of the courthouse building- 
commission. He entered upon his duties 
with enthusiasm" and gave his time, skill and 



knowledge of architecture to the securing 
of a courthouse which, when finished, will 
be for comfort and conveiiiaice, second to 
none in the state. 

"It is hardly too much to say that he 
was the creator oi the new- courthouse, for 
it was tlie plans prepared by him tliat con- 
stituted the basis of the plans finally ac- 
cepted. 

"This much for the public service of our 
brother. But apart from these he, in a 
quiet, unostentatious way, — not letting his 
right hand know what his left did, — alle- 
viated suffering and helped the needy. He 
was generous but discriminating in liis 
bounty. No worthy needy one was ever 
turned a)wiaiy. Many are tliey who, since his 
death have said : 'When John Little died, I 
lost my best friend.' 

"Our friend was a man}' sided man. His 
intellect was Websterian; his mental grasp 
renmrkable ; his powers of analysis unsur- 
passed!. He mastered the facts of a case 
w-ith mar\-elous readiness ; separated grain 
from th-e chaff; seized and used with great 
skill the salient points of a cause. His 
power as an advocate rendered him a for- 
midable adversary. In argument he in- 
dulged in none of the arts of the orator. 
His diction was simple, his statements clear, 
his logic forceful. In the struggle of the 
political arena he was fair and honorable, — 
not unduly exultant in victory, nor harbor- 
ing malice in defeat. He never sulked in 
his tent. It was common remark that, as 
between a friend and an enemy, he was 
wont to favor the latter rather than the 
former. 

"As a citizen he was public spirited, 
ready at all times to further any enterprise 
for the betterment of the coniiinunity. He 
encouraged manufacturers by voice and 



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purse, was active in municipal refonn, fa- 
vored all needful public improvements and 
otherwise manifested liis solicitude for the 
material welfare of the conimunity in which 
he lixed. In short, John Little was a states- 
man, a lawyer of high repute, a public ser- 
vant loyal to e\ery trust, a true patriot, a 
lover of his kind, a devoted husband and 
father, and. ))Clter than all. a high minded, 
honorable citizen. While he was not a be- 
liever in creeds or dogmas, yet with gener- 
ous charity for those who held different 
views, he was a religious man in the broader 
sense, that he reverenced his Creator, be- 
lieved in the Bible and the Redeemer of tlie 
world and loxcd liis neighbor as himself." 

The end came on the i8th of October, 
1900, at 10:30 P. M. He vms ill only a 
brief time, and thus his usefulness continued 
throughout the years of his manhdnd. C)n 
tlie public life not only of Greene county, 
but of Ohio, he left an indelible impression. 
No citizen of this community was ever more 
respected and no man e\er more fully en- 
joyeil the contidcnce of the people or more 
richly deserved the esteem in which he was 
held. In his lifetime the people of his state, 
recognizing his merit, rejoiced in his a<l- 
vancement and in the honors to which he at- 
tained, and since his death they have cher- 
ished his memorv, wliich remains as a ben- 
ediction to all who knew him. Honorable 
in business, loyal in citizenship, cliaritable 
in thought, kindly in action, true to evev.- 
trust confidccl to his ca''e. his life w;ls the 
highest ty])e of Christian manhood. He 
was one of the great lawyers of the south- 
ern Ohio bar who lives in the mem<iries of 
his contemix>raries, encircled with the halo 
of a gracious presence, charming personal- 
ity, profound legal wisdom. ])urity of jmblic 
and private life, and a (|uiet dignity of an 



ideal follower of his calling. He was many- 
years in active practice at the Ohio bar, and 
conipairati\ely few men endear themsehes 
to so great an extent to their professional 
associates and to those with whom they 
come in contact in the discharge of public 
duties. 



MU.O SIMTSOX. 



Milo Simison has passed the psalmist's 
allotted span of three-score-years-and-ten, 
having almost rejiched the seventy-second 
milestone on life's journey. He is now liv- 
ing retired in th« village of Spring X'alley, 
but for many years was an active factor in 
agricultural circles in Spring Valley town- 
ship. The farm which he still owns there 
was his birthplace. He was born Xovem- 
l)er 19, J 830, luito John and Xancy 
(Knight) Simison. His father's birth oc- 
curred March 9, 1798, and the mother was 
Horn on the 8th of May. 1807. The pater- 
nal grandfather. Roljert Simison. was a 
native of Ireland, and on emigrating to 
America took up his abode in Pennsyl\-ania, 
whence he afterward removed to Ohio and 
jjurchased the fami upon which our sub- 
ject was born, ])aying live dollars an acre 
for the land. In after years he jiurchased 
another farm, w hich is now known as the 
Scarff proi)erty. and after the marriage of 
his son. John Simison. the grandfather, re- 
moved to his second farm, whereon he died. 

It was on the ist of January. 1828, tliat 
John Simison was joined in wedlock to 
X'ancy Knight, whose birth (Kcurred in 
Greene county. She was a daughter of 
Samuel and Hannah (Caine") Knight. Her 
father lived to be alx)Ut eighty years of age 
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tiers of Greene county, coming from North 
Carolina at a very early clay. The mater- 
nal sfreat-srandfather lived to the verv ad- 
vanced age of one hundred and four years. 
After tlieir marriage Mr. and Mrs. John 
Simison began their domestic life upon the 
original homestead, \\hich the father of our 
subject purchased from the other heirs after 
the death of the grandfather. Both Robert 
and John Simison were laid to rest in the 
old Presbyterian l)ur}ing ground at Bell- 
brook. They were identified with that 
church and were very active workers in it, 
and influential in promoting tlie moral de- 
velopment of the comniunit}-. During the 
lifetime of Robert Simison tlie family suf- 
fered much loss b}" fire on two or three oc- 
casions on account of the stick chimneys. 
The last log house that was built upon the 
old homestead, in wbich the father of our 
subject liv^ed and died, is still standing. The 
mother passed away March jg, 1847, «i"'^' 
on the 2d of Februar}-, 1853. John Simison 
was also called to his final rest. 

On the (i-ld home farm ^Ir. Simison of 
this review spent the days of his boyhood 
and youth. He acquired a fair common- 
sciiool education and after his marriage he 
continued upon the old home farm which he 
and his brother purchased from the other 
heirs, iwbile Mlilo Simison ultinmtdly be^- 
came the sole possessor of the property. He 
there made his home until 1888 and during 
that time erected a fine modern residence. 

On the 28th of January, 1855. Mr. Sim- 
ison was united in miarriage to Miss Mary 
Kelle}-, of Spring Valley, wiho was born in 
county Mayo, Ireland, in 1838. She was 
a daughter of Michael amd Ann ( Henne- 
gain) Kellev'-, and was quite young when 
left an orpban on tbe Emerald Isle. She 
came to America witli her aunt, Mrs. Marv 



Gibbons, who located in Greene county, and 
here she acquired her education. Three chil- 
dren ha\e been born unto our subject and 
his wife: Frank Wesley, born October 25, 
1855 ; Nancy Caroline, who was born May 
13, 1858, and is the wife of Joshua Har- 
nett ; and Mary Catherine, who died in in- 
fancy. 

Air. Simison has been a lifelong Dem- 
ocrat. He voted for Buchanan in 1856 and 
has since endorsed the principles of the par- 
ty, but has never been an office seeker. He 
ser\'ed for one term as a member of the 
city council of Spring \'alley, but has on 
no other occasion beld office, preferring that 
his atteiticn should be given to his business 
pursuits. In 1888 he ei-ected a, pleasant 
home in Spring X'alley, where he is now liv- 
ing retired, enjoving the rest which he has 
truliv earned and richly deserves. 



THOMAS P. TOWNSLEY. 

For almost sixty years Thomas P. 
Townsley was a well known figure in busi- 
ness circles of Nenia. He contributed large- 
ly to the adx'ancement of commercial in- 
terests ui>on wbicb the groAvth and pros- 
perity of a town or city always depend. He 
was soi widely and favorably known that 
his life history can not fail to prove of in- 
terest to his manv frieids, and is a pleas- 
ure, therefore, that we present this record of 
his career to our readers. 

A nati\'e of this cit}'!, he was born on the 
27th of May, 1817, a son of George Towns- 
ley. His early education, acquired in the 
schools of Nenia, was supplementetl by 
study in the Oxford Miami University, 
where he completed the course and was 



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graduated with the class of 1836. Imme- 
diately afterward he returned to his hoine. 
He was then a young man of nineteen years 
and at once entered upon his business career 
as a clerk for Jolm Ewing and tlie railroa<l 
comiKuiy when it built there. lie followed 
that pursuit for several years and also taught 
sch(j(>l in the south. When his Ialx)rs and 
economy 'had brought to him sufficient cap- 
ital he began business on his own account 
as a dry-goods merchant in partnership with 
James Allison, as Allison & Townsley. in 
\\lhich line of activity they continued for 
nmny years. They carried a large and well 
selected stock of goKls of modern styles. 
were straightforward and reliable in all their 
transaxrtions and secured a liberal patronage, 
which enabled Mr. Townsley to a*ld to his 
savings until, having acquired a comfortable 
conxi>etence, he 'retired to private life and 
s])ent his remaining davs in rest and in the 
enjoyment of the fruits of his former toil. 

In 1850 Mr. Townsley was united in 
marriage to Miss Agnes C. Paull. a daugh- 
ter of James Paull. a resident of Fayette 
count}, Pennsylvania. In 1896 Mr. Towns- 
ley was called upon to mourn the loss of his 
wife, who in that year departed this life. 
T^wo years later, on the 20th of November. 
1898. Mr. Townsley died, and his remains 
were interred by the side of his wife, in 
Woodland cemetery. Two sons sun-ive 
then>: George L.. who is living a retired 
life; and James E., w'ho is connected with 
the insurance business in Xaiia. 

In connection -with merchandising Mr. 
ToAWisley had other business interests. He 
was one of the organizers of the old Sec- 
ond National Bank and its president from 
1864 until his retirement on account of fail- 
ing health. He was also one of the organ- 
izers and was interested in the Field Cord- 



age Com]>any. He was energetic, prompt 
and notably reliable, and ix>ssessed sound 
judgment in business matters. He was one 
of the first naembers of the Presbyterian 
church, and liberally assisted in building 
lx>fh the first edifice and the present church 
building and many years was a ruling el- 
der. Mrs. TowTisley was also a consistent 
meml>er of this church. His political sup- 
port was given tlie Republican party and he 
was elected to represent his district in the 
constitutional convention of 1873-4, w^here 
he proved himself a loyal and public-spirited 
citizen by the earnest manner in which he 
ch'ampioned even- measure for the public 
good. Honored and respected in e\ery class 
of society, he was for some time a leader in 
public thought and action and was in citi- 
zenship so loyal, in inisiness so honorable 
and hi private life so reliable thart his name 
deser\es to be inscrited among the repre- 
sentati\e men of Greene countv. 



CHARLES L. SPENCER. 

The motto "merit always commands its 
reward" is well exemplified in the career of 
this gentleman. He early learned that 
knowledge is the key with which the poor 
boy on the farm or the lad in the shop could 
open the store house of the world and cull 
its choicest fruits, 'i'he result is that he is 
now one of the most successful attorneys 
practicing at the bar of Greene county, and 
is essentially the architect of his own for- 
tune. 

V A native of Ohio. Mr. Spencer nas bom 
in Newark, April 4, 1848. his parents being 
Newton and Lucinda J. (Trickey) Spaicer. 
His ancestors were originally from Eng- 




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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



887 



Jand. His father was born in Herkimer 
count}- New York, in January, 1816, of 
New England parentage, but was reared in 
Oswego county of that state, whence he 
■came to Licking county, Ohio, at the age of 
eighteen years, the country being then new 
and undeveloped. There he was variously 
emjjloyed for some time, including the opera- 
tion of a grist and sawmill ani later of a 
large stone quarry. In 1846 he was united 
in marriage to Miss Lucinda J. Trickey, 
whose parents were from Pennsylvania. De- 
siring to better his condition and rear his 
family away from the influences of the town, 
he concluded to- go farther west, and in the 
fall of 1856 became a, resident of Decatur 
county. Iowa, where he engaged in farming 
up to the time of his death in 1890, when he 
was seventy-four years of age. His wife 
■continued to make her home there until she, 
too. was called to her final rest in 1901 at 
the age of eighty years. Of their six chil- 
dren only three reached maturity, these be- 
ing Charles L., whose name introduces this 
sketch : Albert G., a resident of Colorado 
Springs, Colorado; and Mrs. Mary F. 
Hampton, of Van Wert, Iowa. 

For eleven years Charles L. Spencer re- 
sided with his parents on the little farm near 
Van Wert, lowai, one hundred and fifty 
miles from the nearest railroad, with little 
or no educational advantages, being only 
al:)le to attend school an average of one 
month a }'ear for the twelve years prior to 
attaining his nineteenth year. Although 
lacking school privileges, lie made the most 
of his opportunities and read every book he 
■could borrow' within a radius of several 
miles in a: sparsely settled neighborhood. In 
the meantime he worked on the home farm 
and for the neighboring farmers, sometimes 
receiving only seven dollars per month. 



Among the books he obtained was a little 
one entitled "Duties of Young ]\Ien," writ- 
ten by E. H. Chapin, then of Richmond, 
Virginia, afterward the noted Universalist 
preacher of Boston. This he read and re- 
read until his desire for learning and culture 
became absorbing and he determined with 
all his innate powers to seek an education. 
He was then eighteen years of age. His 
parents being in limited circumstances, they 
could not send him to school but gave him 
his time to help himself, and during the «i- 
suing year he worked for eighteen dollars 
per month, taking in payment for his ser- 
vices a colt, which he sold while in college 
for one hundred and twenty-five dollars. 

At nineteen, through the kindness of an 
old aunt, Mr. Spencer borrowed one hun- 
dred dollars and started to Ohio with the 
hope of finding better opportunities than 
were afforded him in Iowa. His intention 
at that time was to spend a year or more in 
preparing himself to teach a common school. 
With little knowledge of what a university 
was or what a college stood for, in the fall 
of 1867 he reached Delaware, Ohio, and 
went up to the Ohio Wesleyan University. 
It was then vacation time and he found no 
one in the buildings, but fortunately hap- 
pened to meet one of the professors. Dr. L. 
D. McCabe, on the campus, and introducing 
himself, he told the Doctor his simple story 
— that he was a farmer l>ov from Iowa, who 
had never had a chance tO' go to school, was 
poor, having scarcely fifty dollars left, but 
wanted to better his education. Under the 
shade of a tree they talked for half an hour. 
Dr. McCabe advised him to begin there and 
to take the regular course in the preparatory 
department of the universit}-, which would 
prepare him for a classical course in case he' 
decided to go on. It was the best advice a 



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young man ever received, and acting upon it 
Mr. Spencer entered with the opening fall 
term. lletore a single term pas.sed. he 
learne<l that active and ambitious young 
men had gone thnjugh college largely, it 
not wholly, by their o\\ n efforts, and he de- 
termined then and there to take the full 
course. He remained five years, nne in the 
preparatoPi- dejjartment and f(jur in the col- 
legiate deiwrtment. In the meantime he 
boarded hiiuself. doing his own c(K)king for 
two \ears and two terms, and in a club for 
the remaining time, and he worked nights, 
mornings and Saturdays at whatever he 
could find to earn his living — one year as 
janitor, building fires and sweeping rooms, 
while for three years he rang the college 
bell every three-cpiarters of an hour to an- 
nounce chajjcl serxice in the morning and 
the recitations during the day. Three win- 
ters, first fourth antl fifth, he spent in teach- 
ing country sch(«)ls. keeping up his studies 
al the university by extra work and passing 
the examinations on his return with his re- 
spective cUisses. Thus wholly without as- 
sistance from home but by his own efforts, 
Mr. Spencer sustained himself and acquired 
his education. He was gravluated from the 
Ohio W'esleyan University in June. 187.2. in 
the classical course, receiving the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts, and afterward, in 1875. 
ill ciirsH the degree of Master of Arts. A 
self-eilucated man he was henceforth en- 
tirely self-reliant. 

Without means to take a course at law: 
school, ^Ir. Spencer immediately began the 
study of law, without even a vacation, for 
the next week after his graduation we find 
him reading law in the office of Lorenzo 
English and J. W. Baldwin, a well known 
and leading law lirin of Columbus, Ohio, 
and teaching a part of the day to maintain 



himself. With the exception of four months 
while in charge of the village school at West 
Jefferson, near Columbus, he continued in 
their office until the fall of 1873, when he 
was made principal of the Xenia high school, 
where he enga.ged in teaching for two years. 
While thus employed Mr. Spencer devoted 
all his spare time to reading law. and at the 
cU)se of school in 1875 went to Cincinnati, 
where he finished his law course in the office 
of Xoyes & Lloyd, the former an ex-gov- 
ernor of the state of Ohit>, remaining with 
them until January, 187(1. The prexious 
October he had been admitted to the bar on 
examination before the supreme court of 
Ohio at Columbus, and in January, 1876, he 
was offered a partnershi]) in Xenia by James 
]•-. Hawes, with whom he was associated in 
practice for one year. He was then alone 
until 1878, when he entered into a partner- 
ship with W. J. Alexander, w hich continued 
until 1884. and during that time he was 
elected and served in the years i88r and 
1882 as prosecuting attorney of Greene 
county. After the termination of that part- 
nership Mr. Spencer was again alone for 
two and a half years, when in the latter part 
of 1886 he became a partner of Hi>n. Johir 
Little, which relation continued until the 
latter's death, October 18, 1900. The firm 
was connected with .some of the most im- 
[xirtant litigation in the courts of Greene 
county and southern Ohio. Practicing in 
the state and federal courts, Mr. Spencer 
has gained an enviable position at the bar. 
being widely known and recognized for 
learning and ability, and for his indomitable 
energy and the force of his logic. His per- 
sonal inte.grity. unwavering fairness, con- 
ciseness and clearness of statement of his 
cause of proposition ajid his i>ersuasive reas- 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY 



889. 



siderate attention of both court and adver- 
sary, and have greatly added to his success 
and won for him a high reputation as a law- 
yer and wise counsellor. 

Aside from his profession, ^Ir. Spencer 
was for several years secretary and assist- 
ant manager of the Field Cordage Company' 
a large ma/nufacturing concern not now in 
existence; is now a director of the Buckeye 
Shoe Manufacturing Company : and was for 
manv vears a director and secretary of the 
Miami Telephone Company. 

On the 24th of December, 18S5, ^Ir. 
Spencer was united in marriage to Miss 
Louie M. Currie, a daughter of A. H. and 
Lavina Currie. of Xenia, Ohio, who are 
still living. Mr. and ]\Irs. Spencer have one 
daughter. Anna, Ijorn Octoljcr 2, 1891. They 
are active and leading members of the First 
Methodist Episcopal cinnxh of Xenia, in 
which Mr. Spencer has been an official for 
many years. His labors have lieen very ef- 
fective in promoting the upbuilding of the 
church, and for many years he has been a 
valued teacher in the Sundav school. In 
his political \-ie\\ s he is a Republican but has 
never consented tO' become an office seeker 
outside of the line of his profession, al- 
though recpiested at times to do' so. In the 
early part of his pro-fessional life. iDCcause 
of his experience as a teacher, he was ap- 
pointed and served as city school examiner 
and for nine years was county school ex- 
aminer. He has always taken a deep and 
helpful interest in matters pertaining tO' the 
material, intellectual and moral development 
of the community, and his efforts have been 
both effective and appreciated in that re- 
spect. He is a man of strong character, as 
i;^ proved bv the manner in which he ac- 
quired his education, and his life history 
illustrates fully and forcibly the possibilities 



that lie before young men, proving the truth 
of the adage that "success is secure to him 
who labors and waits," and that such close 
a])plication and ability IjOth deserve and find 
their reward. He may well be accounted a 
representative citizen of Xenia. 



GEORGE C. SMFFH. 

One of the well known farmers of Bea- 
vercreek township is George C. Smith, who 
was born at the place of hJs present res- 
idence September 11, 1864, his parents be- 
ing Benjamin G. and Sarah A. ( Ying'ling) 
Smith. His paternal grandfather, Benja- 
min Smith, was the first of the family to lo- 
cate in Ohio, bringing his wife and children 
to Cincinnati, where he lived and died. It 
was in that city that Benjamin G. Smith, the 
father of our subject, acc|uired an educa- 
tion. Upon coming to Greene county he 
settled upon a farm upon the banks of the 
Inilian Riffle, in the southern part of Bea- 
vercreek township, and there de\-oted his 
energies to agricultural pursuits for many 
years. Indolence and idleness were utterly 
foreign to his nature and his labor lirought 
to him prosperity as the years passed by. At 
the time of his death he owned alx)ut two 
hundred and twenty acres of valuable land, 
and also city property in Dayton, Ohio. He 
was a self-made man for he started out upon 
his business career without a dollar. He re- 
alized the value of industrv and persistence 
in the active affairs of life and along the* 
lines of legitimate labor he won his success. 
He had three children, the eldest Iveinsf 
George Crawford Smitli of this review. The 
second son, Benjamin Grant, wedded Mary, 
Munger, and is now employed in the mail' 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



-service, liis home Ijeingf in Dayton. Olii". 
John William, the yonngest son, married 
Flora B. Greemvood. and they, too, reside 
at Dai\-ton. After the death of her first hus- 
band the mother married again and is now 
the widow of Oliver Moler. and resides in 
.Dayton. Mr. Smith, the father of our sub- 
ject, was a Republican in his political views 
and was a ven,' active and influential mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian church at Bellbnjok. 
He served lx>th as a deacon and elder in the 
•church and put forth every effort in his 
power t(.> advance the cause of Christianity 
in his communit)-. He passed away upon 
the home fann June 5, 1887. and was laid 
to rest in Mount Zion I'ark cemetery. Thus 
-a most useful and honorable life was ended 
but his memor}- is still enshrined in the 
.hearts of his famil\' and of his many friends. 
Mr. .Smith, whose name intnxluces this 
review, g'ained his education in the town- 
ship schools near his home and later pursued 
his studies in the high schcxil of Xenia. Ohio, 
but l)efore the date of graduation lie was 
forced to relinquish his text IxKiks in order 
-to assist his father who was failing- in health. 
He has also pursued a commercial course in 
Dayton. Ohio, and throughout the years of 
his active business career he has carried on 
farming. To-day he is intrested in and op- 
erates one hundred and si.xty-six acres of 
land. The old home has been destroyed by 
fire, and in its stead he has erected a fine, 
large residence which is one of the most at- 
tractive countr\' seats in this ix)rtion of the 
townshi]), and has the other equipments and 
accessories that go to make uj) a model fami 
of the tAventieth century. In addition to 
the cultivation of cereals best adajrted to the 
soil and climate he is engaged in sttKk-rais- 
ing. making a sj>ecialty of the breeding of 



Jersey cattle, having several head of regis- 
tered cattle in his herd. 

On the 1 6th of November, 1886, Mr. 
Smith was united in marriage to Miss Lydia 
Belle Brown, who was lx)rn in Sugarcreek 
township, and is a daughter of Adam and 
Sarah (People) Brown. Ixilh of whom are 
now deceased. Four cliildren have l)een 
l)orn of this union, but the eldest died in in- 
fancy. The others are : Crawford Brown ; 
Sarah M.: and Margaret Lucile. The par- 
ents hold membership in the Refonned 
church>. and Mr. Smith has served as clerk 
ui the church for fourteen years, and also 
filled the office of deacon. He vrtes with 
the Republican part\ . and for about eight 
years has been a member of the school board, 
the cause of eilucation finding in him a warm 
friend, lie is a ix)pular citizen, for his ge- 
nial manner and friendly spirit have gained 
him the regard, good-will and confidence of 
all with whom he has been associate*!. 



WILLIAM B. HARDIE. 

William B. Hardie is a native of Xenia 
tt)wnship. his birth having txxurred on a 
farm upon the Coliunbus pike, March 17, 
1825. His parents were William and Isa- 
bella (Buick) Hardie. lj<-)th of whom were 
natives of Scotland and in that country 
the\- were reared, educated and married. In 
1820 they bade adieu to home and native 
land and sailed for the new world, taking up 
their abode in Xenia township, Greene coun- 
ty. The father \\as a weaxer by trade and 
followed that pursuit in Scotland and for 
some years after his arrival in America. 
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farming, purchasing a small tract of land 
in Xenia township upon which the subject 
of this review was born. About 1833 tihe 
father removed from that farm and located 
in Caesarscreek township, where he pur- 
chased a tract of one and twenty-six acres 
of partially improved land. He at once be- 
gan its further developmient and cultivation, 
and made his home thereon until he retired 
from active business life. He then removed 
to Xenia, (his death occurring in that city in 
i860, -when he was se\-ent_\--three }'ears of 
age. His wife su'i-vi\'ed hini' for a number 
of years and departed this life in Bellefont- 
aine, Ohio-, at the age of eighty-three years, 
her remains being interred in the cemeter\- 
near Jamestown. Both were lo}'al and de- 
voted members of what was kmiwn as the 
Associate church, and in his political views 
Mr. Hardie was a Whig and always en- 
dorsed tlie mai and measures of his party. 
In their family were six children : Eliz- 
abeth, wiho was bom in Scotland, is the 
widow of Isaac H. Fichthorn, and resides 
in Bellefontaine, Ohio, where her husband 
died. Jane became the wife of John Gallo- 
way and is now deceased. James died at 
the age of fifteen years. William B. is the 
fourth in order of birth. Margaret is the 
deceased wife Oif James Miller, and Mary 
is the wife of Samuel Finley, of Akron, 
Ohio. 

WilMam B. Hardie of this review spent 
the first eight years of his life on the old 
home fann where he was bom, and then 
accompanied his parents on their renio\'al 
to Caesarscreek township, now New Jasper 
towTiship, where he was reared to manhood. 
He obtained his early education in the dis- 
trict schooJs of that township, the temjjle of 
leaming being an old log building such as 
was common at that day. Through the 



monfths of summer he assisted in the work 
of field and meadow and continued to labor 
upon tlie old homestead until he was twenty- 
six years of age, wilien he was married. He- 
then rented a part O'f his father's farm, 
which he continued to culti\'ate for a }'ear, 
after which he purchased one hnndred and 
twenty-five acres of improved land in Xew 
Jasper township. For twenty-three years 
he made his ho^ne upon that place, and then 
removed to his present farm, on the Colum- 
bus pike, in Xenia township, wihere he owns 
two hundred and sixty acres of rich and 
arable land, all under cultivation. He is. 
engaged in general farming and stock-rais- 
ing, devoting his attention to the crops best 
adapted to the soil and climate as well as 
the raising of horses, cattle anc hogs. He- 
has erected all of the buildings upon his 
place, inchiding a large and beautiful res- 
idence, commodious barns and other neces- 
sary outbuildings. 

On Januai-y 29, 1852', in Caesarscreek. 
township, Mr. Hardie was united in mar- 
riage to Elizabeth Dean, a daughter of Rob- 
ert Dean, who was an early settler of 
Greene county. His father came from Ken- 
tucky when he was a young man, and Rob- 
ert Dean and his wife, Elizabeth ( Camp- 
bell) Dean, spent the remainder of their 
lives in Greene county, Ohio, where lie de- 
voted his energies to famiing. Here he died 
when about sixty-three years of age, and 
his wife when about forty. Their daughter, 
^Irs. Hardie, was born in this county and is 
widely known as a most estimable lady. 
By her marriage she has become the mother 
of six children, and the family circle yet re- 
mains unbnjken by the hand of death. 
Laura Isabelle is at home; Mary Etta is 
the wife of J. Wilson Liggett, a farmer of 
Union county. Ohio'. and their children are: 



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JRajnidiid, Clarence, Bruce and Dwiglit ; 
Annie Xora is the wife of A. M. Stinit, wlio 
is connected with Che Toilet Siipi)ly Com- 
pany, of Colu^ibns, Ohio: Robert Harvey 
married Miss Mattie Rogers, by whom he 
has one son. William Roy. and their home 
is in .\el)raska : Ida L. is living with her sis- 
ter in Columbus, Ohio; William Clark, 
who was born in this county and was ed- 
ucated in tlie higii school of Xenia, is now 
engaged in fanning upon the old home 
place. 

Mr. Ilardie has 1)een honored with some 
kxral offices. He tilled the iwsition of town- 
ship treasura- for some twelve years, and 
Jiis long service indicates his fidelity to 
duty. In ix)litics he has always been a Re- 
publican, unwavering in his loyalty to the 
party and its principles. Both he and his 
wife are devoted and consistent members of 
the Second Unitetl Presbyterian church of 
Xenia, and he has long tilled the office of 
deacon, serving in that jxisition near James- 
town and in Xenia. Oliio. Mr. Hardie has 
a wide aicquaintance in the county of his na- 
tivity, and his many friends know him as a 
man of relia)l>ility and sterling worth, who, 
in the conduct of his business atifairs, has 
gained well merited success by reason of his 
honorable dealings and indefatigable en- 
•ergy-. 



CORXELIUS BROWN. 

Cornelius Brown, who is residing in Bea- 
A'ercreek townshii). where he is devoting his 
energies to agricultural pursuits, is a rep- 
resentative of one of the old families of the 
county and since pioneers days has been 
identified with the improvement and prog- 
ress here. 'Mr. Brov\-n was born upon the 



fann where he now resides, his parents be- 
ing Jonathan and Polly ( Harshman) Brown. 
His father was Ixxn in Berks county, Penn- 
sylvania. May II, 1805, a son of John 
George and Catherine ( Hermerl^egerin^ 
Browni. The former was Ixjrn August 6, 
1763. and was a soldier of the Revolution- 
ary war. His wife died in Pennsylvania. 
In their family Avere: Pliilip; George; Will- 
iam; Catherine, the wife of George Harsh- 
man; David: and Jonathan. After the death 
of the wife and motJier, John George Brown 
came with his children to Greene county, 
Ohio, about the year 1823, and kxated on 
land in what is now- the Shakertown pike. 
He purchased about one hundred and forty- 
four acres from one of the John boys, who 
had entered the land from the government 
]>rior to the year 1800. There was a small 
log cabin ui)on the place and the family l>e- 
gan life in Ohio in true pioneer style. Later 
the sons purchased the land from their fa- 
ther and lie lived with them until his death, 
which occnirred at the home of his son 
George, in Sugarcreek township. Fel>ruary 
22, 1847, his remains being interred in 
Mount Zion cemeter\-. 

Jonathan Brown, the father of our sub- 
ject, receiveil but limited .school privileges, 
and liis educational training was obtained in 
the German language, for he live<l in a Ger- 
man community in the state of Pennsvlva- 
nia. He came to Greene county when eight- 
een years of age. and at that tnne could not 
speak a word of English. He started out in 
life f(jr himself, and for many years fol- 
lowed the plasterer's trade, but in later life 
gave his attention to fanning. Vnv a num- 
ber of years prior to his death, however, he 
was an invalid and was unable tt> engage in 
any kind of \\\)rk. He started out in life 
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later! considerable propert}-, owning a fine 
fann and a very comfortaible home, tlie 
house standing to-day as it was built by him 
fiftv-one vears ago. Jonathan Brown was 
married January 18, 1832, to Polly Harsh- 
man, who wias born in Beavercreek town- 
ship, Greene county, in 1810, a daughter of 
the pioneer settilers, Philip and Frances 
(Dumbaugh) Harshman. On both sides 
she comes from- prominent pioneer families. 
The Dumibaugbs were all buried in what is 
known as the Harshman & Zimmerman 
cemetery, one mile north of Zimmerman- 
ville. They became very extensive land own- 
ers and have a large number of descendants 
still living in the county. Philip Harshman, 
the maternal grandfather of our subject, 
was born in Frederick county, Maryland, 
January 18, 1777, and was a son of Chris- 
tian and Catherine Harshman, ."both of 
whom died in Frederick county. Mainland, 
never coming to this state. At the age of 
seventeen Philip Harshman was apprenticed 
to learn the blacksmith's trade to ser\e for a 
term of three years. He worked at his 
trade for a number of years in Maryland, 
and was there marrie^l to Frances Dtim- 
baugh. In 1806 the}- emigrated to Greene 
county, Ohio', coming by wagon, and for 
three weeks they- lived in the wagon until a 
cabin could be erected. They, too, took up 
their abode near Zimmermanville. Mr. 
Harshman opened a shop and worked at 
the blacksmiith's trade, bang one o-f the 
pioneers in that line of business in the com- 
mnnity. He died March 18, 1845. '^"'^ many 
years before his first wife passed away, her 
death haiving occurred January 4, 1829. 
They were the pareiits of si.x children : 
George, the eldest, was born January 18, 
1804: John C, born February 7, 1807, died 



June zj. 1880. Catherine, born August 3, 
1808, died December 5, 1833. Polly, the 
mother of our subject, was born Jamiary 23, 
1810, and died March 22, 1899. Elizabeth, 
born September 28, 1813, became the wife 
of John Sipe, and died on the 3d of Sep- 
tember, 1898. Jacob, I>orn August 21, 181 7, 
died April 20, 1861. Philip Harshman, the 
father of this family, chose for his second 
wife Mrs. Evaama Fielden, whose maiden 
name was Hull, They were married in 
the early part o'f 1838 antl had two sons, — 
Philip, who was torn January 22. 1839, and 
is living in Bealvercreek township: and 
William A., born August 6. 1844, and now 
a resident of Zimmermanville. Mrs. Evanna 
Hrashman died December 4, 1882. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Brown 
were born seven children, Elizabeth, the 
eldest, is now Mrs. Hare, a resident of 
Beavercreek tciwnship. Mary became the 
wife of Henry .\. Dalhimer, and li\-es with 
her brother Curnelius. She had two chil- 
dren, — Frank : and Mrs, Sarah M. Clay- 
man. Cieorge, a resident of Montgomery 
county, Ohio, wedded Mary Fox, and their 
children are Mrs. .\manda Leman, Mrs. 
Flora Smith, John, \\'illiam, Mrs. Ada 
Gregg, Rav and Edith. John married Bar- 
bara Parson, and resides in Warren county, 
Ohio. Their children are Clement V., 
Charles, Mrs. Clara Cramer, and George. 
Philip, the fifth member of the Brown fam- 
ii_\-, married Emma, Eckman, and died No- 
vember 5', 1898, at the age of fifty-five 
years, but his widow- is still living in Bea- 
\-ercreek township. Tlieir children are Min- 
nie M., Martha E. and Edward F. David, 
who is living in Montgomery county, wed- 
ded Mary Ellen Garner and the\' have five 
children ; Harr\-, Harvey, Lewis, Hattie and 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Marie. Cornelius Brown is the youngest 
menil>er of the family and is hving upon 
tlie old homestead. The father died August 
31, 1878, and his wife passed away March 
22, 1899. their remains being interred in 
.Mount Zion Park cemetery. In politics he 
was a Democrat and both were members of 
the Reformed church. They were people of 
the highest respectability, known and hon- 
ored in Greene county from pioneer days 
down to the time of their death. 



B. FRANK HAWKIXS. 

A well known representative of the agri- 
cultural interests of Greene county, B. Frank 
Hawkins was bom on the old Hawkins 
homestead on the Ankeiiey road, December 
12, 1841. and lijus alway.i lived in that 
neighborhood. His paternal grandfather, 
Mounce Hawkins, was one of the honored 
pioneer settlers of this portion of the state 
and became an extensive land owner and 
prominent and intluential citizen, aiding 
largely in the early development of the 
county. He was an own cousin of David 
Crockett, the famous scout and explorer. 
Leaving his old home in the Slienandoah 
valley of Virginia be came to Greene coun- 
ty, Ohio, in 1814. and settled in Xenia town- 
ship, together with his fzuher-in-Iaw. Da\is 
Allen, who ha<l jjurchased one thousand 
acres of land, paying for the same five thou- 
sand dollars. This tract was originally cov- 
ered with timl)er but be cleared away the 
forest trees and developed a \ery valuable 
farm. Mounce Hawkins wedded IMary Al- 
len, a daughter of Davis and Elizabeth (An- 
trim) Alien, who were also from Virginia, 



and they silent the remainder of their lives 
in this county. 

Reuben Hawkins, the father of our sub- 
ject, removed from the old home place to a 
fann upon tlie Hawkins road, upon which 
be lived until his death, his attention being 
given to the cultivation of the fields and to 
stock-raising. He was a member of the 
First Methodist Episcopal church of Xenia 
and his life was in consistent harmony with 
his religious faith. In his political views he 
was a Democrat in early life, and later 
joined the ranks of the Republican party, 
w ith which he continued to afliliate until his 
death. For sometime he served as a school 
director and took an active interest in pro- 
moting the cause of education and adxanc- 
ing even- movement for the general good. 
He was indeed a public-spirited and pro- 
gressive citizen ajid was accounted a valued 
and representative resident of his commun- 
ity. He died in 1870, when about sixty 
years of age, and his remains were interred 
in Woodland cemetery, in Xenia. His wife 
passed away in 1894. She bore the maiden 
name of Lydia Fallis, and was lx>rn in Clin- 
ton county, Ohio, a daughter of Jonathan 
Fallis, who came to this county at an early 
])eriod in its development and settled in 
Xenia town.ship. He afterward removed 
near the East Point school house in Cedar- 
ville township and there carried on farming 
for many years. He finally purchased prop- 
erty below Clifton and built what wius called 
the old Fallis mill, which he operated for a 
numlier of years. When he disi)osed of his 
milling interests in this county he removed 
to Indiana, settling near the Wabash' river, 
where he engaged in the lumber business. 
Later he resided in Attica, Indiana, where 
he conducted a flouring mill, but his last 
days were ])assed in Dowagiac, Michigan, 




B. F. HAWKINS. 



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where lie died at the ad\-anced age of eigthy- 
foiir years. 

In the family of Reuben and L}(Ha 
Hawkins were six chikh'en, hut our subject, 
who is the eldest, is the rmly one now living. 
Joseph G.. who was a member of Cnmpany 
D, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Infantry, 
during the Ci\il war. was killed at the bat- 
tle of the Wilderness, when twenty years of 
age. Mary E. became the wife of Preston 
Machael, who' resides on the farm belonging 
to her father, and is an agriculturist and 
lumberman. She died in March, 1901, leav- 
ing two children, Jessie and Harry. Han- 
nah L. died at the age of fifteen years. Sa- 
rah E. lived to the age of twenty-three years. 
James F., the youngest of the family, died 
in infamcy. 

B. Frank Hawkins has always resided in 
the locality which is still his home. He ob- 
tained his early education in district No. i, 
in Xenia township, the school house lot hav- 
ing been given to the public for that purpose 
by his grandfather, Mounce Hawkins. After 
completing his studies our subject resumed 
the work on the old home farm, in whiich he 
still owns an interest, the estate having 
never been divided. He has also purchased 
a \'aluable farm of eighty-three acres, form- 
erly occupied by Davis Hawkins. Through- 
out his entire life our subject has carried on 
general farming and stock-raising, and in 
his wnrk he has met with creditable and 
gratifying success. He makes a specialty of 
short-b(irn cattle, Poland China hogs and 
Percheron horses. In his political affiliations 
he is a Republican. He is a representative 
of early pioneer families of this portion of 
the state who* from the time of primitive de- 
velopment here have been active in the work 
of progress and improvement, succeeding 
generations bearing their part in promoting 
the general welfare and upbuilding. 

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^^TLLI.\^I MUSSETTER. 

William ^lussetter is a \'enerable and re- 
spected citizen of Caesars Creek township. 
He was born in Berkeley count)-, W'est Vir- 
ginia, on the 18th of May, 182 1, and has 
therefore passed the eighty-first mile-stone 
on life's journev. His parents were John and 
Anna Mussetter. The father was of Ger- 
man descent and the mother of French line- 
age, and were natives of Maryland, in. which 
state they were reared and married. Subse- 
(juently the}' remo\-ed to- Berkeley county, 
\Vest Virginia, and thence to Clinton county. 
Ohio, making their home in the village of 
Lulmberton, where they spent their remain- 
ing days. The year of their removal was- 
1837 amd the journey was accomplished by 
team. In their family were seventeen chil- 
dren, five sons and twelve daughters. One 
of the number died in youths but the other 
sixteen reached years of maturity and four- 
teai of the number were married. Five of 
the family are yet living, three of them being 
residents of Clinton county, while one is in 
Kansas, and another, William Mussetter of 
of this review, is a valued resident of Greene 
county. The father died in 1847 'j"'^ 'lis 
wife sur\'ived him for many }ears and at- 
the time of her demise was almost ninety 
}ears of age. 

William Mussetter pursued his etluca- 
tiiHi in V'irg-inia and remained with his fa- 
ther until the latter"s death, after which he 
continued to Ii\-e with bis mother and her 
family for eighteen months after his mar- 
riage. That important e\-ent in his life oc- 
curred t>n the nth of October, 1848, the 
lady of his choice being Miss Virginia 
Hanghey-, who was born in Jefferson town- 
ship, Greene county, on the ist of February, 
1829. She is a daughter of Andrew M. and 
Ann (January) Haughey. Her grandfather. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Thomas Haugliey. came to Greene county 
from \irginia at an early clay and here An- 
drew M. Haug-hey spent many years of liis 
Hte, dying in Bowersville. After residing 
for eigliteen montlis in Clinton county, 
Ohio, Mr. Mussetter removed witli his 
young wife to Greene county, settling in 
Xenia township, on the Jasi^er pike, where 
he raited a farm, which he cultivated for 
ten years. In the spring of i860 he re- 
moved to his present home, which he pur- 
chased alx)Ut that time, becoming the owner 
of one hundred and fifty-four acres, to 
which he has since added a tract of fifty 
acres, so that he now has a large and val- 
uable fami. The buildings upon ihc 
place have all been erected by him and are 
substantial structures standing in evidence 
of his thrift and enterprise. 

Unld Mr. and Mr.s. Mussetter have been 
lx)ni ten children, of whom eight are yet 
living, .\inelia Ann is the wife of William 
Middk'ton, of Caesars Creek township. 
Clarissa is the wife of William Murphy, of 
the same township. Emily Jane is the wife 
of Isaac Wolf, of Xenia township, and they 
have five children, — Joseph, Lewis, Paul, 
Walter and Basil. The fouitb member of 
the family of William Mussetter is Basil, 
who wedded Mary Pickern and resides in 
California. They have four children. — 
Raymond, LeKoy, Ann and an infant. Jo- 
sephine is the wife of Charles Pearson, of 
Florida, and they have five children. — Ed- 
na, l-'rank. Ralph. Forest and Eunice. Jo- 
sei)h married Sally Swope. and is living in 
Wilmington. Ohio, with his wife and two 
children, Viola and William. Ida May is 
the wife of Chester Ballard, a resident of 
Washington, D. C. and their children are 
juseph O. ; Edith: Fe: Guy: Chester and 
Susan, twins. WilHain E. married Maude 



Hite. a daughter of William Hite, and they 
have three children, Mary. Clara and Clar- 
ence. He is living with his father upon the 
home fami and now has the management of 
tlie ])rM])ert\-. carrying on general farming 
and stock-raising. 

Mr. Mussetter is a well-to-do man and 
has made bis own way in the world, start- 
ing out in life with nothing to aid bim but 
a strong heart and willing hands. He de- 
serves all the success that he has won and to- 
day is the owner of a \er\- comforiable com- 
petence. He is highly respected by all who 
know him, and his enter]>rise in business and 
loyalty in citizenship have made him a val- 
ued resident of the communitv. 



JAMES R. AXDERSOX. 

James R. Anderson is a retired farm-r 
living at Spring Valley. His life has been 
marked by industry, uprightness and fidel- 
ity to duty and he enjoys in a high degree 
the respect ami confidence of his fellow men. 
He comes of good old Revolutionary stock, 
his paternal grandfather. John Anderson, 
having fought for the indeijendence of the 
colonies, while his father. James Anderson, 
was a soldier of the war of 18 12 and a pow- 
der-horn that he carried at that time is still 
in the ]><>ssessi()n of his son. John Ander- 
son <lie<! ill tliis county and was buried en 
the home farm, three miles east of Spring 
\'a!ley. 

Our subject was l>orn on the old home- 
stead .\pril 10, 1833, and acquired a good 
common-sclKX>l education in that neighbor- 
hood. When alx)ut twenty years of age he 
started out in life for himeslf and f>n the 
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899 



marriage to Miss Catherine Ja\', a daugh- 
ter of Alexander and Margaret ( Irving) 
Jay. The lady was born in Clinton county, 
July 5, 1834, and by this marriage there 
were two children: Ambrose and William 
A. The former is married and resides in 
the village of Spring Valley, while William 
A. is a resident of Colorado. IMrs. .Ander- 
son died June 20, 1877, and on the 23d of 
January, 1879, Mr. Anderson was again 
married, his second union being with Anna 
Sanders, the daugliter of Jesse P. and Cas- 
sandra (Bell) Sanders. Her father's mat- 
ernal grandfather, Daniel Cain, was also a 
Re^■olutionalry soldier and lived to the ad- 
vanced age of one hundred vears. at which 
time he had but one tooth missing. He was 
buried about one mile north of Spring Val- 
ley, on what is known as the Benjamin Al- 
len farm, it having" formerly Ijeen the prop- 
erty of ^Ir. Cain. 

On both paternal and maternal sides 
Mrs. Anderson is descended from honored 
pioneer ancestry of this state. Her father 
was the man who invented and tried to op- 
erate the first reaper e\-er used in this coun- 
try-. He pondered over the matter much, 
and as his time and mone}- offered him the 
opportunity he worked out his ideas until 
in the little village of Bellbrook he had com- 
piled the first reaper ever seen in America. 
A local paper in speaking of this said : "On 
a 'bright July morning in 1844 the first 
reaper that was ever invented for cutting- 
wheat, was taken from an old shop in Bell- 
brook and drawn by two sturd}- horses up 
the hill past the schoolhouse, to the old Bell 
fann — now belonging to Jacob Haynes — 
and placed in a field of ripe wheat for its 
first trial. The new invention had quite a 
following that morning, some sharply crit- 
icising its merits, and the possibility of its 



failure of success, others were as sanguine 
as the inventor himself. The e.xcitement was 
intense when the horses started the ma- 
chine around the field, the great wooden 
arm of the reaper rising and falling, and 
with every revolution drawing the grain 
down in the track of the reaper's teeth, leav- 
ing a wide strip of fallen wheat behind it, 
all ready to be bound in sheaf. The evening 
before a peddler had stopped at the village 
tavern, and when the little party left town 
ft->r the wheat field, he sauntered along with 
them, eagerl}- watching the machine, and 
finally calling the attention of the inventor 
to certain defects in his plan, eagerly ques- 
tioning him as to the different points in its 
mechanism, as to whether patents were 
granted, etc. The people of the town did 
not suspect that the peddler had any ulterior 
motive. They were upright, honest people 
themselves, and did not think a man could 
possibly seek his knowledge for any dishon- 
est purpose, but wdien the next year the fa- 
mous McCormick reaper was patented and 
put upon the market, thus robbing Bellbrook 
and Jesse Sanders of fame and fortune, it 
was then that the people suspected that the 
peddler had stole his ideas from the scene 
which he witnessed in the harvest field that 
day. ^Ir. Sanders had expected to improve 
(jn the imperfections which he had noticed 
in the working of the machine, but had not 
the money to do it at that time, and thus the 
opportunity passed. 

On the maternal side Airs. Anderson de- 
scended from: Stqjhen Bdl, the founder of 
the town of Bellbrook. He was laorn in the 
colony of New Jersey, August 18. 1774. and 
married Hai-inah Scudder, of Lycoming 
county, Pennsylvania. September 9. 1795. 
They had eleven children, including Cassan- 
der Bell, who became the wife of Jesse San- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



ders and tlie mother uf Mrs. Amlerson. 
The Bell family was one of proniinenec in 
the community, actively identified witli 
many lines of business, and one who con- 
tributed to the material development of the 
county. Jesse Sanders, at the time of his 
marriage, was engaged in the wagon-mak- 
ing business, but afterward he ^ removetl 
to Spring Valley, where his wife died. Sub- 
sequently he married a Mrs. Snodgrass and 
in 1 88 1 removed to a farm near Tippecanoe 
City, Avhere his death occurred several years 
ago. His daughter. Mrs. Anderson, was 
bom April 23. 1839. 

Mr. Anderson carried on the grocer}- 
trade in Spring X'aliey from 1855 until 
1857, after whicii lie engaged in farming 
for a few years. During a part of the Civil 
war he served as an enrolling officer for 
Spring Valley township, laeing appointed by 
Cjovernor Brougli in 1862. In Xoveml)er. 
1864. he enlisted for active service at the 
front as a member of Company G, One 
Huntlred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry, 
which went forward at the call for hundred- 
day men. He was in the army aljout four 
months and participated in the battle at Xew 
Creek. He has also .served his countn*- in a 
civil capacity, having been constable and £is- 
sessor of his township. In 1882 he wa> ap- 
pointed suiiervisor of the county intimiarA-. 
which office he resigned in the spring of 
1890. and since that time he has lived a 
retired life, enjoying the rest which he has 
tnily earned and rightly deserves. In his 
pi>litical affiliations he is a Repulilican. and 
fraternally he is connected with the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and with the 
Grand Army of the Republic. He holds 
membership in the MetbrKlist Protestant 
clnirch. and his life has l)een in harmony 
with Ills profession. His word is as good 



as his bond and at all times he has been 
straight forwanl in his dealings with his fel- 
low men. His life is in many respects well 
worthy of emulation, and throughout the 
countv he is widelv known and honored. 



ROBERT D. POAGUE. 

Robert U. Poague is well reinembere<l 
by many residents of Greene county for he 
was a representati\e farmer of this iK)rtion 
of the state. Washington said that. "Agri- 
culture is the most useful as well as the most 
honorable calling to which man devotes his 
energies." and this is iis true to-day as when 
uttered more than a century ago. Agricult- 
ure fonns the basis cif all business activity, 
and its representatives are usually men of 
worth, who. working in an even tenor, live 
an upright, honoraijle life. Such an one was 
Robert D. Poague. who was well known as a 
livestock dealer as well as a cultivator of the 
soil. 

Mr. Poague was lx)rn on the 2d of Jan- 
uary, 1 8 14, and was one of four children 
of Thomas and Margaret ( Boggs) Poague. 
His father was lx>rn in X'irginia, while the 
mother was born in Kentucky. It was in 
the year 1807 that tiic faniilv was estalv 
lished in Greene county by the father of 
our subject who cast in his lot with the early 
settlers, at a time when this section of the 
state was u|X)n the wild western frontier. 
He aided in reclaiming the land for pur- 
Ijoses of civilization and for years carried 
on stiKk-raising and farming with excellent 
success, being thus engaged at the time of 
his death, which occurred in 1816. Greene 
county thereby lost i>ne of its inlluential and 
representative men. 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



901 



Robert D. Poague spent tlie years of liis 
active life in Greene county, his birth having- 
occurred on the old homestead there. After 
the death of lier husband IMrs. Poague and 
her familv returned to her father's home in 
Fayette county. Kentucky, and remained 
there until 1835. when after the education 
of her children and the arrival of Robert 
Poague at years of maturity she returned 
with her family to the old larm here. She 
died in i860. Her son, Roljert D. Poague, 
received good educational advantages at a 
private school ajid on his return to Greene 
■count}- assumed the management of the farm 
of which he later became the owner, being 
one oif the successful men of the dav. He 
added to his possessions from time to time 
until at his death he was the owner of thir- 
teen hundred acres. He made a specialty of 
raising mules and foimd this a \ery profit- 
able source of income, having the largest 
•establishment of this kind in this section of 
the state. He also carried on farming, his 
lioiiie being a few miles from Xenia. where 
he owned and operated five hundred acres 
of \-aluab'le land. He was progressive in 
his fanning methods and his well tilled 
fields brought to him golden harvests. He 
purchased improved machinery and was not 
slow to adopt methods which he believed 
■would proA'e of practical \-alue in carry- 
ing on the farm work. Energ}- and indus- 
try were numbered among his salient char- 
acteristics and his well directed lators were 
crowned with a creditable degree of suc- 
cess. 

It was on the 6th of January, 1846. that 
Mr. Poague was united in marriage to Miss 
Mary E. Goode, a daughter of Burwell and 
Elizabeth ( Smith ) Goode, the former a na- 
tive of Virginia. Mrs. Poague still survives 
her husband and is yet residing with her 



son, W'illiaiii T. Two other sous, James B. 
and Charles M., are both residents of Chi- 
cago, Illinois, while Margaretta, the only 
daughter, became the wife of T. J. Pringle, 
and died in 1881. Mr. Poague gave his po- 
litical support to the Republican party, hav- 
ing fimi faith in its principles, and his re- 
ligious faith was indicated by his menilDcr- 
ship in the Methodist Episcopal church. 
He passed away in 1859, and the news of 
his death brought a feeling of sadness into 
many homes, where his sterling worth had 
gained him warm frieiids. 



\\'ILLI.\M T. POAGUE. 

William T. Poague. who resides in 
Xenia and is identified with agricultural in- 
terests in Greene county, was born on the 
old homestead, a few miles from the city, 
on the ,31st of July, 1849, his parents being 
Robert D. and Mary E. (Goode) Poague. 
He attended the schools of Xenia and af- 
terward continued his education in Spring- 
field. His father having died when he was 
ten years of age, he returned to the fan^n 
with his mother and, being the eldest son, 
the nianagement of the property devolved 
upon him. He continued the supervision of 
the whole farm until the estate was divided, 
after which he continued famiing for him- 
self, having a very valuable tract of land of 
about four hundred acres. Thiis he) 'has 
placed under a high state of cultivation and 
the well tilled fields bring to him golden 



harvests. His careful supen-ision is indi- 
cated by the neat and thrifty appearance of 
his place. He has been and is a successful 
man and well deserves his prosperity. 

In 1890 Mr. Poague took up his res- 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



idence in Xenia, where he lias since re- 
mained. In the 23d of October, 1884, he 
was united in marriage to ^liss Augusta 
Steele and unto tliem has beai born one 
son — Steele Poague. The lady is a daugh- 
ter of David Steele, a representative of one 
of the old families of the county. In iiis 
jjolitical views Mr. Poague is a stanch Re- 
publican and keeps well informed on the 
issues and questions of the day, but has 
never sought or desired political preferment 
and he has always found that his business 
demands the greater i)art of his attention. 
Throughout the community. lx)th in the city 
and in the surrounding country', he is held 
in high esteem. He has always lived in 
Greene count\- and thus iiis history is large- 
ly familiar to many of its residents who 
know him to be a man of sterling worth. 
His business interests have been well con- 
ducted and his success is well merited. 



WILLIAM M. XEELD. 

If every young man thoroughly urider- 
stood and l)elievcd what w isc men and phil- 
osophers are always pointing out — that suc- 
cess never comes to any one without great 
and perse\'ering effort. — a multitude of fail- 
ures in life would be averted, and the world 
be a nuich happier ])lace than it is to-day. 
In countless thousands of instances, espe- 
cially in the L'nited States, where men are 
rated at their true personal worth, iXM>r 
lx>ys have risen to ]>laces of prominence and 
influence, liecause they were not afraid of 
work, and hanl work, too, and because they 
were actuated by the ci>mniendal)le ambi- 
tion to do something and he something wor- 
thy of the respect of all mankind. Mr. 



Xeeld owes his success entirely to his own 
efforts and is to-day counted one of the 
most enterprising business men of Xenia. 

yir. Xeeld was born in Spring \'alley, 
Greene county, August 10, 1849, ^"<^1 '^ a 
second son and child of Jason M. Xeeld, 
whose birth occurred in Bucks county, 
Pennsylvania. July 7. 1818. In the fall of 
1839 the father came to Ohio, settling in 
Spring \'alley towniship, Greene county. 
Here he married Miss Susanna Allen, a na- 
tive of the township, and a daughter of Ben- 
jamin and Rebecca (Campbell) Allen, the 
fonner born in \'irginia and the latter in 
South Carolina. At an early date her par- 
ents came to this county, and here ]\Irs. 
Neeld was bom A])ril 2. 1818. Im-oui early 
youth until his last illness Jason M. Xeeld 
engaged in the manufacture of shoes. In 
politics he was a sturdy Democrat, and was 
known throughout the community as a man 
of industry and business integrity. He filled 
the office of township treasurer and at all 
times was a loyal and progressive citizen. 
In his family were three children: William 
M.. Benjamin F. and Mary E.. but the last- 
named died at the age of thirty years. 

William ]\I. Xeeld was reared under the 
parental roof and acquired a good common- 
school education. At night and on Satur- 
days he worked with his father at the shoe- 
maker's trade, beginning his apprenticeship 
w hen but fourteen \ears of age, but the close 
conlinement of the shop affected his health 
and in his sixteenth year he went to the 
farm, where he remained until nineteen 
years of age. He then returned t(^ the vil- 
lage and although he had not yet attained 
Iiis majority, he carried on his father's shop 
for a \ear. Afterward he became proprietor 
of a meat market, but when a few years had 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



90.5 



iifacture of Ixjots and slices and extended 
the field of his business activity by engaging 
in. the sale of hats and caps. He was thus 
a factor in commercial circles of his native 
town for fifteen years, when he sold the es- 
tablishment to J. D. Moon, but a year later 
he again became owner of the same store, re- 
maining its proprietor until August. 1888, 
when he sold out to F. C. Carey. For two 
or three years prior to his retireiuent from 
merchandising he also carried on a livery 
and undertaking establishment and later he 
engaged in the brick business. Mr. Neeld 
closed out his business at Spring Valley in 
1893, and removed his undertaking busi- 
ness to Xenia, locating on West ^lain street, 
and for the past eight years has occupied 
commodious rooms at 44 West Main street. 
He has come to be considered one of the 
substantial business men of Xenia, giving 
his exclusive attention to the undertaking 
business. He has a pleasant home on Spring 
Hill. As the years have passed he made ju- 
dicious investments in real estate, thus be- 
coming the owier of valuable and desirable 
property. The characteristic of his busi- 
ness career is that he has carried forward to 
successful completion whatever he has un- 
dertaken, brooking no obstacles that could 
be overcome by earnest ajid indefatigable ef- 
fort. 

On the 17th of November, 1880, oc- 
curred the marriage of Mr. Xeeld and Miss 
Maggie E. St. John, a most estimable lad\- 
and a daughter of A\'illiam and Alartha 
(Smith) St. John, of Caesarscreek town- 
ship. Four children blessed their union: 
Ralph Al., Edith, Paul and Charles. Mrs. 
Neeld belongs to^ the ]\Iethodist Episcopal 
chiu'ch and Mr. Neeld contributes generally 
to its support. His political support is given 
to the Democracv. While a resident of 



Spring \'alley he served for ten years 
as a manber of the school board and for 
four years was a member of the board of 
trustees. He 'was the originator of the 
movement to construct a township an'd cor- 
poration building in Spring Valley and as 
the result of his ettorts the village now pos- 
sesses a fine three story brick structure, the 
lower floor Ijeing occupied Ijy township and 
\-illage otfrces and a store room, while the 
sec(jnd is used as the township hall and the 
third floor is occupied by the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. No man has con- 
tributed more largely to the progress and 
improvement O'f Spring Valley than has Mr. 
Neeld, not onlv through generous gifts of 
mone_\- but through untiring effort on its be- 
half and through the establishment of lousi- 
ness interests has promoted commercial ac- 
tivity, which forms the foundation of pro- 
gress in all communities. He manifests a 
most unselfish interest in the general good 
and is highly regarded. His nature is 
kindly, his temperament jovial and genial 
and his manner courteous, and throughout 
this part of the county it \\ould be difli- 
cult to find one who has a larger circle of 
friends. 



ALANSON REYNOLDS CRANDALL. 

For many years this gentleman was 
prominently identified with the business in- 
terests of Nenia, but is uoav living a retired 
life, enjoying the fruits of former toil. He 
Avas born in this city in 1845 ''•™1 ^^ a, son 
Oif Nickolas and Anner (Brown) Crandall. 
The father was a native of Connecticut, born 
in 1809, and when a young man left his 
New England home to launch out in Inisi- 
ness for himself in the far west, as Ohio 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



was then considered. Il was aljout 1838 
tliat he took up his residence in Troy, this 
state, and our sul)ject now has in his pos- 
session a letter written l)y his fatlier at that 
place in 1840. in which he says: "1 am fore- 
man in building a court house in Troy. I 
am gettino; gorKl wages for liiese hard times 
— thirty-tive dollars a month — and have the 
whole charge of the work." For some time 
lie was engaged in contracting and build- 
ing and assi.sted in the erection of the court 
liouse in Xenia in 1846. fur which jiurpo.se 
he left Trov and l(;cated permanently in 
Xenia. His lumber yard, planing mill and 
residence occupied considerable groimd on 
West Second street. Ijetween Galloway street 
and the Cincinnati mad. .\fter a useful and 
well s])ent life he died at this place in 1853. 
His wife, who long survived hiuT. dying in 
Ohio in 1889. was liorn in Xewburg. Xcw 
York, in 1816, and removed to Troy. Ohio, 
with her parents al)out the same time Mr. 
Crandall located there, settling on a farm 
near that place. 

At the usual age .\lanson Reynold 
Crandall entered the public schools (vf Xenia. 
l)ut was forced to lea\e sch<x>l at an earl\ 
age. his father having died when he was hut 
eight vears old. It'was his ambition and al- 
most his neces.sit-y to assist in maintaining 
his widowed mother and two ymniger sis- 
ters. When yet a yr)ung lad he entered the 
clothing house of Phillipp Simmons, who 
was of Jewish faith but a polished gentle- 
man and a most noble friend to his Ixw 
clerk. He remained with Mr. Simmons until 
the latter sold his business to Benjamin 
Bruel. by whom he was employed for many 
vears. In 1873 Mr. P.ruel was unable to 
continue longer in business owing to fail- 
ing health', and he made it possible by a gen- 
erous offer and easy terms for Mr. Cran- 



dall to purchase the st(Kk and the real es- 
tate. By careful, unremitting attention to 
business, together with qualifications both 
natural and acquired. Mr. Crandall met with 
remarkable success as a merchant and was 
an artist in liis business. l)cing easily "the 
I'rince r)f Greene county clothiers." In 1892 
he erected a handsome three-stoiy business 
block on the site where he had done busi- 
ness for over thirty years. This was the 
first of the modern business blocks that have 
been erected in Xenia in die last ten years. 
In 1892 Mr. Crandall sold his interest in the 
slcjck to his partner and retired from busi- 
ness with a nice fortune to make comfortable 
his raiiaining years. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, and while ni)t a manl>er of any 
church organization his life has ever 1>een 
— do right — do good, and his quiet charities 
will li\c long after what is mortal has passed 

away. 

■« » ♦ 

MOSES A. HAGLER. 

The members of the Hagler family in 
(jreene county need no introduction to the 
readers of this volume, for the representa- 
tives of the name are widely knowii in this 
portion of the state, where from pioneer 
times to the present the Haglers have taken 
an acti\e and \alued ]>art in promoting i)ub- 
lic progress and improvement. Moses Al- 
len Hagler. of this review . is a wide-awake 
and energetic farmer of Xenia township. 
He was born in this locality. Octoljer 9. 
1854. and is a son of William L. and Mary 
L. Hagler. 1 le remained under the parental 
roof until alxnU thirty-five years of age. His 
youth was spent in the acquirement of a 
good English eilucation in the public schiwls 
and in work niion the home farm, where 




M. A. HAGLER 



ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



907 



through the summer months he assisted in 
the labors from the time of planting until 
crops were haf vested. His first independent 
business venture was in connection with his 
brother, with whom he purchased one hun- 
dred acres of land, and to the cultivation 
and inipro\ement of this tr-act they gave 
their attention, whereby they gained a com- 
fortable competence, and, in\esting their ac- 
quired capital in more land, they eventually 
had a \-aluable farm of two hundred acres. 
Later the business relations between them 
was discontinued and our subject took one 
luindred acres, which he transformed into a 
\aluable and highly productive farm. In 
1899 he erected a fine dwelling upon his 
place. It is built in an attractive style of 
architecture, supplied with hot water and 
with ever}- modern convenience, in fact, it is 
■one of the best homes in this part of the 
■county, and the other improvements on the 
farm are in keeping therewith. He has an 
■excellent orchard co\'ering twenty acres, in- 
cluding peach, plum and apple trees. His 
principal ijusiness, however, is in small 
fruits, having sold as high as eight hundred 
bushels annually. His knowledge of horti- 
culture is comprehensive and that he has a 
practical understanding of the business is 
indicated by the large amount of fruit raised. 
His place is called the Ridge \'iew Fruit 
farm. Mr. Hagler also gives his attention 
to the cultivation of various cereals and to 
stock-raising. 

On the 2 1 St of October. 1892. occurred 
the marriage of our subject and Miss ]\Iar- 
tha A. Wead, who was born in Xenia tow n- 
ship. and is a daughter of Joseph \\'ead. who 
died May 8. 1901. at the age of nearh' eighty 
years. In his political \'iews Mr. Hagler is 
a Republican, and has always espoused the 
■principles of that party. Both he and his 



wife hold membership in the First United 
Presbyterian church of Xenia. They are 
well known in the city and in their neigh- 
borhood, and by the possession of those 
qualities, which in every land and clime 
command respect, they have won manv 
friends. The career of Mr. Flagler has been 
one of unfaltering industry and through 
strong purpose and diligence he has worked 
his way upward to the plane of affluence. 



JAMES PARKER CHEW. 

James Parker Cliew", proprietor of the 
Xenia Daily and Semi-weekly Gazette, was 
born in York county. Pennsylvania. April 
10, 1832. He received a common school 
education in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and 
learned the trade of printer in the Herald 
ofiice of that citv. 

He came west in the year [851. Six 
months before he was of age, in the year 
585J. lie bnught the Lawrenceburg. Indiana, 
Press. He resided at Lawrenceburg and 
conducted the paper except as to two or 
three short intervals, for twentv-five vears. 
During this time he was also engaged in 
other business. He was deputy collector of 
internal revenue for seven vears, collecting- 
in that period o\-er nine millions of dollars. 

On Xo\ember ist, 1877, lie bought the 
Xenia (O). Gazette, then a weekly paper. 
On X'ovanljer 2y. 1881, he started the Xenia 
Daily Gazette and changed the weekly into 
a semi-weekly. In August. 1888. he boiight 
the Xenia Torchlight and consolidated it 
with the Gazette. Both the daily and the 
semi-weekly papers have met with remark- 
able succes.s. exceeding in circulation any 
papers in like sized towns in the state. ]. P. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



Qiew's son, A\'. B. Chew, and liis son-in- 
law, J. O. McComiick. liave been associated 
witli liinv in the jniblication of tlie Xenia 
Gazette from tlie tirst. 

On Xovember 23. 1853. J. P. Cliew was 
married to Miss Harriet Louisa PJrown, of 
Lawrenceburg. Inthana. who continued his 
beloved lite-companion fur forty-seven 
years, until December 5. 1900. when she 
dietl quite suddenly of iieart iroulile. 
brought on by asthma from whicii slie had 
long suffered. To them were Ixmi three 
children. W. B. Chew and Mrs. J. O. Mc- 
Cormick, both of Xenia, Ohio, and Mrs. W. 
E. Hopton, of Cincinnati. 



D.WTD E. BEAL. 



David Elias Beal, of Bowersville. 
Greene county, is a citizen wiiose worth in 
the community^ has 'been recognized by elec- 
tions to iHiblic office on several <K"casions. 
He is now sening as assistant cashier in tlie 
bank of Bowersville, making his home in the 
town where he is classed among the repre- 
sentative and valued citizens. He was lx)rn 
in Caesars Creek township on the 30tli of 
May. i8()0. and is a son of .Varon H. and 
Keziah Jane (Ary) Beai. The father was 
also a native of Caesars Creek township and 
his parents were George Beal and his wife. 
The latter lK)re tlie maiden name of Dris- 
coll. At an early date tlicy came to Greene 
county, settling in Caesarscreek township, 
wliere tiie grandfather of our subject se- 
cured three hundred acres of land, all 
of which was covered with timl>er. He 
had to cut down tlie trees and clear 
away the brush in order lo ])low 
the lielils and ])rei)are the land for 



cultivation. He jxissessed industry and en- 
ergy, howexer, and in the course of time 
transformed his fields into a rich farm, upon 
whicii he si)ent liis remaining days. His 
wife also died there and lx)th were interred 
in the Xew Hojie canetery near Painters- 
ville. 

The father of our suljject pursue<l his 
education in a log school but his o])|x>r- 
tunities in that direction were quite limited. 
His training at farm labor, however, was 
not meager, and he assisted in the arduous 
task of developing new laufl. Cnder the 
l)arental nxif he remained until he was 
twenty-five years of age, when lie was mar- 
ried and started out in life on his own ac- 
count. He then purchased a small farm, ad- 
joining the old home, resided there for a 
long jieriod and afterward removed to Jef- 
ferson township, in 1870. Here he jnir- 
chased a fami about two miles southwest of 
tiie village of Bowersville. It was at first 
one hundred and sixty acres in extent, but 
at different times he added tracts of sixty, 
fifty-four and twelve acres, so that his fann 
became a large as well as a \aluable one. It 
continued to be his residence until the spring 
of 1885, whai he remo\ed to Jamestown, 
Ohio, where he continued for two years. 
On the expiration of that jieriod, however, 
he returned to the fann, where he continued 
for one year and then purchased another 
farm four miles west of Xenia, where he 
now lives. It is located in Sugar Creek 
towniship and has been his place of alxxle 
since 1888. Through the years of his active 
manhood Mr. Beal has continually added to 
Iiis capital as the result of untiring energ>- 
and capable management of liis business af- 
fairs. He is a Democrat in his political 
belief and strongly endorses the principles 
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accq^t public office. His wile belongs to the 
Methodist Episcopal church. In their fam- 
ily were seven children: David E., of this 
review ; Samuel Lewis, who is living in Jef- 
ferson township; Charles Elmer, of the same 
township; Margaret Emma, the wife of S. 
S. Hollingsworth, of Clinton county : ]\lel- 
ville Franklin, who resides in Spring Val- 
ley township; Clara Jane, who died at the 
age of sixteen vears ; and Clinton Price, who 
is still living with his parents. 

In taking up the personal histon- of 
David E. Beal, -we present to our readers 
the life record of one who is widelv known 
in Greene county and who has many friends 
within its borders. \\'hen a little lad he 
entered the district schn<i!s near his home 
in Caesars Creek township, but when ten 
years of age accompanied his parents on 
their removal to Jefferson township, where 
he continued his education, the school, how- 
ever, being situated across the line in Clinton 
county. He continued his studies until 
twenty-one vears of age, being in attendance 
during the winter months, while in the sum- 
mer season he aided his father in the work 
of field and nieadoiw. He was also for 
three months a student in Professor Smith's 
private school in Xenia, and a good educa- 
tion well prepared for him for the practical 
and responsible duties of life. He continued 
with his parents most O'f the time until his 
marriage, although after attainiiig his ma- 
jority he started O'Ut in life on his own ac- 
count. On the 1 6th of December, 1884, Mr. 
Beal was united in wedlock to Miss Flora 
B. Hampton, a native of Jefferson town- 
ship, and a daughter of Ezekiel and Martha 
(Birt) Hampton. 

After his marriage Mr. Beal purchased 
a farm upon which he li\'ed for three years 
and then hought a small tract of land in 



the southwest portion of Jefferson town- 
ship. Here he owns fifty acres of land. 
After farming for eight years in that place 
he eaane to Bowers ville in 1897 and ac- 
cepted the position o-f assistant cashier in 
the bank and has since served in that capac- 
ity, being a leading representatixe of finan- 
cial interests in the town. 

In 1885 Mr. Beal was elected township 
assessor and filled that jxjsition for three 
vears. He then retired, but when a year 
had passed was again elected to that office. 
He is a. Democrat in politics, stanch and 
firm in his advocacy oi the party principles, 
and in 1897 he was elected a member of the 
city council of Bowersville. His wife is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church 
and he is a memil>er O'f the Odd Fellows' so- 
ciety. A popular citizen, in manner he is 
genial and courteous and wherever known 
he is held in high esteem for his genuine 

worth. 

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CAPTAIN AND]^E\\' S. FRAZER. 

Captain Andrew S. Frazer is associated 
with many of the most prominent and im- 
portant business interests of Xenia and is 
the efficient cashier of the Xenia X'ational 
Bank. He was born in Russellville, Brown 
cotmty, Ohio, October 15, 1836, and is a 
son oi John F. and Sarah ( Kelly ) Frazer, 
the fonner a native of Pennsylvania and the 
latter of Kentucky. The Frazer family is 
of Highland Scotch origin, and the grand- 
father oif our subject came from Down, Ire- 
land, to the new world, settling in Fayette 
county, Pennsylvania, where John F. Frazer 
was born. The grandfather was a weaver 
b}' trade and followed that pursuit through- 
out his entire business life. His son was 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



reared to manhoo<l in Brown county and 
there learned the trade of tanning, which 
lie followed in early life. When his son 
was twehe years old he came to Greene 
county. Oliio, settling here in 1848. Here 
he purciiascd an interest in a dry goods 
establishment in Cedarville. there conduct- 
ing business for about forty years. He was 
married in all fi\e times, and was the father 
of nine children. He passed away in .\u- 
gust, 1890, but the mother of our subject 
died in lirn-wn cnunty. Oliio. in 1840. Their 
■children were Andrew S.. Mrs. M. J. Jack- 
son, of Olena, lllinnis: and James K.. of 
Sandusky. Ohio. 

Captain Fra^er acquired his early educa- 
tion in his native county and afterward con- 
tinued his studies in Cedarville. pursuing an 
academic course there. W'lien old enough 
he entered his father's store and remained 
with him until 1859. when lie ojjened a mer- 
chant's tailoring and clothing business in 
•connection with Jnhn (iibney of Cedarville. 
the ]iartnersliip continuing until after the in- 
auguration of the Ci\il war, when both 
joined the army. When the Captain donned 
the blue the agreement was that his partner 
was tf) remain and cf>nduct the business, but 
after about a year Mr. (jiljney also enlisted. 
Our subject became a member of Company 
F. Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
on the 24th of July. 1861. and while in the 
•camp in this state he was made second lieu- 
tenant.. Later he was promoted to the rank 
of first lieutenant and subse(|uently ap- 
pointed captain and quartermaster on the 
staff of General Piatt, who was appointetl 
liis first colonel. He participated in the en- 
gagements at Chapmanville. West X'irginia. 
Princeton and Fayettexille. and at the last 
named i)lace was <|uite seriously wounded 
in the left thigh. In June, 1864. he was 



mustered out at Cincinnati on account of 
disability from wounds recei\ed in action. 

Upon his return home the Captain found 
his business in a bad condition, owing to the 
incompetent management of those left in 
charge, and closed up his store. For three 
years he was unable to engage in business 
on account of wounds sustained at the 
front. In 1866 he was elected county au- 
ditor and served in that capacity for about 
eighteen years. In .\ugusl. 1884. he was 
appointed cashier of the First Xational 
Hank of Xenia. then in li(|uidation. and in 
1885 he entered the Xenia N'ational Bank 
as assistant cashier, ser\ing in that capacity 
for a few months. In January, 1886. how- 
e\er, he was made cashier and has thus 
been connected with the institution contin- 
uously since, its success being largely at- 
tributable to his enterprise, capable manage- 
ment and keen discrimination. A man of 
resourceful business ability, he has extended 
his aiifairs into many other enterprises. He 
was director and treasurei" of the Field 
Cordage Company and also of the Ohio 
Cordage Company, both of which have 
ceased to exist. At the present time he is 
director of the Hooven & Allison Company 
and director and president of the Buck- 
eye Shoe Manufacturing Ctinipany of Xenia. 
l-'or alxnit eight years he was treasurer of 
the Miami Telephone Company, retiring 
from that office on the ist of January, 1902. 
lie is also treasurer and director of the 
Home Building & Savings C(vmpany of 
Xenia. director of the Little Miami Railroad 
Company and the Dayton i.\: Westem Rail- 
road. 

On the 2ntl of Xovember, 1870, Captain 
Frazer was united in marriage to Jeimie 
Mitchell, of Attica. Indiana, who died in 
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911 



ence. who is now conducting a shoe store 
in Xenia; and Katie, the wife nf William 
A. Cork, of Toronto. Canada, hy whom she 
has two children : Helen Frazer and Rohert 
S. In October. 1887, the Cajjtain was 
again married, his second union being witli 
Miss Ruby H. Sexton, of Rushville. In- 
diana. In his fraternal relations the Cap- 
tain is connected with the Loyal Legion and 
for several years he served as commander 
of Cedarville Post. G. A. R. He also be- 
longs to the L'nited Presbyterian church and 
in pohtics is a Rqiublican, but of recent 
years has never desired or accepted office. 



F. C. CAREY. 



F. C. Carey, who is successfully carry- 
ing on farming in Spring Valley township. 
was b<:)rn in the village of Ferry. \\'arren 
county, February 6. i860, a son of Dr. 
Simeon and Ruth A. (Cornell) Carey. The 
father engaged in the practice of medicine 
in Ferry for a short time and then removed 
to Doods where he carried on the milling- 
business for his fathelr. Joel Carey, who 
owned the mills there. Later they went to 
Mount Holly and resided upon a farm be- 
longing to Sylvanus Cornell, the maternal 
grandfather of our subject. His next re- 
moval brought die Doctor with his family 
to Spring Valley, where he engaged in the 
grocer\- business, but later established a 
drug store, and in connection with its con- 
duct resumed the practice of medicine. He 
spent his remaining days in Spring Valley, 
where he died in May 19, 1899, his widow, 
however, still making her home there. Of 
their three children F. C. Carey is the eldest. 
Flora Alice is the wife of Dr. S. E. Dyke, of 



Spring Valley, and Deilla married Lel-oy 
Davis and lives in Dayton. 

L'nder the parental roof the son was 
reared and when nineteen years of age be- 
gan business on his own account, operating 
land which belonged tO' his father. As a 
conipanion and helpmate for the journey of 
life he chose Miss Viola Thomas, the mar- 
riage being celebrated in Lebanon, Warren 
county, September 23. 188G. The lady was 
born in that county near Waynesville. her 
parents being FVank and Sara (Servis) 
Thomas, the fomier a farmer of Warren 
county. Three children lia\'e been born of 
this marriage: Lola Pearl, born in this 



county, July 10, 1888; Raymond, who died 
at the age of two' years; snd Alice Ruth, 
born June 18. 1898. Throughout the 
greater part of their married life Mr. and 
l\Irs. Care}- have resided upon a farm and 
he is an entei^prising and successful agri- 
culturist will I, by his close adherence to 
modern scientific methods and practical 
judgment, has secured good crops which 
bring to him a satisfactory income. 

'Sir. Carey is recognized as a leading 
and prominent representative of the Demo- 
cratic party in this county, having supported 
the organization since casting his first presi- 
dential vote for Cleveland in 1884. Was 
elected a trustee of Spring Valle\- township, 
serving for two successive terms, and re- 
ceived a very flattering vote for he had to 
overcome the usual Republican majority of 
one hundred. By a majority of twenty-five 
he was elected land appraiser in 1900. In 
1888 he renaoved tO' Spring Valley, where 
for four j-ears he was engaged in the boot 
and shoe business, and while there was 
elected a member of the ; ity council, re- 
ceiving every vote cast in his ward with 
the exception of two — which was certainly 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



liiglily complimentary and indicated liis per- 
sonal |)o])ularity and the confidence reposed 
in him by his fellow citizens. For four 
years he was a member of the central com- 
mittee of the township, was a member of 
the executive committee of the county and 
for one year was its treasurer. He has 
been a delegate to the state convention in 
Cleveland, Dayton and Zanesville, and his 
opinions carry weight in the councils of his 
party, while his efforts have been effective 
in augmenting Democratic strength in his 
county. He is also quite prominent in fra- 
ternal circles, belonging to New Burling- 
ton Lodge, No. 574, F. & A. M.. and 
Spring Valley Lcxlge, No. 302, I. O. O. F., 
in which he has filled all the chairs and is 
past grand. He is a charter member of the 
Junior Order of American Mechanics, has 
lilled all of its offices in the local organiza- 
tions, is treasurer and also representative to 
the state lodge. Both he and his wife are 
identified with the auxiliary and she is at 
present associate vice council of the Daugh- 
ters of America. She also belongs to the 
Christian Church of Owens. Mr. Carey is 
a charter member of Spring Valley Camp, 
No. 8480. AI. W. A., and is now venerable 
consul. Mr. Carey is a typical American 
citizen, energetic and progressive in busi- 
ness, interested in public affairs, and ha\ing 
due regard to the social amenities which go 
to make up so much of the sum of human 
happiness. 



W. L. MILLER. 



Among the younger meuTbers of the 
legal profession in Nenia is W. L. ]\Iiller, 
but his years seem to be no bar to his prog- 
ress as an attornev for alreadv he has won 



success as a lawyer that many an older prac- 
titioner might well en\y. He was l)orn at 
'1 rel>ein. Greene county, Ohio, .\ugiist 2. 
iSj2. and is the second son of W. J.^and 
Sarah E. (Steele) Miller, also natives of 
Greaie county. James Miller, the grand- 
father of our subject, was one of three 
brothers who came to Ohio from the vicin- 
ity of Williainsport, Pennsylvania, and lo- 
cated on Beaver creek in this county, thus 
becoming pioneer settlers of this iX)rtion of 
the state. James Miller was a cari^enter and 
farmer and possessetl considerable mechani- 
cal ingenuity. His son, William J. ^filler, 
carried on the business of fanning. He 
wedded Sarali E. Steele, a native of this 
county and a representative of one of its 
pioneer families. They became the jiarents 
of six children, of whom five are now liv- 
ing. \\'. L.. of this review; Jessie, at home; 
Clarence O.. who is now employed as a 
lK)okkeeper but makes his home with his 
parents; James A. and Elizabeth, who are 
also at home. By a former marriage the 
father had one .son. Grant, who now resides 
at Trel)ein. and is engaged in farming. 

\\'. L. Miller continued his education 
until he had completed the course of the 
township high scIkkiI and then engaged in 
teaching in the district schools of his town- 
ship. He afterwards spent three years as 
a student in the law office of Little & 
Spencer, of Nenia. and then l)ecameji mem- 
ber of the senior class in the law depart- 
ment of the Ohio State Uni\ersity. in which 
he was graduated with the class of 1895, but 
in December of the previous year he was 
admitted to the bar. Immediately after his 
graduation he o])ened an office in Nenia and 
has since been engaged in the general prac- 
tice of his profession. He soon demon- 
strated his abilitv to handle intricate liti- 



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gated interests and now has a good client- 
age, which is continually growing. 

Mr. Miller served for four years as 
United States commissioner for the south- 
ern district of Ohio. He is a member of 
Xenia Lodge, No. 49, F. & A. M., and 
Xeniai Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M. He is 
also identified with Xenia Lodge, No. 668, 
B. P. O. E., and is a meniber of Silver Star 
Lodae No. 668, K. P. He is a member 
of the Reformed church, and his cooperation 
is given to many movements and measures 
for the general good. He is a representa- 
tive oi a high type of American manhood — 
resolute, ambitious, determined, and ener- 
getic, interested in matters of citizensliip, 
enjoving the pleasures of social life and 
alert to business opportunities and a<I\-an- 



PAUL P. WARNER. 

Paul Petro \\'arner. an enterprising and 
practical farmer of Bath townsiiip, Greene 
county, residing in the southern jiart of the 
township on the Fairfield and Zimmerman- 
ville pike, was horn in the village of Fair- 
field, November 10, 1848, and comes of 
Dutch ancestry. He is a son of Henr\' and 
Harriet (Casad) \\'arner. The father was 
Ijorn near Hagerstown, Marj-Iand, and was 
a son of George W. and Christina ( Harsh- 
man) Warner, both of whom were natives 
of Maryland. The former was a brickmaker 
by trade, and in 1829 removed with his 
family to the state of Ohio, spending one 
year in Dayton, after which he purchased 
a farm upon which our subject now resides, 
then compromising one hundred eigiit and 
one-half acres of wild land. Tiie only im- 
provement upon the place was an old log 



cabin, but he at once l>egan to clear and 
develop the land and soon rich harvests re- 
turned to him tlie golden tribute- to his 
labors. Upon that farm he and his wife 
spent their remaining days. He built there 
a large log house, a substantial barn, and 
is known as one of the progressive agricul- 
turists of the community. His political sup- 
port was given the Democracy, but the hon- 
ors or emoluments of office have no attrac- 
tion for him. He and his wife were buried 
upon the old PetrO' farm in tiie family bury- 
ing ground. They had three children : 
Henry, the father of our subject ; Man', the 
wife of Samuel Miller : and Catherine, the 
wife of Paul Petro. 

Henry Warner, the father of our sul> 
ject, was ]j(irn in Alarvland. His education 
was begun there, but was afterward con- 
tinued in Bath township, Greene co-unty, 
Ohio. He worked with bis father until 
after his marriage, when he rented land for 
a time and then removed to the village of 
Fairfield. In 1849, when our subject was 
onlv al)()ut six mduths old, lie took up his 
ailjode upon the iil<l homestead. His father 
had died and he pm-cliased the interest of 
the other heirs in the prnpert\-. Upon this 
fami Henry \\'arner spent his remaining 
clays, devoting his energies to agricultural 
pursuits in a way that bore to him a good 
living. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Warner were 
born ten children, eight of whom reached 
years of maturity : George, is now living 
in Fairfield, Ohio: Christina became the 
wife of John H. Koogler, whose name ap- 
pears on another page of this volume; Paul 
Petro, our subject, is the third in oixler of 
birth ; Henry G., is a resident of Beaver 
Creek township: Sophia, who became the 
wife of Samuel Dillinger. resides in Bath 
township: Mary Alice, who l>ecame the wife 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



of Taylor Gerlaiigh. is now deceased : Eliza- 
beth Jane, the wife of Benjamin Xicliols, 
resides in Darke county, Ohio; Harriet A., 
the wife of John W'alch. resides in Bath 
township. Tiie father of this family died 
February 24, 1<S94, at the age of eighty-one 
years, while his wife jiassed away in 1879 
at the age of fifty-nine years. Both were 
interred in the Fairlield cemetery. Mrs. 
Warner was a meml)er of the Christian 
church. Mr. Warner was a Democrat in his 
I'olitical views and both enjoyed the high 
regard of many friends. 

Paul P. Warner, the subject of this re- 
view, received his education in the district 
sch(X)ls near his home, and with the excep- 
tion of the first six months of his life has 
always resided upon the old home fami. 
He early became familiar with the labors 
of held and meadow, and as the years have 
passed he has continued to engage in the 
tilling of the soil, thereby winning a com- 
fortable comi)etence. He was married on 
the J7th of Xovember. 1884. the ladv of his 
choice l>eing Miss Mary Catherine Barr. a 
native of Bath township and a daughter of 
John and Susan (Miller) Barr. Ixith of 
whom were natives of Lancaster count}-, 
Pennsylvania, where they were married. On 
coming to Greene county. Ohio, thev settled 
in the southern part of Bath township, 
wliere they remained until called to their 
final rest. In their family were twelve chil- 
dren, and with one exception all are vet li\- 
ing. as follows : Abraham resides near 
])ayton. Ohio: Anna, the wife of Mr. Rck- 
nian. resides in Indiana; Susan, now Mrs. 
Payton. resides in Dayton. Ohio: John is 
also a resident of Dayton; Hester resides 
upon the old home place ; Amos is now de- 
ceased : David is a resident of Dayton, Ohio; 
Mary C. is the wife of our subject; Jacob 



makes his home in Dayton, Ohio ; George is 
also residing in the latter place: Henry is 
also a resident of Dayton ; and Mrs. Ella 
Kluni]) !i\es upon the old home place in this 
township. 

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Warner have l:)€en 
born five children : John, now deceased ; 
George; Harriet, who has passed away; 
Perpi' P. and Susan Ellen. Mr. Warner 
gives his ])olitical supjxjrt to the Democ- 
racy. His wife is connected with the Re- 
formed church. They rx:cu]>y a very pleas- 
ant home; in fact. ha\e one of the attractive 
fami residences (jf the county. It was 
erected in 1901 and the barn was remodeled 
in 1899. Mr. Warner carries on general 
fanning and stiick raising, and everything 
about his place is kq)t in splendid condition, 
the fields l)eing well tilled, the buildings in 
good repair. He is an energetic and per- 
severing business man and one who has well 
merited his success. 



ISAAC EVAXS. 



Isaac Evans is a representative of one of 
the old pioneer families of Obio. and 
through almost sixty-five years has been a 
witness of the growth and u]>l)uilding of 
Cireene county. He was Ixrn in Spring 
X'alley township. December 8, 1835, his par- 
ents l)eing Robert and Sarah (Coi)podv) 
I'.vans. His parents were born, reared and 
marrie<l in South Carolina, the father's birth 
having occurred Xoveml)er 9, 1797, the 
mother's .Marcli 13, 1799. Tliey were mem- 
bers of the S(jciety of Friends. They drove 
across the cmmtry to Ohio, s|)ending one 
month ui)on the way, the date of their ar- 
rival I)eing Octol)cr 24. 1829. Moses 
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915 



previously died in South Carolina, and his 
widow had married Samuel Speer, with 
whom she had come to Greene countA" in 
1826, settling where our subject now re- 
sides. W hen Robert Evans arrived he spent 
a few days in the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Speer and then jxirchased four himdred 
acres of land which now belongs to his 
grandchildren — the children of Aaron and 
Margaret (Evans) Crites. Robert Evans 
had followed milling in South Carolina, and 
after coming to Ohio he built a saw and 
grist mill upon his farm. These mills were 
operated continuously until about 1875, 
when they were abandoned. In his politi- 
cal views Robert Evans was originally a 
Whig and later a Republican. He had come 
to the north because of his opposition to 
slavery, and when the Republican party 
..was formed to oppose the further exten- 
sion of slavery he at once joined its ranks. 
Althougfi he did not have a college course 
he was remarkably skillful in mathematics 
and had studied surveying in South Car- 
olina. He died November 9. 1868, and his 
wife passed away June 17, 1871. In their 
family were fifteen children, nine of .whom 
reached mature years, while twu are still 
living — Nanc}', the wife of ]\Iartin Peter- 
son, of this county: and Isaac. 

After acquiring his education in the pub- 
lic and private schi3ols and in Bacon's Com- 
mercial College in Cincinnati, in \\hich he 
was graduated in 1857, Isaac Evans be- 
came a partner in his father's milling busi- 
ness, with wlhicli he was connected until 
1864, when they sold out. He has since 
been engaged in farming, which he follows 
in Spring Valley township, meeting- with 
signal success. 

Mr. Evans was first married January 31, 
i860, to Miss Matilda C. Stump, a daugh- 

51 



ter of Jonas and Prudence (Smalley) 
Stump. Six children were born unto 
them : Frank S., who married Cath- 
erine El3erley and lives on a part of the old 
homestead; Minnie B., the wife of Joseph 
G. Gest, of Washington Court House, Fay- 
ette count}-, by wliom she has one child ; 
Louie A., the wife of Robert J. Lacey, a, 
resident of Wilmington, Clinton county; 
Alta '\l.. the wife of John L. Snipp, of Day- 
ton ; \\'illiam J., of Washington Court 
House : Charles, a li\er}- man of Xenia, who 
married Stella Lucas, and has one- child. 
Mrs. Evans died September 17. 1897, and 
on the i6th of May, 1900, ^Ir. Evans mar- 
ried Miss Frances Adams, of Montgomery 
county, Ohio. 

In his political views Mr. Evans is a 
Repulblican, and when age ga\e to him the 
right of franchise he deposited a ballot in 
support of Abraham Lincoln for the presi- 
denc\-. He is a charter manber of the JMa- 
sonic Lodge of New Burlington, and was 
made a Mason in Waynesville. He also 
belongs to Xenia Chapter, No. 36, R. A. 
^L. and is true to the tenets of the craft, 
exemplifying in his life its beneficent spirit. 
His life has been quietly passed yet has been 
characterized by fidelity in citizenship, by 
loyalty to every trust reposed in him, and 
thus lie stands among those to whom honor 
and respect are given. 



FRANK S. EVANS. 

Frank S. Evans is a representative of 
one of the early families of the county and 
was born near his present home in Spring- 
Valley township on the 21st of January, 
1 861, Ins parents being Isaac and Kate 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



(StiimpJ Evans, a sketch of wlioin is g-iven 
afx>ve. The father is still living, but tlie 
mother died Xovemljer 17. 1897. 

'I'he subject of this review spent his 
lx)ylux-)d days on tlie old home farm and 
suppletnented his common school education 
by two years study in the Lebanon Normal 
Scho«>l. To his father he gave the benefit 
of his services until he had attained his ma- 
jority and then started upon an independent 
business career by working as a farm hand 
by the month. He was thus employed for 
a year and then made preparations for hav- 
ing- a home of his own by his marriage to 
Miss Kate Eberley. of Warren county, the 
wedding being celebrated on the ist of Janu- 
ary. 1884. Tlie lady was born in Lancas- 
ter county. Pennsylvania, and when a little 
maiden of fi\e summers was brought to 
Ohio bv her parents. Peter and Susan 
(Kreider) Eberley, who located in Warren 
county. They, too. were natives of the 
Kej'stone state, and tiie father died in \\'a:- 
ren county on the 2nd of November, 189 J, 
at the age of fifty-five years. 

StK)n after his marriage Mr. Evans took 
U]) his ab<ide ui>>n the place which he yet 
makes his home, and after renting the laufl 
for nine years he purchased the pro])erty, 
comi)rising fifty acres, it being a part of the 
farm uimhi which his grandfather located or. 
removing from South Carolina to Ohio. He 
has built a barn and tobacco shed and has 
excellent modern improvements upon the 
])lace. liis home, however, is one of the 
(ild landmarks of the county, having been 
erecte<l by his grandfather. He successfully 
carries on general farming, and the well- 
tilled fields bring to him the satisfactory re- 
turns for his lalj«M-. In his methods he is 
Tirogres.sivc and enterprising, and his ef- 
forts have been crowned with a well-merited 



tlegree of success. In the family :>re tw;i 
children: Hemian. born Octol)er 5. 1885, 
and Lawrence, born Eebruary 14, 1894. 

Mr. Evans gives his ix)litical support to 
the Republican party and proudly cast his 
first ballot for James G. Blaine in 1884. [r. 
1897 he was elected a tnistee of his tov.n- 
ship and has been largely instrument;'! in 
improving this portion of the county by 
having the hills levele<l down and also in 
other ways. Fraternally he is connected 
with the Junior Order of American Me- 
chanics of Spring X'alley and has filled 
most of its oftices. He is also a charter 
member of the Modern Wixxlmen Camp and 
belongs to the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. During his entire life he has re- 
sided in tliis county and therefore has a 
wide acquaintance among its citizens who 
freely accord to him the high regard which 
is ever won bv sterling worth. 



WILLIAM Mil'llERSON. 

The rich lands of (jreene county oflfer 
excellent o])]x>rtunities to the agricuhurist. 
anil many men are successfully engaged in 
the tilling of the soil within its Ixirders. 
.\mopg this number is Mr. William Mc- 
Pherson. whose home is on the lower Bell- 
Im^ik Pike four miles southwest of Xenia. 
He was born in the city of Xenia. Febru- 
ary 111. 1816. his ])arents being John H. and 
Margaret (Hivling) McPherson. His 
father was .\merican Ixirn but his parents 
were natives of Scotland. The nother of 
nnr subject was born in Maryland and was 
a daughter of John Hivling, who served as 
the first sherifY of Greene county. By trade 
Mr. John H. McPherson was a chair- 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



9'7 



line ijf work on account of ill health. Fo-.- 
several years he served as postmaster of 
Xenia. 'but when a change occurred in tiie 
presidential administration he was deprived 
of the office. He also served for two terms 
as county recorder and was ever prompt, re- 
liable and accurate in the discharge of his 
official duties. Of his large family, John, 
Moses, Sophia and William grew to ma- 
ture years and reared families, but Williani 
is now the only one living. 

In the public schools of Xenia our sub- 
ject pursued his education, and at the age 
of eighteen years he began working at the 
trade of saddle-making in Dayton. He 
worked a year for his board and then 
returned to his native city. Later he 
received journeyman's wages and contin- 
ued in business until 1840, when fail- 
in.g health obliged him to abandon that pitr- 
suit. He afterward bought two horses and 
engaged in teaming for sonie time, but sub- 
sequently turnetl his attention to farming 
upon rented land, where die city of Xenia 
now stands. He operated what is known 
as the Dayton Hill and the upper portion 
of the town, this land Ijeionging to his 
grandfather Hivling. 

In the year 1840, \\'illiam McPhersnn 
was united in marriage to Miss Mary .Ann 
Rader, of Xenia, a daughter of Adam and 
Christina (Smith) Rader. They became 
the parents of nine children, seven of whom 
are still living: John H.. who is now filling 
the office of county auditor: Joshua, who 
was a member of Companv C, .Seventy- 
fourth Ohio Infantrv and died at Xasli- 
ville: Ann, the wife of E. S. Carnett, of 
Xenia township; Sophia, the wife of Wil- 
liam Priest, of Xenia township : Ciiarles 
who resides upon his father's farm : Adam 
R., a resident farmer of b.>wa : and William. 



who is a graduate of the Ohio University 
of Columbus and is now professor of chem- 
istry there. For several years he was a 
teacher in the schools of Toledo, Ohio. 
After the death of his first wife. Mr. Mc- 
pherson married Mrs. Mary Ann \\'right, 
nee Price. 

Alxiiit 1848 Mr. McPherson purchased 
his present farm, comprising one hundred 
and sixty-three acres, on which he took up 
his abode in 1850. Little of the land had 
been cleared, but he at once began its fur- 
ther development and has made excellent 
iniprovments there. He also has thirty-two 
acres in Xenia township near the county 
seat. His life has been one of industry and 
energy, and even yet he assists tO' some ex- 
tent in the work of the farm, although he 
has passed the eighty-sixth milestone on 
life's journey. Such a rec(_ird should put 
to shame man}- a man of much younger 
years, who grown weary of the struggles 
and trials of business life would relegate 
to others the burdens that he should bear. 
Mr. McPherson cast his first presidential 
ballot for W. H. Harrison in 1840 and voted 
for J. C. Fremont in i85(), since which time 
he has been an earnest Republican. He be- 
longs to the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
liiws, has filled some of its offices and is 
identified with the German Reformed church 
of Xenia. His life has ever been honorable 
and upright and he can look back over the 
past without regret and forward to the fu- 
ture without fear. Few indeed of the set- 
tlers of Greene county have so many years 
resided within its borders as Mr. McPher- 
S(_)n. who has spent his entire life here. He 
receives the veneration and regard which 
should ever be accorded old age and his life 
record contains many elements worthy of 
emulatiiin. 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



C. E. ARBOGUST. 

BY PROF. GEORGE S. ORMSBY. 

The writer of this brief biographical 
sketch undertook the superintendency of the 
pubhc schools uf Xenia in Septanber, i86l, 
and continued in that office until 1879. 
During that period there were many prom- 
ising lads in attendance at school who have 
held high, honorable and responsible posi- 
tions not only in the state of Ohio but in 
other states as well. Others have been suc- 
cessful business men and have found their 
fields of labor in the city, in the county and 
in the various states of the Union. 

The writer well remembers the subject 
of tiiis sketch when as a young latl he en- 
tered the school. He was a quiet, earnest 
pupil, whose object chiefly was to make the 
most of his time and to get the best results 
from study and loyalty to duty and law., 
The promise of his younger life has been 
realized in his later years. He has proved 
to be one of the most enterprising, trusted 
and successful business men of this city. 

Charles l'"lnicr Arlxjgust was bi rn in 
Xenia, Ohio, on the 22d day of September, 
1862. He is the youngest son of Mrs. R. 
W. .\rbogust, who is now living in Xenia, 
and wiiom lie most highly honors for her 
self-denial in providing for him a happy 
home and sending him to .school, where he 
coidd have all the advantages that the pul)- 
lic schools could give. Leaving school, he 
worked six months in the rope factory of 
the Hooven & Allison Company. After 
this he served as an apprentice to the trade 
of blank book making and book binding 
with J. C. A. Rhcinhardt. for a tnne Avork- 
ing in this city but finishing his trat'e out- 
side of Xenia. In company with Mr. \V. B. 



Chew he began his present business of blank 
b(K)k makers and manufacturing stationers, 
on Ixtrrowed money, in iMarch, 1881. At 
the end of a year he bouglit out Mr. 
Chew's interest, since which time he has 
Ijeen the sole mvner of the business, under 
the firm name of C. E. Arbogust & Com- 
pany, and by "strict attention to business" 
he has been successful. 

In 1 888. he. with his sisters, purchased 
a millinery and fancy goods business, now 
located at Xo. 8 Xorth Detroit street, of 
which he is still a half owner. 

He was one of the organizers of the 
Peoples Building and Savings Company, on 
the 22d of Septemlier, 1885, and has ever 
.since been a member of its board of 
directors, and was for sexeral years its presi- 
dent, and lias heliied largely to liring that 
big concern up to its present healthy and 
very ])rosperous condition. Being iiow 
worth o\er $500,000. making it easy for 
manv a person to own their own home, who 
without it could not. Mr. .\rbogust is the 
oldest member of this b(jard in point of mem- 
l)crship. In the spring of 1897 he was elected 
a memijer of the Xenia city board of edu- 
cation, and in the following year was 
elected treasurer of the board. He is a man 
whose judgment is good, and though yet a 
young man he has been called as a juror in 
County and United States courts and was 
for five years a member of the Ixiard of di- 
rectors of the Xenia Citv and dreene County 
Work House and was several years of this 
time its ])resident. He was nine years a 
member of the board of '' lectors of the 
"N". M. ('. .\.. of this citv. ai '•"<: in installing 
tlmt n-ood institution i--to !'•; '--resent condi- 
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path of progress has sometimes been a Httle 
rough. Financial reverses have been part 
of his experience, but never discouraged, 
with untiring energy he has transformed the 
reverses into success. 

He was also a member of the Knights 
of Honor, and is at present a member of 
the Knights o^f Pythias, and has been hon- 
ored with grand lodge offices by both or- 
ders. He has been for two years repre- 
sentative to the Grand Lodge of the 
Knights of Pythias of Ohio. 

Pie is a member of the First Baptist 
church of Xenia, and for many years a 
member of its financial committee and one 
of its trustees. He was for seven years 
clerk of the church and for nine years the 
Sunday-school superintendent, and during 
that su]:)erintendency through his painstak-- 
ing the attendance increased from an a\er- 
age of fort^■-f^ve to one hundred and 
sixty. He is a man of uncomprouTising 
temperance principles, never having in his 
life taken a single droji of any intoxicating 
beverage. 

He was married February 13. 1S82, to 
Miss Lida A. Robinson, eldest daughter of 
George F. Robinson, the compiler of this 
history. He has two sons, George Elwood 
and Charles Oren, now eighteen and six- 
teen years of age respectively. He has one 
brother, J. F. Arbogust, of Springfield, and 
two sisters., Mrs. Clara B. Stebbins, of Day- 
ton, and Mrs. E. M. Whittington, of Xenia. 

Mr. Arboigust is a man of a kindly dis- 
position, always considerate of other peo- 
ple's feelings. X'ever intentionally and 
without cause would he give offense to any, 
yet he is a man of great firmness and de- 
cision of character, a man of clear percep- 
tion of what ought to be. and one who 



has the courage of his convictions. He 
will not only yield what ought to be yielded 
but will as positively demand what ought to 
be demanded. He is now, of course (Sep- 
tember, 1902), in the prime of life and 
seems to be moving steadily up the plane of 
prosperity. He is at present engaged in the 
building of his beautiful new home on 
X^)rth King- street, which for modern ap- 
pliances, convenience in arrangement and 
architectural beautv will not be surpassed by 
an\- buildin"' in Xenia. 



WILLIAM A. HAGENBUCH, M. D. 

Dr. William A. Hagenbuch, long a most 
prominent, honored and res]>ected citizen of 
this portion of the state, was born in North- 
ampton county, Pennsylvania, March 31, 
183 1, his parents being Stejihen and Mary 
( Schreiber) Hagenbuch, wlio were also na- 
ti\es of Northampton count}', where they 
were reared and married. In 1836 they re- 
moved to Fairfield, Ohio-, and there the 
father followed the occupation of farming 
until 1876, when he went tO' Dayton, where 
he died October 26, 1878. at the age of sev- 
enty-seven years. He served as an elder in 
the German Reformed churcli. in which 
both he and his wife lield memliership. In 
their family were eig'ht children : William 
A. ; Elizabeth, who' married David Pluston 
and resides in Bath township, Greene 
county ; Sarah, Anna, Stephen. Alice, Caro- 
line, and Louis F. 

Dr. Hagenbuch spent his earl\- boyhood 
days upon the home farm, and after ac- 
quiring his preliminary education in the dis- 
trict schools entered a private school in Day- 
ton, Ohio. Later he was a student in Gran- 



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ville and Spriiifjtield. Oiii<.i. and next ma- 
triculated at W'ittenbiirg College. For a 
short time he engaged in teaching school in 
Bath tr)\vnship. Greene cnunty. and in 1852 
he began reading medicine nnder the direc- 
tion of Dr. ). I. Mclilicnny, a prominent 
|>hysician of Fairfield, with whom he re- 
mained for three years, lie then became a 
student in the Jeflferson Medical College of 
I'hiladelphia. and upon his graduation won 
the degree of .M. 1). He first opened an of- 
fice in Fairfield. Init after a sliort time came 
to Alpha, wliere he spent his remaining 
days. There a \ery large and liberal pat- 
ronage was secured by him in acknowledge- 
ment of his superior skill and ability. 

On tlie (>U\ (lay of September, i860, Dr. 
Hagenbuch was united in marriage to Miss 
Sarah J. Harbine. and they became the par- 
ents of se\en children, as follows: Jf>an, 
who died in childhood; William IL, a phy- 
sician of Xew York city: Katie, who also 
died in childhood : Etta Florence, now the 
wife of Professor Frank C. Hubbell. princi- 
pal of the schools of Alpha : Jennette P. and 
Frank Harbine, both of whom reside with 
their sister, Mrs. Hnbbcll : and Paul, who 
died in childhood. 

The Doctor erected a Ijeautiful home in 
Alpha, in which his daughter Mrs. Hubbell 
is now living. He was a member of the 
Greene CouiUy Medical Society and was 
deeply interested in his profession. What- 
ever tended to promote the interests of his 
calling and place before man the key to the 
mystery of that comjjlex problem whicli we 
call life at once attracted his interest and co- 
o])eration. He was a man of the highest 
and purest character and was an industrious 
and ambitious student. In his life he exem- 
])litied the jjeneficient s])irit of tlie Masonic 
fraternity with which he became identified 



in Xenia in i86fi. His death occurred De- 
cember 24. 1883, and his wile ]jassed away 
Xovember 18, 1901. there remains being in- 
terred in Woodland ceiuetery, Xenia. Mrs. 
Hagenluich was a memljer - f the Methodist 
Protestant church. 



LEOXARD OSTERLY. 

Leonard Osterly, who was a well-kin iwn 
lignre in business circles of Xenia, at the 
time of his death was superintendent of the 
Xenia Gas & Coke Company and was what 
the world calls a self-made man. All that 
be ixjssessed in life canie to him through 
his own efforts. t\tr he started out on his 
business career empty-handed. The family 
to which be l>e]onged was of Irish lineage, 
his parents having been born on the Emer- 
ald Isle. Leonard Osterly was lx)rn in 
Wnrtemberg. Germany, on the i6th of Oc- 
tober. 1825, and was reared and educated 
there. On coming to the L'nited States in 
1850, he located in Xenia, Ohio, and from 
tliat time until his death was a resident of 
this city. He was variously emi)loyed un- 
til he accepted a position with the Xenia 
Gas tt Coke Companx- and was a trusted 
employe of that corporation thninghout the 
remainder of his life, being gradually pro- 
moted until gi\en the responsible position of 
suijerintendent of the wcjrks. He was well 
fitted for his iluty and enjoyed in a high de- 
gree the confidence of those whom he rep- 
resented. 

Mr. Osterly was united in marriage to 
Miss Bridget Kelly and unto them were 
born four children, but the two sons are 
both deceased, .\ndrew having jiassed a way 
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died ill February, 1898. The siirvi\-ing" 
memters of the family are Catherine and 
Mary E., who still reside in Xe;iia. Both 
the parents held membership in the Cath- 
olic church and died in that faith. They 
were true to its teachings antl its princi- 
ples and were highly esteemed in church 
circles, while . Mr. Osterly was also well 
known in business circles and commanded 
the respect of those with whom he was as- 
sociated. He died in 1885, while his wife 
passed' away in July, 1901. 

The surviving daughters are communi- 
cants of St. Brigid's Catholic church, of 
which Rev. N. J. Kelly is now pastor. j\Iiss 
Mary .\. Osterly is conducting a large 
dress^making' establishment in the Steele 
block, where she has three rooms, employ- 
ing eight or ten assistants. She began busi- 
■ ness here in 1896 and has met with a large 
degree of success, drawing her patronage 
from many of the best residents of Xenia. 
Her e.xcellent taste and style have secured 
to her a large business and she is now pros- 
pering in the undertaking. She resides with 
her sister at Xo. 402 West Market street. 



WILLIAM JAMES LOVE. 

William James Lo\-e, now deceased, was 
numbered among the rq:)resentative men of 
Greene county identified with agricultural 
interests. He was born in Guilford county, 
Xorth Carolina, in the year 1819 and ac- 
quired his education in Oakridge Institute 
of that county. He pursued a brond and 
prehensix'e literarv course, becoming well 
informed, his education being far superior 
to that of most men of his dav. In the vear 
1873 he came to Greene count}, renting a 



fami about two miles from Bowersvillc. 
When two nnjnths bad i)assed he ]nn"cliased 
the farm upon which his widow now resides, 
comprising about ninety-six and two-thirds 
acres of land. In the course of a vear or so 
he extended the boundaries of this property 
by an additional purchase of fifty acres. He 
was very successful in his business pursuits 
both in the cultivation of crops l^est adapted 
to this climate and in the raising of cat- 
tle, sheep, horses, hogs and fowl. He an- 
nually harvested good crops of corn, wheat 
and oats and as the }ears passed his well 
directed labors br(iught to him gratifying 
success. 

On the 9th of January, 1857, Mr. Love 
was united in marriage to AlissSallie T. 
Thompson, a native of X^'orth Carolina, and 
unto them were born two^ children, l)ut the 
}'oungest, William, cfied when only ten vears 
of age. Drury, the elder, wedded Miss El- 
la Thompson and has four children, — Wil- 
bur Cle\eland, Flossie F., Fred \\ illiam and 
Elnia F^.'elyii. ]\lrs. Lo\e is a danghler 
of Thomas and Xancy (Bowman) Thomp- 
son, natives of X'^orth Carolina, and is a 
most estimable lady. Still surviving her 
husband she resides on the old home place 
in a house which was erected by Mr. Love, 
who tore down the old log cabin and erected 
the present residence. He also built large 
liarns and made many other inii)ro\emnts, 
indicating his progressive spirit, as well as 
capa'ble business management. 

He was \erv fond of books and read ex- 
tensively and was considered one < 'f the 
best informed men in the county. In pol- 
itics lie was a strong Democrat and while 
able to support his position bv intelligent ar- 
gument, he never sought or desired office. 
He held membership in the ^lethodist church 
and was a strong temperance man, believing 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



firmly tliat the use of intoxicants slioukl be 
abolished. He gave his co-operation to every 
measure which he believed would promote 
the welfare of his fellow men and advance 
their moral development. He ha<l a most 
lovable disposition and it is safe to say that 
William James Love had no enemy. His 
life was in harmony with high ideals and he 
was so kindly and considerate, having such 
deference for the opinions and feelings of 
others that no death of the cimimunity has 
ever been more greatly regretted than that 
of Mr. Love. 



JOHX C. HOVERSTICK. 

John C. lb)\erstick, wlio is a rq)resent- 
ativc of the industrial interests of Xenia. 
Avhere he is conducting a large blacksmith- 
ing establishment, was born in this city on 
the 5th of January. 1861. a son of William 
and Jo.sephine (Clevelle) Hover.stick. His 
paternal grandparents were Daniel and Sa- 
rah ( Brice) Hoverstick and the former was 
a stone-cutter by trade, following that occu- 
patitin for many years. He became a res- 
ident of Ohio, making his home in Pickawav 
county. The maternal grandfather of our 
sul)ject was Edward Clevelle. 

In the year 1835 William Hoverstick 
was born in Pickaway county. Ohio, and 
his childhood was passed in a quiet maimer 
unmarked bv any event of special import- 
ance. He was reared and educateil in 
Greene county, and after arriving at years 
of maturity, he was joined in wedlock to 
Josephine Clevelle. who was born in Mont- 
real, Canada, in 1844, but she, too. was 
reared in Greene county. The father (jf our 
subject was a cooper by trade and during 
the greater part of his life followed that oc- 



cupation in order to provide for his fam- 
ily. By the marriage of the parents, which 
was celebrated in Xenia in the year i860, 
four children were Ix^rn and all are yet liv- 
ing, namely : Harry, Celestr^l, Emma and 
John C. In his political views the father 
has l)een a Republican and service in the 
Civil war entitles him to membership in the 
Grand Army of the Reptiblic, of which he 
is a worthy memljer. His religious faith is 
that of the Methodist church and his life 
has been one of industry, uprightness and 
Fidelity to duty. It was in May, 1864. that 
William Hoverstick enlisted in the Union 
anny, becoming a member of Company D, 
One Hundretl and Fifty-fourth Regiment of 
Ohio Volunteers, from which he was after- 
ward discharged on account of illness. 

In taking up the personal liHstory of 
John C. Hoverstick we present to our read- 
ers a life record of one who is widely and fa- 
vorably known, for he has always lived in 
Xenia. He liegan learning the blacksmith- 
ing trade in 1870 when fifteen years of age 
and soon mastered the business, becoming 
an e.xpert workman, serving his apprentice- 
shi]) under John Lutz. In 1890 he began 
business on his own account and has since 
been a well known re])resentative of the 
trade in this city. In l8q9 he admitted to 
partnershiji Mr. Purdom under the firm 
name of Hoverstick & Purdom. Owing to 
the excellent workmanship, their reasonable 
prices and reliability, they are now enjoy- 
ing a very liberal patronage. 

On the 20th of November, 1883, Mr. 
Hoverstick was unite<l in marriage to Miss 
Edna Cook, a daughter of James and Anna 
(Bitner ) Cook, in whose family were six 
children, all of whom are yet living. The 
father is an attorney of Xenia. Mrs. Ho- 
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925 



•circle of friends here. By her marriage she 
became the mother of three children : War- 
ren J., Rachel and Philip, but the last-named 
died July 27, 1901. In his political affilia- 
tions j\Ir. Hoverstick is a stanch Republican 
but he has never soug^ht or desired political 
preferment. He has ever kept well in- 
formed on the issues and questions of the 
day. He was formerly connected with the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His 
life has been quietly passed but close appli- 
cation to business, strong purpose and de- 
termined energy have broug-ht him credit- 
able success. Honorable and upright he has 
ever commanded the respect of those with 
whom he has been associated. 



JOHN MOORE. 



For thirty-fi\-e vears John Moore, now 
■deceased, was connected ^vith the business 
interests of Xenia and for two-thirds of a 
•century made his home in this city, during 
which time Xenia emerged from a village 
to take its place among the enterprising and 
growing cities of the state, while the county 
was transformed from a district in which 
the work of improvement had scarcely been 
'begun, to one of the most highly cultivated 
portions of this great state. Mr. Moore 
took a deep interest in its growth and up- 
building, and did his full share toward ac- 
complishing the desired result. 

A native of the north of Ireland, Mr. 
Moore was born in County Tyrone. Sep- 
tember 15, 181 1, his parents being Tliomas 
and Margaret ( Wallace) Moore, in whose 
family were four sons, all now deceased. 
The parents died during the earlv bov- 
liood of our sul.>ject and. in cumpaiu' 



with his uncle and aunts, he emigrated to 
the United States in 1822. His grandmoth- 
er, who also started with them, died dur- 
ing the voyage. The ship anchored at Que- 
bec, Canada, and thence the company, of 
whom Mr. Moore was a member, went to 
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he 
remained for about five years, during which 
time he learned the tailor's trade. After a 
residence of a year in Columbus, Ohio, Mr. 
Moore came to Xenia in 1831 and here he 
continued to work at his trade until 1876, 
receiving- a liberal patronage by reason of 
his excellent workmanship and straightfor- 
ward dealing. 

On the 1 6th of July, 1840, Mr. Moore 
was united in inarriage to Miss Mar\' A. 
Monroe, a native of this city, and a daugh- 
ter of David and Barbara IMonroe, natives of 
Scotland. Six children were born of the 
marriage of cmr subject and his wife, four 
sons and two daughters : Thomas M., 
George ]\I., Robert Wallace; David, de- 
ceased; Anna, now Mrs. Hibben; and 
Margaret L., now Mrs. Jobe. For forty- 
four years the parents traveled life's jour- 
ney happily together, and were then sepa- 
rated by the hand of death, Mrs. Moore be- 
ing called to her final rest December 19, 
1884. Two of the sons were soldiers O'f the 
Civil war — George, who enlisted in his six- 
teenth year and ser\-ed until the close of the 
war, and Thomas, whO' was in the arm_\- for 
a few months during tlie Litter part of the 
war. 

In his ix>litical views Mr. Moore was 
originally a Democrat but afterward en- 
dorsed the Free Soil party. He was a 
strong temperance advocate and always used 
his influence to check the Use of intoxicants. 
He held membership in the United Presby- 
terian church and shaped his life according 



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ROBINSON'S HISTORY 01- GREENE COUNTY. 



to its teachings and its principles. His death 
occurred on llie ijtli day of January. 1897, 
and the community thereby raoumed the 
loss of a valued citizen, one wiioni it had 
come to know well and to honor by reason 
of his genuine worth of character. During 
his long residence in Greene county, cov- 
ering two-thirds of ;i century, he had si. 
lived as to win uniform res])cct and regard 
a;.d to his family he left tlie pricel'^.s her- 
itage of an untarnished name. 



GEORGE M. .MUORl:-. 

George M. Moore, who is now living a 
retired life in Xenia. was for many years an 
active factor in Inisiness circles, but at the 
present time is enjoying the fruits of his 
former toil. He was born in this city on 
the 1st of May, 1845, and is a son of John 
Moore, whose sketch is given alx)ve. He 
pursued his education in the city schools, 
entering the high school and therein contin- 
uing his studies until the 22d of October, 
i8(ii, when he no longer could content him- 
self to remain at home, while his country 
was engaged in the Civil war. On the day 
mentioned he offered his ser\ices to the gov- 
ernment and was enrolled as a member of 
Company D, Seventy- fourth Ohio \'olun- 
teer Infantry. He was then but sixteen 
years of age, being one of the youngest men 
of the regiment. After the organization of 
the regiment it was sent to the Anny of 
the Cumberland under General Rosecrans. 
and ^Ir. Moore jxirticipateil in all of the bat- 
ties in that department, covering the engage- 
ments at Stone River and Chickamauga and 
those of the Atlanta campaign. He was 
woundetl at Resaca and for a short time 



was away from his regiment on this account, 
but otherwise was always found at his p-ost 
of duty, faithfully defending the old flag and 
the cause it rqjresented. He re-enlisted at 
Cliattanor>ga in the same company and reg- 
iment and served until the close of the war, 
in 18O5. He was detailed as clerk in the 
offices of the insi)ector generals at General 
Thomas' head(|uarters and served as such 
until his discharge on the 25th of July. 1865. 
when the war was closed and his services 
were no longer needed. 

After his return home Mr. Moore at- 
tended Antioch College for a time and was 
then employed in his father's merchant tail- 
oring establishment. He later removed to 
Kansas, where for five years he engagetl in 
farming. On the expiration of that ])crio<l 
I'.e sold his proi>erty and returned to Xenia. 
where he again engaged in business with his 
brother. Two years passed in this way 
and he then disix)sed of his interests in the 
store and for seven or eight \ears was en- 
gaged in business in Dayton. He then dis- 
posed of his commercial pursuits there and 
once more took up his abode in Xenia, turn- 
ing his attention to fanning, which he car- 
ried on successfully until a recent day, when 
he put aside business cares in order to enji\v 
a well merited rest. 

Mr. Moore was united in marriage to 
Mary E. Puterbaugh. a daughter of Samuel 
Puterbaugh, one of the old residents of the 
count)'. The weilding was celebrated June 
23, 7880. and for twenty-two years this 
worthy couple ha\e now traveled life's 
journey togethei". They are consistent 
and valued members of the Second I'nited 
Presbyterian churrh, of which Mr. Moore 
is an elder. He was elected to that 
office while holding membership in the 
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in the position. Socially he is connected 
with the Union Veteran Legion, and in poli- 
tics is a Republican, but has ne\-er been an 
aspirant for office. Much of his life has 
been passed in Greene county, where he has 
become widely and favorably known, be- 
cause of his trustworthiness in business and 
his reliability, in the discharge of all life's 
duties and obligations. 



BENJAMIN L. STIXE. 

Tbrougiiout his acti\'e business lite this 
gentleman has l)een closely identified with 
the ag'ricultural interests of (jreene county, 
Ohio, and his name is inseparably connected 
with its growth and development. He was 
l>orn in Washington count}", ^Maryland, Sep- 
tember 17. 1829. a son of Jacob B. Stine, 
whose birth occurred near Hagerstown. in 
the same county, No\ember i, 1S03. He 
was there educated in a log schoolhouse 
amid primitive surroundings. He was a son 
of Frederick Stine of German ancestry, his 
])arents having- li\'ed and died in ]Mar\'land. 
After arriving at years of maturity Jacol:) B. 
Stine wedded IMary Haines, the wedding- 
taking- place at Clear Springs, Mar^'land, on 
the 22(1 of December, 1825. The ladv was 
born Fehruar}- 2t,. iSoO. and was a daugh- 
ter of John Haines, a well-to-do farmer, liv- 
ing- near Clear Springs. Thev resided in 
Maryland until 1830, when they took their 
fuirniture and other belongings and in a 
twQ-horse wagon, drove across the country 
to Beavercreek township, Greene count\-, 
Ohio, locating- upon the farm which is now 
the home of our subject. The father lived a 
few years on different farms in the county 
but eventually purchased this farm in 1838. 



It comprises one hundred and sixty-six acres, 
upon which he erected a good log house, 
which is still standing, although additions 
have been made to it at different times. He 
cleared away the hea\-y timljr from his land, 
made good impro\-ei-i-ients upon his farm and 
for many years was one of th« substantial 
agriculturists of the community. He was 
also one of the pioneer members of the First 
Alethodist Episcopal church of Nenia and 
although he lived five miles from the town 
he was a regular attendant in the church 
services and a liberal supiM>rter of the church 
work, giving freely toward the building of 
the second church edifice. He served as. 
class leader for a nun-iber of years and was 
also church steward. In early life he was 
a Democrat and thus continued until he 
joined the Free Soil party. Later he be- 
came a stanch Republican but was never 
an aspirant for office, gi\-ing his principal 
thoug-ht and labor to the church and his 
home. For many years the circuit rider 
preached in his house and he th.us aided in 
spreading the gospel. He died January 18, 
1893, and his wife passed away on the i6th 
of December, 1882. They left two surviv- 
ing children, Benjamin L. and John D. The 
latter resides in Superior, Nebraska. One 
daughter, Henrietta,, died in childhood. 

Benjamin L. Stine, the subject of this 
review, was brought to Greene county. Ohio, 
in the spring of 1830 and here pursued his 
education in the common schools, but has 
been an extensive reader throughout life and 
has become well infonned. He remained 
with his father during his youth and later 
assumed the management of the home farm, 
carrying on general farming successfully. 
Fie is no'W known as one of the prosperous 
and highly respected men of his community. 
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ROBINSON'S HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY. 



stead and is living retired. He has always 
made the best use of his advantages and is 
today one of the well-to-do and substan- 
tial citizens of his community. In past years 
he gave considerable attention to the rais- 
ing of fine cattle, and also kept a good grade 
of horses and hogs. A part of the family 
residence is a log structure built by his fa- 
tlier in the spring of 1839, and has now 
been the home of the family for sixty-twu 
years, being one of the landmarks of |)ii)ncer 
-days. 

On the 2ist of April, 1868, Mr. Stine 
Avas united in marriage to Miss Lydia Smith. 
of Dayton, Ohio, who was born and reared 
in West Virginia. The only child born of 
this union died at the age of eleven weeks, 
passing away in Octol>er, 1869. The motli- 
er died on tlie 13th of July, of that year. 
Mr. Stine has l>een a life-long member of 
the First Methodist Episcoijal church of 
Xenia and a consistent Christian man. The 
Reiniblican party has ever found in him a 
stanch supixMter of its principles, but he has 
never cared for the lionors or emoluments 
of political office. He is one of the most 
honored and highly respected citizens of this 
-commimitw 



CARGEL ClilTTV. 

Cargel Chitty, now deceased, spent the 
greater part of his life in Greene county and 
for a I'^ng ])eriod was a representative of 
agricultural interests. He followed farm- 
ing with excellent success and his labors 
brought to him a good financial return. He 
was bom June 15, 1831, in Virginia, and 
when a lad of twelve sunimers accompanied 
his father to this county, where, as he at- 



tained years of discretion, he aided his fa- 
ther in operating a sawmill, being connected 
with that line of business for a long jjeriod. 
He afterward turned Iris attention to farm- 
ing, wliich lie fi>]l(^wed throughixU his re- 
maining days, and in the cultivation of the 
soil he was \ery successful, the well tilled 
fieitls returning to him golden har\ests. 

In llie year iS^c; .Mr. Chitty was united 
in marriage to Miss Rebecca Ann Osburn, 
a native of Greene county and the second 
child of David M. and Cynthia J. ( Mc- 
Kendree) Osburn, also natives of this coun- 
ty, the latter having l)een Ixirn upon the 
farm ujion which Mrs. Chitty now resides. 
Tlie paternal grandparents, David and Vre- 
cocia Osbum, came from \'irginia in the 
year 1834, taking up their alxKle in Jeffer- 
son township. Here the grandfather pur- 
chased three hundred acres of land at a dol- 
lar and a quarter per acre. At that time 
there were only a few buildings in what is 
now the city of Cincinnati, and the work of 
development, progress and improvement in 
Ohio seemed scarcely begun. Unto the 
grandparents were born four children: 
George. Elizabeth, David Mc. and L'^uis C. 

David Osburn, the father of Mrs. Chitty, 
was bom in Batavia, Ohio, and acquired his 
early education in what was then known as 
the Palmer school house, about three miles 
from his daughter's home. He continued a 
student until eighteen years of age. after 
which he engaged in teaching school for two 
years. He was then united in marriage in 
the year 1839 to Miss Cynthia Jackson, a 
native of Greene county. Mr. Osburn was 
a minister of the ilethodist Episcopal 
church and his influence in behalf of moral 
de\elopment was most marked. He also 
served as justice of the peace, and in poli- 



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tics he was a stanch Repubhcan. Unto him 
and his wife were born six children, as fol- 
lows : Elihu B., who was killed in Indian 
Territory; Rebecca, the widow of Mr. 
Chitty; Nathaniel, a resident of Missotn'i; 
Charity, who married Harrison Williajn^ 
son, of Miami county, Ohio; Nancy Jane, 
the wife of Mr. Osburn, of Iowa; and Will- 
iam J., a resident of Fayette county, Ohio. 
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Chitty 
was blessed with ten children, of whonT nine 
are now living: Mary Elizabeth, the wife 
of Alvin Zimmerman, of Indiana : Andrew, 
who lives in Indiana; Lee M., a resident of 
the state of Washington; Rose, who mar- 
ried Dr. Merchant, of Fayette county, Ohio ; 



John H., who resides in Fayette county; 
Frank W., who makes his home in Chicago, 
Illinois ; Luther, a resident of Bowersville, 
Ohio; Violet; Claude, living at home with 
his mother; and Henry, who has passed 
away. 

Mr. Chitty gave his political support to 
the Democracy and kept well informed on 
the issues of the day, so that he was able to 
support his political position- by intelligent 
argument. He held membership with the 
Methodist Episcopal church, to which his 
wife also belongs, and its teachings per- 
meated his entire career and made him an 
upright, honorable citizen whose worth was- 
widely recognized. 




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